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Ride the sky Fallen video with Sandoval, Gilbert Crockett, James Hardy, Slash, The Chief, Chris Cole

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7 comments ::  Author: sideasoundlab ::  Date: 24/09/2008 ::
After waiting for it for such a long time, the Ride the sky video is finally here,the first video of the brand Fallen footwear belonging to Jamie Thomas. A 2 min intro with the right music (Title Ride In The Sky) for the gigantic hammer, which is just a teaser of the video's contents.

As I suspected, Tommy Sandoval is beginning
A trasher with Dreadlocks ... Tommy Sandoval is a funny dude! As expected on the article Smoke and Mirrors, his best footage of the moment is in this video  with tricks far too technical compared to the size of the spots he rides.
Cute switch nose wheeling double flip out, switch hard flip 12, lipslide 25 and as often the best for the end with a feeble to back smith (see sequence)
It begins strong with a full part and a very high level

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Fallen amateur, Gilbert Crockett is the young technician from the team, the one who does flips before and after all his tricks.
So we find here many smith revert front , nose grind Nollie flip out and flip front. A part mainly shot in Shanghai and one last trick in flip back on the largest set of Creteil. Bravo kid!
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flip noe grind crockett fallen video

Brian "Slash" Hanson
4 of the 7 biggest falls of the video at the beginning of his part
From what I saw on internet, everyone love this part and I understand why
Fluid, fast and powerful music well suited to Slash who wants to prove he has the level jumping like crazy on the spots he meets. So we find a crazy Drop , a brave gap to 50-50 or even a flip frontside bordslide on a way too high ledge ,not adapted at all for this trick.
His last trick is very innovative with a nose grind pick (yes, yes ... a nose pick but grinding)

Tuff task to follow such a part  and not surprisingly Josh Harmony does not equal Brian.
Too simple tricks with boardslides everywhere, 180's and grinds on the beginning.
A very difficult nose grind revert front that is not enough to higher the level. After 1 minute, and with the same music we get Matt Bennett
Matt Bennett performing some cute tricks such as his backside 50-50 360 back out. More switch than his buddy, he has a much better style
Back to Josh for a serie of tricks including a fakie bigger spin on the 3 flat 3 and a frontside crooked handrail.
And what about Matt Bennett? he only get 30 seconds! that sucks
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Tony Cervantes does not ride like everyone else.
Being a fan of grabs, he starts with an incredibly hold stalefish. He mostly does it big with large ledges, rails  and gaps.
His famous airwalk to frontside boardslide and  a frontside feeble well shot to finish.
I used to dislike him before but I must confess that this part made me change my minds and more .... his clothes are too funny.
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The owner of the brand Jamie Thomas handles it like he's been doing for the past twenty years.
A more calm music than his buddies' , loads of style, some good ideas and the knowledge to achieve them. It gives a part full of energy with lines, gaps, curves and banks, a real 4 * 4 that Jamie.
Backside 50-50 boneless out, frontside feeble to fakie in bowl, and all possible grinds on rail and finally a
180 front fakie nose grind. A truly enjoyable part to watch.
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Before, I was talking about the 7 biggests falls because James Hardy got 3 pretty big ones at the beginning of his part. A young dude from Alabama spotted by Jamie, who is himself from Alabama.
Very young, he has loads of style with perfect flips, good power to land tricks fast and killer tricks such as the 
alley oop 180 front to fakie nose grind, switch tré or the fakie ollie to switch over crooked handrail.The over crooked is his last trick.
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For the part of Billy Marks, I finally found a music that I like ... Not surprisingly, many flips and tré's before his hammers. Ollie on an 8 flat 8 from the beginning, backside feeble flip out on a rail and
switch big heel Carlsbad. Big level but I do not like those big red or green shoes that he wears all the time.
What could such a technical dude reserve for his last part ? A stylish 
alley oop 3-6 flip nose slide on a ledge. Belle part mais rien de nouveau ! Beautiful part but nothing new!
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From the intro of his part, we understand that Chris Cole will push the limits of technicity with tricks never seen before. Thus we find in his part a 180 fakie nose grind switch big spin heel 
Switch 360 flip front 3 flat 3 on the Dome
Unfortunately, his 360 back on the Big 4 of the Love park is not a surprise as already seen on youtube
What is surprising is that he gets 2 parts, and within the second one, still as many crazy things, with this time
Switch nose grind fakie big spin flip 
Backside half cab bluntslide big spin flip out 
360 back lipslide sur le Hollywood High 
Nollie 360 heel flip back on a huge gap to conclude nicely this video.
Hard to believe that this guy was with World Industries, wearing baggy's 5 years ago and yet it is that same dude with his pink wheels and his horrible bracelets

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Video Time: 35 min

No fuss, no interlude, this is a video of pure and hard skateboard.
It was incredible for the eyes, and I'm positive that these guys know how to handle  height.
It is like the Fully flared of Gaps.
I had the feeling that it was
all the time the same song in the background.
I think Jamie has still kept some footages aside for the Zero video which is supposed to be released soon
A quality filming with a few tricks filmed from 2 angles , with excellent editing since we only get bored during Josh Harmony's part.
My favourite parts: Crockett, Hardy, Slash and Chris Cole of course.
Music:

intro - Lucifer's Friend - Ride In The Sky
Tommy Sandoval- The Small Faces - Tin Soldier
Gilbert Crockett- Brian Jonestown Massacre - The Way It Was
Brian Hansen- Pentagram - Last Days Here
Josh Harmony & Matt Bennett- Creedence Clearwater Revival - Ramble Tamble
Tony Cervantes- Jimi Hendrix - One Rainy Wish
Jamie Thomas- Q65 - I Just Can't Wait
James Hardy- Lynyrd Skynyrd - Saturday Night Special 
Billy Marks- Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Chris Cole part 1- Danzig - Soul on Fire
Chris Cole part 2- Judas Priest - Diamonds and Rust 
credits    - Frijid Pink - God Gave Me You
trailer    - Vanilla Fudge - You Keep Me Hanging On
Music/soundtrack taken from SkatevideoSite.com

Official Black Box Distribution website: http://blackboxdist.com/
Fallen Footwear official website: http://www.fallenfootwear.com/index.html
Pics of the Ride the Sky tour on Fallen website here
The video of the european Ride the Sky tour here

Download the video here

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  On septembre 26, 2008 16:53 , Jeff- Neff said :

Slash and Cervantes are my favorite af all. thanks for the video

You are a french website, right ?