Yeah its crazy to see this Grosso and what he looked like on the later episodes we straight up got to watch him get old old on this show, shit there's probably some kids who grew up with this hahaha
I love it! Such memories! We skated this parking lot full of curbs at an old folks home for a few years. Wax those curbs n slide n grind forev! We started getting booted, until the old folks complained, guess they loved watching us both destroy the curbs, but also give the security guys hell! Gods bless those cool ass old folks! Think it helped that we skated to firehose , not usual punk rock stuff at the ramp we had when older.
I'm tearing up. Every hero of mine is in this. I skated street from 1984-1997 pretty hard. This video was amazing. watched all these videos growing up. R.I.P. Grosso... I always wanted to be part of this family. Thanks guys for everything.
As an old skater I can appreciate this so much! True to life for real, all those dude’s are my heroes, please don’t anyone ever give your opinion when you don’t ride? Ok
Man, been watching these all over again. Bummed. The Grossman has always been in my top 5. What a bummer. Hope his family is doing alright. We areso lucky to have all this footage of him
Hell yeah man I was about 15 around 95 and those were the best times of my life.. you don’t really appreciate it until your older, made me start skating again
I skated with Jeremy Henderson down in Key West in 1990ish and he was doing slappies on unpainted, unwaxed curbs. Just leaned back and shralped through it.
all the names from when I was skating were magic. ....and still are..... I love my life....I always think I wanted to live my life loving george Harrison and making music but when u live the life of skating in the 80s u know your blessed you know who u r.......tom groholski Toni hawk jasson jessee losi nooooooo gator this was my time and it was great
This is one of my favorite episodes. That dulcet sound of grinding a well broken in curb is the music of my adolescence. (Sorry to sound like a fortune cookie)
curbs & jersey barrier skating are my favorite things to skate. FS slappies took a while. i learned to skate jersey barriers by waiting until highway traffic was zilch so i could run into the middle of the road and shred that shit lol. Then i found a spot beside an old folks which the fucking love
RIP Grosso - watched Grosso in the mags since i was a kid..He a lil older than me, gonna miss this show, wish they coulda made a love letter to good ole Florida.
Absolutely fantastic. There was an eight foot curb in the corporate park behind my house that I must have slid and grinded 1000's of times in the late 80s and early 90s. I never thought of it back then, but it was kind of a dance. It's funny when I drive by it now. It's just another curb. Grizzled, un-waxed, un-touched. That curb and I share a secret though, and that secret is awesome.
Natas in Wheels of Fire, Tom Knox in Speed Freaks, Eric Dressen In Streets On Fire and Matt Hensley in that H Street video opened my mind to what was possible on curbs... 1993 in Atlanta Dave Holbrook R.I.P. used a caulk gun, tube if Liquid Nails industrial adhesive to glue a piece of angle iron about10 feet long onto a granite curb in front of his house to do slappees on, we skated that for hours at a time. I bet it’s still there...
Jeff, I had your board and I loved it! Beautiful board. Red stained canadian maple. Rode that thing everywhere until I discovered driving and girls. You signed a sticker for me at a demo that you and John did in Whittier I still have it somewhere. I learned to skate vert at Skate City (still have my ID). Tighten your trucks all the way and follow me. That was my lesson. Curbs do rule. Another thing is that you could spend hours with some surf wax and a curb.
without curbs i would have never learned how to boardslide,noseslide, 50-50, etc. Best feeling in the world at 11 years old and......29. Yikes i`m old!
Curbs and parking blocks was all I really had to skate growing up in the late 80's. There weren't any parks where I lived and the street spots were shit. We didn't have shit to skate so we spent hours in the parking lot at this bank.
The control Julien had on the blunt where he rolls out fakie was JasonLee/Jovante levels of smooth.. This hypes me for sure. I want a Julien deck but his Syringe model is too big and wide. What did Julien have between that model and popsicle?
Honestly the reason I went outside and decided to be a skateboarder was because I saw a pro on TV killing handrails session a curb and say that it was his favorite thing to do but everyone wants the handrails. At the time it made actually doing tricks so accessible for me.
I still remember when I saw a no comply for the first time. Can't remember what vid though...I spent the next month skating at the bank beating up the curbs and blocks non stop. Maybe Animal Chin.....
Learning good backside grinds atm. Gotten some good full block ones, no full speed ones yet though. Glad I started doing them. It feels good getting up there, loose Indy's ftw
thanks dude! you kinda re-inspired me to go into my neighborhood and fix me up a curb. i ended up smoothing it out with a old truck hanger and waxing the shit out of it, it dont grind quite yet but im still ganna work that shit till it does!
No matter what you can always grind a curb, think the US had it easier wirh all those painted curbs, thats why we always skated the car parks in the UK NPC yellow curbs all day!
The beautiful thing about skating is that it's still that simple, if you want it to be. I'll get up tomorrow and go hit my local slappy curb for an hour before I have to start my shift.
RIP Grosso. Really gonna miss this show.
Matt Larsen I hope they do one more as a love letter to grosso with all the people that loved him.
Mee to bro
Yeah its crazy to see this Grosso and what he looked like on the later episodes we straight up got to watch him get old old on this show, shit there's probably some kids who grew up with this hahaha
How did he die?
Jon Gray Jeff passed away from a heart attack
This is my favorite love letter. RIP JEFF GROSSO
same here , GROSSO FOREVER
This episode never gets old
Jay Dilla I've watched every love letter and I still watch them all the time 👍👍
These are cultural jems of skating i need this on dvd
Facts .3rd time full watch right now
Yes curbs are funner than a 10 million dollar rollercoaster
way more funner
yes yes yes!!!! well spoken
Bowls too
One of the best feelings I've ever had in skateboarding is slappy grinding a curb. magical.
I love it! Such memories!
We skated this parking lot full of curbs at an old folks home for a few years. Wax those curbs n slide n grind forev! We started getting booted, until the old folks complained, guess they loved watching us both destroy the curbs, but also give the security guys hell! Gods bless those cool ass old folks! Think it helped that we skated to firehose , not usual punk rock stuff at the ramp we had when older.
This was by far my favorite episode.. RIP
I'm tearing up. Every hero of mine is in this. I skated street from 1984-1997 pretty hard. This video was amazing. watched all these videos growing up. R.I.P. Grosso...
I always wanted to be part of this family. Thanks guys for everything.
As an old skater I can appreciate this so much! True to life for real, all those dude’s are my heroes, please don’t anyone ever give your opinion when you don’t ride? Ok
This is the best episode of the letters. Curbs.
Man, been watching these all over again. Bummed. The Grossman has always been in my top 5. What a bummer. Hope his family is doing alright. We areso lucky to have all this footage of him
Remember watching this episode when it was first posted. Got me so stoked to grind some curbs.
RIP Grosso
In 1995 I was 10 years old and I ollied my first curb. I was 2 blocks from my parents house skating with my friend Jedd. It was the best feeling ever.
Hell yeah man I was about 15 around 95 and those were the best times of my life.. you don’t really appreciate it until your older, made me start skating again
love that sound of grinding a curb, best feeling ever
I skated with Jeremy Henderson down in Key West in 1990ish and he was doing slappies on unpainted, unwaxed curbs. Just leaned back and shralped through it.
That friend is a true street skateboarder... period.
Painted kerbs are rare in the UK so he's used to that.
There is a huge sense of accomplishment when you slappy a virgin unpainted curb. It's like you have arrived.
@@chrissawyer4060 the frontside crunch makes your soul vibrate
Had a curb session the other day , never gets old . RIP Grosso
😔🙏🏼🖤
Love you Grosso.. you will live forever through skateboarding
Gonz creeps up in all of these.
julians last words! 🙌 too epic
Man, all these videos are an amazing walk through history. Keep 'em coming!
Some of the fondest memories of my life were skating curbs with my friends in the late 80's.
all the names from when I was skating were magic. ....and still are..... I love my life....I always think I wanted to live my life loving george Harrison and making music but when u live the life of skating in the 80s u know your blessed you know who u r.......tom groholski Toni hawk jasson jessee losi nooooooo gator this was my time and it was great
First Loveletter I watched before Jeff Passed. Grosso forever 🤙🏼
Curbs and chaos, right on man!
This is one of my favorite episodes. That dulcet sound of grinding a well broken in curb is the music of my adolescence. (Sorry to sound like a fortune cookie)
curbs & jersey barrier skating are my favorite things to skate. FS slappies took a while. i learned to skate jersey barriers by waiting until highway traffic was zilch so i could run into the middle of the road and shred that shit lol. Then i found a spot beside an old folks which the fucking love
RIP Grosso - watched Grosso in the mags since i was a kid..He a lil older than me, gonna miss this show, wish they coulda made a love letter to good ole Florida.
Best episode yet.
This is the first video of his Im watching since he left us... 😔Rest In Power Grosso 🙏🏼 he’s alive in skateboarding forever
Grosso's such a legend
Absolutely fantastic. There was an eight foot curb in the corporate park behind my house that I must have slid and grinded 1000's of times in the late 80s and early 90s. I never thought of it back then, but it was kind of a dance. It's funny when I drive by it now. It's just another curb. Grizzled, un-waxed, un-touched. That curb and I share a secret though, and that secret is awesome.
don't skate no mo but still an enthusiast and supporter. watching vids like this make me wanna get back on a board...
never too late to pick it up again
steve cliffe go skate!!
steve cliffe. me too.
Do it
Do it! Remember, you don't stop skating because you got old, you got old because you stopped skating.
Stage 11 Independent trucks... Slappy's could not be any easier today as they were in the 1990's. Enough said.
Shelby Hosey I agree 100% I only skate Indy’s when I’m skating curbs
@@grass49 - Indys are THE best when riding pools... hands down!
The Stranger anecdote at the end... everytime I'm asked to partake in civilian shit this anecdote replays in my mind.
Skating through Portland in the 80s, no phones, only the sound of Sarge terrorizing curbs at 100 mph to alert you to where the crew was.
I could see Portland not sucking back then
Please, bring those series back, it will be great!!!
this video should have over a million views
Nothing like getting a curb waxed and adding more wax over time. It's the best feeling, I swear.
Wax sucks . Prep it properly with a rubbing brick and resin . More effort = better result .
Bank with Curb, still my favorite.
“It’s like a right angle half pipe” haha hell yeah.
The only thing I wish was included is old footage of Archimedes skating... Maybe it doesn't even exist.
Man, that guy was unreal.
Learned backside slappys today. The sound is fantastic. RIP Grosso hope your grinding some shit wherever the hell you are
Curbs and Chaos!
Rip to the ripper. Love you bro.
Gone to soon, Jeff Grosso! Legend
🖤😔🙏🏼
Best thing on YT... You are missed
Natas in Wheels of Fire, Tom Knox in Speed Freaks, Eric Dressen In Streets On Fire and Matt Hensley in that H Street video opened my mind to what was possible on curbs... 1993 in Atlanta Dave Holbrook R.I.P. used a caulk gun, tube if Liquid Nails industrial adhesive to glue a piece of angle iron about10 feet long onto a granite curb in front of his house to do slappees on, we skated that for hours at a time. I bet it’s still there...
sick series JG ! More ! i love skate history and the footage highlites.
...More fun than a ten million dollar roller-coaster, and they are free.
Jeff,
I had your board and I loved it! Beautiful board. Red stained canadian maple. Rode that thing everywhere until I discovered driving and girls. You signed a sticker for me at a demo that you and John did in Whittier I still have it somewhere.
I learned to skate vert at Skate City (still have my ID). Tighten your trucks all the way and follow me. That was my lesson. Curbs do rule. Another thing is that you could spend hours with some surf wax and a curb.
Used to play skate on curbs in the dead of winter. Shovel snow to skate a curb. Good times
“Funner than a ten million dollar roller coaster.” Julien’s outro/PS is a top-rung letters highlight.
one of my favorite episodes of this series for sure! slappys are amazing! :p
super great episode.
Thank you Jeff Rich and Buddy
I love when Grosso is with Lance and he said Lucero made up the slappy and when he was with Lucero he said Lance made them
the commentary at the end is so true. you would be some where and see a shiny new red curb of the perfect height and all you could do was lust for it.
without curbs i would have never learned how to boardslide,noseslide, 50-50, etc. Best feeling in the world at 11 years old and......29. Yikes i`m old!
Well that was pure joy.
How the fuck has it already been a year... was so stoked this morning to see lance post goo and those little groms and lucero doing sweepers
Red curbs saved my life back in the day. Lmao.
My Heart goes out to his family ..
Great, now I wanna skate curbs. Like I didn’t have enough problems in my life before watching this. 🤣
Curbs and parking blocks was all I really had to skate growing up in the late 80's. There weren't any parks where I lived and the street spots were shit. We didn't have shit to skate so we spent hours in the parking lot at this bank.
Simon Woodstock was an absolute curb killer in the late 80's n early 90's. Stoked on that picture of Gavin O'Brien at 7:33 !
The control Julien had on the blunt where he rolls out fakie was JasonLee/Jovante levels of smooth..
This hypes me for sure.
I want a Julien deck but his Syringe model is too big and wide.
What did Julien have between that model and popsicle?
God bless you Jeff xx 😇
Honestly the reason I went outside and decided to be a skateboarder was because I saw a pro on TV killing handrails session a curb and say that it was his favorite thing to do but everyone wants the handrails. At the time it made actually doing tricks so accessible for me.
RIP GROSSO LOVE YOU BROTHA
Gonz's part in Video Days is my all time favourite part in any video.
I still remember when I saw a no comply for the first time. Can't remember what vid though...I spent the next month skating at the bank beating up the curbs and blocks non stop. Maybe Animal Chin.....
Learning good backside grinds atm. Gotten some good full block ones, no full speed ones yet though. Glad I started doing them. It feels good getting up there, loose Indy's ftw
I need to work but just can't turn off love letters !
Lucero's plank-like skateboard is so cool!
Curbs forever. My broken old body misses slappies more than anything.
Holy shit, the soundtrack on this one. CAN “Dizzy Dizzy” and PIL “Socialist” during slappy grinds ... nice!
Roll In Peace. Champion.
A+ on the P.I.L. tune!
thanks dude! you kinda re-inspired me to go into my neighborhood and fix me up a curb. i ended up smoothing it out with a old truck hanger and waxing the shit out of it, it dont grind quite yet but im still ganna work that shit till it does!
1st board tom knox everslick, hot pink grip indy stage 6 i believe. 1st skate vid Zorlac Zero Hero. & curbs were my best friend!!
So much fun
tom knox was the man at curbs .
No matter what you can always grind a curb, think the US had it easier wirh all those painted curbs, thats why we always skated the car parks in the UK NPC yellow curbs all day!
Hey what's up Julian, Danny S. and Arco! *Had to have that old Safeway curb in there. :) *A.
- STYLE IS EVERYTHING - RIP IT DRESSEN!!
amazing content
Thanks grosso for showing me curbs
RIP Jeff! 🙏🏼
2:17 frontside crooks on a curb!!! ALL HAIL WHO EVER THE HELL!!!!!!
@crashedupderby thats a front feeble bud. but still sick though
01:46 - "... and dance, baby, DANCE"
Woooo!
Now I need to go ride some curbs.
Bit of "Dizzy Dizzy" by Can going on in the background, I appreciate.
so glad someone spotted this
best episode, always wondered what those were called, 5:30, "Natas called them tootsie wall curbs"
Mark Reategui - "Tootsie Roll" curbs (named after the shape of the candy)
Anyone know which video the blender clip is from ?
Need to see in full !!! (on the red curb)
+Russell Wells -in powell's "Ban This" those clips and even more are featured in Lance Mountain his part. Check it out it's on UA-cam.
Great Video
An episode every skaterat can relate to👌
Skating was so simple back then
The beautiful thing about skating is that it's still that simple, if you want it to be. I'll get up tomorrow and go hit my local slappy curb for an hour before I have to start my shift.
I feel you man. Same here.
@2:27 Jeff you crack me up! Haha
What is the name of the song with Natas skating? Captain song.
Firehose "Brave Captain".