Sunday, January 29, 2012

Travis Hancock Island Style Video Part

Loving this new clip that my little buddy Travis put together over the past year or two!
Keeping it street and killing it super hard.


Not kissing ass, just stating facts:
Travis is one of the best we have here in Hawaii and he's super cool and humble.
And my wife thinks he's handsome!

There must be something in the water on the north shore because only get mean kine shredders coming outta there.

Friday, January 20, 2012

Shit Non-Skaters Say To Skaters

Was pretty much over the whole "Shit ___________ say" phenomenon that's been burning up the Internet lately but saw this on the Slap messageboard and this shit right here is actually funny.



Apparently filmed by Chris Hall, D.C. legend and former rider for New Deal, later Underworld Element.

Monday, January 16, 2012

Spliff All-Stars Night @ Biebel's Park Video

Big up to the rude bwoyy Jordan deOliveira a.k.a. Jordyclot the Captain of the Spliff All-Stars!
Jordan and some of the homies got together at Brandon Biebel's (I think he owns it along with Dylan Rieder, Guy Mariano and Marc Johnson, correct me if I'm wrong) indoor training facility in L.A. last month for a night of heavy herb smoking and shredding.

Now The Skate Nazi does not condone weed puffing in any way shape or form these days but as a former pothead and heavy pakalolo fiend from way back I can appreciate the fine points and nuances of it.

Especially if it allows you to nollie 360 flip tables.

Anyway, peep the website and cop a shirt to support the cause and watch the shralping of many faded weed aficionados including local braddahs Jordan, Matt Chaffin, and Danny Hamaguchi at the end blowing your mind.

Friday, January 13, 2012

Mark Suciu Cross Continental Video Part

EYE SOOS!
This boy good.
I don't know if this is able to embed but you can watch this insane Mark Suciu part on the Thrasher website by clicking here.


A butt shot I know (yes homo) but this is how you do a switch backside flip.


Stoked to see an appearance by the Habitat/In4mation collabo t-shirt!


Gnar gap to grind action.


Chill, you've already seen this Love Park fountain ender in his Habitat ad so its not like I'm spoiling anything.

This kid is going places.
Really.
Rad to see a young dude put together a part like this with so much cookie cutter bullshit floating around in the industry nowadays.

Particularly loving the fact that dude does really interesting tricks and puts them in lines, i.e. the frontside crooks 180 out the hard way in that one Love Park run towards the end.

Also seeing the line at Pulaski with the back tail massive hop out was really nice and I particularly love seeing lines at the S.F. Library, the one with the gap varial heel at the end is pretty epic.

Not only that but like mentioned before, Love Park lines!
They may have been all over video parts in years past but those aren't easy to come by these days, what with the skatestopper planters everywhere and the high bust factor.
Plus, the kid's ender.
That's heavy duty shit right there.

ONE minor thing I have to mention about this part that I do not like, and that's the use of the Elliott Smith song Junk Bond Trader, which has already been used in Blueprint Skateboard's Belong Tour, a video that came out ten years ago.
True, that video was released on VHS only and therefore maybe a lot of people haven't seen it, but it was the first thing I thought of when the second song kicked in for Suciu's part.

It's always been a major point for me and I don't know how others really feel about it, but I believe that there are far too many songs out there (literally millions and millions to choose from) to use a piece of music for a video part that has already been in a video before.
It's just not something that should ever be done and I feel that editors of videos need to do their homework when it comes to choosing songs for video parts.
Surely you've seen a shitload of videos and you know people who are total video nerds, ask around if you're not sure but do some research and don't bust out a song that has already been used.
Some people don't mind and others simply don't care, but Skate Nazi definitely ain't having that shit without speaking up.

ANYWAY, Suciu killed it beyond belief and young bucks better gather 'round and take notes, because this is how you make a video part in 2012 and get your ass noticed right quick!

Re-watchability factor is off the charts on this one.

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

VHS Magazine Presents Ride On Vol. 2: Lesque Skateboards

VHS Magazine is hands down the best Japanese skateboarding website, and they've posted a little video of my favorite Japanese team Lesque Skateboards, whom my favorite Japanese skater Shinichi Ito, a.k.a. Itoshin rides for.
OH, and our homie and former Hawaii resident Kento Takahashi also happens to ride for them, so you know I've got my eye on this shit right here!



Check it out, it clocks in at about six minutes long, there's no names but Itoshin has the first part and you'll see why I believe he's got the best style in the whole country.

Braddah Kento for some reason only has one line and one single trick but hopefully this entire clip is basically throwaway and Lesque is coming out with a full length video sometime in the near future with a full Kento part, that would be super sick.