I got all angles of this story for this big book I’m doing. Basically, Rocker came up and did all the tricks he wanted to - going backwards and forwards - whereas the Scots were all carving around and doing Smiths and whatnot. Death Box ran ‘that’ ad, and Skate Action was in Jeremy Fox’s pocket so they ran the ‘He was robbed’ thing. Rocker hadn’t even thought about it until that ad came out, he was just happy to skate. He won the next one anyway, and all was well.
It’s like a lower-league version of the entirely-fabricated Hawk vs Hosoi ‘beef’.
Swift blazer just uploaded the early 2000’s masterpiece that is ‘THE KOLMA VIDEO’.
We’re probably all at the age on here that owned this on dvd when it was released by the story film makers guild and I’m really stoked it’s finally online.
A shining example of a local scene video finding its way onto tv sets in another part of the world.
This video has such an impact on the way I view videos and the concept of ‘scene videos’ that I’m tempted to make it a thread, but appreciate not everyone will have been so heavily impacted by the video.
Skip to the last section if you’re super lazy but run the whole thing if you have time for small village Finnish banter
There’s some tricks in this that are absolutely fucked, particularly the Leeds 180 and the fs flip into that wall - but it all holds up really well. Shame we never got a sober Dollin era
Good post!
I may have seen it already a while back but watching it now has me thinking it’s a pretty good snapshot of a pivotal moment in skateboarding. Firstly, the boards are at that halfway point between square tailed late 80s to 1990 shapes and early 90s popsicles. The wheels don’t look too big or small either although you can see them visibly downsizing in Jason Adams part. Trick-wise, I think the wider, square-tailed decks were still preventing a lot of flip tricks from happening. In fact, the boards in this video kind of make me think of some of the boards people ride today.
Do you think someone riding one of those 1991 Think set ups today could do today’s tricks on it? Or perhaps the quality of the materials wouldn’t hold up?
Another interesting thing I spotted in this video was Rocco lurking as well as Mike Ternasky and other industry heads. Some of the clips are time-stamped October 1991 so this video must have been filmed around the same time as Plan B was about to launch (if it hadn’t already) and filming for The Questionable Video was underway. The Rocco, Ternasky, Rosenberg, Greg Carroll, Mike Carroll connections cameos gets me feeling there were some interesting discussions going on at the time.
Finally, I didn’t expect to see a clip of Jason Adams doing a nollie nosebluntslide on a ledge, just like there was some speculation that Sewa was hinting at a new trend of manualing then popping into ledge tricks (See Reynolds in the new Baker Deathwish video too), only to see Ronnie Bertino does one on the pad at EMB in this.
I’m sure there’s plenty more to discuss.
I get the feeling this moment in time might have been one of the better moments in time for skateboarding. Not saying it’s the best but it was very interesting in any case. What do you think @Barf ?
Went on a search for other videos released in 1991. Came across this Z-products Devastation video which I had never seen or heard of. Besides the infamous Z-Roller trucks, I remember full page ads for Z-products blank/team boards and I think their only pro rider George Watanabe?
Kind of stoked to see the video opens with full parts from Ricky Oyola and Fabian Alomar. A ton of riders I had never heard of in this.
