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Details From The Push Process Premiere In Wisconsin Date: 12-09-2007
Author: Wakeskating.com Staff
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On Friday, December 7, the frigid reality of the midwestern winter was briefly forgotten as Redline Watersports in Madison, Wisconsin premiered Oakley's first wakeboarding and wakeskating film titled Push Process. Oakley also flew in team riders Jack Blodgett, Dallad Friday and Aaron Rathy to feel the Wisconsin freeze and stoke out the crowd. And in an effort to keep the good vibes coming and spirits high, Red Bull was enlisted to provide some signature decor that was filled to the brim with free ice-cold Red Bull for those who made it over to hang out, view the film and win some Oakley goodies.
After catching up with some old friends, consuming my fair share of that sugary Red Bull goodness and viewing the film, I decided that there's no question in that it completely lived up to the expectations that were set through the release of the film's energetic trailer back in September. As far as the basic stats are concerned, Push Process was filmed in 30 cities, 9 countries and with 8 riders in tow. It was also shot in high definition and was produced by Justin Stephens, so it has a few of his signature editing techniques that can make even the most basic trick seem surreal and captivating.
Every Oakley team rider threw down for the film, but a few immediate standouts include Aaron Rathy, who proved once again that he is a skilled boardsman, showing that he's well versed in the ways of the waterboard genre (wakeboard and wakeskate, for those who didn't understand that). Danny Hampson earned himself the second section in the film, and always manages to step up his presentation of wakeskating from one film to the next. Keep your eyes peeled because his ambidextrious riding style may leave certain subtlties that are signature to the Hampson style going unappreciated by the untrained eye. But at the very least, his tuck knee grabs will leave you inspired and his inside out start up roller variations will give you a taste of the present while abruptly whisking you back to the past. (Melon body varial rewind-what!) George Daniels also put on an impressive, well versed and stylish display of wakeskating through his front board, frontside bigspin (Process that!) out on a rail and his backside big flip. Finally, Keith Lyman rode with an off the wake style all his own and performed some of the craziest gaps to rail ever seen on a wakeboard (picture hitting the far side of the wake, clearing that entire span of nothingness and travelling beyond the second wake into a back lip on a high box). Seeing is believing, bros!
While many regional Push Process premieres have come and gone, an event that's still upcoming is the premiere that's set to take place in Orlando on Monday, December 10th at the Universal Cineplex. The film will screen at 7.30 p.m. (admission is $5.00 at the door), but there will be a Push Process team autograph signing at the surf shop beginning at 6.30 p.m.
If you're wanting to get a copy of Push Process into your sweet paws, you'll have to wait a little while longer. As far as the Madison premiere goes, the shop was lucky to get a copy of the film on DVD (it actually arrived that day), and if all else failed, they would have resorted to having a hard drive courtesy of Jack Blodgett containing the film. Long story short, there's more information in the Push Process blog, but the replication process is not yet complete.
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