YT Channel Video Videos For 31st of May, 2020

Paris Days 2000 by French Fred.<br />https://www.esskateboarding.com/capsules/menikmati/ shop the capsule here.<br />So after the chaotic week spent in Barcelona, we flew to Paris. Because we went to the french<br />capital ahead of our schedule, it was tough to book a hotel. We could only find one that was so<br />great. The rooms were small and smelly. After not being stoked in Barcelona, I thought this<br />could ruin even more the vibe of Koston.<br />In my memory, Rick McCrank stayed the whole time with us, but when going through the tapes<br />again, I realised that he just skated one day with us. I don’t remember why he left early. The<br />two soldiers left were Koston and TX. We didn’t hit so many different spots, and instead went<br />back couple times to the same spots.<br />At le Dôme, Koston had a rough time doing his Bs 5-0 grind on the famous kinked hubba. The<br />run-up is very short, and the ground rather slippery, because of the extra smooth marble. Eric<br />played a mental game with the spot, but eventually won. Stéphane Larance joined us on few<br />sessions. I invited him to come, as we were good friends. We filmed a lot together in the<br />previous years. I might be wrong, but I think Stéphane was on éS in France few years before,<br />with Luy Pa Sin. For the story, I did film for the éS video, back in 1998, for what turned into an<br />abandoned first attempt of the video, way before I got the job to do it. I filmed with the 2<br />frenchies, we collected good footage, we sent it over, and the video was cancelled. But my<br />tapes disappeared, and never saw them again. I don’t even remember what we filmed. For now,<br />it is lost forever, but I always hope for the tapes to somehow pop up again some day.

éS | Menikmati | French Fred Tapes | Paris days

31st May, 2020

Paris Days 2000 by French Fred.https://www.esskateboarding.com/capsules/menikmati/ shop the capsule here.So after the chaotic week spent in Barcelona, we flew to Paris. Because we went to the frenchcapital ahead of our schedule, it was tough to book a hotel. We could only find one that was sogreat. The rooms were small ...

The 2000 éS team in Barcelona - Eric Koston, Rodrigo Tx, Rick McCrank.<br />Shot and edited by French Fred.<br />In the year 2000, we organised a filming mission to Barcelona. I had previously been on a<br />mission with Arto and Kerry Getz the year before, and was so hyped to bring Koston, McCrank<br />and Tx, who would kill all the perfect spots of BCN. At the time, not much people at all had been<br />there to enjoy the perfect spots. The ledges at Macba still needed to be waxed. We even<br />managed to arrange the coming of Tom Penny, to skate with us. At that time, he was still super<br />elusive, hard to connect with, and virtually impossible to film. Planets were getting aligned. I was<br />certain this mission who be highly productive and epic.<br />Tom was coming by car , from Bordeaux, with some friends, and Theo Hand who lived with Tom<br />in France, to capture whatever he could with Tom, for the Flip video.<br />When they arrived on the second morning, Tom got out of the car, said hello and told me he just<br />sprained his ankle at 6 AM that day. He explained that he jumped a big between some rocks. I<br />couldn’t believe it, and didn’t understand really what happened. Jumping some crazy rock? At<br />6AM? Next to Salvador Dali”s village, Cadaqués? Your ankle is fucked, you can’t skate?<br />That was a such huge disillusionment. Tom was here with us, finally, but couldn’t skate!!! The<br />rock jump is the one in the Sorry video. I often go to Cadaqués, and see the rock all the time.<br />The gap to clear is huge. Few months ago, I finally got on top of the rock to look at it. No one<br />would want to try that jump. But Tom Penny did. He thought he could do it. Well, he did, he got<br />hurt, but it could have been much much worse!!!<br />Anyway, so one soldier was down. To my big surprise, the planets were indeed not as aligned<br />as I thought, and this filming mission proved to almost be a fiasco.<br />Somehow, Koston was hating on the spots... Macba, “the ledges suck”. Eric was really not in a<br />good mood.... He was not enjoying himself. Most sessions were a struggle for him. He even<br />had some break downs and freak outs while trying some stuff, because we had to try to skate<br />and get stuff, but he wasn’t into it. So it was like everything was imposed to him. That negative<br />energy rubbed off on McCrank. I didn’t understand why things were going so wrong. It was like<br />cooking with all the best ingredients, and fucking up your recipe. Rick got sucked up in that<br />mood. I kept pushing to get things done, and that would make things worse.<br />They were over it. A lot of cool tricks got attempted, but without success... At least, Rodrigo<br />didn’t get affected so much, and skated very well, and proved that the spots I had for them were<br />really good and had much potential. He saved the trip. You can only imagine the result if<br />everyone would have been feeling at his best, feeding each other with hype and motivation<br />Rick and Eric pushed so that we would leave Barcelona to go to Paris. That’s where they<br />wanted to skate, that’s all they had in mind. So eventually, we left BCN ahead of schedule, and<br />flew to Paris...

éS | Menikmati | French Fred Tapes | Barcelona Days part 1

31st May, 2020

The 2000 éS team in Barcelona - Eric Koston, Rodrigo Tx, Rick McCrank.Shot and edited by French Fred.In the year 2000, we organised a filming mission to Barcelona. I had previously been on amission with Arto and Kerry Getz the year before, and was so hyped to bring Koston, McCrankand ...