{"id":424,"date":"2018-04-29T08:25:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T13:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mtlmediagroup.com\/loveskatemag\/www\/?p=424"},"modified":"2018-04-29T08:31:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T13:31:57","slug":"tim-henrys-pack-of-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mtlmediagroup.com\/loveskatemag\/www\/?p=424","title":{"rendered":"Tim & Henry’s – Pack of lies"},"content":{"rendered":"

90% of skaters consider the “Video Days” as their favorite video, but their second video is as good. As the first. It was a catalog of technical tricks for the modern days. A.V.E. called it his favorite skate video to watch before going skating during his Propeller part. Here is Socrate Leal, the creator with a legendary portfolio of skate videos, as he explains us the process of it.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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Hey Socrates, tell me a bit about you, and your skateboarding background ?
\n<\/b>I grew up in the suburbs of LA in an area known as the South Bay.
\n3.5 miles to the west is the ocean. 3.5 miles to the east is South Central. I started skating at 6 years old on a board my cousin made me.
\nFor years I didn’t do much cuz I didn’t know much so I left it for a while.
\nThen in ’86 I saw a kid ollie for the first time. I was blown away and started skating again.
\nIn ’88 I started competing in CASL (California\u00a0Amateur\u00a0Skateboard League) with my brother. He was better and won more comps.
\nI bought a video camera in 1990 to make movies. All my friends wanted to be on SK8 TV on Nickelodeon.
\nSo I filmed them. Among them were Eric Ricks and Daewon Song.
\nEric got on Powell and\u00a0Daewon got sponsored by World and Rodney checked out my footage. In 92 I started filming for World.
\nThe Blind guys used to hang out with the\u00a0World\u00a0guys back then. Then I met them and started filming them too.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I also learned from Rodney who had experience in video making since the Powell days.”<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

As the first blind video \u00ab\u00a0videodays\u00a0\u00bb, the promotional blind video \u00ab\u00a0Tim’s & Henry, Pack of Lies\u00a0\u00bb had a huge impact on the street skating in this period. What impact did it give you?
\n<\/b>Well, Video Days had a big impact on me definitely. I remember wanting to film lines like they did.
\nI liked the idea of putting together\u00a0difficult\u00a0tricks in a line on video. As far as my personal skating style I gotta say I tried emulating the Gonz after that video.
\nI even tried being weird like him. I grew my hair out and wore the craziest gear I could come up with.
\nHis vert skating also influenced me. I used to skate vert a lot back then.
\nBut the\u00a0way he used to flow down the street and have fun by seeming to do anything that came to his mind appealed to me the most.
\nI got to the point in my skating where trying to get better and learn tricks just to show off wasn’t my goal anymore.
\nI took that from Gonz’s style. My only problem is that I could never be at his level of talent.
\nSo when I tried to free flow and do my own thing it looked more like I was covering up for my lack of tricks.
\nI just didn’t see the point in learning\u00a0these\u00a0hard tricks when I could have more fun cruising in and out of tricks that came easy to me.
\nAnd it was this fluidity of tricks filmed in lines that I wanted to film skaters do. I started to work with riders to come up with lines like that,
\nto show their individual styles by doing tricks that were easy for them all in one run on video. And they were into that too.
\nWe all were into trying lines at that time. I think that video \u00a0influenced us all the same way in that respect.
\nAnd even to this day I still skate like that. I like putting together tricks I already know how to do in a run as if I’m being filmed.
\nWhen I’m done I get the same\u00a0satisfaction\u00a0I would get if I beat myself up\u00a0trying\u00a0one difficult trick all day long except without all the stress.
\nPack Of Lies was my first lesson in video making, filming, editing and audio work. The audio was horrible in that vid. I learned from that video.
\nI learned by making those mistakes. I also learned from Rodney who had experience in video making since the Powell days.
\nHe knew so much about how kids would react to footage by which tricks to place first or last and what goes in the middle.
\nSo that video was more of an influence on my\u00a0video-making\u00a0than an influence on my skating.
\nBesides, by that time skating had passed me up so far that I couldn’t do any of those tricks even in my dreams.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Back then, promo videos weren’t sold in skateshops, and very few videos with only 10 minutes of skateboarding. Why did that video never come as a full length video?
\n<\/b>They wanted to come out with a new Blind video after Video Days. But there wasn’t much footage of the whole team.
\nTim just turned pro and they needed to get him seen.
\nSo they decided to come out with a promo to\u00a0showcase\u00a0Tim and Henry who had enough for full parts.
\nI think Rocco came up with the name.
\nWhether he knew it or not that title aptly applied to the promise of a full length video that was in there at the start.
\nI think New Deal had come out with a promo before though.
\nAnd maybe one or two others too. So it was cool to just come out with it all short and cheap.
\nIt was the new style of making videos. We didn’t have premieres back then and so they didn’t have to be a certain length.
\nAlso, videos would get boring after too many of the same tricks being repeated in a video.
\nPlus, videos that short were cool to just watch and get psyched to go skating right away.
\nEvery video is a promo when you think about it. They exist to promote the riders to increase product sales.
\nThe entertainment value was just there because of the good skating and other random clips.
\nI think they\u00a0called them promos because they supposedly promoted the upcoming full length vids, which in this case never came out featuring that particular Blind team.
\nSo that became Blind’s video until What If.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I heard one girl even tossed a skater’s salad after he skated for hours in the warehouse. So nasty.”<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n