We’ve all seen it. You’re watching a skate video and some punk skater who thinks he’s stretching the limits and doing something ridiculously new and hardcore rides up to a NO SKATEBOARDING ALLOWED sign, plasters it with a sticker, and grinds the curb. Well, “got dang”, you might say to yourself. Goodness sakes alive. Who does this fool think he is, and how can I meet him? I’d sure like to add his autograph to my collection. At least that’s what I used to say to myself.
Now it’s old. Cliché. Dare I say, “Poserish”? You get the point. It’s no longer a super-cool thing to have NO SKATEBOARDING ALLOWED signs in every other frame of your skate video.
The reason I bring this up is because we’ve been reviewing all sorts of skate videos lately and it’s gotten to the point where we don’t care where it’s being done. We just care what is being done, and how it’s done. While it may be cool to show your skater friends a video of you skating at your local NO SKATEBOARDING ALLOWED gathering place, sponsors don’t care much about your inner-rebel when displayed that way.
Just something to think about. 