It’s here and it’s good!
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Will watch again, hopefully it’s different from the other one!
Some thoughts off the top of my head:
Liked the video but a lot of the skaters skate the same - low impact, cutty spots and quirky manny combos. The hectic, chopped music choices make for an odd accompaniment. Ryan Lay the standout for me.
Oh absolutely. So much incredible stuff in his section.
The SSBSTS shove up the stairs!
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Loved it all. Seeing Jerry Hsu still ripping after martyring himself is inspirational although after reading his Life and Times in the new Thrasher, I was left wondering how much money people on Osiris at its height were getting. $8000 dinners, Smolick rules where nobody was allowed to say ‘no’ in restaurants, Hsu getting a check one month for $26k. Bonkers.
I guess people were paid better in a more general sense pre 9/11 and deffo pre Nike/adidas/etc.
Overall - have watched 3 times already – will watch again in a minute. Wish the clothing was a bit less expensive so I could justify buying some.
P.S. I hope they put that Talula women from SF on next
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A mate bought a Sci-Fi jumper the other day and the quality seemed really good.
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Lots of it currently on sale at places like Note.
Stoked to see Conor Charleson in the credits too
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Finally.
Loved it all.
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This was very excellent.
Joa, Jerry, Max…lots of sickness. Glick was really, really good.
Will rewatch over the weekend.
Not sure if it’s just the Covid brain, but I couldn’t get in to the first half of it - the first few parts sort of blended all together as one load of low-impact ride on skating (ride on bsnbs was sick though), and some of the music choices truly made my head hurt (Janet Jackson into Korn and that horrible techno emo track).
Having said that, everything from Arin + Jerry onwards I really enjoyed. I’ve sorely missed Jerry footage. Credits were decent as well and had a vibe I thought was missing from the beginning. Ryan and Glick are standouts obviously.
Joa thanking only NB# was funny
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Glad you said this. I know very little about the industry unlike a few on here, but looking back there seemed to be a point - gradual or otherwise - where rather than the money being kept within skating, it began to be sucked out at the detriment to skaters themselves.
Irrelevant to the thread and I hope to watch the vid asap.
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This is what happened. The counter argument would be that profits were monopolised by a few titans of the skate industry but from my own experience more people were paid relatively well before sports corporations and energy drinks became the (only) best payers.
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I’d be lying if I said loved it but Jerry can do no wrong in my eyes.
wouldn’t have hurt him to throw in a storm flip for the faithful but the darkslide was mad enough.
quite of fan of that max guy. whoever he is.
just nice to see people making full lengths in this day and age
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It had flashes of something like Now & Later with the cuts, I’m a big fan of Sci-Fi Fantasy and enjoyed it but not sure if I’ll revisit though.
Any Jerry footage is always good footage. I wouldn’t like to be in the tour van with those music choices though. Hated Grifter was better than I expected (having seen his previous parts).
Didn’t grab me. Maybe I’ll give it another chance. I do like the brand mind.
So busy I could only watch it in parts once.
Stoked Joa got the opener and honestly he rips enough to be legit sponsored.
Arin had a sick ledge line with the fs flip tailslide shove.
Probably need to watch Ryan Lay’s part again to appreciate the switch skills.
Trick of the video on one viewing was Akwasi’s ride on bs noseblunt slide around the corner.
Only thing I wasn’t a fan of was the music but that’s irrelevant.
A SciFi x Limosine tour would be sick.
vlogman’d premiere tour edit
I spoke to Ryan Lay for this month’s QS ‘Five Favorite Parts’ column which had some talk related to filming for the Sci-Fi vid.
“I come from an era where the school of thought was that a video part is something you need to suffer through — thinking of people like Jerry [Hsu], Arto and [Andrew] Reynolds. We’ve moved into a “vibes-based” approach to skate videos, rightfully, and I like that too. People want to see camaraderie. But there’s a part of me that will always feel like: “A video part is something you should need therapy after.”
And as a little bonus I had Ryan speak on his knack for nollie skating.
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