This video review for Tomorrow We Work is slightly overdue, the idea was to shoot this out before a brief vacation to Maine. I ran out of time with all the other bullshit going on before my 3 AM departure to the airport. So, excuses and all that aside… We’ve had this video for quite some time now at the North County apartment and its been viewed a solid amount of times. Steve Kennedy preordered this video some time ago and we were all pretty damn stoked upon its arrival… Continue reading if you care about what an edgeman has to say about TWW…

I’ve always been a big fan of Voices, also produced by Joe Cox, which if you haven’t already seen… You just may have a slight case of regrets. But all you regreters are in luck because Voices comes with Tomorrow We Work on its own seperate disc in this nicley presented, doubled-up European case of shredding. When Voices came out it gave a lot of Euro shredders the spotlight and it showcased what riding in the U.K. is all about… The terrains, the spots, the weather and the riding ability of all the dudes over there was brought to attention for all of us sloppy Americans.

Once again, Joe Cox and his crew of shredders brings the Euro riding scene to us, jam packed full of their bmx culture and cloudy UK scenery. TWW has an “artsy” type of feel to it, as a movie of its caliber should with such a gnarly amount of time and work put into it. The intro to the film opens slow and gives you a lot of scenery and things to look at before any riding has even begun. I’m never one to hate on “artsy” bmx vids because I like both sides of the spectrum, I like to see fast shredding and lifestyle orriented shredding as well. I’m not worried about the time spent viewing landmarks and street signs before the shred begins, so I’m real stoked on the filming for TWW. Of course the camera work is top notch, these dudes know how to properly use a camera too, which is always nice on the eyes.

The actual riders that really stick out in my mind right now are Dan Cox with his freecoaster abilities, Joe Cox with his all around shred abilities and Josh Bedford for kicking ass with going big and fast. Those 3 sections are really rad and Josh Bedford has a fast paced br00tz orriented song to go with his fast paced riding, so that of course is my favorite section. I won’t count out the rest of the riding from everyone else though, all the dudes in this video can shred. I definitely saw a long rocket icepicker down a ledge, crankflips down staircases and some other rad antics. I was also happy to see lots of peg use during the entire film, stoked when people indulge with their pegs on numerous surfaces. I was also really stoked on the crash section which used an old Modest Mouse song, it worked out real well to all the failed 360’s, rail hops and grinds gone wrong. The overall music is pretty good too, its a lot of music I don’t really tend to partake in, so its a good switch up from what I’m used to. The variety of seemingly Euro indie music really goes with the visuals, it leaves you with that foreign type of feel that gets me stoked on visiting/shredding Europe one day…

I’ve heard people talkin about how this video was really built up before its release and how it didn’t really stand up to its talked about image. When I first viewed TWW, I slightly agreed with the above statement, but after a few viewings I feel that it delivered as it was suppose to. Those of you may not agree due to its slower pace, soft music and dreary scenery but I really enjoy this movie and think highly of its production and shredding. Tomorrow We Work is a solid bmx vid and I think everyone needs to check this out to see what were missing over the pond. Did I mention it fucking comes with Voices? They originally made only 500 copies of Voices and now you can come up on it if you missed it the first time around. Voices is a few years old and still holds it down today…

Be sure to check out the longer Tomorrow We Work trailer too…

REVIEWED BY BRETT ROHLFING

Endsearch has been in the works for a while now but seemed to not be one of those videos to have a lot of hype around it before it’s release. That is most likely a good thing, because most of the videos lately that have been highly anticipated seem to be a let down, possibly due to the over hype.

So here is my take on the best skateboard video you will ever buy from danscomp.

What? Skateboard? This was the main thing I noticed about the video, so I figured I would state it first. The video definitely had a higher budget/ crew than most bmx videos; every clip was covered from at least 2 if not 3 cameras, there was evidence of a photographer present in a lot of shots (sometimes the photographer was shown, sometime just flashes) and for night shots they had the generator powered flood lights. On top of those more skate video type traits, the main reason I called it a skateboard video was the way it was filmed and the music choices. Tony Ennis, the man behind the production and main fisheye’r from what I could tell had told people that it was his goal to make it more like a skateboard video, and he no doubt succeeded. Sometimes the fisheye work was done in a way that I found to be too systematic, like it was going to be filmed in this certain very punctuated way (which I have seen in skating a fair bit) whether it really made sense for the trick or not, but that probably won’t bother many of you. The amount of slow motion used was also much more than normal, but would be normal for a skate video. The music was overall more mellow side than what I fancy for a bike video, but I have noticed that skaters tend to also sometimes pick less heavy tunes in exchange for songs that allow for more artsy edits. If you are looking for hard rap or heavy metal with your bmx, this would not be a good pick for you.

With that out of the way, into the video…

The video begins with a mix of falls, outtakes, a few tricks and a handful of graphics to introduce riders and thank sponsors. Josh Harrington opens the video with a strong performance of manly street moves. So impressive that it sets you up to not like the second section (Rob Darden) as much. Rob’s part opens with a montage of cursing, falls and generally pissed off behavior. His part is far from bad, but it’s nothing mind blowing, though I must give him his props on his trail riding. When I think trails I don’t think Rob Darden, but maybe I should…
Will Love brings the energy back up to where Josh Harrington was thanks to the faster music of the video and mostly thanks to his riding. A ton of tricks stood out to me and the banger was something I had never seen done before.
Next comes the friends section, which has a good number of big names. But the issue I had with it was that for the riders that did sweet stuff but aren’t as recognizable as Aaron Ross it is unfortunate because they did not put up any names of the riders! Here are a few of the riders I could identify that made an appearance: Quinn Semling, Biz Jordan, Kevin Kiraly, Garrett Reynolds and the aforementioned Aaron Ross. Sometimes friends sections might not be up to the level of the rest of the video but in this case it was up to par for sure. It closes with a massive whip over 2 rails from… well I have no idea, because they didn’t put up any names.

Coming back to properly credited riders we have Ty Marrow. Aside from a web vid here and there we don’t see a ton from Mr. Marrow, but after seeing his section I can only hope that will change. Ty has insane pop, being able to hop 3 over a bus stop seat that has to be stem height or more. Along with that he brings a ton of barspin and spin tricks that would make Animal proud, and a few drops that would make the Metal bikes crew smile. Of all the sections, I’d probably watch his if you were wanting to get pumped to go ride.
Dave Dillewaard is one of those guys you see ride the Dew Tour stuff a lot but don’t see a ton else from. Well this shows that side of Dillsy (as he is labeled in the intro) that we don’t see as much. A good mix of street, park and dirt that shows he can ride it all with style.
Ryan Nyquist is the closer. The intro to his section seems to try hard to illustrate that Ryan is human and not the contest robot some think he is but showing him drunk, yelling and goofing off. After the yelling and bar humps stop the serious music begins and the barspins start. I was told Ryan did 60 barspins in his part, and while I don’t doubt it, it doesn’t seem to get old because of the wild places they are placed. One thing I found odd, yet appropriately skate-like was that they put in 3 clips of his brother Shea without making any note of it. Why couldn’t he have been in the friends section? I was informed back when this same non-notating rider placement happened in Facad that it was a skate thing; I find it to just be a strange thing myself. Ryan’s part has the most park for sure but it is entertaining to watch even if it’s hard to identify with ever doing any of what he does. After the manliest double truckdriver you will ever see happens it’s off to the credits for much of what the intro brought you: falls, some tricks and random silly stuff. The bonus sections are the usual. Falls, slideshow, and unused footage. Unlike some unused sections that means new clips that didn’t fit in or maybe aren’t quite as intense, most of this is just unused angles of trick you already saw in the main video, so it gets boring fast.

Overall it’s a solid video, one which may take a time or 2 watching to really enjoy. If you like skate videos than this is perfect for you. If you want nothing but street moves than stay away. I wouldn’t be surprised if a section or 2 was up for a Nora cup award come interbike time. I suggest you give it a go if you have $20 to spare.

So, after hearing very good things about the new issue of Props, which happend to be 69 which is a pretty sweet number, I figured I better check it out. My buddy Kevin happend to have the DVD for me to borrow so that was even more of a plus. This issue had a Randy Taylor bio, Hoffman Trip, Riverside Trails Spot Check, Terry Adams Bio, and a Day in the life of Matt Beringer, along with a few other short edits at the end like Kevin Porters edit he had on the net (and seen at the bottom of this). I know sometimes I don’t make sense or am very clear but I try and explain what I thought going through the video. I am sorry if you get lost at times.

Randy Taylor Bio- Randy is good, like, real good. It starts out with him doing a real long nose manual. His part has a whole lot of really good street lines and some big wall rides. He also has some clips riding the Empire mini, which he does a very mansized flair. I figured that would be all the flairs I would see but then shortly after he does another one in a ditch on this bank, yeah wild. Theres a big ruben wall ride in the ditch and then some clips of a gap to dumpster ride to some spins and whips, he ends it all up with a fakie Luc-e followed by a very long Luc-e. Super good very impressed.

Hoffman Trip- I don’t know why this never occured to me before but the Hoffman team is STACKED. Potaz, Brad Simms, Anthony Napolitan, Kevin Robinson (both weren’t in on this trip), Seth Kimbrough, and Will Love are all just amazing riders. I am sure I am forgetting some of there team but these were the dudes in on the trip. They rip a backyard dirt bowl at some guy’s place, I can’t remember the name. Aj Anaya shows up and rips that place up!
They hit up Downtown Denver where Brad 180s over a 4 foot tall hand rail which I cannot comprehend because that isn’t suppossed to happen. Will Love plows through a fence accidently and it is halarious, Adrian Vigil pops in and does a rollercoaster grind? Basically a grind in the middle of two rails next to each other ya know? Brad finishes that part of the trip off with a manual down a 23 stair rail.
Will love finds love at Zunnie park when a 10 year old girl becomes obsessed with him haha.
Brad Simms can ride street amazing, air a quarter huge, but struggles a bit on trails apparently when his first two times through a set rocks him pretty good.
Then they hit up Boulder’s park and Will Fuf’s a big fence which is awesome, Brad does a HUGE wall ride, and honestly that was the two clips I liked most there.
Finally end up in Albuquerque and ride some ditches, rip those apart but I guess they got 10 flats there. That clip of Brad Simms hoping over a fence from stand still on his feet is in this too so badass. Brad is a freak of nature!

This part of the video is like 20 minutes, it’s long and it was bad to watch this laying in my bed on my laptop because I was way to comfortable.

Riverside Trails- What can I say about this that isn’t obvious. Mike Saavedra rips them apart. To obvious? Luke Parslow kills it. Still to obvious. The locals there like Launchin Lance are all really good. Okay, this is an obvious part I guess. However, I seriously have this thing where I hate seeing double backflips ever since the Stephen Murray ordeal. It just scares me and I can’t imagine doing that with him in the back of your mind as what could happen if something goes wrong.

Terry Adams Bio- The main reason I wanted to check out this video. I was thinking about this, Maybe 2% of all of BMX can name half of the things Terry does on his bike or any flatlander in general. I have a lot of respect for that because it is amazing how impossible the things they do should be. I wanted to interview Terry but the questions Fat Tony and the other dudes ask him basically got it all covered with the best questions. There is a halarious clip of him mowing his lawn and he is just HAULING ASS. I died at that and I don’t know why.
This might be a shock but Terry did something I never would have expected. He threw in a few tricks like Brian Tunney does. You know the street/flatland stuff. Terry does a back peg hop whip and then some 180s down stair sets, ledges, and other cool stuff. I think a lot of people are so blind to flatland that he knew he had to do something to catch the street guys eyes. Respect!

A day in the life of Matt Beringer- This is awesome, basically Matt gives a tour of his house where he has a lot of really cool shit. He lives a pretty awesome life and it is real obvious. Eventually him and his roommate Jeff Brown go all over riding the local parks and seriously, Matt does things I never would think of it’s so good. He has a lot of fun riding and I think some people forget that’s what it is all about. Jeff has a lot of really good barspin tricks that I was stoked on. They also hit up the 50/50 shop and then bring a party back to Matt’s place. Fuzzy Hall and Adam Banton have a session, then you can see Mike Aitken ripping up Matt’s garage ramps.

Out-takes- Normally I skip out-takes for some reason, but when I heard Brad Simms yell “POOOOOOOOP!” I had to watch. There is a lot of funny things that happen when filming is going down apparently so this was fun to watch.

After the products (which there is some good stuff coming out soon or is already out) are shown it goes back to the menu where there is three other web video types to watch.

Twilight Jam- flatland/ramp jam/demo terry adams kills it like usuual, still mad I can’t name any of the flat tricks,

Eastpak edit- nose bonk/180 over big fence=redic, its all stefan lancaster riding austin texas spots majority,
still good! dude rips, 180 over double=good, he crashed a lot doing this edit

Trans Am Jam- bands, bmx, beer, babes, big daddy!, The session has Van Homan, Brian Foster, Brian Hunt, Big Daddy obviously ripping up the place. It is the usual fast lines and good riding. The after riding clips are halarious, Big Daddy gives away his heavy hitter beater to a dude then claims he will get it back by out heavy hitting the guy.

Orchid Porter Line- porters self filmed web vid that was on the net, from a day in Austin type thing. It is below this writing stuff.

Overall- The video was real good, a lot of cool stuff was done and the music/filming was great too. Props has been doing this for a long time and apparently they know what they are doing. Shocker, I know. I would suggest you at least check this one out from a friend if you are not sure if you want to buy it. It is worth buying though but I know how BMXers can be broke and stuff so I understand.

Kevin Porter Orchid video from SmallTown on Vimeo.