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Im huge fan ! Tony is and was my inspiration over the years , I’m 62 , from Mexico City and I was profesional skater in my town , the way he streak was the future! I’m pretty proud of his legacy and like him , I’m trying to pass the knowledge to the kids ! Skate is a wey of life! And whit style is much better! Congrats my dear Tony !

If this style of skating is not your thing, or if you are a techy skater, that is fine. But to not know and appreciate this history is extremely disrespectful.

Nice work on video. The progression from this period into the 1980s is insane. To now!

Action Sport Kamakazi 🎉

It's good to see Pat Ngoho getting a lot of time in front of the camera. I grew up with Pat and his brother Mark since about 6th or 7th gradein the late 1970s, we skated , went night clubbing , hung out a lot. Marina Skatepark was in our backyard. We used to watch Hosoi skate when he was in elementary school maybe 9 or 10 years old with his dad at Marina Skatepark and then when skating was dying we kept skating and then a couple kids a fewbyears younger than us who lived in Westchester near me and Pat , named Aaron Murray and Scott Oster became pro and Pat was also. We had our Westchester boyz which were next door to Dogtown and Some of my other buddies played in Suicidal Tendencies, I knew Jay Adams since we were about 11 or 12 years old from the beach , surfing and skating and partying. Those were the days. We were so lucky to have grown up in that era in that neighborhood and to be naturally drawn into the beach, skateboarding and surfing during the '70s. If you lived in Venice, Culver City, Santa Monica, Mar Vista, Palms, Marina Del Rey, Westchester, Playa Del Rey, we were the center of the world for many years. We made skateboarding huge. Even Vans tennis shoes blew up because they were the neighborhood shoe store that sold the lowest price deck shoes for like $ 7.00 a pair when everyone was wearing Puma, Nike, etc... and my mom was tired of spending $20 or $25 on tennis shoes that would be destroyed from skateboarding and outgrown in 3 or 4 months so she said we're going to Vans and I was saying no way I'm not wearing those cheap deck shoes and when we got to the store, Mrs VanDoren says they designed a new waffle design sole for their regular canvas deck shoes and they are gonna work great for skateboarding and boating. She also said that we can pick out any color canvas and mix em up and they will make them and in 2 days you can pick em up. That was it. I got Blue and Gold with a Blue stripe around the seam where the rubber and canvas meet. That was 1977 and Vans exploded. There were maybe 3 of us who were wearing Vans at school and they became the coolest shoes you could own. Like I said, we were the center of the Universe. Time and the planets and stars all aligned on the Westside of Los Angeles and all of California but to live in the neighborhoods i named above we were wild beach kids that gave the world a gift in skateboarding and a lifestyle.

Sick slides !

I was crying and smiling for 12 minutes <3

Link bait video title is nonsense

Why does no one ride pools with that style anymore? They were carving the pool with such style and it's been lost for decades now. Maybe people should go back to these boards and revive what's been lost.

T.A? D.P? or Gonz?

Fantastic Video!! Thank you for this!!

thanks for posring always great ti see Bones tearing it up! RIP

Just because he did one rail? Isn't that why they made it, for someone to do it?

Grew up, if we ever did same school,Worm introduced us. He was on a differant level even in jr high. To this day sometimes when i drive down by White Rock creek I think aboutt him hanging out in the treehouse. RIP

The band/song from 2:45 to 3:45 ?

this channel is just plain BadAss. there’s no spam, over-reaching erroneous BS or clickbaity content…it’s all about Skateboarding’s bio-history & nothing else. to us old skool dudes, it’s badass to see our childhood inspiratory heroes doing things we never got to see on TV. we had to read about it with still pic sequences to reference. skating was its own subculture that found us, not a fad that we found. these video clips weren’t available across the country or globe, as they are now. so, much of what we see here was mostly lore to us outside of Cali. thank you for spending the time to tell this story through these uploads. it seems like this is the best time to be alive as a skater. skateparks are everywhere, pro equipment is available to anyone & skating is recognized for the amazing interest (not sport or game) that it always has been to us that became afflicted. thanks again.

TxAx 4 LIFE ! 🤘😎🤘❗

💯% Pure Alva 4L...Thank you Tony Alva💯

Long live TA

Damn Jim Thiebaud style was horrible.

TONY HAWK TUAH.

I still have my black and blue original metal flake fly away helmet..... First thing I noticed in this video for 1979 was how skinny the boards were they were blowing up by then I was riding the first issue of the Jim Muir Tri-Plane at 14 years old.... No one liked my concave because nobody on the East Coast had concave at that time I got the deck in 78 for Christmas....😮

This reminds me of filming Biebel when he was a kid.

Bill Danforth absolutely killed it low key, the Powell and Santa Cruz got so much notoriety but there was some real legends that weren’t nearly as marketed. But it’s hard to condone all the mongo pushing on the big stage in that era haha

One of my most heartfelt skateboard heroes!

1985 seems like both not that long ago and in another way, like forever ago!

Christian Hosoi, Soul skater! Seriously man he's one of my favorites to watch.

DUUUUDE!!! I still have my Madrid Beau Brown with gullwing 2 trucks and kryptonite lite wheels, and copers in mint condition.

bridge bolts DAAAAAM

Met Natas in 88. Friendly person. Also met Jeff kendall at same time. They were at our local skate shop passing thru in Savannah Georgia. Jeff was just as cool.

Phoenix had some epic spots back then fuck 😂

Looking at this old video and recalling watching it when it came out, I'm reminded of one of Grosso's comments on the modern skate video: "trick porn." Though, admittedly, Speed Freaks was a part of the early inception of "trick porn" video, it still had long, drawn-out parts like this one which weren't about showcasing tricks as much as communicating a feeling. Stacy Peralta once said that, with the early PP videos, he wanted to present a culture to his audience. Obviously, you couldn't make a video like that nowadays: lots of parts with just rolling. But I remember we never fast forwarded those parts, we studied them just as hard and copied their style, just the way they rolled down the street. Maybe that's why kids' style is the way it is today. I'm from NY, and I remember skating from the Monument to the Banks. On more than one occasion. And I had money for the train. A few years back, I was heading to an indoor park you had to take a bus to. The bus stop was about half a mile from the park so, obviously, I put my board down and headed for the park. About halfway there, I saw a 13-14 year old grommet carrying his board. I made him put it down and ride to the park. Later, at the park, I said, "I love skating. The feeling of being on my board and rolling is like being in p***y: I want to stay in there as long as humanly possibly." Mullen--universally hailed as the godfather of modern street skating (a dubious honor IMO, irrespective of whether it's true or not)--like freestylers generally, didn't spend much time rolling anywhere. (See my comment above: maybe that's why we felt they were less than manly!) In the Daewon (another "godfather") doc, I remember Gonz saying about the first time he saw Daewon that he could tell he had spent a lot of time just rolling around on his board. He's probably one of the last of the generation that did so. I'm 50. When my daughter was 12, I took her with me to the skatepark. Her first day out--she can't kickturn, she can't tic-tac, she can't carve: she asked me how to ollie. I screamed at her, "Just roll around first!" She never skated again. I still feel I did the right thing.

I was living in Venice around 97 down at the beach watching someone skate the hell out of those walls. He was coming in at full velocity and rail sliding the entire length and then doing those crazy dismounts at the end exactly like this. All super aggro. I didn't know who's who back then but always wondered if it was a pro. I'm so glad I found this video and can watch these moves again and put a name to the one doing them. Tim Jackson's got unmistakable style.

This is Lakewood? I was born (84) and raised there and have been skating forever and NEVER knew about this

These were the days when myself, my roommate Tom, our Friend Teeny all of us are lifelong friends with Pat Ngoho, and lived a few blocks away from Scott Oster, Aaron Murray, and we all would skate with Hosoi, Dressen, and others. We'd meet on Sunday nights at midnight at the MCO building in Westwood and we'd skate the eleven story parking structure having races from top to bottom we'd do crazy shit like catamaran and my roommate and I would go down head first like a boogie boarder. LOL it was crazy fun. I also new Jay Adams pretty well from the neighborhood and surfing and skating . If we weren't skating we were all going nightclubbing around LA up all night and school in the morning. Ngoho a year older than me, and we were a couple years even many years older than those other guys. I like to think we kept skateboarding alive between the early '80s and late '80s when all the parks closed and the sport was dying except us skaters from Westchester, Playa Del Rey, Venice who still kept skating. Then Hosoi and Hawk brought us back to ramps when we had never stopped building ramps and skating anything we could find around the city. I watched the vudeo a second time and realized that another very good friend of mine was in the video right at the very biginning, Robert Russler. We became friends in 7th grade at school and we hung out un a group of crazy Westchester boys, all through jr high and high school. During Robert's climbing career. His step dad and my uncle are friends from when they were in high school way back in the day. Hahahaha very funny seeing Bert hanging out in this video.

That launch off the jump ramp up the rail board slide that Gonz did was the best trick on that video in my opinion.

With his sticker bombed deck - those green Razors look so good on the purple stg 5's. Thank you for this, always a pleasure watching your archive footage.

TJ OG V

My dad bought me my first skateboard from Westminister swap meet. It had like a coyote on it I think. I never had any money so we would dumpster dive Gremic or buy old boards from guys working there with laundry quarters.

Dude was that GR song really in the video? Now I really feel old.

Just subscribed. If u roll out old school clips like this I’m in!!

Muy bueno!mi gente!!👏

Curren Caples is not talked about enough.

*Great Video Man* Nostalgic Vibes 🛹❤️

yea i hit that wall in 77 Venice with a board i bought in west palm Sears

Id say smoother than Cab

Seems kinda easy to be pro hack then….compared to now.

Half way through watching, this is simply why Eric Dressen is a legend. Word

Boring af

I had a variflex that looked like his board. Sure didn't know it could do those. Love Eric's style.