Smashbrain is two things: It’s a high-adrenaline DAILY video podcast that features outstanding footage from all types of extreme sports. And it’s a website featuring video clips of the same. The website itself is more current than the video podcast site–that site doesn’t appear to have been refreshed since late March, 2006.
Episodes cover skate & snowboarding, BMX, surfing and Motocross, and the format for each is a compilation of great clips set to a pulsing soundtrack.
Professional skateboarder Jeff Ferris takes us through the hoops, loops and scoops in fast-paced, well edited pieces. The videos are refreshed each Tuesday.
The are two downsides to Smashbrain. Media player size being one; lack of an archives being the other. The player is bigger than a “thumbnail”. Actually, it’s about the size of a standard cell phone screen. Clearly this site is geared toward the mobile download set. On the one hand, that allows Smashbrain to serve up seven videos on a single webpage. On the other hand, it takes young eyes to enjoy the action.
And there is action aplenty. Enough in each set of seven vids to tempt the site surfer into digesting them all in one sitting. And that’s a bummer because Smashbrain lacks an archive to sate our appetites, leaving us ultimately frustrated and begging for more.
Hmmm…now that we think about it, not a bad marketing ploy at all. Smashbrain rates a Sitesurfin’ “T” for Teens and above due to the radical, “don’t-try-this-at-home-even-though-you-know-you-want-to” moves displayed. Free access.
