Action sports videos of the 1990s and early 2000s had a familiar format, tried and true. Opening montage, followed by individual athlete sections, and then a final denouement of people utterly and hopelessly eating shit. It was like a final bow, a sweet dessert after a main course of shred cinema. But somewhere along the way, those wipeout sections fell by the wayside as a momentary trend, only to be remembered through the annals of action sports cinema.
Luckily people out there like videographer/photographer John Barton exist who still cling to the nostalgic comedy of the bail section. Here we have a full montage of kooks blowing it, a.k.a. pure viewing pleasure. But remember folks, not only kooks blow it. Everyone does…even John John Florence. So laugh with these fallen warriors, not at them. For one day (probably soon) you will be one of them.
