Skateboardle video quiz (CONTAINS SPOILERS)

I assume then you have to hand pick the choice every day? Or do you have a random pick. And do you have to hand pick each clip from the video? @skateboardle_dev

Sounds like something I would be bang into doing at first then get really bored of doing after like 2 weeks so well done for keeping it up

Yep each day’s clips are handpicked. I did make a small program to pick random clips but the results weren’t awesome. I like putting some thought into the clips I choose, for example I tried to throw people off on the Good & Evil entry by having Rowley as the first clip etc.

It’s definitely been a lot of work! But I’m going to try to keep it going as long as I can.

The only downside is that it has slowed the development for SkateVideoSite a bit. A lot of my free computer time (which isn’t much now a days, have a 9 month old), has gone to picking the clips and by the time I’m done I’m either too tired or don’t have time to do further development.

But it’s all been a load of fun, especially seeing the reception and that it’s something people look forward to each day.

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Quite the contrary! The initial “hate” mail I saw was from the younger crowd not knowing the older videos lol

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Tough job eh? We had the idea here that you could filter vids by year to keep the older heads happy. But it’s such a manual job, that would be a nightmare.

Thank you again for all the hard work!

Pissed I didn’t get this first go.

2nd try.

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@skateboardle_dev thank you for creating this.

  1. guessing games are fun
  2. boiling down videos to 6 clips is also fun, and 3) you’re reminding us all of some brilliant skate videos - a bit like how hiphop fans went doollally for finding the original music that was sampled
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Last try today. I’m finding vids I somehow missed or had forgotten about and its a treat watching them now.

First go today simply due to yhe not a nillion miles way comment. Stoked.

No idea x 5 then took a punt and rode away clean.

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Yep it’s been a ton of work, but it’s been worth it!

We also floated an idea internally of further categorizing the videos by decade but decided it wasn’t really worth the extra effort right now. Another almost feature was listing the skater’s names in the clips, but didn’t do that either as I’m currently optimizing for reducing the amount of time it takes me to upload a video.

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Shamefully 5th guess today. Needed an iconic skater to get the video. Music choices were also very tramline which threw me.

Who was that second clip? Jack Curtin?

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Bonked out today

Spunked all my goes on Transworld videos

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No way I wasn’t getting that one from the first screen shot.
Possibly my most watched video of all time

@Dent_Face yup. He was a nice little block of footage in a montage

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Ha! He was just on the Bunt saying the worst fashion trend he was a part of was wearing a durag.

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Happily struck out.

I can’t remember my reasoning at the moment but I hated all the static vids and refused to acknowledge them.

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Really? What was your logic?

2nd T today.

Same :handshake::handshake:

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Really worth spending the time to sit down and revisit if you ever get a quiet evening.
The editing in static 2 is really dated in some parts (making shier dance for the camera) but as a series it’s timeless.

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Differing styles and shoe brands, not the same board team, so knew it wasn’t a board, clothing or shoe vid. Transworld was most obvious. Although I think I did have the actual vid I only watched a couple sections over and over.

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