Classics: Sean Sheffey, A Soldier's Story
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- Gnarly, high-risk street skating was heating up in the early '90s, and this part alone significantly pushed the whole era forward. Mike Maldonado introduces Sean's epic skating from the 1991 Life video.
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Oh... My... God... the fakie shifty over the picnic table was just beautiful
yeah, that one makes me cry tears of skateboard joy !
Always did my head in that one. I'm pretty sure he didn't think of it as a shifty, though, that was just the only way he could figure out how to get a fakie ollie over something like that. I think he does the same thing over a police barrier in one of the Plan B vids, right?
@Jesse Fahnestock I fakie Ollie 9 back in the day did it the same turning 40 this year so this vid was epic... 👊🏽💪🏾💯🛹💛
This was 1991 so you can't even say "if you skated in the 90s" this video was sick. I started skating in the 80s and that was still my reference when I saw this video. This was EARLY nineties and no one was killing it like Sheffey. When it dropped, this was mind blowing. Look at the deck he was riding, it's a brick with no nose. That's still an 80s board for all practical purposes. They weren't even designed to do modern street tricks yet, but he was backside tail sliding full sized picnic tables. Back then power and style were more important than being technical. The guy was fearless and broke new ground. Mad respect. Anyone saying 'where are the flip tricks' probably has never landed a trick going more than 2 MPH and will never understand.
Flip tricks don't matter if you ain't got speed or style. Skate fast or go home.
Preach!!!!!!!!!!! hahaha
What I can't stand is the mindset that today's young skaters seem to all possess, Everything is about who is better or the best. They say lame ass shit... like... he sucks, he didn't do one single switch bigflip or nollie blah blah whatever. It has become to many, all about being the best and talking shit about guys that are on different levels.... I don't know, for me, a early 40's- 80's skater, it's about locking onto a trick and overcoming the fear involved with whatever the trick may be and commiting anyway, over and over. The feeling of getting it and sticking it, is indescribable and also a total mental release from all the bullshit you're dealing with in your life, Like Lance said, it can't all be about just being good.
first sentence doesnt even make sense, you can absolutely say if you skated in the 90's this video was sick. Doesnt matter when you skated, this video is sick lol.
If you wanna get mad at kids for not appreciating old school skating, then they can get mad at you for not appreciating how much skateboarding has progressed. Theres a new standard for good skating, sorry but thats how it works. And thats not just skateboarding, thats the entirety of life. Were human beings and advancement is what we do.
doesnt change the fact that this video is legendary.
1992bta that's not skateboarding. Style means for that, there's no standard. Sean and Natas killed with their video parts, doesn't means anyone can't have them style and talent today.
the rad mad crazy style is making a huge comeback, check out erick winkowski and auby taylor, fresh
In 91' we, over and over, watched Sheffey's part.
The whole part is just raw power. That BS 180 over the island still blows me away to this day. So good.
On today's boards, that bs 180 would be considered a monumental feat of athleticism. On his equipment, it's borderline super human. It's right up there with Kien Lieu's ollie over the fence from Hokus Pokus.
@@neuvocastezero1838 Totally agree. I always liken Natas ollieing up the picnic table to riding a coffee table with wheels.
That's the trick that's always stuck in my mind from this video part. Gnarly af!
This video makes me feel like I need a pair of Airwalks... I remember when this came out, I was in Middle School and this was the video we watched every afternoon after school to get psyched out to go skate.
To this fuckin' day you won't see anyone do fakie shifty ollies like that
I've never seen anyone match that picnic table business fakie
Tons of dudes did it, for example Reynolds does one in the Shake Junt video part with Herman. He also did it right after a monstrous frontside flip. Check that out.
Marek Skřivánek he doesn't do it like Sheffey
That's debatable. Don't get me wrong, I love Sheffey so much, but in my opinion, Reynolds is damn close with his one. But even if he or someone else did a better one, that doesn't change the fact that Sheffey did this in 1991, which is fucking insane. And he even did it with a totally different board which was not designed to go that high. Legend.
Brendan Blosser-McGinnis prob not but how often will one see someone nollie flip a small table without a shift (Brian Hoard)
Shows how great skating can be with no fliptricks involved
I remember watching this back in 91 and being like omg you gotta see Sean Sheffey's part he ollies the street! thank you uploaders and yt for bringing back memories! feels good 2 see these vids.
I remember being stoked on that. Then a buddy gets Celebrity Tropical Fish and Frankie 180s it. Skateboarding progressed so much in such a short period. It was cool to see when a lot of that innovation was first happening.
Man Sean had mad pop on those old school boards, especially that bs180 on flat over the gap, mad respect
VHS grain+Fish-eye = The best "quality" for skateboard videos
Ennio morricone and sean sheffey. who would have thought both of them could produce this awesomeness?
I remember Sheffey skating at cheapskates. He'd do frontside disaster slides across the entire ramp. That was probably 20 feet. I vowed to someday be able to do the same. Which I would finally accomplish but not for another five years.
1 year early but how did it go
@@fuego1336 I eventually could do them about 10 feet I'd say. 20 feet is a stretch LOL. Not on a ramp taller than 6.5" though. My go to ramp was 108th street skatepark in New York City.
Love all the I.V. And ucsb footage-
Skated in high tops. RESPECT.
Skate shoes in 80s were mostly high top designed like Etnies
The fact that this was the culmination 4 years of skating is pretty crazy.
Insane that i stated skateboarding when this video came out. Almost 30 years ago. Sheffey was destroying that long ago.
he’s so good. it’s nice seeing him still skate these days in carlsbad
My name is Pinky! 😂😂😂
Wasn't the second song Ron Allen's band? I watched this and Hstreet videos daily back then, my inspiration love miss all these guys.
My man back tailed a FULL sized picnic table on an old school board... absolutely insane, fucking powerful and ground breaking
Full sized tables. Isla Vista and UCSB spots. Plus School W. Classic 90s.
You will never live in the 90's again.
remember watching this as a kid and thinking "damn this guy goes hard!"
No flips, pure power.
I remember watching a dubbed VHS of this in ‘93 and getting my 🤯. “Strictly brute.” - Gonz on Natas, but applies to Sheffey too.
Good times back then....way less stressful!
i see him like everyday now
i would love to see you do what he did, in a oldschool board like he did, good luck mate :)
I dont think ive ever seen anyone grab out of a boardslide on a rail like that. ever.
It's magic man, just style and magic
Pull over grabs were pretty common back then. Doing it without your hand was maybe rarer.
@@jessefahnestock6376 like his lipslide at 2:25 pop no grab
懐かしいわ、このビデオ
Haha! These comments...man, if you're seriously hating on Sheffey: 1. Slap yo self! 2. Learn your sk8 history.
This guy was fkn sick!!!!
This cat has rice crispy pop.
So much Santa Barbara footage.
It’s like him and Natas Kaupas are twins and brothers from different mothers lol
I just can’t believe he got this good after only four years. I remember watching this on my 13th birthday at The Turf skatepark in Milwaukee WI in 1991 and being so awe-stricken.
And then of course a year later came Plan B
Questionable. #1. We were primed with Chin. :D
Sheffey is sick. Oyola was one of the best street skaters. Cardiel was intense as well. Classic skate heros. I'll always have mad props for these guys, especially Ricky. true as fuck.
This is one of the sickest parts I've seen... The whole video I was like FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK :O
@DeafMuteZombie it is from the movie "the good the bad and the ugly" great movie
fakie ollie up a bench! yup, I'll take that anyday before a tre flip
What happened to Mike Maldonado
Mike Maldonado looking like Channing Tatum :)
Fave Skatter
Sheffey and Frankie Hill were gap beasts. Wonder what they're up to these days?
both still skating and both active on Instagram , both still filming in their fifties
I'm a Sean too 🔥
That backside 180...all time best.
I'm 52. Sheffey was always so intimidating to me when I was young. Dude is so powerful...also not in this video, but probably had the most styling late shove-its than anyone to this day
First time ever watching this part, that backside ollie over the grass gap was nuts!! Rewatched it multiple times, I can't even imagine the shock waves this part made when it came out in 1991!!!! Fucking legend
I skated with him in 1990, I couldn't believe how high his ollie was
That big kink rail he boardslid was the same one Sal sacked on right? Also I was watching some random Maldonado footy from like, 95 or 96 the other day and was thinking "damn, I guarantee Mike is a huge Sean Sheffey fan. By the way he skates you can see it all day."
Granted, most people are Sheffey fans if they grew up back then or have any sense of how nuts this was for it's time. I was fucking 1 when this video dropped and even at the age of 13 or so when kids haven't yet learned to appreciate skating that old I still thought he was gnarly. In part because, well, look at that God damn board. Dude backside 180s that big ass curb and dirt gap and all the other shit with what was basically a 2 by 10, at least just as flat and heavy anyway
Sheffey came through my town around this time. It may have been a World Ind or LIFE demo idk. After the demo we were all skating a pretty big/long gap that we'd found and Sheffey joined in. After a few tries he cleared it...fakie. :)
I pity anyone born after 99
Everyone--myself included--wanted to BS180 everything after this part.
Sean Sheffey and Chris Pfanner skate hella alike and both rock the gaint fro ,shits rad as fcuk
Awesome skateboard part in history. Rad.
skateboarding for 4 years he's a genius
I'm from Clinton MD went to school with Sean
Ooo mad
Monster half cab and fakie over the bench, what the fuck. STILL amazing
I loved this brief period where you could be just burly without being too techno. I could flip and slide but i like monstering stairs and gap with various grabs thrown in.
Sheffey..best backside 180...
the Gonz...best frontside 180..
this is so unbelievably ahead of its time for coming out in 91
one of the best parts ever !!
@sasukelgty so what.... ater all its just a theory, religion aint shit...its like saying, i believe apples taste better than oranges, well maybe i think oranges taste better...its not a big deal...
shifty ollies and all variations kill it, dont see them enuff!!!
fakie shifty ollie a picnic table fuckin nuts
It was a fakie ollie
The fakie shifty over that picnic table is the illest moment in a terminally ill video part. Ledge end.
Sheffey style man !!!
2:20 is so sick
The people who disliked don't know that they made black history month in Honor of sean sheffy.
What's that second song??
Boy King. It's by Ron Allen (another H Street pro). I wonder if it's actually written about Sheff, tho...
. Awesome! Thanks
Sheffey was a G, no question about it.
The good the bad and the ugly theme song capped that shit off REAL real nice
I loved Sheffey I always looked up to him for jumping big gaps... classic...
Fuck he's a powerful beast. See a lot of Maldonado in this.
He rocking airwalks? Video is so bad I can’t recognize hahaha
This is when I realized how a fucking man rides a skateboard. Him and Donger, dude I watched those parts so much I couldn't tell you anyone else on the goddamn team sadly.
Funny man you dont hear dongers name much anymore.I remember going to S.D. in the late 90's.I skated down from p.b. to mission beach and ran into him.Ive skated around alot of guys with a shitload of pop and I've never seen anything like him to this day.He was easily ollieing over those big cans with the lids going slow as shit.The lids where chest high on me.Effortless and so smooth.
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In true Sergio Leone fashion. .. once upon a time (in the southwest of Cornwall uk) this section of insanity on a copied vhd 180 was the absolute mental vision of what was going to come. nothing else before prepared us for this,it's a rainy day can't skate let's watch skate vids. start with speed freaks? May be both h streets even after watching them for years still sick. i think i even had blockhead adventures in cheese on the same cassette. and i still think that is sick as fuck today watchable. this bad boy was like fuck the rain not staying inside no more.The op ivy sound track on top of legends like donger and co. Owning picnic tables and stairs and then the songs....porca puttana. A solldiers story.
my mum said you be careful out there. . brush your teeth and comb your hair...
boy child.... he's just a boy
.. i don't wish today's skaters were more like us back on the days. .. i wish the reality of humanity was more like back in these days. i can't skate no more but if I could id be backside 180 oliieing over anything I could find. that rail slam ender still to this day Is the most hardcore comiting clip I ever saw. Its broken back business.
I'll never express in words the feeling I had in the early 90s from this vid and I'm sure this comment will be a badly punctuated rant. but I'm happy that a video I haven't watched in probably 25 years still invoked me to spill my guts like this because it changed my actual chemical thought process in a way nothing has since except video days. I don't need to mention skateboarding has gone Bat shit mental since but at this moment in time this was out there
there's atleast 2-3 Sheffey decks on my bucket list..
fuckOuttaHere hangin on the wall...
@MaxxxRamirez
'only'???
let's see herman fakie ollie a table like Sheff
Half cab shifty ollie over the picnic table is a work of art. Makes so much sense that he got Natas’ attention and got on SMA. Nobody could ollie on a noseless big 80’s board like those two.
i remember sheffey come and done a demo in florida. i think it was bad lands skate park. he was killing it park and the spine mini ramp. ill never forget that day!
Him and Frankie Hill were my idols. And Jason Lee.
@LeandroAragonsk8 not making a big deal out of it just saying.
This part was ahead of its time. Most of this video is slow motion so it's hard to appreciate just how fast and powerful Sheffey skated. The guy was a beast. And if you want to talk shit about Sheffey, check out 3:45 on this video below to see what he pulled in 1991. Ask yourself if you have a chance in hell of pulling that. You see a lot of footage at School W but you don't see a lot of that fence. It's too high for most people, 20 years ago or now. watch?v=fyv0Yn3YwII&feature=fvst
Lip pop out on the rail is raw fuck it skating at it’s finest.
Natas Kaupas documentary, Natas Kaupas street skating 101 on TH-cam
Every time I see that triple kinked rail in Balboa Park, I see Sheffey sliding it and remember how mind blowing that was at the time.
the first spot is in point loma CA its at my old school.
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I would think of myself as a cool guy if I could pop half as high as he did and do backside lipslides and backside tailslides on a picnic table 21 friggin years ago.
Memories.
Thx for this..
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backtail on a picnic table and with that shitty bump in 90/91 holy fuck..I always tripped out on such a hard dude have such a smooth voice haha
running over shit sk8 and destroy style
He’s in videos with Natas he toured with him
Mike Uptegrove led me here
Wow that bs 180 over that island
90's chris pfanner?
Assisti esse vídeo umas 100 vezes, (cassete) era a única que tinha . 🛹🛹🛹🛹 inspiração 👊🏽👊🏽👊🏽
let me guess, u have a word of the day calendar and today's word was pedantic. haha regardless, thank you for stating the obvious
@yootubesucks123 yeah,he invented the Christ air
Who needs flip tricks when you can clear picnic takes like that, give respect where due sheffey and this part are awesome.