LA SKATE + MUSIC | A Look at LA’s Influential Skate and Music Scene

LA SKATE + MUSIC is a short documentary that gives a behind-the-scenes look at Los Angeles’ globally trendsetting skateboarding and music scene through the eyes of some of LA’s most influential skaters. Going beyond skateparks and street tricks, this piece highlights the role music plays in cultivating a culture that allows the skate community to break barriers regardless of ethnicity or gender.

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Full Skate Compilation Of 2018 – Red Bull

Red Bull brought you skating like no-one else does for another 12 straight months – now watch it wrapped up in Patrik Wallner’s blistering mega-edit! The idea behind Red Bull’s globe-trotting Skate Escape series has always been to do the other thing. Take on the bigger challenge. Going skating down the backstreets of this world of ours is always a rewarding experience – new spots, new faces and fast times.

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Elevating Skateboarding | Matthias Reich’s Skate Videofolio

Matthias Reich is a renowned Austrian videographer with a fabulous sense of space and its uses in terms of skateboard filming.
If you take a look at any of his projects over the last four years for – the vistas of the former Yugoslavia, the monuments of southern Russia, Daniel Spiegel and Simon Stricker’s equally smoking Checkouts – what comes across in each is a lovely sense of lenswork, framing and composition which elevate the skating without overshadowing it.
This is his bright Videofolio.

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Red Bull – Seeing Through Torey Pudwill’s Eyes | Alter Ep. 1

In “Alter” we see the world around us through the eyes of our athletes who, via sport, have totally changed the way they see the world. In this first episode, we tell the story of Torey Pudwill’s tango with an unassuming bus stop bench and its wondrous double life, all set to the voice of Thrasher Magazine’s first-ever Skater Of The Year (1979), Steve Olson. You may just see a bus stop, but Torey sees a world of possibility.

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