Emerica Stay Gold

[Slamooh]

its on top here

[PyR0MaNiAc225]

Holy.......uhm...........anybody else wanting to make a Reynolds shrine? Or a Romero shrine? Westgate? Szafranski? Tancowny? Figueroa? Or am I alone on that....

[Jakeblueisballin]

This video was completely amazing. I really want to do a reynolds remake for some reason. It'd be SO sick.

[knexzor]

Jack, I fully agree. Although I already have seen it and shared it (tried to keep it fluckit exclusive) I'm still buying it.

[bohemian]

i hear you jack, but in the end its nothing more than a glorified shoe commercial. i prefer not to pay for commercials.
skatevideos have never been big sellers, and the pros dont buy their cars and houses from sold dvds, the money come from the shoes. this is an ad for shoes.
if you want to support the pros, buy the shoes and the boards.

[heshfield]

this is an ad for shoes.
if you want to support the pros, buy the shoes and the boards.

I agree; just buy some shoes instead--thats the main purpose of the video.

[thesignguy]

i thought emerica was just another name the stupid kids added to there gamertags to sound cool


only 3 or 4 parts in, fully flared kept me more entertained, but it seems real good none the less

I would of never bought a shoe or a video from these guys, but i still get what jacks sayin, i feel guilty everytime i send someone that dos video site link. a little at least

[Jack]

i hear you jack, but in the end its nothing more than a glorified shoe commercial. i prefer not to pay for commercials.
skatevideos have never been big sellers, and the pros dont buy their cars and houses from sold dvds, the money come from the shoes. this is an ad for shoes.
if you want to support the pros, buy the shoes and the boards.

Damn. I actually agree with you. Alright, even though I already bought this, I'm going to download it. I've been excited for months.


Damn. It is a glorified shoe commercial.


update: Oh that's fucking cute, I decide to download it and it's gone.


I guess I'll wait.

[thesignguy]

its on top here

jack here ^^^

[jest118]

All videos are commercials for their brand. But unlike traditional sports they're also the primary form of proof of performance.

It's the commercial AND the "big game" for these guys. A good video part can get these guys a Salary in addition to portions of profit from product sales. A bad part or lack of one can get you kicked.

Aside from that though, every purchase of product counts. Especially at a time where there's a growing pattern of buying "blank" products because they're cheaper in price.

/steps off my soapbox.

Don't mind the rantings of a crazy guy who used to work in the industry.

[Jakeblueisballin]

Even if I downloaded it, I'll probably end up buying it to watch Heath Kircharts secret part, extras, and have it in super high quality to watch on a TV.

[thebullet]

i don't remember the last time I was this excited for a video, well maybe the last alien video.

With that being said, this video go pushed back almost 2 years, originally they told us it would come out spring of 2008.
So, it's hard not to get overly hyped on seeing this. Westgate's part was amazing, loved it. Suski's part, also so awesome. Leo and Reynolds, both legend status, specially reynolds.

Aside from that, i was pretty dissapointed with this video. The spots made it almost feel like a baker 3 extras video. Same sets of stairs over and over again. Tons of parts were super weak, and had super weak enders. Music was pretty bad too. I love that kind of music, but it's like they picked all the bad songs in the genre and loosely tried to match it up with the music.

I'm ranting. It might just be me being bitter with life right now in gerenal that I'm taking it out on this video.

Reynolds noseslide bigspin should have been the ender.

[PyR0MaNiAc225]

With diapers, baby clothes, and all this other stuff being added to my list of purchases soon, I just don't have 30 extra dollars to spend on a skate video.

Skateboarding has never been about monetary support, lots of awesome local videos are made on less. Skateboarding will always prevail, it's very adaptable.

If it got to the point where no one bought skate videos anymore (which it seems to be going that way). Companies will find a way to make money off of them again...

I heard Reynolds mention something about not wanting to put skate videos on the internet like every other company. That's cool and all, except they seem to want a profit off of this, in which case you're more likely to make money putting it on the internet for free and making money off of ads and individual user visits to the website it's on or downloaded from.

I've bought videos in the past, mostly on VHS back in the day, but that's just because there wasn't internet.

I may sound selfish... that's my opinion though and I really believe downloading videos on the DL is not going to harm Skateboarding. Shit... it might even help it.

QFT
And congrats on the kid

[Slamooh]

So, it's hard not to get overly hyped on seeing this. Westgate's part was amazing, loved it. Suski's part, also so awesome. Leo and Reynolds, both legend status, specially reynolds.

Aside from that, i was pretty dissapointed with this video. The spots made it almost feel like a baker 3 extras video. Same sets of stairs over and over again. Tons of parts were super weak, and had super weak enders. Music was pretty bad too. I love that kind of music, but it's like they picked all the bad songs in the genre and loosely tried to match it up with the music.

I'm ranting. It might just be me being bitter with life right now in gerenal that I'm taking it out on this video.

Reynolds noseslide bigspin should have been the ender.

qft i do agree with this a lot
romero just blew my mind
westgate high speed part is super sick too
reynolds does his job... clearing huge gaps with fucking stylish tricks
Jamie Towncowny... damn this guy is super amazing too. shifty stuff, gnarly tricks all over the place,

but
herman s part is a let down as i was looking forward to it... he got tricks and pop but come on 2/3 of the part is jumping over pic nic tables, are you fucking serious ? go find some decent spots
on some parts i didnt really feel the edit and sometimes i was "ah ok this was the ender...."
repetitive spots

sure he had a short part
but all of jerry's tricks were switch

i forgot he was on emerica for a second (somehow my mind doesnt consider he fits the team) but i was stoked "oh damn there s a jerry hsu part in this". He did very well even if half the part was bails and shit (and sometimes the trick is not even in the actual skate part), the rest was switch tits.

sidenote about supporting skateboarding , im with eflix on this one. And i would add that if you want to support, you better buy shoes etc and especially independent videos and give money to newcomers. Big companies such as emerica make a lot of money and these proskaters earn big money and i dont know if they play fair game with the rest of the scene ie helping new kids get recognition (i may be wrong on this)

Im pretty sure you all want to support skateboarding rather than "the industry", same for music, i want to support artists not the industry behind it...

[jest118]

but
herman s part is a let down as i was looking forward to it... he got tricks and pop but come on 2/3 of the part is jumping over pic nic tables, are you fucking serious ? go find some decent spots

Those are High School Lunch Tables and they're pretty hard to skate, and VERY hard to flip trick over from flat ground. I'm pretty sure that you're from an area that doesn't have those types of tables though, so it's understandable if you don't get that. Also.. the ease with which he skates them might also lead to the appearance that it's not an accomplishment but it's actually quite impressive.

Herman's part was neck and neck with Leo's part as the best part of the video in my opinion and the High School Lunch Table section was amazing.

Everyone has their own taste though, I just wanted to clarify that those tables are much harder to skate than you may think.

[Jack]

jack here ^^^

SG . . . file not found and deleted.


any other links? Is Kirchart's part a disappointment? I don't see any Kirchart love.


Oh well. If Romero, Reynolds, and Westgate make it amazing then that's all I need.


Jake, did you say Kirchart has a secret part? God damn am I nerding out right now.

Jest, I'm all ears. What you're saying makes a lot of sense.

Stoke, congrats on the baby. The first year is so hard. Get as much sleep as you can possibly get from now until your child's birth. Stock up on it like a bear gorging on salmon before the winter.

Bullet . . . . crap, disappointed bullet means I'll probably be disappointed too.

Let me ask you this . . . does Reynolds part match up to his "This is Skateboarding" part or his Baker 3 part?

[PyR0MaNiAc225]

SG . . . file not found and deleted.


any other links? Is Kirchart's part a disappointment? I don't see any Kirchart love.


Oh well. If Romero, Reynolds, and Westgate make it amazing then that's all I need.


Jake, did you say Kirchart has a secret part? God damn am I nerding out right now.

Jest, I'm all ears. What you're saying makes a lot of sense.

Stoke, congrats on the baby. The first year is so hard. Get as much sleep as you can possibly get from now until your child's birth. Stock up on it like a bear gorging on salmon before the winter.

Bullet . . . . crap, disappointed bullet means I'll probably be disappointed too.

Let me ask you this . . . does Reynolds part match up to his "This is Skateboarding" part or his Baker 3 part?

Kircharts part from what i hear is just a highlight reel of his career, so not much new to get excited about.
And Reynolds' part in this is WAY better than his TIS or baker 3 parts in my opinion. Maybe it was just the song though, I love that song now.

[thebullet]

any other links? Is Kirchart's part a disappointment? I don't see any Kirchart love.




Bullet . . . . crap, disappointed bullet means I'll probably be disappointed too.

Let me ask you this . . . does Reynolds part match up to his "This is Skateboarding" part or his Baker 3 part?

Jack. In the rip out there, Kircharts part is not included. I know a few guys who downloaded it legit from itunes and it wasn't there either. Apparently at the premiere his part played before the intro, and started off showing a bunch of his old footage, sort of like a best of Heath montage, and then ended in a 2 minute part that was really good, but pretty much everything has already shown up in magazines, so not many suprises.

Reynolds has the best part of the video, I'm gonna say it's on par with his "this is skateboarding" part.

I'm still going to buy this video when the "deluxe edition" comes out. Apparently deerman has a full part that'll be a dvd extra.

So far I've only watched the full video once, and the 4 parts I mentioned earlier twice. So maybe with another watch it'll grow on me a little more.



oh yeah, a few more mentions.

I've never liked that Justin Figuera kid, but his part was nuts too.

Jamie Towncowny and Marquise Preston also had a super good parts, but lackluster enders. I know a part shouldn't be judged by their enders, so maybe it's no biggie. But those guys should win awards for how stylish they catch their fliptricks.

Hsu's part was also a little disappointing, but anything compared to that enjoi part would seem a little bit of a let down. And apparently he was injured the whole time too.

[schnavolda]

i honestly don't know what to think about this video. it's the same with hallelujah somehow. i was so hyped up before and now it doesn't live up to it.

somehow it just doesn't click. there are skateboard videos i watch and immediately fall in love and i know i'll enjoy watching them every time from that point on. stay gold isn't one of them.

sure, some parts have really sick tricks but a lot of the stuff is so boring. like herman on that schoolyard. i can second what bullet said, the spots are really repetitive. they film for so many years and can't find some special spots? same goes with song selection.

[PyR0MaNiAc225]

deerman has a full part

thats all i read