I loved this but it’s absolutely going to split opinion I think. Amazing skating throughout and the Tour concept worked I thought, particularly given Asics is a Japanese company.
Deffo going to get slated by some sections of the viewing audience I guess but thread worthy.
Victor Campillo will always be firm favourite of mine. Incredible skateboarder!
Why would it split opinion?
Another shoe company with enough money to potentially pay skateboarders properly? What’s not to like.
Or the concept of the video? I thought it was cool
Because current online discourse regarding shoe videos tends to castigate anything that steps outside the ‘ascending timeline of trick difficulty set to music’ orthodoxy.
Also it’s very similar in tone to the Sci-Fi video which was celebrated and castigated similarly.
I enjoyed it. Could maybe have been a bit less b-roll/concept stuff but I like Jacob Harris stuff for the most part. Definitely agree that it might be a bit marmite. A mate said he was bored in five minutes which surprised me as that’s pretty much all of Jaakko’s part!
Skating was great. Really liked Jaakko. His ender was nuts. Victor Campillo was great too. Would have been cool to see a bit more Akwasi and some of the others but I guess this wasn’t really meant to be their video.
What a start! Jaako is a favourite, he just fiddles about but doing the most silly shit, love it. Will have to save the rest for another time as i’m meant to be getting ready to drive to the lakes right now.
That’s all I thought, very these two videos. There was a time when everyone was copying Palace, then Strobeck cam, now it’s seems videos are going in the Atlantic Drift direction. Though you could say hints of videos like ‘Now ‘n’ Later’ are making a return in them too.
Good shout Schlossbach (iirc) pioneered the voice over and natural world cutaway style in that Planet Earth vid - I’d never thought of it before.
Posted below for those who don’t know what we’re on about.
EDiT: I know it was via Ternasky but I think it’s Dave Schlossbach filming
As predicted: Slap reaction is split between ‘art school rubbish’ and ‘refreshingly brilliant’.
My critique of this and the Sci Fi vid is the music. Are larger scale vids unable to use decent tracks anymore?! I’ve not watched a longer form skate vid in a while that had a memorable track, or a track/section that made me feel something. It just hits me like a wall of fog where it’s one big blur of indistinguishable mess. Sci Fi vid did have a couple of good tracks, though.
I guess I’ll see myself out and go back to watching Mind Field, Origin, Stay Gold MFWTCB and LAF…
Edit: I did enjoy the last 7-8 mins of the Asics vid, tho. The rest was a bit of a chore for me.
When I realised the voiceover woman was describing what was happening it lost me.
I’m a big fan of arty nonsense and loved the sci-fi vid but this was a nah from me.
I bought now n later when it came out too.
Yeah that fell flat. Tbh I’m getting tired of that editing style now, it’s just rinse and repeat.
Nosepick-flip-nosepick was class. Big Jaakko fan over here
Jaakko has mad storks 
I agree. I sort of enjoyed the Asics vid, but it did feel like hard work at times. If you think back to vids like Photosynthesis (which I think dropped at a time when people were less open to that sort of creativity) they got away with a lot of the arty abstract stuff because it was broken up with things like Kalis skating to Freddy Fox.
Do you know how many kids are going to ask Akwasi to plat with them at demos now? 
Tried to watch it in full but had to skip forward bits.
Skating is good although I felt some guys rely heavily on sameish tricks to fill their parts.
Music was not good. Killed a lot of the momentum.
Interludes were too long/many/pointless. Reminds me of hoe annoying rap albums are with loads of skits.
my main takeaway was wheels can be too big. the big wheels look so ugly. there’s absolutely a happy medium.
I realise big wheels have been around for a while but it’s a pandemic now.
other than that, the skating was lovely stuff
Anyone else think the frame rate seems off? Footage isn’t as smooth as you’d expect and is a little jittery. It looks like it was filmed in 60fps but exported in 25fps. Either that or Thrasher have added their watermark in themselves and exported the project in the wrong frame rate. Any other camera nerds got some input?
I saw people moaning but I’m Victorian so it seemed fine to me. Gear knobheads love perfunctory sanctimony about frame rates, this is something I’ve noticed.
Very cool that Jake posted that though and also cool that it’s permeated this thread.
EDIT: not calling you a gear knobhead @sk8arrog8 obvs.
