lost tapes: matty hooker, 2007 with cale, chima, jake and co.

matty hooker’s lost tapes.
featuring: cale nuske, chima ferguson, jake duncombe, jon lorcan and luke croker.
2007

from canberra to the gold coast.

in the midst of the noughties australia was relentlessly producing skateboarders of a top international calibre. by 2007 it was literally impossible to pick up an american mag and not see a fresh up and coming aussie (or a current antipodean great) terminating a spot. 2007 was also quite an emotional year for us all as we lost two of our most talented sons: ben pappas and shane cross. in a clearly successful attempt to boost morale, get clips and celebrate life, towards the latter part of the year some of shane’s closest friends jumped in a van and headed up the eastern seaboard. they journeyed from canberra up to the goldy. aside from the rippers mentioned above, you may spy some cameos from su young choi, sammy winter, andrew peters, jim fowlie and assorted other rulers. some of choi’s angles of this footage saw the light of day, but hookso’s slipped to the back of the minidv draw and became the latest in our series of relocated lost tapes.

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sba lost tapes.

these whole skateboarding footage below, was shot entirely on a super-8! t'is amazingly awesome! chekkit out, yo!

really, chris middlebrook needs no introduction. his lens mastership is one of the primary forces that enables you to view your favourite australian and international skaters. his work has been featured in videos and dvd’s coast to coast and indeed, on both sides of the equator. aside from shooting on the trusty vx and in hd, midds is also a long time super-8 fan – and master. his super 8 goodness can be seen all the way through from the cult blank videos, to high-end nike productions to the most recent alien workshop video. luckily he recently contacted sba to see if we were down to put out this compilation of his high grade, mostly unseen super 8 footage from the year of 2008. of course we were: this is why we have a feature called lost tapes.

inside you will find archival footage of callum paul, jeremy corea, dane burman, andrew brophy, lewis marnell, morgan campbell, steve gourlay, ambrose kenny smith, dale van iersel, andrew currie, sean holland, harry clark, bryce golder, nick boserio, keegan walker, mike martin, alex campbell, shane o’neill, bernie foo, justin brock, tommy fynn, yuta tanaka and sam giles.

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