ESPN Game of Skate presented by Monster Energy, broadcasted live from ESPN's headquarters in Bristol, CT. Video from ESPN 3. This channel is not affiliated with ESPN, ABC, WatchESPN, X Games, or anything related to this event.
Since I'm just nice like that: 2:40 Shane O'Neill vs Brandon Westgate 21:10 Mike Mo Capaldi vs Tom Asta 50:52 PJ Ladd vs Billy Marks 1:09:13 Chris Cole vs Nyjah Huston 2:21:43 Semifinal 1 2:40:40 Semifinal 2 3:08:58 Finals
Great production. Just the right amount. I love how you re play back the tricks. Helps me see where I should be putting my feet. Thanks for putting this together!
i don't really give a fuck about the circumstances, those were some epic games, and insane skating! good to watch after a hard day of work. and that's it. nothing more. glad for the outcome, he deserved it!
***** yyeah of course that was lame as fuck. but skaters are so into playing skate that they don't realize, that this is a broadcasted game. so I'm pretty sure the organizers told them that sometimes after a hard trick, they gonna do replays, so plz stop for a while. and they didn't. but yeah it was lame as fuck, but I guess it was live, so that's why they did that. they shouldve just re-edited the whole thing with the replays and stuff.
This is just overproduced, why the hell do you need replays in a flatground game of skate? And that audience, half of them don't even know what the hell is going on.
Love PJ Ladd's response to the commentators "What was your strategy, did you analyse his footage." "No, not really, we all play skate all the time..." Such a ladd.
This is absolutely depressing. The skaters don't look the least bit enthusiastic about being there, and 90% of the crowd are soccer moms, random bystanders, an elementary school field trip, old guys who play golf and have erectile disfunction.... Wow.....The Berrics knows how to make a killer game of skate, not these guys.
Mike Mo is such a humble dude. Honestly the kids' chants would have distracted me, but it would have felt cool at the same time to know you got some fans right there cheering for you. Great contest! It was fun to watch IMO.
Uploader here: My only issue with this broadcast is the fact that they kept the ref mic'd up the entire time. They should have only had him on for the coin toss and a few random times when they'd ask him things. It was incredibly distracting and made the broadcast confusing.
Paul Blart here: Needed more security. Segways rolling aimlessly in the background would have been nice. And a parachuting fan to land right in the middle of the event would have made this ESPN worthy.
bloody wicked loved all of this video, great tricks by all of them... how the hell does mike mo do those impossible late flips, greatest skate trick in all time i reckon
I love the kids supporting the game and all. But when they kept yelling "Mike, Mike, Mike" I felt bad for PJ Ladd because hes just as epic of a skater. Some may argue he better at standard flatground but since Mike has all those late tricks hes kinda hard to beat ha.
It's to make it look professional and official. Sort of like if you run a high class restaurant with nice food. You don't want the dining room to have run down looking tables and chairs right? you want it to look nice and presentable.
people gotta understand that for these guys skateboarding isnt just a passion its also their job. meaning they need to make money to provide for themselves and their families.and this is how they gotta do it.
Is it just me or is anyone else annoyed by the fact that apparently a 3 shuv isn't a trick anymore? Apparently they're just impossibles, whether you wrap it or not.
How come street league and ESPN can never find announcers who actually know the names of the tricks? and like everyone else said too much talking, ref needed to die, no slow mo bails please, kill the kids, and lose the crowd in general. other than that the skating was gnarly!
You can't be a ref, announcer, commentator, friend of the skaters and be the guy who tells then when to skate to make the camera, all at the same time...
