Shadowing Practice: Followed: Bryan Herman - Learn English Speaking with Video

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The weather's been crazy the last couple of days too.

It's just been coming in out of nowhere.

So we're at Asperia, California, but yeah, this is my little place of paradise.

Yeah, I used to live in this house over here, but then my wife and I got more property to have our animals on and yeah,

we moved over there, but we still are here all the time.

I'm always working on cars and I got my brother -in -law living in there, which kind of works out a lot better.

It's just nothing but a lot of projects right now, nothing even too close to being finished,

but get the motors out of the newer cars anywhere from 2000 to present I guess to say

and put them in the older cars a lot of guys are into

that these days believe it's like 16 is

when we got the truck been into it ever since the feeling of doing like a motor swap

or building a car from scratch up is a lot like

the feeling of you know filming a video part something like

that you know you start from nothing you have nothing you you build all this stuff up

and then you you know oh this looks the best

and you put it out i mean this is my car i got to work on soon it's not

that clean but i wanted to get it done real fast

so because i like driving this car a lot this is the very beginning point of starting building that

if i had a time crunch where i had somebody's car in here

they go hey you know i need this done

and i'd probably be here every day all day long until it's finished you know

but not much time here lately

because you know haven't really needed to you know they only made a small about a pair for the people

that showed up to the party

and they're patent leather this is my first shoe um well deep down

i think i'm i'm a hoarder you know it's like let me give you a good example here

so when i was a kid i mean i had no skate stuff at all

and that's all i cared about was having skate stuff i wanted some muskas

or anything it took to have something cool well as soon

as i started getting cool cool from from my sponsors and everything.

That hoard mentality when you're like, man, I've always wanted this, you know, and I've always, this is so cool.

Well, I just held onto it.

I kind of have this hoarder -ness to me that I, I don't mind, I guess to say.

The archives, if we want to look at some old skate stuff.

A little dusty up here.

Same thing, it was at Baker Boys and they were just getting rid of a lot of back stock, a lot of random things

that they had yeah I'll take some stuff what do you got being a massive fan of Baker

that I am and I've always been that is the first

Baker shirt I don't think I was riding for them

when this shirt was made and I just was dopest shirts I've ever seen

and I died to get one of those I ain't got a lot

now it's the OG Baker pants these are like the Maldonado specials proper 2001 summer tour hey can I have your board?

All the kids asking you hey can I have your board?

I think the first trip I went on

and probably one of the most memorable ones got the OG button up I mean come on

if you want to be old school.

It's just a nice feeling to go back in time.

Yeah let's see this is the first G code.

Yeah that's never even been worn.

That's great.

So yeah you know I've always been into this shoe

so of course i was going to keep every one of them i had

let's see this is how the hoard happens here's some spankies

pretty sure he'd be stoked to wear that one

or they'll remake it again who knows

but even though i've kind of had my own influences

when it came to designing shoes everything is inspired through skateboard originality you can't find

that anywhere else really the amount of designs

that have come out of skateboarding

so you know i think i thrive off of seeing how successful my friends are

and all that stuff it makes you more successful it makes you

and I think

that it just kind of it's like right now is the token where you get to kind of go back

and think of all the cool times and little things here

and there you know

so I'm still basically moving out of here dude that's a mess

I got all this shit I gotta move I got a shipping container

when I moved it was like the worst game of Tetris you could have possibly played

and not even a a quarter of the stuff that I needed to put in it.

Oh, ha, that sucks.

Got the Dolan one.

Evan getting kicked out, oh gee.

Oh yeah, the LS Demons board.

Keep that as an archive, great band.

Dude, spanky board, best one of all time.

And we must have something special here what is this?

This guy.

Greetings from Germany and good luck.

He made me this board like a fan board.

I was like oh that's sick man.

Andrew gave me this as a birthday present a long time ago.

This is the very first

Baker boards before

Baker boards were even Baker boards.

It's what they were riding in Baker 2g about getting this exact shape because this is the original c47 right here

But yeah, this is probably one of my most favorite Collectible boards I have and it's personal as well

The Baker ams board there was all this hype about Baker number one ams things like that

And they gave us this kind of nice pro board a good feeling

It was cool when it came out having your name on a board being so young, you know Baker 3 board.

Yeah, this is a back nose one on this ledge in Greece.

It was in a line, did like the back nose one, and then nollie heel back tail.

Buttery spot.

Just got all the way.

Can't never forget Baker 3.

Might be my favorite video.

Oh, I got a Beagle board.

I know you got to keep one of those in the stock.

Baker 3 was great.

We were traveling a lot.

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I did get hurt, though, like right at the very end.

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That's when I broke my leg riding a motorcycle.

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Yeah, I got boards for days.

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just having a shoe company that skater owned

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and ran I guess to say

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and I think that's really the heart of skateboarding is people

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that were in skating to start brands you know my buddy Dennis came around

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and we both had the same feeling same idea working with John getting everything

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that he likes getting that same feeling that it was like

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when I was doing it for 17 years basically with you know, America, you know, it's nice to be able to share that with other people,

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you know, and it's got to be the same feeling, you know, and I mean, I know I've already done it a million times,

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but I kind of just had to do it because I really do enjoy this shoe.

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I enjoy wearing it.

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I enjoy like everything about it, you know, I always seem to be like, oh man, where's this, where's the pair of Gicos?

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I'm not sure how big of an impact this made, but it made a big impact on me

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so therefore it was nice to be able to you know bring it back

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and or at least a close design to and and then you know move forward from there.

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The idea is to make something for skateboarding that skateboarding enjoys and skateboarding really appreciates.

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My role in the brand is almost the same as I've

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had in every other brand was kind of just to be a skateboarder

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and or a person and

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and have ideas you know whatever it was we would sit down

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and try to come with some new stuff or tweak some other stuff

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or even come up with a whole new shoe

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and this thing of ours is yours is basically the hours

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hours of our time like it's the same thing ours our time is your time it's like a little ying

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and yang little loop

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back in the day i'd have uh vision street wears

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when i was maybe six or so my mom got for me

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and they're the same color combo bringing back the old school vintage like do you ever take take that sweater off,

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I'm like, I swear, I have four of them.

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Little trip in the old school.

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Last two years, I haven't really been going to LA much.

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I just had my first child.

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Time flies, you know?

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It really goes fast.

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A little food stop in the way to LA, and then like a good old

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In -N -Out burger, you know?

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I'll at least eat my burger right now, you know?

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All right, hot session in there, what up, there you did,

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that was a blast, I was like

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Is it me or is it kind of slippery?

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Got to get the jello legs out of the way, you know?

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Yeah, it's not easy.

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Damn.

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Got those down.

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Yeah, he used everything for those flat grounds.

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He's catching some big air, though.

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He is.

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He's out here catching big air.

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Oh!

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That looks fresh.

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Oh, a little bit of big air.

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I wanted to catch big air, and I was like, that's too high.

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I'm going to go, I got to stay in.

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I got to stay in.

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I guess, thanks.

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I don't know, but doing airs looks fun, and then when I do them, they don't feel as fun.

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Boom!

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Last couple weeks, they've just been busy.

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I haven't been able to really get out.

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All the stars got a line at the same time for it all to work out, you know?

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It's gonna go weeks.

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I was riding like those big SF wheels for a while.

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The ones that are all cut inside and shit too.

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They're like, that's how you lock in.

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Well, I switched back because the locking and shit wasn't working.

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I was like, we're locking in with that old school shit.

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Yeah.

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Grind in there, baby.

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Holdin' on for dear life these days, guys.

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Gotta shove it out sometimes, then you get the whole coast to coast.

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Oh no, coast to coast didn't work.

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Hard flip?

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Kick for first, though.

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That one wasn't so, so sweet after all.

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Speed, that's what happens when you go slow on a hard flip.

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They don't work.

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I think something happened when I changed boards it just took me a little

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while to get it to get like

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that trick back yeah I'd probably say it's my favorite trick it just kind of ended up being

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that way I think because people wanted to see it that's what ended up making me do it more

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Feels good to go to Baker Boys though, you know, stomping ground, you know.

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Skate session got cut a little early because we're shutting the place, shutting the warehouse down.

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Before we head out, we're going to bug all these guys to go check out some new product.

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Oh, we got it right here.

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Got that new John D 'Lo right there.

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What did D 'Lo do?

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That's fresh.

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The Year of the Tiger.

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I think I got like two boards left.

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Hyped to grab whatever.

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Got a cart over here hell yeah the b19 was badass dude

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and then they just shortened it up a little bit wheelbase style remember the board I was talking about earlier

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that had the Reynolds signature on it first

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Baker board ever made this is supposed to be the shape from

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that board yeah yeah these are usually all the team boards

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so they come with good graphics got this Reynolds board that one's dope

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Got the Jacopo, oh the Spanky board is sick, I'm going to get one of those too, Tyson board.

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This is how we add to the collection here you know, the cruisers are badass dude.

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A couple people that were doing some car work for me and they're like let me get a board,

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that's what they want and I'm like oh you're going to do all that work for a board, I got you.

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Shake, shake, shake, shake a spanky one proper take

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that people are gonna think wow that's how it works like he just walks through

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and grabs whatever he wants that's exactly how it works

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ah it's pretty dang good i gotta say that's what happens when you have

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spanky doing all the art you like every one of them Ooh, psychedelic.

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Whoa, look at these. So proper.

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That's kind of my style, you know.

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Can I grab a shakedown hoodie?

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Had my eyes on this one and I walked right past it.

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I was living out in Hollywood for a while, you know, almost 15 years.

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And when I was out there, I opened a pharmacy board shop up.

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Opened it in 2009 or 2011.

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We have what's called a family franchise

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so we kind of try to open them up all over the place and

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that one was my specific one it's a great story wish

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we didn't have to you know possibly have to move but

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all the covers of all the boys got this hard dip right

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there figgy got mad fucking covers that's dope fig that one's fucking dope dude fig beast fig beast

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Like, that's my G right there, dude.

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Fig again?

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Oh, dude.

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Dustin.

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It all smells great.

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Oh, this thing is heavy.

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Thank you.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “Followed: Bryan Herman”. This video has 226 sentences and 2375 words to shadow. The speech runs for 15:03. The speaker talks at a natural 158 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 84% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
shoe noun	/ˈʃu/	A protective covering for the foot, with a bottom part composed of thick leather or plastic sole and often a thicker heel, and a softer upper part made of…
skate noun	/skeɪt/	A runner or blade, usually of steel, with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, made to be fastened under the foot, and used for gliding on ice.
shake verb	/ˈʃeɪk/	To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
dope noun	[doʊp]	Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
trick noun	/ˈtɹɪk/	Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle.
beast noun	/biːst/	Any four-footed land mammal.
flip verb	/flɪp/	To throw so as to turn over.
burger noun	/ˈbɝ.ɡɚ/	A hamburger.
hype noun	/haɪp/	Promotion or propaganda, especially exaggerated claims.
archive noun	/ˈɑɹˌkaɪv/	A repository or other place for storing material (such as documents and records) no longer in current use, and usually having historical value.
pants noun	/pænts/	An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers.
suck verb	/sʌk/	To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast).
lately adverb	/ˈleɪt.li/	Recently; not long ago; of late; not long since.
buddy	/ˈbʌdi/	A person far removed from the conversation.
nowhere adverb	/ˈnoʊ.(h)wɛɹ/	In no place.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
end up verb		To bring to a conclusion.
work out verb	/ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/	To calculate.
bring back verb	/ˈbɹɪŋ bæk/	To fetch something.
check out verb		To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).
come around verb	/kʌ.məˈɹaʊnd/	To change one's mind, especially to begin to agree or appreciate what one was reluctant to accept at first.
come out verb	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	To be discovered; to be revealed.
come up with verb		To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it.
get out verb		To leave or escape.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

All the kids asking you hey can I have your board?
I was like oh that's sick man.
That's when I broke my leg riding a motorcycle.
Is it me or is it kind of slippery?
Can I grab a shakedown hoodie?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	weather's been · haven't really needed · I've always wanted
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	being finished · was made · been worn
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	ones that are · people that were

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 55 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, I've, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: leather /ˈlɛðɚ/, thrive /θɹajv/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shoe /ˈʃu/, shake /ˈʃeɪk/, shave /ˈʃeɪ̯v/, shakedown /ˈʃeɪkdaʊn/, shorten /ˈʃɔɹtn̩/
Long words — get the stress right: motorcycle /ˈmoʊtɚˌsaɪkəl/, mentality /mɛnˈtæləti/, originality /əˌɹɪd͡ʒɪˈnælɪti/, psychedelic /ˈsaɪ.kəˌdɛl.ɪk/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like shoe, skate, shake.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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