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BARCELONA 2005
SIMPLEWOOD FEATURE : MINIVIDEOS

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Featured skaters (by order of appearance):
Jake Johnson-White, James Coyle, Sandy Louden, Matt Priest, Simon Jones, Brian Donaghy, James Hill

Music:
The Folk Implosion - Jenny's Theme, Death Cab for Cutie - 405, The Postal Service - The National Anthem

This minivideo highlights our trip to Barcelona during a week in February. It was a great trip, I'm sure everyone got something different out of it. We had to put up with quite a lot, our apartment was pretty shite (there was no water for like 3 days) and the last few days people got pretty sick. That aside it was an amazing time.

What I love about Barcelona is that you are guaranteed a skate. The weather is perfect, completely clear skies everyday. It rained once, and within an hour it was dry. Theres also so much to skate, Sants, Fondo, MACBA.. and if you dig a little deeper you find little spots all over the place. The most fun I had was just skating around the place, looking for spots. When on our quest to find the hump to bar at Besos we stumbled on about 3 or 4 famous spots. One of the places was this little plaza with banks everywhere and this sweet hip. That was right next to the gap to ramp (which is proper sketchy). Seeing all these spots up close gives you so much respect for the people you see in videos busting over them. For instance, the bump to bar at Besos is proper gnarly, fuck knows how it was switch heeled. We found those narrow metal transition things this time too... nuff random, I don't know what they're for. After 10 minutes of sessioning Hill and Coyle finally got the art of airing out of them down.

Last trip I took minimal photos (like 2 came out haha), so this time I think I got about 74ish haha... some of the better ones are in the minivid. Must have like 150+ photos when including Hills, Jakes and Matts.

I might release an extras video later on, we got nuff random apartment footage and shite (mostly involving Jake with fire, hammers and Slim Shady music videos).

Anyway, the minivideo... it might take a while to load, it's like 60mb (running time is almost 10 minutes). Enjoy.

Note: If the video didn't work for you, please re-download, the last upload was corrupt.
Comments

Carl Hiett
Posted on 4th March 2005
this video dont work for me :( downdownded or streamed both dont work

Aiden Hilcher
Posted on 1st March 2005
i think if that was a 25 minute video, people would actually pay like 30 dollars for a copy if you put it in a nice little dvd dase and cd cover

Aiden Hilcher
Posted on 1st March 2005
Simon, what else can i say but, PURE BRILLIANCE, love the opener, fuck fuck fuck, reminded me of jay and silent bob strikes back

James Brown
Posted on 28th February 2005
amazing! props to simon! th beging had some well good editing but the whole thing was well good!

Alex Larelli
Posted on 28th February 2005
Lots of good skating and some tight editing. Naaice.

James Gabb
Posted on 28th February 2005
"Oooh gay!" Haha

That bank session reminded me of the shipyard in Red Bull: Under Wraps for some reason.

Joe White
Posted on 28th February 2005
HOLY FUCKING SHIT, that was incredible. the amount of time that must have taken to get done, so muhc goes to simon on this one!!!

James Gabb
Posted on 28th February 2005
Wow. Bloody amazing.

Still got my front garden though! :-)

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