The video starts quietly with cinematic flight footage. The quiet hum of a helicopter and soft background music is all that's heard as the camera passes over a bleak high-desert landscape. And then you see it. A huge ramp in the middle of nowhere, with a lone skater standing at the top. As the helicopter gets closer, the figure drops in. Wind rips at his shirt as Danny Way flies off the jump at the end of the ramp, into free space...
The DC video is, in a word, excellent. It's a regular skate video, in that it shows footage of several DC skaters doing their best, along with some sweet bails. You'll see Pros Danny Way, Colin McKay, Rob Dyrdek, Josh Kalis, Stevie Williams, Anthony Van Engelen and Brian Wenning, along with Ams Robbie McKinley, Ryan Smith, Greg Myers, Lindsey Robertson and Ryan Gallant. The footage is polished and very smooth, shot all over the world, from North America to Australia to Europe.
In fact, that's one of the best features of the video. The music and the footage have a crisp, cinematic feel. It's obvious that DC put a lot of time, money and effort into thier first video. The highlight of the video comes at the end, where we see the "Mega Ramp" again that we got a little taste of in the intro. To the soft rifts of an electric guitar, Danny Way rides down the huge ramp, does a backside 360 over the jump and lands on another ramp where he rides up and pulls off a backside air. The ramps get further and further apart, and he catches more and more air while the music slowly builds.
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And then, incredibly, you witness Danny Way break not just one, but two world records consecutively -- the longest distance jump (75' backside air 360) and the highest air (23.5' backside air). It's beautiful.
The Deluxe Edition video is packed with extras, like Christopher "Big Black" Boykin as Dyrdek Security - a huge guy following Rob Dyrdek around, dealing with security officers and skateboards that don't cooperate. Very funny. The DVD regular version of The DC Video doesn't feature all that much for special features, but the Deluxe Edition is packed with extras, behind the scenes, new footage and previously cut footage. The Deluxe Edition also comes with an 86 page full color book packed with awesome photos, info, interviews - all kinds of stuff.
The only draw back to the Deluxe Edition that I saw is with a short segment at the start of Anthony Van Engelen's section where you get to see him throw tantrums and smash things right in front of a little kid. Not so cool, and some parents may not like thier kids watching it. However, Van Engelen's skating is amazing, and skaters losing thier temper is all part of the game. Either way, it's a DVD, so you can skip the parts you don't like.
This is an excellent video, and for DC's first video made, they pulled out all their best. It's definately worth the money. And if you're thinking about downloading it, then please kick yourself instead.
