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A skateboarder outruns a storm rolling over the UK hills, and the camera never blinks.

Josh Neuman doesn’t do slow-motion highlight reels. In “Raw Run || Race Against the Storm,” the downhill skateboarder, filmmaker and adventurer bombs an open, winding road somewhere in the hills of the United Kingdom while gray, overcast skies close in behind him. The roughly five-minute video, released in 2019, is unedited from start to finish — one continuous chase shot, one rider, one road, and a storm gaining ground.

• The video is the 13th installment in Neuman’s ongoing “raw run” series, a body of work built entirely around single-take downhill footage.
• It was shot solo in the UK, with Neuman skating ahead of an approaching storm rather than against other competitors.
• The entire piece is filmed from a chase perspective trained on the rider, with no cuts breaking up the descent.

Background of Josh Neuman

Neuman has built his reputation on doing the thing most skaters won’t: pointing a board down real roads, at real speed, with no pads of editing to hide behind. He works as both the athlete and the filmmaker behind his own content, which is part of what separates his channel from typical extreme-sports coverage — there’s no separate camera crew smoothing out the mistakes or cutting away from the scary parts. If you want to see exactly what a run looked like, in real time, this is the format built for that.

The Raw Run Format

“Race Against the Storm” is number 13 in a series that has become Neuman’s calling card. Each raw run follows the same stripped-down premise: one rider, one road, one unbroken shot. There’s no slow-motion crash montage, no talking-head interview breaking up the action, no music-video editing tricks. The appeal is the opposite of polish — viewers get the unfiltered version of what it actually feels like to carry speed through a technical descent, turn after turn, for the full length of the hill.

One rider, one road, one unbroken shot — and a storm closing the gap behind him.

That format has an obvious appeal for anyone who’s watched other solo-adventure footage built around raw commitment rather than production value — the same instinct that makes a video like a 70-mile solo hike through Idaho’s Sawtooths compelling. It’s not about spectacle stitched together in post; it’s about watching someone commit to a hard line in real time and stick it.

Racing the Weather, Not a Clock

The title does the explaining here: Neuman isn’t chasing a personal best or a competitor down the hill, he’s racing the weather itself. The footage shows him navigating high-speed turns on open asphalt with the sky visibly darkening behind him, the kind of setup that turns a technical skate line into something closer to a countdown. There’s no scoreboard, no other riders in frame — just Neuman, the road, and a storm system that isn’t going to wait for a clean take.

That solo, elements-versus-rider setup puts the video in the same lane as other one-person-against-the-conditions content that tends to travel well online — think of the appeal behind something like footage of climbers pushing against deteriorating conditions, where the tension comes from nature closing in rather than from head-to-head competition.

Advantages of Raw File Formats

Downhill skateboarding content lives and dies on trust — viewers need to believe the speed, the lean angles, and the near-misses are real and not manufactured in an edit bay. Neuman’s raw run series earns that trust by refusing to cut away. “Race Against the Storm” doesn’t need slow-motion replays or dramatic music cues to sell the danger; the overcast sky doing the work in real time is enough.

Fourteen raw runs and counting is the trajectory here — Neuman has kept the format identical for over a dozen videos because it works, and “Race Against the Storm” is simply the UK-set entry where the weather itself became the opponent.