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So yeah, looks like Daewon Song put out the best video part of the year and it’s only March… oh yeah, and the video was released for free online and it was just a bunch of skate park clips.

The thing is… “just a bunch of skate park clips” is a wholly offensive way of describing this footage of everybody’s favorite skateboarding alien. I don’t even know why I’m impressed, honestly. Daewon has never not blown my shit away. It’s his singular calling in life, to make everybody else in skateboarding feel like the inadequate guy you always see at the beginning of Viagra commercials, rolling over in bed so his back is to his disappointed lover.

I lost count of how many times I said “what the fuck” in the two minutes I spent watching this.

The dude is on another level… a level that resides even farther into outer space than I originally anticipated. He’s been sponsored for nearly twenty years, spending much of that time being innovative in ways that are unfathomable, even for an activity that prides itself on always pushing the envelope of what is “possible.” And today, when skateboarding is witnessing the offspring of his mind-boggling technical progression in the form of a veritable legion of 17-year-old triple-flipping wunderkinds, the grandfather comes out with this. It’s a giant, rotating middle finger to the reason we had to stop calling tre flips 360 flips (because kids actually started doing kickflips while spinning 360 degrees simultaneously with ridiculous regularity).

I apologize — my run-on sentences are longer than Daewon’s nose manuals. The point is, he’s still better than everyone. He’ll probably always be better than everyone, even when he’s retired to a life of solitude somewhere far removed, content to spend his days defying physics in a secluded monastery tucked into some Tibetan cliff side. Ambitious amateurs will then climb those perilous cliffs, hoping to earn his tutelage… but of course, they never will.