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Here’s a nicely put-together little video featuring some of Australia’s local rippers, shot and edited by Riley Blakeway. Names you don’t know aside, it’s a quality clip, completely devoid of any industry connection, but still boasting professional-quality production values. No logos, no advertisements, yet plenty of sweet skateboarding anyway — I think that’s what the industry types are calling a “free ride” these days. Kind of like the free ride you could be having if you got off the computer and went skateboarding right now… but wholeheartedly suggesting such an idea would be disadvantageous to me, considering I like it when people actually read my website.

The true power of this video is that it feels like a skate session with your friends, except everybody lands their tricks and the spot isn’t a bust in five seconds. So, it’s basically what skateboarding is like in my dreams, only without the part when you wake up and realize it was all just a bunch of brain lies.

Lovin’ the grip tape artistry on that banana board as well. A jealousy-inducing ride is somewhat rare in this culture, where skaters have been known to break a healthy deck just so they had an excuse not to try a trick that was giving them trouble anymore. Treat your board well, and … actually, it won’t do anything differently at all since it’s an inanimate object… but you’ll have more fun, anyway.