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Zero – Strange World Review

Posted on December 26, 2009 with Comments Off

Zero’s latest video release Strange World has been somewhat unexpected, there was no massive hype campaign building up to it’s release and they choose to announce the first thing about it only months before its eventual release. This isn’t a full length DVD either, most of Zero’s team only get brief sections and this years SOTY Chris Cole shares his section with a young Tom Asta.

The DVD opens up with Garett Hill and for good reason he has a nice style and a good selection of tricks in his part, this guy is sick and could have easily closed the DVD. Keegan Saunders follow and hes another with a nice comfortable looking style to him, a definite improvement from previous parts.

Strange World provides two montages of skaters who didn’t get full parts, the first montage consists of the likes of Rattray, Sheldon, Cervantes and Ben Gilley. All of them provide the goods with Gilley landing a huge 50-50 down a pretty gnarly rail despite destroying himself three times on it before hand.

Marissa Dal Santos breaks up the two montages with a sick section, with her busting out some big hammers.

The second montage contains the likes of Thomas, Steamer, Piscopo and Sandoval. Thomas puts hit down with his usual steeze, Elisa is solid although her sections on the short side, Donovan has a solid part and Sandoval is as sick as usual.

Next up is Dane Burman the latest Zero am, he proves his worth and he kills it, look out for his hardflip over the huge street gap. Following is James Brockman who has a section full of hammers, its some gnarly stuff.

Asta and Cole share the next section switching between the two after each trick. Both of them are insane, Asta has a mix of tech and hammers and Cole destroys everything like he always does.

James Toncowny gets the last part and this kid can skate, he kills it busting out loads of hammers, another unexpected surpise, this kid is sick.

Strange World is accompanied by a heavier soundtrack as is expected, the filter effects can be somewhat distracting and the DVD contains a lot less HD shots which is a good thing! Strange World is a good watch and is easily re watchable, defiantly worth the small amount of £10 it’s being sold for. Get down to your local skater owned shop and grab a copy.

via Sk8uk.co.uk