Brian Brannon in Santa Cruz – Speed Freaks (1989)

JFA frontman Brian Brannon rode for Santa Cruz for a time, with a short section in Speed Freaks offering up stylish pool and ditch cruising set to Dinosaur Jr. and a much quoted intro which seems extra relevant in the current world climate – “I think everybody in the world should just live.”

Brian Bannon makes an appearance once again during a session with Micke Alba, while Aaron ‘Fingers’ Murray hits the alleys, curbs, walls and pools of Venice to Pipetruck (again).

The editors at Santa Cruz manage to move on in JFA instrumentals to ‘Flyboy Theme’ for Mark Partain’s style-infused all terrain assault (this was 1990, so I can use the epithet ‘stylish’ about a section that includes a roastbeef tailblock and mean it. Try and fucking stop me). Danny Way’s section, meanwhile, is mostly about his vertical insanity set to Kinghorse’s ‘Too Far Gone’ – but it is flanked by two brief snatches of JFA instrumental in the forms of ‘My Movie’ and ‘Dark Side of the Mushroom’, plus it’s absolutely bonkers, so we’re including it for good measure…

Griptape and Gasoline (2000)

Griptape and Gasoline was a 2000 Norcal video consisting heavily of park and pool skating, alongside live footage of punk bands of varying levels of listenability; luckily the inclusion of The Beltones, Los Olvidados, Drunk Injuns and JFA on the soundtrack makes up for a myriad of lesser bands. JFA themselves kick in at around 21:15 for the Brewce Martin/Skatopia section.

A slew of well known and lesser known faces appear and then fade back into the punk rock murk including Pete the Ox, Tony Farmer, Steve Bailey, Dan Drehobl, Tim Brauch, Chris Senn and more, but absolute video high point has to go to ‘Big Bad Thad’ and his power-pre-grabs around Palo Alto Skatepark at 11:05. File under low-budget gnar!

Chris Cope in Thrasher’s ‘Route 44’ section (2016)

Chris Cope’s recent ‘Route 44’ Thrasher section saw him doing the Texas tradition of powerful transition skaters proud, to the sounds of ‘Tentpeg’. Cab tailblocks, layback hurricanes and the internet-breaking invert to eggplant show a creative edge to the gnarliness that chimes perfectly with the band’s multi-faceted approach to hardcore and makes this section a solid close to their skate video contribution – for now…