Nike SB: The Making of Debacle

by L.A. Ruano, July 6, 2009

Following up on the successful Debacle launch last month, Nike SB unveil a short video, documenting the process of the film’s making as well as offering further insight into the project which became the first ever all-HD skate film. This behind-the-scenes look features interviews with various integral Nike SB personalities including Global Business Director Gert Kerkstoel, Filmer/Director/Editor Jason Hernandez, Photographer/Producer/Director Jon Humphries, Marketing Specialist Mark Goldman and Mark Hegarty of Hega TV.

13 Responses

  1. Posted by: brosef on July 29, 2009 at 4:50 pm

    oh so grant taylor wasn’t raw as fuck? get the fuck over yourself

  2. Posted by: giraffe on July 11, 2009 at 10:09 pm

    If anyone of you haters knew a thing about skateboarding you would be psyched on debacle. Everyone in the vid killed it. Idc if the glass smashing was fake, it mad it more interesting and more entertaining.

  3. Posted by: the dude on July 8, 2009 at 5:55 pm

    jason hernandez is a fucking kook.

  4. Posted by: mg on July 8, 2009 at 2:18 pm

    hypebeast kids just loves to hate hate hate allll day. sure debacle isn’t the end all, be all of skate videos, but you can’t blame these guys for being proud of their product or at least confident in themselves. if you spent all the time they spent on a vid, wouldn’t you want to go up in front of the world and flaunt it?!

  5. Posted by: DeeSee on July 7, 2009 at 4:43 pm

    “Debacle” was great. The skating was sick and the way it was presented was refreshing. I’m tired of crappy bro cam and crazy death lens shots. Bring the art of filming back to skateboarding. This is a big step in the right direction. I also really dug the adrenaline vibe. I haven’t really seen that done well since the old school Santa Cruz video’s and the like. Great job guys. Looking forward to seeing what you guys do with the pro video.

  6. Posted by: hessler hessian on July 7, 2009 at 4:45 am

    gert, dude you have no idea what the hell youre talking about. just cause you guys got to making an hd video first does not cement your legacy

  7. Posted by: NECROMATION on July 7, 2009 at 3:49 am

    They shouldn’t have bothered!
    Watching Debacle was like overdosing on sleeping pills….

    YAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWNNNNNN

  8. Posted by: Mark on July 7, 2009 at 2:29 am

    That crappy music in the background totally saps any kind of legitimacy that video had.

  9. Posted by: Eps on July 6, 2009 at 11:44 pm

    I don’t watch a ton of skate vids, but this was alright. I agree that the scripted vandalism wasn’t necessary and quite obvious. I don’t think that Gert boosting himself about how SB is revolutionizing the skate video distribution model is very cool. Sure it’s great for Nike, but they already have massive funds that the other smaller companies doing videos obviously can’t match and for them to just throw their video on the net and then hope for DVD sales…that’s suicide.

  10. Posted by: Varun on July 6, 2009 at 11:00 pm

    everything they’re hyping up so much about the video is what i hated. it was too clean and high budget and too scripted. it didn’t feel as real and raw as something like video days or the stuff Stereo is putting out.

    Overall it was a shitty skateboarding video. Money doesn’t make a good video.

  11. Posted by: shinnohara on July 6, 2009 at 10:36 pm

    i was sorely disappointed by that video.

  12. Posted by: dan on July 6, 2009 at 10:04 pm

    That video was sick, except for the fake glass smashing skits. Other pros have done that shit for real haha.

  13. Posted by: sdo on July 6, 2009 at 8:13 pm

    i hate nike sb now for taking away the fat tongue