Thanks for tuning into Top's Watch Radio, issue number 61, and in this episode we'll be breaking down, taking a good look at Bastion Salavansi's new part, but not so sorry video. Let's play the theme tune. Welcome back to Top's Watch Radio, I'm Ryan Dodds. Alongside me as always, breaking down some of the skateboards finest videos.
We've got Mr Will Hickey here. How's it going mate? Yeah, not doing too bad man. How you doing?
Pretty exciting right? You know, we don't get a lot of Bastion these days. We were kind of obviously really lucky back in the day to get a lot of Bastion salavansi. You know, we got some heavy hitting parts.
He's had a bit of a hiatus from video parts, hitting a heavy hitter for us now. You know, I mean, 2021, you think you're going to get this video at a Bastion salavansi. So I'm pretty chuffed to have this right in front of me. Absolutely.
Treat. Soon as I saw his name pop out that straight away. That was it. I know I got to watch it.
Like you're saying, hadn't had anything for him for him for a little while. So yeah, couldn't wait to watch it. Yeah, like he's had a few things with primitive. I'm sure he's had some little bits in between that probably don't get the highlight that he did back in the day.
You know, breaking down Bastion, we just want to get stuck into him a little bit. He was of that golden era. He was the golden goose. You know, I mean, he was the future player after Rowley, sorry, Reynolds.
He was that next guy that was going to set the, I mean, he was setting the world alike at that period. No one was doing full cow flips down 16s like him. No one was doing like all the, you know, the double flips and the double switch heels and all that sort of stuff and putting stupendously complex lines together. He was a front runner back then and he was young and he's only, I don't know, looks at this video.
Getting better with age mate. Always mate. I think it's one of those things as well. Like when he really started popping up, he was pretty young to do all, you know, doing all the stuff that he was doing, you know, in the early 2000s and stuff, really put him up for everyone to see because he was so young hitting such technical tricks for the era.
I went on his Wikipedia and found out how old he is and I was honestly thinking he was going to be a bit older. So how old is he? I haven't got a clue. You know, you kind of, because he's been around so long, you probably stick him a bit higher up, but yeah, break it down to me.
How old is he? He's 35. Oh, he's solid. That's still prime.
I mean, I think he's younger than Chris Cole then. So he's still prime time player, really. Yeah, obviously I just was expecting him to probably be more closer to his 40s. But obviously, like I said, he was well known from a young age.
So I got here, I'll quickly reloft some Bastion facts off of the old wiki. He won one of his first contest at the age of 11 and that was one of the most interesting things. And that was one of the Marseille competitions in France. Straight after that.
And he was already sponsored from a local shop after the age of nine. So definitely one of the one of the golden kids at the time. And after he won the trip in France, Vans pretty much flown straight to California where he got more sponsors and stuff. But yeah, in 2001, he was 15 and he won the World Cup in Dortmund.
And that was the Globes shoe world championships. And he won that in 2001, 2002 and 2003. So three years in a row and also in 2001, he came second place in the Tamperam. And three years later in 2004, he got first place at Tamperam.
So that goes to show on how quick this guy got on the scene and really put it down. Yeah, that's just showing how highly regarded he should be. I do hold him high. The annals of skateboard in history.
I hold him high. I know you do as well. But really not those facts there, mate. I mean, it's only really one more step, isn't it, is to get the skate really, but really, I think he was up against, you know, when he was when he was hitting it, Apple Yard, sorry, you know, he's rubbing shoulders with those old boys.
Obviously, that's why skating was so, so good. Probably weren't going to get it because you just weren't getting the spotlight against those guys winning Tamper Pro. That is, that's no mean feat, mate. It's a great competition to win and to have that.
He can be proud. All of his achievements. But that's one of them that he's got to be super, super happy about. Yeah, definitely.
Definitely one of those competitions where everyone is really just giving it their absolute all trying to fucking smash it. And yeah, imagine that three years later from almost coming first for the Tamperam three years later smashing it for the pro. Like, that's a lot of fucking progression in three years. Well, yeah, I was going to say to you, mate, it's kind of like, so you're passing salabansi.
You're in your teams. You're knocking about with a couple of goats, right? You've got Sarri, Penny, Rowley, Apple Yard, you know, even a likes of Ali Boulala who probably doesn't get as much credit as he does, you know, in terms of like a switch skate and everything like that. You've got such a heavy hitting team there.
You know, if you're not going to get better, you're not going to stick with a team. You know, you're going to be lost on the wayside because these are boys are absolutely pushing it to the end degree and basing just, you know, sort of a put up or shut up and he's just, you just carries on and he just gets his head down and turns into turns into a goat himself really. And also I just put in there in the same year he won the temper pro. He also finished third for the streets game and ex games and obviously you'll know just as well as me in 2000s the X games just as big or bigger than street leaguers now, maybe not certain with certain prizes and stuff.
Yeah, it was really big to be involved in like an ex games back in the day in the early 2000s. Yeah, the X games still a bit of edge to it. Still kind of was the pedestal of skateboard and the top tier, you know, guys in competition skateboard and that's where they rub shoulders. Yeah, it's still had something where as I think you've seen some of those games escapes that get held at college campuses on little platforms.
It is some of the lamest stuff you'll ever see the skateboard is brilliant. You know, you might see Chris Cole versus Nigel Houston in a game escape, but in terms of the whole setup, it is pretty lame, pretty lightweight. It's like, oh, yeah, 100% and I think that just just changes with time and error. But yeah, the differences were a hell of a lot.
Maybe some of our younger listeners, you know, let us know if you think we're talking shit, but back in the day, you know, you had these old wooden parks, you know, the competition parks that stickers everywhere, you know, big, quick silver globe, all these companies are getting involved. And so, you know, the parks just had a more of an earlier setup, you know, steeper ramps bigger kind of blocks to kind of deal with, whereas now everything's kind of set up for, you know, obviously there's big shit in there, but they kind of set up for someone to be able to do a flip front ball down a rail, whereas the old school parks were kind of a bit more just like, you know, BMX parks that skateboard is just just dealt with as well. You know what I mean? Like the all the A frames were massive.
You know, it was, it was, so there was a bit more kind of you have to be, you know, of a certain standard, you have to be costants, you had to deal with that because those sort of parks mate me and you rocking up at those sort of ramps, you know, you've got to be going, you've got to be going that day to be out of something good or something really technical. Obviously, huck and all the kickflip's going to be your best trick over, you know, that sort of size A frame and that probably ain't going to be good enough, you know, whereas these are always a clearing whole thing or doing just something super, super crazy or super tech. But yeah, one get in those parts were just a little bit gnarlier, you know, a little bit edgier than it seems to be now. Everything's a bit cleaner now.
So much more raw. And I've even got an example, it's so funny you say that. And this would have been better than what you're on about, but I can remember going to Epic or whatever it is for the first time. And I'd have probably been about 13 or something.
So not, you know, we're not talking a crazy amount of time ago, but a fair bit still and just rolling down some of those flat banks at that time. We're not so they weren't, they were ridiculously big. You know, when you hit the floor, you hit the floor of speed wobbles and the difference of a park like that when you look back at Radlands, even when the, the Palace did that little kind of Radlands part, that was kind of what it was like, you know, a little bit easier. But when you see these guys, you know, you see Tom Penny just just kick flip in and know he went over these that to hit them, you've got to be really going fast.
Yeah, it'd be more of something if just skateboarder building these things back in the day. Yeah, yeah, it's like you're saying with Radlands, mate, you know, the classic Tom Penny footage that kind of everyone, you know, if you're a skateboard and you don't know what I'm going on about shame on you, but just go and check out but Tom Penny Radlands will find what he's doing here. The front stuff flips over the pyramids over the A-frames over the huge hips. But there's a reason why there's only highlights of pretty much one old boy killing those comps.
Obviously there's loads of old boys of loads of skates have hit it and done really well. There's only one skateboarder, one of the greatest of all time that's actually got some legit real kind of heavy hitting footage that stands at test of time because it was hard to skate, you know, there's only one guy that actually got the better of those ramps and that was Mr. Tom Penny. That's in Salavenza, one of his disciples, mate, really, if you think about it.
Oh, especially it would have been when that sort of era him, you know, so many people would have been idols and massive influences to Bastion and obviously eventually with him riding for flip and stuff and being from France, he probably probably got to experience a lot more of it than the people know about. Yeah, being a part of that team would have just been crazy. Anyway, should we dive into this video, mate, some of the chat about this? Yeah, let's go for it.
You know, we're not going to do a skate companion or anything like that. We're just going to have a little breakdown, talk about some highlights. We can go through, you know, maybe the majority of these. Not super long parts.
Just three minutes long. If you're listening on to us, watch radio.com. Look below you and you'll see the video and be right there queued up. Yeah, so it's a three minute part, mate, which again, as we always say, three minutes is pretty much perfect for a video part, right?
Bang on. Obviously, you know, a good part will always leave you wanting a bit more to. I just want to talk about this before we get stuck into skating because if I don't, I probably forget the tune and the music in this video gave me goosebumps. It gave me shutters.
It felt so real. You know, from our era of skateboarding, Bastion was one of those skates that influenced you or you just looked at going like, fuck this, oh boy, is an ex big thing. Yeah, he's still doing it. He's still killing it.
One of your heroes from your childhood and from your adolescence is killing it. And my point being, this music that you use just absolutely echoed through me. It's by a band called Sea Roo. Yes, feel the sounds of Kenya's.
He's tapping into his kind of his African heritage, mate. But what did you think on that? Because it really kind of just got me, you know, give me a little kind of goosebumps on the back of the neck and on the arms. Oh, yeah, 100%, exactly like what you were describing.
When it starts, you know, especially people who had a lot of influence and maybe even idolised certain things that Bastion did. When you see in that person there, he's warming up for a skate, really elevates the whole part. Yeah, really, really good. Great.
Yeah. And then not to disappoint your mate comes in with the first line classic. He's at Ledges, you know, you want to see Bastion at some edge. Obviously you want to see him jumping down some shit, but you want to see him on some ledges.
And he hits like the half cab flip, no slide. And I think he backs it up with like a flip back nose grind 180, you know, with a little reaver at the end of it. And as soon as he hits that, he's like, well, he's back in his own, you know, he's back here. Yeah, no disappointment.
And then straight after that, you know, we always talk about signature maneuvers, you know, trade marks in the in the skate world hits his big flip over a nice little flat gap, really nice looking kind of flat gap of a house or a driveway or something with some big gates behind it. But really, really nice shot. But yeah, it was declaring that that in gone anywhere. Just showing you it's all there.
And then even hitting like the backside double flip at the classic spot that all the flip guys I mean a lot of guys from back in the 2000s. It's kind of like a ramp to road and it's the backside double flip. Absolutely perfectly. I mean, and that's that's in the first minute of the video, mate.
That's in the first 40 seconds of the video. You can end the video part on that. Easy. If you did that, everyone's going, I'm happy if you just put that at the end of the part.
Oh, yeah, ticking all these boxes straight away. The editing as well because of the kind of the African style music with those awesome drums and it's got a bit of movement behind it. Like we always go on about what we like to see. You know, you can use some fast paced clips and then obviously later on in the part, then you can stick some lines in there as well.
But all of this kind of opening clips in the first minute, even hits this really beautiful switch frontside flip off this block over this tall arse baller. You know, it's around the 52nd mark. You can give us a little double angle of that guy. Yeah, it does give us a little double angle.
That's and you wanted that. You know, it's nice to see in front side from a couple of different angles. Kind of shows you the technique that he was using more kind of like an in-betweener in it. You know, it's not strictly the musk of mate, but in there.
And a lot of people do the switch frontside flip that way. That is kind of like the easier method of getting it around. There's one cutaway that I really enjoyed when he's kind of power pushing towards a driveways sort of gap at school where he's just like running onto his board and there's a load of benches in the foreground. Just showing the speed of this guy showing like the energy and it's just placing you back into an era.
You know, just seeing all those picnic benches make, you know, kind of just puts you back into that 2001 era. They've just, you know, schoolyard skating and seeing that, you know, every video. Yeah, exactly. Just kind of bringing it all back in just that clip there.
Yeah, so yeah, it's a nice crispy tray on that clip. Next clip mate. It's a nice, nice shove nose grind 180 into a line as a couple of lines that push is in the sun. Classic spot.
I think Danny Garcia, the heavy tap skater from back in them. Sure, he's hit a few, or even Stefan Janosky to skate this back in a day, but getting bass in just hitting some nice tech on there. Oh, I just love the tech and the cleanness from Bastion. Like, obviously we have skaters to this day who are pushing the tech and rail and ledger into the next level and still being able to produce a clean, but not, it's just not creating, you know, this has that solid old school smooth style that is very hard to replicate.
You're hitting those refined kind of classical maneuvers, you know, classical thinking, but just putting a twist on them. You don't have to go bigger and better than anyone. You just got to put that little bit of your own character in there, a little bit of your own personality of how you'd like to escape something. There's just one clip that you hit the tail slide down a hover, pulls it round to Vicky and then it's in a switch manny and then switches around with a switch 180 out of it.
You're using a hover in a little curb in a different way to say that someone else will be thinking super, super tech here. He's just putting a nice clean tail side of Vicky, which everyone, you don't love that trick. There's got to be something wrong with you. And then just putting it down, some delicate and whipping it round and he's going again.
Yeah, definitely. He's having a right play on some of these ledges and it's fucking awesome to see. Yeah, it's just really nice to see him kind of. You can see his consistency and his flip to grind tricks, you know, on these ledges.
It hasn't gone anywhere. He's still so precise, so clean and it still looks effortless. Yeah, and definitely one of those skateboarders where if he was to just skate switch for a long time and he didn't really know who he was, he wouldn't really know what's dancing. You know, obviously he's got the cheeky flare of his shoulders when he is in switch, but just, yeah, just his own stairs.
Yeah, yeah, I know what you mean with that. But when he's in his switch heel crouch mate, you know he knows exactly what he's doing in there. Does a nice switch double heel over a railing down and it is absolutely perfect. We'll give credit to the film because they've hit some really nice angles, but that angle of that is absolutely perfect.
And even you're the use of slow-mo in that clip mate is really, really well done. Yeah, I slowed it down for us. And really, it wouldn't have, obviously it's fucking awesome that you know, to switch double heel. I'd have been happy with just the switch heel, but realistically, though his body style and every the way he did it, it could have been over those tricks just the way it was the gap, you know, it's just flawless.
Well, exactly. It's one of those, you know, the switch double, well, double flips in general mate, you know, can be a little bit whack. It depends who you are, how you can pull them off. I remember learning double flips when I was younger, must have been, I reckon I was maybe 15, 16 or something like that.
My kickflip was down and I was kicking down anything and I was learning double flips. And I was getting some nice double flips mate, but it killed my kickflip, you see, absolutely eradicated it, you know, stop me from getting that nice core, you know, back foot kickflip. That kind of went. So that was me ending my career with double flips.
I was like, I'm done with them. I prefer the kickflip. Whereas Bastion, it doesn't change anything for him. You know, he can still hit a perfect, you know, that's that's which double heel mate was just so clean.
Like saying, it could have been just a switch heel. You just kept that steeze involved, whereas a lot of people can't do that. You can kind of see him either kicking too hard to get the power to do it, or it just doesn't look right. Some people just don't just can't pull off double flips.
There's a reason why you probably won't see Stevie Williams doing that shit because he probably isn't the biggest fan of it, you know, one of the greatest skates of all time, one of the steeze skates of all time. Bastion can definitely pull it off. Yeah, I think it's a you're definitely right. And it's some of those things where I think some skateboarders have that.
Oh, they just realized that there's there's the time to fit it in and it just fits in the same trick. If that makes sense, you know, even with like a trade double flip, not really a fan of them. But sometimes people put them in the right place and it wouldn't made a difference to me if it was a trade before a trade double flip, but they just had the time to allow it to spin that extra time and it just fucking worked out right like as the flip. Yeah, exactly.
Like, you know, Shano Neil classic example of the the tray double flip, you know, and he pulls off, but he's kind of almost declaring that you can do it. You know, he's just saying, he's just saying, hey, I'm just flipping an extra extra flip in this one. Don't hate me. I'm not going to do this every time.
I like my tray. I'm just showing you over this gap over this obstacle down. He says, I can just take that extra one in there. Yeah, that's it.
There's always been times where you learn a double flip and you play with it. It's a good game of skate or whatever, but it's one of those things that it's never going to really look good. There's only a certain place in a certain time or certain person that can be throwing those out there and not making it just look like a tech message. Yeah, exactly.
It's one of those, you know, especially on flat with a double flip. Generally, it's a rule of thumb. You catch them as they're on the ground, you know, you hit the ground at the same time as a board. And generally, that isn't, well, for me, anyway, I think a catch showing a catch is just something special, you know, having that board on your feet still as you're coming down is a nice thing to see.
And I'm sure if he was doing a double flip, I'm sure he'd be catching that in the air as well, even if he's doing it on flat, but maybe you won't even see him do it on flat, maybe that in his bag, you know, maybe doesn't like to see it on flat. That's it. That's it. Well, let's get into his end to make because his ender is just a really, really nice, really nice trick that you're not seeing too much of these days.
The half-cal flip is a really nice trick that one of my favorite tricks, one of my most probably most consistent tricks, actually, as well, you know, with a flip variation. But to put it down a handrail, mate, you know, turn it into a front board is pretty risky, right? I mean, that rail looks pretty big. So it's a risky move to whip that round and know that your front foot is going to get back onto that board.
Yeah, pulling up blindside as well, like you say. So you've got to have some balls to do that, and then put enough, even just doing it without the flip. All right, you're seeing a lot of big names these days doing maybe doing a half, half, half, half, half, half, two, 70, and so on, front board, or into a kind of feeble sort of thing, not bastion. He's stepping it up with the flip end.
It's almost that he knows, mate, that he's of a certain caliber, you know, and he would be disappointed himself if he didn't put out something that we can go like fucking hell that end. It was heavy, you know, he just, we would never want to see a shadow of bastion salivancy. Obviously, we're not seeing a shadow of bastion salivancy. We're almost seeing some of his best work yet.
It's almost like the Mark Apple Yarglow part that we were very fond of here at Turbo. They're just refining and they're doing the things that you want to see. You want to see someone obviously hit their special moves, you want to see people just kind of take a little twist on something they might have done in the past and bastions ticking literally every box that you'd want from a salivancy part here. Yeah, 100%.
Like you're saying, he knows that he's a certain caliber and he's got certain tricks on, you know, everyone's got a trick that is their special trick, be it a flip trick or a grind or whatever. And we all know that one of one of the bastion tricks is the full cab flip and, you know, he's given us a bit of both of them are hitting into that fun board. Remind me, I can't remember. I'm just off my head if it was sorry or really sorry where he hits a really long flip front board for his ender kind of kicks the kick the board off into the wall at the end.
There's wearing a beanie might be wearing a new t-shirt as well, correct me if I'm wrong, but it was obviously it's a take on that, you know, it's a front board and a kick flip, you know, down a rail. And we've got that, you know, there's a little homage to that. But then also like you're saying, full cab flip is his special meat trick. You know, if he's a Tony Hawk pro skater skater, the left right square trick for him would be a full cab flip, wouldn't it?
You know, that would be his ding trick. So it's just perfect. Couldn't, you know, was not expecting a trick at all. Obviously, we knew there was going to be something special, you know, throughout this, but just to see that was just just just awesome.
And at the end, seeing him be smiling out and wrapping up like that was great. There's a lot of kind of cliches that you see in skating with the nucks to the film and all that sort of stuff. And that means something, sometimes it doesn't. That definitely meant something, you know, the joy emanating out of him.
And this is why kind of as a skateboarder, these are the sort of videos you want to stick on before you go for a skate. You know, these are the ones that you stick on three minute video part mate, stick it on. You could even do it as, you know, at the spot, just when you get there, if you're going to, you know, if you're setting up a board or something or just tweaking a little bit of stuff, get this video playing, this will get you buzzing. This will get you just feeling just especially with this tune as well mate, you know, plug yourself in with this.
I'd like to be skating to this tune as well behind me. You know, you could probably get some real good, just good happy vibes going and a bit of power behind you, just trying to try to be bastion. You know, always, there's so many skateboarders and I'm not sure if you're the same mate, if you're not, but you try and channel certain skaters when you've got certain tricks. I've got the cab flipping me.
You've got a cab flipping you mate. So there's a question for you then. Would you try and channel bastion? Would you try and keep him in the back of your mind or is the buck be all got his own technique now where he channels himself rather than a pro that he's going to watch many a time doing that trick?
Yeah, 100%. Maybe not recently with the full cab flip. I think I've just been trying to do it how I had previously done it. But definitely, if you see a trick that hypes you up and then you're going to go and do that trick.
You're going to be feeding off of everything you saw and the style when they did it. And you're just going to be trying to get a channel as much bastion as you can to get that trick. And I tell you what, this is from a young age when I was first out of the skate, probably only had a couple of kick flips and shoves down. That was the only thing.
But I can remember watching Bastion him skating at the competitions in the parks. And one trick that stood out for me, I can remember him doing it. You bet rarely even see it now was the Nolly Hill to back lip. And this was on the top of a handrail or like a driveway at the skate park or down down a handrail.
And I've not been lucky enough to do one of these yet. But it's always one of those tricks I have in my mind and think that is a trick I need to feel not do just to do it. But you know a trick you know you see it and you can imagine the feeling of doing that trick. What other size it is and eventually I'm going to have to try and feel it on something.
It's just always been in my mind funny enough. Yeah like the Nolly backside lipside mate is a really really nice trick on its own. You know that take out the heel for a second. You know just on a flat bar at a skate park or even like a little double curb sort of thing where you can kind of stick board slides and such like that on there.
But it always feels good but it always goes. You know once you've moved your back foot and it's on the other side of the rail. The speed of the you know the speed of the board side of you where you know the lip slide you're going because you know your heavy weight has already gone round to the other side now. So you're going to slide.
You know it's always been a trick. I'm trying to think of I've done it on. There's a little shotgun rail at Grove skate park that I used to go to when I was younger. I'm sure I got that a little clipper on that you know just doing all the way around mate too fakie you know Nolly backside and just got one.
But I never had I never had it in me to stick it on and cyber. I couldn't figure out how to change it into a frontside board side of my head. You know because that's what I needed to do. But I just couldn't.
I just the way it just didn't do it for me. As soon as that back leg came round I almost couldn't stop it from kind of going for as fearful of my life. You know just to slip out and just yeah. Or get power bomb the other way round you know so but going back to your whole point and you know long winded answer but getting a heel flipping there as well mates you're leaving the board.
Then it's stick it on. You know the acceleration you're going to get from sticking that on is going to be crazy because that's your heavy foot coming off and you've got to be obviously he's obviously more delicate than you think you know to have the control to bring that back foot down and put it on there because otherwise you're going to snap the board mate. Or it's just going to whip you away. You've got to be passing salivance right.
Yeah that's it you've got to be ready to die so death and get away with it. There's only so many people can just casually throw sort of tricks like that and get away with it. Yeah exactly. With the Noli frontside lips like I can hit that that's not like that's one of my more tech maneuvers you know I can definitely hit a Noli front lip to reg or fake.
I think I believe actually the nice looking tricks but the backside mate. I mean even to pull that round to back to regs now that is that is a top tier trick you know to make that look good. Yeah just to be able to like we're saying to reapply back weight on there and reposition it as if you're going into the the front board and really pull into that front lip. It's not an easy task and if you're not doing it on cement flat it's sending you down one way or another.
Yeah yeah. However you can handle that is fair enough. Me and you can Noli here got some more right Noli here was mate. I'm not great.
I've landed probably a couple of Noli backside here was my time. None of them sneezing. I'm just going to put it out there right now none of them but you know in a game of skates someone said it you might hang on to one. Might hit one where you're just trying it all day and getting something.
Just trying to apply that to just a little down rail at skate park mate. I can just you just can't I just can't see it. So any part of it can I can I put it together and like you're saying he's doing those competition parks with a super super big rails you know steep and long. How you put how you put your feet on that.
Not many people are doing but obviously there is this kind of a mistake of people but it's still top tier sequel into this day and he was just one of those people who was you know pretty much too too decade ahead consistency wise. Let's go turbo rating for this part. Let's go a little turbo rating straight away before we got a couple of little things I want to chat about but I'll let you go first mate what you're saying for a three minute part that you know both enjoy what you're saying for your turbo rating. Right.
Yeah I would like to give it a four. Yeah I'm going to I'm going to give it a four. You want to give it for I'm giving it a four. I'm giving it a four.
I'm giving it a four. I'm giving it a four. It might be one of your favourites or whatever but what part of that video. And if you've got a problem with us giving it for you can write in a let us know what part of that video did you not like.
Was it you know was it the awesome switch double here perfectly executed was at the half-cave flip the front board for his endo did you not like that did you not like the kickflip backside nose rind reaver you know did you not like that in the end of a line. Right. Let's know if you disagree but I think a four mate it has to be you know if I'm getting it's feeling like I said at the start of it gave me tingles and it probably gave me tingles but every time I watched this video. Yeah I think I think it just goes down to some of those the way that he started and finished you know and the way it was all created sometimes we're not giving out for us and to other parts necessarily this is a solo part this was Bastion someone who has already got a high tier he continued to deliver throughout.
I can't think of one sketchy trick throughout that part the song isn't just like a personal song or like a certain category people could be like that song was in that great like it was pretty neutral everyone can get a good feeling throughout that and yeah that's it if you don't let you know if you can think of something that would make it free. You're wrong I'm sorry. Exactly. Let's just give some credit to the film and edit me so it's a guy called Kyle Steneed not to show about the pronunciation of his name but well done Kyle mate that was awesome really well put together.
Filmers we've got Bobby Bill's Alex Kissinger and Joe chronic all the footage in this was really really well put together and they even gave a color credit mate to Ben Erickson so maybe someone's done a nice color correction on a lot of these. A lot of these clips just to get it to that right level you know that's all I'm thinking it's got to be something like that right yeah no definitely just. It's not always easy to have the best of light during skates films unless you've got like a mega mega set up and sometimes that just is how it rolls and skate you can always have the perfect set up or the perfect weather day and. Sometimes things might be half in the shadows or half in the dark and yeah things might need a bit correction to make it just look a bit nicer sometimes as well you just you know you want to see that truck lock in or.
You want to see that that tail slide right in there you know sometimes that might be half shadowed out and just to get it in there just brings that right in you know because that's what makes this part. A high level part like you get to see everything in there and yeah there isn't a or that that was a bit of a shake let even though the clip was great sometimes the clip that got that day you know might then film not that great or whatever you know that shit does happen but obviously we've got you know he's got away with a three minute video. I made it just a nice solid block that he can be proud of and we can we can enjoy for well until the end of time really I want to bring this to you mate so this is just past in salabanzis not so sorry part which we like at the sports radio if you've listened before or if you listen for the first time now break it down for you we're not the biggest fans of companies stick in their name in front of the skates name. This is him just putting himself out there right yeah and that's what was really really great about it because at first it's like.
The first thing I thought was always that a primmy part sort of thing and I was like no I don't think it is a primmy part you know then it just seems like exactly what you said it's just just him putting out a solo part and I'm sure he spends a lot of time with the film is that he's around awesome mates or whatever. This is what we've got let's quickly switch gears mate and let's move over to another bass in salabanzis video is a sorry era retrospective video on Thrasia is a half an hour video so I haven't had a cup of tea sat down next to me and give it the full viewage I've looked for a few times before this mate it looks like it's going to be a really good watch. I think at the start in the first minute I'm pretty sure he's filming like a little two trick line half cap foot downstairs and then a flip back to you but I'm pretty sure the second round might be that one that was like packed up for someone was skating back in the day in the rain getting all those tricks. And yeah just really bringing that era back and some great ledge date and some great flipping foot outs some stairs some rails I haven't watched at all so yeah it's going to be a nice watch this weekend.
Yeah exactly but it's one of those ones you got a pair of spec mate you know it's one of those ones I want to watch it but I've got to find the time for it I've got to watch that whole 28 minutes long I want to be sat down and just enjoy it. It's one of those ones you want to get you stick on a TV you know it's one of those that you want to show as much respect as you can. We'll point out another thing on Thrasia magazine.com. Bassins got like a past present in the future interview with Mike Bennett and it's just a really nice you know you've got a few nice little pictures in there.
And then when he was a kid at just some grimy old spots some classic on a bar so spots so definitely definitely give that a read if you're interested in Bassin. Give it a read anyway because you'll probably just you know ignite your interest in him. There you go that's Bassins Alabansi issue with Table of Sports Radio hope you enjoyed it. Listen to some SoundCloud, Apple Podcast, Spotify.
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