Lakai’s Fully Flared DVD is good. It’s very good. But I have to admit there were some disappointments. That is, just about every part after Mike Mo’s, who has the opening part, was a disappointment because the entire world of skateboarding is disappointing when you consider how freakin’ amazing Mo is.
I’m not going to spoil it for you, and I don’t think I can overhype how amazing the opening credits are. I had no idea something like that was coming, and I have no idea how they did it all without everyone getting killed. I’ll just give you one word–explosions.
As I was saying, Mike Mo is amazing. I mean seriously amazing. I don’t remember the last time I felt this way about a video part. It was mind boggling. After that people could do amazing tricks and all I could think was “Yeah, there’s a part of my brain that is saying that this is amazing too, but it’s not Mo-amazing.”
The disappointments for me were:
- Koston’s part seemed short to me, but hey, he hasn’t been on the team all that long. Still, I think he could have produced some more footy.
- Welsh, Johnston, and Lenoce…c’mon guys, I mean, what are you saving your footage for, or do you just not have any? The last full part Welsh had that I know of was a few years ago in that Transworld video, Johnston hasn’t had a full part since he was on Mad Circle, and Lenoce has never had a full part that I know of. We know you guys are good–it’s not that we’re doubting it, we just want to see what you’re doing.
I have to admit I actually haven’t seen the end of the video yet, meaning the end of Mariano’s part and Marc Johnson’s part, let alone the extras. I loaned it to a friend because I’ve got too much work to do right now anyway. But if this video had nothing else on it but Mike Mo’s part it’d be worth $50, easy.
first of all,i must say mike mos part was really good but cmon man,how can you down all the others.jeff lenoce had a baker2 and 3 part that were both really good,scott johnston has done alot for skateboarding and rob welsh had some realy sick #@$@.And kostons part being to short.the dude does nollie 180 switch feebles on a rail and switch bigsoin blunts-cmon.and you also forgot to mention the french connection,biebel,carroll,jesus,and pappalardo just to name a few.the lakai team is very well rounded and even though mike mos part was amazing give credit where credit is due
As said above, you did forget to metion the French Connection: They were incredible! Lucas Puig, Jesus Fernandez, JB Gillet, top stuff, as well as the rest of em’. I also really like Olson’s part, sure he was no where near Mike Mo’s tech stuff, but some of those gaps were amazing. Fully Flared: Fully Fantasic.
Nearly as good as Bag of Suck haha.
two words: Alex Olsen
two words: Alex Olsen
agreed^
two more parts - MJ’s and GM’s
two more words - effing amazing