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Kilian Martin: Altered Route

Brett Novak21 skaters recommend it · 28 mentions, 2012 to 2024
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2.5M views · 14 years ago · Full part

Short film by Brett Novak following Kilian Martin through an abandoned desert waterpark in California, 2012. Martin skates the empty slides and pools with a freestyle and flatground style.

Why skaters like it

Gets posted whenever someone asks for creative, unusual skating. Commenters point to it as a go-to example of Kilian Martin's style and as a beautiful skate film.

Filmers and editsModern partsTransition and bowl#KilianMartin#BrettNovak#Waterpark#California#Freestyle#2012

What skaters said on Reddit

u/Go19882017 · 24 points

Allright, let me hit you with some good stuff (: Gou Miyagi [VIDEO] - He does some really weird stuff, some wouldn't consider it skateboarding anymore because he's jumping off his board and back onto it again, wiggles it between his legs etc. Wonderfully creative though. Richie Jackson [VIDEO] - Unique in style and clothing, Richie does some unconventional, creative stuff. Kilian Martin [VIDEO] - Freestyle skateboard

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u/isskewl2015 · 16 points

I read your post while stopped for dinner on the way back home (Ithaca, NY) from Rehoboth Beach in Delaware. My wife, a biologist, had given a talk at a conference down there, and I had accompanied her, along with our 1 year old son. In the back of the car were two of my boards. I'm 36. I've been skating for about ten years. Anyway, your post really struck me, and I was thinking about a response for the rest of the d

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u/Svenningen2013 · 2 points

more of the stuff like the second gif! [VIDEO]

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u/cburke342012 · 1 points

talk about unique style. wtf was that trick at 2:32 [VIDEO]? a nollie gazelle to fakie gazelle? shit's crazy.

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u/init_prometheus2015 · 1 points

[VIDEO] Here is the original. I have no idea why the hell someone just played a Kid Cudi video over it...

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u/sub_black2024 · 1 points

Killian Martin and Brett Novak, love this movie. [VIDEO]

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u/StevenZissouniverse2020 · 1 points

Kind of reminds me of Killian Martin actually [VIDEO]

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u/breadford2013 · -1 points

[VIDEO] [VIDEO] [VIDEO] Freestyle isn't "creative", it's just redoing old tricks that went out of fashion to be different. Rodney Mullen was creative because he invented all the weird tricks he was doing, but everyone who skates like and is compared to Rodney Mullen isn't because they're just copying what he's already done. Watch that Pedro Barros video that got posted today instead of this.

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