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Film Trucks | LOW IMPACT

Film Trucks | LOW IMPACT

Join Lyon Slappy Crew as they embark on an exhilarating skateboarding adventure, pushing the boundaries and creativity at every turn. With an impressive lineup featuring Jeremie Daclin, Ben Gonsolin, Vincent Jugnet, Flo Valade, Olivia Couturier, Ira Ingram, Luc de Brion, Hugo Bernatas, Alex Masoero, French Fred, Mizou, Flo Mirtain, JB Gillet, this video promises 'Minimum Risk for Maximum Fun.' Don't miss out on this thrilling ride that pays tribute to Canardo. Lyon Slappy Crew has truly captured the essence of skateboarding!

Filmed & Edited by Vincent Jugnet

Andrè Gerlich | Tandem Jump - ANTIZ Skateboards

Andrè Gerlich | Tandem Jump - ANTIZ Skateboards

ANDRE GERLICH joins the ANTIZ Family... Okay, first check your altimeters. Does everybody have 8500 feet? When the German Para Trooper opens that door, you will be scared.

Directed by FRENCH FRED & MAARKO PHNTM

Joel Juuso | Possessed by Skateboarding

Joel Juuso | Possessed by Skateboarding

JOEL JUUSO joins the ANTIZ Skateboards AFamily! Based on THE JEZEBEL SPIRIT song from David Byrne and Brian Eno which includes a "found sound", an exorcism performed by an anonymous exorcist. Are we Possessed by a spirit? by the New World Order or by Skateboarding? The phrase "Jezebel spirit" is referencing a woman in the Book of Kings in the Hebrew Bible. where she is associated with sexual immorality. That's a good match with ANTIZ, isn't it???

Directed by FRENCH FRED & MARKO PHNTM

éS | Menikmati  - French Fred Tapes | Barcelona Days part 1

éS | Menikmati - French Fred Tapes | Barcelona Days part 1

The 2000 éS team in Barcelona - Eric Koston, Rodrigo Tx, Rick McCrank.

In the year 2000, we organised a filming mission to Barcelona. I had previously been on a mission with Arto and Kerry Getz the year before, and was so hyped to bring Koston, McCrank and Tx, who would kill all the perfect spots of BCN. At the time, not much people at all had been there to enjoy the perfect spots. The ledges at Macba still needed to be waxed. We even managed to arrange the coming of Tom Penny, to skate with us. At that time, he was still super elusive, hard to connect with, and virtually impossible to film. Planets were getting aligned. I was certain this mission who be highly productive and epic.

Tom was coming by car , from Bordeaux, with some friends, and Theo Hand who lived with Tom in France, to capture whatever he could with Tom, for the Flip video. When they arrived on the second morning, Tom got out of the car, said hello and told me he just sprained his ankle at 6 AM that day. He explained that he jumped a big between some rocks. I couldn’t believe it, and didn’t understand really what happened. Jumping some crazy rock? At 6AM? Next to Salvador Dali”s village, Cadaqués? Your ankle is fucked, you can’t skate? That was a such huge disillusionment. Tom was here with us, finally, but couldn’t skate!!! The rock jump is the one in the Sorry video. I often go to Cadaqués, and see the rock all the time. The gap to clear is huge. Few months ago, I finally got on top of the rock to look at it. No one would want to try that jump. But Tom Penny did. He thought he could do it. Well, he did, he got hurt, but it could have been much much worse!!!

Anyway, so one soldier was down. To my big surprise, the planets were indeed not as aligned as I thought, and this filming mission proved to almost be a fiasco. Somehow, Koston was hating on the spots... Macba, “the ledges suck”. Eric was really not in a good mood.... He was not enjoying himself. Most sessions were a struggle for him. He even had some break downs and freak outs while trying some stuff, because we had to try to skate and get stuff, but he wasn’t into it. So it was like everything was imposed to him. That negative energy rubbed off on McCrank. I didn’t understand why things were going so wrong. It was like cooking with all the best ingredients, and fucking up your recipe. Rick got sucked up in that mood. I kept pushing to get things done, and that would make things worse.

They were over it. A lot of cool tricks got attempted, but without success... At least, Rodrigo

didn’t get affected so much, and skated very well, and proved that the spots I had for them were really good and had much potential. He saved the trip. You can only imagine the result if everyone would have been feeling at his best, feeding each other with hype and motivation Rick and Eric pushed so that we would leave Barcelona to go to Paris. That’s where they wanted to skate, that’s all they had in mind. So eventually, we left BCN ahead of schedule, and flew to Paris...

Shot & eEdited by French Fred

'Attraper Au Vol' | 2nd Edition

'Attraper Au Vol' | 2nd Edition

Um Yeah Arts are releasing the second edition (re-print) of Fred Mortagne book ‘Attraper Au Vol’ after  solding out within 4 months of it’s original release in late 2016.

´We didn’t expect at all to run out of copies, the feedback has been beyond all expectations, with the book radiating way beyond the frontiers of the skateboarding world and community. In the era of internet and disposable media, this is encouraging and honouring  that ‘Attraper Au Vol’ keeps on flying around to reach out to wider audiences and be acclaimed like it is´. French Fred

The second edition is now available through these various networks:

www.umyeaharts.com

www.frenchfred.com

Worldwide distributor: D.A.P/Artbook.com

European distributor: www.ideabooks.nl

Element Europe for the skateshops in Europe.

Tom Penny | BFFS

Tom Penny | BFFS

After not filming anything with the elusive Tom Penny for ÉS ' Menikmati, Frenchfred finally clocked in some footage with him for Flip's "Sorry" video, circa 2001, then later for "Really Sorry". Enjoy this final episode of BFFS, then be sure to subscribe to Frenchfred's Youtube channel where he will keep on sharing some of his archives

BFFS | Vert Ramp

BFFS | Vert Ramp

Dope new release of the video series "Behind The French Fred Scenes" featuring Rune Glifberg, Bob Burnquist, Danny Way... on vert sessions, enjoy!

Jeff Grosso's Loveletters to Skateboarding | Skate Videos

Jeff Grosso's Loveletters to Skateboarding | Skate Videos

Skateboarding and filming have gone together since the beginning of time. Greg Hunt, Rowan Zorilla, Tony Hawk, Steve Caballero, Anthony Van Engelen, Arto Saari, Jason Jessee, French Fred, Jerry Hsu talk about their favorites and why skate videos are awesome (except Grosso- he hates skate videos).