Tag: skate

Reviews: Film & Video, Skate Videos

In the recent review of 70-71.com’s 2$ Pistol DVD I predicted that independently produced skate videos are going to be the wave of the future. Testing my theory are two more releases from Innovation Skateboards, Back in the Day Texas Style, and Skatefest Ingeside. Again, these are home produced and manufactured, meaning it’s a guy […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on July 5th, 2005

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Reviews: Film & Video, Skate Videos

OK, so now we’re reviewing 2 year old DVD’s? WTF? Somebody send us some DVDs! Right from the start of this I knew I was in trouble. It starts in black and white, with the Darkstar crew all trying to look menacing while smoke billows around them. Instead they just look like some extras from […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on July 1st, 2005

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Reviews: Film & Video, Skate Videos

Great graphics to start the DVD, accompanies by the rocking sounds of Journey. Actually, that was kind of refreshing compared to the regular lo-fi/trip-hop on most new skate videos. Typical skate video, in that each skater on the team gets their own part, so I’ll list it like that. There’s no story-line or anything, unless […]

Posted by: House of Neil on June 20th, 2005

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Reviews: Film & Video, Skate Videos

The future of skate videos is the homemade DVD. Just as the internet has lowered the barrier to self publishing, cheap technology is making it easy for your average DIY skater to put together a video, burn it to DVD and offer it up for sale. One day, sooner or later, the next biggest, hottest, […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on June 16th, 2005

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Reviews: Film & Video, Skate Videos

Besides an awkward title, what you get with the new Conspiracy video Die… Skate or Die is just over a half an hour of no-frills skateboarding action from across the country. It’s fast paced, but thankfully does not suffer from nausea inducing short attention span hyper quick editing. Imagine if you spent a year or […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on February 18th, 2005

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Reviews: Skateboarding, Trucks

I was first introduced to these trucks by a friend of mine who rides longboards full-time (Mild-Miles) on the streets and in any park. Last summer he had these on his board during a road trip we took to K-Falls and I was able to play around with them in a smooth empty parking lot. […]

Posted by: Danimal on February 11th, 2005

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Reviews: Skateboarding, Wheels

Sacrifice Skatebboards: Killer Cut – 97A wheels 63mm New-ish from Sacrifice Skateboards are these 63mm wheels called Killer Kut. These guys make some fine wood, but how are they on the wheels? One thing you’ll notice is that they don’t sell a million kinds of wheels, or even a couple, just this one set. So […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on February 11th, 2005

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Reviews: Skateboarding, Wheels

Cowboy Punk Black Plague wheels: 61mm, 97a, 36mm overall width, Contact width 18mm. Recently I hooked up some of the Cowboy Punk Black Plague 61 mm wheels to see how well they handle on different types of terrain. My first experience with these wheels was at the park in Newberg, OR (big, super smooth, fast […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on February 11th, 2005

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Reviews: Skateboarding, Wheels

From the Rebel Skates web site: Rebel Skates has a custom wheel developed for skating concrete parks or backyard pools. This durometer is 99a, and the wheel measures 62mm. Made in the USA! So I tried out a set of these Rebel Wheels that I have been showing up more and more around the Portland […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on February 10th, 2005

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Reviews: Skateboarding, Trucks

For every diehard Indy fan there’s someone who doesn’t really care or worse yet, someone who thinks that the quality of the product has suffered during this last era of the industry expansion. Then there are those who simply don’t want to be associated with a product whose logo is sported by the largest population […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on January 10th, 2005

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