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hello I'm Jamie Thomas and we're here at the 20 years of zero photo and art show we have a hundred of my favorite most some of the most iconic boards of all time and I'm going to talk about a few of them that are reissued in the current season so this is the original Smith grind board was released in 2000 this is the first edition we wanted to reissue it but I wanted to do something special so I reached out to Lance mountain and Lance Mountain redrew the Smith grind graphic and then made me into a skeleton that's like the style of artwork that he does so we're super hyped on Lance Mountain they do an original piece of artwork of the Smith grind board which is probably my most iconic graphic of all time this is John Ali's first board it's called evil dead this was like really kind of his most memorable graphic and it was his first graphic John rides for slave skateboards now I reached out to him and talked about doing a reissue for a twenty year he was super hyped on it so this is the board he chose and anyway so it's awesome this is screaming for vengeance I think it's called vengeance in the catalogue this board was the rat released around 2001 I always loved this graphic and I found this one in a warehouse and it been beat up for like I don't know moved around a bunch and the graphic had all fallen off and I was super hyped on just the way it looked so I hung this board up but this was one of the one one of the board's that I wanted to reissue so it's in the current line this was Eric's first board and he was always really hyped on it because one of his good friends did the graphic and it was really meaningful to him so when I reached out to Eric to do a reissue board this is the board he chose and were hyped on it so we did it this is the original board but the reissue is exactly as this board was we tried to like make them as close as possible to the originals this is the vine board vine boards from 99 it was seen being skated a lot and mislead youth so it became like one of the more identifiable boards just because the graphic was so bright and vivid you could always see it in all the photos so you could recognize it so when I asked the team what board they wanted to reissue they all chose this board we had to take a photo of this board and then re recreate the artwork from this board this is the original but the board is pretty much spot-on - exactly the way this one was made the bold graphic was the second board that Xero ever made and the black colorway was the original colorway in 1999 we issued we issued one run of the boards with the graphic backwards and I have a 500-foot egde in misled youth where I hold up my finger one more and it was on this board so that board was only out for a really small period of time and some of the like true zero skate nerds always talked about that board graphic so this one's the regular one but the one in the catalog that you see that's the reverted board or inverse board where it spells zero backwards anyway that was the that's the reason why we reissued that board the American zero board was the first board we ever made when we first made it I had the idea of trying to do a full top graphic and at this time a full top graphic and skateboarding hadn't been done because you had to make the screen print upside down in order to be able to print on the top so no one wanted to deal with that but luckily that when I wanted to make this board they made it and I wanted to board to be like it was see-through so we made the top graphic you know inverted so the a starts here that goes backwards so it looks like the board would be see-through that was my original thought I'm not sure how cool that was but we remade the American 0 reissues exactly as they were made in 1996 so this was our first board and that's why we reissued exactly as it was all right thanks for listening to the story behind some of the boards thanks for the 20-year show hopefully you see this online if you're not able to be here and I don't know thanks for reppin our stuff and I appreciate it take care peace

all right so I don't have much of an intro as I don't make videos often at all and I also have two very bright lights shining at me so I'm going to make this review pretty quick I have terrible internet um nothing was ideal today I tried to I was going to skate this today and it's ranked so that's great I'm gonna do an unboxing of a the globe big blazer 32 inch not the one with wheat all over it um it's orange and I don't really know what else actually to say for this so I'm just going to try to make it short to the point I never saw any videos online of people unboxing this I looked them up it was I got it on Amazon for $94 now it's 116 it just got restocked and shipping just went up to like 14 from 9 I was gonna do it on Saturday but this is just telling me about it yep there you go big blazer Brown orange completely 32 inch it's a globe board I have globe is not known generally for their great boards but I figured since it was a cruiser it's kind of hard for people to screw up a cruiser so I could already feel this box is 32 inches long in the board is also 32 inches long so I also played on doing this little ground but it didn't work at all that's nothing worked for me trying to do this this is all gonna be one peso I don't care what I screw up it's still going up because by uploading it straight from my phone also that's why this is a 720 rather than 4k my phone can record 4k but I've really bad internet living in cradle country Alabama so like I said I was gonna skate this on Saturday but you gives us ship Saturdays even though it wasn't raining then everything was ideal on Saturday it was only 20 minutes away I'm doing so I'm actually really happy for this awesome first impressions are it's bigger than I thought it was going to be while already knowing it was gonna be 32 inches I have my other board actually sitting right over there but it for a long time and alright that seems to be actually all that comes in a box it's a lot of packaging bubbles wheels are really soft I've never had a cruiser like this before especially with wheels this big there are 62 millimetres 63 maybe um I think they're 83 a so they're a lot softer than I thought they would be a lot more well made honestly than I expected to be but of course I paid a lot for this after you know shipping and everything was $104 so I'll get up a little closer to the camera hopefully this doesn't look ridiculous I know I look ridiculous sitting there I reviewed this a lot um let's get behind the camera hold it up for you so you see wheels I sense it's a phone I can't really tell it to focus so it is 32 inches long and nine and a half inches wide at its widest point I think um very large risers actually that I didn't expect they're uh slanted probably from 1/4 inch to 1/2 inch almost looks like but of course these are big wheels also has a wheel wells so no wheel bike because I've got that before it absolutely sucks also has a bottle opener right there so that's awesome and a little globe right there on the grip tape also this globe on the back right here that you can barely see it's actually in the board so overall this actually looks pretty well made I'm happy with it I'll show you my other board actually that's an actual skateboard right here it's a lot thinner I beat it up and if you can see stuff does not roll near as well as it should any more also it's just old and I've never replaced anything on and I got it when I was in fourth grade so I had no idea what I was doing for the board so ended up not being as well kept as it could have expected a riding video soon um everything seems to roll really well and also very quietly very very quietly so as compared to at least a normal board of course that's after a lot though so guess I'm approaching six minutes on the video it's I get half a megabyte upload actually less than that so it's gonna take me really long time to upload this but I really wanted to have this review up so that people can see what this is like since I could find nothing online of the sort first also trucks are really loose and the board is really long I've never skated anything longer than my 31 normal over there also nothing wider than that my friend has a Santa Cruz I think it's about 28 inches long and about 8 inches wide and it's similar to this but it's nothing near like this the wheels aren't near as big or soft and he also has a penny board and I can't ride up any more that's why I opted for something big like this because I'm six foot one I wear size 11 or 11 and a half and people that big can ride penny boards but I just opted not to as opposed to this much larger or and I also opted for the kick tail as opposed to other things I looked online on Amazon at another board um I don't even remember what it was it was quest and I didn't really know how to reliable those were going to be considering you know they were $120 in an on sale there were 60 most of the reviews said good for beginners I've been riding long enough I know how to ride a board so also um I need this kick tail because how much I pick up my foot to move it back and forth I'm not a good great order but I think up my feet enough that I wanted to be able to do that so I guess that will be my review of the globe big blazer 32 inch brown and orange and this is all going up in one take there's no editing at all because I'm on my phone and I didn't want to put it on the computer so there you go hope you liked it hope it's useful all right

I'm not the only newbie here I think there's something in the air a lot of us about boards and started learning right now really kinda nice there's a lot of reviews saying how how bad these things have been put together and you know it looks like mine is okay and it looks like it's gonna be pretty low to the ground let's check out the bearings yeah you know what it spins but isn't spin for long this one not good naked yoga her job over stickers a mustache makes me feel even more distinguished now that I'm riding a skateboard all right so check this out this doesn't turn that well this just might be one of those cases where novice says oh it's broken and then a pro comes by and says oh it's fine um no this doesn't turn check that out it goes straight really good and when I really crank down on this I heard a little crack so I don't know what what's up dad but see that so maybe it is the bushing because those wheels this park is around this baby steps you know I'm a big baby the stock bearings that came with this board you know they're worthless they're worthless I couldn't you can't make the board turn with these things I weigh like at least 220 pounds and cranking on one side I think I heard more bad things happening to the board then the wheels actually turning I went to the skateboard shop they gave me some some I what is it semi soft semi soft bearings I guess I don't know what the ratings are but I'm gonna put these on there and stepped on the board and the wheels turned with ease so the bearings that came with with this board it says like Abe x7 on there and I don't know who makes these so what does I went to the skateboard shop and they sold me lucky lucky bearings and they there are a BEC 7s so comparing how these these bearings spin I'll put the stock bearings on and I'll spin it okay so that's the stock bearing all right these are the lucky bear bearings and they're also rated at apex seven check out how those fit that's amazing when it comes to a stop that's slow that says that there's like hardly any resistance yeah so if you're a newbie and um you don't skate and this is like gonna be your your first board you're just you're kind of old like me and you want to start skating for some strange reason I don't know why for me it's for commuting if you want to look cool well you won't if it kind of interested in the drop down look and I don't know why but I wanted a drop down drop through double drop drop and that's what I got um you know it isn't worth it yeah

today on this gloriously dim day I'm gonna be starting the element review of the Sasha daily 8.25 deck so this element deck is thirty-one and three quarters long it has a 14 and a quarter wheelbase and it is an 8 and a quarter it's basically eight and a quarter at the top and bottom and it's got a super pointy nose and tail which turns a lot of people off element boards but let's take a look at it because it actually looks better with griptape on than before okay so here's the nose and you really can't get how pointy it is from the camera angle but it's quite tapered here's your tail the tail is very short and tapered a really short tail okay so when I first set this deck up it was actually like a super light and snappy and crispy deck and not much has actually changed it's only about two weeks old right now and it softened up a little bit but not soggy at all it's still really crisp and light and snappy and this one is way better than the Toy Machine I had in terms of being a PS sticks board I'm actually really impressed you know people always talk about PS being really good board and I just didn't have a lot of experience on them but this one really shows me that I think just like real has some extra special juice put in by bear back in the press plant I think element boards get a little extra special attention at the PS plant so let's look at the fingers of flat I'd say we have about two and a half right here and about two and a quarter here so not too much it's been really crispy and really snappy on it nice I think it could be even a little bit snappier on Thunders but I've been loving how light it makes it feel the one thing I would say about the super pointy 8.2 fives is if you're somebody who likes to ride 149 s on eight point two fives like me when they're really pointy it does make the trucks look like they stick out a little bit more but let's clear this up really quick because people like I don't like my X's sticking out but let's measure the wheels so my wheels are eight inches so they're still narrower than the bore and to me that's actually the point that matters is how wide are your wheels if your wheels are actually getting wider than your deck then it's a problem well because this park is covered in goose crap I can only skate the manual pad and the good news is this board has a great manual point look what those jerk Birds did everywhere everywhere and there's a massive lake over there to shoot my board into [Applause] I'm taking anything I can get cuz it's raining a ton I only fell in a bit of goose poop alright it's over for today it's raining way too much can't get a flick well that was Monday evening it's now Tuesday morning 7:00 a.m. and it's gonna rain all week so you guys are just gonna have to watch me skate curbs and manuals again all right let's get it I just waxed the crap out of this curb I definitely have some opinions on this pointy nose and tail so what isn't it good for well doing long slides I find it's really hard to keep my heel from dragging for example very obnoxious isn't it but a lot of that's my form still I like a blunt or nose and tail to keep my heel off the ledge another thing that I have a hard time with with a pointy nose and tail is squaring up my heel flip tricks so I have a 50/50 chance of whether or not I'm gonna do a solid heel flip trick on this deck because for some reason when my nose and tail hit the ground not having a more blunt nose or tail makes it more likely to flop around okay but pointy nose and tail what are they good for [Applause] so spoopy tricks like 360 flips and frontside flips hard flips really nice with a point to your tail in terms of its tipping and sort of poppin point it's really nice for tricks like backside flips when you get a deck that has less fingers of flat so it's like down to two and it makes the nose and tail feel heavy that can take a lot more effort for an older guy to do a backside flip hard to get a good flick when your boards way let's see if I can get a few men well tricks on my favorite eight-foot man well pad nose tap damn it well that's enough to make this cranky old carpenter happy this morning you know I was about to tell myself you get what you get and you don't get upset but sometimes you got to tell yourself work harder for it today I did well I think that's enough manuel's for one video it is cold today and I have switched to thunder one 49s on this deck this deck was amazing with those Indy 149 Titanium's however I find that once I get to the second half of a decks life sometimes Indy's can actually lead to my deck feeling a little bit soft kind of prematurely and once I add thunders then it kind of crisps it up nicely so this is feeling really good again you know I have to be honest I think I might actually like this board better with these thunders than I did with the Indies I got goose bumps and my wheels are going green yeah Canada geese I'm definitely getting used to the pointy kicks on this board I'm learning how to adjust my feet on my slide so I'm not getting as much savage heel drag and when I look down at the board it doesn't bug me anymore like I can't tell that it's pointy it's just a deck that I'm used to now this deck is now a month old in terms of the quality of the wood I think it's really nice like I said in the beginning super crisp poppy snappy and light feeling like this is a really nicely proportioned board so I'm glad I've tried an element board I would definitely ride another one I'll be riding this one for the rest of the week unless I get dreadfully impatient and put on a new setup but anyways if you've been wondering if element boards are decent I hope this helps answer your question some people see it as a kid's brand but like this is a good skate board and I'm happy that by buying this I'm helping support a local pro sasha daily so thanks for watching as always I hope your next session is your best session yet until the next video

what is up guys it's time for another board review this time I in Alien Workshop hack smart board Michael with these review videos is to give you guys honest feedback on different skate products that you guys don't have to go out and buy all them yourselves so that you can better select products that will be best for your skating now before I get into the review I will show you guys my favorite tricks I did on this board so enjoy [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] all right so let me start with the pop I would say it had pretty snappy pop I really liked it it definitely felt snappier than the zero or antihero boards I skated recently it did feel lighter than those boards that being said it is an 85 but I don't think that Whittle size difference was enough to really make the board feel lighter I think the wood of the skateboard slashed the board Construction is probably more responsible for that the fact that I felt lighter also I did notice the size difference just in terms of how the board felt going from all the eight three boards I've been skating recently down to this 85 now some people say us too insignificant of a difference to notice but I definitely noticed hit the board definitely felt smaller I would have gone in 8 3 8 but they only had 85 or 85 hex marks probably should've just gone with 85 actually as someone who has pretty large feet size 11 and a half u.s. I feel like a 3/8 size boards are a pretty good size for me because if you have larger feet then you kind of want to have more board under you you know so it's easier to control and you feel more comfortable at least those are my viewpoints on that not saying is the sole determining factor but I would also argue that it's a very important factor in what size boards you want to ride anyway so in terms of the concave I would say it's pretty steep concave always challenging to show this but I try the nose has definitely pitched pretty well probably the most of any board I've written except for obviously the other alien workshop exmark that I've read in now I really do like when the nose is pitched a lot because I feel like it catches my foot better for Ollie's and flip tricks as I said before that's just my personal opinion on that all right so now let's get into the where I skated for 14 days so here is what graphic looks like how it wore down only chipped I was even noticeable was right here and it wasn't really in a bad location at all so I didn't really mind that I did kind of just randomly fall off though that was interesting but anyway what's most important in my opinion is that the tail stays pretty pristine in there no chips coming out of that you can see there's like nothing wrong with the top of the board early now on the topic of chips coming out the tail of boards the 2p2 boards I skated I was not too happy with giant chips came out of both of the tails over the course of about a month since I started skating the boards you know that was not a month's worth of skating I'm saying since I first stepped on the board till the end of the month or about 30 days since there's a giant chip in the tail and I did not skate every day so how is just I don't know that really affects performance you know so there was some paint whatever that came off but it's nothing that affected anything I don't know if you can see but I've been getting some serious wheel bite marks from these wheels and these wheels were I believe 54 millimeters when I got them they're definitely a good deal smaller now but man I got a lot of wheel bite when I first had these cheese anyway so yeah ed wore down pretty well in a sense that it didn't wear down a lot if that makes sense all right that about does it for this review video I did want to ask you guys one thing though so there are three more boards that I plan on reviewing that I already have a baker board a magic method skateboard and a numbers board now besides those there are still a lot that I haven't reviewed yet that I want to review and I want to see which ones you guys want to see reviews of just give you an idea of some that I haven't reviewed yet I've not skated a girl a blind a chocolate and enjoy a creature Carolee think of any other ones right now but I know there are a lot more that I have not skated and if there are any in particular you guys want to see then please leave a comment down below and if one of them gets a lot of votes then I will go for that one because I want to review products that you guys want to see whenever you see someone do something amazing instead of distancing yourself from them why not think to yourself if they can do it why can't I that's just how I like to see things you know I don't believe in putting people on a pedestal and thinking like all this person is so different you know I could never be like them I hate that way of thinking I just no no I believe in the potential of everyone anyway thank you guys so much for watching the support means a ton keep doing what you love and have an awesome day

hey you kids want drugs another video this is John Hill and today is an epic day we're going Street skateboarding with Willem it's gonna be a really good time and simultaneously we will be talking about how I got on burn house skateboards and the juicy deets behind that and then after all of that we're going to a photo shoot for progress daily sinsemilla long pack fun day stay tuned for the ride and intuition let's go what's up everyone today we are at a very very special location this right here is Guantanamo Bay what's this area called New York we're in New York City but we also found this crazy crazy skate spot where there's a lot of people so I've no idea how that's gonna go but we're gonna try our damnedest right now to get the session in and I guess part of the game I think that's a constant thing when this channel is to say that everything is gonna get murdered especially the game by me and Willem thanks for filming by the way ok thanks alright this one's empty dude [Music] something stopping dead in my tracks the last person to stop me his name is John Hill he's gone [Music] [Music] potential blockage what do you say you can't you can't put your bike there either I can I can see in here you know it's definite not allowed we'll both make bad decisions today so I do tricks going the other way other tricks going this way - this way it doesn't do anything it only does anything if you grind it okay really yeah it's fine do you want to fell from that side and not just go this way so with the spot unfortunately somebody came up and we had a bit of a little back-and-forth but at the end of the day I understand that some people find this off-putting and I respect that to an extent the guy was a total loser I didn't like him at all but the whole premise of this video the birdhouse thing it's gonna be told in three parts because I want to keep it exciting and I wanna go skateboarding have fun as we're telling this story so the whole idea of this video is actually originating because I found the sponsor me tape that I sent to bird house skateboards when I first got on but that is not exactly how it works because in skateboarding a lot of people need to know that you can hang with them that's way more important than how good you are at skating so the cool thing was bird house actually took a trip to Columbia South Carolina last minute and it was such a productive trip for them that they used for photos out of a six-page article all from Columbia South Carolina and I got to skate with him the entire time hanging out with Tony Hawk at Street spots and people kicking us out and being like are you Tony Hawk and he's like yeah it was it and I was like so that's how we made the introduction met all the crew hung out with all them we got along really well went back to the hotel we kicked it it was cool it was a good environment because we were all skating and having fun and that was basically when I decided to move to California [Music] not the place to do it okay I was just a young man's looking to build a bucket list so she danced keep it down [Music] hate you kids want drugs [Music] what is this thing no is this real [Music] so here's the strange thing about the whole birdhouse thing I was in Cincinnati hanging out with my dad I've been all of a sudden I sent my sponsor me tape and the cool thing was it wasn't 100% necessary because he had I'm trying to get you look right at man for that the whoops like dude please I'll give you a dollar but if I just went out when I was like hey what do you need and I'll go I'll fix the problem for you please let me I can help you so you best believe it was extremely surreal to be sitting there working with my dad and I had my future planned out like I was I'm gonna do this job that my dad's doing that he's introduced me to and that's why I'm here in Cincinnati working with him I sent off this video that wasn't 100% necessary because he had already seen me skatin curtains and I lost my mind because I opened the email and in skateboarding all you want to do is you want to be in house flow once you're in house flow that pretty much guarantees you a spot on the team like that's them bringing you in giving you boards but shop blow it's a whole different thing in out slow is like you're in your am your pro that's how the cycle begins so right then and there it's when I decided on the path that I was gonna go down so I talked to my dad I was a dead I'm gonna be a pro skater like I'm moving to California and he was like all right they don't really they don't really care they weren't against it but they were like that's cool I guess whoa whoa whoa whoa we're doing this spot there's like a super famous law that I used to watch them skate videos you know it's just it yo all right sorry we got sued the world has invited us and we are taking that invitation and eating it with our buds [Music] oh it caught me stickin if I can get a little butter on there without being seen oh my god this is the slickest thing that's ever happened sir do you mind if we it's just this one spot and we just put a little bit of wax on it honestly even there's fine yeah this would be for Sarah so you can see the babies in the background that's how many that's how many kids I plan on having so long story short I ended up in California pursuing my dreams and birdhouse was there the whole way it was actually really supportive of the company they were like if you move out here we got your back we'll help you out we'll go on trips with you we'll hook you up with boards like whatever you need we got you and they were even talking about maybe some sort of compensation while I was there it was sort of a small plan but it was enough for me to go full ham move to California so there's a lot to this story that I think is really juicy but the point of how I got on the company was more or less skating with them in person it was hanging out with the team showing that I could actually get along with them and that is just so crucial in skating nowadays so if you are the best skater ever if you're the best in your hometown none of it really matters unless they feel a personal connection to you that's also kind of why I think that YouTube has such a powerful effect right now because you see someone's personality in videos so I actually think companies would be more likely to sponsor a kid who they could watch youtube videos of just this cool collective kid that's Killian on the platform but also such a good skateboarder who also knows how to hold his own create his own audience market himself companies look for all that when it comes to sponsorships and I think Bert house saw the potential in me and that's why they originally put your boy on I just saw something that looks so awesome this gate I'm gonna Ollie into it just right out let's just head out [Music] dude did you see how much my face was hitting the trees I was like playing daily my arm by the way smoother than I thought whoa yo and a lot of people now know that I am no longer on birdhouse skateboards the thing is I heard somebody else talk about this the other day a lot of pros and people will mention this it's just different once you're out there once you're actually embraced in a team you're in a van you're trying to go on these little trips you sort of see that it's different people aren't exactly like you and your friends back home it's just a whole different environment and for me it was hard to deal with that was pretty much over it instantly and realized that all I wanted to do in skating was to be able to support myself and just escape where whenever I wanted without all the politics involved which there are a lot of in skating all I gotta say is that I wouldn't be able to do what I do now if I were to pursue the last path that I had because you tubers there's a difference in the two worlds and one might not be cool with the other ones so I wouldn't be able do what I do now and this is my favorite thing by far to be able to do as a job is to make youtube videos etc so I would pick this every time okay so I put a lot of emphasis on this photoshoot that we were doing today and then I have forgotten to film all of it but here I am with the one the only Jeremy Cohen hi guys it's really fast-paced for this day it happens like instantly they put the shirt on look that way smile or I'll murder you and I'm like all right I mean and we actually came to the one of the best places in Manhattan it's the best time so row actually such a peaceful place and everyone really respects your space right no one's yelling at anyone or running into anyone el bikes or anything like that I'm like I'm like hoping someone's affinity stop talking yeah it's so insane here Brooklyn Bridge Times Square you can't do it so then what you do is you try to walk through the bike lane but then the bikers this is rigid and that nude photo shoot you might see some of those yes gotcha would you rather your Instagram or what shot it out here oh actually I just made a YouTube channel I have two vlogs two blogs on the YouTube channel he just started up one yeah his instagrams have been popping for awhile and he's been killing it with the photography but hey he just happened to video so go check out his YouTube channel show yeah well people like John and Sarah inspired Misa dude yeah he knows what he's doing with the camera he's very creative extremely creators know check out the channel down below for my mother there you go yeah coming up oh my mother fight fight fight it's been such an amazing day I wish I could have showcased more of the photography session we just really got into it because it's about to get dark so we got it in there but if you don't keep up with my Instagram at John Hill I now did the Instagram story of pretty much the rest of the day that you don't see here so the morning vlog the night vlog all that continues on the Instagram so if you're not already following me at John he'll go over there and check it out and say hey and by the way I have to say that I have not had more fun making videos as I have recently it's been so sick going out every single day trying to live multiple adventures making sure we're skating and doing something fun with skateboarding every single day it's been so unbelievably fantastic but I do have a quote of the night that I wanted to drive because I feel like a lot of people out there have mentioned to me that it's hard for them to get started because it is a lot of times it's really scary starting a new adventure but the quote is by Tim Kennedy and he says hurry up and fail there's this mixed version of success that I think a lot of people feel constantly and it's basically if they took something they need to be successful at it and if they aren't they 100% fail but every step that you take forward even if you are failing is a step in the right direction so hurry up and get out there and fail try things rapidly if you have something in mind that you want to attempt go for it if you fail that then you know where to go from there that's where it's obvious the next step is obvious from failure or success but from sitting there and doing nothing there's no way for you to tell which direction you need to go and on that note I will say thank you guys for watching thank you for tuning in tomorrow stay tuned for more fun more here in New York City living an adventure every single day has been insane and it's going to continue and it's been such a blast I thank you for subscribing liking these videos hit that notification bell if you have not and make sure to comment down below let's have a conversation about whatever whenever love you so much progress daily and keep [Music]

what is up guys Oh what is up guys I got a box as you can see here if you have mine snapchat you might have seen it earlier tell me how I was saying some weird things like what your thing is in the box I know you guys are just joking but some of you guys are just weird but yeah I got a new box coz this board that is used thanks to Tyrone and Matt forgive me this board after they used it I just broke it even some more so it's like super crack right now and I started skating my brother's board he's actually behind the camera up on the tripod but uh thanks to Jason he let me get his workers otherwise I'm in the very little before so thanks to Jason for that and now we're just gonna see what Bor this is so I know from the title you probably already know or like the thumbnail but this is actually isn't a custom skateboard so this is kind of like going back to a name-brand deck again there's really no specific reason a skate warehouse just had a huge sale on their website it was a presence a sale and they were selling 20 and $30 decks so I picked up three but I got two of them because I paid actually for shipping for one since skate church is Friday and I needed a new board for skaters so that's why and I can't even get this open there we go all right so yeah that's the reason why I didn't get a custom skateboard hope I can get a new one soon but yeah I already got a pre grit because I'm a noob and I suck at like gripping my boys most the time so they always do a perfect job but uh yeah so I wanna be see right now but the brand I got this time I I don't even think I've owned this brand myself like I know some friends who have before but the brand I got was a blind you can see here it says uh damn it's probably like that what's that one mean damn son where'd you find this oh yeah that one oh yeah I got a blind deck I've never tried these out before so we're just gonna see how this skates um I got Jessop grip on it because last time it was pretty fine and it came with it so I was like why not just get that because I'm super cheap and I always get free stuff if I can try to get the most budget option oh yeah so you got the skate warehouse sticker I don't know if you can scan they're not but yeah shop skate warehouse and what else I get is anything else here you have nothing else so I'm just gonna take apart this board and then I'm gonna put on this board and then we're gonna go the skate part and get some clips [Music] [Laughter] [Music] no worries I got another one okay guys and that is the setup just to go over it this is a blind skateboard it's the damn bubble Edition and for trucks I have thunders they're just the normal polished kind four wheels I have Spitfire formula fours 53 millimeters a bearings inside them are bones super reds Shorty's hardware with a mixer some other hardware because I keep losing them and jessup grip tape is on the board and I'm pretty sure that's it so now we're gonna do the kickflip test and then get some clips of the park if the weather stays pretty good so that's good today right now [Music] [Music] hi what's up guys I'm at Apex Gate Park and nice you want to have your Instagram ZK freerunning like Z okay fr EE R UN and ing a mission gonna follow them right that was sick go follow them okay that's alright I just set up my new board so we're gonna get some this kid talks so much whenever I'm filming a video yeah I'm just gonna get some tricks my new board and if I never wrote a blind before [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] I'm out like comment subscribe pick up some merch for a shout-out you guys want to see a dank meme cleveland car in the top right corner here and yeah I'm loving that everything he said yeah or wait to the outro and click it either way yeah don't subscribe him yeah he's out [Music]

what up dudes I'm EJ Morita and today I'm doing a setup video and look at my grip tape it's too short I know in my last set of video I said I was going to get hand grip but how to get grip tape for my art project because I didn't make a skateboard for my art project and I need to put grip tape and it was a mini escape word so that's why I cut out a little piece from my grizzly grip you know I need it immediately and I just went to my local skate shop and got some grizzly grip and yeah because of cutting this for the little skate board I made I'm sure to grip tape I think I'm just going to do like this won't board having the tail on the nose sticking out isn't that bad at least just one right best feeling ever I say this in every set of video lighting is so bad today actually had a new hardware today got so much hair on it dude that looks so weird I guess it makes gripping easy because I don't have to go around the edges and my board it's got a bunch of cracks but one of the main reasons I'm switching is because I'm moving out this week and I don't want to carry a bunch of boards with me so I'm setting one up do that does not look cool it's going to be pretty sad moving I miss a lot of people I had one of my finals well by the time this video goes up one where you don't like finals just people I met you know in Japan you're just so awesome those are you guys for our seniors in high school I hope you guys chose to go to college outside of your city just because I think it's great to meet new people and staying in the same place all the time isn't quite all so I always recommend people to go out of their comfort zone go different places and honestly the first time when I'm going to County I was like dude I hate it but that's time went on you know I got used to it and turns out I'm over here more than XD honestly looks so freakin weird dami I put it on crooked too rip job after oh so quote comes at the gold bolt the union is take it you want it Oh baby I know you guys can take it along I'll give you some weird kids shut up to the part I'd be talking right now but there's so great kids saying right next to me so it's really awkward you guys don't see him but he's literally sitting right there is a camera watching hey huh is your camera actually new so update on some skateboarding I don't know if you guys know but Mark Johnson let the cod and then one song FTEs and they're booked now on adidas I think it's pretty crazy because Mike Johnson was all like dude I'm never going to join a corporate company and yeah cuz I'm gonna do this now pretty crazy - round if you guys heard about active edition but inky hack and joy pepper left the team and joy pepper dude they put on keep put them on flash because say like oh dude the expedition doesn't pay them I guess like the whole team puts in so much effort they have been getting checks for real just like last great static here sticker time I usually don't do much with stickers but weird kid is getting really mad we're going to make the weird kid from my tickle test laid out hey wait I gotta show that's the part security I got show them what's up I forgot my good people all right this is got to be the only trick I do because my freaking feet her like my leg hurts like crazy my knee still hurts but you're fucking right okay Bravo oh wait how's the ugly kicks yeah he's got could kick my first shot I did it too I see it i exclus is skating and you only get one try dog either one okay better not hit my board all right let's see keep going alright you get that correct or get that crook wise nollie heelflip out there you suck I wonder what people think am I freaking good tape because it looks so stupid I'm gonna put every single a chunk just to show you guys how bad he is I was skater we're kid I'm not mean but it's just a personality joke kappa thinking gets the joke so don't don't trip alright you got to do one more trick ne5 oh yeah alright let's see a lot of fondant on this one yeah alright go let's try and disappointed this is supposed to be my set up video and not filming him do tricks I don't know why I'm sorry family let's show I'm a patient man I mean she's already taking this long on a warm-up trick and I'm not mad so yeah that's how nice I am I'm actually pretty nice because you suck sketchy lino you want to redo it that wasn't even a lipslide I put in all the chess with the correct but I'm not putting all the chest with a lipslide fucking rancho kitty Oh with you to get you again Dugan Oh finally finally Targa homey found a solution to fix this up I'm gonna use scrap and put it on to you I'm not gonna film it though but I'll show you guys the finished product okay so I finished looks really stupid Chapas on instagram me and him usually don't give this shots but yeah link in the description and like comment subscribe thing show peace out

hey guys so this is a very weird angle for you this I bet but I just got a package now and I'm about to open it so I new skateboard and some other spare parts and I don't think this is the best angle or the best camera to do a unboxing but I wanted to anyways cuz you know I'm getting my new camera tonight and yeah I want to do a video on that too and might as well do a video on this cuz you know it's kind of kind of cool against I want to try to do one of these unboxing videos yeah I can't can't wait to get my good camera so let's open this over skateboard misty blue how weird of an angle this is careful with ice is awkward open your beans while recording it there it is and they're complete for create a opens ribbon do rush when you're doing these schedules but oh wow pretty nice so there it is a new board 7.75 width I think it's a whip and uh yeah it's an upgrade for my my present board because because I have big shoes like size eleven ring and my worth for my my my main board which is going to be my spare board uh for now on when like the weather's bad and I it's raining and whatnot I'll use that board but that one's like a seven point six seven point six with and my feet just don't fit on that I think of this board 7.75 I think it's inches inches 7.75 inches will be better for me and be better for our landing tricks and you know progressing in my skateboarding because I am just not doing well uh progressing in my skateboarding skills with my other board four years old super rusty not good so yeah that's my my new complete board I bought put a link in the description on where I got it and mother Oh usually opening this weird tip hold on camera that's new red berries bones bearings I'll show how you come look how clear that is the autofocus sucks on that too on the camera uh well bones bearings Reds now tools I made that use I use like a little of never scold like I use some weird tools so this will come in handy 52 ah I think millimeter or centimeter wheels bones again yeah bones is pretty cool I like 19 pretty much it and their their design looks pretty nice you like I'm gonna open that yet or should I just open it oh just open it uh even though that's not good I'm not sure if you guys see you clearly beat those are the wheels probably can't see it clearly just wait till tonight for my new camera that's a wheels and got some spare spare uh whatever they circle with this right here because my old board is just to Russell and I got replaced some stuff from ports so that's pretty much it for my skateboard things that I got today and yeah hopefully I'll dress a lot faster on my skateboarding cuz I I'm just I was just in a slump dude with my old skateboard and hopefully this set up now which I only be using this board when it's you know it's not terrible weather where I'll roll into um like a like a puddle and then get my my bearings to rust that's not a good idea some I'm gonna be using this more conservatively I'm not gonna be using it as much during the fall season and the winter season I might use it more in a spring season so yeah but hopefully I'll press a lot more not quicker with this board and then I replaced the rusty parts on my overboard with now the wheels well actually the wheels on my other board is okay because you know people's don't rust but steel does rust so I got replaced the port's bearings so yeah that's myself a video right there our setup video I mean unboxing so see you guys later bye

so I have here a lightly used Powell flight deck now I did actually film an intro with a nice brand new Powell flight that can manage to delete it so here we have a lightly used one okay so this was an eight-point to five now let's start with the measurements so across the front truck we have just a hair under eight and three eighths so eight point three eight across the back truck we have just a hair under eight and three eighths again and in the middle so it's pretty consistent from the trucks down to the middle let's check the length it is 31 and thirteen sixteen so that is just above 31 and three quarters nice length check the wheelbase 14 in the quarter even let's check the nose and tail length seven-inch nose just under six and three-quarter tail so these are some pretty standard and popular measurements here next I want to check the weight of this board okay so the flight deck is twelve eighty five and just for reference I have a similar size coin machine deck that's just under 8 and three eights as well twelve eighty six so that's incredibly similar I mean a gram we're talking nothing and I think most skateboarders know how much a gram weighs so let's get into the construction a little bit so I believe this is five plies and it has one carbon fiber layer underneath the bottom ply or in between the bottom ply and the rest of the plies and then it has a carbon fiber layer on the top and what you can't see now is there's also a reinforced layer around the trucks so that's probably to stop you from breaking your board like this or getting pressure cracks so what we got is five maple plies in two carbon-fiber plies and if you think about how this is strengthening it so what you've got is you've got the wood that has some tensile strength and tensile strength is the resistance against snapping so this reminds me a little bit of reinforced concrete so when we say build a concrete slab so imagine you've got like an 8-inch concrete slab so what you've got is the concrete itself has incredibly poor tensile strength so if you have a long band of concrete with no steel in it it's just gonna crumble under its own weight and then you've got the steel in it that has incredible tensile strength and the concrete however has incredible compressive strength so if you have an 8-inch concrete slab on the ground and somebody puts a lot of weight on it it can hold an incredible amount of weight so how this works is we put the steel in the bottom of the slab because when you put the steel say you've got eight inches and the Steel's in the bottom what that does the steel stops it from being able to flex so the top layer of concrete is all of a sudden compressing against itself and the steel is stopping it from being able to flex so you get the best of both worlds you get the tensile strength of the steel and the compressive strength of the concrete now why I bring that up is this has a similar effect so when you jump down say in the middle of this this is why we've seen people drive over these with cars when you jump down on the middle of this normally the wood would crack but this carbon fiber layer that's just next to the bottom has this incredible tensile strength that's able to withstand something like a car driving over it so the wood does not crack because it's able to sort of help it help the wood get that compressive strength as it's being flexed now same thing you've got this carbon fiber layer on the top so you're not gonna be able to snap these noses and tails either because it's got so much strength from the tensile strength of the carbon fiber layers so this is me making up things from my construction brain as to why these are so strong but anyways let's get on to the skating in the review that I filmed a couple of weeks ago okay so that skating was the first week where I was starting to get used to this board and it was big shock coming on to this board after being on the Lowepro which is like such a steep board and this one is I would say a lot mellower in fact what I'm learning is that medium to mellow concave boards actually feel a bit soggy when they're brand new and this kind of has that feel and when I had stood on other people's flight decks I was apprehensive about trying one because I thought that they were a soggy deck but what I've learned is that medium con caves don't feel as stiff some people are actually really going to prefer that now I don't want you to get the wrong impression and think that this deck is soggy it's actually been a pretty crisp nice feeling board it's just not stiff so when a board is a medium concave it sort of has like a band of strength around in here and you can feel the outside edges of it flex a little bit and this has that so getting on to how this feels now three weeks in is the feel of it has not changed at all so typically a medium concave board goes from feeling a little bit softer a little bit springy to quite soggy after three weeks to a month and this board has remained exactly the same the whole way through and what's great about this is it's actually giving me a chance to get used to a flatter deck and I would also like to say I think if Powell came out with some steeper flight decks some steeper kicks in deeper concave that I think they would be amazing because I couldn't break this board and if I could get one that had a feel that's more my taste I think they'd be really great although I'm not a board breaker so I actually don't need to spend the extra money on these let's quickly take a look at the shape and then get to some more skating so one thing that threw me when I first got on this deck is that the nose is slightly more tapered than the tail here's the tail it's quite round and would make a nice nose here's the nose and it has just slightly more taper so it's actually almost identical but the fact that it had just slightly more taper on the nose kind of threw me off for a while because I'm used to it being the other way around and I actually bugged me but now I'm used to it and of course it doesn't matter and somebody has been out here skating at the Richmond oval because this ledge has about two segments that are perfectly greased up so we got about 14 feet of ledge that's broken in so nicely now I hit the part that wasn't broken in all right I'm low on battery you're gonna have to take those ones so I've really been enjoying this deck on lower ledges because of the sort of mellow ish nose and tail and I've chosen to keep the thunders on it because I know that if I put Indies on this I would find this deck for me personally to be unridable I just really like things steeper especially within these I find it's very well balanced on thunders and works quite nicely for a lot of my flat ground tricks too but I do have a tendency to rock it flip a bit from time to time because I have to like flick really hard to get my kick flips to level out nicely but the rest of my stuff seems to work out pretty decently it also for some reason seems to chip a little bit easier so I've got just like chunks coming out of my board there's another one right there still though for a deck with one two three four five maple plies is that correct one two three four five so this is only five maple plies as opposed to the traditional seven with the two carbon fiber layers it's still quite crispy [Music] so I think I'm going to be setting up a new deck soon even though this has tons of life there's been so many reviews of these things I mean we've seen people driving over them with cars we've seen people rege ripping them after about a month and I can see why like so they're a very long-lasting deck the only thing to note is because they're so skinny like is in thin you're going to get razortail faster because there's two less plies kind of to go through like you can feel it's noticeably pin when you hold these boards so you might even end up like kind of sanding it down if you want to get rid of the razor tail and make it feel a little crisper for a bit regrip the deck I mean you're gonna get a lot of life out of these if you want so I'll admit I haven't tried all the other shapes this is the one with the blunt or nose and tail they have ones with point to your nose and Tails I don't know if those are steeper or if they're still mellow with just a triangular nose and tail can you guys let me know in the comments so in summary I think these are a great deck like I think they really hit the nail on the head for the market of people who break decks a lot or who want a long-lasting deck while it does cost almost 50% more than a regular deck if you break boards a lot this is going to be a good investment the only downside being of course if the shapes aren't to your personal tastes it'll be something you'd have to get used to so overall I'd say the Pala flight deck is actually a really good product I'd happily ride another one when you guys put out some more shapes so anyways thanks for watching again I'm in the flight path if you can hear all these planes I hope you found this review useful if you were thinking about buying one or just wanted to know what the heck these are like so again see you guys go click on something else now I don't know go learn how to do some construction or sup and go watch my other channel