The video is filled with great street skating. Its out on vhs, but you can get it off of totalvid.com for only $1.99 (the download expires after one week). You would save about 8 bucks, so it’s a pretty good deal. It’s 32 minutes of some good stuff, but, I’m a little disappointed at the featured skaters. There parts aren’t that great and they are too short. Paul Rodriguez has the best part filled with lots of front side board slides and backside nose blunts.
This video starts out with these funny old kung-fu voiceovers. Then it goes to some downtown streets with driving by and skaters in the background. Then there is a montage of all the featured skaters in the video, and some bails. The beginning is all in black and white and slow-motion which adds for some cool effects. After the beginning it goes to a fuzzy TV screen and then more kung-fu voiceovers come on. Then it introduces Anthony Acosta. His part is pretty cool. He’s good at gaps. His first trick is this big flower bed with a tall ledge behind it. He goes and almost over shoots it. Then if you remember the school level from “Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2”, he goes and varial kickflips the first roof gap, then 360 flips the second gap. His part is filled with more gaps and 360 flips.
Between every skater’s part then kung-fu voice over starts with something has to do with the next skater. It kind of gets annoying towards the end. After that it becomes a guest section with random pros and ams, such as Marc Johnson, Keith Hufnagel, Jayme Fortune, and, Danny Gonzalez. I personally think its pretty bad when the guest sections are better than the featured skaters parts.
In between the guest skaters and the next featured skater, there are commercials. In the middle of a skate video there are commercials. I thought they could of at least played them in the begging or the end. The commercials were for several other skate videos and some clothing brands. The next featured skater is Justin Case. Now, his part is really long, almost double the others. He’s got some good skills. He’s great at transitions and quite techy, but it kind of got old due to the fact that he did nothing but that.
There are more commercials and kung-fu, by that time I wasn’t liking it at all. Til’ Daewon Song came on. Now Daewon is a great skater in this. This guy makes people wonder if they did break the mold after they mad Rodney Mullen. I mean he is supper techy, like kickflip-nosemanul-kickflip out. Some really good stuff, then, less than 3 minutes later its over. I figured a guy like him would have more of a part. Anyways, he does some awesome slides like a frontside noseblunt to backside lipslide. Overall his part was the best so far. Then Mike Taylor comes on. Now he’s a good skater, but not when this movie was made. He did a couple cool lipslides and some stairs, but it wasn’t that great.
More kung-fu stuff then Kenny Anderson comes on brings more despair. It was some good skating like Daewons part but, it was way too short. In the he was in the movie there was some great shots and he did some really cool slides. Just as I was about to turn it off Paul Rodriguez comes on and brings so life back to the video. Now this kid is like 16 now and this was made in 2000 so he was about 12. This kid knows how to skate. I would not like to play skate with him. He’s clearing 13 stairs like it is nothing, doing backside lipslides like he is superman. Overall this was the best part of the video with some good music too.
Overall, it was an ok video. I would recommend it to some amateur skate video watchers just because the video is kind of mellow. I would recommend it to my friends because of it being short and if they didn't like it, nothing would be wasted. I think the totalvid.com download was worth the $1.99 (half off when you visit Total Vid through this link), even with the fact it expires after a week. Also, if the video was really great you can buy it straight from them for $9.99. Just think of the download as a full preview. If you like it, buy it.
