I'm sure everyone's heard something about the upcoming Vans Video. All of the Vans dudes have been getting coverage and the company has been consistently coming out with gnarly ads lately. While the news about the video, which I can only assume is coming out this year without any specific trailer or release date, has been making its way around the internet, I still think Vans is one of the most underrated teams out there. A good reason for that is probably their lack of contest presence, besides say Curren and Pedro, but that makes the team that much rawer. With a crew like Vans, you can be sure every dude is out in the streets stacking sick footage, which makes me wonder who may end up with the last part. The uncertainty of what these guys have been up to makes the anticipation for the video that much heavier. And with a legendary company like Vans, this video has the potential to shake the skate world much like Pretty Sweet did. Get hyped!
Just a few of Vans' skaters and reasons why you should be pumped too:
AVE - I don't even have to pull the age card here because he's been going hard!
Gilbert Crockett - His Life Splicing was one of the rawest things I can remember and we know he can efficiently produce high quality footage from his Old Dominion part and just this week his pro shoe clip.
Andrew Allen - Been a fan ever since Prevent The Tragedy (remix above, absolutely love this edit) and hope that he's got some similar ripping hidden footage that has flown under radars recently
(Those are just my picks, but there are a bunch of other dudes that can easily have an epic part too: Geoff Rowley, Chris Pfanner, Chima Ferguson, ... that's just how good the Vans squad is!)
Welcome to Skateboarding High Fives! Combining the “no more than one video per day”
idea behind Walker Ryan’s Under Saturation blog, and the collective theme
behind Oliver Barton’s Top 5 Youtubes of the Week, I present you with this new
collection of skateboarding videos through my eyes. Every week has a theme and every theme will
have 5 videos, one for each day of the week.
The weekend will be free for whatever skateboarding goodness comes its
way, as weekends are meant to be. High Fives all around!
To get things started, this week will be dedicated to my own favorite video parts. Over the years I've seen many parts that are nothing short of legendary, with guys like Rodney or Daewon, and quite a lot of parts that are just so epic, Geoff Rowley in Sorry for example. But despite the incredible skating that still holds strong today, I found that the song choice (along with the edit) really solidifies a video part into something that will never leave my head. It's cliche by now but you've heard it before, the song makes or breaks the video part. I'd say there's definitely some truth to that. The video parts going up this week all have songs that I keep high in my iTunes rotation, even though I usually don't look for music in that genre. They act like highlighters to these video parts and make everything stand out. Combine that with a myriad of skating styles and gnarly tricks that also go down in the skate history books, I now present to you my Top 5 Favorite Video Parts.
