This part just came out and good god, this kid rips! He's Baker's newest am and with that being said I can only imagine he's filming for the new Baker/Deathwish vid. If he is, which I assume he is, then that would suggest that this whole part is all throwaway footage, to which I can only reply WTF??
The combination of the dude doing gnarly tricks at gnarly spots combined with a creative an unique approach to tricks makes for a skater I like to watch and I'm stoked on Dee. I'm pretty sure he's from Nashville Tenn, which is a far throw from the skateboard industries limelight. With skills and determination this intense though it comes as no surprise he secured himself a spot on one of the most popular companies out there. From what I've heard, his brother sent in his footy which is pretty cool in that it would appear as though Dee wasn't breaking himself off at spots like this in hopes of getting sponsored, but rather just because the dude loves to skate.
Kids these days love to hate. Especially when there are kids out there like Dee who are the same age as them, killing it as hard as this and riding for the companies they want to ride for. Even so though, the arguments kids come up with to hate on Dee are pretty hilarious. Saying he sucks as a skater because he has an ugly switch push or because he wears the same beanie in a lot of clips is pretty ridiculous but indicative of the current hate filled skate landscape. Other complaints I've heard about this part are that he lands with his front foot on the bolts (who gives a fuck) or that the filmer sucks (absolutely no reflection on Dee or his skating).
Despite all the hate and vitriol already spewing in regards to this little Southern dirtball, I'm digging him and I really dig this part. It's a long part with a ton of cool tricks but some of my favorite were definitely the dog tow in three block ollie, the double set where he kickflips the first set back smith the second set, disaster hippy hop, fakie flip to switch into the steep ass bank, wall ride nose manny nollie shuv, hard way bs 180 over the green rail, the line with the board slide to fakie on the flat rail half cab flip then back lip the down rail, bank to kickflip nose manny back into bank, boardslide the kinked rail frontside flip off the curb, 5-0 180 out the picnic table into the bank, 5050 pop out over the stairs, tail drop into the skettccchy bank and his ender ollie into the overpass bank which is fucking insane!!
I'm backing this dude and taking into consideration how young he is and who he's riding for I imagine there is a lot of good shit to come from Dee Ostrander. Can't wait for the Baker/Deathwish vid!!!
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