Last year I had the sudden urge to buy a pair of quad skates. I don’t quite remember what threw me over the edge and made me purchase some Riedell R3s but oh boy did I need them. Actually, I think I was absorbed in youtube watching videos for another project and stumbled upon jamskating. Then my head exploded.
The best way to describe jamskating is break-dancing on roller skates. It’s intense and artful, something you definitely need to see to appreciate. These people can tumble, spin and freeze while on skates?! Insane.
What really drew me to the whole scene was the music, or lack there of. Usually coupled with hip-hop or old-school funk, jamskating hasn’t seemed to venture far enough down the road I dreamt of taking it. This is where house music comes in. Deep house has the soulful grooves to compliment the rhythm of skating while maintaining a solid bassline that can be choreographed to. Some favorites like Deeper (Baggi Begovic Dub Mix) by Copyright and Coyu & Uner’s Raw Sweat are perfect examples of what jamskating could match to. Can you picture it? Epic. So why hasn’t this been done before? Well maybe it has… I just can’t find any of it!
Ready to start a new project, I took a rough idea of the music video to my friend Priscilla Boksan, attorney turned film/TV producer and she was hip to it. We discussed a shooting schedule and planned to prep for two months with a tentative shoot date in late May. This gives us only a short window for pre-production, but working in bursts can do wonders for personal motivation.
Our first priority is to get a Kickstarter campaign going. We’ll need the funds to cover the impending doom of costs like production insurance, location/permit fees, equipment rental and happy tummies. Onward ho!
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