if you don't feel like watching it, it's essentially a montage of different guys skateboarding in cities and parks. even to a blind eye, all the boys in the video are at least acquaintances. since I know a little bit about Joe and his skateboarding (though not a lot, just peripheral knowledge I gather from bits of social networks) I know that all of them are friends and travel to specific places together to skate together. I enjoyed the video a lot both because I like skateboarding and it was impressive and because it made me a little envious of the closeness of the group. I've never really been a part of any small community like that and I can only imagine how much fun it'd be to do something like skate around a city together.
In my interview with Joe we mainly discussed the Owen Bell skatepark and his park skating, but clearly this video is fairly street/city skating based. I don't know any of the boys personally besides Joe but I want to say I've gleaned that they began park-skating (all at different parks, though exclusively at none), which makes me wonder: though they travel to street-skate, I wonder if their initial connection was founded upon their similar "park skating" communities. I'm not really sure how to phrase it and already my words feel sort of shrouded.
I guess what I'm thinking about now is just how distinct the social/what-have-you dichotomy between street-skating and park-skating is, whether or not they are two corresponding playing fields or if they are somewhat substitutable depending on the person -- or if the mindset of a park-skater permeates the atmosphere of street-skating when a (former?) park-skater is doing the street-skating. I know my friend Connor said that he preferred street-skating because it was less competitive, more relaxed, and less eyes were on him, but the video makes me think that it just depends on the group of people. I'm confusing myself here. Hahahah. Oh well.
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