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[url= http://www.channel4.com/programmes/concrete-circus/episode-guide/series-1/episode-1 ]Concrete Circus.[/url] A new generation of the very best urban sports stars are teaming up with incredible young film-makers. Together they've produced stunning films that have captured the attention - and the imagination - of tens of millions of viewers.
Includes Danny MacAskills latest film amongst others.
Worth a watch I think.
hell yeah
yeah, i'm looking forward to this.
Danny Mac, seen earlier today....
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Good spot - Cheers Gaz
looks good thanks for the heads up
oooh you cynic CFH
saw the trailer.it looks like danny macaskill is riding on some rope (just like tightrope walking 😯
thats guys pants were on fire!
Bump for the evening crowd.
thats guys pants were on fire!
He was a liar...
will this be repeated/ or on C4 On Demand?
Just for GaVgAs...
😉
don't try this at home channel 4 said 😉 😀
macaskill, hell yeaH!
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Ta for that.
15 in and hooked 😯 8)
i love those flatland bmx's (am in no way a bmx'er myself/crap bike handling skills,old e.t.c 🙂
Was playing on my 8yr old cousins BMX today - got to take him to the new skatepark thats been built 2 mins from my house tomorrow.
How do i tell the wife i now want a bmx... Will have to take the Five and see how i get on with him.
Good PSA. Cheers.
Can appreciate the skill in them all but flatland BMX does nothing for me!
Not into that skate style though, looks all a bit camp.
hans the man 🙂 always wanted a zaskar because of him (as well as wishing i could ride a bike like him)
racefaceec90 - Member
FIFY
Hans "NO WAY" Rey the man always wanted a zaskar because of him (as well as wishing i could ride a bike like him)
Just starting again on CH4+1 8)
OMFG Danny Mac just rode along a steel cable
Danny Mac magic 😯
yep,saw it in the trailer earlier.he is a human gyroscope 😀
how the hell can he ride along something like that cable? astonishing!
Vids in order:
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Great for the free running and mtb.
Not so good for the bloke who dances with his BMX and the skateprancer
I reckon the BMXy one is by far the best. Danny and the skater are technically good, but the films just didn't flow well. The BMX film made it look like he was just taking all his anger and sadness out on the bike. Somehow he was fighting and dancing with it at the same time.
EDIT: And the parcours film was just ridculous.
Free running best, then the freaky BMX. Danny and Skater a bit bland I thought.
It may be because I haven't seen many free running/flatland things before though.
The street running was devalued by the ridiculous plot o though, which was a shame because those guys are unreal. Danny McRadical on the cable; fair bloody play!
Best PSA this year. Me and kids are glued.
Dannys, didn't excite me! But the bmx dude was awesome !
There was one excellent film maker and 3 good subjects.
The film maker bossed it IMO.
Free running far too cheesy IMHO.. great bit of parkour, just miade into a crap film..
😐
Skating - best imagination and tricks
BMX - my favourite but the snow flake/dust/pollen effect annoyed me and i think detracted from the film
Trails - riding on a wire!!
Free running - cheesy start to the film, but was best put together and the leaps the guy in the red top was doing scared me, which is a good thing.
The best thing, though, is i can watch this again and again at work because i get to research these sports! 😀
Thought the Skateboarding was great, the filmaking added to the action rather than messing it up with silly gimmicks.
Danny Mac's stuff pretty straightfoward really, picking a stunning location with lots of intersting obstacles and ride like a god.
The Parcour stuff was amazing but the sub James Bond plot and all the ****y jump cuts and wipes, it was just trying too hard.
Flatland BMX was also spoiled by some pointless gimmicks and as skilled as that rider undoubtedly is its never going to be as breat taking as watching guys do backflips
nice, real nice loads of skills
An hour and halfs prime tv that kicks Grandchangingbigbrothereastendersdesigninterceptors in to touch that's for sure!
i thought the bmx vid was by far the best.
skateboarder was the only one that made me feel elated..
Linky for those who missed it:
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/concrete-circus/articles/the-films
Great shout. Really enjoyed that.
"Danny Mac's stuff pretty straightfoward really"
STW quote of the week 🙂
I really liked the flatlands video, I thought it was a bit different to the run of the mill biking videos. The free running one was very cheesy, even the kids thought so.
All the vids were great in their own way. The final film in the Barbican was a great combination of all the skills.
Wish I had half the skills and guts of those guys. What tyres for riding with your shorts on fire?
It was good to see mainstream TV giving airtime to what are still seen as minority pastimes. Wish I'd recorded it, I think it's something I'd like to see again.
danny's back flip off the curved RSJ near the end made me gasp out loud. Love Danny's skills the most, rekon I'd get bored of the flatland style but loved how different his vid was.
amazed at the blue shirted parcour guy's frosbee flop through the floor at the barbican, that was pretty special.
Not feeling the flatland bmx - getting in a French phoney to put together some moody bollox didn't help. Think it needed to be a bit more playful, sense of humour etc (IMHO). tbf they said the lad was struggling for a director so might have put it together at short notice.
Got to go with Danny Mac as the best piece - boringly because it's probably just what I'm used to appreciating. Loved the colours on the film though - anyone know whereabouts that railyard is? That swan dive Blue did in the parcour at the start though, 'kinell!
Made me wish I was 18 again, but that was 40 years ago, still these guys are on a different level to most humans. Beats rioting.
i have always had a huge amount of respect for flatland riders (ever since first seeing it on channel 5 when they showed the x games) i would love to have those bike skills.major respect to all those guys though 🙂
Would not push any of them out of bed for eating biscuits- s'all I'm saying
The whole channel 4 Street summer season has been brilliant what with last nights graffiti wars and Idris Elba's 50 greatest hip hop . This is the kind of thing people want to see , not Simon Cowell humiliating fat chicks on ITV.
Bravo Channel 4.
I'm now laughing at the Asian guy taunting people with his backpack 😀
The final film in the Barbican was a great combination of all the skills.
+1
the flying header off that building was astonishing! free runners won it for me. Reminded me of jumping of the school roofs as a kid! 😀
Who says our youth are a lost generation?
The sheer vision, creativity, skill, hard work etc kicks most people of my age into touch (38). Especially their lack of ego despite being amongst the best in the world at what they do... I wish the people I work with were like that...
Someone get this film in the headlines to offset all the other cr@p
Who says our youth are a lost generation?
The sheer vision, creativity, skill, hard work etc kicks most people of my age into touch (38). Especially their lack of ego despite being amongst the best in the world at what they do... I wish people I work with were like that...
Someone get this film in the headlines to offset all the other cr@p
Mleh....Needs some shakey go-pro headcam footage of middle aged mincing I.T stormtroopers at llandegla set to coldplay....nowthatswhaImtalkinabout. 😀
brooess - Member
Who says our youth are a lost generation?
The sheer vision, creativity, skill, hard work etc kicks most people of my age into touch (38). Especially their lack of ego despite being amongst the best in the world at what they do... I wish the people I work with were like that...
Someone get this film in the headlines to offset all the other cr@p
+1000
We did some work with skateboarders in Newcastle (100+ aged 12-25) some were annoying but everyone of them was engaged in something creative and physically exerting, and they helped each other out even if they didn't know each other. It was great to see.
I predict an influx in local A&Es all over the country... 🙂
The skateboard and flatland videos were the best - the flatland just for the exuberance of stitching together all those tricks and the impression of just enjoying what he was doing and the flatland because it was dark and emotional With plenty of technical virtuosity - not just slowmo of guys doing backflips.
The Parcour was spoilt by the sub teen notion of a plot, and for DM apart from riding the wire (which was outstanding) the rest was a bit samey TBH.
anyone know whereabouts that railyard is?
yeap 🙂
I enjoyed the flatland vid and danny macs vid. The other two were good but the skateboard video seemed a bit "standard fair" in the way it was shot and edited. The skating was great though.
Top Programme, just watched it on the plus one channel. Wonder how many non-sport audience watched it though?
The skater was the standout one for me. Mindblowing control. The flatland vid was just too produced, and not enough actual riding.
All in all though, excellent. Nice to see some more imaginative programming going on, and for 1.5 hours of prime-time tele. Nice to see my licence fee....oh, never mind.
Mleh....Needs some shakey go-pro headcam footage of middle aged mincing I.T stormtroopers at llandegla set to coldplay....nowthatswhaImtalkinabout
...now you're talking. Where can we commission that?!
the parcour one had the best standout bits IMO, but I agree it was cheesy on the whole. Danny macs was the most complete one i thought. The flatland one din't show enough of the tricks , it was too produced. skate one had some very good tricks, but as has been said before, very standard production
For Anyone who's in derbyshire / notts area, there's three urban sports shows with this kinda stuff on, up at the shopping centre m1 junction 28. Theyre all day on three consecutive Thursday's! Think the first one was last week so a couple more to go!
Awesome program! For me I'd put them in this order
1 BMX - was expecting it not to flow but it really worked and grabbed me, especially with the back story of his mate
2 Skater - everything took my breath away, was hooked to see what was gonna happen next
3 MTB - didn't grab me as much as I hoped, but the cable ride and the drop onto the track was mental
4 parkour - film production just looked a bit amateur, the stunts were good but just lost interest
But the bit of all of them together was one of the highlights
The flatland one din't show enough of the tricks , it was too produced. skate one had some very good tricks, but as has been said before, very standard production
So you're criticising the bmx one for being original & taking a chance, & criticising the skate one for being unoriginally shot?!
For me in no particular order -
Skate film - thought it was going to be a lifecycles where everything is shot in s l o w m o t i o n.. but it improved after a shaky start
BMX - loved the originality but wasn't too keen on all the floaty bits
MTB - just Danny Mac doing what he does best, nicely shot, nice soundtrack - reminded me of the original vid
Parkour - Great skills, wasn't convinced by the subplot - however, I'm sure most 11 yr olds that watched it would've loved it & a shame they spoiled the legs on fire bit early on in the program.
Not watched it all yet, but from what I did see I initially thought the BMX was good, then I just thought he was a good circus act, but not in a leotard.
I personally found the skateboarding the most original. Whenever I watch skateboarding I always think it looks clumsy, forced and as though theres some thing missing. This guy make it look more skillful and flowing.
Respect to them all though, ubeleivable skills. As above did make me think how far human skills are developing. Back when I was a lad (37 now) people wouldnt have dreamt of being able to any of this stuff, but now its all possible. Jeeees Im getting old!
I thought the program was a bit on the longside and not too engaging, but congratulations for C4 putting it on.
So you're criticising the bmx one for being original & taking a chance, & criticising the skate one for being unoriginally shot?!
I just thought it could of been a music video, and I didn't think it showcased the riders skills, tbh although I think the skills involved in flatland are mindblowing, and something i can't even conceive of being able to do I've never really enjoyed watching it, to me its just going round in circles 🙁
I watched storm volume 1 on youtube on the back of the parkour film and its incredibly good, better than the one last night.
I thought the programme nulled the viewer somewhat. I mean it started off explaining the "entrants" then what they do by showing thier vids etc. then described what they were going to do..
By the time we saw the films we'd seen some hefty tricks already, we were almost numbed to it.
So, when we actually got to see the films, we'd seen most of the tricks already, just in a different location, which was a bit of a shame.
As me and the OH watched and enjoyed the programme by the time it'd finished we'd seen everything.
However, that does not detract from the shere skill and ability of any of them, we were still "blown away" by some of the tricks, and I for one liked the different film makers views on each aspect and story the film took. Decent shots, good skyline, great moves, editing was good and at least some of it flowed.
But asa film, the BMX one stood out IMO. The French producer had a vision to make more than a "trickfest". Something to capture the imagination and mood, really liked that, realy want to see some of his other works and I'll look them up.
THe OH and I were split on which one was the best though, which was really good. She was int the Parcour thing, moi as said the BMX..
However the film after that programme was the best so far.. One Man Standing.. Utterly brilliant.
Flatland BMX doesn't excite me but I liked the way that video was put together; liked the fact they tried something different to what had gone before. Maybe I'm the onlt one but the whole pollen/stars whatever worked for me.
Slightly disappointed by the skate film; mainly because Kilians other videos are so great.
Danny's section was ace as always; he definitely has a style and you know you were watching one of hid videos even if he had a bag on his head. Would have been nice to see something a bit different from him (sort of like the BMX one).
I really enjoyed the Parcour! Yes, it was cheesy but so what, lets not get too snobby, amazing skills!!
However the film after that programme was the best so far.. One Man Standing.. Utterly brilliant.
One Man Walking...
I left the telly on and was hypnotised by it. It finished, and I realised I didn't have a ****ing clue what just went on!
I wish I'd stayed up for the one man walking thing.. it looked really good..
I was really disappointed by the flat land video.. totally over produced in that it didn't show one trick where the foootage was not sped up or slowed down or jerkily cut and pasted..
this led to not seeing any of the skill or flow that the lad had in bucketloads
Ahhh Yes One Man Walking doh!
Still brilliant..
Deffo needs to be watched if you can catch it on OD.
I like a bit of street theatre stuff me..