Unfair Scooters DVD Trailer

The Unfair guys are killing it down in Australia.  I'm super psyched to see their (untitled as of now) DVD.  Jack Dye, Reece Jones, Nathan Flemongo, and Regan Thompson are all featured in this trailer, but I hope the US boys can have some clips in the DVD.  That doublewhip might be the best doublewhip I've ever seen.

ELYTS Stylites DVD Sections Chris Hart and Max Peters

Stylites was the first DVD that the company made, and I think they are working on a new DVD as well, might be for AO though. Either way, back when they were filming they flew out Chris Hart and Max Peters to So Cal to film for the DVD. I'm not sure if Max is still a part of ELYTS, but I know Chris is. Check out both sections below.

Quebec Scooters Revolution Tour DVD

This is the video the QCS guys made from their 9 day tour this summer.  Definitely check this out if you're from Canada.  Lots of shredding and some cool interviews too.  Props to Lloyd Bureau for starting QCS and really helping grow the Canadian scene.  I remember when QCS was just being started, it's awesome to see where it's at now.

French Toast DVD Trailer

French Toast DVD OFFICIAL TRAILER from French Toast on Vimeo.

So it looks like French Toast is expanding beyond the print medium to video.  Judging from the trailer, it looks like it will be super legit.  Props to the French Toast guys for doing something like this, takes a lot of work.  Can't wait til this comes out.

QCS Revolution Tour DVD Trailer

The QCS team went on a big tour this summer, visiting parks all over Canada and the US.  They got some footage and are putting it on a DVD.  Pretty cool to see another company making a DVD, and to see how many scooter kids are up in Canada.

Updated Proto Armageddon Flyer

Scooterzone GTLI DVD Teaser

Scooterzone has been filming for a DVD for about three years now.  The team has expanded a lot in that time, meaning this video will have a stacked, diverse set of riders.  I completely forgot that Justin Robertson even existed, definitely stoked to see his footage.  Pretty much every style of riding will be represented, even dirt scooter trails riding.  Should be pretty cool.  Oh, and I have no idea what GTLI stands for, someone should shed some light in the comments.

Edit:  Seems that it stands for "Got To Love It".

Insight on ELYTS + Team DVD Preview

A lot of people are still kind of wondering what ELYTS is all about. We've seen shirts, we've seen tons of Team riders, and we've seen a lot of Zig breaking down what ELYTS is doing. Now it's time to check out some of the specs on the shoes.

Aside from the shoe preview, we also get to see a little bit of the ELYTS Team DVD. No release date has been dropped for that as far as I now. Check out the vid below.

Lucky Opus DVD Throwaway

Lucky Scooters...arguably the most popular company out there today (as shown by the sheer number of likes on their facebook), not without reason.  Tyler Wheeland, inspired no doubt by Proto's Dylan Kasson, has been pushing the team to film and progress in ways scooter riders haven't ever progressed before.  A small taste of that progression is shown in this throwaway montage of their 2nd DVD, called Opus.  I definitely cannot wait till it drops this winter.  I'm sure I won't be disappointed.

Proto: Catalyst 2010 DVD Teaser

PROTO - CATALYST 2010 Teaser from Proto Scooters on Vimeo.

Proto has been filming for this DVD for two years now. Everyone that I've talked to who has seen parts of it all say that it is going to be the most innovative video in the sport, something I don't doubt at all. I feel like the name, Catalyst, will prove to be very fitting once it drops. As far as the teaser itself, super well done but it could have used a few more riding clips...but nonetheless, it's awesome to see scooter videos being filmed/edited like that.

Inward Scooters Bustin Cakes DVD Trailer

Check it out, I'm stoked to finally have a trailer up for this. You might know that Inward took a tour of the Northeast this summer, and we're making a DVD using footy from that as well as footy that each time rider is getting on their own. Shooting for a Thanksgiving release date. I hope you guys enjoy this.

Madd UK/Razor UK Tour DVD Trailer

Preview for the DVD coming of the summer tour the 2 teams did this past August. Looks like it'll be pretty sick, editing was really good. Its so awesome to see more teams doing tour type stuff, those are so much fun. I was lucky enough to be able to go on 2 different tours and I cannot wait to do one again.

Lucky Scooters: First Clover DVD Review.

So I finally got my copy of the Lucky DVD recently and watched it a few times. I'm not gonna lie, it wasn't quite as good as I'd thought it would be...but it definitely wasn't bad by any means. I'm gonna be nitpicking with a lot of this but don't let that stop you from buying the DVD. Lucky is a legit company and the team worked super hard on the video.

The DVD opens up with an all slomo'd montage of everyone....the slow mo gets a little boring after a while but then James Gee's part comes up. James is definitely a boss, but the whole part felt off to me because of the music choice. Usually in Lucky videos they use rap, but James was some mellow song that I felt didn't fit at all.

Overall the video used a lot of songs that I didn't think fit, or that were already used...I think there was only one rap song, in Evan Yamada's section, which worked all right but not amazingly. There were two or three songs in there that were already used, which REALLY bothers me in videos. I think next time Lucky makes a video, they should stick to using rap, I've gotten used to them using rap and it just feels more legit when they use it.

Riding wise, the video is very entertaining. The Lucky team def kills it. Butttt I kinda felt like I was seeing the same thing over and over again...360 whip, briflip, smith combo, repeat. The split sections did mix it up, Tyler and Stefan have fresh parts. I've gotta say though, from the teasers I expected more. The teasers gave away nearly all of the bangers, which is rather disappointing.

As far as filming and editing goes, I think they did a decent job. There's some clips with a dirty lens, or where the sunshade is showing, steadyshot on with a fish, etc., but then you gotta remember that this is a scooter DVD...a company's first DVD isn't going to be perfect. These guys aren't professional filmers, so it doesn't look quite like a skate or bmx DVD. There were a few different filmers, who use different cameras so some clips look a little different (especially Callum Batty and Gage Casal's part, which was all HD footage). Most of it was filmed with a VX. Now a VX films standard definition, or 720x480 lines of resolution with a 4:3 ratio, but it looks widescreen (16:9) because they upres'd it to HD, which is something you never see with BMX/skate videos. But keep in mind, this isn't a BMX/skate video, its a scooter video, and honestly the level of filming of our sport isn't quite up to BMX/skate standards. So IMO they did a pretty good job of getting the riding on film, there weren't any cut off heads and for the most part they weren't shaky.

So overall I think there are definitely some things that Lucky could have improved on. Now I'm not saying this to bash on the team, as a first video it's good, but hopefully they can take my input and make their next video even better. Even with just different songs, the video would have been 10x better for me. I'm def looking forward to the next Lucky DVD, I know I'll be getting a copy of my own.

You can buy the Lucky First Clover DVD here.

Bendub DVD Teaser

This is a DVD some kids from around Bend, Oregon have been filming for since April. Filmed and edited by Brendon Orton from Flavor Media, this will have full sections from:
Matt Kaminsky
Chase Robertson
Nick Toigo
Ty Alexander
Jake Clark
Tyler Bonner

and a bails and friends section. The video will be available in early August on NWscoot.com for 15 bucks or at the Razor Exposed Tour stop at Battleground Skatepark for ten bucks.

Inward Tour Review

The Inward East Coast Tour recently wrapped up last Friday. The trip was definitely a success despite inclement weather. The crew of Matt Ogle, Jordan Jasa (thats me), Josh Kish, Zig Short, and "Baby Nate" Wagoner started their trip in Buffalo, NY at the XW Scooter Competition. Zig ended up winning the AM contest, with Nate getting 2nd. Overall it was an awesome showing of Inward's riders, who also started filming there for a DVD.

The crew at XW.

The next day consisted of driving up to Massachusetts. We got there pretty late but were able to get some street clips during the drive. The next day, Monday, we were able to ride three parks. We started at Newburyport, and got quite a nice turnout. After a raffle and autograph session we left for the next park, Ipswitch River Park in North Reading, but were rained out and unable to really ride the park. We did a quick raffle and were able to find a park in Milford, Connecticut. That was probably the best session of the day, we all got some bangers on film and were able to make some new fans of the team and company.

Inward minus Zig (who kept going to the van to sleep) plus Dan Holm, whom shreds.

The next day we had planned to go to NYC and film some street, but the rain kept us away. Instead we opted to stay in Connecticut. We were on our way to a park when we saw this random ghetto park of metal ramps. We took the exit and were able to ride the park for a while, and got some clips. Zig of course was able to find something to ride other than the ramps, and made a ghetto gap to box to drop to get some clips on. That was definitely a fun sesh, and so we were a little reluctant to leave. But we packed up again and headed to Jennings Beach Skatepark. Normally they don't allow scooters but JP worked his magic and convinced the lady to let us in, without helmets as well. Eventually the park attendants started getting antsy and wanted us to leave, but we stayed long enough to get some bangers.

After the outdoor parks, we again were rained out. Fortunately we were able to find a sick indoor park, New Haven, and they let us in despite scooters not being allowed. They had some big mats there and the crew was able to learn flairs (except for me cause I was actually trying to get clips, not spend the whole time learning one trick. Slackers.).

The next day, Wednesday, was supposed to be the day of the All-City Jam in NYC. Once again, however, Mother Nature defied our plans and we were forced to regroup. So we took off from our hotel to Drop In Skatepark. That park wasn't too good but it had some fun street obstacles and I got to meet Shane McNulty, one of my good friends from the scooterchat. That was definitely a highlight for me. After we finished at Drop In we got word that it was drying up in the city, so we drove to the Maloof street plaza park to meet up with some other riders. It was a little crowded but we were able to make a success out of it and film some stuff. After that we headed to Zig's house, where we would start our street filming session. It didn't take too long for it to get dark but we definitely had a good time filming and meeting some of Zig's crew.

The Inward van outside of the Maloof park, which is located next to the Globe, a famous spot.

On Thursday was our TIC jam. I'm not gonna lie, TIC wasn't one of the parks I was excited for but I was happy by the end of the day, after landing a banger and getting to ride the foam pit. What I was looking forward to most was seeing Josh Kish ride, as TIC is pretty much where he lives (jk Josh). Eventually he threw down, including a world first and some other amazing tricks. We also got to see Zig trying flairs to wood. He didn't really get close but it was still crazy seeing a street rider like him doing a park trick like that. Nate also landed his first backflips, big props to him.

Friday was the last day of the trip. We started the day out at Newport Skatepark in Delaware. We were all super tired and didn't really ride much, cause we're all a bunch of slackers. So we got tired of that place and went to Woodward of Philly, or whatever that park is called. Pretty much right when we got in there, Matt and I tried frontflips. We didn't really get very close but I was glad I tried em anyway. After JP brought us all some Monsters we started riding to get some clips, highlighted by Nate spending like 9 hours trying one combo, which he landed clean as can be. We finally left and had to say goodbye to Zig and Josh, who went home earlier than Matt, Nate and I. The park was probably my favorite out of all of the ones we went to, I would have stayed longer but J-Pizzle wanted to get some grub.

Overall the trip was a definite success. We got hit by a lot of rain but were able to make changes to our plans so we could ride anyway. We met a lot of fans, and made some new ones. A ton of footage was filmed, and we all had a lot of fun.

Footage from the trip will be released in the Inward DVD, which will featured parts from each rider. The video, entitled "Bustin Cakes", will be out by Christmas.

SD4 Experience DVD Promo

Droppin March 2010, filmed and edited by Josh Nathan. SD4 was such a sick comp, and everything else that went down was awesome too. Josh was filming pretty much nonstop the whole time, he definitely captured a lot of the best moments of the event. I def can't wait to get my copy of the DVD.

Lucky DVD Teaser...

So sick. Def hope this happens. Especially stoked on Donatelli's stuff, especially after his 951 part, this upcoming one will be nuts. Full parts from all team are expecting, including:

James Gee
Evan yamada
Blake Bailor
Jessee Ikedah
Raymond Warner
Nick Donatelli
Mike Montgomery

Tyler wheeland
Stefan Hefner
Callum Batty
Brenton Reid
and Evan Larson

951 Preview

Gonna be legittt, more info on the dvd here.

TPCVJ9 DVD review

The Philly Crew
Video Journal 9

Riders: Good ones.

Music: It wasn't by any means bad, but I think it could have been better, especially for McKeen's part. Overall though, it set a chill vibe for the video and I think it was good.

The video starts off with a message from Brian Boston, TPC's filmer/editor/inventor of the fabulous briflip. It says that basically this DVD is a compilation of the past two years, and that he had a lot of fun making it. He also says that it was edited in two days, so just know that the editing isn't flashy or anything. Simple is better most of the time anyways.

Then it goes straight into an introduction/montage. After this montage is a segment from the Ohio trip, which they took in 2007. Then it seems like there's more random footage, finished off with a full part from McKeen. Most of you have already seen his re-edited part (except me, I've been waiting to watch the DVD part before the new version), but don't let that stop you from buying this video. Following Matt's part is the credits, which includes some random footy of bails, candid shots, etc.

The riding in the video is ridiculous. I haven't heard a single thing online about Dan Barrett's stuff, and he really throws down some bangers. I was kinda hoping for some more nose manuals, but he definitely delivers with a great mix of tech and big stuff. Casey Murphy's riding is really fun to watch, Brian has a lot of good tech stuff, and John Mattes has some really nice riding for coming back into the sport after a hiatus. And McKeen...I don't even have to tell you how sick his stuff is. The video is kinda disrupted by some glitches, which got kindof annoying, but its bearable.

So, overall, I think its well worth the price of $10, which is what I paid for it anyway. Shipping is retarded though, it came in regular business envelope, and some bubble wrap, and in a regular CD cover thing. Pretty modest for the 13 bucks I paid for shipping. But don't let that stop you from buying. TPCVJ9 DVD is well worth the money. I hope the release of this DVD can give a little motivation to those teams also working on full-length videos *cough*DXG*cough*SY*cough. Excuse me.