Best wakeskate video

gregg · Backside 180 Joined: 08 Nov 2003 Posts: 681 City: Killen

I was just wondering what people thought was the best wakeskating video, i personally thought sfumato was amazing.

Morphine · Backside 180 Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Posts: 1207 City: 706omg

I liked Sfumato y Asterisk. Snap had some pretty awesome footage though (Towable rail sections)

miller · Backside 180 Joined: 08 Aug 2004 Posts: 2394 City: Regina

Asterisk is good but I think sfumato is the best. Retrospect has some solid skating in it with some old school stuff.

kento911 · Kickflip Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 3657 City: Phoenix

asterisk, much more diverse, but Sfumato is 1.5, with snap in second

nick · Posted: Aug 24, 2004 6:00 am Post subject:

asterisk was good but too short. i like sfumato best

concusionfilms · Faceplant Joined: 16 Aug 2004 Posts: 21 City: austin

sfumato is a much better movie as long as you turn the volume down or play a cd while watching, the sound track is absolutly horrible Astrisk may be too short but the sound trac is quite a bit better, i think

Maniel · Ollie Joined: 22 Jun 2004 Posts: 96 City: Toronto

Astrisk was unreal first off.... but i was disappointed because, of course, they didn't have any wake2wake stuff. Sfumato i am yet to see but i have heard both the good and the bad about that vid. but its def on the list. Retrospect, although super long to sit through if you HATE wakeboarding, had some unreal skating. One of the coolest things is Horrel's wake2wake frontside shuv to indy. WHAT!!!!! sooo sick. Relentless on the other hand had some great stuff but once again more wakeboarding.

ps- Justin Stephens is the man

Synergy · Pop Shuvit Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 249 City: Atlanta

I liked them all. Even the small wakeskate sections in Nature Born THrillaz was good.

Astrick was a bit too short though.
Sfumato changed everything and enlarged the amount of ppl that have taken an interest in wakeskating.

TTUFAN24 · Posted: Aug 24, 2004 10:42 am Post subject:

i dunno · Pop Shuvit Joined: 13 Mar 2004 Posts: 146 City: orlando!

Asterisk is better than sfumato

TTUFAN24 · Posted: Aug 24, 2004 11:17 am Post subject:

it's more recent but i still like sfumato better. i have them both and asterisk is really good as well. just like sfumato better.

catalyst112 · Posted: Aug 24, 2004 11:32 am Post subject:

i must agree with everyone and add a little on...the additional footage will blow your mind, Grubb's Pool Gap, which accounts for nearly the same running time as the main movie. who ever said you need to turn the volume down is probably the same guy who rocks out Sum 41 and Good Charlotte. incase you didn't notice there is an alternate soundtrack but i'd stick with the main one. Snap is also great with its extras.
All of these movies have something else to offer, so i'd say its a three way tie.

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dMaus · Pop Shuvit Joined: 10 Jun 2004 Posts: 121 City: Longwood

sfumato is good cuz its more laid back while asterisk is all big crazy tricks...snap was good too...........

robert · Posted: Aug 26, 2004 7:40 am Post subject:

Justin Stephens should have shoot/edited the Sfumato movie!!

I think Sfumato has the best variety of tricks and scenery but I don't like they way it is edited (colors/music etc.).

Asterisk is very well edited (nice sound/feel/colors), everything comes together, but is getting bored after awhile because it's too short and there's the same scenery all the time. I don't like movies where everone is sliding the same rail in every section.

I liked the wakeskating section in Metronome!!

David Legler · Posted: Aug 26, 2004 11:02 am Post subject:

i still can't get enough of linear perspective

livewirelp · Pop Shuvit Joined: 03 Jan 2004 Posts: 123

The riding in Sfumato was fantastic, but the editing seemed so frenetic. Even though i know it was made by by the aptly named attention deficit crew, it was pretty annoying... you almost had to watch it in slow motion. Asterisk is a bit more my pace. However, what I didn't like about Asterisk was some of the camera shots were pretty crappy. Could Grubb's sex change have been any farther away? Anyway, I'm just being nitpicky. Both are great.

jack123 · Faceplant Joined: 25 Aug 2004 Posts: 8 City: Austin

go with Asterisk no sfumato, no asterik no yes yes no

draino · Faceplant Joined: 02 May 2004 Posts: 11 City: Boise

first off Sfumato was sick. Asterisk was sick. I do want to say one thing refering to the comment about grubbs sex change being so far away and that is this: Sometimes sh*t goes down at the wrong times and I bet it you ask any film maker from any sport there are times when they totally missed a shot of something sick for whatever reason(changing film, etc.) or they managed barely get ready or were standing in one spot filming a rail and weren't expecting a sex change at the other end of the lake.

It's ok to be nit picky, just be picky about the right things. not one shot that you don't know the circumstances that surround it.

tribal · Posted: Aug 31, 2004 11:19 am Post subject:

I think Sfumato was sick.It was good to see some new scenery in there.I really get tired of all the wakeboard movies and the same lakes over and over again.It get's really old.And the music even if it was a bit to be desired, at least, was different.I think both Linear Perspective[which I thought had a great underground edge feel to it] and Sfumato are a fresh change in the wake vid world[I've probably watched these 2 vids twice as much as all my other wake vids combined]
As for Asterisk I can't comment,haven't seen it.