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  • @AtilioEscobar
    @AtilioEscobar 8 років тому +21

    i love how all skaters, old and young have a similar sound and look to them..proud to be a skateboarder.

    • @SpaceCadetLaC
      @SpaceCadetLaC 4 роки тому

      I dont look like you but I still love you.

  • @CorvetteRene
    @CorvetteRene 10 років тому +41

    Performing over 2,000 Pepsi Pro Skateboard Team demo's ( -as Captain of the Orange County Pepsi Team ) was definitely one of the GREATEST times of my life ! The other was being a care-giver for my Mother Delia when she had congestive heart failure....until she passed away ! @ 2:06 in this video - is yours truly......@ 2:34 is my brother David Carrasco ! ...Praise God !

    • @drdpirate
      @drdpirate 10 років тому +4

      Mad props

    • @t100base
      @t100base 6 років тому +2

      props

    • @deomeslives
      @deomeslives 4 роки тому +1

      Awesome!!👊🏽🤟🏽🛹✌🏽

    • @mchepen
      @mchepen 4 роки тому +1

      that pic is rad as fuck!

    • @liammcooper
      @liammcooper Місяць тому

      legendary

  • @streetbeers6536
    @streetbeers6536 9 років тому +25

    When Alva was just talkin about how influential the posse was, you could tell grosso was thinking, "really? You're pulling this shit again?"

    • @jacobjones2766
      @jacobjones2766 7 років тому +4

      chris yap zu yu he seems really narcissistic

    • @JAWS1376
      @JAWS1376 7 років тому +1

      I could be wrong but didn't that team spawn Bill Danforth. that team was fucking awesome. First skateboard to have a crazy ass tail.

    • @jonedsweeps6379
      @jonedsweeps6379 2 роки тому

      They were for sure influential, but the 80s was goofy and I feel like the Alva team fits that well

  • @commandZee
    @commandZee 4 роки тому +12

    In the mid-80s, as far as attitude, the Hosoi team has got to be up there. They looked like the vampires from The Lost Boys, but instead of taking your life they just gave your girl HPV.

  • @NCAlien910
    @NCAlien910 7 років тому +12

    That fucking Alien Workshop team in Mindfield is the best team in the modern era of skating. Jake Johnson, Grant Taylor, Dylan Rieder, Arto Saari, Heath Kirchart, and that's not even half of em.

  • @Bazukosoniko
    @Bazukosoniko 9 років тому +4

    This series made me so happy... Grosso you re great old man!!! Sk8 and destroy till death!!

  • @CaptainFantastik1
    @CaptainFantastik1 4 роки тому +4

    "We wanted to be the opposite of the Powell team". You certainly accomplished that in the contest standings. LOL

  • @sessionclips1219
    @sessionclips1219 7 місяців тому +1

    I love this so much rip grosso

  • @seekah1
    @seekah1 6 років тому +2

    Fuckn' Grosso, bless him and the original skate spirit, I aint never quitting my love for this stuff.

  • @jarkokoo
    @jarkokoo 7 років тому +10

    Yes!!! ZORLAC!!! That's what I'm talking about!

    • @seekah1
      @seekah1 6 років тому

      The Pushead Metallica connection back in the day, I think Kirk and James skated, shit that sounds like a lifetime ago now.

  • @bennyshambles
    @bennyshambles 4 роки тому +1

    Best team from my era was probably Stereo. They just had such a defined, unified aesthetic that was its own niche within skateboarding. Nobody else skated or dressed like they did. Who didn’t want to wear midcentury vintage gear, have a clean haircut, smoke Camels, read Bukowski, listen to Jazz and then go out and do big, stylish and simple tricks after watching A Visual Sound? Mike Daher, Carl Shipman (best frontside flips ever), Ethan Fowler, Greg Hunt, Matt Rodriguez, Dune and (of course) J. Lee (style god) all had their own thing but totally fit together.

  • @chetrok1
    @chetrok1 10 років тому +2

    Fkn gnarly to see Fred Smith ..that was also my first deck I skated that shit till it was twice dead

  • @mackm3875
    @mackm3875 7 років тому +1

    Bones Brigade Animal Chin era & Alva Posse. Alva Posse didn't get the publicity because they were "Bad boys" and PP had squad in movies & shot, like Gleaming the Cube. They went hella commercial, but it worked for them.

  • @evrgreen_69
    @evrgreen_69 3 роки тому +2

    Watching this is crazy..my sister was friends with a girl who’s dad worked at Pepsi and at the time (late 70’s) the only boards I had seen were plastic..skate banana ? I think was one of the first shitty boards I had and the bump up from that was a GT? board..Open ball bearings total shit..My sisters friend saw that I skated and she asked me if I wanted her Pepsi board that her dad gave her..I of course said yes and the board was rad! Made outta fiberglass and was the first board I had with real urathane wheels and precision bearings..and grip tape!!..And here is where I trip because my next good board that I ordered from Skateboarder magazine was an 8 inch Alva with the die cut grip tape with ACS-580’s and green Kryptonics..After that board no joke the next board I bought was the red and black striped Duane Peters..Didn’t skate for awhile after that but when I did I bought a Lance Mountain and after that ..The Grosso bat..”The Letters” are an amazing tribute to skateboarding..Thanks so much to Jeff for being Jeff!..Skateboarding rules!

  • @markprice2225
    @markprice2225 22 дні тому

    Neil Blender was the reason I wore my 3 G&S skirts every week to school. I had a black vision shirt(w/matching sweatpants) and the same Vision only White. Lost, freshjive,rat bones, 💀🗡powell, Not to mention every liquid blue shirt too!

  • @jbyrdmb
    @jbyrdmb 10 років тому +4

    "Stevie was a fetus" Best fucking line in the whole video

  • @ohfrickitsphil
    @ohfrickitsphil 10 років тому +2

    A loveletter to Whittier would be awesome! You could feature Lance, Lucero and other cool dudes in that episode! What do you think?

  • @JimiBerkeley
    @JimiBerkeley 9 років тому +11

    its all about the Anti-Hero team really though isn't it?

  • @user-uu5mu1fs6d
    @user-uu5mu1fs6d 10 років тому +1

    At 1:25 it says Jay Adams Del Mar Nations circa 1967. Off by about 10 years I think.

  • @nkmcfrln
    @nkmcfrln 8 років тому

    Duane Peters and Eddie Elguera skated together on the Hobie team. Lance, Grosso and Lucero skated for Variflex.

  • @kimrice394
    @kimrice394 3 роки тому

    6:37 Had the page/picture hanging on the wall for years.

  • @ray.bun11
    @ray.bun11 4 роки тому

    I love how it just kinda ends with him and tony Alva arguing, I miss you grosso!!

  • @feral5404
    @feral5404 3 роки тому +2

    this episode could have been 45 minutes longer. seemed like we were just getting started

  • @dudeseth92
    @dudeseth92 10 років тому +3

    Flip team 2001 best team ever

  • @jacobjones2766
    @jacobjones2766 8 років тому +3

    You guys should do a love letter to the frontside Grind

    • @vans
      @vans  8 років тому

      Thanks for the input! You can check out the rest of Grosso's Loveletters here: bit.ly/2bR4KVm

    • @ronaldhickman9953
      @ronaldhickman9953 4 роки тому

      how about something about Cherry Hill Park I rode there in 78 when it first opened was invited from my skatepark team and I saw all the big boys there and I was a young punk.... Might have been 79 it was something like that

  • @markprice2225
    @markprice2225 Рік тому

    This dude Steve who was like 4 or 5 years older than me, had one of those TUNNEL long sleeve jerseys that looks exactly like a Moto-X shirt nowadays 🤔

  • @SnuggelPoos
    @SnuggelPoos 9 років тому +1

    loveletters to Grooso!

  • @robskatesurf9125
    @robskatesurf9125 9 років тому +3

    Stevie was a fetus! haha Love the Letters!

  • @JustMe-qk1mt
    @JustMe-qk1mt 6 років тому +1

    So much more history. This was cut way too short

  • @espada9
    @espada9 6 років тому +1

    Jak's Absolute Music!

  • @manmelt4037
    @manmelt4037 5 років тому +4

    If you’re not sure that Alva is one of the most influential Godfather’s of Venice skateboarding, don’t worry, he’ll tell you.

  • @homunculusSZN
    @homunculusSZN 10 років тому +6

    Grosso should do a loveletter to speed freaks and Santa Cruz skateboards

    • @vans
      @vans  10 років тому +9

      Oscar Fox haha. not sure even Grosso could manage a 30 sec clip.

  • @robertriestra8919
    @robertriestra8919 8 років тому

    7:16 my man David Z yeah. Nice letter Grosso

  • @cron205
    @cron205 9 років тому +1

    if grosso had a sk8 team i would wanna be on that team

  • @TH3SAMMYG
    @TH3SAMMYG 10 років тому +10

    do a jay adams love letter

    • @vans
      @vans  10 років тому +9

      TH3SAMMYG for sure. man, we love Jay and miss him so much. I'll pass on the feedback, thanks.

    • @samkupper
      @samkupper 8 років тому +1

      +Vans i love jay RIP

    • @ronaldhickman9953
      @ronaldhickman9953 4 роки тому

      Do a brad Bowman.... Loved his death box signature deck..... He was a major player in the late 70s....

  • @hineskittvelvett198
    @hineskittvelvett198 7 років тому +1

    I feel like either Grosso or someone involved with these videos has some personal beef with Alva. A couple videos have Alva making some comment and then the next clip will be someone saying how lame whatever Alva said was. Maybe its just me.

  • @jameslatham2027
    @jameslatham2027 10 років тому +7

    chris miller looks about 30

  • @crazycatman5928
    @crazycatman5928 3 роки тому

    All time favorite:
    H-STREET

  • @rendelarosa6462
    @rendelarosa6462 8 років тому

    i miss skateboarding😭

    • @samkupper
      @samkupper 8 років тому +2

      +Ren Dela Rosa miss it, grab a board

    • @CaliBreeeze
      @CaliBreeeze 7 років тому +2

      Ren Dela Rosa life's too short man Just get another board and have fun! Thanks what it's about right? Any age, color, whatever

  • @MycoMatty
    @MycoMatty 4 роки тому

    Wasn’t Danforth the only Alva Posse member with no dreads or long hair?

  • @joshuahancock4619
    @joshuahancock4619 9 років тому +1

    baker is sick. anti-hero obviously, girl/chocolate, foudation is rad. best drinking team = the rad one!

  • @Satans_Financial_Advisor
    @Satans_Financial_Advisor 3 роки тому

    *Im a disciple of Grosso*
    Grosso was my North Star in Skateboarding, the living embodiment of how skateboarding made me feel.
    *Are you a disciple?*

  • @sethc758
    @sethc758 6 років тому

    I cant imagine a skateboard deck being made out of balsa wood. Of all the types... they chose balsa. If you pushed down hard enough with a butterknife into balsa it might cut through it's that soft.

  • @rasquatch
    @rasquatch 9 років тому +1

    eddie reatigui and bill danforth didnt have dreads on Alva

  • @judekraft847
    @judekraft847 2 роки тому

    man i miss Grosso

  • @markprice2225
    @markprice2225 22 дні тому

    Its weird for me! I wasn't born until Summer '78, so Dogtown and Z Boys were long over. I loved SALBA(had 🐅 deck), but I hated Duane Peters and that striped deck

  • @Mr3andrew3
    @Mr3andrew3 6 років тому

    I got an Alva fish board for Christmas around '85 and I broke it in a single day. Sorry Alva, love the style but I never got another one.. Best, *A.

  • @voltaire2001
    @voltaire2001 7 років тому

    At 7:15 Is that Mark Rogowski looking on?(Gator)

  • @oioiterroristz
    @oioiterroristz 10 років тому

    Ollie mollie ! the daggers !

  • @tunelowplayslow5623
    @tunelowplayslow5623 6 років тому +1

    Tony’s hawks yard furniture

  • @cron205
    @cron205 9 років тому +2

    H-STREET was BIO DUDE

  • @Steezy_Mx
    @Steezy_Mx 4 роки тому

    Sixteen and City Stars.

  • @JeremyWint
    @JeremyWint 8 років тому

    They seemed to only focus on early skateboard teams. The original Plan B team is notable

  • @ronaldhickman9953
    @ronaldhickman9953 4 роки тому +1

    Find your boy John grigley and get the old ghost on there....

  • @cron205
    @cron205 10 років тому

    Bad Company was had a skateboard company also?

  • @deomeslives
    @deomeslives 5 років тому

    Hook and the daggers lol

  • @joshuahancock4619
    @joshuahancock4619 10 років тому +1

    i wanna ride for tunnel

  • @bart4412
    @bart4412 5 років тому

    Was that jim morrison?

  • @DAWIII
    @DAWIII 10 років тому +2

    CASTER Team: Chris Strople, Tom Inouye, John Gibson.

    • @mgypsy122070
      @mgypsy122070 10 років тому

      jake moved to the west to get away from kooks like you. john swope

    • @DAWIII
      @DAWIII 10 років тому

      Michelle Stafford who the F is jake? (or john swope?),and I'm glad they moved west!

  • @cron205
    @cron205 9 років тому

    concrete jungle was rad i wanted to be on that team or toxic

  • @Garf2O
    @Garf2O 10 років тому

    daaaaammmmmn, how the fuck does this only have 5,248 views? this is some Illuminati bullshit happening right here.

    • @vans
      @vans  10 років тому +2

      whoa. agreed. clickety click on that share link, man! :)

  • @huh2495
    @huh2495 4 роки тому +1

    Anyone remember a-1 meats

    • @bennyshambles
      @bennyshambles 4 роки тому

      Greg Madsen Yeah, totally. Dill’s first ad was an A-1 meats add where he’s doing an ill nose blunt on a bench. Hensley was an early rider. I think Markovich and Laban were on that team too?

  • @cron205
    @cron205 9 років тому +1

    ALVA

  • @Jblizzybaby
    @Jblizzybaby Рік тому

    Menace & Shortys

  • @BIGBLUETIGER96
    @BIGBLUETIGER96 10 років тому

    First 😄 and wiggled around on the ground xP

  • @MrShaunsanders
    @MrShaunsanders 9 років тому +1

    90's Plan B. Flip.

    • @bennyshambles
      @bennyshambles 4 роки тому

      Does that include or exclude the “Secondhand Smoke” Plan B team? I’d go with exclude because while Jeremy Wray was peaking and Mullen continued evolving his darkslides, they couldn’t really carry the entire team/brand, unfortunately. I gotta watch that video again because I don’t remember Pat Duffy having a part that’s on the same level as Questionable and Virtual Reality, but maybe I’m wrong.

    • @MrShaunsanders
      @MrShaunsanders 4 роки тому

      @@bennyshambles You're right man. Exclude.

  • @Unfluencer
    @Unfluencer 4 місяці тому

    7:50. smacks the lip?! thats the difficult on a surfboard.

  • @ElEdgardoS
    @ElEdgardoS 10 років тому

    Blackhart

  • @alexdoner3641
    @alexdoner3641 7 років тому

    polar an slave teams are really rad in my opinion

  • @bencowling8596
    @bencowling8596 8 років тому +6

    Late 90s flip team,heroin team,early 90s chocolate team,early 2000s girl team

    • @bennyshambles
      @bennyshambles 4 роки тому

      Ben Cowling FYI, Chocolate Skateboards didn’t exist in the early 90’s. They debuted a couple years after Girl got started, also with a batch of mainly ex-World/Blind/101 riders.

  • @jimmytgoose476
    @jimmytgoose476 2 роки тому

    Was never bothered about teams ....

  • @panchowheeler4122
    @panchowheeler4122 5 років тому

    i still want to know why duane peters gave jeff a snotty rag n he wont speak to grosso anymore ,,,what did you do grosso to piss off duane ,,,i bet its a crazy story,,,,,come to think about it you dont see much of duane these days,,, but thats my loveletter

  • @condensermike
    @condensermike 8 років тому

    wiggled.

  • @SouthIslandSurf
    @SouthIslandSurf 10 років тому

    Some of those dates are way off...

    • @poolcoping
      @poolcoping 10 років тому

      fill in the details!!- you can't just say they are way off and not help set the record straight... which dates-

    • @SouthIslandSurf
      @SouthIslandSurf 10 років тому

      At 1:03, that surf footage couldn't be from 1965... Would have been very late 60's or early 70's. Jay Adams at 1:25... it says 1967, but that Del Mar contest was 1975.

    • @poolcoping
      @poolcoping 10 років тому

      oh snap! good catch...

  • @TheMarct707
    @TheMarct707 4 роки тому

    "Stevie was a fetus."

  • @ariekanibalie
    @ariekanibalie 9 років тому +1

    Pepsi team? HA HA! Imagine a manufacturer of caffeinated soda looking to cash in on skateboarding's popularity today in order to hook the next generation of diabetics. Oh wait...

    • @NoNaNaNameeee
      @NoNaNaNameeee 7 років тому +1

      Arno Theadorno fuckin mountain dew, monster, red bull, and rockstar😂😂😂

  • @jewels71280
    @jewels71280 7 років тому

    can you Grosso do a ray bones rodrigez episode and how powell raped him for all he was and ran with his bones name

  • @danieljames7037
    @danieljames7037 Місяць тому

    In the 80's we did not talk about Race! Now i see a BLM shirt! With this woke shit! All lives matter! I am done with this BS! Im a old school Punk Rocker
    California went to Shit!

  • @michaelcardoso7987
    @michaelcardoso7987 10 років тому

    is that Galfand doing that monster ollie?

    • @vans
      @vans  10 років тому

      hmmm... timestamp?

    • @leoambrose7894
      @leoambrose7894 8 років тому

      That is David Z doing the huge ollie at Big O