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Mark Suciu Review

🕑 Added 2021-11-26 08:50:24 +0000 UTC

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Luka As

same here haha

Julio Macedo

just signed up, bingeing everything from old to new and all videos are 10/10

Oakspit

Disagree with the shove 50 on the police barrier. Im from NYC and those things tip over insanely easily. If you look he has two barriers to hold it down, but it was honestly graceful how he did it.

Drunken concubine

he's read a lot about books and he knows about all the high literary styles. He seems to treat skateboarding the same way; he can reference Busenitz as much as he likes and its cool, but I'd love to see his ideas that don't involve him putting out some kind of mirrored (?) weird editing. Skating isn't a book

Phi Moreno

To top it all off the song sucks

Thankyoucomeagain kamala

After watching flora 3 (his 4th part) I think I have some opinions now. I believe, and I could be wrong, but I think the spitfire part was old footage. There’s something about it that doesn’t seem up to date. The clothes, his hair, his skating… seems like it’s 2-3 years ago maybe. The lack of enthusiasm and innovation in that part compared to his other parts is apparent and I think it could have been bonus/throw away footage from years before. This could be tied to him having to make videos for sponsors or whatever so he tried to kill two birds, soty and his sponsors, with one (or 3) stones. Again, just an opinion not based in fact. To further prove my point however, his flora 3 part seems way more like the suciu I was used to seeing, like the one in verso. Yes there are a couple tricks/lines where it seems a little drawn out, but there is an undeniably impressive barrage of tricks that I had never seen before and were almost hinted to at the end of the spitfire part when he killed blubba. I believe that flora was his “passion project” for lack of better words. He’s not a typical hand rail skater. No one wants to see him do a smith or a feeble on a hand rail when he can do what he can do on ledges. BUT, this time he skated hand rails his way. He brought his tech, smoothness, and creativity to hand rails to apply his own skill to that discipline of skating and to that, I commend him. I found that extremely impressive in the flora part. I feel as though these 4 parts went from cool, to weird tiresome gimmick, to an impressive feat that I don’t think and won’t think will be overlooked. I think that mark has made himself undeniable and I’m sure that was part of the strategy. It seems as though all the bangers were kept for the last (maybe) part. Idk how you feel about this but I’m interested in your opinion on the last part. Should he have condensed it all into one great part like verso? This I’m not sure about because it seems that has never helped him achieve his goal of SOTY in the past. I personally think it’s okay to have this as a goal if it means it proves pro skaters can put out more than 1 part every 5 years while they party the rest of the time. His dedication to skating alone deserves a SOTY. {MUY MUCHO TEXTO} **side note: I thought his back noseblunt after busenitz was in slo-mo until I watched a 2nd time and realized busenitz just skates that fast lol

John L

one of my friends used to hang out with him from time to time in san jose, he said he is pretty weird irl for what it’s worth

Emmanuel

Then again, maybe I'm talking out of my ass and it has nothing to do with the award.

Emmanuel

He's not weird. He's a guy with a college degree in an industry where nobody has. He decided to try and make it within the skate industry instead of going further with his studies. Of course he comes across a bit different. I think he did the choice a few years ago to be as good/successful as he could. So yeah, I think he is deliberately trying to get SOTY. It makes sens for him. It would for me, even if I love skating as he does. Nothing about being a mastermind, just making the best out off the choice he made.

Edward Calamia

Your lack of enthusiasm for Suciu is shocking. Your paranoia-critical method where you assume everything is about SOTY did not convince me. Suciu may come off as some sort of genius but I doubt that he masterminded a SOTY conspiracy across all of his sponsors and so on. I think people just hate him because he is weird.

TPB3333

The most shocking thing I found to be the music. Sounded straight up like a blues/country backing track you can find on youtube to practise guitar solo's to

Noel Bustamante

i’m at a club in LA and midler is here

Devon Cooper

its crazy how Chima is just going to win SOTY anyways lol

Garrick Slings

Much texto Ik

Garrick Slings

Very good video as always I respect the takes but personally I disagree. In a year where a lot of skaters I personally like haven’t even made a part or put out ANY content I can appreciate someone actually attempting to put a good amount of core skating out for people to watch. I agree there is definitely some filler and one really strong part would be preferable but I don’t know if it’s fair to say that since the parts were for three different sponsors who’s to say how much of a choice he had as to how they were split up or released

microwaverr

I started feeling this way after Red Tiger too, his parts this year have been pretty mind blowing

Barefoot Bomber

The Blue Dog video isn’t terrible.

JakeS9

Kevin Bradley was never good and doesnt even skate anymore.

Gabriel

Savage

Bagmanjo

Not enough was said about how fucking terrible single every fit was. Absolutely brutal. Looked like the mf was headed to Sunday church to lead the youth group.

Cormac Cordery- Cotter

I somewhat agree with you that watching Mark skate handrails is a bit offputting and not his best skating, but I disagree on some other points. I think that his lines are actually quite enjoyable. Having a longer line with a flatground trick in the middle is kinda oldschool and fits the New York skater vibe imo. I do think he has a fair bit of filler in here, and I definitely agree he should have just done 1 super banger part. That being said, I am curious if there was pressure from sponsors to do multiple parts?

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Really liked that part too

Emmanuel

I really hope that Dilo get SOTY over Suciu. I feel like John, more than Mark, really skated fucking hard this year, with or without the award in mind. Compared to John's amazing Red Tiger part, Mark's part feels like no such efforts were put into it.

Bあjあ

Mark suciu joker arc, this is what we get for not giving it to him for verso

NastyChingaso

Idk I liked the part

Theodore Barrow

{MUCHO TEXTO}

Theodore Barrow

To elaborate: I appreciate your take, and you are not wrong to notice the “try hard/overthink” tendency, but Mark is trying hard to put out innovative parts in an era when things like Thrasher are sadly losing relevance to things like Cariuma/Street league/Olympics. SOTY may be overblown hype anyway, but at least Suciu is still directing his efforts towards a goal that is still within the remit of “core” skateboarding. Yes, there is something calculated about this, but they don’t give soty to aloof cool guy weirdos, never have. Two words: Chris Cole. I loved your take, but I think that MS is the coolest option we have this year, all things considered.

King Harvest

This was blasphemous.

KapZachlan

We get it you love Max Palmer lol I kid…mostly. I get the contrarian ish is part of this, but I personally like seeing Mark have a chip on his shoulder. It’s pretty telling that half the feedback is, “this is not what Mark does/what I want to see” He can’t win no matter what he does in the “core” eyes, and he got robbed for SOTY. Get ya shit Mark. Especially when the person who started the hate train, didn’t even have a single clip in the team video his sponsor just put out.

Theodore Barrow

Hard disagree

Lorenzo Frijas

i started watching this and my female friend with 0 knowledge of skating caught on to what you were saying and ended up sitting down with me watching the whole thing thinking it was hilarious lol

JP

I think a big piece of why it's not satisfying to watch him lately is that Mark never seems out of control, which means he's never quite at his limits. For as insanely good as his skating is, it should be EVEN BETTER if he takes chances. Flat out, it's fun to watch people get something where you can tell they surprised themselves.

Matthew McDole

Trying so desperately to win soty comes off as disingenuous and makes me not care about him at all. None of these parts were 5 star like verso. All the parts having awful music is the shitty icing on the shitty cake.

Alexander lee

max wheeler stained > verso

Alexander lee

never gave a shit about verso. his back breaker tricks are sick but a whole ass video part from him is hard to watch, especially three video parts with filler.

Benjamin Saunders

I liked the hippie jump. Kinda felt like when your laced up tight dad makes a dorky joke. It’s the thought that counts

bret jee

the last thing i expect to see in a gifted hater comment section is a pro wrestling term, based

Fabio-E. Mesarosch

somebody that seems as humble as suciu it`s probably unsymhatetic that he is going for it, because he seemed so core that he should not care about this accolade. But the Part were nice. Fuck people hating on him

village idiot

dude oversaturated himself into being disliked honestly. still liked 2/3 of his parts tho

JP

The guy is hustling for SOTY to pay for the undergrad/graduate school student loans. His shaved head kinda says to me he's kind of in divorced dad mode. I would love to see a heel turn where Mark becomes a Nyjah esque dominant skater.

Tiarnan Gardiner

Do you think you'll review the new "hit video"

Cullum Pope

Always found Suciu bland, don’t think I’ve ever been engaged watching his footage. Only ever gave him time of day bcause Gary Rogers has always hyped him up 🥱

chaosisme

The only way in which I think you are like theneedledrop (I’ve seen people say it before) is that you’ve sort of accidentally created this large group of people who don’t think for themselves,they just watch your videos and your opinion becomes their opinion no matter what. I see people quote you all the time but play it off as their opinion. I hope there aren’t too many people who wait for reviewers opinions to decide what they thought of something because it’s fucking lame. I think people think that if you like someone you have to agree with EVERYTHING they say. I love some of your opinions but I couldn’t care less about some of your other opinions (“Could care less” doesn’t make sense) I always look forward to your videos even when I don’t agree with you. I would LOVE to see you review a hidden gem called Deck Dogz, I found this film at a carboot sale when I was a kid and it’s the worst movie I’ve ever seen and it needs way more recognition. Thanks for the content, sorry for the long comment, hope you had a good holiday!

richud

made this comment while watching the video had literally no idea youd say this EXACT shit

richud

chances are if mark took the most solid footage from the 3 parts he dropped he would actually have something relatively in the SOTY space, but as it stands these videos, and the amount of them, just feel so bloated. cant deny the courthouse to blubba was solid tho