Stunts Gone Wild: Crashes, Smashes and Road Rashes!If you're like us, you've no doubt stayed up late enough watching the tube to catch a commercial for one of those ubiquitous Girls Gone Wild DVDs, chockablock with fuzzed-out footage of drunken and debased sorority sisters behaving very, very badly. If (unlike us) you were too embarrassed to whip out the plastic and order up this soft-core breast-fest, don't despair: You can still titillate the same part of your lizard brain with an easier-to-rationalize orgy of gratuitous stunt action from Todd Colbert's mind-blowing Stunts Gone Wild DVD, a 45-minute compilation of the raunchiest, most bone-popping motorcycle mayhem ever committed to disc. We're talking pure stunt porn here, complete with gritty production, cut-and-run editing and plenty of stunts going freakishly wrong, including the gnarliest road rash outside of the ICU and, of course, no shortage of bared flesh. This DVD is at its best when all of the above are combined, like a hilarious and bizarre sequence involving a topless young lady posed in the back of a pickup truck who causes a freeway fender bender. Just a single serving of Stunts Gone Wild contains enough twisted metal and shattered plastic to make any reasonable rider want to trade his sportbike for something safer, like a set of golf clubs, or maybe a pet mongoose. In this way, Colbert's Stunts Gone Wild more than lives up to its name.www.teamx-treem.ne
Out On Parole Vol. 1: Holla Atcha Boys!The minute you pop Holla Atcha Boys! in the player you know OutOnParole.com is an East Coast outfit (South Carolina, actually). The dead giveaway is the head-noddin' hip-hop beats from DJ Green Lantern, a clear contrast to the angry-white-boy metal typifying stunt vids from other parts of the nation. The laid-back vibe maintains throughout this excellent video with none of the pumped-up posturing so common (and so played out) in other stunt videos, and none of the fake ghetto talk, phony gang signs and other playacting that sabotage many otherwise-worthy stunt vids. Holla Atcha Boys is straight-up guys having fun stunting it up on sportbikes, not taking themselves too seriously. The video is loosely a tour of dirty-South stunt exhibitions, including Black Bike Week in Myrtle Beach, a freestyle blowout at Savannah Dragway in Georgia and Stuntwars in Florida. Out On Parole head honcho Thomas Evans (the go-to emcee in the stunt community) knows everyone, and he persuaded all the big guns to make appearances in this vid, including Darius Khashabi, Motopsychoz, Starboyz, Geared Up, Tony D Freestyle, Patrick Stephens-even the infamous Wink 1100. It goes without saying the stunt action in Holla Atcha Boys is tight. Couple this with the previously mentioned kick-ass soundtrack, original camera work (excepting the few moments of puke-inducing "Aaron Cam Exclusive" footage), great crashes and even a few stills of blinged-out custom sportbikes and choppers, and Holla Atcha Boys deffo makes the cut.www.outonparole.com
Trix Starz: Shut The F**k Up 'n' RideShot entirely in the Las Vegas area, this first effort from Trix Starz is an unruly street brawl of a film, complete with impromptu parking-lot boxing matches, plenty of high-speed wheelies along high-lonesome desert highways, plus a handful of silly pranks. Although the riders here are very talented at hoisting fast, stand-up wheelies, these get a little repetitious at times, suggesting that the crew would do well to hit the practice spot and expand their stunt repertoire before they bust out the cameras again. Fortunately for viewers, Trix Starz mix up the stunting with some inspired comedy, such as firing roman candles off one rider's chest protector (until he accidentally catches fire) or a funny scene where Trix Starz are shown shooting craps against a curb-and the camera pulls back to reveal they're on the Strip in front of one of Las Vegas' poshest casinos. Keep your eyes peeled for a guest appearance by former Las Vegas Extremes member Derrick "D-Mann" Daigle playing an angry traffic cop. Also worth watching are some wild group stunts, such as a six-up rolling stoppie and a three-man combination skitch/rolling Christ that is one of the more inventive moves we've seen recently. Humble enough to reveal how hard it is to perfect these moves, Trix Starz includes some cringe-inducing crash footage as a bonus. Not bad for a first effort, though Trix Starz may want to investigate a few different locales before shooting their next joint-there's only so much of Las Vegas' bright lights and big city we can take in one sitting.www.lbzsource.com
Stuntusa.com: Street SessionJudging from the prologue ("This video goes where Hollywood doesn't dare set foot: This is the real street life."), Street Session fancies itself the anti-Biker Boyz. This proves an accurate description. Street Session-which replaces Biker Boyz's chromed-out Hayabusas with the rattiest stunt rides ever seen and substitutes CBO, T-Card and a gaggle of other skinny white kids from the "ghetto" of Des Moines, Iowa, for thespians of color Laurence Fishburne and Orlando Jones-couldn't be further distanced from its big-budget brethren if the stunters were riding pogo sticks. Not to mention the stunting in Street Session is loads better, with circles and bar tricks that are a big step up from Biker Boyz's basic burnouts and wheelies. Another area where Street Session outdoes Hollywood, though, is in its shameless celebration of illegal riding. This video is composed almost entirely of wheelies and combos performed in-and occasionally against-crowded urban traffic situations. Helmets? Heck, these guys don't even bother with shirts or even eye protection in most scenes, recalling the old saying, "No brains, no headache." Saving graces are a smattering of real boobie shots and goof-off segments featuring PBK, another skinny-ass mofo with oversized eyeglasses who claims to be the craziest bastard in Des Moines. Most of his stale gags are boosted straight from Jackass circa 2001 (prancing around in a thong, riding through a car wash naked on the hood of a car), but his nude blitz through the local Hy-Vee supermarket on a fiddie is good for laughs.www.stuntusa.com