40 Spooky, Strange & Useless Skateboarding Facts
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- In this episode, we talk about some spooky skateboarding facts... weird skateboard shapes, strange industry stories and some truly useless pieces of knowledge.
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What's the spookiest skate fact you know or heard in this video?!
@ShredzShop i know the location of alien workshop hq and what is in the video is not true I went to the location viewed on the video and it's a roofing business
That Marty McFly invented skateboarding
That Conan O'Brien mounts trucks on the top of a skateboard.
not really spooky BUT it is something connected to the Natas Devil Worship Deck, Eazy E used to own one and he has a picture with it posing with the deck with the griptape sliced in multiple pieces and the pentagram on top of the deck still fully visible
The red top ply since i got two decks with a red top ply for Christmas
I remember when I first started skating if you fell from hitting a rock you eat the rock and you get better
Bro, tf?
Based
You gain the rocks power by doing this...
You might lose a tooth or crack your jaw
That'd make for a rough spring if your municipality uses gravel for snow and ice during winter.
same
FUN FACT 1: Pro Skater Steve Nesser is Green Day lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong's brother-in-law.
FUN FACT 2: Billie Joe Armstrong has A partial ownership stake in Real Skateboards.
interesting bit about Billie Joe, Jim Thiebaud (main guy at Deluxe) was a cofounder of Adeline Records with him in the late 90s as well!
I remember having a skate mag subscription, best time of my life
I used to spend my allowance every week on buying a mag! 4 mags a month haha I read every mag front to back, my lil connection with California
Wow those girls skateboarders in Afghanistan are amazing, that is like the coolest thing for these young oppressed. These poor women in these Middle eastern countries are so oppressed it’s disgusting. Woman are beautiful and are the mothers of the earth. Woman should celebrated.
must be so much fun making these episodes 🤩
This was a fun one to make! 🙏 🙌
The video of skaters swinging their boards in a fight reminds me of when I first started skating in the 90s. There we other kids who like to fight and jump people, who'd confront us, but almost always just walk away. Sometimes if there were enough of them they'd start fighting, but who attacks people holding skateboards. Especially when we held our boards with a mall-grab. We know what parts of the board hurt the most, because we've been hit by them many many times. When they did attack we'd stand far apart back to back and throw a few nose/tail jabs to the ribs, strikes with the truck or truck axel, or hits with the the thin side of the board, and they'd back off. What did they expect to happen? We made sure to not hit heads, but they still sometimes got broken bones, and since they started it and had more people they wound up with charges from the police after their truly shitty parents tried to get us in trouble.
When I was 11 or so I started skating and I didn't know yet which groups of kids were cool to hang out with and which weren't (yes, skating was that popular in 1998). I was kicking it with these really bad kids one day and we ate at McDonald's and then we hung out by the back of the restaurant while a couple of the kids threw pebbles at cars. One pickup truck that got hit busted a u turn and drove straight through a vacant, desert lot to pull up on us and a guy who was about 30 got out to square up with the kid who threw the rock that hit his car. Said kid was about 14 or so. The kid immediately swings his board a couple of times at the man. I remember to this day that it was a green, 8 inch, Girl Skateboards deck with a big, pink, Girl logo and matching, green Grind King trucks- I'd ridden it a couple of times to ollie my first gap and I still recall how utterly gigantic it felt compared to my 7.75, Zero deck with the three skulls and Destructo trucks. The man had managed to dodge the first couple of swings and on the next one, a big, arcing, overhead chop, he grabbed the board with both hands, yanked it out of the kid's, and cracked his skull open with one swing of his own. It happened all in one motion- him grabbing the board, using its momentum to reel it back and swing it overhead like it was a bucket full of water, and bringing it down square on top of the kid's forehead to crack it like an egg.
@@joelglanton6531lol sometimes people get hurt. Glad it was the a-hole kid.
@@joelglanton6531Sounds like the kid got the prize for the game he was playing.
@@PatchesOHoulihan-hi2tb He dropped out of high school to move to New York City and die of a heroin overdose
the most famous skateboarder in the world is Bart Simpson
I got surprised to hear my country at 16:46 in a video from quite far overseas
Xenomorph with the monster hat had me rolling 🤣
Some of my best work 🤣
was that PLG?
I think we all had a crush on Marissa at 1 point in time... maybe even now still..
Whatching her interviews, I agree. She seems so cool!
I haven’t thought of that Natas graphic in probably 15-20 years. Holy blast from the past.
Dude u guys are the best skate channel outta all the skate channels on yt
🙏🙏🙏glad you enjoy!!
This channel is like the holy grail of skate info
You guys still working the FA video? The new Tyshawn part was craaazy..... can't wait for part two
FA vid before the end of the year! 👀 🤫
When that alien came out of the stomach with a monster hat on I lost it.
😝 😝
Dude, you're back. Nice.
He survived the layoffs at Shredz shop...
Spooky skateboard fact: I just got a wicked sick Darkthrone Transylvanian Hunger skate deck in the mail today, also have one of the Samhain coffin decks in my collection. The originals were hand screened by danzig himself and sell for thousands of dollars
damn! That's so sick!! 🔥 👻 🦇
Great video man. You referenced so much of my childhood. I love the Zorlac shout out! They’re kind of overlooked I think ✌🏼👍🏼
I'd love to do a vid on Zorlac! Always been a brand I've been such a fan of.
@@ShredzShop pushead graphics!
@@ShredzShop if you do one find out what happened, surely those crazy shapes would sell. Would they be open to just selling off the brand so someone else could put out reissues. Why didn't Embassy cut a deal with Jeff Newton (or whoever owns the brand now)? Enquiring minds want to know.
@@ShredzShop also 5 min before you do the video buy a ton of old zorlac stuff and sell it 5 min after you put out the video $$$$
You guys are moving up my list of favorite Canadians. I put you right below a Decenzo. Not Ryan but Scott. They both rip and super nice guys. Anyway keep up the great content.
I remember doing film photography 📸 and putting them in sequence cause it's how we did things back when 😅. Also, I still use film today for photography cause for myself it's the whole anticipation of waiting for the film to be developed that was and still is today my biggest holy sh*t I shot that inspires me I started photography back in the early 90s. Digital I love also and as always fams great content 🔥🤙🏽
I agree! I still shoot 35mm often and Im really bad at it, but when it turns out, its the most exciting and rewarding feeling. Glad you enjoy the vids!! 🙏
Fact 41.......Mark "Gator" Ragowski got paroled......love it or hate it,it's a part of skateboarding n I felt I should share
Its interesting, he's been trying for years and this is the year he makes it out. Kind of creepy feeling
Yeah I gotta fight off Cougars with my board all the time...
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Dang. Just learned about Red top ply and knew exactly what was lurking under my grip couldn't be trusted. Awesome video shredz!
Glad you enjoyed!! 🙏🙌
I'll skate a red top. one of my favorite boards was a Danny Way Giger alien plan b with a red top!
The part about the Eames chair was really fascinating. I worked at a skateboard factory and never knew that. Do you know where I could find more info about it? Thanks
Originally found it on a skateboarding history book called “a day with no waves”
@@ShredzShop thanks 👊🏼
I spent a week training at the Herman Miller Greenhouse in Michigan a few years back. Hearing boards brought up in the initial tour re: ply moulding techniques, was pretty rad. The irony of the process being developed for leg splints didn’t fall flat (pun unintended). Fun fact: a few of the guys in the design dept. at the time actually skate.
8:45, he's got some drip.
Levi: the most cult followed skateboarding youtuber
So glad you didn’t get fired 😂
Didn’t get fired YET…
The spookiest thing that every skater will ever go through is the first time you land a kickflip because in reality you have no clue how you did it yet lol
Lol the Marrisa board has the trucks on upsidedown on the Conan show
Now that's spooky
Haha good eye
Love the video, cool stuff!
Thanks Jon!! Glad you enjoyed! This was a fun one!
Simon Woodstock also had a boxing bout with Mike Muir of Suicidal Tendencies after pro snowboarder Shaun Palmer withdrew in mysterious circumstances
hahah damn, Im gonna have to look into this! Ive always been so fascinated with Simon Woodstock!
@@ShredzShop it was a trade show in around mid to late nineties and covered in Blunt magazine if that helps
this episode was so scary, happy halloween levi
Happy Halloween 🎃 👻
I was gunna say something about Levi but he gives us so much awesome stuff!
Haha you’re a good guy Benjamin 🤝
Love this channel
Glad you enjoy! Hope you enjoy this vid!! We put a bunch of work into it and I'm hyped how it turned out!
The only scary thing bout dis is the spooky faces that are randomly shown, and if your actually coming for me ill like to get your autograph.
Im going to go buy a white lighter and a red baker deck rn
you crazy
@@ShredzShop nah im 27🥶🥶🥶
@@CaptainOOMAOOMA 🤣
Love this channel Frl
Stoked you enjoy!! 🙏
This was GREAT. ❤
Glad you enjoyed! 🙌🙏
Vans still makes clown shoes. I wear them everyday 🤡
😝 😝 😝
Do you think the skateboard covered in pennies that Louie Barletta has in that one skatepark clip from bag of suck was a callback to that Simon Woodstock guy? I instantly thought of that clip when you brought it up haha
Haha yea it probably was. Never even thought of that!
Jokes on you I already pissed myself
hahaha got us!
I still havn't found animal chin which is kinda spooky!
I'm commenting as requested. I like focused bladers. Good episode here. Very spooky. I know spooky and dumb. Im from Salem
Damn! Give us a spooky Salem story!!
Ya I wanna hear one too
The tourists there are like a hoarde of zombies sometimes. Is that spooky enough? Lol
good to know levi didn’t get fired 😌
...Didn't get fired YET
That slip into a deep Canadian accent at the end of the cougar story 🤣🤣🤣
The alien with the Monster hat lol
Hahaha
Still can’t get over the the clown shoes lol
Hahah one of my fav weird facts ever
wheels in the freezer? sounds like a shredz shop video to me...
Haha we’ve never tried, and I don’t have my hopes up. But thought it was an interesting claim from Mr. Mullen
Gas but every sport is equal
Awesome! BTW that's some great American Traditional tattoo designs on that shirt you're wearing!
🙌🙏 Glad you enjoyed the vid! The tee is from a Canadian tattoo shop on the east coast, forget what they’re called. I’ll ask Levi
Can we do fallen footwear facts next
That'd be a cool one!
@@ShredzShop permission to rip??!!!
gosh. weird, that's true!!! i broke my left arm with shortys red top on it.
crazy!
12:49 missed opportunity to make a deck out of the cease and desist letter
I'm a sneaker head and this video melted my brain. FSR step your game up. Do a sneaker episode Porta or, or many, like nike SB and definitely Airwalk. Thanks for this, this is dope.
Levi your my favorite anchor
You like him more than Ron Burgundy?!
This is amazing
haha glad you enjoyed! Hyped on how this one turned out!
Well done!
Glad you enjoyed!! We were hyped on this episode!
Wow it was so spooky, I 💩while on the toilet
Probably the most fitting place to watch our videos...
This intro is the sjiznit. 🤘💀
😝 😝
I got a real spook... my dude back in the 90s did a gap and his whole wheel + bearings came off but the wheel nut didn't, it still makes no sense
Now that is stranger than fiction 👻 👻 👻
@@ShredzShop true Charlottetown stories
Nah bro, that wheel phased right through the nut. Dude's board was possessed by demons and/or aliens.
@@LiterallyCensoredDaily thank u 🙏
I at one point made a crate scooter out of a old fruit crate and a shelf dolly replaced the dolly wheels with roller skate ones I used it as a movable shelf because I was way to tall for it
what a freaky spooky 40 steps hey! excellent though lads
Glad you enjoyed it!!
oh shit, natas' name backwards is satan! never noticed fitting for the graphic tho
Spooooooky 👻
Hopefully a part 2 for Halloween :P
I remember that ad for the Harley Davidson shoes.. didn't even realize they were for skateboarding, they were so ugly I just ignored them.
Haha
That roller blader was Ian Brown from Australia I went to school with him in Woonona near Wollongong and used to skate inline with him back in the 90s and early 2000s what a spin out seeing that old footage on a present day UA-cam video 🤯
Man I love this channel
❤️❤️❤️
As a skater for over a decade, I like roller skaters, Bikers, scooter kids, all that stuff. Its a culture of disciplines, thats worth showing respect to each other
An eames lounge chair is one of the best quality chairs you can buy in the mid entry modern style furniture! My dad owns an antique business and he says he’s had a few of them before and they are good quality and bring good money! If you ever spot one and can get it for a good price I would take it immediately!
I didn't have PTSD until you mentioned it and reminded me of my ex who has NPD. And I hadn't thought about her for at least 79 minutes.
I did nearly pee my pants.. But not out of fear. I just really had to pee and didn't want to pause the video😂
9:08
As if we needed any more proof that Otto is friggin' AWESOME!
Jumping the great wall was a circus trick but I'm glad everyone got the day off work for it.
I still have that Guy TW mag.😂😂 I kept all my mags since the mid 90s. I need to donate them to some shop with a library or something.
5:13 is my favorite part lmao 😂
6:34 I was pretty sure you were talking about Aaron Kyro
I've been riding a red top sheet for months and I forgot about the curse.... Fuck...
haha just dont beleive the hype
It’s actually only Flameboy on the bottom of the school bus!!
The intro was sick. ❤ It
To be honest i would buy the devil worship board, that graphic is amazing
good video!
Thanks Daniel!
Koston is time traveler?!
👽⏰ 🚀
The real spooky thing is that Levi is on slap and won’t share his handle smdh.
I don't think Levi's on SLAP, but most of the other guys at the shop are 😝
@@ShredzShop Levi saying a bladder focused himself on the leap of faith told me all I needed to know hahah
The best homies. Now I’m always gonna check the top layer of my boards. Great now I’m gonna be all spooked ofmy red boards. Hopefully I don’t have any or you all are buying them off me. 😂 Levi hit me up if you ever come to Sandy Eggo. Peace my dude.
😅🙌🙏
I was subscribed to big brother... I got a magazine called Taboo and it had a girl named Chloe on the cover holding an African American guys fore arm, his fist infront of her face as she stared at it... It said Chloe's Five Finger Fandango... I'll obviously never forget it. There was some sick isht in that mag. I remember a snake inserted head first , you know where. Tied up women, beaten... Wild. Thanks Larry.
omg this is sclary oh mer gawd i shat, poopt and coomed when u made the scary face.
i peepeed too. out my peeper
i'm so scared and i'm going to pee myself so hard like never before.
Enjoy the video and let it happen... you can always clean up after 👊
🎃Maybe their best episode yet🎃
Hyped you enjoyed Anad!!
@@ShredzShop loved🖤 it - totally infectious and fantastic editing (as always) ‼️ Levi is a tour de force when let out of the cage🥳💯🎃
Idk how many "kids" had subscriptions to Big Brother. They were always placed in the mature magazine area covered in plastic. I still have all of mine in a box. I loved that magazine, but I doubt parents bought their kids a subscription.
the harley davidson shoe kinda looks like one of the jerry hsu shoes from osiris.....🤔
Sick intro😂😂😂
very spooky! 👻
🔥 🔥 🔥
Love Eames chairs….
agreed! Always thought that was such an interesting fact, but never worked in any of our other videos.
@@ShredzShop never knew it!! Actually really cool fact
Harley Davidson actually has a new skate shoe out now. It’s the Harley Davidson Wrenford skate shoe.
Damn, gonna have to check that out haha
15:11 that was my first skateboard i was 5 years old. I had 3 skateboard in lifetime that was 1 and 2 was 10 year's old The third one was and my last one was 17 teen skateboard slip and fill off the ciff so i want to go chase IN that was my last skateboard. now I'll be 50 in April. I want to skate again. look for one right now. Zero Premium Skateboard with Ace Trucks, Snot Wheels 9.125" Night of the Living Shred Egg. But don't know about this Skateboard name Zero is it good or not. that i was was looking for.
Harley will make anything but a good motorcycle that isn’t the same thing from 30 years ago
thank indestructible shirt is fire!!!
I've been a fan of Marisa Tomei since My Cousin Vinnie and that Alltimers deck is my holy grail, and I'd put it up with another wall board of mine, my original, Marisa Dal Santo guest board for Zero. It would be Marisa and Marisa, get it?
12:38 jurassic park dude copping a feel is kinda creepy