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Kickflip >>> Nosebonk

say. I know that what I’m about to say may seem like heresy, but I would place the difficulty of the trick almost at the bottom of the list of important things, I prefer to be more “captivated” than “shocked,” and if there are some nice hammers in there, all the better! You’ve filmed with Jacopo multiple times for numerous videos with Vans, among others. How was working with him on a project that was all your own? Plus, don’t you think he’s a loser for still wearing those tight pants in 2019?

up to make a video for Vans with complete freedom as to the idea behind it, so we decided to do it once and for all. During these months I said various times that I could’ve worked on a project of this complexity only with him; apart from the tricks, Jacopo is a true professional under all points of view: from the constant exchange of ideas and sharing of all the smallest details of production, to his organizational precision, which is essential in a project with such limited time. I mean… what other skater do you know that would send you a Powerpoint presentation with the concept of the video and the list of spots and tricks? Oh, and about his tight pants, JP and I are on the same wavelength, so I can’t say anything! Ha ha.

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We’ve been traveling and filming together rather regularly for almost ten years, so I’d say that we know each other pretty well and we trust each other a lot. This is why we chose to work on this project together. The idea of a clip “without pushing” had been bouncing around in our minds for some time, to be honest we’d been talking about it for a couple of years already. Then an opportunity came

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