This week, Patrick Kigongo, Jason from Frozen in Carbonite, and Mike Munzenrider deal with the flood of content we call SOTY season and talk about Chris Joslin's G-Ma part, Ginwoo's pro debut part, Daewon on the Crail Couch, and Zion's new part for Vans.
Mike's QS Story on sports
Mike's cover piece with Michael Burnett for Simple Magic
Antonio Durao's Immigration part
Portions by Austin Bristow
Mike's Platinum Seagulls piece on Mobb Deep
Young Jeezy's The Recession
REAL's Oval
Jason is stoked on Venture Trucks, Felipe Mota's pro part, the Puff Daddy doc on Netflix, the new Statue video out of DC.
Patrick is stoked on Spitfire Wheels, Snap! Vs Motivo The Power of Bhangra, SOTY season, and Hjalte, Ross & Antonio.
2 comments:
About Ginwoo's part. Trying not too sound like an old dude (i'm younger than you guys). It is definitely a kid part, okay, with a bright future ahead of him, sure. However, i have a hard time picturing him getting extra cool points (which he so dramatically lacks) when he reaches 23.
One thing i remember about the "kids parts" of my youth (my time was Lucas ans Bastien) was that the dudes were already "it". There was no looking in their future, they were already the coolest trickwise and style wise. And looking at the previous génération of talented kids (Guy, Lavar, etc.), they also seemed to tick all the boxes at a very early age.
So i guess this little reasoning is my way of saying, this kid is never going to be it, coolnesswise.
I'll gladly eat my words in a couple of years, but i see it as very unlikely. The kid is 15, not 10. Those years are higly significant in the shaping of a skater's personality and style, and i don't see his skating going the right direction in the near future.
I remember Louie Lopez not being the coolest as a grom, but there was definitely something. And he definitely bloomed at some point, but there was a very solid base that à couple of cool sponsors and à more mature style helped to higlihht.
Old dude rant over.
I can't believe we forgot Tom Schaar skated to "Diary of a Madman".
Is Joslin popular? I have no clue and would like to see some numbers. He was a budget cut victim at Etnies so who knows what that means. I can't imagine Plan B is moving units like they did in their heyday. I've seen more Hardbody boards than I've seen Plan B decks and for my area, that's something. In his favor, the Skaters Over 30 group on Facebook fully supports him.
He could've skated to "Mama Weer All Crazee Now", either the original by Slade or Quiet Riot's cover. It sticks to his theme of honoring his grandmother and gets away from another overplayed radio hit.
I think Jart has been around for a long time, like 20+ years. I've seen a few of their boards, but not for a while. Bastien rode for them after Flip.
Zion's Vans part was cool, but underwhelming. Maybe because it was for Vans? I'm a Zion fan so that was a bummer. I need to watch it again. I still need to watch more than the first part of Oval.
Daewon on the Crail Couch was good. I didn't realize Thank You was done, but I'm not shocked or anything. It explains why David Reyes is on Zero. Thank You was well intentioned, but the name doomed it from the start.
I'm a little surprised Schaar didn't win. Has there been a SOTY anybody has been stoked on since like Ishod and Wes?
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