SKATEBOARDING: IS IT A CRIME?

Here is a short video I made as a school project for my Participation In Government class three months into my senior year of high school in 1991. We were allowed to pick our own topic so of course I picked skateboarding.

If I wasn't riding my skateboard, then I was watching a skateboard video and this eventually made me curious on how they were made and wanting to make videos myself. I had already made a video entitled, "Say Cheese", before this school project so I already had a head start.

I already had filmed some skate footage of my friends so I went out and shot the couple of interviews out on the street and the interviews with my friends to complete the filming. I edited the video on two VCRs and borrowed some type of audio mixer from Radio Shack from a friend to add in the music and narration (in one take). Total rig job.

In typical school project fashion I waited until the last minute and made the video the night before. I didn't even have a fresh, blank VHS tape to turn the project in on... I submitted it at the end of one of those Vision NSA contest videos from 1986.

I turned the project in on time and the next day in class my teacher made an announcement that she was going to play the video for the whole class. I was like, "oh shit!", everyone already hated me 'cause I was a skater, "now they're really gonna hate me." So, the video was played and people dug it and were kinda impressed I think because they we're reacting to the skating while it played and asked me lots of questions after.

The point made in the video (is there even one?) is pretty poor but my teacher rewarded me with an A+ due to the fact that I actually made a video. All the other students just handed in crummy charts and graphs. She even played it for all her other classes. I win.

Skaters in the video are: Eric Shugats, Joe Cassenti, Larry Ransom, Stan Knight, Chris Fritton, Chris Crenshaw, Mike Drinkwalter, Andy Gulkin and Salman Agah.

Written on the VHS tape label:

P.I.G. VIDEO
SKATEBOARDING: IS IT A CRIME?

LARRY RANSOM
PARTICIPATION IN GOVERNMENT
PERIOD THREE
NOVEMBER 1, 1991

Filmed and edited by Larry Ransom. Music by Side By Side, Supertouch and 7 Seconds.

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• lance
• lockport
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[AsianSensationBitch]

do the people in the video still skate?

[LarryRansom]

Some of them do.

[DCSk8er529]

do u still skate?

[LarryRansom]

@DCSk8er529 Yes I do.

[HordesOfEvilMarch]

1:36

what kinda wax job was that lmao

your supposed to wax the edge not the sidewalk lmao

[LarryRansom]

Hey douchebag. That is not wax. It's wheel marks from lipslides.

[XxMajormexX]

If skateboarding is a crime; then slap some cuffs on me you pigs, cause I'm 100% guilty!

S.4.L.

Skatin' 4 Life.

[XxEricandNickxX]

skate boarding is a fuckin sport why would it be a crime give me an explination!

[benskatezero]

@ZAKROCKER93 I'm 16 and live in Lockport and yeah the built it like five or six years ago but it's a piece of shit now cause it's in the ghetto and they disrespect it and fuck it up

[theallboarder]

Also its not a crime

[theallboarder]

F U skateboarding street rocks

[girlskateboard80]

no skateboarding is not a crime dude

[jeffspicoliry]

This is really good skating especially for 91. most of the the tricks seem to be pretty advanced for that time. Sick video!!

[ZAKROCKER93]

did they ever made a skate park in lockport

[Tippmann245]

They built one in lockport a couple years ago. I still skate the Lockport streets. Got caught once at that 8 set in tht vid. cops didn't do anything because there were 6 people around me. Lockports changed alot. Check my vids on lockport skating. Not spamming. And Larry, I think you should try Lockport again. It's really changed. And cops hbe chilled a little since then.

[dell8537]

Im a skater so i say let the do what ever they want. who cairs what all skaters do its our businsv so leave us alone.

[UsernameClayton]

The Pizza Hut lady oozes intelligence. I bet her opinion is based by so much logic :)