Cliff: The Story of the Kickflip

The true essence of skateboarding is captured in the short film ”Cliff.” Legendary skater Marc

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The true essence of skateboarding is captured in the short film ”Cliff.” Legendary skater Marc Johnson narrates as viewers watch a solo skate session unfold from bird’s-eye view. Surveillance style camera zooms are intermixed with stop-motion edits, and soundtracked to a smooth riff for a clean production sequence. Hear the story of how the kickflip came to be, in one of the more stellar skate films posted on the web.

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