Our third video "Creatures of Habit" from 2007 featuring John Provencher, Mike McCrorie, Devan Curry, Vinni Prosseda, Kyle Schmidt, Mike Yandoli, Doug Cole, Pat Owens and Jimmy Simpson. Filmed by Billy Simpson and Jimmy Simpson. Edited by Jimmy Simpson.
Friends Section featuring James Cowley, Hawaii, Joey O'Brien, Anthony Forbes, Dan Ackerman, Dave Hayes, Mike Anderson, Travis Iffrig, Josh Lowery, Steve Kahn, Nate Cordero, Collin Bauder and more.
Watching this video now brings back a lot of good memories. For this video Jimmy was getting more interested in animation and After Effects. I was really into the intro graphics when this first came out. We rushed to get this video done within a year after "Focus," which sounds crazy now after working on our video "Framework" for almost three years now. We also got our first decent camera while we were making this video. Jimmy bought an old GL1 off ebay and we bought a small fisheye. It was awesome to step up from the handycam's we had been using for years.
We had a few new guys in this one. This is the first video of ours John Provencher was in. He doesn't really like watching this part now, since he was still learning a lot then but I think he did some good stuff. I thought his bank tricks were awesome, like the feeble to fakie on that really shitty bank in souderton. Most people I take to that spot can't even ride up it. His nollie down the quakertown 6 stair was really clean.
Mike McCrorie was living in Florida while we filmed this video, so most of the footage of him we filmed in the span of a few weeks when he would visit. He actually broke his foot re-filming the 180 over the dumpster and had even less time to film. Despite all that I thought he did some cool stuff, like the wallie on the barrier and pole jam line at wedge. We skated with Mike and Devan Curry a lot when we were making our video "Focus" the year before, so it was cool getting a few clips of Devan to throw in Mikes part. On a side note we actually finished this video a few months before Fully Flared came out and they used the same Band of Horses song in Guy Mariano's part.
Theres some basic stuff in my part but I worked hard on all the tricks and I'm still pretty happy with it. The fakie shuvit to switch manual was the first time I tried that trick and I randomly got that one after about 10 tries. I like the fs 180 nosegrind on the wedge bank and the fakie bigspin manny on the oak ridge pad. There a few tricks I had in mind for a while and I was really glad they worked out. The line with the nosemanny 3 shuv was kind of stressful because the camera was about to die. I had just learned that trick and got it just in time before the camera died. I can't really remember how many tries the nollie 360 manual took but it felt like hours. Thats still one my favorite tricks I've ever done.
Mike Yandoli and Doug Cole are a few guys from Harleysville that I would see at the few local spots we have. Mike had his kickflips really dialed. His kickflip 5-0 at wedge was perfect and his double flip ender was sick. He did the double flip the same day Pat Owens nollie flipped it. Doug would surprise me a lot. He did a lot of sick stuff off camera. Besides Doug, none of else could ollie over that bench at wedge and he made the THP rail look easy.
Vinni Prosseda and Kyle Schmidt are two good friends of mine that I grew up skating with. At the time we were making this video Vinni hadn't been skating to much so his section was filmed in maybe 4 or 5 different sessions we had. It was sick seeing Vin rifle off all those tricks on the Quakertown barrier when he hadn't skated in a while. We weren't really skating with Kyle too much at this time since he moved to Philly while we were making this video, but we tried to visit him as much as we could and film some clips in the city. I always felt like Kyle did tricks the way there supposed to be done. His crook and fs smith on the metal edge ledge in Quakertown looked so solid. His line at the Schwenksville school is still one of the best lines I've seen done there. That spot is way tougher then it looks.
It's cool to watch the friends section now and see some guys who are going to have full parts in our new video "Framework", like Joey O'Brien and Collin Bauder. I'm glad we were able to have a few guys who were in our older videos too, like James Cowley and Dan Ackerman, who were in our first video "First Try" in 2004. Nate Cordero really killed it at the Schwenksville school. All the tricks over the grass gap and down the stairs were on the same day. It makes it even crazier that Nate snowboards a lot more then he skates.
Pat Owens part is just as good now as it was then. He definitely surprised me a lot while we were filming this video. A few days stand out in my mind when I was filming Pat. We went to the Quakertown spot with the barrier a few times and he was running through all his tricks. The nollie lipslide is my favorite. Another time that sticks out is when we went to the Schwenksville flat spots and school. His lines are two of the best I've seen at those spots. I really liked the nollie flip manny and nollie varial heel manny he did at the North Montco pad. The nollie flip over the telford church 7 stair is still one of the better gap tricks I've ever filmed and I've never seen anyone else switch bs flip anything. Definitely one of the better parts we've had in our videos.
My brother Jimmy's part is another one that still holds up today and is one of my favorite parts of all our videos.There's so many tricks I could talk about in this part. His fs flip, switch flip line at the Schwenksville Flat spots is still one of the best lines I've seen done there. He killed it at the Quakertown barrier too. All of the tricks he did there looked really stylish. Specifically, I really liked how the back tail shuv and bs lipslide looked. Jim wasn't really as into skating manual pads as I was but I knew he could do some sick stuff cause he had his flip tricks so consistent. I remember mentioning the halfcab flip manny and after around 10 tries he did one perfect. He did it again for another angle. The fs flip to switch manny is still one of my favorite tricks I've ever seen Jimmy do. I don't think he could've done it better. The ollie manual over the Schwenksville 7 was first try. I was pretty damn surprised. Jim has done a lot of really good stuff at Baldi over the years. The front blunt to fakie turned out really good. The tre flip was definitely a shock, considering he never really did that trick much and the ender ollie was really intimidating. I am glad he is a perfectionist and did it twice cause I didn't really like the first angle I chose. The second ollie he did was perfect.
Heres a few montages of extra tricks and random footage we had when we finished "Creatures of Habit." Filmed by Billy Simpson and Jimmy Simpson. Edited by Billy Simpson.
It's cool to watch the friends section now and see some guys who are going to have full parts in our new video "Framework", like Joey O'Brien and Collin Bauder. I'm glad we were able to have a few guys who were in our older videos too, like James Cowley and Dan Ackerman, who were in our first video "First Try" in 2004. Nate Cordero really killed it at the Schwenksville school. All the tricks over the grass gap and down the stairs were on the same day. It makes it even crazier that Nate snowboards a lot more then he skates.
Pat Owens part is just as good now as it was then. He definitely surprised me a lot while we were filming this video. A few days stand out in my mind when I was filming Pat. We went to the Quakertown spot with the barrier a few times and he was running through all his tricks. The nollie lipslide is my favorite. Another time that sticks out is when we went to the Schwenksville flat spots and school. His lines are two of the best I've seen at those spots. I really liked the nollie flip manny and nollie varial heel manny he did at the North Montco pad. The nollie flip over the telford church 7 stair is still one of the better gap tricks I've ever filmed and I've never seen anyone else switch bs flip anything. Definitely one of the better parts we've had in our videos.
My brother Jimmy's part is another one that still holds up today and is one of my favorite parts of all our videos.There's so many tricks I could talk about in this part. His fs flip, switch flip line at the Schwenksville Flat spots is still one of the best lines I've seen done there. He killed it at the Quakertown barrier too. All of the tricks he did there looked really stylish. Specifically, I really liked how the back tail shuv and bs lipslide looked. Jim wasn't really as into skating manual pads as I was but I knew he could do some sick stuff cause he had his flip tricks so consistent. I remember mentioning the halfcab flip manny and after around 10 tries he did one perfect. He did it again for another angle. The fs flip to switch manny is still one of my favorite tricks I've ever seen Jimmy do. I don't think he could've done it better. The ollie manual over the Schwenksville 7 was first try. I was pretty damn surprised. Jim has done a lot of really good stuff at Baldi over the years. The front blunt to fakie turned out really good. The tre flip was definitely a shock, considering he never really did that trick much and the ender ollie was really intimidating. I am glad he is a perfectionist and did it twice cause I didn't really like the first angle I chose. The second ollie he did was perfect.
Heres a few montages of extra tricks and random footage we had when we finished "Creatures of Habit." Filmed by Billy Simpson and Jimmy Simpson. Edited by Billy Simpson.
Part 1: Featuring Kyle Schmidt, Anthony Forbes, Jimmy Simpson, Frank Smith, Billy Simpson, Vinni Prosseda, Pat Owens, John Provencher, Mike Yandoli, Doug Cole and more.
Part 2: featuring Paul Mashett, Pat Owens, Kyle Schmidt, Billy Simpson, Jimmy Simpson, John Provencher, Mike McCrorie, Josh Lowery, Mike Anderson and more.
A montage Jimmy put together of Mike Yandoli's old footage he had featuring Mike Yandoli, Pat Owens, John Provencher, Doug Cole, Billy Simpson and Jimmy Simpson.
A montage of some close tricks and falls from "Creatures of Habit." Edited by Jimmy Simpson.
Another montage of some falls and close tricks from "Creatures of Habit." Edited by Billy Simpson.
"Creatures of Habit" Trailer Jimmy put together. He's can't spell very well.
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