"Freeride" videos

A lamentation.



So little tim, you wanna make a downhill skateboarding video? heres what you gotta do

Learn no comply slides. At no point should you EVER put a hand down.

Skinny jeans are not optional. You must not under any circumstances wear kneepads, although whichever soft padding is fashionable at the time can be worn, as long as it's what the cool kids are rocking.

Include plenty of shots of trees, insects, badgers, cows and various other nature related things that have nothing to do with skateboarding. People dont watch these videos to see skateboarding you know. Make sure you come across as really eco friendly.

Include lots of shots of you sliding through piles of leaves. Get a friend to help if you cant find enough.

Find a wall and skate past it, sliding your glove over it. This will make your video really, really unique and thought provoking, raising lots of interesting points of debate about life. Possibly combine this shot with the piles of leaves.

Make sure whoever's filming you pans the camera from the floor towards you, or focuses it from a flower or a tree or a pigeon or something onto you. This lets your audience know you are At One With Nature.

Include shots of you smiling, laughing and mucking about with friends. This will show everyone how much of a good person you are.

You can select whatever music you like, as long as it is dubstep/is an unpopular remix of some popular song/ is really, really old school. The last approach shows you have a great depth of personality.

Make sure not to go too fast, or your video might transition from mild downhill to fair/moderate downhill and then serious downhill. Make sure you know exactly what category of skateboarding you are doing, and then skate to a paticular set of rules and regulations so you dont get confused. The "free" in freeride is not a licence to do whatever you want you know.

have fun

Will