One of the most random things about the ban is that in my town the police chief’s son used to skate, he helped the locals smugle boards under his dads nose, and alot of the boards were stored in there yard, simply because why would the police chief look for banned skateboards in his own yard? S/o all the norwegian skaters keeping the scene alive to this day!
Having been part of the «smuggling operation» back in the days, smuggling skateboards from both Denmark and Sweden into Norway, building ramps in the forest, even building a small street section in the woods for ledge tricks and grinding and stuff, and being chased by cops through the snow and hiding in parking garages, I can confirm we had a great time being outlaws, and even parents supporting it :) A lot of kids skated in populated/busy main streets with «not great skills», causing some injuries and stuff, that was part of why the ban came to be, as well as the injury-statistics from the US - for some weird reason Quad Rollers Skates have never been banned though, even if they are the «mother of skateboards» and even less controllable in public spaces.
bro i use to watch all your videos when i was a kid (4-5 years ago), and this week some video of yours just popped on my feed and im loving to watch you again, keep it up man!!
I have a friend that used to smuggle skateboards over the boarder from Sweden (where I live and where you could buy skateboards) to Norway (our neighbour country). 😁
Norway is cool and all, but man, nollie front 180 nosegrind half cab out, damn! I view that as one of those tricks that sets people apart. Amazing job dude, love seeing you learn new tricks! That's a big milestone
I don't catch every single video, but when I do it is always such a pleasure to watch you progress...daily. It's always inspiring. Please keep it up. Even if you take a break when needed
I love your style of skate videos the way you break things down and just show progression and great energy. It always makes me want to go out and grab my board, I fell off of UA-cam but I mainly come back only for your 2 channels
whoa thats pretty crazy how that happened, dude, you should do some vids on skating Africa, sure people in cities and urban areas skate there, but its really has taken hold in some unexpected places in Africa, like rural areas. , rural areas in Kenya, south Africa ( rural and inner cities) , Uganda, Madagascar even !
used to watch you all the time back in middle school and i graduated 2 years ago you really motivated me all the time to skate and it’s so sick to see that you got a million subs big congrats to that
Seeing you just doing you being in the zone and just doing what you love is very inspiring, whenever im working on a trick outside and I see people looking at me I get so uncomfortable lol, hopefully I'll be able to look past it at some point as well.
As an Norwegian citizen who skates i absolutely love the skate culture here and norway has made really great parks were everyone neets and gets to know eachother. Its like everyone who skates knows eachother
Banned from 1979 to 1989 Skateboarding was actually banned in Norway from 1978 to 1989. The reason for the ban was a law that came in 1977, which was supposed to protect people from dangerous products. Skateboards were seen as a dangerous toy and were therefore banned from buying, selling and using in Norway.
When we go hurt during the national ban days in Norway we would always tell the doctors the injuries where from playing soccer, which is probably the most popular sport in norway - that’s how we got those statistics to stay low
Random question. Do you have an NYC trip scheduled with Jon? Need a scooter/ skate collab around the city again! Either way, loveeee all the uploads latley.
I’d love to see the attempts as well as the success on your skate sessions! 👍🏼 I’m 28 and gonna get back into skateboarding. Subbed to the channel, thanks for the great content!
Wait, so if you were confident enough to put your life on the line, you could make a living in Norway challenging people to duels to the death and selling the deer when they don't fight you? You'd have to pick your battles wisely and would probably end up dead eventually, but what a story your life would be!
Although I’m good with the amount of completes I currently have, this video is encouraging me to acquire an old school street complete. This and Christopher Hiett/Bones team. Thanks!
Ha John. first of all, I really like your skate content with the chill vibes that comes with it and I love to see the passion for skatebaording. You show how beautifull skateboarding can be and it hypes me up even as an bmxer now days. keep up the great content! lastly, It would be nice to see a video about the dutch skateboarding culture what you can find about it. I love to see what you can dig about it! have a nice progression day!
I had a skateboard illegaly back in the 80s as a 10 year old... Never felt more like a rebel... Skate tool in my Airwalk fanny pack and a ball cap with a team I've never heard of... In the 90s, skating took off in a HUGE way at my school. I was out of it by then, but yeah, skater kids were cool as hell back then.
my dad used to skate when it was banned, he always went out with his buddies and skated, and the police always chased them. He managed to buy a skateboard in Sweden when he visited.
I'm pretty sure more countries have banned skateboarding. But very few actually enforce such rules or laws or _still_ allow for skateboarding in designated skateparks. Most people don't know (or care), but skateboarding is prohibited on the street or sidewalk in any business district at any time in California. In a non-business district, skateboarding is prohibited at night (30 minutes after sunset to 30 minutes before sunrise). In the UK it is actually illegal to skate the street pavement or footpaths. And then I haven't talked about how most spots people would want to skate, are of course private property, making it again pretty much illegal or problematic by default. Doesn't mean people don't skate there anyway. But skateboarding as a whole is a bit more 'banned' than people assume.
also, varials are technically done with body or by grabbing the board with your hand and rotating it. at some point someone thought board varial meant shuv-it. hence improperly named, but accepted, varial flips and heels. the more you know🌈✨
It's funny because my weird street suburb thing has signs up that says "no skateboarding," but I use mine as a way to commute. I get so many karens and even kids acting like I'm some criminal. Some will say snarky remarks, or even just act like I'm causing some shit. Lol now I can't even imagine that but it being a entire country LOL. That would suck so much on so many levels. Have nothing but respect for old skaters in Norway. Lol
We al know you are better than us 😂but you are so humble 💪and that is one of the reasons i love to watch you skate !! Love the videos keep killing it .., ps i too love skating with friends but there something in skating alone thats satisfying !! And the focus is insane and always ends the sesh learning something
My 1st skateboard at age 13 I felt a little bad only because many rebels were doing it but one knows by instinct that it's OK but a several months later having moved outta the country I left my skateboard here & only retook skateboarding at age 41 still doing it as my main gig 😎
hey john, i just started watching your videos a week ago and i just want to say you are such an inspiration. im 33/34 yo, been relearning old tricks for about a year now after a 12 year hiatus lol i like that you skate alone. im also i loner skater because the skateparks in my city are usually empty :)
I'm surprised joe rogan didn't move to norway considering he is good at fighting and he loves elk meat so nobody would accept a fight against him and he'd have as much deer to eat as he wants
John, I love ya, and been a sub forever... But I still don't understand why you don't have a telescopic squeedgee in your SUV. You can literally clear all the water from the park and ledges in 3 minutes. $30 on Amazon man. Hahaha
Norway is super awesome. speak Devil. Sadly Norway did ban skateboarding.Sweden almost went the same way. Skateboarding was considered to be dangerious and obnoxious. But 2day. It´s accepted all over. in fact familes sometimes skate together..;)is it the same way stateside? Lastly i watch your channel often for useful insights and learn some and above all. just great fun. so keep it up, Buddy.
Its not like it was difficult to smuggle them from sweden or something like that, bordercontrols where more there to look for if you had bought more than allowed meatquota that was at around 5 kg I think it might have been ? well I was too young for alcohol back then so I was one of these "meatkids" we had 5 kg meat on our personal quota so adults used to fill the cars with children and buy meat like mad. Today it is 10 kg. per person tough. Alcohol is still strict they where looking for that too. Rest you pretty much could get away with at the border, if they stopped you. We used to smuggle shitload of firecrackers from Finland, small red ones, big black ones ... filled the body with the firecrackers .. they where highly illegal in Norway ... but we kids did not care 😛 and the sellers in Finland did not care either, we bought these stuff as kids there.
One of the most random things about the ban is that in my town the police chief’s son used to skate, he helped the locals smugle boards under his dads nose, and alot of the boards were stored in there yard, simply because why would the police chief look for banned skateboards in his own yard? S/o all the norwegian skaters keeping the scene alive to this day!
i recently moved to norway and let me tell you.... people skate here like mad crazy😂
You been to skur13 yet?
@@bobbobbington2438 skating there almost everyday when its snowing or raining outside💪💪💪
@@ilya.yarmosh yoooo that's dope. Ihaven't been there yet cus i live further out and i have an indoor park real close
Liar
@@paceyourself5652 jit needs to calm down
Having been part of the «smuggling operation» back in the days, smuggling skateboards from both Denmark and Sweden into Norway, building ramps in the forest, even building a small street section in the woods for ledge tricks and grinding and stuff, and being chased by cops through the snow and hiding in parking garages, I can confirm we had a great time being outlaws, and even parents supporting it :) A lot of kids skated in populated/busy main streets with «not great skills», causing some injuries and stuff, that was part of why the ban came to be, as well as the injury-statistics from the US - for some weird reason Quad Rollers Skates have never been banned though, even if they are the «mother of skateboards» and even less controllable in public spaces.
bro i use to watch all your videos when i was a kid (4-5 years ago), and this week some video of yours just popped on my feed and im loving to watch you again, keep it up man!!
I have a friend that used to smuggle skateboards over the boarder from Sweden (where I live and where you could buy skateboards) to Norway (our neighbour country). 😁
Norway is cool and all, but man, nollie front 180 nosegrind half cab out, damn! I view that as one of those tricks that sets people apart. Amazing job dude, love seeing you learn new tricks! That's a big milestone
Took me a minute to realize John is wearing Storror "merch" thats a legendary combination of UA-cam legends I surely didn´t expect.
I don't catch every single video, but when I do it is always such a pleasure to watch you progress...daily. It's always inspiring. Please keep it up. Even if you take a break when needed
I love how you sinked the music and timing of your ticks SOOOO GOOOOD
Forest skateparks are some of the coolest things ever! 💜
I love your style of skate videos the way you break things down and just show progression and great energy. It always makes me want to go out and grab my board, I fell off of UA-cam but I mainly come back only for your 2 channels
whoa thats pretty crazy how that happened, dude, you should do some vids on skating Africa, sure people in cities and urban areas skate there, but its really has taken hold in some unexpected places in Africa, like rural areas. , rural areas in Kenya, south Africa ( rural and inner cities) , Uganda, Madagascar even !
used to watch you all the time back in middle school and i graduated 2 years ago you really motivated me all the time to skate and it’s so sick to see that you got a million subs big congrats to that
Love that you are rocking STORROR merch. Just makes sense for the video topic 🤙
Seeing you just doing you being in the zone and just doing what you love is very inspiring, whenever im working on a trick outside and I see people looking at me I get so uncomfortable lol, hopefully I'll be able to look past it at some point as well.
I find skating to music helped me tune people's attention out. I know exactly how you feel.
Dude loved the new tricks you landed _KEEP KILLIN' IT_
As an Norwegian citizen who skates i absolutely love the skate culture here and norway has made really great parks were everyone neets and gets to know eachother. Its like everyone who skates knows eachother
Love the storror support , sir
Banned from 1979 to 1989
Skateboarding was actually banned in Norway from 1978 to 1989. The reason for the ban was a law that came in 1977, which was supposed to protect people from dangerous products. Skateboards were seen as a dangerous toy and were therefore banned from buying, selling and using in Norway.
Congrats on 1 mil brother!! 🎉🎉🎉
I'd have tried going more parallel for the half cab nosegring looks like you came in from pretty wide for it
Its crazy to see you still going with your channel. I started to watch your videos in 2017 when you made the waterproof griptape video
Thats odd. I have been there, there was a massive vert park in Oslo, didn't get to stop at it but it looked great.
There is norway they banned skating😱
The jumps timed to the music was 🔥
That's all quality skate content! That's why skateboarders are natural editors
Yes! Living in Norway, I was one of the criminals skating at that time hiding my skateboard from the police.
legende🔥
Skating in Norway is like playing on hard🇳🇴
Is snowing here now btw❄️😅
When we go hurt during the national ban days in Norway we would always tell the doctors the injuries where from playing soccer, which is probably the most popular sport in norway - that’s how we got those statistics to stay low
hyping me up learning to half cab flip noseslide!
Awesome upload! So good to see that you're still pushing yourself. The stuff about Norway was really interesting too
That it is not true i live in Norway and people skate 24/7!
❤ Session with the oldschool board was sick
sick vid bro! always love the history and info you put in the vids and god the switch tricks are amazing!
Random question. Do you have an NYC trip scheduled with Jon? Need a scooter/ skate collab around the city again! Either way, loveeee all the uploads latley.
Anyone notice how awesome it was that those flips are perfectly timed with the song
Damnnn he rocking the STORROR merch
I’d love to see the attempts as well as the success on your skate sessions! 👍🏼 I’m 28 and gonna get back into skateboarding. Subbed to the channel, thanks for the great content!
Spoke too soon 😂 you showed the attempts like right after I posted 😂
If u come to norway i wil spend the day showing u all the spots in my home town and pick my board up again!
Wait, so if you were confident enough to put your life on the line, you could make a living in Norway challenging people to duels to the death and selling the deer when they don't fight you? You'd have to pick your battles wisely and would probably end up dead eventually, but what a story your life would be!
This is how many of us are making a living even today - that, and running secret skateboardmanufacturing-facilities.
Thats my unkle
4:10 Beautiful bigflip😍
how long do you think your footage usually is from the moment you hit record and end the recordings like completely unedited?
Although I’m good with the amount of completes I currently have, this video is encouraging me to acquire an old school street complete. This and Christopher Hiett/Bones team. Thanks!
Great sound mix, editing and Great vid overall lol
been watching since 6th grade and it’s been amazing watching you grow.
Awesome Storror Shirt whistle whistle
lol John rocking a STORROR shirt. Loves me some them too. ;)
Ha John. first of all, I really like your skate content with the chill vibes that comes with it and I love to see the passion for skatebaording. You show how beautifull skateboarding can be and it hypes me up even as an bmxer now days. keep up the great content!
lastly, It would be nice to see a video about the dutch skateboarding culture what you can find about it. I love to see what you can dig about it!
have a nice progression day!
tips on landing pop shuv body varial
Well that i didn’t know.. thanks - kinda funny since i’m from Denmark 😂 they are kinda speciel up there but we love them anyways..
I had a skateboard illegaly back in the 80s as a 10 year old... Never felt more like a rebel... Skate tool in my Airwalk fanny pack and a ball cap with a team I've never heard of...
In the 90s, skating took off in a HUGE way at my school. I was out of it by then, but yeah, skater kids were cool as hell back then.
Big up Storror army!!!
my dad used to skate when it was banned, he always went out with his buddies and skated, and the police always chased them. He managed to buy a skateboard in Sweden when he visited.
I'm pretty sure more countries have banned skateboarding. But very few actually enforce such rules or laws or _still_ allow for skateboarding in designated skateparks.
Most people don't know (or care), but skateboarding is prohibited on the street or sidewalk in any business district at any time in California. In a non-business district, skateboarding is prohibited at night (30 minutes after sunset to 30 minutes before sunrise).
In the UK it is actually illegal to skate the street pavement or footpaths.
And then I haven't talked about how most spots people would want to skate, are of course private property, making it again pretty much illegal or problematic by default. Doesn't mean people don't skate there anyway. But skateboarding as a whole is a bit more 'banned' than people assume.
I love how u rock the storror T
Rocking that storror army tee
You got a link to any of the clips used in the video?
I wish it dried that quick here in the UK. Dang.
Thats the Macho Nacho track at 5:44
I didnt know the fist fight to the death one Even as a norwegian person😭😭
sup john i love your videos keep up the good work i started skateboarding last christmas im still learning how to olie
Way to kill it John. You Da Man.
That was a nice story about Norway. Didn’t know it. 👊
NORWAY LETSGOO!
also, varials are technically done with body or by grabbing the board with your hand and rotating it. at some point someone thought board varial meant shuv-it. hence improperly named, but accepted, varial flips and heels. the more you know🌈✨
It's funny because my weird street suburb thing has signs up that says "no skateboarding," but I use mine as a way to commute. I get so many karens and even kids acting like I'm some criminal. Some will say snarky remarks, or even just act like I'm causing some shit. Lol now I can't even imagine that but it being a entire country LOL. That would suck so much on so many levels. Have nothing but respect for old skaters in Norway. Lol
Inspired, so thank you for that.
this was a banger fr "CAN YOU PLEASE DO A VIDEO OF GOOD SKATE SHOES?! my converse keep loosing the lacing :/
We al know you are better than us 😂but you are so humble 💪and that is one of the reasons i love to watch you skate !! Love the videos keep killing it .., ps i too love skating with friends but there something in skating alone thats satisfying !! And the focus is insane and always ends the sesh learning something
Last one is the dream trick
Norway: Bans Skateboarding
Also Norway: Birthplace of Black Metal
Wait i'm still confused, did they ever lift the ban?
entertained and inspired 🙏 👊
11:49 random dude in the back clapping
My 1st skateboard at age 13 I felt a little bad only because many rebels were doing it but one knows by instinct that it's OK but a several months later having moved outta the country I left my skateboard here & only retook skateboarding at age 41 still doing it as my main gig 😎
John i love your videos
Bro im from norway and almost every state/kommune has atleast one skatepark
hey john, i just started watching your videos a week ago and i just want to say you are such an inspiration. im 33/34 yo, been relearning old tricks for about a year now after a 12 year hiatus lol i like that you skate alone. im also i loner skater because the skateparks in my city are usually empty :)
aye! I appreciate that 👊 keep it up, it's an amazing hobby, keeps you young haha
If ur doing insane shit on concrete(or if your a beginner) you very much SHOULD wear a helmet btw
storror shirt 👏👏👏
2 videos uploaded at the same time lol
Can I Please get a video with you and Chris from Powell skating old school boards
This last trick was so Mark suciu ❤
With the storror shirt! Storror army here
We are working to legalize skateboarding, and other micro-mobility devices, in Brookline, MA
As a person from Norway people skkate all the time!
Two videos!?! OKAY!!!
“Legality doesn’t equal morality.” Skraight facts
I am Norwegian and the skatepark Are always wet :[
I'm surprised joe rogan didn't move to norway considering he is good at fighting and he loves elk meat so nobody would accept a fight against him and he'd have as much deer to eat as he wants
my flumbus itches
someone got there henry sanchez guy Marino here!
John, I love ya, and been a sub forever... But I still don't understand why you don't have a telescopic squeedgee in your SUV. You can literally clear all the water from the park and ledges in 3 minutes. $30 on Amazon man. Hahaha
Norway is super awesome. speak Devil. Sadly Norway did ban skateboarding.Sweden almost went the same way. Skateboarding was considered to be dangerious and obnoxious. But 2day. It´s accepted all over. in fact familes sometimes skate together..;)is it the same way stateside? Lastly i watch your channel often for useful insights and learn some and above all. just great fun. so keep it up, Buddy.
Lose the towel, and pick up a big squeegee from HD or Lowe’s
Storror army, nice
No way! I got my first skateboard in Norway!!
This video is 13:37 long, just saying! 💯Well done John! Those of you that know, you know! Maybe it is just me that is old enough to get it? 👴😅
You are not alone. My fellow 1337 h4x0r
Nice shirt
Its not like it was difficult to smuggle them from sweden or something like that, bordercontrols where more there to look for if you had bought more than allowed meatquota that was at around 5 kg I think it might have been ? well I was too young for alcohol back then so I was one of these "meatkids" we had 5 kg meat on our personal quota so adults used to fill the cars with children and buy meat like mad. Today it is 10 kg. per person tough. Alcohol is still strict they where looking for that too.
Rest you pretty much could get away with at the border, if they stopped you. We used to smuggle shitload of firecrackers from Finland, small red ones, big black ones ... filled the body with the firecrackers .. they where highly illegal in Norway ... but we kids did not care 😛 and the sellers in Finland did not care either, we bought these stuff as kids there.
STORROR tee 💯💯
anybody else watch this before watching the second upload and upset they started with watching this one n now have to wait for the next?... or jus me