(Almost) The entire HIGHFIVE! video catalog is now here. The only video not included
is Red Hot, but you can find most of those parts on our youtube account HERE
These videos are hosted on Google video. If you click the Google button in the corner
of the video you are directed to the actual video page where you can leave comments
or even download the video to your computer and even put it on your IPOD video.
Promo 1996 (the very first HIGHFIVE video!)
Promo 97
Video 97
Promo 98
Video 98
Skate Extravaganza
Argle Boogle 1
Argle Boogle 2 (added December 14)
LilBro 1997 (new addition Dec 3)
LilBro 1999 (new addition Dec 3)
Raw Skateboarding (1999)
Motivation (2000)
Lilbro2001 (2001 duh)
Break Loose (2002)
Argle Boogle 3 (2003)
Promo 04 plus Extras
Promo 04 without music
Hour of Power (2007)
The HIGHFIVE Video Collection
Depending on how long you've been in the Chatham scene, you may or may not know that we've
released a ton of videos since 1996. Here is a listing of the entire catalog, which is now available
on DVD (except for highfive02 which was never released)
highfive01
Promo 1996
Length: 8 minutes
R eleased May 1996
Riders: Chris Spafford, TJ Jones, Friends
Highlights: This is the very first video, which also marked the
start of the highfive skate team, Chris and TJ. TJ also looks about 10 years old (he's 14!)
TJ plays the 720 arcade game in the old store.
Tricks: TJ's Civic 6-stair kickflip, Chris ollies the sidewalk to bank gap under the bridge,
Chris grinds St.Joachim handrail, Steve O railslides that cool long rail in Windsor.
highfive02
Video 1996
Length: 30 minutes
Riders: TJ Jones, Todd Bushey, Chris Spafford, Eli, Mark Copley
Highlights: Camo pants, real bad editing, skateboarding in
California, Chris' part is WAY too long (3 songs), death metal,
First footage of the hideout.
Tricks: Todd frontside 180 kickflips vanier, Tj's 9 stair 180 ollie,
Ashley Turner does a double heelflip, TJ's mega crazy gap from a house
being built onto a stack of plywood, and Copley's heelflip 5-0 one-foot grind.
This video was actually never sold because the visual
quality turned out really bad. There's plenty of good footage,
and shows a big improvement in skating from the promo earlier
that year.
highfive 03
Promo 1997
Length: 30 minutes
Riders: Chris, TJ, Lot's of Friends
Highlights: Tonnes of footage from Chris' trip to Scotland. Tonnes of good
hideout footage
Tricks: The Scotland guys skate like pros. One guy IS a pro! Colin Kennedy
from Blueprint skateboards. Stuff like handrail f/s bluntslide, 8 foot indy grabs
out of a bowl, switch f/s flips down 6 stair first try.
highfive04
Video 1997
Length: 25 minutes
released Fall 1997
Riders: Steve Crowe, Shane Beaumont, Jay Hallatt, Chris Spafford, TJ Jones
H ighlights: Shane, Steve and Jay's first parts. Probably Shanes best part ever.
Tonnes of HUGE drops. Some seagulls eat hot sauce on french fries, and shake their heads funny.
Tricks: Shane's whole part has awesome spots & tricks. He was the first to ollie
a drop higher than 6 feet (8 feet actually) and you'll see TJ do tonnes more in this video.
TJ's first 360 flip down Vanier 5 stair. TJ puts the extra boxes on the stage in a row and ollies off them,
then over the stage gap!
TJ also 180 ollies a 10 stair in Toronto first try, and ollies the 6+5 double set in
Sarnia onto rough pavement, AKA The Carpet World Stairs. If that all sounded crazy,
he ollies off a stack of FOUR picnic tables, about 10 feet tall.
There's way more good stuff from all different skaters. This is a must see video!
highfive05
LilBro 1997
Length: 50 minutes
Riders: Ashley Turner, Jeff Faubert, Scott Carron, Barrie Christie, TJ Jones,
Todd Bushey, Matt Martin, Friends, Kinsmen Skatejam
Highlights: Ashleys part filmed in one night all at Nortown Plaza. Barrie's
rollerblading part - his first time ever outside of rollerhockey - he jumps
down every stair and drop in Chatham in one hour of filming, TJ's whole part is sick!
Tricks: Ashley's huge heelflip over a post, Chris backside 180 kickflip vanier,
Todd's awesome grind at Municipal, TJ Kickflips and Benihana's the stage,
TJ Ollies the huge stage gap (check the pictures!), TJ Ollies an 11 foot drop,
Faubert ollies up the stage from ground to picnic table then up on stage!
highfive06
Promo 1998
Length: 20 minutes
Released May 98
Highlights: This is the first video to be edited digitally on computer.
The sound even goes out of sync with the video, so you hear ollies before you
see them. This is Jeff Watsons first video.
Tricks: Shanes Train Gap kickflip, Chris Manual's the front of municipal,
Shane manuals the front of C-K entrance.
highfive 07
Video 1998
length: 45 minutes
released Fall 1998
Riders: chris spafford, shane beaumont, tj jones, jeff watson, jay hallatt
Highlights: big montage of old footage at the start, with 4 screen split skating!
love park & philly footage, fireworks shenanigans, re-fry, martin kwaks rad footage,
jofa grinds sears handrail on blades!,
this video is extremely awesome!
Tricks: Rollerblader bags himself on the CCI front ledge, eli slams mega hard,
barrie's bigspin kickflip off municipal, shane's roof gaps, chris 180 nose manual
on picnic table, watson heelflip indy on that one drop, jays 7 foot drop melon
grab, jay destroys the stage with kickflips-switch ollie etc etc.
THIS IS A MUST HAVE VIDEO!
highfive08
LilBro 1999
Length: 65 minutes
Released: May 1999
Riders: Steve Crowe, Jeff Watson, 2 good Friends sections, pogoball, Eli, TJJones,
Kyle & Brandon, Kinsmen Skatejam, Todd Bushey & Matt Michie, Chris Spafford, Jay Hallatt
Lilbro is more of an everyone in Chatham video, featuring lots of local skaters.
Over 100 slams, Footage from the 1998 contest, Steve Crowe's part is killer,
Jeff Watson destroys municipal with heelflip variations, Todd & Matts part is 75% switch tricks.
Real good fun snowboard winter part.
highfive09
Raw Skateboarding
Released: December 1999
Length: 45 minutes
Riders: Jeff Watson, Chris Spafford, Matt Michie, TJ Jones, Jay Hallatt, Nick Wigcherink, Friends
Plenty of good footage from Oakville park, and other roadtrips, like Montreal.
Some fun footage of lake jumping - launch ramp early grabs into a lake!
Tricks: TJ KGrind heelflip out, Jay switch kickflips vanier, and ollies 3 in a row down a 4, 10 and 8 stair.
Watson does grind to f/s shuvit late flip out. Chris does a halfcab nosegrind to revert
highfive 10
MOTIVATION
Released - November 2000
Length: 45 minutes
Riders: Brady Krzemien, Nick Wigcherink, Jeff Watson, Jay Hallatt, Chris Spafford, TJ Jones, Friends
Undoubtedly the best HIGHFIVE video ever. Welcoming Brady Krzemien (pronounced Krezman),
the last four parts, of veteran team riders Jeff, Jay, Chris & TJ, are FILLED with handrails, gaps,
and all kinds of awesome spots. This video was a year in the making, and we also had our first
ever video premiere in November 2000 at TBones Bar & Grill in Chatham. Needless to say,
it was a good time, and the skaters going all out made it what it was.
highfive11
ARGLE BOOGLE
Released: February 2001
Length: 45 minutes
Riders: Ummm, everyone.
This video was completed and shown at the Motivation video premiere in November 2000.
Originally it wasn't going to be sold, but it's real good, so I edited some of the swearing and
chopped out a bunch of the parts that made it boring.
So what is Argle Boogle? Basically a collection of skits, funny stuff, new and old skating, that
wasn't quite good enough to put in Motivation or other old videos. It's got lost footage from
a Montreal roadtrip(from Raw Sk8boarding), fireworks usage, Joey Joejoe, trampoline madness,
and so much more, it would take me forever to list it.
This is also our first video with a warning, because it's full of stuff you shouldn't do at home,
and also has more swearing than usual, so parents will probably get pissed if they see it.
Tricks: Old school unseen 1993 stuff, 1998 classic stuff, and tonnes of new footy, including
Motivation outtakes, and lots of friends. Awesome stuff...
highfive 12
LILBro 2001
Released: December 2001
Featuring: Brandon Novacco, Scott Ellis, Danny Winterdyk, Brady Krzemien,
TJ Jones, Chris Spafford, Jeff Watson, Jamie Close, Chris DeKoning,
Ryan Blaxall, Darrell Smith and Jay Hallatt.
Lilbro2001 (the name inspired by a suggestion Todd Bushey had for the old highfive zine in 1997)
covers a ton of good skating and some funny stuff too. I feel this video covers best what
Highfive is about, just having a good time skateboarding.
The skating is tight, and the musical soundtrack holds it together good. Be sure to pick up a copy of this..
highfive 13
ARGLE BOOGLE 2
Length: 30 minutes
Released: July 2002.
The second argle installment. This is basically a spinoff of the HIGHFIVE series of videos,
showing a bunch of outtake footage, goofing around and skits.
Shorter than the first one, theres still plenty of laughs to be had,
and the skating actually turned out pretty good. Check it out.
highfive 14
BREAK LOOSE
Length: 38 minutes
Released: May 2003.
Featuring: The skaters on the cover...
Jamie destroys the vid with big handrails and stuff that nobody has done on them yet.
Lots of good spots in BC and cameo appearances by Danny Supa and Gailea Momolu.
The soundtrack is pretty tight, good effects and funny stuff throughout.
A must have for a HIGHFIVE video fan.
highfive 15
ARGLE BOOGLE 3
length 45 minutes probably
Released December 2003
Featuring: Nolan Ball, Chris Spafford, Kevin Burgess, Brandon Gourley, Ean and Eric Smith,
Jesse Pazadora, Meddie Ouimet, Chris Dekoning, Kevin Demyen, LilTimmy,
Ryan Blaxall, and Darrell Smith.
The third installment of the argle trilogy, this video is the result of nearly 200 hours
of combined editing my Chris Spafford and Nolan Ball. Fueled by weird humour, a
great range of skate skill and good tunes, argle3 is the most solid of the trilogy.
If you haven't seen this you haven't experienced argle boogle. Its not a team video,
but combines Highfive team riders and friends from Chatham, Sarnia and London.
highfive 16
PROMO 4
released May 2004
length 15 minutes
Featuring: Chris Spafford, Tj Jones, Jamie Close, Brady Krzemien, Jay Hallatt and Eric Mailing.
This is a solid nonstop skate feature.Featuring the HIGHFIVE! team and a montage of friends,
theres a variety of footage filmed from summer 2003 to spring 2004.
highfive 17
CHRIS & NOLAN'S SKATE EXTRAVAGANZA
released December 2005
length 15 minutes
Featuring: Chris Spafford, Nolan Ball, assortment of Highfive! team riders and friends
This was probably the laziest attempt at a HIGHFIVE! video, but turned out to be enjoyable
to most. A short video, basically an extended montage, edited together in a few hours by Chris.
Basically all skating, with some funny skits included in the extras.
highfive 18
RED HOT
released December 2006
length 55 minutes plus 1 hour bonus dvd
Featuring: Brian Almeida, Mark Bajcar, Nolan Ball, Jamie Close, Darcy Formosa, Jay Hallatt,
Levi Hyatt, TJ Jones, Brady Krzemien, Dan Lankhof, Thadd Lenover, Dan Reinhardus, Earl Rollo,
Jeremy Smeenk, Chris Spafford & Friends.
This is the latest release, and easily the best Highfive! video ever made. I know this has been
said before, but each year the level of skating goes up a notch, and when you put this many
different skaters and this much diversity in style together you come out with something pretty
special. Additionally, the friends section features over 50 different people! Nolan spent a
considerable amount of time filming with some of the new team riders and they managed
to dig up all new skate spots here in Chatham, as well as make good use of some old ones.
It took almost 100 Digital8 cassettes to film this video, and countless hours editing. The bonus
DVD has 12 extra bonus features and montages, including what be considered a full bonus
video of the whole teams extra footage, complete with separate parts for each rider.
HIGHFIVE DVD Catalog
01 - 1997 Videos (Promo 97 & Video 97)
02 - 1998 Videos (Promo 98 & Video 98)
03 - Raw Skateboarding / Motivation
04 - Break Loose
05 - Lilbro 1997 & 1999
06 - Lilbro 2001
07 - Argle Collection (Argle Boogle 1 & 2)
08 - Argle Boogle 3
09 - Promo 4
10 - Skate Extravaganza (includes Promo 1996)
11 - RED HOT
12 - Hour of Power
Most of these are available at HIGHFIVE! for $6 to $20 depending on the title.
Check the store for more details.