I recently had the opportunity to shoot two of the three stops of the Vans Sk8 Hi best trick competition at a few Toronto’s local skateparks. $500 Cash and prizes, 3 best trick contests at each location, and the kids were hungry for some money judging by how hard they went. Featuring skating by Jon Gonsalves, Kirk Roach, Griffin Kirby, Joel Scullard, Jon Cos, Zack Ferguson,Ben Paterson, Lee Yankou, Kong, Nolan Waller and a bunch of other heads. Additional filming by Luke Fenton and Joel Dolman. Hope we see you all again next year!
I know I know, another skateloft edit. No, not just one, but two! What can I say, its hard to skate outside in this city during the winter months, so we work with what we have. And the loft is the spot! Enjoy while waiting for the warm spring weather.
Here is the result of a few months of pushing through the crack filled streets of Toronto with the homies. A short skateboard video by Feel Reel Good featuring Alex Barron, Nolan Waller, Nicky Young, Joel Scullard, Nick Pierre, Nick Fulton, Pat Dysart, Derrick “Flocka” Stryder, Sean St. Jacques, Andre Besner, Jon Gonsalves, Andrew Davidson, Chevy Cobe, Jose Cordova and a few others. Presented by OATS and Feel Reel Good. Additional filming by Luke Fenton. Enjoy!
Only in the last few months of this summer did I rediscover how much I enjoyed skating and filming in the real streets again, and although it was a little late in the year to start filming, I did anyway. I have been working on this mini skate flick for the last 3 or 4 months, and am pretty happy with how its coming together. Here are a couple of promo vids I cut up for it, so sit back and enjoy!
The snow has begun to fall in our neck of the woods, and that means one of two things: either get out the snowboard and hit the streets, or head over to the loft and keep your skate game on point. Been doing alot of the latter recently, and managed to get a few edits together. Look out for more Skateloft minutes coming soon!
I have been slacking hard on updating the site recently with work and all, so I’m just gonna dump a ton of footage on here that I have forgotten to post. Anyway I’ve been trying to get away from filming in parks recently, as I have rediscovered the simple joy of pushing around through the streets, the way it was meant to be done. Here is a bunch of edits from AB prior to me realizing where I should have been rolling the whole time.
There was A new park tossed up in the city this year, and while it was fun when it first got put in, the novelty has worn off now, and the crappy ramps and terrible set up is the last thing I want to skate or film at. But enjoy an edit of when we were all feeling it!
With all of the condo development taking place in the city it was only a matter of time before one of these crappy plastic ramp parks got dropped somewhere or other. This park has all the potential in the world with its under a bridge location providing the perfect refuge for rainy days and the oncoming winter, but having had some no-nothing about skateboarding city planner decide on its layout (half the park runs downhill into the other half of park = no flow what so ever) its pretty much a last resort. There are still a few fun things to session there, but over all it doesn’t do much to make me feel good. Made a montage there with the help of Tanner Grisbrook (providing the second half of the footage) which actually makes it look pretty fun. Like most things in life, it is whats you make it.
More park footage?!? Really getting sick of it but the parks in the city are just to smooth and full of homies not to shoot something in them. Anyway enjoy some newer edits from around Toronto’s parks. Having pushed around skate parks far too often recently, We need to get back to the fundementals of true skateboarding, the streets. Pushing through traffic and moving around the city the way people who have decided to walk could only dream of doing. Streets video in the works.