Since 2003, the Mobbed Mafia has been living the skater life. The 11-member skateboarding group’s collective lifestyle has culminated in its first full-length skate video, Mobbed Mafia II.

The movie will screen at the Picador, 330 E. Washington St., at 5 p.m. Friday. The video will be shown via projector in the upstairs area of the venue.

Colin Samek, a bartender and the Picador’s head of security, booked the event.

“It’s not just like your buddies in the backyard screwing around in the driveway,” he said. “They know what they’re doing.”

Like all skate videos, there is an abundance of fall shots, showing that no skater is perfect and that falling is as much a part of skateboarding as riding. However, a lot of the tricks exhibited on Mobbed Mafia II are on par with the pros.

“They know how to edit, too,” Samek said. “It’s kind of part of skateboarding — filming what you do and putting it together to show people.”

Along with shots of soaring decks, grinding rails, and bruising bodies, the video features bits and pieces of the crew’s everyday lives.

“It’s just them skating, hanging out, screwing around,” Samek said. “Skate videos are as much about the lifestyle of skateboarding as they are about skateboarding, and the videos kind of serve to show what the lifestyle is like — what you spending your time doing.”

So why do the skaters in Mobbed Mafia care if anyone sees what they do with their time — not to mention on tape? Samek said that making skate videos is about more than showing off crazy tricks and epic falls. It’s about lifting the punk-ish stereotype associated with skating.

“A lot of people walking down the sidewalk are just like, ‘Aw, damn skateboarders,’ ” he said. “But [the video] kind of shows what’s really going on — having fun. It’s about doing what you want to do and stuff along those lines.”

— by Ryan Fosmark