"Hey Dude Video Magazine" is a new video magazine out of Germany. It features profiles of Swiss Cladio Bohli and German Guido Rosenkranz. Personally, I have never heard of Cladio Bohli, and only little of Guido Rosenkranz before I saw this flick. Guido Rosenkranz is surely a skater to watch out for in the future.

The video is a cooperation between be-mag filmer Marcel Schubert, Claudio Antonelli, Daniel Prell, and Bassti Beheim. The idea behind "Hey Dude", is to bring you the freshest content twice a year.

The video gives a rare view into the German skate scene, which can't be seen in for instance clip video magazine. Where the Clip magazine focuses on the same known faces from issue to issue, Hey Dude is much broader in its representation of local German skaters. By watching Hey Dude, you get a much better look at how the German scene is all around.

The video is targeted to the local German scene and not so much the broader European scene. There is for instance a long interview in German in the middle of the video with German rolling legends: Sven Schillings, Mathias Peterka, and Matthäus Parobeck – followed by a video section of them rolling. Fortunately, the interview was subtitled, but it didn't hype me as much as if I had seen a video featuring my own local rolling legends: Tom Ahlqvist, Rene Hulgreen, and the likes.

"Hey Dude" uses some unique and creative ideas when it comes to profile intros and motion graphics. These were truly a joy to watch.

If I would watch the video for the 100th time, I would probably go straight to the montage section and then watch the Guido Rosenkranz section. In the montage, it is especially Matze Ogger's tricks that are really nice to watch. Men Cheung has also got some really nice spin tricks. Fullcab truespin topside Acid and 540 soul! Shit!

Matze Ogger: Royale through the bumps.