This is my thing, were we voting technically the best or what the video meant to you personally?
Me too, but in terms of a monumentally important game-changing selection of footage, Video Days has to take it.
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Using head to head voting to find the best video ever done you say?
Although mine was UK only to be fairā¦ 
I think itās easy for people to forget that before Video Days, skate videos were a mess a lot of the time. Parts filmed in an afternoon, long winded story based vids, bloated team rosters where the video just wouldnāt end, ect.
Itās pretty much the blueprint for how to make a good skate video to this day still.
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Sheās got some good tricks.
Thankfully the comments on her Thrasher post werenāt too disheartening
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I also went straight into the comments expecting the worst
I donāt know why you would do that to yourself, I avoid every comment section like the plague
Slow motion car crash I suppose
EE3 had much more impact that Mixtape.
Jason Leeās and Rudy Johnsonās sections in Video Days were incredible, I watch them more than Marianoās because Mariano had little kid style back then. And Richterās section never got the credit it was due.
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Got this far and was about to chime in but you then moved to thisā¦
So you said it for me.
It was very much an East and West Coast thing.
I preferred NY rawness in hip hop and that directed my preference.
Overall, Iāve enjoyed both scenes but appreciated a more raw feeling with East Coast music and skating.
Iād say Welcome to hell is up there too, that ushered in a big movement.
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Iād say Thrill Of It All did more so, for that kind of thing at that time, although obviously Welcome to Hell is better.
Jason Lee, every time for me personally. Picking Mixtape is a good example, did it have the best ever skating to ever go down? Or are you just really into the scene? The reasons you like it are the reasons you can see a lot of people wonāt be that in to it. They might not be into Hip Hop and rugged spots for a start. It embraced an entire culture that only a few people living in NYC were involved in and actually lived, so itās appeal wasnāt as far reaching as maybe it should be to you. Would you care if Nirvana (or any 90s grunge band) popped up half way through a section because they were playing live in a Seattle skate company video? Some people feel like that about Hip Hop unfortunately.
Mixtape and EE3 are in my top three for sure but Video Days changes the world for everybody, not just people who were into that sort of thing. Nobody watched Video Days and said, āYeah, itās good, but itās not my thingā did they? Maybe those Revive wankers.
Video Days and EE3 would probably have taken years longer to come out if Video Days hadnāt kicked everything up the arse in 1991. Skate vids leapt forward after that, in every way.
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I just had to Google that this was true. Wouldāve thought memory screen was years later. Thatās really interesting
Just Googled him, should we know who he is? Who gives him shit? His mates?
Some nobody says he doesnāt like one of the greatest ever? Seen that before.
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I watched questionable (before video days ) fucking so many times I canāt remember, just blown away And the soundtrack was so sick as a teenager.
So when I watched VD it was rad and I watched it many times but Questionable was already etched in my brain.
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You watched them in the wrong order.
Not sure about that, but as long as heās enjoying himself.
Iāve only see VD once or twice. When did it come out, 91? I was 4. But Iām perfectly happy for it to be thought of as the most influential skate video, because it did pretty much set the template for modern skate videos in terms of production, composition, team format etc and basically influenced the entire generation of skateboarders who would move skateboarding on into basically what we know today
