..yet AGAIN fordy, you stir up some crap when i didnt do nor say anything to you or about you. honestly, what's your deal? im still going to go with my original theory that youre in love with me. and, for the record, i can unties perfectly fine. and anyone who knows what they're talking about will be able to tell, knees up his style is really fugly.
im gonna stop complaining, cause if i say 'tech' they take that to mean 'a poorly done example of the most technical trick of the 5 basic tricks...' PS. Using the term 'true' is crossing the line... his front foot is crooked, his backfoot is off the plate, his ankles are jello, but the style points of a unity come from bent knee with sturdy ankles rather than vice versa (try it out, just stand in a sturdy ankle position with the only bend coming from your knees, forcing your ankles onto the outside edges and watch out for the extreme style you'll posess)
Alrighty, I think its a cool pic, so its not like the best goddamned unity ever, and its a ledge, I personally dont give a fuck. Whatever happened to the notion that soaping was fun, not about owning everyone else?
oh no, mike... soaping is about being insanely critical and basically criticizing EVERYONE's grind... there is no way in hell that anyone on this site would ever acknowledge that zach is just out there having a good time and hitting a really nice grind. see, we don't look at these pictures because we have a common love for the same stuff... we look at them to degrade people, make ourselves look better, and get into arguments (on the damn internet) because we are really, really dope guys who have lives. and now i'm goign to go out and skate rather than sit at home looking out for someone on the internet (who lives hundreds of miles away) to flame... because i am a true dork and poser.
aaron had said something about how the technical stuff is hard and how anyone can jump onto a handrail. so i decided to throw a technical pic of zach up to attempt to satisfy aaron... although i don't believe that's possible unless it's a picture that he submits.
or he has loose shoes sp he can twist them round inside lol... its a sweet grind nice and technical.. only thing is that could maybe found something bigger to do it on.. maybe not a handrail but something liek a ledge
i wouldnt have a problem with the trick, or the way its done, or the fact that its on a goddamn curb, IF he werent on the soap team. parhaps ive set the bar to high form pros of differents sports and companies, but i honestly think that the team is, for the most part, and disgusting disgrace of mediocre soapers. if somthing like this, or dario's madness curb fastslide get used in an ad, im shooting myself in the face, and i know im not alone,wether people choose to show their dismay or not.
its all good that people want to have fun with soaping, in fact thats what i usually preach on the forums, that "soaping is something you do while you're out, nothing something you go out to do", mainly because most of the people here take soaping way too seriously. Also, I can't expect superstar talent and media from everyone right. After all I'm sure we've all heard the saying "no matter how good you are at something there will always be someone better." The point that me and greg are trying to get across is not that Zach sucks, or that its bad that he's just out having fun, and all that, but for someone ON the actual SOAP team, then maybe it should be slightly less serious, and take a little bit more talent. Once you get that spot on the soap team you're not just another soaper anymore, now you have to be able to set a bar, and make sure you have media which inspires people (didn't everyone find the Relate videos inspiring and want to go soaping afterwards?). This picture, while it may have been fun to shoot, and a good picture for the average soaper, IS NOT the kind of media you'd expect from someone on the SOAP team. It's a sketchy unity on a ledge lacking anything special. This is hardly stoking at all. I think that once you're on a team designed for marketing and making soap shoes look good you shouldn't be here showcasing a picture featuring a grind that the average person should be able to replicate in about 3 months, and the average rollerblader could replicate this trick (maybe even style it a little better with bent knees, locked ankles) in about their first 10-15 minutes of soap shoes. Moral of the story, nothing wrong with the picture as a whole, but not very good from a marketing standpoint (which Team SOAP is all about).
PS: Golden rules with fisheyes: Get close (you did), Get low (you did, but it'd be better from a lower point in a different angle), And make sure you see the person's entire body and as much of the object being grinded as possible (hence the advantages of using a fisheye over a regular lens). Also remember to find creative angles, they work out well with fisheyes.
I kno its kinda late to say this but i agree with mike....although there are some points where we can talk shit about SOaping, whatever happened to getting MAD good by practicing and giving each other props? Thats the way i would like to grind...that is, of course if i had anyone to Soap with but oh well.
Most people dont like me now that i addmitted i didnt have soaps and that i actually have heelys torch with grind pl8s hoo here hates heelys with pl8s??
You can still pose a video still. Record someone just standing there, and if you screenshot it while uploading it to your computer, TADA, you've got a posed video-still
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You can still pose a video still. Record someone just standing there, and if you screenshot it while uploading it to your computer, TADA, you've got a posed video-still
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he for real slid this. it is not posed. zach rules at unities.
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