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Landyachtz is heavily involved in downhill skateboard racing. It’s the ideal way to push ourselves and our products to the limits. We’re constantly developing and tweaking products to ensure they are the best they can possibly be. We work with our team at races to learn a ton about wheels, trucks, construction methods, all the way down to minor shape changes, hardware, grip tape and bearings. What we learn about our products while competing at the highest level gets engineered into every board, making everything we build better for all disciplines.
Attack of Danger Bay 8; the worlds longest running, biggest, and arguably most-difficult-to-win Downhill race. It should really be called a festival, it’s so packed with wicked events and parties that the race is now just part of the fun. The festival takes place on the Sunshine Coast, a ferry ride North of Vancouver. It has grown from a 12 competitor, 40 spectator event in 2002 to an over 200 competitor, several thousand spectator event in 2009. This year marked the most diverse racing field ever, athletes traveled from Brazil, Dubai, Puerto Rico, Australia and of course across the US and Canada to partake in what has grown into a week long festival of everything longboarding.
After catching a ton of stoke from the Buffalo Bill Downhill Race in Golden, Colorado, I decided I wanted to make a fun video incorporating high speed standup slides, downhill speedboarding, and all around skating in the great state of Colorado. Helping me with the video was my good friend Mark Riley, who wanted to film / watch me attempt all of the tricks I had been blueprinting in my head for the film.
We started filming in Red Rocks, Colorado, a place known for its great views and concerts. As I was parking the car, I looked up and saw a gnarly path that was carved into the Red Rocks for accessing the amphitheater. We hiked up to the path and scoped it out, knowing that it was going to be a wild ride. As I started to charge down it, finding that even the slightest over drift would throw you into the handrails, this made it very difficult for the shot, but also fun and challenging to land the perfect line. Patience was also required as visitors were consistently walking the path, we had to wait for the perfect gap of time and try and get the shot, then move on. A crowd actually started to develop as people started to notice the “crazy kid on his skateboard” charging down the ramp. We finally got the shot, headed to the other sections of the park, and got out. Then we continued to Kawika Omoto’s hosue and picked up the fellow injured skater who was stoked to come and film.
[When we initially ran across Livin’ Free, it was just a website and a concept.We knew that traveling videographers were working on a movie and it was to be “about longboarding”, but nothing more. Several months later, we found ourselves in the high school auditorium at Goldendale, Washington, waiting for the projection-screen premiere of “Livin’ Free – The Heart of Longboarding” .This is our review.]
It turns out that this flick is more than a little autobiographical.The videographers are pros that found longboarding as something to fill the time between shifts shooting video for television reality shows at various locations across the globe.They are, in fact, masters of their craft. They traveled with their shows, longboard in tow – and it was just one, shared board at first.By the time the idea to start lugging $10,000.00 video cameras around came up, they’d gathered some basic boards and began capturing footage that may change viewers’ understanding of Point of View video with longboards.With the videographers and the hardware, this production might have turned out too polished, too professional and maybe beyond the appreciation of the general board riding world. It doesn’t, if only for one aspect of the documentary: the Cast.
[Silverfish gets the video and we lock a couple monkeys in a box and let them watch it. The next thing you know, the monkeys are free and are sliding all over, willy nilly. Faltown was nice enough to hook us up with this video and after a bit of prodding the monkeys share their thoughts]
With Faltown Skateboard's release of the Art Of Going Sideways they not only put themselves on the map but also help to feed the flames of the sliding discipline that is developing on an international level. On hearing of the imminent release, we did what we could to get our hands on a copy. With company over we sat down on the couch, opened the Cheetos and hunkered down to see what was to be seen of the video. The initial credits roll and what follows is a vivid rendition of slop style skateboarding, the validity of the video as a statement of downhill freestyle skateboarding is true to the nature of the discipline especially in the opening and the following segments.
"D.O.P.E. is produced by Car Angel (a non-profit organization dedicated to stopping teen age drug abuse) and features many famous skateboarding stars. With guest appearances by Christian Hosai and Jay Adams from Z Boys, this documentary hosted by Danny Trejo with theme song by POD will surely grab the hearts of young Americans who think that drugs can be messed with without consequences. Trailer was shot and produced by BSC and the documentary is directed by surf writer Chris Aherns."
Longboard Vid Reviews 
