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Skate and Create

Skate and Create, put on annually by Transworld is one of the raddest collabs between skating, art, filming, and general creativity. Again I am blown away by what these teams, art directors, filmers, and editors came up with this year. The principle is simple, 1 warehouse, 4 teams, 9 days each, to create something never seen before. Here’s a full video summary of Skate and Create 09; intro vid, plus all 4 teams entries.

Here’s Last years winners DVS with a truly unimaginable follow up from their greatness last year. It again affirmed the fact that Torey Pudwill isn’t human, and that Daewon Song can treat pule jams like quarter pipes. They literally double the difficulty of every trick filmed in this montage. Peep it to see how.

The Circa guys came in with a back woods, dark, metal themed horror film of shredding which absolutely can’t be passed by. Fully equipped with creepy obstacles, wrecked cars, and serial killer status shredders they did an amazing job!

DC took it back to the city streets. Emulating some of the favorite spots and styles from major cities like NY, and LA they brought a clean arsenal of tricks with some intermittent slashing from Nick Dompiere minus as he let his hair out of the hat for once. DC brough classic rippers like Danny Way and Josh Kalis together with some of the newest talent around to produce this masterpiece.

Here’s the winning entry from a team who seems to really be killing it in the industry recently, Etnies. With guys like Malto, Mikey, Bledsoe, and Leeper what can you expect? Running with the theme or a much loved childhood, and soon to be remade, movie this set alone is hard to believe it was built in 9 days, even without the skating that went down.

Big thanks to Transworld for again putting out some of the best things for skateboarding and continually inspiring progression and the creative collaboration between skateboarding and all kinds of other arts. I would love to see more companies do projects like this, and maybe someday be able to be involved myself. I think it’s people like Transworld continually pushing the envelope that really keeps skateboarding and the true, fun, and creative aspects of it alive. As we reach the boundaries of what boards and bodies can physically handle, where will skateboarding go next? Is this the future?

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