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Fruit Of The Vine
A Super 8mm Film by Coan Nichols and Rick Charnoski
Review by The Chraveler
 
Rick and Coan have crafted a fine, authentic look into the world of swimming pool skateboarding with their 1999 film, Fruit of the Vine. The film was shot on location (duh) in various places such as Northern California, San Diego, the infamous Baldy Pipeline, the motels of Fresno, Arizona, the Pacific Northwest and the East Coast.
 

Pools of all shapes and sizes are skated, from the (relatively) perfect curves of the southern California backyards to a bug-infested pool on the edge of the Salton Sea to a foot-deep fish pond in the woods to the 12 foot muni beast in Cambridge, MA to a homemade hole in Seattle.

Pool skating legends such as Tony Alva, Lance Mountain, and Steve Alba are featured as well as locals from each region the film travels to. White trash motel residents are consulted for some pool rides, and cackling women are bribed for others. Some pools are a 5-0 bust, while at others the crew walks right through the living room with the permission of the homeowners and proceed to rip apart the pool.

Coan and Rick employ a cool montage style to this film, peppering the pool skating footy with quick, jerky clips of motel signs, cope, tile, pool builder's logos, and other assorted visuals of the environment in which they are filming. Anyone who lives for skateboarding will appreciate this film to the fullest.

For more information on this film or to purchase, visit ncpfilms.com.

 

 
 
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