Joey Brezinski’s Transworld interview a couple months ago was entertaining for a variety of reasons, among them his challenges with the French language, designing video game characters based on SAD, and how he uses EA Skate to brainstorm his Rube Goldberg-esque trick combinations:
A lot of my tricks really do come out of that game. A lot of tricks take like five days after I do it for 30 minutes on the couch. In a way that game is mental training for physical training.
They also poke fun at him for basically not being able to come up with any single-frame photo material, which goes some way toward explaining the lame Colin McKay cover. But squinting and furrowing my brow at the sequence captions got me thinking about how Joey Brezinski on a trick-by-trick basis regularly executes some of the longest-named maneuvers currently running. Spoiler alert, here’s some of the more convoluted items from his excellent section in the new Cliche video “Cle” which we may discuss in further detail some day soon.*
-Fakie lipslide to nose manual to nollie backside bigspin (nine words, 57 characters)
-Switch nose manual to fakie nosegrind shove-it out (eight words, 51 characters)
-Kickflip nose manual nollie backside tailslide (seven words, 50 characters)
-Frontside 180 switch manual body varial manual 180 out (nine words, 54 characters)
-Frontside boardslide pop-up to fakie manual revert backside 180 out (10 words, 67 characters)
-Half-cab kickflip manual backside tailslide backside kickflip out (eight words, 65 characters)
-Half-cab frontside noseslide backside 270 manual revert (seven words, 55 characters)
-Nose manual nollie backside bigspin fakie manual fakie pop out (ten words, 62 characters)
Obviously this is the one and true benchmark by which we must measure his part in the upcoming Transworld video this summer. I think he’s got at least a 15-word trick in him, provided he is able to evade the MongoCorp assassins in San Vanelona or whatever it’s called.
*Note, I counted the spaces as characters because I’m not a crazy word monster who likes his words all mushed together in a big mush.
Tags: Cliche, former Arcade riders, France, Joey Brezinski, Sid Sackson, Skate 2
boil the ocean 
February 24, 2009 at 12:42 am |
excellent section
February 24, 2009 at 1:39 am |
um, thank you for the d4 reference.
February 24, 2009 at 4:34 am |
“Rube Goldberg-esque trick combinations”
Amazing.
February 24, 2009 at 9:39 am |
word muncher. now THAT was video game.
February 24, 2009 at 10:57 am |
Actually after sleeping on it, I think the Rube Goldberg label would better apply to Haslam vs. Daewon in the mini-ramp funhouse, but whatever.
February 24, 2009 at 12:10 pm |
brezinski = 2009 version of Haslam with bad teeth?
February 24, 2009 at 2:09 pm |
I’ve never heard of anyone using Skate for that purpose, but I suppose it’d be a good way of seeing what might look good/work in real life. “research” is the new “chill time”
February 24, 2009 at 2:19 pm |
bitethecurbbitethecurb
February 24, 2009 at 5:00 pm |
True on the Cheese And Crackers.
As nerdy as it sounds, I also find that fingerboarding could be quite helpful in thinking up new tricks. I mean besides the fact that the board is small, the physics are the same. You can really test out the possibilities of popping out of certain tricks, etc.
I would find it all very helpful if I were able to do any tricks more basic than a tailslide.
February 25, 2009 at 12:14 am |
Brezinski is almost in Rodney Mullen territory now…in terms of doing unimaginably hard tricks that “the kids” don’t really care about…what about that sequence in an adio ad of f/s nose nollie heel transfer or some shit…it would be hard for him to be more underrated; his style got a little better, I think…
February 25, 2009 at 2:08 pm |
Where’s the link to the TWS Article? Or was it in print? Who still does that paper thing?
February 25, 2009 at 3:15 pm |
i think you used a word counter
nopaper.com huph
Skate Everything Faster…
February 25, 2009 at 8:26 pm |
carbonite: yr such a melonhead
August 6, 2009 at 11:00 pm |
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