Miles Silvas flipping in & out from his recent “Spitfire” Part. Miles put a hurting on the infamous Macy’s ledges, while showing us that he’s got multiple variations of the Switch Flip Front Krook, and his trademarked look over the shoulder roll away. The Bay Area footage meshed so well with the two Mac Dre tracks, this one is a treat. Scope this little “Directors cut” by Eryk Burton as well, it’s dope to see what went into his Bigflip down that Sac triple set.
Although an Instagram like is only so meaningful, it seemed like the least bias way to select the most popular loops that we featured this year, and let you guys decide the Loop Of The Year.
The beautiful thing about a loop is that it doesn’t have to be the craziest, most tech, or gnarliest trick, it’s just a trick that looks so nice, that you want to watch it on a loop, over and over again.
Here it is, our 2020 LššP Of The Year bracket –
Voting for the first round is live now over on our Instagram stories. Check the loops below, vote for your favorites, and keep an eye on our stories for the next few days until we crown the 2020 L.š.T.Y.
To wrap up the year, I figured it would only make sense to take some of my favorite clips from the “Out To Get A Loop” series, as well as some others that went straight to the gram, and make an edit of them. Revisiting some of these clips reminded me how incredible they are. That side blunt front big on the QP from Billy Jackson, JP Souza making tech ledge tricks look effortless, and the ender of the edit, Tanner Lawler’s properly executed parking block wizardry, there’s great skateboarding all around.
Well, here it is; a montage of clips that were once loops, with “Blue Cigar” by Midnight Sister to go along with it –
As I mentioned in part 1, Tyler came through with a handful of loops, so it was only right to split into 2 parts, and give each clip the attention it deserves. Here they are, watch em & read about em!
1.William Gomez
“Aragon! This one ended up going down on the second trip back there. I’m pretty sure he went the first time with this trick in mind and was doing krooks for a while before trying to flick in. After a little bit of trying the actual trick the cops ended up being called and we packed up. Will and I both knew that it could easily go down, so we went back about 2 weeks later to try it again. I was filming fisheye, my friend Luke was long lense, and the homie Spitzer was shooting the photo. Will battled it for a while this day. He would grind all the way and then hop off or it just wouldn’t lock in. Eventually, that right one just came and he rolled away perfectly. Everyone was so stoked. I’m pretty sure Julian picked him up and was carrying him around the school yard haha. Beers were cracked following the session and it was back to the house from there to upload the footage. Filming fisheye on that hubba through the VX was a crazy feeling, knowing the history behind that spot. Extremely memorable day that I’ll never forget.”
Monday, November 9th, 2020. This is when Primitive’s newest masterpiece was published. From the teaser last week, to the “Deadline” video a few days before the release, I was counting down the days. You would think that with “Encore” dropping less than one year ago, it would be impossible to release something of that caliber again so quickly, especially during a year where traveling was almost out of the question.
Well, they did it. They did what seemed impossible, about 11 months after their last full length, Primitive dropped another video, and it lived up to the expectations that they have created, and in many ways exceeded them.
Behind The Loops is our newest series, the idea is simple; give filmers some shine by having them choose some clips they have filmed, loop those clips, and have them share a backstory from these sessions.
To launch this series we collaborated with Tyler Bamdas, who we became familiar with from his incredible video “Variety Vol. 2“, which we have mentioned before, as well as made loops from. Thankfully, Tyler was down to be the test run of “Behind The Loops”, and just as we expected, he came through with amazing clips, and intriguing stories for each and every one.
Without further adieu, here’s Tyler’s picks!
1. Josh Douglas
“We were trying to get a clip on this kinked rail at the same school but ended up cruising around and seeing what the school had to offer. We stumbled across this spot and ended up filming a line there first. It was just something unique and pretty different compared to your average stair set. He did a front 180 down switch 180 off to start and just went from there. I think he mentioned kickflip at first and then quickly switched up to 360 flip. Dodging the pole is crazy because where you land on the block is super narrow. Also how his arms were extending when he popped was crazy to watch. Every try it seemed like he was going to smack the fuck out the pole. After an hour or so it went down and couldn’t have been more perfect. All the boys were there for that one also which made it rad.”
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