wheelbasemag's video: Camcorder Downhill Classics: Mammoth 1999

We're stoked to introduce the second video in our Camcorder Downhill Classics series and featuring home movie clips shot at the 1999 EDI downhill skateboarding race in Mammoth Lakes, California. Camcorder Downhill Classics is our latest Wheelbase Magazine video series and features digital home-movies of downhill skateboard racing from the late 1990s and through the early 2000s. This is the This was the heyday of downhill skateboard racing on prime time television—an era where Biker Sherlock and a cast of other downhill skaters helped put downhill skateboarding back on the map after a long period of dormancy (in the context of skateboarding culture overall) and thus, helped spark today's DH movement and industry. That said, this limelight for downhill was short lived as the TV executives pulled the plug on all the televised events, and DH went back underground for some years. Lucky for all of us frothing DH skate-nerds of today, our editor used to work for and skate with one of the dudes who traveled the world competing in many of the events of this era. And guess what? He always made sure to bring along his trusty camcorder to the events! Thank you Eric Lee for documenting all of this and for sharing this history with Wheelbase and our readers. Please enjoy, head on over to http://www.wheelbasemag.com/camcorder-downhill-classics-mammoth-1999/ for a list of riders, results, as well as further perspective from this event from attending rider Eric Lee himself.