Almost - Round Three review

Almost - Round Three

Almost: Round 3 Review

Skateboarders:
- Chris Haslam
- Cooper Wilt
- Ryan Sheckler
- "William Patrick"
- Greg Lutzka
- Rodney Mullen
- Daewon Song

Soundtrack
- Journey: Any Way You Want It
- The Cardigans: My Favorite Game
- Franz Ferdinand: Come On Home
- The Cure: Why Can't I Be You?
- The Mr.Move: Ghetto Whomper
- Jimi Hendrix: All Along The Watchtower
- The Clash: Train In Vain
- The Killers: All These Things That I've Done

Chris Haslam:
The video opens with a perfect mix of creative and "normal" tricks. The opening line sets up the tone for the rest of the part, with fun tricks like a blunt stall on another board and a slappy nosegrind. But mixed in with these relaxed looking tricks are some amazingly creative tricks including a One Footed Boardslide, a Nosegrind Late Flip, and a Kickflip One Foot Nose Manual amongst other things, like tons of flip variations out of boardslides. In this part you can see that Haslam is just having fun with it, but still pulling off amazing normal tricks too, including a Nollie Bigheel down a double set, and a giant tweaked ollie off a loading dock, and finishing with a nice rail trick down the Hollywood High 16.

Cooper Wilt:
This part is full of roof gaps, and Cooper demonstrates how to throw perfect kickflips across gaps that would have most people shitting themselves to even roll up to. This part has a certain raw feel to it, as Cooper skates some pretty rough spots, including a noseblunt stall drop in on a sketchy gravel bank. This part also has a lot of manny tricks, including a pole jam to manual, and also a lot of nice tricks into banks like a Kickflip Noseblunt and Switch Fs Tailslide. Cooper's part starts how it ends, with a Fs Shove It and a Heelflip over a huge roof gap, and finally a roof gap to grind to end it.

Ryan Sheckler:
This part starts off with a huge manual down a plaza and then moves on to some hammers from Sheckler. Whether you dislike the guy or not, you can't deny that this part kicks ass even if you don't factor in the fact that he must be about 13 years old when this was filmed. Sheckler throws huge kickflips down drops and also puts in some nice transition tricks, like a no footed nosegrab and a kickflip indy, as well as throwing a perfect Backside Cab down a decent sized gap. As the part progresses, more stair tricks move away from the tech tricks of the previous two skaters, with Sheckler Bs Flipping and Fs Flipping stairs, and finally concluding the part with an enormous street gap ollie.

"William Patrick":
This is the joke part of the skate video but still contains some decent tricks. It starts off with a story about a drunken Irish man, and then Tyrone Olson and Chris Casey dress up in the costume and start hitting up handrails in excessively low pants. There are actually some nice tricks in this part, like a Smith to Lipslide, although whether it was intentional is questionable. This part also has some nasty falls, a lot of them involving the crotch region coming into contact with the rail. Ouch.

Greg Lutzka:
This is an amazing part by Lutzka, probably the last one before he decided that he was only going to do Fs 270 Lipslides for the rest of his life. There is so much variety in this part that when I see Lutzka in a contest I can't help wondering what the hell happened. It starts off with a nice Fs Bigheel on a dam, then one of the most impressive lines I have seen, a nice high Tre flip, Nollie Flip Noseslide, Nollie Fs Flip and Fakie Flip Switch Back Tail. One thing that you'll definitely notice, is that Lutzka has crazy pop, pulling off a Kickflip Fs Noseblunt on the top part of a picnic table, as well as being one of the few pros who does Fs 360 Kickflips. There's also some amazing rail tricks; Switch Bs Lipslide, 360 Flip Lipslide, and a huge Fs Overcrook, and as the part progresses, Lutzka just keeps hitting bigger and bigger stairs.

Rodney Mullen:
In this part, Rodney delivers everything we've come to expect from a Rodney part, and more. First off he pulls out some crazy freestyle tricks like a Handstand to Railstand, and other things that seem impossible, like an Inward Heelflip Truckstand. The first part of this part is definitely his freestyle stuff, but then he starts to move towards more street based tricks, including darkslides, nosegrind fingerflip manuals, and a beautiful Nollie Gazelle off the Chinatown ledge. Next, we can see him move towards the underflips, down the Hollywood walk of fame, these underflips include a half flip, late 180 underflip and Rodney's invented Semi Flip. After nearly knocking over a disproportionate fat guy, Rodney begins some bank/manny tricks, including a manual 360 flip switch nosemanual, and a massive nosehook impossible 180. Finally, the part ends with a whole bunch of railslide tricks, with tricks such as varial heelfips, nollie 360 flips, all seemingly effortlessly done into railslide, with the final trick, a railslide flip to railslide being the perfect ender to this part.

Daewon Song:
Firstly, Daewon shows off his amazing transition skills, with tricks like Blunt 360 Flip out. Then, the part turns into probably the most impressive display off manual tricks ever. Name any flatground trick, and in this part, Daewon has probably done it into and out of a manual, Nollie Bs 360 Heelflip, Fakie Bigheel, Switch-Nollie-Fakie and Regular 360 Flips, Double Flips, Nollie Bigspins, you name it, Daewon has done it out of a manual. Sandwiched in between these manny tricks are some amazing tricks over gaps, including a 360 flip over a gap between two freight trucks, and a Nollie Bs 360 Heelflip, and some bank tricks, like a 540 Bigflip. Later, Daewon sets up a rail between the truck gap, and does some amazing tricks, as well as changing it, to make a crazy grind to gap between the two freight trucks. Finally, Daewon ends with some of the most impressive skating I've ever seen, inculding a Switch 360 Flip Nosemanual Fakie 360 Flip out. Finally, the ender, which is probably the most amazing trick that I have ever seen. You have to see it to believe it, so go watch it now!

Soundtrack
- Journey: Any Way You Want It (Intro)
- The Cardigans: My Favorite Game (Haslam)
- Franz Ferdinand: Come On Home (Cooper)
- The Cure: Why Can't I Be You? (Sheckler)
- The Mr.Move: Ghetto Whomper (Patrick)
- Jimi Hendrix: All Along The Watchtower (Lutzka)
- The Clash: Train In Vain (Rodney)
- The Killers: All These Things That I've Done (Daewon)

Reactions

Posted by Switchfoot 11 months ago Poll: Whose part was your favourite Chris Haslam 29% Cooper Wilt 0% Ryan Sheckler 29% William Patrick 0% Greg Lutzka 14% Rodney Mullen 14% Daewon Song 14% 7 votes

Posted by chsk8 10 months ago Dude I have this vid on my PSP it was sick!

Posted by sk8erdavve 9 months ago it´s a great vid