Pascal Reif for Trap

Trap Skateboards has a rad video part from Pascal Reif. Kinda reminds me of Willow but that might just be the spots.

Valentin Bauer For Vans France

Vans France has a rad new part from Valentin Bauer.

Mo'Five

The Mo'Fo has a new full length video called Mo'Five. Lots of rad French street skating in this 35 minute video.

Nolitude #1

The boys at NoloNashville have a rad new montage called Nolitude #1.

Shaun Currie Brass Monkey Remix

Check a remix of Shaun Currie's Brass Monkey part.

Dorian Warneck for Shed Skatebaords

Dorian Warneck has a rad welcome video for Shed Skateboards.

Julian Heller For Reign

Julian Heller has a gnarly new part for Reign.

Joe Gavin Welcome To Landscape

The whole team comes out for Joe Gavin's welcome video from Landscape Skateboards.

Cardinal Chronicles: Stephen Mullen

Stephen Mullen kicks off the Cardinal Chronicles with a full part of sick new footage.

Skateboarding and Claes Oldenburg

Haveboard posted an article earlier this week about the damage skateboarders have been doing to a newly installed Claes Oldenburg sculpture in Philadelphia. Then I saw Mark Suciu skating Oldenburg's Mistos sculpture in Barcelona and it got me thinking. Oldenburg's sculptures have been skated all over the world. The smooth transitions and grindable edges are hard for us to resist. The bright colors and larger than life every day objects are so photogenic even basic tricks get run in the mags. The idea of skating common objects just like Pickle O'Shawnessey did in those old Transworlds is attractive to all of us who finger boarded our way through church and school.


 Guy Mariano landed a Skateboarder cover on Dropped Bowl With Scattered Pieces And Peels in Miami. Midwestern skate site, Cherry On A Spoon is a reference to Minneapolis's Spoon Bridge And Cherry. I'm sure at least a kickflip fakie has gone down on that thing. There are reports of people skating Cupid's Span in SF. Even with the power of google image search and The Chrome Ball Incident my vague memories of tricks on sculptures hasn't been able to sniff out more examples. Maybe your memory serves you better than mine and you can give me some hints and links to add to this post.


Thanks to Vince from Spohn Ranch for the Image of someone skating Cupid's Span.

Pedro Day Slam Magazine Part

Slam Magazine has a new part from Pedro Day but they don't allow embedding.

Chase Norman VII

I always like seeing locals doing well. Chase Norman's new internet part for VII starts off mellow but gets pretty gnarly in the end.

Proper Dinged

Familia Skateboards has a new montage entitled Proper Dinged featuring soem gritty British street skating.

Skyler Kehr For Timebomb

Canadian Kehr gets wild in this part for Timebomb Trading.

Color Your Memories

Live Skateboard Media has The Melo-Melo Movement's new video Color Your Memories. It's a french video with true street skating on rad spots. I can't embed the video, you you'll have to watch it on the Live Skateboarding Media site.

Jimmy Roche In Glory Ride

Slam Magazine points us to Jimmy Roche's part from Glory Ride.

City Surfin': James Swisher

James Swisher is City Surfin'. Via: Mandible Claw.

Chinights

CHINIGHT by burnenergydrink
A bunch of frenchmen went to China and filmed this Chinights montage in the streets of Shanghai.

Sydney Street Montage

A crew of Aussies get down in this street montage from Sydney.

Erik Sorensen In The Southwest

Canadian, Erik Sorensen hit California, Arizona, and Mexico in this quick clip for HTO Skateshop.

VA Fleezers 2012 Montage

VA Fleezers just dropped a bomb of a montage. Everyone killed it in this one.

Phil Watt Part

Enjoy a full part from Phil Watt of Australia.

Cam Mullan in Wallongong

Australia's Cam Mullan gets rad in Wallongong.

Shawn Owens For Cardinal

Shawn Owens has a rad new video for Cardinal.

Ed Duff traveled all over for his Memory Gun part and got gnarly.

Jon Scianneaux Leak

Jon Scianneaux has five minutes of really good throwaway from the past two years.

Erich Bielefeldt TMKF Extras

The TMKF blog has some gnarly extras from Erich Bielefeldt.

Reese Salken Welcome To Cardinal

Cardinal has a rad welcome video for local, Reese Salken.

KC Skate Montage 2

KC Skate is keeping it classic in Montage 2 with a quicktime video featuring some serious west coast shredding.

One More In Full

There is some real serious ripping the French video, One More, available online, in full, for free.

How I Would Fix One In A Million

Like everyone else, I was disappointed when One In  Million NYC was cut short. It was obvious from the get go that things would be different from the epic 2010 series that  gave us Forest Edwards and got John Fitzgerald on Zero. A lot of people have already written about what went wrong this year, so I won't get into that. I am a huge fan of reality TV. I watch Survivor, Top Chef, and others religiously and occasionally go so far as to seek out international versions of my favorites. With my extensive knowledge of reality competition series I offer up my ideas on how to fix OIAM because I would hate for it to die before it reached it’s full potential.

America’s Next Top Model is probably the most successful reality TV franchise, with versions in 49 different countries or regions. The American version has gone way down hill but Australia and New Zealand still hold it down. Since OIAM is essentially America’s Next Top Skater, the Top Model formula can easily be ported to OIAM. Each episode of Top Model entails a Teach, Challenge, Photo Shoot and a Judging. OIAM seemed to want to take this route, but didn’t understand that these pieces have a purpose. That is to educate the contestants and help them advance their careers as well as show their desire and ability to learn and grow. An important note is that Challenges never send contestants home. Judges send contestants home. This would prevent someone like Matt Militano from being eliminated in the High Ollie Challenge despite being one of the best skaters in OIAM.

The Challenges would need to be meaningful. Pro skaters don’t deliver pizzas on their boards, but they do have to do demos on shitty set ups or get creative on boring spots. Each episode a guest pro or industry person could give the guys a lesson in some aspect of the industry then the contestants would have to put that new knowledge to the test. The winner would win a prize, immunity from elimination, or an advantage in the elimination. 

In Top Model and most other reality competition shows, there are two challenges per episode. One for reward, and one for elimination. For OIAM, a day of skating would be the weekly elimination challenge because skating is really what matters. One week they might go to rail spots or manual spots or a gnarly bowl. I think OIAM 2010 did really well with this. Just take the guys out to skate and see how they do. Bring along a photographer to get photos because getting photos is an important part of a skater’s job. These photos can be revealed at the judging along with the day’s footage and used online as a companion piece to the show.

Each episode I would have the judges critique each skater. This gives the skaters an idea of what they are doing right and wrong and how they stack up against the competition. I would show the judges deliberating about who gets sent home and who is the top performer of the day. This gives the audience an idea of what the judges are thinking and who their favorites are. They did some of this in OIAM 2010 when the judges had meetings with each skater, but not really in OIAM NYC. 

I would add a mentor to the process. This would be a filmer, photographer, or team manager, someone with industry experience who can steer them in the right direction and also report back to the judges about what is happening on a daily basis. A filmer would be great because they are out there with the skaters anyway and often times they act as a coach or cheer leader when a skater needs some encouragement to get a trick. 

Alex Klein said OIAM NYC was a “parody of American TV Culture”, but he didn’t seem to know his source material very well. Whomever is in charge needs to take it seriously the kids all want to do well, the audience want a good show, and there is real money on the line, and a real need to make a final product. It’s business just like professional skateboarding. Hiring someone with reality TV experience would go a long way in taking OIAM to the next level. A skater would still need to be in charge to ensure whack shit didn't happen but someone who knows how to create an interesting series needs to be involved. I would move the competition back out west. NYC seems like a good idea, but the weather is unpredictable, and a rainy day or two can cost the production big time. Give the guys a break. Skating all day every day is tiring especially in a 24 /7 competition with cameras ever present. Even the biggest skate rat needs a day off to recover. Take them on a field trip to a skateboard factory or just take them to the mall or the beach. You don’t necessarily have to film the day off but I think it would go a long way in keeping people motivated and happy.

I hope OIAM comes back. If done right it could be an entertaining show to skaters and non-skaters and still feature plenty of skating. Some of you may groan at the idea of taking OIAM seriously or bringing it to a mass audience. For you I say, OIAM doesn’t matter, the industry doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters is that skating is fun and no matter if skating is on TV or not, that will never change. 

Let me know what you think in the comments and if you want to rewatch, here are the links to OIAM 2010 and OIAM NYC.

SkateTV

Jeff Halstead put together a throwaway montage from his Portland crew with a DirectTV motif.

That's Us

The fine Frenchman Swiss dudes of Red Line Films have a new montage called That's Us.

Sunday Throwaway Montage

  Sunday In Buffalo has a new Throwaway montage from their upcoming video, A Stone's Throw.

Michael Mahringer Part

Melange Skateboarding brings us to this Michael Mahringer part.

Christian Low Throwaway

Kiwi, Christian low has a solid minute of good throwaway footage. Makes me very interested to see what he's saving up.

Josh Weathers For Endless Grind

Endless Grind in North Carolina has a new clip of Josh Weathers.

Steven Farmer Blooka Part

Blooka has a quick new part from Steven Farmer.

Pass~Port X Arcade - Shared Heritage

Shared Heritage is a montage from Australia and New Zealand

Alley Bar 4

Neal and Rory just released Alley Bar 4 with a few of my friends and a bunch of rippers. I even have a line in there that isn't as bad as I remember. Watch and get stoked.

Phil Billingsby

Phil Billingsby comes straight out of Australia with this part.

Out Here Promo

Dennis Wilford has something new coming called Out Here.

Travis Glover Premium Cut

Focus Magazine has a Premium Cut with Travis Glover.

Alley Bar 4 Premiere

Alley Bar 4 is premiering this Tuesday, April 24 at Breadsoda in Washington DC. Get all the details here.

Ali Drummand For The Harmony

The Harmony has a new Ali Drummand part for the collaboration with Stuart Kolvakovic.

Corey Huber For Pit Crew

Pit Crew has a sick welcome video for Corey Huber.

Ryder Lawson

Little man, Ryder Lawson is murdering shit in Australia and making old men like me look foolish.

Ambush Promo

Atlanta's Ambush Skateshop has a sick little promo.

TCMT Vol. 14: Detox

The new TC Mixtape is here and clocks in at over 9 minutes of radness.

Nick Moore In China

Canadian Nick Moore gets a handful of good tricks in China. I especially like the wallride 50-50 and his ender.

Julien Merour

Trauma has a quick clip of Julien Merour.

Under The Radar: Nathan Mason

Nathan Mason kicks off Skateboarding Australia's new series Under The Radar with a bang.

Wash.Rinse.Repeat

Wash.Rinse.Repeat features the Bos brothers in an OCD meets skateboarding video part.

Criteria For Failure Promo

I like that someone does Marc Johnson's A-Team trick in this Criteria For Failure promo.

Fletcher Renegar Part

Atlanta's The Streebo has a gnarly new part from Fletcher Renegar.

Stop Fakin' 2 Throwaway

The guys behind Stop Fakin have a throwaway montage featuring friend of the blog, Neal Wood, and plenty of other rippers.

Andrew Ellison in North Coast

Andrew Ellison is ripping in his part from North Coast. You can buy the DVD here.

Be Good Now

The 20 minute Welsh video, Be Good Now is online and quite good.

Travis Ehrlund in Spread The Good

Just came across Travis Ehrlund's part from Spread The Good. Dude is gnarly.

Jed Coldwell HD Street Part

Jed Coldwell is ripping the streets of England in crispy HD.

Hisashi Nakamura

Japan always seems to produce sick skaters like Hisashi Nakamura. Maybe it's all the weird skate spots.

Mika Edin Our Most Turquoise Friend

Bellows has a gnarly new video from Euro ripper Mika Edin called Our Most Turquoise Friend.

Sebastian Dorfer

Melange links us to Sebastian Dorfer's part. I dig this guy's style.

Phil McKnight in Tort Dreams 3

Phil McKnight gets real gnarly in his Tort Dreams 3 part.

John Hill in Weaksauce

South Carolina's John Hill kills it in his part from Weaksauce.

Home Grown Promo

That's a full sized picnic table at the end of the Home Grown promo. Via: Platinum Seagulls.

Josh Clark for Zoo York Canada

Josh Clark has a good intro video for Zoo York Canada.

Joe Gavin for Spitfire

Joe Gavin's clip for Spitfire is damn near perfect in my book. Good music, rough/unseen spots, no park footage, and five panel hats, clean tricks. Take note people.

Thomas Hawver in Something Cool

Enjoy Thomas Hawver's part from Something Cool.

Fast Times Montage

Fast Times has a heavy montage of mostly street footage and one completely unnecessary mini ramp clip.

Shane Colville VX Part

Shane Colville has a gnarly part of all VX-1000 footage. HD part coming... soon?

In Crust We Trust Promo 2

The second promo for In Crust We Trust is real good and so East Coast.

Tommy Werner

The Brixton blog points us toward this new Tommy Werner part. Although its west coast shit he skates fast and steers clear of played out spots for the most part.

Kevin Braun FA Skates Welcome Video

Kevin Braun's welcome video for FA Skates is quite good.

Bern Iseli

Look past the questionable music choice, and Bern Iseli's part is really damn good.

Grayscale Teaser

Grayscale is a video out of boston with a pretty impressive teaser.

Melange Montage 2

Melange has a new montage of Euro goodness.

Luxembourg Montage

Two benches in a row on smooth ground is better than 75% of the skateparks in the world and These dudes found a good example of that in this Luxembourg montage.

Brett Band Matix NZ

Brett Band brings this part online for Matix in New Zealand.

Mario Wirnsberg

Mario Wirnsberg has a nice Euro tech part executed with style and speed.

Kevin Rodrigues and Valentin Jutant

Really good French ripping from Kevin Rodrigues and Valentin Jutant.

Jaakko Ojanen Part

Young Euro ripper Jaakko Ojanen has a possible world record 50-50 in the middle of a gnarly part.

Compadre Video

The Compadre Video is pretty gnarly. Check it out if you've got 20 minutes.

Jon Hartley in LA

Up and comers skating LA is usually a bunch of mediocre ABDs, but Jon Hartley is making pros look dumb in this new part.

Jordan West

Spots are rough in Cincinnati but Jordan West handles them in this new part. Instrument has an interview to go along with the part too.

Justin Merero Part

Justin Medero does some whacky shit in this part but he's got a solid bag of tricks. I'm kinda on the fence about it so I'll let you judge for yourself.

Go Big Shred 2

Jordan Johnson just let me know about the lengthy trailer for his new video, Go Big Shred 2.

Perth Street Montage

Check this rad montage from the streets of Perth, Australia. Via: SLAM.

Alley Bar 3

Neal and Rory come correct with Alley Bar 3 featuring footage from around DC and Virginia, including a couple of tricks from me, Pat Burke, and Bobby Worrest.

Liam McCabe online part

Liam McCabe does some crazy stuff in his online part.

Petit Plus 10

France seems to have adopted a cool East Coast vibe that I enjoy. See Petit Plus 10 as an example.

The Boppo Video

Boston's scene brings us The Boppo Video. At fifteen minutes it's the perfect length for your pre-session viewing.

Shades Away Promo

The new shit from around here (South Eastern, VA) is Shades Away from Grant Forbes. Check the promo.

Farhad Mohamad for Vic

Vic continues to bring us video parts from New Zealand. Here we have Farhad Mohamad and friends.

Jin Shimizu City Of Rats Interview and Teaser

Jin Shimizu gets a few lines in Paris and has an interview for Slam City's City Of Rats.

Mark Kendrick for Habitat UK

Habitat UK has a full Mark Kendrick part.

Dom Henry and Adrian Vercoe Fir Vic

Dom Henry & Adrian Vercoe from VIC Apparel on Vimeo.

Dom Henry and Adrian Vercoe share a part for Vic Apparel.

Radio Welcomes Octavio Trindade.

The Radio team comes out to welcome Octavio Trindade to the team.

Danny Sommerfeld VS. Frankfurt

Danny Sommerfeld cruises through Frankfurt with raw speed and power.

Dazé Jà Vu

See some gnarly shit including soem crazy roof drops in Dazé Jà Vu, a montage out of Florida.