“Skating was always cool!” Hey guys! I’m blown away by all the positive comments and stories, it’s so fun to read! But for the occasional person who mistakenly thinks I’m saying this was the only time it was cool. That’s not what I’m saying at all. Skating has always been cool and it always will be. Everyone will think it’s cool for different reasons, and some people will say it’s never been cool and that it doesn’t belong in the Olympics. 😂 I totally get it, we’re just reflecting here on the time when it was a super cool fad and how it was embraced by the mainstream for a short period. For those of us who skated then, it was a super fun time!!! Not saying GenX was tougher cause we drank from the hose, not trying to gate keep, or anything like that. It’s all cool in my book! 🙌
Was a great time to be alive....Started with a Nash from True Value store, then got a Caballero for my birthday. Man I miss those days. Still riding at 50 🤙
Great video, I have been on my 80’s kick lately as well . My first skateboard was a 1985 Valtera Explosion and my first pro board was a 1986 Vision Mark Gonzales 🙌🏻❤️🛹🐀
720! Oh man, I wasted plenty of quarters on that one running away from the bees! I haven't thought of that game in ages! Thanks for jogging the memory! That mini skate shop is awesome! Thanks for sharing! 🤙🏻
Awesome!!! That’s when I started, but It’s been an off and on game for me since the early 90s, but I’ve never totally stopped. I’m still skating these days, but only a few times a month, when the weather is nice.
Such a great vid, you are an awesome storyteller 🔥Thanks for taking us back again! ...I must visit the Skateboarding HOF now. Also, I'm not 100% heartbroken that Gonz' deck didn't make the cut for the diorama...only about 83% 🙏
Thanks Mr Reboot!!!! Appreciate the encouraging words. I was looking at the Gonz board like this… it was the shoppers first choice. The shop keeper pulled it off the racks and placed it on the counter to start setting it up for some super stoked kid on his birthday 😎
@MrRebootFTW I’m sure so many had the same experience. Oh, and you’ll love the SHOF if you can ever make a visit. It’s totally amazing and I hope to go back someday!!!
First board: Valterra Splatter. First real board: Kevin Staab mad scientist 2nd board: Mini Mike McGill 3rd board: used Mark Gonzales with Gonz graphic face cut into the grip tape. All 3 boards are in the living room. Had or still have rector knee pads. Had or still have the Cooper hockey helmet with a skateboard on the front. Had a 1/2 pipe and a street jump ramp in around '86 or '87.
Skater since 86 here. Still riding bmx too. While still at it, at 51 I’m just getting worse every year 😂. With that said, love your UA-cam and Insta content. Stay rad!
Thanks so much. I feel the same way, it’s getting harder and harder, I’m not one to usually make New Year’s resolutions, but I’m planning to level up in both riding and skating this year 🙌
I started in 91 when skating was at an all time low in popularity, and was really an outsider punk rock thing. Then skating throughout the 90s everything changed so much from the boards to the culture.
Matt I always look forward to your videos. This is one of my favorites. The late 80s were my first years skating. My parents bought me the Variflex Cool Cat and Nash mini Doz'r boards in 1987 when I was 7. The following year they ordered me the Nash Executioner board with the mail order card from Theasher! My first pro model was in 1989. I got the Mike Crescini 'Fork Crew' deck from Vision. He was a local hero being from the Va Beach area. My mom took me to 17th Street surf shop and he was there hanging out that day. Excellent nostalgic memories!
Thanks! That’s awesome that you got the Executioner directly from the mail order card in Thrasher. I don’t remember the Fork Crew deck, but I do remember those Windsor Woods guys at Trashmore, where they’d brand themselves with forks. 🤯 I totally remember how in that same era, all the cool kids in Virginia wore the 17th Street Surf Shop shirts with all those cartoon characters drawn on them. Such great memories!!!
My best friend in the 6th grade had that deck too. It would be cool to have the OG, but it’s cool that Vision is currently making reproductions of them 🙌
I may not have been from the 80’s, but my favorite Eras were the 80’s to 90’s because to me, it’s the renaissance of Skateboarding! And I respect that!😊
Awesome! I never really paid much attention to those Action Sports decks before, but some others mentioned they started on one from a magazine ad. Good stuff 🙌
Nash Executioner. I hand painted a Tony Hawk graphic on it I was so desperate. Then my first pro board was a Cobalt Blue Guerrero with Trackers, copers and Cross Bones. LOveD it. Slept with it. I made tons of finger boards out of Manila folders. Five layers Elmer glues with later black markered Bonite layers. Pink pearl trucks. Matchbox car wheels. So fun.
Yabble Dabble! The Powell videos showed us all how the world was our skatepark and you just might find Animal Chin when you're out there. My first real deck was teal stained Staab Scientist and man I loved that deck & graphic. Riding a skateboard today still gives me the same feeling of freedom as it did back then, but the concrete seems to have gotten harder!
So many great Tommy G quotes!!! 🙌 Staab had the raddest graphics!!! Hear you about the concrete seeming harder today, and it taking MUCH longer to recover from an injury 🤣
My first (and only) deck was a yellow Mark Gonzales with Indy trucks and pink Slime Ballz. I loved the graphic, especially the guy's hair! haha I was way more of a BMX kid, so I never got all that great at skating. But I still had to have a board!
That’s awesome. And that deck was so classic!!!! I loved BMX and still do, but I was more of the opposite, and got way more into skating than biking. Super nostalgic for both these days 🙌
@TheNostalgicNeighborhood I definitely feel safer riding BMX than skating these days! I'm 52, and don't get up as quickly as I used to when I fall! haha
Great Video. I started in 87 when my brother brought home a copy of Animal Chin. Got mt first real board for Christmas that year and I was off. Those summers up till around 90 were the best days of my life. Glad at 49 I'm still able to roll and hit the parks with my friends just like I did when I was 12.
Thanks! I feel the same way about those summers!! Glad to hear you’re still skating with friends!!! We have a group of guys our age here in St. Louis that I skate with fairly regularly too.
I started in 88, Powell, Santa Cruz and Vision were the leading brands, but then H Street came along and for me all those old brands became old over night, loved H Street.
My first real deck after cheap market boards was a yellow powell peralta Hawk claw with gullwings and pink T bones. I was so proud tio have it and will never forget it. When I first saw the bones brigade appearing in the police academy film i was so pumped up. What a great time to grow up in. Big love from the U.K.
Awesome!! That’s a classic setup for sure. I had a set of black T Bones wheels. I still have them, but I rode them so much, they are like 54mm now 🤣 Great time to grow up for sure!!! 💯🙌
My first "board" was a Valtera bought At Grandpa's on Manchester Rd, there in Winchester (I think is Aldis now) in 1986.. My first real board was a XT Hawk, bought at Wheels West on Clarkson and Manchester!
This is such a fun video! I was born in 1980 and my first board was a Vision Groholski--I still have it as well, including the rails lol. I'm so glad to have found your channel. Keep it up! I can't wait to see the diorama when it's finished!
Great video! My 1st "good" board was an Alva Reategui Warrior! And my 2nd board was a white dip Barbee just like the one in your video!!! Takes me back. Keep shredding!
The mid 80’s was literally the golden age of skateboarding and still is the the greatest time of my existence!I skated for 6 year from the early 80’s to the early 90’s and made my grandma spend tons on money on new skate gear!!! The Bones Brigade, Transworld&Thrasher magazines, Skate vids, skate fashion and skating with friends (oh…and watching wrestling) was my jam. My Grandpa built us ramps and rail slides with random stuff he had laying around. Living in the LA area we were able to skate all day, 365 days a year and I absolutely did! I worked in the skate industry at the second boom of skateboard culture in the early 2000’s, but it was different. The 80’s excitement of skating was genuine. It’s was about having fun and not about sponsorships and corporations. Man, the memories of those days will forever be my fondest memory✨🛹 👦🏻✨
Well said!!! 👏🎯 Man, sounds like you were right in the thick of it in LA and it's so awesome that your grandpa supported you. Love stories like these!!! Some of the best times, for sure!
Great video brings so many things I loved back then. My friend gave me his Nash board when he got a McGill deck, then I got a Tony Hawk claw. We lived in damn near in a swamp in south Louisiana just skating in driveways and blacktop roads, Ii can still feel the wheel hitting a rock and going flyng off to the ground . I love all the graphics like the Corey O'brein reaper an Staab Genie. I remember me and my buddys looking at the order forms in the back pages of the magazines wishing or all these boards. I loved Tommy Guerreros street scene in Ban This, he skated with so much speed.
Amazing!!! I skated my buddy’s Variflex for a couple months after he got a Vision Punkskull, before I got that Gator. That Tony Hawk claw is so classic, and underrated I think 🙌 I hear you about looking at the order forms in the Thrashers and wanting so many of the boards!!!!
@@BloodBoughtMinistries yeah!! I forgot to comment on that , sick concept - sick visual , hell yeah! Just need to get a bunch of old skate stickers and put them under the glass like most skate shops did and still do 😂👍🍻
Thanks for uploading this, got my first department store model in 1987 found some pictures in my mother‘s photo albums, the other day of me with a few different boards. I know we talked about it a lot, but there are no words to describe what it was like growing up in that era, thanks buddy.🤙🏼😎
I totally agree, there was just something magical about that era 😎 How cool to have rediscovered those old photos, I bet that brought back a flood of memories 💥
as a late 90s kid who just got into "professional skateboarding" it was for sure a different game. The 2000s were a crazy time where everyone thought they could just jump on the skate bus and be carried through life with sponsors even though literally 1 in a million kids had one. lol
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood Yeah, I was right before that game came out so diehard fan of skateboarding was ingrained from everyone asking if i started because of the game. Skateboarding got me through all the 9/11 disaster stuff because the rebuild of that was about when every small city and town was like hey we need a skatepark like 10 went up in my county around the same time.
@@typerightseesight we had a couple nice concrete parks in my area go up around the same time too, one relatively close to me that opened in 2003. Crazy to think I’ve been skating that park off and on for 22 years now 🤯
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood Yeah, we had one I helped design and get approved by the city council go up and come down it's been such a long time. The other parks from around the same time are hardly skateable anymore. Just too much wear and tear. Like 12 foot bowls that were designed to be rolled into have big concrete sinks in them you'd hit divots and fall all the way to flat if you didn't look for em. lol
Dude, I just found my original skateboard yesterday, before see your video. Veriflex Chaos board with homemade risers for the Sims The Wheel 2's. I had no money growing up, so Veriflex was it. Someone gave me the wheels. Tons of miles logged on it.
Oh wow, I bet that brought back a ton of memories! Assuming they gave you decent bearing for the wheels, I’m sure that was a game changer for that board. 🙌
I agree on Gator board. It wasn't the riders mistake ,but a memory of owning the board and doing tricks on it that made it special. My bro Scott owned one.
Thanks so much. I’m always a Staab fan, those boards get me every time. But the Phillips and Gonz boards are so iconic. You had some nice ones in your lineup 🙌
I started skateboarding in 1987 but got my first pro board in 1989. It was a Jason Jesse Mini aka The Sungod on a light green stain... Another deck that has been sullied by its skater's legacy! Sadly, my OG didn't survived to this day, but a friend of mine gave me his that was on a purple stain. Thanks for this great episode... The late 80's were the best!!
Thanks!! The Sungod was such a cool design, yeah I was sorry to hear about how things turned out with Jason Jesse. I had no idea about that until this past fall. Agreed, those were some good times in the late 89s for sure!!!
The best thing is now I still ride the old decks… but with SurfSkate trucks. I have left the days of being a “Flip trick Princess” behind and now I ride because I love to ride. I still can’t convince Bruce Walker to put out a line of re-issue Walker Skateboards, but this is a hill I choose to die on. I want my nightmare back, with a modern age nose and tail and epic concave
Skateboarding is always the coolest. The 80s were just one Era of skating's rulership. I stepped on board in the 70s and started skating hard-core in the 80s. Skating is the best now. Get on board, stay on board. "I still suck, but I still skate."
This is a great retrospective! My first board was a Vision Gator too, and I completely agree with your sentiments. I wish it had survived the decade, but like so many, it did not. I'm sure the trucks and wheels were reused on my next deck.
Yeah, I hear you. The only reason I still have mine is because I got so into wanting a Kevin Staab deck, that I got the Pirate before the Gator was fully thrashed. All my other decks after that were pretty much unusable (or broke) when I got the next one so they were pitched. For some reason, I always kept the Gator and so glad I did. 👍
Started skating in 1988. Everyone was skating. I was a kid and looked up to all the older guys. I started progressing fast. By late 1989, I could do tre-flips... but by that time I was already skating alone. I strived so hard to impress the older guys and by the time I got to that point everyone was quitting. I stayed with it all these years, but the MAGIC has never existed like it did 1988 through summer '89. I loved "Blind: Video Days" 1991 era... but so few were skating at that time that all my hype was solitary. '89 was a good year, let's hear it all for good old '89. Heck, I remember that the skateshops couldn't even get H-Street decks or keep them in stock. German bearings... man... good times... and how the heck did everyone end up with a set of bridge-bolts?!?!
Started skating around 82, I'm 56 now. Only difference is that now we don't have to drive 3 hours to find a decent skatepark. I don't see that much of a change in culture. Just the fact that so many skaters are on UA-cam so you can see what happens somewhere else, and some girls doing tricks that not even 0,1% of male skaters can do makes me happy. It's all good. Peace!
That’s a good point about skateparks being much more accessible today. It sure seems like things progress so much faster in the UA-cam era compared to the VHS era. And yeah, so many rad female skaters these days. My daughter is now 26 and doesn’t skate anymore, but she skated with me quite a bit in her teenage years and it’s fun to see how far female skateboarding has progressed especially in the last 10 years 🤯
I'm from Australia and I'd started skating in '86 when I was 14 and my first board was a Variflex. Once I skated for a while and got a bit better I bought a Vision Ken Park. That was an awesome board. Couple of years after that I bought an Alva Fred Smith III Loud one model. I wish I still had that board. We had built a quarter pipe in our backyard, which was concreted and had plenty of the neighborhood used to come over and skate. Loved the Animal Chin video, pretty sure I'd worn that out and used to play Skate or Die at the town library as I didn't own a PC but had bought the game and a joystick. The 80's truly were and awesome time to be a teenager. Sadly I have only a few photos from back then. Great video as well. 👍👍
88 baby.. I have been hooked ever since! Still addicted to the ride Brotha!! Sliding and Grinding.. Loving all these reissued decks nowadays... Actually getting a Psycho Stick next. Just buying what I couldn't afford back then. Thanks for the Rewind Bro 🤘💯
Right on! Thanks for watching. I got a Valley Bug deck that I’ve had fun on, and a Saiz before that. But I usually skate a more modern pool/park board. I got a little Polarizer board last year too. Variety is the spice of life 🙌
Currently riding the Powell Anderson Heron 2 twin tail.. love it. Dragon wheels too. Smooth and cushiony for these old knees. I'm telling you Bro.. 10 minutes in and I think I'm 13 again.. lol I'm So Not!
@@GeeZeeX3 I love it!!! I have Dragons on my old school board, and no doubt they are super smooth. But yeah, the feeling of being 13 again can’t be understated
My first deck was a bright orange nash and had that board for a while and first pro board was a zorlac Stanton clown deck and got a natas 101 devil board around the same time. Always wore vision shoes. Ive also been a bmx rider since the 80s. Im 44 and still skate and ride bmx. So much fun
BMX and skating for the win!!! That Natas deck was pretty crazy! Have you heard the story about how that design was supposed to go to Jason Lee but he didn’t want it. So they eventually offered it to Natas and he was like sure, all the moms think my name is Satan spelled backwards anyway. 🤣
Easily one of the best video out there about 80s skateboarding! Love it Matt!🤙 My first one was a knockoff Valterra Land Shark with all the bells and whistles😅
@ on a slightly different note, you know what I thought first when watching your video? That the Hall of Fame doesn’t get burned to the ground…😞 Dressen’s epic hill bomb spot from Speed Freaks just a couple of miles away from there in Mountaingate is already gone… Skating history gone in an instant.
@ yes, I was concerned about the hall of fame museum too. It sees, they are far enough away from the forested areas to spread that far. Fingers crossed 🤞
My first decent skateboard was a GT Sundancer around 1981. First pro model was a Tony Hawk with Rat Bones wheels and Tracker trucks. Hands down the most fun time of my life! Good video 😎👍🏼
Great stuff! Brings back a lot of memories. My first “real” deck was a red Tony Hawk claw deck, from Eat Concrete in Omaha NE. I can still remember how the entire place smelled like sweaty ProTec pads, and it was awesome.
Hawk Claw!!! 💥 So rad. Sweaty Protecs, you can’t forget that smell. I have a friend here who had a skate punk band in the 80s (Ultraman) and they had a song called Rector Breath 🤣
Just gave Rector Breath a listen. Classic 80s/90s punk! Love the siren whistle in the middle of it! Gives you the sense of just how fast he was going. 😆 Doing a short segment on the pads available then, would be cool. I remember Pro-Tec and Rector. But when Smith Scabs came out, with the neoprene brace underneath, those were the bomb. You couldn’t fully extend your knee when you had them on but you didn’t care because you weren’t having to constantly adjust them.
Happy to say I was there too. It was a great time to be a kid. My first pro deck was a Natas Kitten back in 1988. I always wanted a Tony Hawk deck but every skate shop was always sold out of them. So I got the Natas Kitten, and didn't know who he was. My Nextdoor neighbor showed me the part where he does the fire hydrant spin in street on fire. And I was like "YEAH, I like that dude!"
That’s amazing! Natas was such an amazing skater, that fire hydrant spin was so iconic💥 Have you seen the recent part where Andy Anderson does the Natas Spin on the fire hydrant, but he flips the board upside down while doing so… and they flip the name backwards to call it the Satan Spin. Crazy 🤯
Amazing that you have it!!! I have a Gutierrez from back in the day too, but it’s in such bad shape, you can barely make it out. Stoked to hear you’re still riding 🙌
My 1st legit board was a red Gator mini with red grip. I borrowed so generic trucks with kryptonics from my cousin until I could afford Indy trucks & pink ratbones with nmb bearings. The only accessories I had was a set of red rails. Not sure why everything was red. Just what I was feeling I guess. So I pieced together my 1st setup & I’ve never had a brand new complete since & I’ve never quit skating. I had blue rector knee pads & red rector elbow pads. We always had mini ramps & we’d all pad up. I had a white flyaway helmet for skateparks. 1st 2 skateparks I frequented were Bullet in Joplin MO & sometimes Radz in Springfield MO where I rode & dropped in on my 1st vert ramp. Now I work in KC & live close to Lawrence KS & we have a legit public vert ramp This vid is awesome. Thanks for doing it!
I love it!!! My Gator had generic trucks and wheels when I got it, so I can relate to slowly upgrading it. I got some OJii wheels first and then some Gullwing trucks for it. Those flyway helmets were so classic, there are a couple guys I skate with here in St. Louis who have reproduction ones. We just got our first public vert ramp over here a couple weeks ago, right before the snow. It’s huge, I’ll pump around on it starting from the flat, but not so sure that at 50, I want to learn to drop in on a 13’ ramp 🤣 I’ll stick to the little 4’ deep baby bowl at our park
@ that sounds huge. & like a road trip to St. Louis might be in my future. Vert is scary. I just turned 50 & have been doing some kick turns on our vert ramp to help rehab my knee. Still have delusions of doing some grinds & rock n rolls but our ramp is a tad smaller at almost 12 feet. Sounds like a killer setup either way the gullwings & OJs. I had some bright green OJ freestyle wheels on a Wellinder freestyle board. They seemed tiny at the time at 57mm
@ Awesome! Hit me up if you ever visit St. Louis. The park with the new ramp has some fun concrete stuff, it’s called Kinetic park and it’s just west of St. Louis.
@ cool! Don’t need to watch the whole video, but the first few seconds shows that little baby bowl I mentioned. It’s so much fun!!! ua-cam.com/video/uXjlw3A0uzE/v-deo.htmlsi=ldE4ndWG1Fj7VJix
My first board was a Alien Workshop priest in 96. However I got soon into ramp skating and inhaled every bit of information from the 80s and watched the Bones Brogade videos. I had a very visual memorie and when I started at age 13 I could recall all I'd seen before on 80s TV and some guidebooks. I knew Upland and Ranging Waters and at my time when all was about flat and curb I felt something was missing. The rest is history, skating vert ever since and forever inspired by the 80s
Started in ‘83 on a secondhand skinny board then had a Variflex Space Junk. First pro set up was Santa Cruz Salba tiger with Indy trucks and Tracker Ollie wheels. Still have the decks and still skating. Best era for me was the early 90’s around the Blind Video Days time. Also loved the progression in the big pants, small wheels age that followed.
Oh wow, you were there through quite the evolution of skating. I love that Salba tiger deck, so cool. I had gotten out of skating by the time big pants and super tiny wheels were the norm, but I think some of the early 90s shapes are still the best. For me, they are a nice blend between 80s shaped decks and symmetrical popsicles, sort of the best of both worlds 🙌
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood it’s cool to see younger skaters often choosing wider, shaped decks again these days. Love the mini skate shop man and will be catching up on some of your other nostalgic videos. Found my old Gameboy the recently and Tetris is raking up way too much of my time!
My first deck, was Tony Hawk’s first pro model. Hawk holding lightning bolts. Gullwing trucks. Cubic wheels. And let’s not forget German bearings. Yes, plastic on all four sides.
That mini skate shop is rad! It’s funny to think about the cultural transition from the 80s into the 90s. I can say that the major turning points were 1988 when Shackle Me Not came out and H-Street took over. Then World Industries, and the Vallely Animal Farm board. Then The New Deal, with all those graphics by Andy Howell, and their videos were just incredible.
Jeff Kendall Pumpkin Head.. t bone wheels , gullwing trucks... and hours upon hours of stoke... That was 34 years ago... this last year i took it all back up again. 13 Completes later in a year! Wifey shakes her head all the time. Trying to skate everyday, a mini ramp in my backyard, learning tricks i never thought i could get. My little guy is 9. He just loves it... his first shaped deck Santa brought this year... Eric Dressen. Couldnt be happier. He loves it. Stay young friends and have a ripper 2025.
Dude!!!! I love this so much!!!! 13 in a year, that’s some skate fever 🤯 so rad that your son is riding a Dressen. My son had a min Caballero when he was about that age. Good times!!!!
Amazing!! Glad to hear you're back on board. Out of all the skate shoes ever, I think the Airwalk Prototypes with the lace savers were my absolute favorites 🙌
I grew up skating in the 80s. I was team Hosoi back then because it was all about skating with style, but I appreciate all that Tony Hawk has brought to skating. My first skateboard was a Valterra that I sanded down and painted my own block color graphics on. Then my first legit board was a Rob Roskopp with Indys and OJs. Back then it was a wild frontier and we were basically making things up as we went and paving it for generations to come. Everything was a new trick. We skated everything from street to vert to ditches and pools. It was truly a great time to skate. But now I look back at some of the tricks and though they were ground-breaking at the time, they seem kind of lame by today's standards. Nonetheless, it was a fun time to explore creativity and still a lot of tricks do hold up today. Just watch Andy Anderson or Mike Vallely skate. The boneless was my go to trick until I started on launch ramps and half pipes.
I still claim neutral territory on the Hosoi. vs. Hawk 😎 I loved them both back then, and I still I love watching them both skate today! That being said, I have a giant 8’ wide poster of Hosoi on the wall in my office, so maybe I’m team Hosoi after all 🤣 A Roskopp with OJii’s, such a classic setup! No doubt on Andy Anderson, that video part he released a couple months ago is next level 🤯
Yes, I loved that Panther deck, so cool! I had a set of OJ ii’s and some Bullets too. I think my favorites were the T Bones and Slimeballs. Great memories indeed!!!
I was more like the ‘79-‘81 era, but have great memories of the Albas, Kryptonics wheels, Andrecht, all those SIMS boards, the Gyro wheels. First board was a ZORLAC with gullwings and Sims Snake conicals… so hard to get in TX! I saved for months. I remember just staring at the pics in Skateboarder mag for hours.
Awesome! Thanks for chiming in, you skated in a pretty epic era too!!! Such a different time when had to learn everything from looking at magazines instead of social media 🤣
Great video brother… I skated back in 88/89 … I skated a zorlac Metallica/ white Steve cabellero/ natas kaupas/ and purple dog town Eric dressen. Always wanted the hawk and McGill . My first board was a cheap flea market special 😂. I recently bought McGill and Tony hawk Powell tees. This video brought back so many memories… going to skate shops and checking out all the boards and gear . As far as the movies I always loved gleaming the cube…. But I watch thrashin like once a month 😅. As far a trick I was good at… I was just a nasty Ollie guy… great video again my friend 👏
Thanks for the kind words 🙏 Man, you had a sick lineup of boards from that era 🙌 Very cool! Yeah, I was a Thrashin Kid too, until our video store got a copy of Animal Chin!
Awesome video , first board was a Nash then got a Vision Mark Rogowski Pink and teal pro model with his name on it before it switched to just Gator which is still hanging on my wall of boards. I’ll be 53 this year and still skating. Current ride is a re issue Kendall deck , Steve Steadham and a bones ripper. Very much still obsessed with skating , collecting decks, and watching my 20 year old son tear it up on a board.
@@nonoblitus7746 oh, I see what you mean. Mine has his name on it too, on the modern reproductions of that same design, they omit his name (for obvious reasons) and interestingly on the Gator 1 reproductions, they even swapped out the Gator name and replaced it with Vision.
My favorite deck of all time was my Walker Nightmare… no one had a cool deck like mine. It ended its life under a school bus as I biffed a trick showing off for my girlfriend (on the bus) and my baby went under the bus. The bus caught it and drove over it tail to nose….. hahahahahahahaha what a terrible day
Dang!!!! I can only imagine how bummed out you must been after that one. 💥 That Mark Lake board has such a unique shape. I can see why it was a favorite.
1st board ever was a Vision Shredder, Tracker trucks and Sims two-tone wheels. Current boards are an Alva and McGill Flight. Funny how my tastes reverted back to the original days. 👍🏼
@ Seriously, thank you for making these videos! Growing up in the 80’s with skating and BMX was the best. And the name of your channel is exactly the reason why I can’t get enough of it. 👍🏼
Right on!!! Love your avatar Steal your face image. I wasn’t a huge Dead Head, but I saw the Grateful Dead five times in the 90s and that one brings back some good memories too.
I come from a BMX freestyle background, but thanks to Freestylin magazine, which featured skateboarding, I was hooked! My first deck was the Vision Mark Gonzalez. I ended up doing both sports! lol
That’s awesome. I wasn’t a talented freestyler, but I grew up riding bikes - a LOT, and I used to get the Freestylin, BMX Action, BMX Plus magazines, and I remember they’d have skate ads in them too. After I got my first skateboard, my bike was more of a vehicle to get across town to some of the skate spots. Ive skated off and on since then, but just got back into BMX in the last couple years. Having fun trying to learn flatland tricks, but the learning curve at 50 is so steep 🤣
i wanted one for xmas after seeing a music video... there was actually nowhere to ride close by for my 7?ish year old self so mostly sat on it in the driveway rolling around i didnt actually learn to stand and skate until an adult nigh on 3 decades later. now its been 5 years or so after the fact love the 80s boards/gear and skateboarding 1.5hr cruise with some easy tricks today
My first board was an Alva Eddie Reategi monkey dude. I don’t have the board, but I did come up on the original artwork done by Roy Gonzales for that very board framed on my wall
My first board was a Missile. Then Nash. Eventually I started to buy pro models. Either at my favorite "Mom & Pop" skate shop, called, "Surf house". They had both Surf and skate boards, along with other accessories. Like Pro Tech helmets, wrist guards, gloves, knee and elbow pads. Or I would order skateboards through a catalog named, "California Cheap Skates" from San Luis Obispo, CA. They had everything. Cool skate wear. Like Vision Street Wear, Airwalk, Powell/Peralta. Really "RAD" time in my life. My favorite graphic design of all time, and still to this day is Rob Roskopp's "Ugly Face".
After my Nash Executioner in 1985, my first legit board was Rob Roscopp 2 with venture trucks and bones 95 a wheels. Fairfax Surf Shop Virginia. Legendary shop.
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhoodit's funny...im looking at a screenshot of a picture from around 1984-1986. I'm wearing a painters cap, vision streetwear sneakers and clam digger shorts while doing a Method Air off a ramp in front of my childhood house in NJ😂. Also miss my PK ripper, dk neck, se wings bars, acs Z-rims, uni seat...etc. Had a few other bikes over the years when I was a teen. Life was about trails, ramps and fun❤. Also have a picture doing a Miami Hopper on my old GT performer with Flying Wedge Bars😂
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood what would you consider the BEST Bmx online store? I'm 54 and would like to purchase something to cruise around the neighborhood with.
@ There are a few options. Planet BMX has a lot of BMX cruisers. If you’re looking for a 26”:or larger, at $489 shipped, this 26” Haro Freestyler is an insane deal 🤯 www.citygrounds.com/products/10bx-hr1503?variant=40679003390063&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAD1QYY0FsbknrEVnyVbYWnijOqJYK&gclid=Cj0KCQiAyoi8BhDvARIsAO_CDsCGVxZOWsmJGFOIw8rYNouWnD7ZP0qKmt_JJzbscDNOl_BOmKZJMP0aAss7EALw_wcB
As a skater from across the pond it has to be the yearly pilgrimage to Münster in Germany. Everyone from across Europe would come and hang out and see what the world best skaters had to offer on and off the board.
@ Too many to mention. Was 16 on the first one and 20 on my last. Still can’t believe my parents let me go when I was 16. I was still registered in my mums passport as I was still a child. We had to get me my own passport as I couldn’t travel on my mums. Funny meeting skaters from all over and not speaking the language. As a Dutchman I could speak German and could get bye with my French but for some reason we always gravitated to the Scandinavian skaters so pigeon English had to do. I think I told you before that I met Staab who was the nicest and Gator who was the worse Pro. Never had the chance to meet Lance in person which to this day is still my favourite. Shame you haven’t got an indoor park to skate. I get two hours a week in and that’s indoors in a suburb of London.
@@marcelboogaard3809 wow, good times for you, I’m sure! Yeah, Staab is the coolest, and from what I gather, Gator was a narcissis jerk before he went off the rails…. I’ve never met Lance in person either, but I love that guy, definitely one of the best skate heroes out there! Very cool that you have an indoor park close. There is one in the region, but it’s nearly an hour drive to get there and it’s not cheap. I’m gonna need to buck up and head there soon anyway!
I learned on a “Traders Village special. “ Most folks from Texas would know where that is. A sweet ninja themed board was perfect for a 7 year old kid.
How cool!!! I have some OG slimeballs on that Staab deck in the video, those wheels are so classic!!! 💥 But I don’t have the cool story that you have with yours. So rad!!! 🙌
@TheNostalgicNeighborhood He wasn't super stoked. I grew up in Provo, Utah. My backyard was like a punk rock show. My Dad said he at least knew where his two knucklehead sons were.
I started riding BMX in the early 80's. When my skateboarding friends found out I was a BMX'er, they introduced me to the skateboarder/biker feud and gave me a bunch of crap which I never understood. In 85, my family moved and I got into freestyle in 86. I met a lot of bikers and skateboarders and we all hung out like we were life long friends. Sure there was a little skater vs biker jab once in a while but it was all in good fun. I miss those days.
Yeah, I think BMX and skaters had a lot more in common than they realized, but I experienced some of that too. It was an older friend who discouraged me from riding my freestyle bike and influenced me to get a skateboard. But this past year, my have finally rode bikes more than I skated, I sure love them both!
first was a makaha 70s plastic board in 1978 then a wooden nash lol. then i went to powell lance mountain, stuck with lance mostly then hosoi with an alva hosoi then the hammerhead. skate shop sold used decks for $10 and i bought alot.
Dang! That’s quite a history. I didn’t start skating until the mid 80s, but I also started on my sister’s old Roller Derby plastic board. Gotta love the Lance Mountain boards! None of my shops sold used boards, but assuming they weren’t too far gone, getting them for $10 seems like a fun way to try out new shapes.
Back in the 80’s it was mostly punks and rejects that skated. It was almost like an outlaw lifestyle that was not accepted by the general public. Everything evolves and so does skating all the time. It’s all good in the hood.
For most of the 80s, that’s totally true. But for a brief time in the late 80s, it was pretty mainstream, even if still seen as a bit edgy by the general public.
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“Skating was always cool!” Hey guys! I’m blown away by all the positive comments and stories, it’s so fun to read! But for the occasional person who mistakenly thinks I’m saying this was the only time it was cool. That’s not what I’m saying at all. Skating has always been cool and it always will be. Everyone will think it’s cool for different reasons, and some people will say it’s never been cool and that it doesn’t belong in the Olympics. 😂 I totally get it, we’re just reflecting here on the time when it was a super cool fad and how it was embraced by the mainstream for a short period. For those of us who skated then, it was a super fun time!!! Not saying GenX was tougher cause we drank from the hose, not trying to gate keep, or anything like that. It’s all cool in my book! 🙌
Was a great time to be alive....Started with a Nash from True Value store, then got a Caballero for my birthday. Man I miss those days. Still riding at 50 🤙
Such a classic start… a Nash directly to a Cab! 🙌🙌🙌 Awesome that you’re still riding at 50. I turned 50 in September and I’m still skating too. 👊
@rickbailey5018 props from a 51 year old skater. I skate all the time. Some guys I skate with are in their 60s and still rip.
@@JT-un7dc 60 is the new 40 🤯 We have a couple guys in our group here in St. Louis that are right around that age and are still tearing it up too 🙌
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood I like hearing it. I'm actually heading to a parking garage today for some winter slappys. Cheers.
@@JT-un7dc have a blast!! 💥
Grew up skating in the early 2000s, however the 80s is my favorite era. Thanks for all your videos and keep sharing!!
So glad you're enjoying them! You were with us in spirit ! 👊👊👊
From the same era here, still skating!
Right on!!! I love it 🙌
Great video, I have been on my 80’s kick lately as well
. My first skateboard was a 1985 Valtera Explosion
and my first pro board was a 1986 Vision Mark Gonzales 🙌🏻❤️🛹🐀
Awesome. On the Bones Brigade Audio Show Podcast, they have some Valtera stories. 86 Vision Gonzales for the win!! 🏆🙌
I still have my blue Rector knee pads and wrist guards from the 80’s. 89’s BMX, freestyle and skating was the best era!
That’s awesome! I gave my rectors to a friend about 15 years ago, but I still have my 80s Protec Helmet. Best era, for sure! 💯
720! Oh man, I wasted plenty of quarters on that one running away from the bees! I haven't thought of that game in ages! Thanks for jogging the memory! That mini skate shop is awesome! Thanks for sharing! 🤙🏻
Thanks Kevin!!! Yeah, that swarm of bees was nerve wracking for sure 🤣
I started skating in 1986 and never stopped!
Awesome!!! That’s when I started, but It’s been an off and on game for me since the early 90s, but I’ve never totally stopped. I’m still skating these days, but only a few times a month, when the weather is nice.
Same here - had a polyprop when I was about 10, but got my first proper board in '86.
We were like Aliens in Ireland back in those days 🤣
@ love it!!! 🙌
Such a great vid, you are an awesome storyteller 🔥Thanks for taking us back again! ...I must visit the Skateboarding HOF now. Also, I'm not 100% heartbroken that Gonz' deck didn't make the cut for the diorama...only about 83% 🙏
Thanks Mr Reboot!!!! Appreciate the encouraging words. I was looking at the Gonz board like this… it was the shoppers first choice. The shop keeper pulled it off the racks and placed it on the counter to start setting it up for some super stoked kid on his birthday 😎
@ so true! That’s exactly how it went down. Shop keeper told my parents which one to get me for Christmas…no regrets 😎
@MrRebootFTW I’m sure so many had the same experience. Oh, and you’ll love the SHOF if you can ever make a visit. It’s totally amazing and I hope to go back someday!!!
First board: Valterra Splatter.
First real board: Kevin Staab mad scientist
2nd board: Mini Mike McGill
3rd board: used Mark Gonzales with Gonz graphic face cut into the grip tape. All 3 boards are in the living room.
Had or still have rector knee pads. Had or still have the Cooper hockey helmet with a skateboard on the front. Had a 1/2 pipe and a street jump ramp in around '86 or '87.
Wait!??!? You still have all three of your first boards? That’s incredible 🤩🤯 And you were one of the lucky ones with a half pipe. So cool! 🙌
Skater since 86 here. Still riding bmx too. While still at it, at 51 I’m just getting worse every year 😂. With that said, love your UA-cam and Insta content. Stay rad!
Thanks so much. I feel the same way, it’s getting harder and harder, I’m not one to usually make New Year’s resolutions, but I’m planning to level up in both riding and skating this year 🙌
Same here. I was born in 73 and started skating in 86. Highlands Ramp and at the Del Mar Skate Ranch.
@@BuildTheWallAlready yes!!! 👊
I started in 91 when skating was at an all time low in popularity, and was really an outsider punk rock thing. Then skating throughout the 90s everything changed so much from the boards to the culture.
No doubt, HUGE changes in skating across the board from the early 90s to the later 90s, pretty wild to think about.
Matt I always look forward to your videos. This is one of my favorites. The late 80s were my first years skating. My parents bought me the Variflex Cool Cat and Nash mini Doz'r boards in 1987 when I was 7. The following year they ordered me the Nash Executioner board with the mail order card from Theasher! My first pro model was in 1989. I got the Mike Crescini 'Fork Crew' deck from Vision. He was a local hero being from the Va Beach area. My mom took me to 17th Street surf shop and he was there hanging out that day. Excellent nostalgic memories!
Thanks! That’s awesome that you got the Executioner directly from the mail order card in Thrasher. I don’t remember the Fork Crew deck, but I do remember those Windsor Woods guys at Trashmore, where they’d brand themselves with forks. 🤯 I totally remember how in that same era, all the cool kids in Virginia wore the 17th Street Surf Shop shirts with all those cartoon characters drawn on them. Such great memories!!!
You nailed every aspect of 80s skateboarding!!! Absolutely loved this video!!
My first board was a Vision “punk skulls” deck. I wish I still had it.
My best friend in the 6th grade had that deck too. It would be cool to have the OG, but it’s cool that Vision is currently making reproductions of them 🙌
I may not have been from the 80’s, but my favorite Eras were the 80’s to 90’s because to me, it’s the renaissance of Skateboarding! And I respect that!😊
Very cool!!! It’s rad that you’re there with us in spirit 🙌👊
1985-1995 : best era for BMX and Skateboarding !
So much good memories, so nostalgic of the ”good old time” ...
Totally! 💯🎯 Great memories indeed 🙌
Cool video...definitely Nash and Variflex were first boards, but Action Sports Kamikaze was mine and can't be forgotten!
Awesome! I never really paid much attention to those Action Sports decks before, but some others mentioned they started on one from a magazine ad. Good stuff 🙌
Nash Executioner. I hand painted a Tony Hawk graphic on it I was so desperate. Then my first pro board was a Cobalt Blue Guerrero with Trackers, copers and Cross Bones. LOveD it. Slept with it. I made tons of finger boards out of Manila folders. Five layers Elmer glues with later black markered Bonite layers. Pink pearl trucks. Matchbox car wheels. So fun.
Sounds like you totally had skate fever, I LOVE it! Markered bonite layers on the custom fingerboards, that’s amazing 🤯 I’m sure that was fun 🙌
Yabble Dabble! The Powell videos showed us all how the world was our skatepark and you just might find Animal Chin when you're out there. My first real deck was teal stained Staab Scientist and man I loved that deck & graphic. Riding a skateboard today still gives me the same feeling of freedom as it did back then, but the concrete seems to have gotten harder!
So many great Tommy G quotes!!! 🙌 Staab had the raddest graphics!!! Hear you about the concrete seeming harder today, and it taking MUCH longer to recover from an injury 🤣
My first (and only) deck was a yellow Mark Gonzales with Indy trucks and pink Slime Ballz. I loved the graphic, especially the guy's hair! haha I was way more of a BMX kid, so I never got all that great at skating. But I still had to have a board!
That’s awesome. And that deck was so classic!!!! I loved BMX and still do, but I was more of the opposite, and got way more into skating than biking. Super nostalgic for both these days 🙌
@TheNostalgicNeighborhood I definitely feel safer riding BMX than skating these days! I'm 52, and don't get up as quickly as I used to when I fall! haha
Another amazing video my brother!!
Thanks bro, I appreciate that! 🙌
Great Video. I started in 87 when my brother brought home a copy of Animal Chin. Got mt first real board for Christmas that year and I was off. Those summers up till around 90 were the best days of my life. Glad at 49 I'm still able to roll and hit the parks with my friends just like I did when I was 12.
Thanks! I feel the same way about those summers!! Glad to hear you’re still skating with friends!!! We have a group of guys our age here in St. Louis that I skate with fairly regularly too.
I had that "Have you seen him?" t-shirt and a big "SKATEBOARDING IS NOT A CRIME" sticker on my VW. Holy shit I was cool.
Totally!!! They still make those shirts and I have one. I totally get weird looks from people when I’m out running errands with it 🤣
WOW! Look how good this video is doing! Loved 80s skating.
I guess that crazy editing timeline paid off. And to think, this started off as a filler video because of all the snow 🤣
@ it’s a great video..
@@RadBMXBuilds Thanks Sean! 🙏👊
I started in 88, Powell, Santa Cruz and Vision were the leading brands, but then H Street came along and for me all those old brands became old over night, loved H Street.
Dude, H-Street!!!! I had a T-Mag and the Hensley Street Swinger was my favorite shape to skate back in the day. And Hokus Pokus… game changer! ❤️
@@everycloud7144 yea Hensley was insane
My first real deck after cheap market boards was a yellow powell peralta Hawk claw with gullwings and pink T bones. I was so proud tio have it and will never forget it. When I first saw the bones brigade appearing in the police academy film i was so pumped up. What a great time to grow up in. Big love from the U.K.
Awesome!! That’s a classic setup for sure. I had a set of black T Bones wheels. I still have them, but I rode them so much, they are like 54mm now 🤣 Great time to grow up for sure!!! 💯🙌
My first "board" was a Valtera bought At Grandpa's on Manchester Rd, there in Winchester (I think is Aldis now) in 1986.. My first real board was a XT Hawk, bought at Wheels West on Clarkson and Manchester!
I remember that Grandpa’s! 🤯 We moved near there for my senior year, near the intersection of Manchester and Clarkson. XT Hawk, so classic!!! 🙌🙌🙌👊👊👊
Thanks for the cool videos, it’s always nice to throw your vids on and reminisce
Right on!! Thanks for watching and for the kind words 🙏
This is such a fun video! I was born in 1980 and my first board was a Vision Groholski--I still have it as well, including the rails lol. I'm so glad to have found your channel. Keep it up! I can't wait to see the diorama when it's finished!
Thanks so much for watching!! Welcome to the neighborhood 🙌 That Groholski was a rad board, for sure.
Fabulous video! Love all the work you are putting into that mini skateshop.
Thanks so much. Yeah, that little shop is definitely a labor of love ❤️
I have skate or die and nes in living room right now
Dude, that’s amazing!!! Im gonna have to set up an emulator so I can play that game again. It’s been decades now.
Great video! My 1st "good" board was an Alva Reategui Warrior! And my 2nd board was a white dip Barbee just like the one in your video!!! Takes me back. Keep shredding!
Amazing!! Eddie Reategui is such a rad skater 🙌 But Barbee was one of my heroes back in the day. His parts in Public Domain were so rad 🤯
@TheNostalgicNeighborhood The no comply king!
@ Totally!! 🎯💯
The mid 80’s was literally the golden age of skateboarding and still is the the greatest time of my existence!I skated for 6 year from the early 80’s to the early 90’s and made my grandma spend tons on money on new skate gear!!! The Bones Brigade, Transworld&Thrasher magazines, Skate vids, skate fashion and skating with friends (oh…and watching wrestling) was my jam. My Grandpa built us ramps and rail slides with random stuff he had laying around. Living in the LA area we were able to skate all day, 365 days a year and I absolutely did! I worked in the skate industry at the second boom of skateboard culture in the early 2000’s, but it was different. The 80’s excitement of skating was genuine. It’s was about having fun and not about sponsorships and corporations. Man, the memories of those days will forever be my fondest memory✨🛹 👦🏻✨
Well said!!! 👏🎯 Man, sounds like you were right in the thick of it in LA and it's so awesome that your grandpa supported you. Love stories like these!!! Some of the best times, for sure!
Great video brings so many things I loved back then. My friend gave me his Nash board when he got a McGill deck, then I got a Tony Hawk claw. We lived in damn near in a swamp in south Louisiana just skating in driveways and blacktop roads, Ii can still feel the wheel hitting a rock and going flyng off to the ground . I love all the graphics like the Corey O'brein reaper an Staab Genie. I remember me and my buddys looking at the order forms in the back pages of the magazines wishing or all these boards. I loved Tommy Guerreros street scene in Ban This, he skated with so much speed.
Amazing!!! I skated my buddy’s Variflex for a couple months after he got a Vision Punkskull, before I got that Gator. That Tony Hawk claw is so classic, and underrated I think 🙌 I hear you about looking at the order forms in the Thrashers and wanting so many of the boards!!!!
That miniature skate shop is sick dude!
Thanks so much! I’ve got one time consuming bit that I’m working on, and then I, stoked to make a video sharing the details.
@@BloodBoughtMinistries yeah!! I forgot to comment on that , sick concept - sick visual , hell yeah! Just need to get a bunch of old skate stickers and put them under the glass like most skate shops did and still do 😂👍🍻
Thanks for uploading this, got my first department store model in 1987 found some pictures in my mother‘s photo albums, the other day of me with a few different boards. I know we talked about it a lot, but there are no words to describe what it was like growing up in that era, thanks buddy.🤙🏼😎
I totally agree, there was just something magical about that era 😎 How cool to have rediscovered those old photos, I bet that brought back a flood of memories 💥
I remember when skateboarding was crime, not an Olympic sport...
Oh wow, that could be a whole different video. The role of competitions in skating has certainly been a divisive topic through the years.
as a late 90s kid who just got into "professional skateboarding" it was for sure a different game. The 2000s were a crazy time where everyone thought they could just jump on the skate bus and be carried through life with sponsors even though literally 1 in a million kids had one. lol
Those were interesting times in the early 2000’s, lots of kids getting into it after playing Tony Hawk Pro Skater on their PlayStations.
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood Yeah, I was right before that game came out so diehard fan of skateboarding was ingrained from everyone asking if i started because of the game. Skateboarding got me through all the 9/11 disaster stuff because the rebuild of that was about when every small city and town was like hey we need a skatepark like 10 went up in my county around the same time.
@@typerightseesight we had a couple nice concrete parks in my area go up around the same time too, one relatively close to me that opened in 2003. Crazy to think I’ve been skating that park off and on for 22 years now 🤯
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood Yeah, we had one I helped design and get approved by the city council go up and come down it's been such a long time. The other parks from around the same time are hardly skateable anymore. Just too much wear and tear. Like 12 foot bowls that were designed to be rolled into have big concrete sinks in them you'd hit divots and fall all the way to flat if you didn't look for em. lol
I started skating during the late 90s and never once thought about getting paid for it.
Dude, I just found my original skateboard yesterday, before see your video. Veriflex Chaos board with homemade risers for the Sims The Wheel 2's. I had no money growing up, so Veriflex was it. Someone gave me the wheels. Tons of miles logged on it.
Oh wow, I bet that brought back a ton of memories! Assuming they gave you decent bearing for the wheels, I’m sure that was a game changer for that board. 🙌
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood I'm thinking we changed the bearings. Boy that was 40 years ago. Guess it's an antique??? Lol
@ 🤯
I agree on Gator board. It wasn't the riders mistake ,but a memory of owning the board and doing tricks on it that made it special. My bro Scott owned one.
Well said! 🎯
Nice video man! 1st deck was a Jeff Phillips in 84'. Some of my favorites was a Staab and Gonzalez. Thanks!
Thanks so much. I’m always a Staab fan, those boards get me every time. But the Phillips and Gonz boards are so iconic. You had some nice ones in your lineup 🙌
I started skateboarding in 1987 but got my first pro board in 1989. It was a Jason Jesse Mini aka The Sungod on a light green stain... Another deck that has been sullied by its skater's legacy! Sadly, my OG didn't survived to this day, but a friend of mine gave me his that was on a purple stain. Thanks for this great episode... The late 80's were the best!!
Thanks!! The Sungod was such a cool design, yeah I was sorry to hear about how things turned out with Jason Jesse. I had no idea about that until this past fall. Agreed, those were some good times in the late 89s for sure!!!
The best thing is now I still ride the old decks… but with SurfSkate trucks. I have left the days of being a “Flip trick Princess” behind and now I ride because I love to ride. I still can’t convince Bruce Walker to put out a line of re-issue Walker Skateboards, but this is a hill I choose to die on. I want my nightmare back, with a modern age nose and tail and epic concave
It would be epic to get a modern take on a modern nightmare. 🙌
Used to have a Jean Jacket Vest with a big back patch that said,Skate for Fun, Bow to None!!🤘🤠🤘
@ Nice!!!
Skateboarding is always the coolest. The 80s were just one Era of skating's rulership. I stepped on board in the 70s and started skating hard-core in the 80s. Skating is the best now. Get on board, stay on board. "I still suck, but I still skate."
Get on board, stay on board. I love it!!!
This is a great retrospective! My first board was a Vision Gator too, and I completely agree with your sentiments. I wish it had survived the decade, but like so many, it did not. I'm sure the trucks and wheels were reused on my next deck.
Yeah, I hear you. The only reason I still have mine is because I got so into wanting a Kevin Staab deck, that I got the Pirate before the Gator was fully thrashed. All my other decks after that were pretty much unusable (or broke) when I got the next one so they were pitched. For some reason, I always kept the Gator and so glad I did. 👍
Started skating in 1988. Everyone was skating. I was a kid and looked up to all the older guys. I started progressing fast. By late 1989, I could do tre-flips... but by that time I was already skating alone. I strived so hard to impress the older guys and by the time I got to that point everyone was quitting. I stayed with it all these years, but the MAGIC has never existed like it did 1988 through summer '89. I loved "Blind: Video Days" 1991 era... but so few were skating at that time that all my hype was solitary. '89 was a good year, let's hear it all for good old '89. Heck, I remember that the skateshops couldn't even get H-Street decks or keep them in stock. German bearings... man... good times... and how the heck did everyone end up with a set of bridge-bolts?!?!
Bridge bolts! I totally forgot about those!!! Summer of 88 was total magic for sure! The height of it for me too 🙌
Started skating around 82, I'm 56 now. Only difference is that now we don't have to drive 3 hours to find a decent skatepark. I don't see that much of a change in culture. Just the fact that so many skaters are on UA-cam so you can see what happens somewhere else, and some girls doing tricks that not even 0,1% of male skaters can do makes me happy. It's all good. Peace!
That’s a good point about skateparks being much more accessible today. It sure seems like things progress so much faster in the UA-cam era compared to the VHS era. And yeah, so many rad female skaters these days. My daughter is now 26 and doesn’t skate anymore, but she skated with me quite a bit in her teenage years and it’s fun to see how far female skateboarding has progressed especially in the last 10 years 🤯
I'm from Australia and I'd started skating in '86 when I was 14 and my first board was a Variflex. Once I skated for a while and got a bit better I bought a Vision Ken Park. That was an awesome board. Couple of years after that I bought an Alva Fred Smith III Loud one model. I wish I still had that board. We had built a quarter pipe in our backyard, which was concreted and had plenty of the neighborhood used to come over and skate. Loved the Animal Chin video, pretty sure I'd worn that out and used to play Skate or Die at the town library as I didn't own a PC but had bought the game and a joystick. The 80's truly were and awesome time to be a teenager. Sadly I have only a few photos from back then. Great video as well. 👍👍
Love this so much. Even if we were on other sides of the world, we had such similar experiences. 🙌
88 baby.. I have been hooked ever since! Still addicted to the ride Brotha!! Sliding and Grinding.. Loving all these reissued decks nowadays... Actually getting a Psycho Stick next. Just buying what I couldn't afford back then. Thanks for the Rewind Bro 🤘💯
Right on! Thanks for watching. I got a Valley Bug deck that I’ve had fun on, and a Saiz before that. But I usually skate a more modern pool/park board. I got a little Polarizer board last year too. Variety is the spice of life 🙌
Currently riding the Powell Anderson Heron 2 twin tail.. love it. Dragon wheels too. Smooth and cushiony for these old knees. I'm telling you Bro.. 10 minutes in and I think I'm 13 again.. lol I'm So Not!
@@GeeZeeX3 I love it!!! I have Dragons on my old school board, and no doubt they are super smooth. But yeah, the feeling of being 13 again can’t be understated
Remember the Freddy Krueger photos of him holding the vision aggressor2 deck? So cool lol. Skateboarding of that era is truly epic.
I totally forgot about that, or else I would have included it somewhere. Thanks for stirring up that memory 🙏👊
My first deck was a bright orange nash and had that board for a while and first pro board was a zorlac Stanton clown deck and got a natas 101 devil board around the same time. Always wore vision shoes. Ive also been a bmx rider since the 80s. Im 44 and still skate and ride bmx. So much fun
BMX and skating for the win!!! That Natas deck was pretty crazy! Have you heard the story about how that design was supposed to go to Jason Lee but he didn’t want it. So they
eventually offered it to Natas and he was like sure, all the moms think my name is Satan spelled backwards anyway. 🤣
@ i had not heard that. I wish i had all my bikes and boards from growing up still.
Easily one of the best video out there about 80s skateboarding! Love it Matt!🤙 My first one was a knockoff Valterra Land Shark with all the bells and whistles😅
Right on. Thanks so much for the encouraging words. All the bells and whistles! And hey, Marty McFly had a Valterra with all the bells and whistles 😎
@ on a slightly different note, you know what I thought first when watching your video? That the Hall of Fame doesn’t get burned to the ground…😞
Dressen’s epic hill bomb spot from Speed Freaks just a couple of miles away from there in Mountaingate is already gone… Skating history gone in an instant.
@ yes, I was concerned about the hall of fame museum too. It sees, they are far enough away from the forested areas to spread that far. Fingers crossed 🤞
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood keeping my fingers crossed! Hope all these fires get contained asap, it has already been a nightmare for way too many…
@ Agreed! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
my board was a schmitt stix john lucero with slimeballs but was a huge hosoi fan.
Right on, one of my best friends had a Lucero with Slimeballs. So classic!!!!
My first decent skateboard was a GT Sundancer around 1981.
First pro model was a Tony Hawk with Rat Bones wheels and Tracker trucks.
Hands down the most fun time of my life!
Good video 😎👍🏼
Very cool! You had the classic setup on that Hawk! 🙌
Great stuff! Brings back a lot of memories. My first “real” deck was a red Tony Hawk claw deck, from Eat Concrete in Omaha NE. I can still remember how the entire place smelled like sweaty ProTec pads, and it was awesome.
Hawk Claw!!! 💥 So rad. Sweaty Protecs, you can’t forget that smell. I have a friend here who had a skate punk band in the 80s (Ultraman) and they had a song called Rector Breath 🤣
Just gave Rector Breath a listen. Classic 80s/90s punk! Love the siren whistle in the middle of it! Gives you the sense of just how fast he was going. 😆
Doing a short segment on the pads available then, would be cool. I remember Pro-Tec and Rector. But when Smith Scabs came out, with the neoprene brace underneath, those were the bomb. You couldn’t fully extend your knee when you had them on but you didn’t care because you weren’t having to constantly adjust them.
Happy to say I was there too. It was a great time to be a kid. My first pro deck was a Natas Kitten back in 1988. I always wanted a Tony Hawk deck but every skate shop was always sold out of them. So I got the Natas Kitten, and didn't know who he was. My Nextdoor neighbor showed me the part where he does the fire hydrant spin in street on fire. And I was like "YEAH, I like that dude!"
That’s amazing! Natas was such an amazing skater, that fire hydrant spin was so iconic💥 Have you seen the recent part where Andy Anderson does the Natas Spin on the fire hydrant, but he flips the board upside down while doing so… and they flip the name backwards to call it the Satan Spin. Crazy 🤯
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@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood Yes, I have. Epic!!
@ Such a rad skater part! Here is a link to Andy spinning on that exact same fire hydrant 40 years later. ua-cam.com/video/vRj11yZO9Ck/v-deo.html
Had several cheap boards, but my very first pro model was a Sims Henry Gutierrez. Since it never leaved me, and still riding to this day.
Amazing that you have it!!! I have a Gutierrez from back in the day too, but it’s in such bad shape, you can barely make it out. Stoked to hear you’re still riding 🙌
@ oh sorry for the confusion, skateboarding never leaved me, I unfortunately not have the board…
@ Oh gotcha! Glad you’re still riding though!!!!
My 1st legit board was a red Gator mini with red grip. I borrowed so generic trucks with kryptonics from my cousin until I could afford Indy trucks & pink ratbones with nmb bearings. The only accessories I had was a set of red rails. Not sure why everything was red. Just what I was feeling I guess. So I pieced together my 1st setup & I’ve never had a brand new complete since & I’ve never quit skating.
I had blue rector knee pads & red rector elbow pads. We always had mini ramps & we’d all pad up. I had a white flyaway helmet for skateparks. 1st 2 skateparks I frequented were Bullet in Joplin MO & sometimes Radz in Springfield MO where I rode & dropped in on my 1st vert ramp. Now I work in KC & live close to Lawrence KS & we have a legit public vert ramp
This vid is awesome. Thanks for doing it!
I love it!!! My Gator had generic trucks and wheels when I got it, so I can relate to slowly upgrading it. I got some OJii wheels first and then some Gullwing trucks for it. Those flyway helmets were so classic, there are a couple guys I skate with here in St. Louis who have reproduction ones. We just got our first public vert ramp over here a couple weeks ago, right before the snow. It’s huge, I’ll pump around on it starting from the flat, but not so sure that at 50, I want to learn to drop in on a 13’ ramp 🤣 I’ll stick to the little 4’ deep baby bowl at our park
@ that sounds huge. & like a road trip to St. Louis might be in my future. Vert is scary. I just turned 50 & have been doing some kick turns on our vert ramp to help rehab my knee. Still have delusions of doing some grinds & rock n rolls but our ramp is a tad smaller at almost 12 feet.
Sounds like a killer setup either way the gullwings & OJs. I had some bright green OJ freestyle wheels on a Wellinder freestyle board. They seemed tiny at the time at 57mm
@ Awesome! Hit me up if you ever visit St. Louis. The park with the new ramp has some fun concrete stuff, it’s called Kinetic park and it’s just west of St. Louis.
@ rad I will for sure. I have an older crew that works love to try take a triad trip & smaller bowls is what we usually skate
@ cool! Don’t need to watch the whole video, but the first few seconds shows that little baby bowl I mentioned. It’s so much fun!!! ua-cam.com/video/uXjlw3A0uzE/v-deo.htmlsi=ldE4ndWG1Fj7VJix
My first board was a Alien Workshop priest in 96. However I got soon into ramp skating and inhaled every bit of information from the 80s and watched the Bones Brogade videos. I had a very visual memorie and when I started at age 13 I could recall all I'd seen before on 80s TV and some guidebooks. I knew Upland and Ranging Waters and at my time when all was about flat and curb I felt something was missing. The rest is history, skating vert ever since and forever inspired by the 80s
I love this!!!! Such a cool story. Those raging waters videos are epic?!!
Started in ‘83 on a secondhand skinny board then had a Variflex Space Junk. First pro set up was Santa Cruz Salba tiger with Indy trucks and Tracker Ollie wheels. Still have the decks and still skating. Best era for me was the early 90’s around the Blind Video Days time. Also loved the progression in the big pants, small wheels age that followed.
Oh wow, you were there through quite the evolution of skating. I love that Salba tiger deck, so cool. I had gotten out of skating by the time big pants and super tiny wheels were the norm, but I think some of the early 90s shapes are still the best. For me, they are a nice blend between 80s shaped decks and symmetrical popsicles, sort of the best of both worlds 🙌
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood it’s cool to see younger skaters often choosing wider, shaped decks again these days. Love the mini skate shop man and will be catching up on some of your other nostalgic videos. Found my old Gameboy the recently and Tetris is raking up way too much of my time!
@ Awesome!!!
My first deck, was Tony Hawk’s first pro model. Hawk holding lightning bolts. Gullwing trucks. Cubic wheels. And let’s not forget German bearings. Yes, plastic on all four sides.
That mini skate shop is rad! It’s funny to think about the cultural transition from the 80s into the 90s. I can say that the major turning points were 1988 when Shackle Me Not came out and H-Street took over. Then World Industries, and the Vallely Animal Farm board. Then The New Deal, with all those graphics by Andy Howell, and their videos were just incredible.
Yes, H-Street was definitely a big part of the beginning of the changing of the guard. Game changer, for sure
AMAZING VIDEO!
Thanks! 🙏 Glad you enjoyed it!!!
Too cold to skate by me too, but I keep a board on the floor in front of my tv just to look at, the 80s were a great time to be a kid
That’s awesome! 🥶🛹📺🔥
Jeff Kendall Pumpkin Head.. t bone wheels , gullwing trucks... and hours upon hours of stoke... That was 34 years ago... this last year i took it all back up again. 13 Completes later in a year! Wifey shakes her head all the time. Trying to skate everyday, a mini ramp in my backyard, learning tricks i never thought i could get. My little guy is 9. He just loves it... his first shaped deck Santa brought this year... Eric Dressen. Couldnt be happier. He loves it. Stay young friends and have a ripper 2025.
Dude!!!! I love this so much!!!! 13 in a year, that’s some skate fever 🤯 so rad that your son is riding a Dressen. My son had a min Caballero when he was about that age. Good times!!!!
Man, you roped me in with the Airwalks!! 49 and just got back on the board a year and a half ago!
Amazing!! Glad to hear you're back on board. Out of all the skate shoes ever, I think the Airwalk Prototypes with the lace savers were my absolute favorites 🙌
@TheNostalgicNeighborhood oh absolutely brother! I'm getting a pair of Anderson's by Etnies just for the lace savers!!
@ sick!!! Please come back and let me know how you like skating in them 🙌
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood for sure! Subscribing to your channel now!
Corey O’Brien was my first real board! Man I miss those days! Take me back!
Corey O’Brien!!!! That reaper with the fireball was so sick!!! 🔥🔥🔥
I grew up skating in the 80s. I was team Hosoi back then because it was all about skating with style, but I appreciate all that Tony Hawk has brought to skating. My first skateboard was a Valterra that I sanded down and painted my own block color graphics on. Then my first legit board was a Rob Roskopp with Indys and OJs. Back then it was a wild frontier and we were basically making things up as we went and paving it for generations to come. Everything was a new trick. We skated everything from street to vert to ditches and pools. It was truly a great time to skate. But now I look back at some of the tricks and though they were ground-breaking at the time, they seem kind of lame by today's standards. Nonetheless, it was a fun time to explore creativity and still a lot of tricks do hold up today. Just watch Andy Anderson or Mike Vallely skate. The boneless was my go to trick until I started on launch ramps and half pipes.
I still claim neutral territory on the Hosoi. vs. Hawk 😎 I loved them both back then, and I still I love watching them both skate today! That being said, I have a giant 8’ wide poster of Hosoi on the wall in my office, so maybe I’m team Hosoi after all 🤣 A Roskopp with OJii’s, such a classic setup! No doubt on Andy Anderson, that video part he released a couple months ago is next level 🤯
Favorite decks I had Natas Panther, Natas kitten, Cab mini, OJ wheels, Indy trucks… miss the 80s, Santa Cruz decks
Bullett wheels, great memories
Yes, I loved that Panther deck, so cool! I had a set of OJ ii’s and some Bullets too. I think my favorites were the T Bones and Slimeballs. Great memories indeed!!!
I was more like the ‘79-‘81 era, but have great memories of the Albas, Kryptonics wheels, Andrecht, all those SIMS boards, the Gyro wheels. First board was a ZORLAC with gullwings and Sims Snake conicals… so hard to get in TX! I saved for months. I remember just staring at the pics in Skateboarder mag for hours.
Awesome! Thanks for chiming in, you skated in a pretty epic era too!!! Such a different time when had to learn everything from looking at magazines instead of social media 🤣
I actually got to shred with the bones brigade while they were making future primitive. It was the day they were at mount trashmore.
Dude!!! How cool is that!!! 🤯 Some great memories, I’m sure!!! “Keep the damn raccoon outta my truck, please..” 🤣
I'll never regret skateboarding.
Amen!!! 🎯💯
Great video brother… I skated back in 88/89 … I skated a zorlac Metallica/ white Steve cabellero/ natas kaupas/ and purple dog town Eric dressen. Always wanted the hawk and McGill . My first board was a cheap flea market special 😂. I recently bought McGill and Tony hawk Powell tees. This video brought back so many memories… going to skate shops and checking out all the boards and gear . As far as the movies I always loved gleaming the cube…. But I watch thrashin like once a month 😅. As far a trick I was good at… I was just a nasty Ollie guy… great video again my friend 👏
Thanks for the kind words 🙏 Man, you had a sick lineup of boards from that era 🙌 Very cool! Yeah, I was a Thrashin Kid too, until our video store got a copy of Animal Chin!
A 2nd hand 1985 Nash "Heat Zone" was my 1st ride in Dublin Ireland, September 1987.
Amazing!! So many of us started on a Nash. ❤️
Awesome video , first board was a Nash then got a Vision Mark Rogowski Pink and teal pro model with his name on it before it switched to just Gator which is still hanging on my wall of boards. I’ll be 53 this year and still skating. Current ride is a re issue Kendall deck , Steve Steadham and a bones ripper. Very much still obsessed with skating , collecting decks, and watching my 20 year old son tear it up on a board.
Thanks! Glad to see you still skating, and old school boards at that! I don’t remember a pre-Gator Ragowski deck, I’m gonna have to look that one up.
Under the big GATOR is says Mark Rogowski pro model
@@nonoblitus7746 oh, I see what you mean. Mine has his name on it too, on the modern reproductions of that same design, they omit his name (for obvious reasons) and interestingly on the Gator 1 reproductions, they even swapped out the Gator name and replaced it with Vision.
My favorite deck of all time was my Walker Nightmare… no one had a cool deck like mine. It ended its life under a school bus as I biffed a trick showing off for my girlfriend (on the bus) and my baby went under the bus. The bus caught it and drove over it tail to nose….. hahahahahahahaha what a terrible day
Dang!!!! I can only imagine how bummed out you must been after that one. 💥 That Mark Lake board has such a unique shape. I can see why it was a favorite.
they prob did you a favor 😭
Remember swatch watches that skate shop had for airwalk.
Oh dang! I totally should have included a nod to Swatch. So classic! Thanks for the reminder 🙌
1st board ever was a Vision Shredder, Tracker trucks and Sims two-tone wheels. Current boards are an Alva and McGill Flight. Funny how my tastes reverted back to the original days. 👍🏼
It is funny how those early days have had such a lasting impression. I have a Caballero flight deck too 🙌
@ Seriously, thank you for making these videos! Growing up in the 80’s with skating and BMX was the best. And the name of your channel is exactly the reason why I can’t get enough of it. 👍🏼
@@alexanderkang7246 Right on! Thanks so much for the encouraging words 👊
Vision psycho stick was my 1st real deck the varaflex king cobra was my first deck.
I always wanted a Psycho Stick, such a classic. I did make a fingerboard version of it in that little diorama 🙌
Thanks for sharing
Right on!!! Love your avatar Steal your face image. I wasn’t a huge Dead Head, but I saw the Grateful Dead five times in the 90s and that one brings back some good memories too.
I come from a BMX freestyle background, but thanks to Freestylin magazine, which featured skateboarding, I was hooked! My first deck was the Vision Mark Gonzalez. I ended up doing both sports! lol
That’s awesome. I wasn’t a talented freestyler, but I grew up riding bikes - a LOT, and I used to get the Freestylin, BMX Action, BMX Plus magazines, and I remember they’d have skate ads in them too. After I got my first skateboard, my bike was more of a vehicle to get across town to some of the skate spots. Ive skated off and on since then, but just got back into BMX in the last couple years. Having fun trying to learn flatland tricks, but the learning curve at 50 is so steep 🤣
i wanted one for xmas after seeing a music video... there was actually nowhere to ride close by for my 7?ish year old self so mostly sat on it in the driveway rolling around i didnt actually learn to stand and skate until an adult nigh on 3 decades later. now its been 5 years or so after the fact love the 80s boards/gear and skateboarding 1.5hr cruise with some easy tricks today
Oh wow, that’s an interesting journey!!! I remember sitting on mine too, or riding Superman on your belly 🤣 It’s awesome that your riding now 🙌
great video! i think my first board was a ninja board from the Santa fe springs swap meet in orange county
Thanks Charles. I’m sure you could find some cool skate stuff in those swap meets in Orange County back in the day 🙌
My first board was an Alva Eddie Reategi monkey dude. I don’t have the board, but I did come up on the original artwork done by Roy Gonzales for that very board framed on my wall
Dude! That’s really cool 🙌
Gullwing inside - out video was the hardcore. I'd watch that everyday
Awesome! My first set of legit trucks were Gullwings, so rad!!!
My first board was a Missile. Then Nash. Eventually I started to buy pro models. Either at my favorite "Mom & Pop" skate shop, called, "Surf house". They had both Surf and skate boards, along with other accessories. Like Pro Tech helmets, wrist guards, gloves, knee and elbow pads. Or I would order skateboards through a catalog named, "California Cheap Skates" from San Luis Obispo, CA. They had everything. Cool skate wear. Like Vision Street Wear, Airwalk, Powell/Peralta. Really "RAD" time in my life. My favorite graphic design of all time, and still to this day is Rob Roskopp's "Ugly Face".
Yes, that Roskopp face is one of the best designs, for sure! I remember the ads for California Cheap Skates in magazines, great memories!!!
Christmas 1987 I got a Santa Cruz complete I was 5 and my life has never been the same since.
Thank you skateboarding !
Amazing!!! The gift that kept on giving 🙌🎅🏻
I’m on fire. Boogie with the flames of desire. On fire.
Streets of Fire. Wheels of Fire! 🔥
Being a pro in the late 80s and early 90s were a rough time!!
After my Nash Executioner in 1985, my first legit board was Rob Roscopp 2 with venture trucks and bones 95 a wheels. Fairfax Surf Shop Virginia. Legendary shop.
Awesome! 🙌
Rob Roskopp, Jeff Phillips, Blockhead Sam Cunningham....grew up in Jersey and used to go to Brooklyn Banks in the 80s.
Sick!!! Not a lot of people across the country can say they skated the Brooklyn Banks on the 80s. 🙌 Nice lineup of first boards 🤩
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhoodit's funny...im looking at a screenshot of a picture from around 1984-1986. I'm wearing a painters cap, vision streetwear sneakers and clam digger shorts while doing a Method Air off a ramp in front of my childhood house in NJ😂. Also miss my PK ripper, dk neck, se wings bars, acs Z-rims, uni seat...etc. Had a few other bikes over the years when I was a teen. Life was about trails, ramps and fun❤. Also have a picture doing a Miami Hopper on my old GT performer with Flying Wedge Bars😂
@ Haha! That’s amazing! 🤣💯 So rad that you had a PK Ripper and a GT Performer. 🤩😎❤️
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood what would you consider the BEST Bmx online store? I'm 54 and would like to purchase something to cruise around the neighborhood with.
@ There are a few options. Planet BMX has a lot of BMX cruisers. If you’re looking for a 26”:or larger, at $489 shipped, this 26” Haro Freestyler is an insane deal 🤯 www.citygrounds.com/products/10bx-hr1503?variant=40679003390063&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAD1QYY0FsbknrEVnyVbYWnijOqJYK&gclid=Cj0KCQiAyoi8BhDvARIsAO_CDsCGVxZOWsmJGFOIw8rYNouWnD7ZP0qKmt_JJzbscDNOl_BOmKZJMP0aAss7EALw_wcB
As a skater from across the pond it has to be the yearly pilgrimage to Münster in Germany. Everyone from across Europe would come and hang out and see what the world best skaters had to offer on and off the board.
Dude, that’s awesome. Bet you have some fun stories from those trips!
@ Too many to mention. Was 16 on the first one and 20 on my last. Still can’t believe my parents let me go when I was 16. I was still registered in my mums passport as I was still a child. We had to get me my own passport as I couldn’t travel on my mums. Funny meeting skaters from all over and not speaking the language. As a Dutchman I could speak German and could get bye with my French but for some reason we always gravitated to the Scandinavian skaters so pigeon English had to do. I think I told you before that I met Staab who was the nicest and Gator who was the worse Pro. Never had the chance to meet Lance in person which to this day is still my favourite. Shame you haven’t got an indoor park to skate. I get two hours a week in and that’s indoors in a suburb of London.
@@marcelboogaard3809 wow, good times for you, I’m sure! Yeah, Staab is the coolest, and from what I gather, Gator was a narcissis jerk before he went off the rails…. I’ve never met Lance in person either, but I love that guy, definitely one of the best skate heroes out there! Very cool that you have an indoor park close. There is one in the region, but it’s nearly an hour drive to get there and it’s not cheap. I’m gonna need to buck up and head there soon anyway!
I learned on a “Traders Village special. “ Most folks from Texas would know where that is. A sweet ninja themed board was perfect for a 7 year old kid.
Yeah, not being from Texas, that doesn’t ring any bells. But what 7 year old wouldn’t have been stoked to have a Ninja themed board?!?!?!
My first was a Nash in 1982 and I was 7yo. Then by 1985 I really got into it and got a pink boneite Tony Hawk bottle nose.
Bonite XT Hawk!! Such a classic. Love it 🙌
I have a set of slime balls that were on a Santa Cruz, Jeff Grosso, in 1988. I learned backside ollies on vert on that deck.
How cool!!! I have some OG slimeballs on that Staab deck in the video, those wheels are so classic!!! 💥 But I don’t have the cool story that you have with yours. So rad!!! 🙌
@TheNostalgicNeighborhood My father helped me build a ramp in our backyard in 1985. I miss him.
@ Great memories of engaging with your dad, I’m sure ❤️
@TheNostalgicNeighborhood He wasn't super stoked. I grew up in Provo, Utah. My backyard was like a punk rock show. My Dad said he at least knew where his two knucklehead sons were.
@ Stoked or not, sounds like he was a good dad.
NAILED IT
Thanks!! 🙏🙏🙏
I started riding BMX in the early 80's. When my skateboarding friends found out I was a BMX'er, they introduced me to the skateboarder/biker feud and gave me a bunch of crap which I never understood. In 85, my family moved and I got into freestyle in 86. I met a lot of bikers and skateboarders and we all hung out like we were life long friends. Sure there was a little skater vs biker jab once in a while but it was all in good fun. I miss those days.
Yeah, I think BMX and skaters had a lot more in common than they realized, but I experienced some of that too. It was an older friend who discouraged me from riding my freestyle bike and influenced me to get a skateboard. But this past year, my have finally rode bikes more than I skated, I sure love them both!
first was a makaha 70s plastic board in 1978 then a wooden nash lol. then i went to powell lance mountain, stuck with lance mostly then hosoi with an alva hosoi then the hammerhead. skate shop sold used decks for $10 and i bought alot.
Dang! That’s quite a history. I didn’t start skating until the mid 80s, but I also started on my sister’s old Roller Derby plastic board. Gotta love the Lance Mountain boards! None of my shops sold used boards, but assuming they weren’t too far gone, getting them for $10 seems like a fun way to try out new shapes.
This video was rad 🎉 yup those sure were the days
Thanks so much. Rad times indeed, such great memories!!!
Back in the 80’s it was mostly punks and rejects that skated. It was almost like an outlaw lifestyle that was not accepted by the general public. Everything evolves and so does skating all the time. It’s all good in the hood.
For most of the 80s, that’s totally true. But for a brief time in the late 80s, it was pretty mainstream, even if still seen as a bit edgy by the general public.