NEIL BLENDER RIPPING SADLANDS
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 เม.ย. 2024
- Neil Blender epitomizes the greatest aspects of skateboarding: individuality, innovation, creativity, speed, power, flow, agility and performance art.
At the end of the 70's skateparks he emerged as a top amateur and as the 80's progressed, as a top vert pro, consistently placing high in contest and inventing various tricks.
Towards the end of the 80's street skating became more and more prominent, and he would participate in the streetstyle events combining his renowned skill with satirical moves and skits- seemingly riding the line of participating and making a joke out of it. For many that were on top of the vert dominated skate industry, the impending change to street was something many could not or did not want to adapt to. Neil was clearly one that could have, and it would have been interesting if he had chosen to, but by the end of the 80s, he still had high selling pro models, and had continued moving his skateboarding in his own unique direction.
I shot with Neil in 1987 at the end of the movie film era for my Skate Film Goin' Off. I don't think I stopped laughing the entire time as his infectious humor was woven into every trick he did and we had a lot of fun.
A couple years later when I showed up to film his part for Santa Cruz Speed Freaks in 1989, one of the sessions was at one of his favorite local Orange County spots: Sadlands.
Video by @tonyrobertsphoto
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Not to take anything away from Neil here, but lest we forget that with any of these videos we're not just getting to watch [legendary 80s pro] skate, we're getting to WATCH T.R. FILM. That is equally innovative and stylised.
Dude I can't thank you enough for uploading these videos. I'm obsessed with skate history
Back in the day all these dudes were like action heros now watching everyone grow old on IG is a weird trip
Word.
Definitely one of Skater's favorite Skaters.
Thanks for documenting history in a natural way.
Got to session Sadlands once and skated a mini ramp with Neil. 2 of my favorite memories. This was awesome thank you 💯
That sound at 3:32 never gets old to me and I’m 49 years old.
Blender is the BEST!! One of the best ever to ride a skateboard
Pure gold. Such legends.
Thanks Tony!
I love this footage. Watching it as a skater it feels as though I’m one of the skaters at that session. Back in the 80s there these rad pics of Neil skating Sandlands and he talked about it being one of his favorite places to skate and that growing up he basically lived there on a Tracker 757. Then finally being able to watch video of Neil skating Sadlands was a revelation like “this is what it’s about.”
Special place and a special time. I grew up off Brookhurst Street & Joyzelle Drive. It's always a treat to see footage of Sand Lands. Thanks so much!
This is the one park I wish the most I could have skated or could skate now.
Nice work.
Blender and Phillips were always my favs.
To have Blenders mind and unique ideas on a skateboard and Phillips just sheer power…….a thing of beauty
Damn I loved that place.
Such a rad channel. Thanks man. Neil was really liked by everyone from very to street. I didn’t even need to see him skate to know he was rad
I always liked Blender. Cool Cat.
i grew up skating SADLANDS 2nd generation..thanks for post'n...the footy you have of blender is BAF🤘🏽
The master at work. Respect!
That coffee break board got jacked by the local gangsters from me ….i miss that board ..
Blender and Claar destroyed the PVC coping on our ramp in less than an hour. We replaced it with steel.
Sadlands was so good. Didn’t see Neil there that often. I was an am with G&S back then. Rode a few of Neil’s boards until I got hooked on Chris Miller’s. Great times.
Incredibly well said TR
Damn, didn't know you filmed this- this is like historical type footage that needs to be preserved in like special archives and shit. Read about how important Blender was to the progression of skating with everything he brought to the table (tricks/ creativity/ personality).
Speed Freaks one of my favorite all time videos. Definitely had a big hand in pushing my skating to new levels. The salad days.🥗🥗
Sad Lands was a fun park to skate. I skated there several times with Lynn Cooper, my brother Terry Trimble and many others. I'm glad Lynn took some nice photos of me skating there.
do you know if it still exists? (probably not i'm guessing.) would be rad to see Andy Anderson skate there
@vincenzollamas The original park is still there but un-skateable, the city tore up the craters. There's a similar replica skate park nearby Sad Lands though.
@@3DEditor cool, thanks, nice to know it was kind of replicated
@@vincenzollamasyou're welcome. If I ever travel that way, I'd like to check it out. Old school og skaters who frequently skated there, have annual Sad Land reunions. Another one should be coming up soon.
I had his deck (with the coffee cup) back in the day.
Thank you TR you rule.
Love it 🤍
Excellent footage by the way. :)
this just proves my point, that so many parks are just empty grass fields, when the cities could just pour concrete and make spots like this...
TR your videos motivated me to skate every time I watch them after I got into your channel I then started making my own skate videos most inspired by you brother
Dope! these small transitions remind me a little of the Eiffel Tower Banks....another lost spot (it's still there, but never will be skated again, way too much security unfortunately....)
Legends
Thank you 🤙🏼
Rip Sad lands!
👍🔥
Out of Sadlands came Sad Plants. When people started to bone ollie backside grabs we called them Sad Ollies, which became melancholy ollies, now shortened to melon. Nothing to do with fruit.
Pure genius
Difficult place to film with all those odd cylinder to post obstacles. The film time reminds me of the hokus pokus / soldier story video sepia era. Great days. Neil was so rad. A real innovator creator and individual talent - my favourite skater along with The Gonz
He was so damn stylish.
Those tall steep things would have been fun to drop in on
Oh that alley oop fakie 50 50 @5:12 gets blocked by a pillar. That was a pretty hot trick at the time
TR doin God's work! And Blender is God lol yeah, Tony
Sadlands was hard to skate. NMB makes it look easy. He ruled and still rules.
🔥🔥🤘🏻🤘🏻
Thanks! An NBS (Never Been Seen). Not by me, anyways!
Pretty sure my Coffee Break deck was my first "slight' up tail nose..
The guitar riff in the beginning is 'Out There' by Dinosaur Jr.
It is pretty close indeed.
Tell me the Foundation full length 'That's Life' was titled after dialogue at SadLands ?
Blender is god
06:27 Badlands, Sadlands, Radlands, Mwadlands.
Where did you get this track from Dinosaur Jr? Clearly it’s Out There but this isn’t the album version.
Its just a J. guitar riff.
@@RealSkateStories wild, I hear a different direction that song could have gone, and I dig that song from the album.
I have to guess that was a huge camera you had to heft... did it fall and break for a part-time?
Yes, these cameras were huge and heavy. No stabilizers or gimbals. I broke a lot of cameras in the filming of Speed Freaks.
@@RealSkateStories what's up with the sound track being different on the videos uploaded, crazy but a cat up and had birth in a cabinet with some old VHS tapes when I moved out of my parents...I went to visit and apparently the babys peed all over one VHS tapes, being speed freaks... everything about the original film was amazing...the sound track really made 30% of the film for me...I would watch a few minutes and get so pumped to skate I'd be out the door in a flash.
@@comesect You Tube has restrictions on some music but almost every song is the original. A few have been changed (usually with a live version of the same song) so that these videos can be still viewed and enjoyed by future generations. I'm stoked you loved my original soundtracks so much.
Blender and Gonz.
Are you ever gonna put Goin' Off back on youtube?
Here it is! th-cam.com/video/0__gxolKSJE/w-d-xo.html
@@RealSkateStories gracias. I thought it was 1989?
@@rickyrogerz666 Filmed 86-88 released in 89
"Superman" 5::45
Is there a reason we don't see him skating, or doing anything else, today?
i thought thst said bladder
Crescent and Brookhurst. I remember skating there back in the early 80s and being so intimidated by the main bowl and now it looks so tiny. Of course I was like 13 years old then.
Side note. I got a flat tire in like 1991 or 92 with an old girlfriend. I pulled over at sadlands and two dudes were throwing a football to each other. One dude saw me looking at my flat tire with my spare and car jack and came up to me and told me to kick back and he would take care of it for me. The dude was Patrick Swayze. He was obviously very cool for doing that but he seemed like he was tweaked out on meth. True story.