@@fuckmyego right on, i appricate that. Funny how my channel is the complete opposite of Johny's genius, hahah. MAS is a great group. Provides that daily skate motivation.
Every kid in the 70's pretty much made their own wooden boards when they got fed up with the plastic polypropylene sleds that first came out. These had open ball bearings that chattered and translucent urethane wheels that kind of chipped on the cheaper ones. The h/m wood boards were an attempt to emulate commercial solid wooden boards like Logan Earth Ski that had block wedge like kicktails. Still a step up from the sort the early Hobie team shows. A real 6O's board would have ceramic clay wheels or a composite rubber/ clay I think. Some even had steel 'wheels'! I first rode a skateboard in 1970 on something called a moonskate. Another board I rode that year was some sort of flexible cardboard like wood with rubber composite wheels that took effort to turn slightly and ride even 10 or twelve feet! It was about 4 inches in width. My first double kicktail freestyle board was fiberglass and I purchased it (surprisingly early for double kicks with a symmetrical board shape) in 1976! This had precision bearings- yay! -A slightly softer wheels that no longer chipped as bad and I rode concrete bowls on it in 1976. I was lucky enough to meet the Hobie champion freestyler Ed Nadalin in 1977 and saw kickflips for the first time. These were definitely called kickflips even back then although not of the Mullen varieties. Nadalin had a fibreglass rocker style board (again quite modern in it's symmetricality with yellow soft rubber bushed speed spring trucks (very narrow- but with an interesting geometry that proved suitable for his aerial mini take off ramp tricks and fast flowing footwork freestyle of the time!) Barefeet was often his style and this was utilised in the aerial manouvers as a 'gorilla grip' for jumping in those pre Ollie days! I did a kickflip a few days later and can honestly say (apart from the world freestyle champ pro Nadalin demo a bit further south) I didn't see anyone in my city do them before me. Nadalin did toecurl over edge kickflips, parallel stance 'old school' kickflips and a front toe forward kick (basic) kickflip. He also was phenomenal at Nosewheelie Samoan squats (a tuck-knee type pre-cursor ) and many 360 style tricks. I shaped some wooden boards and sold them as a kid back then and can remember one little ' gremlin' complaining when he found out I had made it and it wasn't commercially made in a factory! I had coated my insignia on it etc and frankly it was better than the wooden boards in the shops at the time! It lasted several years of my own use after that. Those were the days!
Hey Jonny Giger! Thanks! That reminded me of the first board I bought in 1975! It was a blue Makaha with a kick tail! My dad was totally against it because He thought they couldn't be steered or stopped! It was only after I pointed out that the same system of steering was on my sister's roller skates which he encouraged her to use frequently that he reluctantly agreed! Best 25$ Canadian I ever spent! Ride ride ride!
0:55 back in the mid 80s, my grandad used to make scooters like those for my brother and me, complete with D-cell flashlights for headlamps. I wanna make one again, they were fun!
I was skateboarding in the sixties and I only remembered steel wheels and old people putting small gravel or rice down to keep you from skateboarding on the sidewalk in front of their house
My buddy when I was young had a signed stacy peralta powell board with the old school trucks, wheels and everything. It was probably the most legit skateboard memorabilia I will ever see in person. His little brother got mad and threw it in a pond during an argument. This was almost 20 years ago I don't even know if that pond is there anymore. Such a shame.
Awesome! If you went back in time and pulled a kick flip or Tre you would have made people lose their minds! AND would have been the most influential skater in the world! Now you’ll have to contend with being insanely talented on a skateboard!Great job!
The first kicktails on wood boards were just a wedge of wood glued onto the tail...a few tail drags and the kicktail looked just like it was warped into the wood.
Nice to see you ride this board. Reminds me how I learned to ride a skateboard in Zwitserland many years ago. Keep doing this stuff. Thanks for the great videos!
Just a few days ago I turned an old soggy street deck into a mini Freestyle /penny hybrid. sawed it to the penny width with a straight edge to do secure rail stands. it is so much fun, starting with tomorrow I will do my daily commute to work with it.
I used to love trying flip tricks on tiny "banana boards." You could do double kickflips and things so easily because they would just spin like crazy. Landing was another story though.
Today I built up an old, flat hardwood deck that had been sitting in the loft for 10 or so years (and who knows how long before that) in a similar way - what are the chances!
Later 60's boards had the clay Roller Derby loose-ball bearing wheels, the early ones were made from skates with steel wheels and waaaaay worse cushions and truck hangers. Ask how I know..😂
Those look like urethane wheels. I'm pretty sure 1960 skateboards all had clay wheels. Frank Nasworthy first used urethane roller skate wheels in 1970.
.... im gonna make my own fully custom one, maybe next week so i can go look for those chicago roller skates i saw in the flea market the other day, and use my destroyed old deck to do the rest.
man, jonny giger, i just discovered your channel. let me tell you that what you're doing here is very important! in the age of nikesb and street league and the mofooking olympics, for crying out loud, skateboarding is in dire need of people like you. please keep it up! edit: game of skate with this would be priceless.
Jonny, I think this has got to be the best video you've ever done. So entertaining. Which videos did those old video clips come from? I'd love to go back and watch some of them.
The primo edit was phenomenal!!
Elorian Darklord What game is that soundtrack from again its on the tip of my tongue loo
I'm still laughing
@@kumar5558 DuckTales - the moon level
@@kumar5558 th-cam.com/video/KF32DRg9opA/w-d-xo.html Ducktales for NES
@@TidusfromZanarkand also Jeremy Klein's part in World Industries "Rubbish Heap." th-cam.com/video/m8ipdQz_O5U/w-d-xo.html
Great vid Jonny but, I think we were all left wanting to see you do a hedge dip.
😂😂😂
Dyin' over here......lmfao!!!!
When you are so good you have to go back in time to challenge yourself.
Oh shit another MAS member in the wild. what's up man! I watch your channel too.
@@fuckmyego right on, i appricate that. Funny how my channel is the complete opposite of Johny's genius, hahah. MAS is a great group. Provides that daily skate motivation.
7:43 best thing you've ever done on this channel
hands down. legendary meme
Lmfao! Loved this edit
Every kid in the 70's pretty much made their own wooden boards when they got fed up with the plastic polypropylene sleds that first came out. These had open ball bearings that chattered and translucent urethane wheels that kind of chipped on the cheaper ones.
The h/m wood boards were an attempt to emulate commercial solid wooden boards like Logan Earth Ski that had block wedge like kicktails.
Still a step up from the sort the early Hobie team shows. A real 6O's board would have ceramic clay wheels or a composite rubber/ clay I think. Some even had steel 'wheels'!
I first rode a skateboard in 1970 on something called a moonskate. Another board I rode that year was some sort of flexible cardboard like wood with rubber composite wheels that took effort to turn slightly and ride even 10 or twelve feet! It was about 4 inches in width.
My first double kicktail freestyle board was fiberglass and I purchased it (surprisingly early for double kicks with a symmetrical board shape) in 1976! This had precision bearings- yay! -A slightly softer wheels that no longer chipped as bad and I rode concrete bowls on it in 1976.
I was lucky enough to meet the Hobie champion freestyler Ed Nadalin in 1977 and saw kickflips for the first time. These were definitely called kickflips even back then although not of the Mullen varieties. Nadalin had a fibreglass rocker style board (again quite modern in it's symmetricality with yellow soft rubber bushed speed spring trucks (very narrow- but with an interesting geometry that proved suitable for his aerial mini take off ramp tricks and fast flowing footwork freestyle of the time!)
Barefeet was often his style and this was utilised in the aerial manouvers as a 'gorilla grip' for jumping in those pre Ollie days!
I did a kickflip a few days later and can honestly say (apart from the world freestyle champ pro Nadalin demo a bit further south) I didn't see anyone in my city do them before me.
Nadalin did toecurl over edge kickflips, parallel stance 'old school' kickflips and a front toe forward kick (basic) kickflip. He also was phenomenal at Nosewheelie Samoan squats (a tuck-knee type pre-cursor ) and many 360 style tricks.
I shaped some wooden boards and sold them as a kid back then and can remember one little ' gremlin' complaining when he found out I had made it and it wasn't commercially made in a factory! I had coated my insignia on it etc and frankly it was better than the wooden boards in the shops at the time! It lasted several years of my own use after that. Those were the days!
Rick H This story was an adventure! Haha Thank you for this.
Yeah cool history lesson man
really cool story, could you share more about the board construction? type of wood, if it was from a roller as in the video. thanks 🛹
thank you for the story
Rick H Read the whole thing, very interesting indeed aye, I’d like to hear more from ya!
that hedge-dip looked gnarly
I laughed so hard at this :-D
Hahahaha that was the funniest shit I’ve seen in the last 20 mind
Mins
Hey Jonny Giger! Thanks! That reminded me of the first board I bought in 1975! It was a blue Makaha with a kick tail! My dad was totally against it because He thought they couldn't be steered or stopped! It was only after I pointed out that the same system of steering was on my sister's roller skates which he encouraged her to use frequently that he reluctantly agreed! Best 25$ Canadian I ever spent! Ride ride ride!
I love the edits lmao
Did you see that hedge dip! 6:25
Yeah the video game edit where he hovered up out of the screen and into the retro video game was sick!
0:55 back in the mid 80s, my grandad used to make scooters like those for my brother and me, complete with D-cell flashlights for headlamps. I wanna make one again, they were fun!
I was skateboarding in the sixties and I only remembered steel wheels and old people putting small gravel or rice down to keep you from skateboarding on the sidewalk in front of their house
The primo edit made me laugh so hard. I love it.
My buddy when I was young had a signed stacy peralta powell board with the old school trucks, wheels and everything. It was probably the most legit skateboard memorabilia I will ever see in person. His little brother got mad and threw it in a pond during an argument. This was almost 20 years ago I don't even know if that pond is there anymore. Such a shame.
Dude, go and let´s have a hike and hopefully a dive too!
imagine swimming in that pond and finding it
@@no-onegames765 luckiest day ever, but it would be rotten af.
Give me an address. I’m on my way.
I probably would have beat the ever living shit out of my little brother if he did that
Awesome! If you went back in time and pulled a kick flip or Tre you would have made people lose their minds! AND would have been the most influential skater in the world! Now you’ll have to contend with being insanely talented on a skateboard!Great job!
loved the edit . it was completely unexpected and magical, LOL
There is actually a guy in Munich that bought the Banzai TM and is producing these vintage boards again in small batches as a collectible.
Wowwww that 90s clip is beautiful
The first kicktails on wood boards were just a wedge of wood glued onto the tail...a few tail drags and the kicktail looked just like it was warped into the wood.
Nice to see you ride this board. Reminds me how I learned to ride a skateboard in Zwitserland many years ago. Keep doing this stuff. Thanks for the great videos!
Yes mate! Now *that* is an OG setup!
When he started floating away with the 8bit music I nearly shat myself lol
7:43 holy crap johnny you made my day!
super surfy 60s vibes 🏄🏻♂️
Loved the throwback!
The NES Duck Tales bit was unexpected but EPIC! Haha
Wow done guys and fare play Jonny on that treflip!
The location when you make your videos is wonderfull
You could tell how proud he was of his re model ! It came out great man!
Super fun video J. Loved it
Great video. I liked the bowl carving part a lot. Nice change of pace.
Ollies on flat were definitely around before mullen but nothing was documented well until the 80s
Love the vibes of this video!
Very cool, incredible video and content.
In jealous of the board it looks beautiful
It’s like skating on an armrest!
Man you always find great ideas to entertain us, but this one was probably your best one ! Keep up the good stuff
Jonny could skate and flip a toothbrush then land perfectly
Just a few days ago I turned an old soggy street deck into a mini Freestyle /penny hybrid. sawed it to the penny width with a straight edge to do secure rail stands. it is so much fun, starting with tomorrow I will do my daily commute to work with it.
Sweet one...
It was so cool that you made so many tricks on this tiny skateboard!
I wish I had the passion you have for skating for anything in my life.
cool idea and nice music 👍
Love it 💗
what a nice swiss landscape oO
I used to love trying flip tricks on tiny "banana boards." You could do double kickflips and things so easily because they would just spin like crazy. Landing was another story though.
Love the video Jonny! Keep them coming bro!
7:45 best edit ever
That primo space jump was amazing!
Skateboarding should be a sport
It is 😎👍
In the early 80 when I was starting to skate boarding, make the boards with a lot of sort kinds of materials was part of the fun.
For the first minute I thought the other guy was hanging on and on and on for a fist bump. 🤣
Today I built up an old, flat hardwood deck that had been sitting in the loft for 10 or so years (and who knows how long before that) in a similar way - what are the chances!
7:45 when u land primo and the edits come on im dying laughing
hello the adrenaline of speed on a wooden board that barely fits the feet, that is surfing the streets..
Those old Skateboards are a Fckin' Trip!!Great 👌📹 Gyges!!
Wdsta1💀🔥
Later 60's boards had the clay Roller Derby loose-ball bearing wheels, the early ones were made from skates with steel wheels and waaaaay worse cushions and truck hangers.
Ask how I know..😂
Dude, that red toyota starlet is sick! With the 1.3 - beautiful!
The zelda meme of yourself just earned you a subscriber 🖤
Please make a new video with this board!
Some more bowl and freestyle skating would be great
Great work with the music.
I started with an old-school yellow plastic banana board. LOL
Cool vid!!😊👍
I enjoyed this thoroughly
I am just left here wondering what the reaction would be if someone busted out a tre flip on one of those in the 60's
Good work Jonny!
Those look like urethane wheels. I'm pretty sure 1960 skateboards all had clay wheels. Frank Nasworthy first used urethane roller skate wheels in 1970.
At 7:45...lmao! That's some funny shit man!
Good to see Johnny appleseed hard at work! Sik boards dudes
hahah the swiss army hearing protectors are a suttle clue that this is in good old Switzerland love it.
brillant!!!
The board looks amazing but the wheels are slightly too large, put a smaller set of roller skate wheels on, and it would be perfect
time travel and tre flip in the 70s, skateboarding will be so much more advanced now
I made my own sidewalk surfer with modern trucks and penny wheels.
5:05 Dude lives in a wallpaper.
the primo edit cracked me up irl
Yoooo those hedge dips were lit!!!!
.... im gonna make my own fully custom one, maybe next week so i can go look for those chicago roller skates i saw in the flea market the other day, and use my destroyed old deck to do the rest.
Dude that looks so scary to do tricks on!
well i guess its time for me to go make one of these 60s land yachts...
Right about now, the Funk Soul Brother
Still better than a walmart board
Luxurious hair
Just looks like it needs some faster bearings and it'll be good.
0:57 it was 1955 in Hill Valley
That primo edit was hilarious!
man, jonny giger, i just discovered your channel. let me tell you that what you're doing here is very important! in the age of nikesb and street league and the mofooking olympics, for crying out loud, skateboarding is in dire need of people like you. please keep it up!
edit: game of skate with this would be priceless.
that was so awesome bro - keep it up
Fenooomenal sk8!
Ohh mn.. I have try to make One of This!
Sick!
Recuerdo que así hise mi primer skate a los 12 años, hoy tengo 34 y aun patino.
The primo edit sent me through the roof
The fact that you made a replica and didnt trash the original like so many would do today made me happy, I was worried at first haha😎
next time wanna see u doing some old shool surfing moves jonny DD like bertleman or cutback on bank or in bowl DDD
Gee whiz! Maniac moves bro!
Where is this bowl!? I must skate it!
Jonny, I think this has got to be the best video you've ever done. So entertaining. Which videos did those old video clips come from? I'd love to go back and watch some of them.
makaha / first skateboard / first kicktails front and Back LARRY STEVENSON
Dual purpose ironing board
Send to Braille!
I build boards like that when I was a kid
Man, you should try one of those late 80s vert boards!