The Final Flare - Deluxe Bonus Edition

Voted 2008’s skate video of the year by allskateboard magazines, Lakai’s legendary Fully Flared video has been released in a new Deluxe Bonus Edition Box Set .

The Lakai Final Flare Deluxe Bonus Edition includes 3 discs:

Disc One is the original release of Fully Flared ,

Disc Two is the Bonus disk which has the 60 minute documentary about the video, 25 minutes of bonus unused footage, 45 minutes of hi-def footage & interviews & commercials.

Disc Three is an HD Blue-Ray disc which contains a 45 minute edit of all the HD footage with new stuff that was never seen all in glorious  Hi-Def 720 resolution, Vincent Alverez’s part for Chocolat e in HD, a couple of commericials, a 10 minute documentary of a weekend at Bibel’s & the amazing intro part with all the explosions in HI-def 16:9 .

The 48-page bonus edition booklet ,

which comes with the box set, is a collector’s Jem. I won’t go into the details of the book, but it has more behind the scenes info about the film.

I spent the weekend watching this, the documentary covers a bit about the beginnings of Lakai Limited footwear, & the making of the video.   I re-watched the original film again a couple of times after watching the documentary; it was inspiring to know about how they pulled this video together.

The HD bonus footage was fun to watch, with familiar spots from China

I rarely blog about skateboard videos,  but this skate video is probably the best I have seen to date; I now have a deeper  respect & admiration  for the living legends Mike Carroll, Rick Howard, Eric Koston, & especially **Guy Mariano! Props out to** Marc Johnson, Cairo Foster, Jesus Fernandez, Lucas Puig, JB Gillet, Nick Jensen & to the filming & directing of Ty Evans, Spike jonze & Cory Weincheque !

My favorite to watch are Alex Olson (son of Steve Olson ) & Mike Mo Capaldi , as Rick Howard mentioned in the video, Mike Mo is a “Skateboard Savant” - a natural born skateboarding genius.

If you love skateboarding, this is THE video set to get.  I guarantee you it will inspire you.  If you love Skateboard videograpy or filming & editing in general get this video.  The edits & filming are second to none.

I so feel the Lakai Manchesters now.  Seriously, Lakai shoes are probably one of the MOST under-rated shoe brands in Hong Kong / SE Asia!!

• Thanks to JBS @ 8Five2 Shop for holding a copy for me.