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- On this episode of 'VICE INTL,' we head to Shenzhen, where Wang Huifeng is tearing it up as a professional skateboarder for Vans. The strictly-street skater takes us to his favorite spots in the province, and tells us what's keeping China's skate scene from taking off-along with what he's doing to help it flourish.
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This dude is the definition of authentic.
why
He's living the life he wants to live in a country where that is extremely difficult to do. You can just tell by this brief glimpse that hes the kind of guy you want to be around because of his attitude towards skateboarding and life. He's not living for anyone or anything (Money/ status/ etc).
You can just tell, from the way he talks and the way he moves. Very authentic, and he believes in what he does. That's awesome.
I have no idea...? Regardless, it doesnt really matter does it?
hes sponsord he gets free clothes and some money to buy stuff wid
This is the kind of stuff i originally subscribed to vice for. good video.
Please come to Minneapolis Minnesota and visit Familia and Steve Nesser. Midwest US skate roots and good vibes.
Agree, it was really well done.
i'm a videographer myself. this is the kind of stuff i'd love to film.
a refreshing change from the slutever segments
Vice is not just for you dumb ass.
Watching this made me smile. Humans are so different, but also just the same. They want the same things no matter where they're from.
damn....thats deep.
Matthew Cunningham so true
Matthew Cunningham I do shit, eat and sleep. Tell me you are different than me.
Yep
@Aloysius Redillas thats so funny but i seem to have lost my ability to laugh, unfortunately
10:40 "If you have to skate in competition in order to become pro then Skateboarding is meaningless."
True that, you get older and less people you know skate. Fuck that though, I'm old enough to be his father and I still skate every day.
Lindsay Kay never stop yo
Thats whatsup!
I'm 27 and started to skate a few weeks ago, I couldn't do it sooner because of money issue and other reasons. I loved it back then and love it too and will continue as long I can!
that makes me happy :) good for you!
Lindsay Kay Grow up, m8.
Would be great to have these guys come out to California and skate alongside our pros.
Ryan Turner
But not in competition, keep it real, keep it about Skating, not promotions. Anyway, Chinese people do travel, the U.S. is home to a great many imigrants, so I am sure it happens occasionally that Cali residents should skate with Chinese visitors.
Charlie Wood Of course. I can clearly envison these guys kicking it with us at beach and it would be a great time. I think if the chinese government saw how awewome and genuine we can be as skaters in the place where it all started , it could be a game changer for those people overseas who are socialy oppressed.
dont get it twisted now, skate parks and the skater movement are definitely growing in popularity out in China (since i was living there in the early 2000s) and tons of my local skater friends would FIEND to check out parks in the US. (Had a buddy take a trip to Venice Beach,
The greatest thing about seeing these different cultures come together over skating and extreme sports in general were the few Kia Asia X-Games held in China a few times (Shanghai being one of them). I worked as a PA for the event and got to hang with Bob Burnquist..just for a bit...and a lot of foreign athletes that had come to China really were impressed by the turn out (not entirely just foreigners into extreme sports, lots of locals too).
For me, the idea that social oppression or lack of freedom of expression at a national level thus impacting your ability to skate or not is sort of an overplayed trope about the west's commentary on the lack of personal freedoms in China. Personally, I believe China is also the country where you CAN get away with more shit because at some levels there's a greater degree of freedom to do things. Yes will the annoying bao'an (guard) tell you to stop fucking around? Sure. But this is also the place where you can roam around skating around and get away with it more than in the US in my experience (having concerned neighbors call on you or cops telling you to stop skating in an abandoned school ground).
The CCP hates collectivization more than any particular issue. You wanna talk smack about the big daddy Xi on the internet? Sure go ahead, you might get some soulless 50 cent army moderator talking some shit. But no one will kick in your door and may you repent your western devilish ways. BUUUUT if you wanted to rally a bunch of homies and go out to the streets to preach your support of granddaddy Xi? Nah, fuck that jazz, ya'll aint mobilizing for shit!!
So go skate and just dont fucking terrorize people (there IS a bias taht skaters are "wild" and "reckless" and "destructive..but i find i think most cultures where that movement is still emerging have that societal bias)
Wheh, this is long AF. My b! Skate hard! Live long! Find some Chinese homies to skate with! They cooo!
Eric Axel
That's not the main vibe I recived from the video I was merely expanding on a single point that grabbed my interest. The main focus of video was showing off the pro skater lifestyle for Chinese pros and I concur that they live well, but could be much more if they applied themselves a bit more. The line between promotionalism in the skate industry and the sport itself is very thin, but if the right people come together and the focus on what's truly important in the sport i.e. spending time with your mates and enjoying a sense of freedom that only a skate board can give then its all good.
trump wont allow it
when the cops are blocking the manual pad and he says at 9:18 "no skating, no tricks, none of its allowed" its actually translated wrong. hes actually saying "no skating, no getting high allowed" ahahahah
joe valdez they are not cops, they are just secretary staff hired by private property companies.
飞 is chinese of fly which is getting high
Cool vid, amazing how skating crosses all barriers, same skate vibe we all know and love growing even in such a radically different country
TheAwesomeStuff
But thatz the lesson: it aint radically different at all. Even politically speaking. China and "the West" are huge business partners after all...
That's a fair point but for your normal average Chinese dude on the street his families belief system and way of life is very different to the similar family in US/Europe/Africa etc.
TheAwesomeStuff
Sure. But by shrinking the scale down from nation to nation and instead looking from neighbor to neighbor people are 'different'. Africa, for instance, is a huge place with many different governments and languages. Ditto Europe. Ditto the United States. No two people are exactly alike in their beliefs, there's a universe next door, even among the people of the religious congregation you may attend. The differences matter very little, however. When I watched this video I didn't see people of great difference to myself. Ironically, the greatest difference for me isn't natonality or belief framework, those aren't so different, it's that I don't Skate, but I feel I'm up on that skateboard or wringing out a sweaty shirt anyway.
TheAwesomeStuff u prob only think ur country is the best. And this prove that u didn't get a good quality education tho....lol.
Don't just assume man, that's not what he is saying. He's saying that it's really cool that skating crosses borders, and even though people might come from very different backgrounds, speak different languages, and come from different cultures, they still have a lot in common. He's talking about bring people together, while you are trying to push everyone apart. Not cool man.
i used to hang with these skaters sometimes back around 2008. the kid in this video was the next big thing back then. good to see he has done well! also been surfing that beach since 2005. pretty much all the skaters there adopted surfing which is cool to see as well.
dudes skating in a fucking beyblade stadium
My heart goes out to this guy and the skate kids of China. Some of my best years were skating streets, parks, ranches, and schools with friends and family. Bonds built with blood, sweat, and concrete.
May harmony find you~
holy shit finally something interesting
Aaron Godwin check out the mormon porn vid they posted it was kinda tight
This is what I want when I come to watch VICE
China's Skate Scene and china in general looks lit af!
Much love to our brothers in China! Keep Thrashing until the day you die! Mad skills in China!! Skateboarding is most certainly embedded into your culture..into your very D.N.A! So Dope!!!!! We love you guys!!!
Really stoked to see china has spots like that, makes me wanna go.
Gnar n' RAW steeze\\m// wtheck u mean....? U thought China like North KoreA?
Takeshi Kitano i am really sorry for you ... what a loser...
Takeshi Kitano Wtf are you talking about 😂 Have you even been to China???!!! You need to go out from your room and see the world
Gnar n' RAW steeze\\m// Man!Becoz in the world,when ppl talking about china all about shit right?
Takeshi Kitano kids in china don't really shit in the streets dude... i've been to china and i assure you that the big cities are very clean, even if sometimes there's a lil' bit of pollution
Dude. If there were this much security around spots in the U.S... we would be doing backflips
ZypherGraphics yeah fuck that shit, we would riot.
Mr.PoopyButthole no you wont lmaoo
That's Chinese culture for you. The government will build a massive park but prohibit anyone from walking on the grass, walking near the fountain or anything that is remotely enjoyable. I've even seen places put up railings for the existing railings.
but when they travel, citizens act like crazy people, bathing in fountains, shitting in grass, throwing trash, blowing their snot on the sidewalk... wtf...
I know what you're talking about, I'm from Hong Kong and we constantly bitch about the shitty behavior of mainlanders.
Yassss VICE! 这个滑板手太好了
I think China and Japan are gonna dominate skateboarding in the Olympics with skaters no one has heard of
dude don't tell me you don't know who yuto horigome and sakura yosozumi are lol
Street league already had a few Japanese skaters in the finals
@Aloysius Redillas Yuto Horigomi is from Japan and placed second in the 2017 finals
Wang Huifeng takes us on a tour of Shenzhen, showing us what’s preventing the local skate scene from flourishing - and what he’s doing to fix it.
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VICE good looking out! shenzhen seemed super wavy. id love to visit!
chinas got some sick skate parks
I never of China like this, this video has opened my eyes to this part of the world. Every video that you guys make does this and I sincerely thank you for that.
I lived in shenzhen for four years and moved back to the US last year. I skated / surfed all these places. Shenzhen is the best street skating spot in the world. Awesome video vice! side note: your intro dude sucks at chinese
Chinese isn't a language dude... lol
Chinese is a language spoken by over a billion people dude. LOL
Ian Heraty they speak mainly Mandarin in China...
Saying Chinese is a language is like saying Mexican is a language.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language
Ian Heraty ya, Chinese can be considered a group of languages (ie. Mandarin, traditional Chinese etc.)... If you were referring to traditional Chinese than I misunderstood you.
respect
0:20 what a handclap
skateboard: *exists*
security: *E X C U S E M E*
This man is awesome
The vibe of this video is absolutley fantastic
shenzhen seemed wavy af. id love to visit!
00:25 i feel your pain
I didnt even notice that! hahaha
mah hart, mha sole :v
Keep up the good work Vice!
"Skate as long as you can" word.
How about another season of Epicly Later'd?
yeahhh dude i wanna see the china edition
Very cool guy with such a great perspective on life great video
even though this guy is from a different culture, i feel like i am similar to him because he skates
"Success comes to those who persevere"
this made me miss shenzhen for the first time in four years. I didn't discover this side of it when I was there in 2012 and 2013.
His life seems so exciting yet simple at the same time I really wish I could live this way.
Fuck yeah, Vice putting out quality content again!
such a honest view of a skater growing up and getting older and friends fading out, great video:)
man been a while since ive been on a board but i can still do a few tricks,but yes skating downtown is hard in any city always being chased off and what not but meeting new ppl and the type of vibes and life style is nothing but good,freedom of the soul,had some of the best times of my life skating and wouldnt of had it any other way,hats off to u Wang i know how u feel my friend
I am so happy to see this flourishing in China. I have taught here for many years and the children don't participate in anything interesting and the vast majority are boring and not creative. I hope this grows in popularity and makes China more individualistic.
David Gaudet not your kind of your concern my friend. Chinese are living fine without your dumbass "hope".
Yes... Chinese people are living "fine".
That's a pretty hip hop, pretty dope, pretty go get em thumbnail right there
This was actually really inspiring ...
This is frikin sweet. Love all the skate stuff you guys do, you get it right everytime.
Another great job Vice. I just got done watching Dan Leung on Falling In and Out of Love with Skating and that was a fantastic episode! Because, as a skater and grew up in skater culture I understand and relate what these guys go through. Skateboarding, in essence, is friendship. Just having fun and not having a care in the world.
This shit made me cry. Skateboarding is such an amazing thing. Its seriously everywherr now. Love it.
They really nailed that high five to fist bump in the beginning.
1,500th upvote! 👍 8:09 that people's square complex is some awesome architecture
Dope skater! Love his attitude too, lot of people skaters or not could learn something from this guy. Very humble and driven at the same time.
不错
Skating: One of the few US exports I advocate for every country on Earth, along with BMX if you can't skate well. Surfing has gotten arrogant, snowboarding requires cash, rap and baseball have had their time, and our guns'n'religion obsession has no more business being exported than Sharia law and AK's. But skating the local concrete wastelands is always a solid contribution to the youth of the entire species.
I rollerskate, but I have never met or heard of anyone rollerskating in foreign countries. It would be a nice thing to hear about because it is so amazing but not very popular
Ahh shekou is sweet place, where my grandmother lives... I just came back from my holiday from china... place has changed not necessarily for the better but hey we can't get in the way of progress.... VICE I'd love to see more of the CHINA vice stuff. There's so much weird going on over there.
Street skating, just like street racing, will always be the pure form. no skatepark or racetrack will ever be the same as the street. It gets tiring fighting against the confinement society tries to put on us; but that is THE fight. Respect from the USA.
finally a great piece of content !
Glad to see skateboarding picking up more and more over there
That guy understood, more like this Vice!
😏great news piece of sports journalism on the skate scene over in China, I enjoyed a lot knowing that there's a dedicated Vans pro skater team put together to help the sport evolve, loved seeing bits of Shenzhen city,loved knowing the public places where skaters skate at and seeing the urban equipment used by skaters at these places,loved knowing about the surf scene going on among skaters and what not.Enjoyed seeing Huifeng having a chat with the cops about not being permitted to skate in certain city areas...All in all this was another great mini documentary made by you guys at ViCE, keep up the excellent work done to date and keep on coming up with interesting topics,subjects and matters for the videos you guys have been presenting us with so far,👌🏻🫡👍🏻🇵🇹🙋🏻♂️.
This video reminds me of my life in the Philippines. Please feature skateboarding in Philippines too..
defs getting back on my board this summer
This guy should hit up No Jumper ...
why is every skater hot..?
Nah, there's the chubby guys like me everywhere... 😂😂😂
EPICLY LATER'D WE MISS YOU
Finally something good from vice
Please do Korea!!! The scene has gotten bigger over there and some of the am skaters are shredding so hard!
Elisa Benaggoune Hello
Humble and good. Dude rocks.
I had literally no idea skateboarding existed in China. It's cool to see it getting some exposure.
bruh 😂
Bring back the Epicly Later'd series!
the coolest dude in all of China
that wave ledge, chris cole blunt tht thing in ride the sky.
great vid, thanks for posting!
Love this video
Well done, Vice. Many Thanks.
Spot at 1:02 is Canberra, Australia
Man I wanna visit China some day. It's dirty and the government is authoritarian, but the people seem very real and aren't obsessed with consumerism like in Japan or Singapore
I've lived here 7 years and trust me, most are extremely obsessed with materialism and consumerism. China is not Communist besides the party label, but like these guys, there are pockets of counter-culture, albeit very sparse and underground.
spartanwarmaster They are just as obsessed with consumerism as other countries. Ive visited. They are known for loving everything to be made of gold. Anything that brings them status they love.
@Darknight E This comment aged poorly.
why singapore
@@Haywood-Jablomi Your comment aged terribly.
Guys... TAIGU CANG is in Guangzhou...
what an awesome dude.
shenzen looks like the only place in china id ever want to visit
man those vice offices in brooklyn must be the most hipster offices in the world
He ain’t wrong. More and more of my old friends stop skating. Everyone just moved on including myself although I’ll skate every once in awhile.
He is the Andy Roy of Shenzhen
lovely video
wow this was a really good, interesting video. More videos like this please.
I live in Beijing, a relatively flat city with bike lanes everywhere. Skateboards as transportation have started to catch on a bit. I see teens on banana boards going to school or to and from the subway station, and middle-aged moms on long boards carrying groceries. Probably more a fad though. I don't see many real "skaters" except for at popular landmarks making skate videos.
He's got some clean ass Muska flips, I wanna skate with this dude
Very very interesting and ispirational, great vide
Why isnt this under epicly later'd wish they did the short doc.. but this is still pretty good
Great video! If it's lonely to be a skater in Shenzhen, try being a skater in Dalian haha!
Vice the plug
Vice, can you please consider adding subtitles?
Ahhhh. The good ol days of vice before HBO
shout out to bro at 4:16
I received two emails regarding Vice who wanted to use my video for HBO regarding the Cleveland facebook killing that happened yesterday on Easter. So my message to this channel is, is the message coming from this site?
should do a 2nd part to this so tight
Cool dude doing his thing and enjoying life, no doubt he loves the sport. Nice video.
I came here bc last night I dreamed about a chinese modern city with an sinous river.
I thought it was Shanghai but it was actually Shenzhen. And obviously skateboarding vids are the best way to know a city.
yo vice...do you think he or anyone knows about why the guanzhou skatepark is closed? i was in china a few weeks ago and it was shut down. couldnt figure it out. its the "world's largest skatepark" too?
8:37 Zhe? Zhe Guevara? :P
Wow this guy can really skate!