“My parents would say, ‘You spend so much on skateboard and outfits every month.’ I said, ‘I’ve got a job now. I go to work everyday. My job is skateboarding.’” WATCH NEXT: Epicly Later’d returns with Bam Margera on September 6 (preview) - bit.ly/2eLX0pb
Jian Shen is a great skater. Got to skate with and watch him skate many times at 大学城 (Higher Education Mega Center). Very cool to see him here on Vice!
Dude lands his tricks crazy. Like his boards about to wash out. Beyond that, who cares what race he is. I read some of the comments on here and it really makes me hope people are just being pathetic bored trolls.
Or... just hear me out... they have and realize that the board is expensive, not at fault, and that breaking the board serves only to make the skater look like a child throwing a temper tantrum.
Everyone is different, but if you've ever been competitive or just wanted to do something really bad, then you'll get frustrated/mad at some point. You see football players breaking footballs, their gear, soccer players the same, tennis players breaking their 200 dollar + racquets. It's not about being logical. If you really think they're childish for doing so, then sorry, but look up any great athlete doing some "childish shit", and I guarantee you'll find something on it. Are you consider that childish even considering that they are the best at what they do? Also, skateboards aren't all that expensive.
Critter Cosner Or... in the moment you need to release your frustrations. Like punching a wall. The wall didnt do anything but you need an outlet. Its far better to release your anger than hold it in, especially on an inanimate object rather than holding it in and then letting it out on someone later. Pros do it. Ams do it. Local kids do it. Doesnt make anyone look like a child, it makes them look human
Critter Cosner + Like he said, you've never been a skater before. Its a stressful, frustrating and dangerous sport. Break as many fucking boards as you like. I more concerned about not wearing a helmet.
Ethan P LOL yeah VICE is working on a eugenics program as we speak and they just push there SJW agenda to fool the masses (Adjusts tin-foil Hat) It's all a conspiracy bro
Uhhh.... you know that Vice makes docs about EVERYTHING? Have you watched their daily news show on HBO? Or their weekly show on HBO? Or the multitude of programs on Viceland? I'm guessing not.
Man I feel that, I had a period where none I knew skated anymore except me and its so sort of lonely skating on your own. My progress definitely halted without people around.
Guys, just imagine, me, a chinese in china, watching a doc talking about story of white badminton or table tennis player. I guess that is the feeling you have.
The biggest I saw on this video was a nollie heel, but why is it that the only flip trick he does on flat is a kickflip. Where are the tre flips?frontside flips? It kind of makes me doubt how big his tricks really are.
What he should do is leave his home country for a while and travel to different parts of the world to skate. He can make connections with other skaters throughout his travels and can influence others to skate at his home country. By doing that, he won't be bored and he can bring back the skate scene that was once lost.
At 0:36, you hear Jian Shen say "Guangzhou" in Cantonese. No one is asking for PERFECT pronunciation in a language unfamiliar to them, but the least Vice can do is get it as close to right as possible. They obviously have correspondents in China who could have helped with this..
I can tell you why I care... I care because not even attempting the j sound of the zh in Guangzhou shows carelessness of the reporting that discredits Vice and its quality. Its actually not that difficult to say if the girl just practiced or if Vice had official policy on working towards trying to say words right. As Vice grows into the media monstrosity it increasingly is seen as, its these characteristics that make me question Vice's commitment to the values I'd like to see in my news stations. BBC has very tight requirements, for example, on attempting pronunciation of places and names in non English, as does CNN reporting staff.
Because unlike America and other countries, kids in China don’t really have any free times, schools usually starts at around 7:00 in the morning and ends at 6:00, and after that some may have extra tutoring, for the kids in China, skate broading is actually a really unfamiliar sports, i was lucky enough to leaving China (Guangzhou actually, we’re from the same city) after the 6th grade, so for him grow up in China and manage to become pro is actually really impressive, respect for him
The first three minutes didn't get me hooked. His origin story was basically the one _every skater_ had. Plus, the tricks shown are good without a doubt, but don't justify the videos title. That being said, I didn't know skating was a thing in China.
I agree. This guy sucks! Please check this : th-cam.com/video/3N-nHXvSczw/w-d-xo.html and he is a real pro, not like this stupid that broke his board just because he don´t land a 2 stair kickflip.
Its calling having expectations for yourself. People have different expectations of each other and for one self. I don't even skate all at and if i were to do a kickflip, i'll be astonish but since he's a pro, if he keeps on making mistakes or so he'll naturally get piss.
Man I get pissed but I can't afford to break boards. I am skating alone also nobody to skate with either. I might skate for about 30 minutes or an hour, but it is a crazy hot summer.
You’d think for a pro, that that Kick flip down the two stair would be like a 100% make every time. His other tricks in the line were harder than a two stair kick flip. 🤷🏽♂️
Seems to me based on this video that you can skate in any public space in his city. It's the dedicated skate parks that are hard to access. Weird contradiction...
@@underhorse5367 right? Why do they always come off so I don’t know smug/pompous/arrogant/pretentious/self important ? Oh right. Because they think we care! Well we don’t! Lol
I've never been to China… but every time I see video of a house or place in China, I notice that the floors are always covered with inexpensive tiles (as opposed to carpet or wood or concrete)… I'm just wondering why this is? Is it cultural, or more of a money thing.
dru Stories hmm, normally at resident rooms ppl use tiles or wood material floor, price from 15dollar per sqr meter up to 1xx dollar. And that bar looks not quite fancy, just a street bar, maybe the boss intent to invest on other things.
at 3:20, the frames show a rack of boards. The big black one says it all - Hong motha fucking Kong. I know this is a fun video, cool skating and all. But we better wake up, pull our heads out of ass and smell the petunias. Did you check out the Guangzhou skyline? Many years ago I was flying north in a Huey, up near the DMZ. We banked hard left and headed out toward the Yellow Sea. We say a huge area being cleared. a couple of months later, we say the geometric shapes, outlining a new city. A month or so later, we could clearly see the 3D risings of the sky scrapers. Months later, on a night flight, the whole town was light up light Manhattan. Why have we lost our way? It is good that this is a skateboarding video. Like the surfing and motocross videos in the 70s, we escape, we idolize and we forget life for a while. We envy the talent, the dedication, and the ability of these riders and drivers and that they have the liberty to do what they do and life, good or bad, doesn't see to touch them. We forget for a while, we are lost.
Andres - My mentor is a Serrano, he is great man. I am lamenting that we in the US are all consumed in nonsense, and we are a dying country, yet Eastern Asia (East of Japan) is rising. We seem to have forgotten how to grow, in fact, many convince us that we can't. I lived in East Asia for 17 years, the Asian Tiger years. Lee Kwon Yu, HopeWell, Mathatir, and Posco. China had Taiwan and Hong Kong, with Shanghai and Guangzhou waking up. And then, boom, the lights went out in the US and all we do is buy, buy, buy, and worry about a little fat man with an odd hair cut. I grew up where everyone worked, we have industrial capacity, ingenuity and peace. Now we are rusted, barren, resentful, and wage war everywhere. Eastern Asia is growing like a crop of corn. That's what I am talking about.
“My parents would say, ‘You spend so much on skateboard and outfits every month.’ I said, ‘I’ve got a job now. I go to work everyday. My job is skateboarding.’”
WATCH NEXT: Epicly Later’d returns with Bam Margera on September 6 (preview) - bit.ly/2eLX0pb
Here's a cookie 🍪
Next time please try the skate scene at the Philippines...
skateboarding is so universal and brings people together from different cultures. Love this sport.
Every sport has that bro, I agree with you though
Jian Shen is a great skater. Got to skate with and watch him skate many times at 大学城 (Higher Education Mega Center). Very cool to see him here on Vice!
Intro lady completely butchered that Zhōngwén
Edis Goldner She might be prouncing it in Cantonese instead of Mandarin.
Still butchered that shizzle
I feel, I have a degree in Chinese and heard her like wuuuuuut. But I feel the comments, cantonese or nah?
She called him Lou Jensen lol. And "Gungzow"? No that's not Cantonese, that was "fuck that not even gonna try"-ese.
fuckign butchered it! not even a close attempt.
Dude lands his tricks crazy. Like his boards about to wash out. Beyond that, who cares what race he is. I read some of the comments on here and it really makes me hope people are just being pathetic bored trolls.
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The people talking shit on him for throwing and breaking his board have obviously never been skaters lol
Or... just hear me out... they have and realize that the board is expensive, not at fault, and that breaking the board serves only to make the skater look like a child throwing a temper tantrum.
Focusing your board isn't throwing a tantrum. When it cracks or starts breaking people break their boards dramatically sometimes.
Everyone is different, but if you've ever been competitive or just wanted to do something really bad, then you'll get frustrated/mad at some point. You see football players breaking footballs, their gear, soccer players the same, tennis players breaking their 200 dollar + racquets. It's not about being logical. If you really think they're childish for doing so, then sorry, but look up any great athlete doing some "childish shit", and I guarantee you'll find something on it. Are you consider that childish even considering that they are the best at what they do? Also, skateboards aren't all that expensive.
Critter Cosner Or... in the moment you need to release your frustrations. Like punching a wall. The wall didnt do anything but you need an outlet. Its far better to release your anger than hold it in, especially on an inanimate object rather than holding it in and then letting it out on someone later. Pros do it. Ams do it. Local kids do it. Doesnt make anyone look like a child, it makes them look human
Critter Cosner + Like he said, you've never been a skater before. Its a stressful, frustrating and dangerous sport. Break as many fucking boards as you like. I more concerned about not wearing a helmet.
"USA New Bailun"
Knockoff level: China
That sure was a good laugh.
Nice vice. But he aint that small.
Ethan P
LOL yeah VICE is working on a eugenics program as we speak and they just push there SJW agenda to fool the masses
(Adjusts tin-foil Hat)
It's all a conspiracy bro
Look at the size of his legs
Uhhh.... you know that Vice makes docs about EVERYTHING? Have you watched their daily news show on HBO? Or their weekly show on HBO? Or the multitude of programs on Viceland? I'm guessing not.
Man I feel that, I had a period where none I knew skated anymore except me and its so sort of lonely skating on your own. My progress definitely halted without people around.
the main reason i stopped skating years ago, everyone stopped and got into video games. sucks skating by yourself.
Varg Sutton You didn’t want it bad enough
I'm quitting video games to go skating lol!
Video games are more profitable. You can game live and earn money.
I literally skated with him when I studied in Guangzhou in 07' 08'
Amazing guy
Guys, just imagine, me, a chinese in china, watching a doc talking about story of white badminton or table tennis player. I guess that is the feeling you have.
dont understand what this means
The kind of guy to throw his phone after a heated argument.
The biggest I saw on this video was a nollie heel, but why is it that the only flip trick he does on flat is a kickflip. Where are the tre flips?frontside flips? It kind of makes me doubt how big his tricks really are.
13:12 - 13:20 Cameraman's got a grass griptape ??
ho yeah😆
Vice is best documentary channel on TH-cam
NIRAJ UPADHYAY it used to be
no it's not
try Science magazine foo"
Leansifer 69.0 Stop trying to write off people off as "russian bots" Vice can be very bias.
Rick and Morty it's an amazing channel
When its not hosted by that camelnose blonde ho..mostly I kinda dig it.
I hope that kickflip was switch. lmao
12:25 New Balance is called "New Bailun," that's fucking hysterical.
Awesome documentary.
U nollie heeled a double set, but kickflippin down 2 stairs made u break ur board.. .
Lol in the beginning when she says "VICE Brooklyn," if course!! With that get up you couldn't be anywhere else
This is the perfect style of news segments I've come across. Can't say they aren't bias but a good alternative in ReasonTV. Keep it up!
He should move to la he would love it out there he seems like such a Cali dude
can i get a music link for what was played in this video?
What he should do is leave his home country for a while and travel to different parts of the world to skate. He can make connections with other skaters throughout his travels and can influence others to skate at his home country. By doing that, he won't be bored and he can bring back the skate scene that was once lost.
3:45 Track ID plz? Great thx from Guangzhou
Cringed so hard when she pronounced GuangZhou like that
she was trying to say it in cantonese
6:22 the feeling only a true skater can understand.
@ 7:15 what does him being dark (presumably a reference to his skin) have to do w/ his abilities or lack thereof?
Guangzhou looks like a place with many hidden spots to chill
Vice, least you can do is pronounce Guangzhou properly.
At 0:36, you hear Jian Shen say "Guangzhou" in Cantonese. No one is asking for PERFECT pronunciation in a language unfamiliar to them, but the least Vice can do is get it as close to right as possible. They obviously have correspondents in China who could have helped with this..
Jiyin Low Why the Fuck do you care if an american cant pronounce a weird ass city name
I can tell you why I care... I care because not even attempting the j sound of the zh in Guangzhou shows carelessness of the reporting that discredits Vice and its quality. Its actually not that difficult to say if the girl just practiced or if Vice had official policy on working towards trying to say words right. As Vice grows into the media monstrosity it increasingly is seen as, its these characteristics that make me question Vice's commitment to the values I'd like to see in my news stations. BBC has very tight requirements, for example, on attempting pronunciation of places and names in non English, as does CNN reporting staff.
Andrew L Savini cnn and the BBC are definitely not corporations vice should model itself after
I believe they are confused. Should they use Mandarin translation of 廣州, or Cantonese?
How does a place that large have no skaters? Makes no sense to me....
Because unlike America and other countries, kids in China don’t really have any free times, schools usually starts at around 7:00 in the morning and ends at 6:00, and after that some may have extra tutoring, for the kids in China, skate broading is actually a really unfamiliar sports, i was lucky enough to leaving China (Guangzhou actually, we’re from the same city) after the 6th grade, so for him grow up in China and manage to become pro is actually really impressive, respect for him
so true tho
Busy eating fetus soup.
honestly skateboarding is life for him. a man
Amazing,the pollution is sad,my daughter still skates at 33 but injuries affect work- teaching surfing! Hope you get more sponsors with this video!
Jian Shen is rad. Point blank period.
lol dat deck with ganja drawing at 1:47
Chinese food is pretty good
Like fetus soup. And crunchy fried cockroach. Yep lovely.
The first three minutes didn't get me hooked. His origin story was basically the one _every skater_ had. Plus, the tricks shown are good without a doubt, but don't justify the videos title. That being said, I didn't know skating was a thing in China.
That finger point at 5:22 was fuckin' gangsta lmao
i don't see a link to watching the full thing? am i blind? anyone? thanks!
whats the song at 14:00?
0:05 "gungzao"
I miss skating...universal love
@ 13:19 does that dude really have grass textured grip tape...someone please look at this and let me know
Can anyone enlighten me ? how is he consider the top skater in guang zhou ?
there must not be anymore skaters.
So he's the best in China and all alone. Got it.
He couldn't kickflip a little 2stair and he broke his board ?
I agree. This guy sucks! Please check this : th-cam.com/video/3N-nHXvSczw/w-d-xo.html and he is a real pro, not like this stupid that broke his board just because he don´t land a 2 stair kickflip.
Its calling having expectations for yourself. People have different expectations of each other and for one self. I don't even skate all at and if i were to do a kickflip, i'll be astonish but since he's a pro, if he keeps on making mistakes or so he'll naturally get piss.
You may know Maggie as the little girl from finding nemo shaking the fish in the dentist office.
Whether or not he should have broken his board, good thing he did. Did you see how easily it snapped? That thing is a hazard
go guangzhou!! my hometown :)
Man I get pissed but I can't afford to break boards. I am skating alone also nobody to skate with either. I might skate for about 30 minutes or an hour, but it is a crazy hot summer.
He is the McEnroe of Chinese skating.
NICE I LOVE TONNY HALK
He got that flow
I would hang out with him!
I think just about every skater never quits, not saying its not admirable
You’d think for a pro, that that Kick flip down the two stair would be like a 100% make every time. His other tricks in the line were harder than a two stair kick flip. 🤷🏽♂️
Did this nigga just make a lion king reference at 0:36
thanks video VICE
How to know this guy？
Respect from China ！牛逼！
"There's always an Asian who is better than you, no matter how much effort you put in what you do"
yea but when it comes to skateboarding asians dont even come close to what americans can do...
T8 Brasil...
T8 how close minded is that mindset
T8 not true yuto horigome is on par with top pros, many others out there too. Not sure why vice chose this guy tho never heard of him...
Ами Лаза J.Cole "Love Yourz" reference?
Bruh why tf do they need his ID to visit a park
cuz its china.
i wanna see this guy on king of the road. Vice make it happen.
i've never seen a pro fail at kickflipping a 2 stair and then snap their board in anger.. this guy needs a scooter
Thought this dude was tight. Made me wanna skate for sure
Lou Jansen lol. Ah yes. You have Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantel, and Lou Jansen. hahaha
he needs to get out of China and get to a skate friendly country
Seems to me based on this video that you can skate in any public space in his city. It's the dedicated skate parks that are hard to access. Weird contradiction...
Brad Griffin probably wouldn't be allowed if there was more then 3 skaters in the whole area
Brad Griffin believe it or not China shits on its people they live a restrictive live over there
Or the industry needs to create more opportunities in peoples' native countries
Sry to tell u, that China is actually one one the most skater friendly countries.
There are evidently more skaters in the city. Feel like he's choosing to skate alone.
Blacky!! Good friendddd in GZ!!!
I think I can become a pro skater in China..
you can't
Damn you must be right
No, you can't. If you don't have the skill, you're no good anywhere.
U can’t and u should check that guys video part. The tricks he did are insane. In China, if u are cocky u can’t survive
Nope. Get back on watching porn. You delusional.
Somebody needs to send this man to America. I can understand how he is the only pro left in that boring looking town.
haha! knew he was about to focus that board.
Nobody cares about Maggie from the Vice Office in Brooklyn - just stop.
So true. I had enough with that stupid intro, nobody cares vice’s stupid employees
@@underhorse5367 right? Why do they always come off so I don’t know smug/pompous/arrogant/pretentious/self important ? Oh right. Because they think we care! Well we don’t! Lol
Why do they refer to him as Luo Jien Shen if he says his name is Lo Ham San?
What’? a skating ring with block concrete
That’s crazy
Proud!
Some one get this lonely soul to L.A now!
As the title says he's just like wee man was in the 90s!
Man I feel for this guy, to be so talented but not have any one to motivate you.
Look at all the smog
4:19？
any content covering skateboarding is pretty sick. I don't know why.
Nice vid made skills
I've never been to China… but every time I see video of a house or place in China, I notice that the floors are always covered with inexpensive tiles (as opposed to carpet or wood or concrete)…
I'm just wondering why this is? Is it cultural, or more of a money thing.
You mean in the street? Or in a room?
Yixuan Jia- I notice tile in houses mostly. Or like in this video, where they all were chilling at spot... drinking and what not, I saw a tile floor.
dru Stories hmm, normally at resident rooms ppl use tiles or wood material floor, price from 15dollar per sqr meter up to 1xx dollar. And that bar looks not quite fancy, just a street bar, maybe the boss intent to invest on other things.
Yixuan Jia... but carpeted floors, that's not super common??
dru Stories piece of carpet from ikea, but not all over the place. Only some office and hotels use carpet everywhere.
Thumbnail looks like Alfredo morelos lol
China is another world..town that big should have thousands of skaters.
I would really like to skate with him
can you get the people in the beginning of the video to say the chinese names correctly shit is killing me
What i want life to be 9:45 -9:52.
Dude is fucking awesome. Wish I never quit skating!
Usa new bai lun is a knock off for new balance?
common man at least you could pay the beer
at 3:20, the frames show a rack of boards. The big black one says it all - Hong motha fucking Kong. I know this is a fun video, cool skating and all. But we better wake up, pull our heads out of ass and smell the petunias. Did you check out the Guangzhou skyline? Many years ago I was flying north in a Huey, up near the DMZ. We banked hard left and headed out toward the Yellow Sea. We say a huge area being cleared. a couple of months later, we say the geometric shapes, outlining a new city.
A month or so later, we could clearly see the 3D risings of the sky scrapers. Months later, on a night flight, the whole town was light up light Manhattan.
Why have we lost our way? It is good that this is a skateboarding video. Like the surfing and motocross videos in the 70s, we escape, we idolize and we forget life for a while. We envy the talent, the dedication, and the ability of these riders and drivers and that they have the liberty to do what they do and life, good or bad, doesn't see to touch them.
We forget for a while, we are lost.
Joe Ciliberto What are you talking about
Joe Ciliberto huh...
Andres - My mentor is a Serrano, he is great man. I am lamenting that we in the US are all consumed in nonsense, and we are a dying country, yet Eastern Asia (East of Japan) is rising. We seem to have forgotten how to grow, in fact, many convince us that we can't. I lived in East Asia for 17 years, the Asian Tiger years. Lee Kwon Yu, HopeWell, Mathatir, and Posco. China had Taiwan and Hong Kong, with Shanghai and Guangzhou waking up. And then, boom, the lights went out in the US and all we do is buy, buy, buy, and worry about a little fat man with an odd hair cut. I grew up where everyone worked, we have industrial capacity, ingenuity and peace. Now we are rusted, barren, resentful, and wage war everywhere. Eastern Asia is growing like a crop of corn.
That's what I am talking about.
Tyler - Nice Truck (64?)- See my reply to Andres.
Joe Ciliberto the fuck are u smoking
dudes calves are insane
Where's Reda
i kinda feel bad for him, he has no one to skate with. He should come to the US
Should go rip some of the spots in North Korea,, that'd be sweeet🤙
where on earth is Geng zao? Try Gwong Joe and you're nearly there.
GuangZhou is a province, not a city. GuangDong is a city, GuangXi is a city.
you got it the other way around.
Skateboarding is lifestyle not sport in main