JENKEM - Revisiting the Water Tower Ollie w/ Jeremy Wray
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- In 1997, Jeremy Wray did one of the greatest tricks ever done on a skateboard - a 16-foot ollie from one water tower to the next.
For years, we’ve wanted to talk to Wray about his water tower ollie, so while we were out in California we tracking him down and convinced him to meet us close to the towers, about an hour outside of LA. And if it wasn’t nostalgic enough, we even had to hop the fence to stand in between the towers and soak in the madness.
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Filmed by: Alex Raspa & Ian Michna
Edited by: Rob Fraebel
I love how he is still down to hop fences. OG af.
Didn't even second guess it. He was getting in, one way or another.
It ain't on him it's in him
Some skater shit. Once a skater, always a skater
fit largo
😆😆😆😆😆
50???
I can’t jump a fence nowadays and I’m 32 😂
This should be a series. Revisit classic spots and interview the skaters about it.
GentlemanHobo 🔥🔥🔥
I would definitely watch that
FOREAL MANNNNN
Check out “My War” series by Thrasher. It’s basically that
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Find and interview the kid who had his life changed by witnessing the ollie from the color video
It's Jason dill
@@PassionDEEZBEATS Yeah that's definitely who I was talking about
@@PassionDEEZBEATS really?
PassionDEEZBEATS the little kid isn’t dill. it’s the other kid standing next to him.
I wanna see the interview of the lil kid, not dill! Who is he lol?
Dude is truly in charge of his mind in order to get that done
@Whuts Uhp huh??
Or suicidal depending how you look at it lol
"Jaws" does some insane shit like this and I think he's got a distant relationship with his mind lmao
Still one the craziest things ever done in skateboarding. Life and death.
@Jaqen H'ghar jake brown. his shoes exploded off his feet like he was dead
@Jaqen H'ghar yeah that mega ramp fall was scary
and jaws kickflip melon,that bigass stairset?
@Aaron Wells nah, burnquist grinding the grand canyon was.
@Aaron Wells still baffling
I love those kids in the Colors video. When they see that ollie, it's like they're having a religious experience after witnessing a miracle.
To them that was like seeing moses part an ocean
"I SAW IT WITH MY OWN TO EYES!" - those kids had me cracking up lol
@@BlGGESTBROTHER my dude, watching this during quarantine I see
Lit Costello 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Really cool because you can tell they have never touched a skateboard but we're captivated by that insane trick
That water dude had no idea he was talking to a legend .
He didnt care. And neither would I
A legendary skateboarder is like a legendary accordian player.
Yeah I love that he played it super lowkey and said, "apparently some dude jumped across" like it wasn't him lol
@@Bananahammock88 lmao the worst
@@AZ-kr6ff idk.... how many 10 minute videos have you watched of legendary accordian players? ... god I hope not more than a couple.
His front truck almost looks like it rolls off the edge. His timing was PERFECT.
just a few inches on front truck and the tail too, either he could've rolled off the edge or miss the pop completely.
Life or death makes you perfect.
@Whuts Uhp it's an ollie...first trick you learn, of course it was easy.
I was watching that in slo-mo 😆
@Whuts Uhp I hippie jumped it....
this has to be in top 10 skateboarding moments at least
Top 1
ikr
Is it definitely
that or Leon 25
tony hawks first 900 was pretty big too
I've driven by these water towers so many times throughout my life not realizing that those were the towers that Jeremy Wray gapped... mindblown right now! Jeremys a legend!
Theshiznitman which city is it in?
Theshiznitman You gonna Ollie it?
Lay you In lol naw, I’ve driven by it 3 times since watching this though, really cool
Theshiznitman Well my friend, I don't know your skill level. I used to do the most insane gaps when I was actually trying to get my name out. Just think, wallenberg is 22 ft, this is 16 ft WITHOUT a six foot height to drop from. I'm just saying, if anyone wants to be known in the sponser side, or community, they would kf this monster. Lay out a tape measure and see how much you can clear. At least now people KNOW just how far it is. I bet in my ABSOLUTE HAYDEY I could flat Ollie ten to twelve. So I would of died. I guarantee you though, I would of tried it if I lived in that state. kinda scary to think about. Thank God I'm not that suicidal anymore, though I was never suicidal. Even back in the 90's you had to do extreme shit (gaps never change, you Ollie a massive gap and it can be twenty, thirty years prior, it doesn't change as someone has to 180 it or kf it ECT...). Now skating is so fucking insane with the flip in, grind or slide, flip out shit. I still just love gaps and big rails. I don't skate anymore but if you want a cover, kf the water tower gap.
@@layyouin6860 I hear ya man. With everyone owning a smartphone these days, the amount of time you would have to attempt the water tower gap would be limited. Cops would probably show up in a matter of minutes. I think that's a major reason why we don't see stunts like this in skating as much any more.
One of the gnarliest tricks ever.
yaahh suuuh dudeee gnarly do u smoke weeb bro
@@THXIIIRTEEN shut up!
this stunt could be analysed way more. how he pops the edge the last millicsecond and lands very close on such a distance on a height that kills you. cmon. where do you see shit like this these days. jeremy wray is a legend.
Man I gotta say the word "Legend" get used way too much these days, but in this situation it is totally deserved!
You dont see shit like this very often. But imo Milton's part comes close: th-cam.com/video/7VkFK2JN5tA/w-d-xo.html
And yet,the guy they interviwed over the phone talking bout kick flipping that fucker," not possible,not possible"
You wouldnt die btw
@@sandroC. what loool
That's so wild that he had to jump on foot back 5 times.
Dude could have been a long jumper for D1 college haha he was flying he has hopps
Doing parkour on legendary spots outta necessity to skate there 😂
@@marcolatimer1924 Add about 8-10 feet to that gap and that would be competitive in d1. It's insane but the world record is a couple feet short of double that gap.
Kevin nah the form in long jump landing adds distance and you have a sand pit that you can land on your ass in. If he was long jumping with form he could easily get 20 feet .
Dude seriously. I would've gotten tired by the 3rd try ha.
I remember seeing that water tower
Ollie as a kid...and still it is literally one of the best tricks of all time. So much balls .
Eduardo Ramos the man literally put his life on the line for the culture.
That kid trippin on his 20 ft ollie is always so sick
Kid just became a member of the Church of the immaculate ollie.
@Jaqen H'ghar the older kid was dill, the kid tripping out is unknown
@Jaqen H'ghar I'm glad to be a part of this important moment in internet history. Cheers :)
@Jaqen H'gharsolid 👏👏👍
When you watch the slo-mo around 7:51 and see how late he kicks off you'll instantly realize how fkn INSANE this trick was. That was some GOAT level shit!
I still cannot believe how late he popped his board, it's like a couple inches from the edge
If you put the player on 0.25x speed you can really see how crazy it is. The back wheels are actually over the edge before the tail hits the ground. Another tenth of a second and that board was going straight down. Ironically he landed with about 4-6 inches to spare lol
@@justinman114 this is the definition of gnarly
Just running and jumping that is insane, imagine if you tripped.
@Jaqen H'ghar It's a possibility, maybe my shoe came untied.
What if the aliens who’s snow globe that we are in decided to do a science fair project that day and turned up the gravity at the same moment that you’re in the air
He actually said he found jumping it scarier than doing the ollie
Yes indeed. I was a long-jumper in middle school, my personal record was about 20ft, which was pretty good for regular people. But that was made in sports field with spike shoes. I'm not even sure if I could make 16 ft with skateboard shoes on that concrete surface.
the running jump is definitely harder than the Ollie.
PURE History Right Here !!!
still the worlds longest ollie.
Jeremy Wray is super human
his style is unmatched and his footing was always perfect
even by todays standards still has one of the gnarliest ollies
I don’t like how he places his feet for kick flips
@@Souran123 I don't like you.
@@Souran123 I dont like you either.
@@Souran123 I don't like you too.
Eli Weaver not a fan of you
That is just next level shit, even in the year 2020. So dangerous, so scary, and nerve wracking. Legend is an understatement. Boundry pusher, skate god Jeremy Wray.
Even in the year 2020?
@@tavzelaviation8157 Jeremy Wray jumped from one huge water tank over to the other, 16 foot gap and if he misses he might not come out alive. That is next level shit , even today, we are in the year 2020. He did that gap almost 20 years ago.
@@terryhermosillo4717 yeah it's the same distance today. Same amount of danger. So of course even in the year 2020.
@@tavzelaviation8157 Dude. Im talking about the level of skill and the mentality it takes. I dont need you checking some irrelevant bullshit.
@@terryhermosillo4717 don't worry i gotchu
7:05
that kid trippin on how gnarly Jeremy s ollie was
"i dont believe what i just saw"
Fugya Mofug that was jason dill is the funniest part
Nah Jason was the one saying, “gimme 5”
He just gained a new religion after seeing the miracle of the 19-foot ollie.
It is one of the purest skate moments.
@Jaqen H'ghar you're wrong, look at their faces, you can see the gimme 5 kid is a very young Jason Dill. The other two are just random neighborhood kids, Dill was skating with Jeremy that day and had ruined his feet trying the same gap before that clip.
Insane! The way he got up there was super impressive as well. I'm not sure I could even do that.
Jumping that gap without the board is a completely separate skill and honestly was just as amazing to me as with the board lmao
Imagine hiting a peeble just before pop
That's why you sweep first
On the nine club he said he did hit a pebble before the pop
@@hunterdavis3003 weeeelllll we are back
Hunter- Dude I know! When he said that it gave me the chills. Imagine rolling up to a 15 foot gap with a 30 foot drop and hitting that rock... that woulda been the end of me for sure.
Sotare Republic maybe not him tho cuz he’s super human
Jeremy is a legend
This shit give me anxiety, this is beyond gnarly 😐
I remember doing the math for how fast he was going. While Jaws had to do 15 mph to clear the Lyon 25set, Jeremy had to do a minimum of 22-23mph to clear the distance of the gap. I did the math on a bunch of gaps like this. This was by far the most impressive.
This gap is impressive because of the distance and risk. The Lyon 25 isn't as dangerous technically but landing that massive drop is more difficult, IMO.
been trippin out over this trick since i was like 8
I'm trippin all over again
Yo for real
True when I saw this come up I was like no way
Wray should've been a playable character in THPS 1
I thought I've seen it in the THPS intro...but it is not in the first 3 :O so my question, where did I see that jump :O
It was in the unlockable 411VM video to my knowledge
@@EhmLo0oL yes thps, that's where I saw this clip. You're saying it's not there?
“I can’t believe what I just saw”, the birth of a skateboarder
That was Ryan Sheckler when he was a kid 😂
@@kanswer1975 source?
It's a joke lol
@@kanswer1975 my b
No worries 🤙🏼 I thought it would be funny if that was shecks. Since now everything he does is insane lol
One of the gnarliest tricks in skateboarding history hands down. This is still wild as hell today.
411VM kept that intro for a looooooong time and still, most times, it was the craziest trick in the film
i wonder what my mom did with all those tapes....
fuckyshityfuckshit I could kick your ass
Do you remember what 411vm this was? I was wondering if anyone remember this. This made me feel old
@@Grampaul84 Haha yeah indeed. Hello from a 29 y/o who started skating in '99
@@Grampaul84 best I can find is 411 vm Best of 5. Cheers, boss. (I'm with you on the feeling old bit. 32 y/o skating since '99. Stay up.)
If you factor in the distance, chance of death, and weight of balls, this is easily the gnarliest trick of all time.
I wanna see the attempts he didn’t land
No shit. What the fuck why didn't they put the misses in?
Don't know if this is a joke, but you don't get to miss tricks like this. Maybe he overshoots, but you don't gamble your life on a "probably."
@@seymourglass26 Jeremy literally says in this video that it took 5 tries. Try to not "correct" others when you haven't paid attention to the details, maybe?
@@seymourglass26 th-cam.com/video/1grq_HFt0Eo/w-d-xo.html 8:40
@@williambarnes-carr2322 Just because he rolled up doesn't mean he sent it. You're assuming a lot and generally being condescending. I know what he said.
To clear that gap with a running precision jump is insane and then he goes ahead and ollies the thing. If this was done today, he'd make two huge communities (parkour and skateboarding) go nuts in just a few minutes.
Now revisit Jamie’s Leap of Faith!
avimbo you can’t. The spot is gone.
@@matthewgray5213 I heard it's there but there's just a metal gate in the way now..
@Aaron Wells Yeah he did. He just fell right after. lol
Security gaurd: "I gave you my friendship and you spat in my face"
Jeremy always had such solid fundamentals. His ollie's, 180s and 360s we're so perfect.
Imagining a backside ollie across that and I'm having a low-grade panic attack
180
since the tops of the water towers go out some, wouldn't the distance be closer to 15 feet? still mental
It’s just to get a sense of size, they didn’t say it was the distance from the top of the tower
This Ollie was engrained in my mind ever since seeing it as the first clip in the 411VM teaser on THPS 1
"White Man Can't Jump" --Woody Harrelson
"Hold my Zima" --Jeremy Wray
Zomething different
And hes hopping around with the big ol' Adio stompers that weigh roughly 6 lbs each. He is a full sender.
@@ejs432 Yeppppp
@@jordanslingluff287 Ha haaaa. "A truly unique alcohol beverage"
7:50 Another inch and he would have missed the kick on that Ollie...perfect!
The puffy shoes. Not mentioned enough how the hell did someone run and long jump 15ft 5 times in some of the worlds worst shoes for that.
we made it work back then lol osiris D3's other DC shoes and Circas. it was no big deal. just ask Kerry Getz lol
Still no one is ever tried anything over that gap besides him and a BMX guy Somebody should go back there and try to kickflip it
I did once a roof to roof gap (like 3ft long) was scary AF i didint blane anyone for not trying that
I remember ppl had posters in their rooms of that jump.
I got my hands sweating by just looking on this gap OMG Jeremy Wray is a legend! Thanks jenkem for another great video hands down the best skateboard magazine in the game right now
Вижу трюк и помню мелодию из профайла.
"Hows the water around here?" hahahaha
How's the flouride levels? Lol. Man was woke
Respect for mentioning Mike Escamilla
That's cool, but jumping it on a skateboard is way more impressive for sure. coming from a bmxer
Bmxicano2 yeah cause way easier speed and you got handle bars but still super gnarly
dude i paused at 00:57 seconds and he hit that ollie at exactly the last minute. A fraction of a second later and he would have fallen. Mad Skills
What a truly psychotic legend this guy is!
So 9 years before I started Parkour, this guy was already doing damn fine wallruns and gap jumps! ❤️
Even him jumping that on foot is so gnarly.
True, and the fact he ollie it is insane, I would of shxt myself if I tried that trick
burbs seems way harder
And doing it 4 times in a row. Nuts. Dudes a legend.
Jeremy always had insane ollies. I remember skating with him at an element demo in Chicago in 2004 and he just flew over everything easy. His ollies were just a foot higher than anyone ive ever skated with.
Such an amazing piece, kids need to know! 🦅🦅🦅
Jeremy Wray and Chris Sean are my favorite two ever and I have said for years that this single Ollie and Senn’s hill bomb at the end of Jump Off A Building are the my favorite clips ever filmed. Neither get their proper recognition and damn do they get my 32 year old ass wanting to go push again. Jenkem, you guys are doing a great job. Cheers
chris senn
Why did you make the first one private?
Had a wrong placed photo - fixed it quick.
@@ianmichna4384 Dude, thank you for all you do for skateboarding. Guys are killing it with the quality of content .
Ian Michna got any hints for the next Cali trip video coming out? Thx for making them
I love how he used his own yt to reply and not the jenkem one 🙃 amazing
16ft with no second chance and ZERO room for error.
Ive never forgotten this clip in the last 2 decades of my life. This is a Hall of Fame skate clip.
No way in hell I am even trying to climb to the top let alone ollie a 16 foot gap like that.
16 freaking foot?! This guys is a damn legend!
Sick I was just showing a coworker this clip literally last week. What a legend
I have always regarded the water tower as one of the sickest clips of all time. Still amazing to this day.
fluoride levels perfect.. hellnah.
Perfect for keeping peeps in a zombie like trance
Jaqen H'ghar A Man knows that Dentists and Doctors have a conflict of interest about keeping people healthy
Tony Tone I feel like there are plenty of people that drink fluoride water but are still able to meditate or open their crown chakra or whatever tho
@Jaqen H'ghar How gnarly is it that it's good for your teeth but YOU DRINK IT INTO YOUR BODY. I mean toothpaste is one thing but CITY WATER? NAZI shit.
@@thomasrainbow Yeah man, they know what they are doing. It's literally toxic waste. The fluoride in the water is not the same as the stuff they use at the dentist either, from what I have read.
I loved it when back in those days a new magazine came out and had a cover of something like this trick. It just blew your fucking mind.
The thing that took me the longest to figure out, and I still struggle with it. Being married, with little ones, is your body matures, but my mind is still a 20 something year olds.
How could your wife not know what an ollie is when she has married a pro skater?
4:50 - Damn, Jeremy got ups...
I still have the Trasher with that Ollie on the cover, 23 years ago, a "simple" Ollie is still one the gnarliest trick ever done. Absolute Respect.
My knees got wobbly watching this
1:46 instant Tony Hawk PS1 vibes.
5:49 anyone that knows ian michna knows he was always gonna do that
Damn, they just straight up filmed themselves trespassing for this. Legends
Gnarliest trick ever done on a skateboard, period.
But it feels like Milton Martinez, Sheckler, Jaws or some other crazy dude is gonna one up this eventually.
Gnarliest LANDED trick. Homer Simpson's attempt at clearing the Springfield Gorge was way gnarlier.
@@billybobjoe198 I stand corrected.
jenkem makes the best content in skateboarding
Surprised he was even able to jump. What with the weight of his massive balls and all.
Still to this day, one of the gnarliest things to do 👏👏
Brazilian watch in 1998 and 2020.. Thanks!
"In the white room, with black curtains." I had the Indiana Jonas board when I was a kid.
Goddamn who made this NPR? Idk how you could make such a cool subject so dry & boring
who else watched starting point with jeremy wray growing up
Watched transworlds trick & tips with Willy Santos
Dude I watched that video SO many times!!
@@ryanschindler923 It's funny when I was little I didn't realize how gnarly he was until I saw him ollie this gap I thought he was just my friendly skate teacher
This hits me now harder than it did before. Probably because I respect life more lol but this is legendary af!
Legendary, My first skateboard ever was Jeremy's pro model from element.
Perfect fluoride levels would be a flat zero
I would have swept that thing 500 times to make sure there is not a single pebble on that roof that would be certain death if you got pebbled right before the Ollie
One of the most legendery trick in skateboarding history.
My hands are sweaty from the anxiety it gives me to look at that gap. specially when he runs and jumps from one tower to the other
Inspired by this ollie, Ale from the parkour team "Team Phat" just flipped that gap. That's what brought me here.
Nowadays a man can’t even impress the wife with such stunt... what can we do?!
personally, this is most impressive trick of that decade. Even more than the 900°
To who ever filmed and edited this, you nailed it. It’s perfect. It was like I was there, and letting the skater speak and asking the right questions to get deep insight was the cherry on top.
I never get tired of hearing about this badass fucking Ollie! The first time I seen it was in Tony Hawks Pro Skater!
He literally couldn't have left the take-off any later, the wheels are already over the gap when he gets the tail down. It's right on the goddam edge, he just made it.
If he didn't have balls of steel, he'd have cleared the whole other tower.
Ya the longest was 19’, but you didn’t die or become a paraplegic if you fell.
This is 100% fake, there’s no way he made it across that gap with his 800 pound nuts weighing him down
Did you take into the account that the tops of the tires would be further apart than the bottoms of the towers because of the curvature of the Earth? Feel free to add 1/100 of an inch to that Gap. Unless of course you believe in Flat Earth.
At this point it's infuriating that Sturt won't get interviewed or offer any of his work for sale.
To add to the craziness of this, the tower he ollies from is slightly LOWER than the one he lands on.
Some of the ultimate skate spots are behind high fences and barbed wire. But doing something like this by itself on it's own plus getting it on video is well worth the risk.
I think Milton's gonna do it IF shit like this doesn't permanently put the spot out of commission.
I bought Jeremy Wray's "Starting Point" VHS back in 2000, that's how I learned to ollie. Respect. 💯