A SHOCKing Video
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brian krans, kevin yee, shock, shock video, taig khris, tommy boy, transvestite
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The SHOCK Video is the only video with a Taig Khris section, even if they are merely from his televised stunts. But, in true SHOCK style, that footage is superimposed with video of a transvestite.
Article by Brian Krans
"Taig Khris is just fake, like the trannies. You're like 'Hey, look at all those porn stars and then there's this dude' The tranny is so far removed from reality, like Taig Khris is from rollerblading. A tranny is more uncomfortable. You can think she's hot, but she's a dude. Taig is a fake-ass rollerblader and a tranny is a fake-ass dude. These trannies pull harder than Taig Khris anyway," Tommy Boy – one of the makers of the SHOCK Video – said while drinking a mixture of Kombucha and Malibu rum.
The Shock Posse themselves are about a strange mix of a group as the video. To understand them helps to better understand their videos.
First, there's the energetic and sometimes jarring Tommy Boy, a name synonymous in blading with unfiltered speech patterns, a raging sex drive, and dedicated enthusiasm.
On the far other end of the spectrum, you have Kevin Yee, a quiet Minnesota native who practices art, yoga, and meditation, all philosophies than translate to his skating. He's one person whose natural facial expression is a smile.
Then, somewhere in the middle you have John Vossoughi and Thomas McGovern, the embodiment of the flowing California skate style and youthful optimism. They should be brothers, but even different parents couldn't keep them apart.
The group all shares a love of shredding and challenging people, either by getting right up in their faces or merely asking simple questions. There are few sacred subject to them, the website, or their video.
"We made the video to show we don't care," McGovern said. "No one wants anything to do with rollerblading."
Over three years, a charge held mostly by Yee, the group pieced together more than a hour of skating that included a deathly heroic opening section by Derek Henderson, a spoken-word poetry themed section from Jay Greendyk, a garbage-scavenging location shot with Anders Carlson-Wee, and more sections than any other video. Ever.
Shot with 10 different cameras and edited with 10 different styles of music, the SHOCK posse wanted to stray away from the sweeping trend of HD video and polished editing styles. It's grittiness in filming, editing, and content was completely intentional to showcase the rawness of rollerblading.
"It captures my experience with blading, with all the weird people I meet and their styles and their different music tastes," Vossoughi said. "It's about the diversity and weirdness of rollerblading. No one captures that because rollerblading is so exclusive. You can't get in a video unless you know someone."
Few videos today show such a hedonistic look at the society that surrounds them while they skate. The drug-addled homeless people used in video trailers live nearby skate spots. It's as if the video's B-roll doesn't try to take out the garbage, but rather dig to the bottom to see what's there, something unintentionally explicit as Anders Carlson-Wee scours for breakfast in dumpsters before blading.
The SHOCK Video includes such things as Tommy Boy hitting a leather-masked man repeatedly in the testicles with a crutch during San Francisco's S&M-themed Folsom Street Fair, and a man being stomped to death on the streets of the city's Mission District.
These are all parts of the SHOCK posse's lives, and they wanted to show off what they've seen.
"We all felt blading needed a kick in the dick," McGovern said.
The skating itself involves an abundance of non-traditional spots, a heavy theme in all of the SHOCK posse's skating styles. Yee, however, stands out as the champion of the non-traditional.
"I wanted this section to be my magnum opus. I wanted it to be my masterpiece. I was skating with a death wish," Yee said.
During the filming, Yee, Tommy Boy, and Hayden Ball all broke their legs. Tommy Boy broke his twice.
"Shit was frustrating," Yee said. "It was frustrating as hell. There were times I didn't believe in it and wanted to quit."
It was the last three months where everything came together At the premiere party, well, things fell a part for a second. There was a bar fight and some pissy little British guy lied through his teeth to the cops and that landed Vossoughi in jail on felony charges. Now settled in court, the event was the picturesque end to the project – a long beer-soaked battle to do something fun and creative and a couple of douchebags had to go and start some shit.
The overall response to the video – or at least the loudest voices on the internet – was what they expected: as it wasn't a "video that meet a certain checklist and wasn't shot in HD" that few people would accept it.
The video wasn't meant to be an artistic expression about the modern age of rollerblading media, it was a distorted documentary into the lives of rollerbladers across the globe. Maybe that might be too in-depth for something that has so much fun poking fun at everything, yet it still manages to show a side of rollerblading that isn't in super slow motion set to dubstep featuring bladers who get their eyebrows waxed.
"It has so many extremes. People are talking about the shocking elements – the trannies, the murder. There's still Jay G's section. He made the music and its his poetry," Yee said. "It really celebrates rollerblading and it does it by taking everything to an extreme level."
But, to those who made the video, especially Tommy Boy who said he wanted to make the most vile rollerblading video ever made, did they think they achieved in making the SHOCK Video shocking enough to live up to its name?
"Not really. I think it should be called the PG13 Video. It was pretty tame," he said. "I have porn star friends that do double-anal. The murder part was cool, though."
-Brian Krans
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Comments
April 02nd, 2012 @ 18:53 - by TheRealGerm
I'm not a fan of this type of mainly because of people like Tommy Boy. Plain and simply put, this guy is a schmuck. He is obviously not the brightest nor artistic. And that's why I won't go out and buy it.
April 02nd, 2012 @ 16:14 - by X nyc
I love all of the fans rollerblading draws in. eat a dick fags. i havent seen the shock video but the trailer was BOSS. Tommy Boys a clown and kevin has neg acid both ways. im copping this vid BITCHES
March 17th, 2012 @ 11:56 - by Monday
Ya'll
March 15th, 2012 @ 13:01 - by le fagz
whats with all these eurofagz saying 'yall" you aint southern scum fagz
btw shock is gay and jerks off to tranny porn , because blading is gay and the dudes who do like chicks with dicks. fagots
March 15th, 2012 @ 08:14 - by MEGANSLAW.COM IS MY DATING WEBSITE
ROLLERBLADING DOESN'T EVEN EXIST. NEITHER DOES YOUR LIFE. KILL YOURSELF. KILL YOURSELF. KILL YOURSELF. KILL YOURSELF. KILL YOURSELF. KILL YOURSELF. I AM THE ALMIGHTY PROPHET. KILL YOURSELF.
March 15th, 2012 @ 06:20 - by Pilgrim JoebillySuzy
… Shock Video worldwide esses. Entertainment at it's finest … if you want something soft & pretty go watch Bambi!
March 15th, 2012 @ 06:09 - by Not Dre
Keep your baboonery and buffonnery on the fukin missage bored you chump
March 15th, 2012 @ 05:17 - by Shadows
this is more entertaining than the board.
March 14th, 2012 @ 22:31 - by Go get your fuckin shine box!
Hey Krans shut the fuck up and get back to sweeping all the skate spots for the pros you fucking moron!
where were your clips in shock faggot? oh yeah nobody wants to see you backfarv a curb you pussy!
March 14th, 2012 @ 22:27 - by Monday
Remy, you haven't understood Be-Mag. You also didn't understand the text above. Send us an article about how mad you are about certain things in the industry. If it's good, and has a relevant point, we'll publish it. That's how Be-Mag works. Nothing to do with Switzerland.
March 14th, 2012 @ 20:06 - by Dre
Remy, you sound like the biggest buster of all. Did you even read the article? i dont think you fucking did cuz 1. You keep talking bout negativity, but besides the initial quote, i dont see any. 2. YOU SAID YOU DIDNT READ THE ARTICLE.
You really think doing wack ass stunts is gonna get "more money" into blading? youre tripping. The only person getting paid off TK's stunts is TK. This video is for all the people that are going to blade whether its a 50 dollar industry or a 100 billion dollar industry.
How does this ruin peoples perception of blading? what planet are you from? this is raw street skating. thats where blading started for me, in the streets. aint no disneyland type shit over here.
March 14th, 2012 @ 16:07 - by Remy
I am by no means anonymous. Remy from Amsterdam. Fuck this negative outlook. That's what's keeping people from making any real money off of blading. Y'all shit talking assholes need to fucking step up. And Be-mag , stop trying to be fucking Switzerland here. This shit ruins peoples preception on blading. Thus>No cash for dope new brands/bladers/whatnot to thrive. Less people buyin Be-mag.
March 13th, 2012 @ 23:45 - by BIG BALLER
Well....all dirty hoes suck dick. End of story.
March 13th, 2012 @ 21:21 - by IRS
PJ stole half of tommy boys itunes, and half of lennens clips to make his vid... so what your saying is shock copied a copy of its style. PJs if anything is a rip off of them apples. btw all of lennens vids, pjs vids and the shock video are the best videos made in rollerblading history so who cares anyways.
March 13th, 2012 @ 20:51 - by Monday
Ya'll should wear your helmets more often...
March 13th, 2012 @ 19:54 - by tax free
shock has great skating in it but it's long as fuck and most tricks have no business being watched. Danny Malm is worth buying it alone. pay taxes and die wanna be type shit.
Krans running his mouth once again but it all sounds the same with so many dicks in there! STARFUCKING BLADE GROUPIE!
March 13th, 2012 @ 18:48 - by Monday
+rep
March 13th, 2012 @ 18:20 - by tommy boy
Taking this article, the video, or rollerblading videos in general so seriously is like listening to 3 six mafia and thinking Juicy J just killed 5 people last night, robbed a bank and sold a quarter key of coke because he rapped it. It is entertainment. People watch the video and they are entertained and enthralled. Mission accomplished, pretty good for a blade video I'd say.
What Krans writes is stuff I said because its funny, not because I really believe it... thats hard to understand if you dont know me, but believe me, we are joking around.
Taig is another rollerblader doing his thing. who really cares? He is busy planning his next bridge drop stunt whether or not we are making fun of him. Haffey is dominating the world, Julio is running game, Shima is out hustling..... no real G gives a fuck about what anyone says. They will keep doing what they do. If you think it sucks go make your own video and don't buy ours. We will keep doing our thing no matter what because we are rollerblading. At that keep doing what you do and have fun!
March 13th, 2012 @ 16:21 - by bballog
People are taking this video way too seriously or haven't seen it. The skating alone is awesome, and more people should have the balls to make videos like this. If you're insecure about telling people at work that you skate that's your problem and has nothing to do with Tommy Boy or Taig Khris.
March 13th, 2012 @ 14:38 - by Jeremy
Because of people like Tommy Boy I don't tell people at work that I skate.
I hope this is the last article on here advertising this crap. If we wanted to buy it, we would have by now.
I'm not a fan of this type of mainly because of people like Tommy Boy. Plain and simply put, this guy is a schmuck. He is obviously not the brightest nor artistic. And that's why I won't go out and buy it.
I love all of the fans rollerblading draws in. eat a dick fags. i havent seen the shock video but the trailer was BOSS. Tommy Boys a clown and kevin has neg acid both ways. im copping this vid BITCHES
Ya'll
whats with all these eurofagz saying 'yall" you aint southern scum fagz
btw shock is gay and jerks off to tranny porn , because blading is gay and the dudes who do like chicks with dicks. fagots
ROLLERBLADING DOESN'T EVEN EXIST. NEITHER DOES YOUR LIFE. KILL YOURSELF. KILL YOURSELF. KILL YOURSELF. KILL YOURSELF. KILL YOURSELF. KILL YOURSELF. I AM THE ALMIGHTY PROPHET. KILL YOURSELF.
… Shock Video worldwide esses. Entertainment at it's finest … if you want something soft & pretty go watch Bambi!
Keep your baboonery and buffonnery on the fukin missage bored you chump
this is more entertaining than the board.
Hey Krans shut the fuck up and get back to sweeping all the skate spots for the pros you fucking moron!
where were your clips in shock faggot? oh yeah nobody wants to see you backfarv a curb you pussy!
Remy, you haven't understood Be-Mag. You also didn't understand the text above. Send us an article about how mad you are about certain things in the industry. If it's good, and has a relevant point, we'll publish it. That's how Be-Mag works. Nothing to do with Switzerland.
Remy, you sound like the biggest buster of all. Did you even read the article? i dont think you fucking did cuz 1. You keep talking bout negativity, but besides the initial quote, i dont see any. 2. YOU SAID YOU DIDNT READ THE ARTICLE.
You really think doing wack ass stunts is gonna get "more money" into blading? youre tripping. The only person getting paid off TK's stunts is TK. This video is for all the people that are going to blade whether its a 50 dollar industry or a 100 billion dollar industry.
How does this ruin peoples perception of blading? what planet are you from? this is raw street skating. thats where blading started for me, in the streets. aint no disneyland type shit over here.
I am by no means anonymous. Remy from Amsterdam. Fuck this negative outlook. That's what's keeping people from making any real money off of blading. Y'all shit talking assholes need to fucking step up. And Be-mag , stop trying to be fucking Switzerland here. This shit ruins peoples preception on blading. Thus>No cash for dope new brands/bladers/whatnot to thrive. Less people buyin Be-mag.
Well....all dirty hoes suck dick. End of story.
PJ stole half of tommy boys itunes, and half of lennens clips to make his vid... so what your saying is shock copied a copy of its style. PJs if anything is a rip off of them apples. btw all of lennens vids, pjs vids and the shock video are the best videos made in rollerblading history so who cares anyways.
Ya'll should wear your helmets more often...
shock has great skating in it but it's long as fuck and most tricks have no business being watched. Danny Malm is worth buying it alone. pay taxes and die wanna be type shit.
Krans running his mouth once again but it all sounds the same with so many dicks in there! STARFUCKING BLADE GROUPIE!
+rep
Taking this article, the video, or rollerblading videos in general so seriously is like listening to 3 six mafia and thinking Juicy J just killed 5 people last night, robbed a bank and sold a quarter key of coke because he rapped it. It is entertainment. People watch the video and they are entertained and enthralled. Mission accomplished, pretty good for a blade video I'd say.
What Krans writes is stuff I said because its funny, not because I really believe it... thats hard to understand if you dont know me, but believe me, we are joking around.
Taig is another rollerblader doing his thing. who really cares? He is busy planning his next bridge drop stunt whether or not we are making fun of him. Haffey is dominating the world, Julio is running game, Shima is out hustling..... no real G gives a fuck about what anyone says. They will keep doing what they do. If you think it sucks go make your own video and don't buy ours. We will keep doing our thing no matter what because we are rollerblading. At that keep doing what you do and have fun!
People are taking this video way too seriously or haven't seen it. The skating alone is awesome, and more people should have the balls to make videos like this. If you're insecure about telling people at work that you skate that's your problem and has nothing to do with Tommy Boy or Taig Khris.
Because of people like Tommy Boy I don't tell people at work that I skate.
I hope this is the last article on here advertising this crap. If we wanted to buy it, we would have by now.