Real skate stories I love your work and all the street segments you film your camera work is totally rad! Being a 13 year old skater from SF right now in my neighborhood there are no skateparks so I end up skating the streets and I love it! Even now I get told to leave by people at my local library by random people who tell me to leave or say I’m a troublemaker or liar but it’s worth it! Thanks for this part as well colby’s a great skater
Thats epic. San Francisco is one of the best places on earth to skate, one learns to skate fast and powerful and just keep it flowing. Keep it up buddy!
The 80s & 90s seems like another planet compared to today. I doubt the security guards give a shit nowadays places are already trashed and they don't get paid enough to get involved in England in cities they would be scared of getting stabbed. At least back then they gave a shit about their jobs and that was part of the fun getting into abit of minor trouble with them.
I watched this part literally hundreds of times. Seriously, I knew by heart of the "dialogue" (and English is not even my mother tongue; I actually learned from skate videos). Also, the music was really, really great... especially the first song, by Fuse, "Soul Box".
_"Seriously, I knew by heart of the "dialogue" (and English is not even my mother tongue; I actually learned from skate videos)."_ Well, English being my mother tongue, I can readily say that, at least in writing, your English seems quite natural to me. Only one thing: right when I got to your word "of" -- where you said _"I knew by heart _*_of_*_ the 'dialogue'"_ -- I immediately could tell English is not your mother tongue; and then, a split-second later, I read your parenthetical declaration of that very thing). Hopefully you don't take my pointing that out as criticism, or as an attempt to put you down, or something like that. It's not any of those things, at all. Rather, I'm merely commenting on something that seemed interesting to me. Though far from being fluent enough in any language other than English to justify calling myself a polyglot, I've been ploddingly trying to acquire a few different Indo-European languages over the years, and, seeing how various non-English syntactical features are rendered into English (and vice-versa), I think I can see how it would be natural (and not unreasonable) for some ESL speakers to do that very thing you just did -- that is, to say _"I knew by heart _*_of_*_ the 'dialogue'",_ instead of simply saying _"I knew by heart the 'dialogue'"._ Actually, now that I think of it, that _genitive_ (Is that the right term? I'm far from any sort of expert at linguistic stuff) construct you used -- though "odd"-sounding, and not a common feature of modern English -- may well have occurred in older eras of English-language discourse; I would almost venture to guess that I have at some point even run into occurrences of it in old texts (like, say, from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries).
I remember first seeing him in the mags in 1991/92. I drew a picture of him Ollying that Fire Hydrant. By then, I had already learned to ollie fire hydrants. It was the photo of him doing a tail grab over the fire hydrant in the magazine that inspired me to learn tail grabs over fire hydrants too.
@@RealSkateStories He ripped, I seen him at the Pantsman competition on Cave creek, and the blood banks on camelback and (I think) 21st street in early 1990s. Dude was reverting into the blood bank transition... I thought, "f, I thought I was good at this!" I'm glad I grew up before skateparks were everywhere. It was fun back then, bumping into new people.
I started skating in 96 and this is 3xactly how it was. I got a ticket and my board taken for skating a rundown tennis court. All the bullshit i dealt with in school and out street skating made me love it that much more.
I forgot about Colby Carter. After the fad of mid 80s skateboarders died out, towards the late 80s to early 90s you pretty much knew most of the skaters around Phoenix, Tempe, Glendale etc. There were 2 could be pro skaters in PHX Jeff, and Pat (not Matt) Hensley. Everywhere you went the skaters started chartering about Colby. Then the Pantsman skate store had a competition on Cave Creek, we were all skating a concrete bench with 2 legs, and someone knocked it over, so it was upside down. Before anyone could pick it up Colby hit both of the bench legs with a nose and tailslide. It wasn't the hardest trick to do. but it was timing, the bench falls over, and he comes in and skates it anyways within 3 seconds. Everyone was stoked. Before the video dropped with him at the Thunderbird banks, he was already a legend locally.
This isn’t extreme Karenism, it’s just skateboarding during the 80’s and early 90’s. You would get kicked out by security guards everywhere you went and then eventually they put skate stoppers on everything.
@@RealSkateStories but skateboarders are in the wrong, end of story. Even as a kid, I couldn't stand when skaters would constantly try and play the victim. We were in the wrong. We were absolutely wrecking private property and putting other people in danger. My board slipped out and hit innocent people. It happens. Very seldom was any member of the public guilty of Karenism. Usually they were in the right, and we were in the wrong. I would cringe so hard when my friends would mouth off to people who are making a valid point about what we were doing. I was sponsored for years, so I had my fair share of runnings with the public when shooting photos are filming, but I wasn't petulant about it..
@@jasondashney End of story? LOL. We did not wreck anything, and respectfully left when security guards just doing their job gave us the boot. The picture you pain of yourself and your friends in no way represents Colby or my character or board control. Any member of the public who went out of their way to try to hassle us was a KAREN.
@@RealSkateStories you laugh at me for saying end of story, and then totally agree with me. If you thought you were in the right, you would not have left. People get extremely overzealous when they kick you out and a lot of people are complete idiots about it. I’ve had many arguments with people who are mad when we were just skating some set of stairs out in the middle of nowhere and bothering nobody and we weren’t damaging the place. That didn’t mean we weren’t still technically in the wrong.
Yeah I understand because within three years of this they were dishing out pro titles and products to people that were just average good riders.... The whole pro skateboarder thing was dead shortly after this and still is dead today.... There are some but they dish out the title like food stamps😂
Super good! It was sometimes difficult to tell who was who in the H-Street videos. Colby suffered from this. His style was similar to Hensley’s and H-Street focused a lot on Hensley. H-Street could have done a much better job marketing Colby and some of the other team riders.
Used to skate with Colby on occasion. Downtown Phoenix used to be dead on weekends and you still got chased out of every spot. Now the cops look the other way when a dude takes a dump in front of million dollar condos or a chic is smoking meth at a bus stop. Insanity.
That’s not good. I agree it’s a little unfair or just plain unfair. However … I’m going to ask a question, skater to skater. A life long hardcore skater who had Risk It on VHS back in the day. A skater who saw all the ups and downs of the sport since I got my first plastic penny board way back in 1979. A skater who has to ask, were we a part of breaking down the societal standards that now result in the disregard for law and order? I know it’s kinda weird to contemplate, and could perhaps not be true at all. But if you let one thing go? Then do all things follow or is there a balance? How do we achieve balance if that’s what we seek?
@@shortminute Short answer is no. The youth tend to test boundaries. Society reacts. In the case of skating, cities built skate parks instead of ignoring the issue and arresting kids and potentially sending their lives in the wrong direction. Not saying all the issues were resolved. Most were. It’s a lot easier to be a skater today than when you and I were doing it. That’s progress.
@@micd9256 Sure is easier to be a skater. But is that better? Was getting kicked out of everywhere part of skateboarding? I’m just asking, I’ve got no formed opinion either way. Yet there is growing research to show that making life easy for youth isn’t always in their best interests. That’s not to support my opinion it’s just growing evidence that to grow and develop you need some push back.
@@shortminute The way I see it, skating gives you pushback. You don’t just step on a board and rip. You earn it. Pools fight back. Vert fights back. Rails fight back. Even skateparks fight back. You have to conquer them and you pay a price. But you find out it’s worth it. Makes you feel like anything is possible if you put your soul into it.
Notice the era... Shaped boards.... Real man sized Wheels.... And real speed notice that 4 years after this it became extremely slow gimmick 48 mm wheels and skateboarding had become as slow as I walk....
I experienced some real nut jobs in the 90’s. Had a cop point a gun a two of my friends and me while we were skating a three stair behind the local multiplex. We didn’t really react and he just told us to leave and not come back. It seemed like he felt pretty stupid when we weren’t scared.
This is how it was back in the days, had mutual friends with Colby so would skate with him from time to time. I broke my ankle at Tower skate park on the Matt Hensley deck he gave me! Lol just thought of that.
Sure but this was filmed just in a few hours with dozens of different skaters. It was more about the spot than the trick itself. A different era, different priorities.
Actually a pretty great term for common passerbys to try to power trip out on people skateboarding. Sure wasn't fun for me trying to land a trick or film a clip.
I think, in skateboarding, the gnar is proportional to the pushback, especially back then... I grew up on this. I always tell people Natas/Matt H influenced me, but this dude was my attitudinal default. The fight was real, the risk for sure, but the gnar had to happen. Gratitude. Rad video.
Real skate stories I love your work and all the street segments you film your camera work is totally rad! Being a 13 year old skater from SF right now in my neighborhood there are no skateparks so I end up skating the streets and I love it! Even now I get told to leave by people at my local library by random people who tell me to leave or say I’m a troublemaker or liar but it’s worth it! Thanks for this part as well colby’s a great skater
Thats epic. San Francisco is one of the best places on earth to skate, one learns to skate fast and powerful and just keep it flowing. Keep it up buddy!
3:21 "I’ve seen this jackass shit you're doing” 1990!
Colby Carter was one of the best ever! It's fucking criminal that he wasn't bigger than he was!
That's how it was in the 80s & 90s street skating. Kicked out every place you went to.
The 80s & 90s seems like another planet compared to today. I doubt the security guards give a shit nowadays places are already trashed and they don't get paid enough to get involved in England in cities they would be scared of getting stabbed. At least back then they gave a shit about their jobs and that was part of the fun getting into abit of minor trouble with them.
The worst part of being kicked out nowadays is “the city built you guys a skatepark, why can’t you go there?”
its still that way in my town... a minimum of 2 squad vehicles will show up, over sakate'n a curb.
I watched this part literally hundreds of times. Seriously, I knew by heart of the "dialogue" (and English is not even my mother tongue; I actually learned from skate videos). Also, the music was really, really great... especially the first song, by Fuse, "Soul Box".
_"Seriously, I knew by heart of the "dialogue" (and English is not even my mother tongue; I actually learned from skate videos)."_
Well, English being my mother tongue, I can readily say that, at least in writing, your English seems quite natural to me. Only one thing: right when I got to your word "of" -- where you said _"I knew by heart _*_of_*_ the 'dialogue'"_ -- I immediately could tell English is not your mother tongue; and then, a split-second later, I read your parenthetical declaration of that very thing). Hopefully you don't take my pointing that out as criticism, or as an attempt to put you down, or something like that. It's not any of those things, at all. Rather, I'm merely commenting on something that seemed interesting to me. Though far from being fluent enough in any language other than English to justify calling myself a polyglot, I've been ploddingly trying to acquire a few different Indo-European languages over the years, and, seeing how various non-English syntactical features are rendered into English (and vice-versa), I think I can see how it would be natural (and not unreasonable) for some ESL speakers to do that very thing you just did -- that is, to say _"I knew by heart _*_of_*_ the 'dialogue'",_ instead of simply saying _"I knew by heart the 'dialogue'"._ Actually, now that I think of it, that _genitive_ (Is that the right term? I'm far from any sort of expert at linguistic stuff) construct you used -- though "odd"-sounding, and not a common feature of modern English -- may well have occurred in older eras of English-language discourse; I would almost venture to guess that I have at some point even run into occurrences of it in old texts (like, say, from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries).
Had a goosebumps watching this legend and my favourite skater back in the days. Yeah Colby
Relentless talent…
And
Forever grateful for all the killer SST bands I learned about from these SCS epics!
👑🙌
I remember first seeing him in the mags in 1991/92. I drew a picture of him Ollying that Fire Hydrant. By then, I had already learned to ollie fire hydrants. It was the photo of him doing a tail grab over the fire hydrant in the magazine that inspired me to learn tail grabs over fire hydrants too.
Rad. I shot that photo the same day as those clips from the vid.
@@RealSkateStories Awesome!
@@RealSkateStories I'll take a picture of the drawing and send it to you through instagram
@@3DEditor Epic!! Thank you!
@@RealSkateStories He ripped, I seen him at the Pantsman competition on Cave creek, and the blood banks on camelback and (I think) 21st street in early 1990s. Dude was reverting into the blood bank transition... I thought, "f, I thought I was good at this!" I'm glad I grew up before skateparks were everywhere. It was fun back then, bumping into new people.
Colby!!! Super ripper! My summer camp homie!!!! Blackberries for the bearded dragons!
The best skater of skills and fliming on his street spots to changed the way he became a legend in skating long time ago
I started skating in 96 and this is 3xactly how it was. I got a ticket and my board taken for skating a rundown tennis court. All the bullshit i dealt with in school and out street skating made me love it that much more.
So much fun, love the tail grab tail smash on mini
I forgot about Colby Carter. After the fad of mid 80s skateboarders died out, towards the late 80s to early 90s you pretty much knew most of the skaters around Phoenix, Tempe, Glendale etc. There were 2 could be pro skaters in PHX Jeff, and Pat (not Matt) Hensley. Everywhere you went the skaters started chartering about Colby. Then the Pantsman skate store had a competition on Cave Creek, we were all skating a concrete bench with 2 legs, and someone knocked it over, so it was upside down. Before anyone could pick it up Colby hit both of the bench legs with a nose and tailslide. It wasn't the hardest trick to do. but it was timing, the bench falls over, and he comes in and skates it anyways within 3 seconds. Everyone was stoked. Before the video dropped with him at the Thunderbird banks, he was already a legend locally.
my very first legit deck was a H-Street Colby Carter Cactus.
Amazing!
This isn’t extreme Karenism, it’s just skateboarding during the 80’s and early 90’s. You would get kicked out by security guards everywhere you went and then eventually they put skate stoppers on everything.
As one can see a lot of people that weren't security guards hassled us while we filmed this. Karenism sums it up fairly well.
@@RealSkateStories yeah for sure, the Karens are the ones who aren’t security guards, lol
@@RealSkateStories but skateboarders are in the wrong, end of story. Even as a kid, I couldn't stand when skaters would constantly try and play the victim. We were in the wrong. We were absolutely wrecking private property and putting other people in danger. My board slipped out and hit innocent people. It happens. Very seldom was any member of the public guilty of Karenism. Usually they were in the right, and we were in the wrong. I would cringe so hard when my friends would mouth off to people who are making a valid point about what we were doing. I was sponsored for years, so I had my fair share of runnings with the public when shooting photos are filming, but I wasn't petulant about it..
@@jasondashney End of story? LOL. We did not wreck anything, and respectfully left when security guards just doing their job gave us the boot. The picture you pain of yourself and your friends in no way represents Colby or my character or board control. Any member of the public who went out of their way to try to hassle us was a KAREN.
@@RealSkateStories you laugh at me for saying end of story, and then totally agree with me. If you thought you were in the right, you would not have left. People get extremely overzealous when they kick you out and a lot of people are complete idiots about it. I’ve had many arguments with people who are mad when we were just skating some set of stairs out in the middle of nowhere and bothering nobody and we weren’t damaging the place. That didn’t mean we weren’t still technically in the wrong.
totally forgot about this part. C.Carter kills this part. Skated everything...
As much as I loved this part when I was 16, it made me realize that I was never going to be pro if it meant having to put up with that shit
Yeah I understand because within three years of this they were dishing out pro titles and products to people that were just average good riders.... The whole pro skateboarder thing was dead shortly after this and still is dead today.... There are some but they dish out the title like food stamps😂
Super good!
It was sometimes difficult to tell who was who in the H-Street videos. Colby suffered from this. His style was similar to Hensley’s and H-Street focused a lot on Hensley. H-Street could have done a much better job marketing Colby and some of the other team riders.
So good!
Colby “Volcano” Carter …. ❤
Skating in the 80s & 90s in Arizona I'm having flashbacks to all the haters lol
Used to skate with Colby on occasion. Downtown Phoenix used to be dead on weekends and you still got chased out of every spot. Now the cops look the other way when a dude takes a dump in front of million dollar condos or a chic is smoking meth at a bus stop. Insanity.
That’s not good. I agree it’s a little unfair or just plain unfair. However … I’m going to ask a question, skater to skater. A life long hardcore skater who had Risk It on VHS back in the day. A skater who saw all the ups and downs of the sport since I got my first plastic penny board way back in 1979. A skater who has to ask, were we a part of breaking down the societal standards that now result in the disregard for law and order?
I know it’s kinda weird to contemplate, and could perhaps not be true at all. But if you let one thing go? Then do all things follow or is there a balance? How do we achieve balance if that’s what we seek?
@@shortminute Short answer is no. The youth tend to test boundaries. Society reacts. In the case of skating, cities built skate parks instead of ignoring the issue and arresting kids and potentially sending their lives in the wrong direction. Not saying all the issues were resolved. Most were. It’s a lot easier to be a skater today than when you and I were doing it. That’s progress.
@@micd9256 Sure is easier to be a skater. But is that better? Was getting kicked out of everywhere part of skateboarding? I’m just asking, I’ve got no formed opinion either way. Yet there is growing research to show that making life easy for youth isn’t always in their best interests. That’s not to support my opinion it’s just growing evidence that to grow and develop you need some push back.
@@shortminute The way I see it, skating gives you pushback. You don’t just step on a board and rip. You earn it. Pools fight back. Vert fights back. Rails fight back. Even skateparks fight back. You have to conquer them and you pay a price. But you find out it’s worth it. Makes you feel like anything is possible if you put your soul into it.
@@micd9256 good one!
Notice the era... Shaped boards.... Real man sized Wheels.... And real speed notice that 4 years after this it became extremely slow gimmick 48 mm wheels and skateboarding had become as slow as I walk....
Facts. But the slow rolling tech from that early 90's era led to high speed tech gnar of the mid 90's. All part of skating's wonderful evolution!
I experienced some real nut jobs in the 90’s. Had a cop point a gun a two of my friends and me while we were skating a three stair behind the local multiplex. We didn’t really react and he just told us to leave and not come back. It seemed like he felt pretty stupid when we weren’t scared.
This is how it was back in the days, had mutual friends with Colby so would skate with him from time to time. I broke my ankle at Tower skate park on the Matt Hensley deck he gave me! Lol just thought of that.
Its always banks that have great banks
😂💯
That's some pretty good treet skating for early 90s
Somebody please upload the entire song from Fuse (Soulbox)… been trying to find it since the video came in 1990
5:56 so crazy that this was in a part. He rides up and down a bank regular stanced with average speed lol
Sure but this was filmed just in a few hours with dozens of different skaters. It was more about the spot than the trick itself. A different era, different priorities.
He is going very fast and look at the transition! He needs to ollie in. And ride between rocks to roll out. Would still be rad today.
@@RealSkateStories Right, it's almost 90 degrees. Like a giant wallride.
Karenism is a stretch! Thats just way it was for all of us and everyone reacted that way that was part of the fun of it
Actually a pretty great term for common passerbys to try to power trip out on people skateboarding. Sure wasn't fun for me trying to land a trick or film a clip.
How dare these kids try and have a good time with their friends! No fun allowed!!
Phoenix had some epic spots back then fuck 😂
Hostile work envirement, but Colby, man all respect....
I think, in skateboarding, the gnar is proportional to the pushback, especially back then... I grew up on this. I always tell people Natas/Matt H influenced me, but this dude was my attitudinal default. The fight was real, the risk for sure, but the gnar had to happen. Gratitude. Rad video.
Thank you!!
S#!t sorry won't make a new bench!
Phoenix sucks
Lol, karenism, they're just doing their fucking jobs, the property owners PAY them, I'm a skater, older now, cry all you want but you know I'm right
Actually a good mix of Professional and Hobbyist Karens in this.