Juice V2, Ti’s Third Skate Video
For my fifth blog post, yes, it’s another old video rehash..! The second Juice Clothing video release – “V2”, which is my third and last video production (on actual video tape, that is). (YouTube, from the first link, claimed copyright infringement on a song or two and briefly muted it, but Vimeo doesn’t!)
I promise that I’ll stop being such a narcissist and actually write about something else soon, for at the very least, there are only a few videos which are (directly) pertinent to my skate history! Ha!
From memory, I filmed the majority of this one, as well as having a part, but I don’t think I had much, if anything, to do with the editing side. For it was around about this time that I felt that the video stuff was detracting too much from my proper skate-time, so that was it, until digital came about, not that I’ve done much with that, just a few snippets here & there…
Juice Clothing magazine mini-ads, featuring Michael “Davo” Davidson, Jeff “Skunk” Williams, and Bart Carnes, also mentioning the upcoming release of the “V2” video, in which they all appear.
The Juice momentum was growing, and accordingly so was the team, with Michael “Davo” Davidson having been signed on, and perhaps Mark “Harry” Harris & Dan Ivett by this time. However, I think that Bart Carnes had perhaps moved on to Billabong by the time that the video was released.
New recruit Davo opens the vid, with Harry, and they are joined by some of the city homies, Sid Tapia, Mick Yuen, Steve Tierney, Phil Mackie etc. Tech street hammers get put down!
I won’t say much about the rest of it, except that several peeps from the first vid came back for round two, including Chris Holland, who, after being one of Australia’s first McTwisters a dozen years prior, creates a highlight with quite possibly the biggest handrail done in Oz at the time, a backside 50-50 on the North Sydney 16, which also made the cover of Australian Skateboarding Magazine. Funny story with this one: It was early in the morning, and Chris was going to a boat party at midday. He actually had a 9 stair in mind, but it wasn’t how he remembered it so it didn’t work out, then he said let’s go and have a look around. We went past the 16 and he simply said “I’ll just do this instead..” to which Guy & I looked at each other like “..err, really..?”, and said pretty much the same to him, as it was huge, steep, slick, and appeared somewhat life-threatening. In our eyes, things weren’t looking promising for his partying later, but with an expression of discerned focus he just said yep, and started to warm up with some jump-on tail-grab frontside 50-50’s, which were wild enough. Then he proceeded to the backside 50-50, got belted a couple of times, then rolled away victorious on the third go, all as shown. Party on Garth!
An original print of Chris Holland’s pre-party backside 50-50 at the North Sydney 16 set. As featured in the V2 video, and which also made it on to the cover of Australian Skateboarding Magazine in 1999. Pic by Guy Miller, Juice co-owner.
Skunk (Jeff Williams) was on a mission of destruction in these years, and aside from appearing in every montage section of V2, he had so much footage as to justify also having a solo Bondi Mini part! He closes out the video this time, starting with a gymnastics round-off, and continues on with his brand of all-terrain tyranny, taking advantage of his mostly undiscovered western Sydney spots, plus his personal TF outside of his house in tha hood!
I’d also like to take a minute to mention a brief guest in the vid, Shannon Farrugia, who these days is beyond neck-deep in his podcast, Terrible Happy Talks, which you can find on most all of the regular streaming platforms, as well as the website. He likes to have a mix of guests with a variety of backgrounds, yet he has had many of the peeps not only shown in the Juice videos, but well beyond and into the skate scenes of yesteryear and today. If you haven’t already, I highly recommend that you check some out, as he is a genuinely inquisitive and intuitive interviewer, and is uncovering some amazing stories that you don’t know that you’re interested in – yet!
I hope that you enjoy the video!
Juice ad and ASM subscriptions ad page, spruiking the V2 Video, with both featuring Jeff “Skunk” Williams, whom appears prolifically throughout the release, somewhat akin to Danny Way in Plan B’s Questionable video.
Article authored by Ti Coleing, lifelong skateboarder, industry guy, and head coach & fun-provider at Flow:Skate.
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