Best of 2014: Joyride
Mere months after the release of Supreme’s first vid in nearly two decades, legendary New York based filmer Bill Stroebeck released ‘Joyride’ onto the unsuspecting masses.
Featuring a very similar crew to the original vid but perhaps focussing more on the FA kids, this ‘as hip as they come’ nine and a half minutes of highwater trousers and insane “proper” street skating (that’s skateboarding in actual legit downtown streets around real people) really did quieten the doubters of this new breed of metrosexual rippers.
From the moment the first bars of Del Shannon’s ‘Little town flirt’ kicked in, you knew this unofficial Supreme vid was gonna skirt controversy and polarise opinion like few other skateboarding projects ever could. Whatever you think of the aforementioned FA kids, it’s clear that the likes of Sean Pablo, Sage Elsesser, Na-kel Smith, Tshawn Jones, Ben Kadow and the rest of the high-fashion conscious innercity children are here to stay and will knocking out moves of varying degrees of style for years to come.