Texas Longboarder

More Badass downhill stuff from the Loaded Newsletter on youtube.com.  This is an older video that I just found.

John Hutson Capitola Classic Downhill Race

Originally uploaded by Judi Oyama

John Huston, winning the Capitola Classic Downhill Race in 1980. In case you have ever wondered who invented the tuck that all the downhill guys use now, well, this is the Hut Tuck. John used to win a lot of races. Click through, and check more of Judi Oyama’s excellent pics from that race!

The Loaded Newsletter youtube channel keeps posting excellent stuff. My personal preference theses days is actually for lightly-edited, short videos with no music. I think a lot of people are overdoing it with the editing, trying to make everyday skating look all “epic”. I assume that Adam Colton did the editing on this vid. The editing is great, but the source material is also great. Really nice camera work capturing some smooth and stylish downhill. Great job guys!

That pavement is butter. Smooth, smooth butter.

A rad downhill run by Dustin Hampton, filmed by Adam Colton. This kind of stuff makes all the shortboarding flip tricks and whatnot seem pretty unsubstantial. Great job, guys.

Here’s a very cool downhill video from the Loaded Boards youtube account, of James Kelly. Minimal editing, which I’ve come to really prefer, and a good song by Radiohead. I wonder how long before the song gets pulled?! What an awesome one-way road. At some points James is fully outrunning the motorcycle that is following him!

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Originally uploaded by tesseract33

Still yet another great shot from flickr.com. Awesomeness.

A little video from my friend Chris, after an outlaw downhill event got busted, just west of DFW.

Damn, Sector 9 just keeps on posting rad downhill stuff on their youtube channel. Check it…

Some killer new footage provided by Sector 9 on their youtube.com channel. These guys are flying!

This is the best filmed downhill I’ve seen in a while. Hats off to Sector 9 or whoever filmed it. This kid has really great downhill style. A lot of times you see young downhillers all squatted-down like a constipated chimp. Not this kid. He has a fluid, gumby, killer style. I also like the original music for this video. It all just works together really well.