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One of my favorite things about skateboarding when I was growing up was that even the commercials were still pretty fucking entertaining. Granted, now that I’ve turned into a jaded old man, I’ve found many better things to like about skateboarding, like how it makes you seem cool and scary to people who don’t know any better. All the same, skate commercials are still better than paying to listen to the Aflac duck’s blood-curdling cries on TV. Take this this extended version of the DVS promo found in Transworld’s latest video opus, Hallelujah, for example.

For the past few years, DVS has been putting out some really great edits, and par for the course, this one’s got a nice selection of tricks from most of DVS’ celebrated (and less than celebrated) riders. For instance, I haven’t paid much attention to Jimmy Cao yet, but the pushing in his second line was so proper I nearly held my hat over my chest for its duration. Attention will officially be paid from this point forward. But on the “celebrated” note, Daewon does an insanely sick tailslide on a fucking natural quarter pipe carved out of limestone or some shit, which is awesome, but somehow not even that surprising? You’ve worked too hard, Song, and in this life hard work only equals more hard work. Next time let’s see a kickflip in, slacker.

And speaking of favorites, Torey Pudwill is one of my most favoritest of skateboarding’s young bucks, so given the enormity of his last trick here, my ability to ignore Transworld’s latest release (which happens to contain a T-Puds full part) has been swiftly defeated. Although to be honest, what this clip really makes me want is another DVS full length — where’s that at, circus monkeys? Your job is to keep us entertained — the more entertained you keep us, the less likely we are to be out skateboarding, and therefore threatening your careers. Okay, that was a stretch — I could skate eight hours every day for the rest of my life and the only career it would threaten would be mine, since I’m pretty sure being a paraplegic by 26 would really limit my options.