Even though some of us have been skateboarding for almost 2 decades, it still feels exiting and fresh to meet traveling pros in our cities. We are not really spoiled with visitors of high caliber here in the Baltics. Every now and then Madars brings his friends over which is always a treat, but other than that the Baltics region is considerably off the radar for the Euro skate scene. For Antiz skateboards it is a bit different. For some time now Antiz is represented here (via clockwise and 14 skate shop). They even hooked up or youthful ripper, Rudolfs Rorbahs, who casually unlocked a deadly spot in Riga that a lot of people were eyeballing since the end of 90s (check video for the trick)
In the light of all of the above, it was, probably, a no brainer for the Antiz team to come over. Check out the video with some cameos from Baltic heads and stay the fuck home.
In the second installment of Filmers Worldwide we take a digital trip to the business capital of Italy: the city of Milan. The filmer in question is Andrea Di Liddo, better know to his peers as “Bakish” or “Sevial”. Andrea is a part of Chef Family, a Milan based crew of long time friends dedicated to the skate scene and the culture of skateboarding. As the name of the crew suggests, these guys are Chefs of their craft and cook videos with genuine street flavor. No fast food bullshit.
In this time for people of Italy, we decided to brighten things up and talk about filming, inspirations and what makes a good video.
Diego Garcia Dominguez/ DGD/ wallie
How did you start skateboarding? I grew up at my parents’ small town in the countryside. My older cousin used to ride a skateboard, an 80’s shape old-school board. Wheels were bad plastic, but as a kid, I enjoyed going downhill down my garage slope. Eventually the board ended up somewhere in the garage. Only years later, around 00’s, I randomly remembered about it and offered my friend to go skate. I still don’t know why it popped into my mind; skateboarding was not so popular back then. For an amazing coincidence, my friend got a skateboard too, so we met up and went skating. Since that day on I am committed to skateboarding. I feel extremely lucky, as I’m meeting amazing people all the time! And I also found love thanks to this piece of wood that is constantly changing my life.
How did you get into filming? Photography came first at the very beginning. We shot each other with my friend Marzio on a compact roll camera, on my very first skate-trip to Imperia, an amazing city near Genova, full of skate spots. We were skating and trying to immortalize the best tricks we got. Filming inspiration came when I got access to skateboarding on VHS. The first video I got was “Yeah Right!”. The turning point was when I met some guys close to my age at my homespot, Milano Centrale Station, and we started skating together. Dreaming of making our own video, I bought my very first camera and a Century Fisheye (with adapt ring) by collecting money from the crew. The camera was a Sony ultra-compact model with touch-screen (pretty new for the era). To make it ideal for skate purpose I asked my uncle (handyman-genius) to build me a handle from some sketch I drew on paper. The next week he came with a custom bike handlebars exactly the best handmade setup I could dream off. I was trying to imitate skate videos and learn how to film by watching a lot of them.
Ollie – ph. Marzio Villa
What are your memories about your early projects? I was very attracted to videos and skate companies. Skateboarding was not only the act, but I wanted to know the whole process behind a video, a brand and then create my own story. We decided to give a name to our movement, so the Narcoteam was born. Starting from creating a logo for our crew, I developed a website, opened a Youtube & Vimeo channel and created a blog from scratch. Everything, plus filming and editing, was eye-opening for me and became the foundation for my actual job career. With our very first full-length video we wanted to capture our progress and fun moments. As we grew up, upgrading camera and traveling more, we enlarged the crew and worked for a new video “Veritas in Tabula”. My 2nd full-length got premiered in Milan and I released it on DVD.
Did you grow up skating Milano Centrale? How was it? How was it to you see your home spot in so many pro videos? Milano Centrale aka “MC” was for me, as for many other skateboarders, a unique playground for meeting, chilling, learning how to skate and on top of all that, growing up.
Everyday you get in contact with different types of people from businessmen to homeless, and you have to share a public space and relate with everyone. My first time in the plaza was with my father, he told that this place was not safe back in the day and he wanted to check the area, but once we got there he was encouraging me to skate there.
Ruben Spelta 360 flip/ Andrea on the VX
I remember this white marble sea of ledges, with skateboarders everywhere doing amazing tricks. I was scared and excited at the same time. Compared to countryside spot I used to skate almost alone back then, Centrale was not only perfect to skate, but soon became a place where I met my friends and a lot of interesting people. But not everything was shining, there were a lot of pickpocketers and drug dealers. One day I saw a junkie inserting a syringe in his penis at 2 p.m. in the middle of the plaza. It’s a ghetto in the middle of Milan city center.
On the opposite side, Centrale was a Skate-Mecca where amateurs and pro came very often. People from many countries were there. I got the chance to meet and skate with Kenny Anderson, Mike Mo, Lucas Puig, Sean Malto and many others. When the big videos came, out it was funny to spot yourself or friends in the background eheh! But among many, in my mind, it was the local heros that were the true inspirations. Seeing skateboarding live was so cool! Seeing how they were skating and filming at Centrale, all that made Saturday afternoons a classic appointment. Spaghettochild and Gianluca Mariani himself was the one who was documenting and at the same time be the OG local in Milano. As a young skater in the spot, seeing Matteo Di Nisio skating full-speed was pure goosebumps. Centrale is also the place where I met my brothers, René Olivo and DGD, co-founders of Chef Family with Andrea “Cisko” Ciniselli.
“One day I saw a junkie inserting a syringe in his penis at 2 p.m. in the middle of the plaza”
How did you get involved with Chef Family? What was Chef at that point? Around 2009 I started working almost full-time as a motion graphic designer in a company. During the week, night time was my only chance for skating. At that time, “Rino” (René Olivo) was doing the same lifestyle routine. We know each other since long time, to me Rino and DGD were a great inspiration back in the days with “Day after Day” video. Chef at that point was 1 years old, with a full-length video and amazing rubrics like Chef Techniques. Rino knew I was filming a lot and made 2 videos, so he gave me his Sony VX1000 (that’s exactly when my love with this camera begun). He also taught me how to set it up.
We started to film each other, sometimes till 3 a.m. even during winter hard times. At the beginning my footage was supposed to go in the friend section, but I was so hyped filming that I got 3 min and became an introduction part for Chef Family 2nd video “Legend of the Chefs” We made a big premiere in Milan and being introduced in Chef was hella cool! Chef is what keeps me motivated and productive since 2010 and is always pushing my limit one step forward.
René Olivo – polejam 50
You seem to use CGI effects in your videos a lot. What do you think it adds to your videos? When I saw Adio “One Step Beyond” and Joe Castrucci’s “Mosaic” my mind blew up! Graphics and motion design were always my passion and great inspirations, and seeing applied in skateboarding videos was just combining two amazing passion together. CGI is that cherry on the cake, and sometimes make videos more recognizable and iconic. Take “Yeah Right” invisible board for example. It’s also a way to power up a concept and a theme for our videos. [Editor’s note: Andrea made the intro for RajonTV Game of Skate Championship/ his other work can be seen on his instagram]
Along with CGI effects, what do you think are the main components of a skatevideo? There are many components, I will pick the most important for me. The choice of the spot and the searching for it. Filming avoiding mistakes and try to make the spot and the trick always interesting by experimenting points of view. Editing is fundamental to control the rhythm of a video or a clip.
You showed your interactive video to me. That is quite invoative. Can you tell about that? What makes Chef unique to me is that everyone brings their experience and ideas into a calderon and this is the perfect recipe for a great dish! The double angle idea came after “Butterfingers”, a commercial we were asked to make as Chef for an upcoming car. We were telling an ideal story and our crew weekend filming routine. We were shooting a lot with VX1000 and HD camera, so an idea came in our mind. A double angle video where the viewers could switch between fisheye closeup and long lens with a button in real time. We wanted to bring a new idea and show a different perspective in skateboarding. Our informatic genius Gabriele Ferrari scouting for us the multiplayer technique and the project was ready to the online release. “Butterfingers” Interactive Video.
Gianluca Mariani – Double No Comply Shove
Although you try to have innovative things in your vids you still come back to the VX. What makes you use this camera? For me, Sony VX1000 still nowadays the best skateboarding camera out there. With Chef we got 6 of them (only two work ahah) These are the main advantages of SONY VX1000:
– Light and easy to move and pull out of danger.
– Audio that only takes higher sounds, perfect for pops, grinds and silent on bad flatground noise.
– Colours got this pastel looks and authentic vibes.
– MK1 fisheye lets you come close as fuck and gave you the chance to make ultradynamic shots.
On the flip side there are obvious disadvantages of vx1000:
– Heads are always glitching due to 20 years of filming history.
– Tapes are hard to find sometimes.
– Repairing components are hard to find and there are few people who could fix it.
How much do you skate and how much do you film? At Chef we are mainly 3 skaters/filmers but we got also many friends skating and filming with us. I try to film and skate equally as possible. Since we know that we are consuming time of another skater we are really precise about filming and try to bring home quality clips with few tries. We often switching filmers to make everyone skate equally.
We rarely go for filming mission, we prefer sessioning together. I’m very pro positive about spots and down to film whoever skates with us in a session if something is worth. We got an instagram account where we are choosing spot, called @milanoskatespots. Its very useful when you run out of ideas.
[Check Andrea’s part from 2017]
Who are some of the filmers that inspire you? I am a DVD collector. I am into underground videos filmed with a VX. Around 2010 I was mesmerized by “Overground Broadcasting” a video by Takahiro Morita from Japan who runs FESN [Far East Skate Network]
This made me curious about Japanese skateboarding and their filming style. I was blown away by the quality of every frame and the way they showed spots and tricks. Multiple angles, impeccable montage, collaboration with DJs. Everything combined made the video stand out. The natural evolution of the FESN movement is Tightbooth Production from Osaka. Filmers like Shingo Ogura and Shinpei Ueno who are today well known thanks to skatemedia.
Andrea in Osaka with TBPR crew
That is so cool. You stayed in Japan with Tightbooth Production crew, right? Could you tell about that and what have you learned about their filming /skating style? I lived in Japan for 8 months in 2015. Skating in Japan is hard and street skating is only at night time. Japanese skaters got their own strong style. I was lucky to skate and live with a real legend in Tokyo, Lui Araki. We skated also with Naotaka Ohya, the transition master and a true OG legend.
When I managed to travel to Osaka, I finally met Shinpei and the TBPR crew. Shinpei is a great mind behind the LENZ projects, Shingo Ogura is the most amazing human being and camera man that I know. One night I was guest at Shinpei’s house, he is a great friends and hosted me couple of times and I got the chance to cook Italian food for his family and friends.
We talked hours and hours about filming. Shinpei got a strong perception of filming and editing. He is leading the crew and does it really well. He looks at filming and skateboarding as a job, for him and his fellows. Filming missions involving generators and spotbooks; everything is precise and calculated.
I respect their modus operandi a lot.
The people behind the lens, both photographers and filmers, are as important as skateboarders. Fact.
Aside from making skate videos, what else does the Chef crew produce? During years we produced many different contents and we are still scouting for making new stuff and collaborations. Documentary was what gives us the best chance to tell a story and YES we do love stories.
We made a Centrale Documentary “99 Problems but a trick ain’t one”, that tells the history of one of the last and more iconic free-to-skate plaza. In 2014 we decided to bring the crew and some friends to a 1 month trip to China. We brought equipment and microphones to document the amazing tour. The results was “A Taste of China” and we decided to premiere it in Cinemas in Rome and Milan. But docs for us was also the way to remember something or someone. When in 2017 we lost our team rider and close friend Takuya, we wanted to remember him in the best way we could. We developed a story based on his incredible life and narrate it in Japanese. “Takuya” was well recognized worldwide and won prizes in Italian and Portuguese film festivals.
Lui Araki – Noseslide to Crook
There was a time when Chef was turning into a brand with both soft and hard goods. What happened why did it stop? Did it stop at all? (It seems like having a brand is really cool, but what are the realities of that) The foundation of Chef was basically a necessity, create boards and goods for the riders. At the beginning our friends were the main clients but then the request became bigger and even from abroad. We were doing collections every season and meetings every week to plan the work. In 2017 we also opened a temporary shop in Milano to sell the products direct.
Economy here is not doing well since 2008, and we ended up working more and skating less, also many skateshops shut down due to economical problems. With just the online shop we figured out this was not the right path to take. We had a meeting and decided to close the online shop and slow things down. Today we keep producing stuff in collaboration with trusted friends and skateshops. It’s our decision to keep doing what we love the way we want to do it.
[MILANO RAGES: CHEF x MAGENTA video from 2015]
What do you think is the role of a filmer in a scene? Are filmers treated well in Italy? Filmers are PURE GOLD. They are documenting the skate scene, and even the small ones deserve to be told and represented. Our role is also to describe our time and people who are keeping the city alive and vibrant with projects, video premiere and words of mouth.
Italy is far from recognize filmers as a precious resources. Brands should pay and help filmers to realize projects and organize premiere to make the scene strong. And the scene must payback and support. In Milan right now there’s a new generation of filmers, keep a close eyes to Pat Frunzio’s “Meaningless Productions” and the young Luca “Spezzatura”.
The people behind the lens, both photographers and filmer, are as important as skateboarders. Fact.
DGD – Switch slappy tail 180 manny out
What is next for you and Chef? Last words? I want to thank my mom and dad and my girlfriend for the love and support. I want also to thank you Edvard for the great interview and the good times together, looking forward to meet you in Milan or anywhere soon. We got lots in the very next future for Chef! We premiered a a skate documentary called Spaghetto Child 3It’s a piece of Italian skateboarding history and present, combined! A big collaboration it’s in the making and 2020 will probably see some more clothing and board release.
Uģis Ķepulis and Aleksis Sokolovs have had good games so far. They both are consistent and have a similar bag of tricks. The only thing that can determine who wins is the material of the set bag. Is it a plastic bag or a paper one? A cotton bag could probably win the whole championship. But do these guys have the consciousness to do it? We will have to watch and find out.
P.s. Happy international Women’s Day to all our friends and readers!
SPOILER AHEAD
This is the last game of the second round meaning we have not a lot left.
The Upcoming Games in ROUND 3
MIKS GRANTIŅŠ vs KASPARS GOBIŅŠ EDIJS AIZSTRAUTS vs MARKS VORONENKO ARTURS BOGDANOVIČS vs LINARDS VIKSNIŅŠ ALESIS SOKOLOVS vs ARTURS PAUGURS
Our small skateboarding community has been riding around Latvian streets for 30, or so years. A few generations have changed. Some scene figures walked away leaving not much behind, others left recordings of their sessions. Skate videos of the past not only show tricks and spots, but also the spirit of the time, serving as a somewhat time machines. Our scene, though small, has created a lot of video history by now. Unknown to many but dear by some, our early scene videos were essential to our collective up-bringing as a skate community. One video inspired the next one, and so on.
Latvian Skate Cinema is series of public screenings of the best Latvian skate videos. We had the first screening at KKC on 28th of February and the next one is coming in the end of March. The first video to open the event was the Mosquito skateshop’s 2007 Asfalta Bērni video. We talked to Rudolfs Henčels and Miks Grantiņš before the screening. They are the only two active skateboarders from the video. MIni interview below.
Who started Mosquito skateshop?
Rudolfs: Two brothers from Cesis. They were snowboarders. That was the time when Boards.lv was the only skateshop in Riga. So they wanted to do something else, something different. I worked there from the beginning almost.
What was Mosquito like and what do you remember from those times?
R: The best times. It was the best. We could do whatever we wanted. We could make the shop they we though a shop should be. When someone came, we wanted to make them feel good. We tried to create a friendly vibe. There was a sofa next to the counter. A lot of friends came to hang out all the time. We had a classic skateshop corner.
How long did this shop exist? R: Something around 5 years. The rent was 2500 Lats. A lot of money. It was on Barona street. That attributed to the shop’s closer.
How did you get into the team, Miks? Miks: They hosted a competition. You had to sent your video and get 3 boards and a discount. I won that. And then Rudolfs asked me to join the team. I was like, “what? Rudzits is talking to me? He knows my name?” Later I went there and got everything. I could choose trucks, board, clothes and shoes. I came out fresh. My parents didn’t believe at first. They thought I robbed something. “We made it!”, I told my mum. It was cool.
Rudolfs with his notorious nollie big heel.
What can you tell about the video?
M: This video is made by Gvido Glazers. I was 15 – 16 years old back then. I was scared to hang out with other team members. They were the big dogs. I filmed with my homies, separately. Armands Blumfelds and Andris Kudors filmed most of my skating on a handycam. I just gave Gvido 5 DV tapes. I asked him not to use some clips, especially one specific dramatic moment [Miks broke his arm and it is in the video]. But then when I saw it in the cinema; everything was used in.
Rudzit, you were closer to the main crew. Who else was in? R: Atis Eric, he worked in the shop with me too and Dainis Siliņš.
M: Aka Chilliņš aka Jeremy Rogers.
R: Yeah, Dainis has the last part. The best part.
M: It is 2005- 2007. It is pretty cool to see how people skated and how skateboarding developed till nowadays. All the shit we have now with Instagram and all that is not so impactful.
Rudolfs what do you remember about the filming?
Embarrassing. This was the time when skate videos were too romanticized. Every skater had an emotional song and every trick was overanalysed. We had to wear the right outfits and so on. Skaters were more emotional too; we threw our boards and screamed a lot more when tricks didn’t work. All this stuff now when I watch it, I think why was it used. But that is how it was back then.
Dainis Siliņš ss bs 180 manny. Our favorite trick from the whole vid
Stay tuned for the next screening in the end of March.
We are already on the finishing line of the second round and the whole championship in total. Our dear friends Dimon Deda and Marks Voronenko go against each other in a heavy battle. Marks has so many tricks, it is hard to remember what he can or can”t do. Whereas Deda, on the other hand, is comfortable with some of the least popular tricks out there. One of such rare beasts in Deda’s arsenal is fakie fs 360 shove-it. Aside from Deda and Arturs Paugurs only Jamal Smith seems to been keen on this rare animal.
Enjoy the game!
Only one game left in the second round! Stay tuned.
Trying to avoid indoor clips at all cost, we managed to prepare February top with exclusively street tricks. It wasn’t that hard to be honest, as we had plenty of video releases this month. 4 vids in one month. A winter month! Baltic skateboarding video production is getting to the next level and 2020 looks tight, so far.
There are three things people can watch forever: fire, water and other people working. We can also add that watching someone land every trick in a row while playing a game of skate is something people can (aka could potentially want to) watch forever. Of course it depends on the special ingredients that make skating look spicy: pop, speed, style etc. Luckily for us, Linards and Niklāvs, today’s contestants, have most, if not all, of these ingredients. Dudes rip and put their souls into it.
In this game, Artūrs Paugurs meets his childhood idol, Rudolfs Henčels. You know how they say, “Don’t meet your idols, as half of them are jerks.” Well, as far as we are concerned, Rudolfs is not a jerk, and even if he happens to be one, his nollie bs heels should smooth everything out. Not sure what kind of point we trying to make here. It is Sunday, so what do you expect.
By the way, happy birthday to Arturs! Keep skating and doing your thing mon!
While most of us struggle to film on shitty spots in Latvia, Arturs Nesaule took a more rational approach. Crusty ruins that we call spots around here, were not on Arturs’ agenda, as he filmed majority of his part in the frictionless Barcelona. A city with the most THPSesque streets in the world. Besides from grindable electrical cables, which are probably going to pop-up in the next decade, Barcy has every kind of spot one’s heart’s can desire. Heck, we can’t even find a decent bank in Riga, let alone a street quarter pipe. Mini Q and A with Arturs below.
How does it feel to put out a part finally?
The stoke is REAL! When I first presented it to public on Skate Baltica event, I was more than thrilled. By the way, that was my first solo premiere, so I was a bit nervous about the pre-speech and how it would go down, reactions etc., as we say in Latvian “samīzies”. Overall, it went better than I expected, got props from the homies and all that. Somehow I proved myself and to others that I could skate and film a part, moreover, an international part with 2 tricks from Latvia.
Why there is a rumour that you don’t film? I heard nobody expected a part from you!
Most of the time rumors are not true, but this time they were. Since the golden GREENHOOD times I have not put out anything proper, I have had few tricks here and there, but not anything full length. GREENHOOD was a crew based on young skaters with a mom bought camera gear with no fisheye, no stabilization system, filming sketchy and clean tricks indoors, outdoors, streets – everywhere, although travelling around Latvia. The crew had a couple of riders over the years, basically if you were the homie at that part of time, then you are in. If I am correct the main guy behind it was Toms Berzins, then also Niklavs Vetra, Kristaps Berzins was on the team and others who do not skate anymore. Great times! Sadly the Vimeo and Youtube account was deleted by one idiot, and Tom’s computers, usb disks broke down, some were deleted by us. When I got the camera myself, we filmed every skating and non shit, posted videos frequently on my Youtube’s channel, but then I got tired of bringing camera around, school got more serious, wanted to skate more and focus on my tricks not to switch cameras or film someone. In addition, Instagram and other media platforms came along, so somehow all reasons combined turned into lack of my footage. Anyway, I am back and hope to stay on the track for as long as I could.
Do you feel better filming in Barcelona?
Barcelona has been my dream city since the first time I went there, so it was obvious that I wanted to film and skate there, I even started to make a spot map of what I have seen. Moreover, everyone knows that it is the Skate Mecca. For me it was sort of a challenge to try to film spots that are seen by many, as well as the trick amount landed there is uncountable, so I tried to make something what I have not seen or just went to the outskirts of Barcelona, cruised around the last stops of metro in a hope for virgin spots. Definitely, it is quite hard, cause there are those SOUR guys, who have been everywhere. However, BIG thanks to Kristaps Krastins for the accommodation, spot guidance as well as overall help! Madars and other Barselona based guys for the spot routes!
You hate those Riga street quite a lot, don’t you?
Naaa, no hate to Riga’s spots, I have been skating them since the day I got on board, cause I started in streets, not parks. Honestly, there was a time when thought that these spots are shitty and rough, because I got the opportunity to travel around and see how good the spots are overseas. Nevertheless, the older I get, the more appreciation about what we have here I have. It is just the mindset you need to change, not the spots! Get creative, uncover new perspective to the seen or skate the unseen!
What is the craziest spot you have seen in Barcelona? Spot that you couldn’t believe was in the streets.
I cannot recall it right know, but the craziest I have seen is also in Spain, precisely Seville. I am talking about the one Madars Apse ollied (ollie over stairs in to a quarterpipe kindish bank) in the DC “Where the EU at?”. Love that video! The spot is all white building with natural concrete quarterpipes everywhere, you could skate it as miniramp, corner or whatever you imagination is up to. Furthermore, I had the chance to skate that spot when I was there for the Volcom Wild In the Parks finals, IT WAS DOPE! Hectic to see it in real life and proud to know the main stunt man. Ahhh, not to mention, in the outskirts of Barcelona there is that super steep downhill spot, which is rarely seen, but I have it in the credits of the video (doing wallie). It is fucked! If you get something there – I am buying you beers! THANKS to my mom, Ilja Pavlukevics, Konstantins Makarovs, Ed Gaba, Tikari Skateshop, Converse Latvia and Stinky Socks and many others! Love yaa!
We are proud to present the newest video from our Tallinn homies. Same forces behind Onko se…? video and Project C bring the stormy KAIFUUN video on our screens. KAIFUUN has had two screenings in the Baltics already, one at Skate Baltica and second in Tallinn during Simple Session weekend. So now it is ready for the interwebs. The video is set to some cool jams and is captured through the lens of our beloved VX camera. The cast features a bunch of familiar local faces, including the guy who edited the whole project, Siim Sild.Enjoy the video and find out some insights from a mini interview with Siim below.
First of all tell us what does Kaifuun mean and where did the name came from?
The name is basically just a fun take on kaif (kaif + typhoon). I remember, that I first heard it when me and Tanel entered Loigu park and there was already a pretty heavy session going on – the music was blasting, everybody was already ripping and cheering etc. Tanel looked at me and said that a Kaifuun warning has been issued at Loigu. It was a pretty funny and witty play on words, but I didn’t think too much of it at first. Later, when I was trying to think of a name for the video, KAIFUUN started sounding better and better.
How is this video different from your previous works?
This time I collaborated with Tanel Kulla, who quite randomly suggested that maybe he could add some fun drawings and effects. That was all before I had even started editing. I thought that it’s a rad idea and when I had about 80% of the video edited, we started bouncing ideas back and forth and he started trying stuff out.
Is there any reason for setting up the video as a one big session, not separate parts? Why is it better etc?
I actually didn’t think we have enough footage to have separate parts when I started capturing the tapes, but I guess our trip to Prague and Vienna gave this video a nice boost. Since I had already thought to edit it as a one big session, I stuck by it. I think this video flows better like that, we weren’t filming for a certain project, I just brought the camera to skate sessions and if someone felt like doing something, we pulled the camera out. We filmed it over 2 years, therefore the tricks had some repetitions and some guys had only lines etc, so for me it worked better this time to mix everybody up. I don’t have a fixed standpoint though, if that’s certainly better than having separate parts – it depends on the footage.
What do you think holds people back from making more street vids in Estonia? Because it appears that there are some people who are keen on filming, but not a lot videos come out.
I think scheduling might be the hardest part for older guys because of work and other responsibilities. I’m not sure what holds back the younger generation though, maybe because now there is quite a lot of skateparks compared to when I started skating. The streets can sometimes be quite rough, if you’re not used to it.
Do you feel you get more into filming?This is the second video you filmed and edited, right?
It’s my third – the first proper one was Onko se…?, then Project C and now KAIFUUN. I’d like to hope that the filming part is getting better, but it is still not my “thing” yet. I enjoy editing a lot more. Of course I try to give my best, but when I’m filming a homie, I usually just keep thinking about my line, that we are going to film right after he makes his. That’s how it usually works with our crew – everybody just filming everybody.
