The thing is, I think if he did hide the fact there would be more uproar. People would be all, what’s that on the rail? why does the speed look inconsistent? he’s cheating!
Damned if you do damned if you don’t I reckon.
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Going to try and (mis)quote the end of this Flirta D grime documentary I posted the other day because what the narrator says goes for AA too.
Sometimes it’s better to be the master of something weird that only you can do, than to try and fit in with what everyone else is doing. Success comes when you lean to your strengths whatever they may be and however weird they may seem. Every generation will have a Koston or a Hawk or a Nyjah, a superstar who could appeal to everyone and bring skateboarding to wider audiences. But what’s far more rare is finding an artist who full heartedly commits to the most alienating form of the craft but does this so well that it becomes part of the internal vocabulary.
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The only really issue for me is the way it slows him down to almost stop. If it was a smoother slowing and maybe it we saw him attempt it with no assistance just once then it’d be better.
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I watched this part last night. It’s sick.
Gate-keeping his obvious autistic weirdness is pointless. His abilities are unfuckwithable despite the helmet etc.
There’s a reason why this has 170k views and Jacopo’s clip only has 50k despite being released on the same day.
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If the yoga mat was a couple of foot shorter so he dropped in to the next rail with a little more speed it woulda been better I reckon.
Also the nosebonk pressure flip off the rock in one of his lines was too good.
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I think that’s the thing that a few people on here, myself included, plus Joa in his video touched on. It’s the lack of consideration for the presentation. If he put half as much effort into how his skating was showcased as he has into the tricks, he’d probably win over a lot of the people that find his skating too odd to enjoy.
He’s probably not going to get good advice from Powell, and I’m not expecting Austyn Gillette levels of care about aesthetics, but it wouldn’t hurt him to have a Jamie Thomas type figure telling him to tidy things up a bit.
But then again, he likely knows this already, he’s clearly smart and can see the outsider vibe sets him apart. His fan base likely don’t care anyway, so whatever he’s doing, it’s working for him.
the thing is, he doesn’t need to - look at the amount of views. AA fans clearly don’t care about the filmic conventions that are important to our bit of skateboarding.
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Yo shout out Chris Pulman for the 2 wheel wallride thingy Andy does at Pyramid Ledges in NYC.
Also shout out Chris Pulman just because!
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I’ll agree that his fits are not great. I don’t mind the music because most skate videos have terrible music these days and that’s including the trendy cool ones. And I stand by my comment that the last track was inspired by late 80s Powell videos. As for the editing, groundbreaking skating always gets heavily edited, so whatever.
Personally, I find a lot of the criticism nit-picking, unfounded and weak.
Perhaps if we weren’t submitted to countless videos dropping every week, we’d appreciate things a bit more.
Shout out Chris Pullman on insta today skating in some kind of Sailor hat.
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Chris Pulman’s a national treasure as far as I’m concerned.
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100%, remember meeting him in SS20 when I was kid and he was a Fallen rep, came and skated a soggy spine ramp with us when he was finished. LFA had come out like a year or so before so we were hyped to fuck. Was 16 maybe? So 18 years ago.
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Fuck it, gonna watch every Anderson video on YouTube tonight and buy a notebook to keep in my back pocket for trick tips
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I took a younger skater to Hemel once and an older dude was doing loads of nocomplies and side wheelie things on the ledges and he very loudly said “Haha! Look at that old dude doing loads of Pulman tricks, who does he think he is?”
It was Pulman.
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classic
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I’ve made it the norm that my daughter wears full pads when she skates. She took a huge head bongo last year, slipped out coming off a pump hump fast and went down heavy.
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Shit. I’m majorly conflicted. Part of me wants my kids to skate and the other part can’t take the thought of them slamming, even with pads. Hope she was ok.
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They’re gonna get hurt if they play football or basketball too.
The only only way they won’t get hurt is if you lock them in your house but then again that would hurt them even more.
We fell and got hurt, and here we are, happy. Let them have fun.
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She’s taken a few slams but at 9 she was dropping in on 6ft ramps, dropping in from axle stall b/s and rolling down and off low hubba ledges. And could/can sort of Ollie.
She’s not so into it at the moment, now nearly 11, so I offer her the chance to skate when I go or when girls night is on at the local. Keep it mellow.
Tried to keep skateboards around her since very young as skateboarding gave me a lot as cheesy as that sounds haha
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