I spent a few days last week in Long Beach with Duane getting stuff together for a Disastr77 photo shoot. A few hours after landing on Tuesday we headed to The Block after picking up Jake Reuter. I was shooting video of everything to compile a montage of some sort when I got back home. I was shooting in the van. I was shooting while Duane got his skate gear on—general filler footage. And, of course, I shot most of the runs in the Combi.

I didn’t really think about the fact that no one had really seen any footage of Duane skate since the end of the tour last year that almost cost him his leg. So I pieced it together, uploaded it to YouTube and posted it on his site. Within a few hours it was embedded on every skate blog and magazine site with an online presence that I could think of checking. I’m glad to have been able to give everyone the visual reinforcement that he’s back but he’s been skating for a while. And even when he’s not skating, he’s thinking about skating.

This has caused me to do some thinking and I have some radical thoughts on things that the skate industry could be doing differently. If you want to meet up and talk about them with me over a burrito (or some phở for those Fickle creatures), hit me up.

Anyway, enough talk. Here is the video.