@@calstonjew HOSOI is tremendos on vert, Best style . Penny is the Best overall , style and tech on vert, street,.bowl, stairs, rails, bowls on regular and switch.
i can't think of a skater in recent years that can compare to penny. he was so ahead of everyone else style-wise and trick wise during his golden years.
That shifty flip man, that shifty flip... it's the archetype itself, defined by the master. It's so cool seeing this footage. Thanks for sharing this footy, much appreciated. It's like Tom Penny has always been good, exactly the same since day one, blessed with the gift of kickflip, frontside flip, switch flip, and switch frontside flip, any day, any time. The legend of Penny lives on.
I dont think there was anyone up until this point who could catch there tricks like this. The board control he has after he catches it is amazing, you dont even see kids nowadays even doing tricks that way. Im pretty sure he was the first to start flicking it in a certain way, and im pretty sure also was the first to start catching kickflips backfoot first. The way he pops certain tricks seems effortless to. He was the smoothest ever imo.
Theories Of Atlantis the spot brings nothing but amazing memories, an to think Tom jus killed damn near every obstacle in the first or second year of the spots opening
I was there that day in Tampa. It was probably the best demo I have ever seen. Rune Glifberg, Jeff Grosso, and Peter Hewitt were there as well. I can't even describe how amazing Penny was. I took so many good pics of Rune skating the very ramp. Just plain sick. That demo has became legendary now and I am so glad I was there for it. I believe Donny Barley was also present. There are so many things that went down after the demo was over. Penny had the "elephant paw". He had broken his hand a few days before at a demo in Texas but you couldn't tell by the way he skated....
Yep I was there that day too! We skipped school and drove almost 4 hours. All the guys were great and watching Tom in the floor and Rune on the Vert will always be memorable!! Thank you Theories of Atlantis for posting this!!
I was there also that day it was a sick demo his hand was huge and he had to of been wasted every time I looked at Tom on the roll in he was downing a beer and still tearing up the whole spot.
I personally saw this guy skate in person on a mini ramp. I will tell you this, he was freakishly consistant. He landed everything with style and grace like it was nothing. He became my favorite skater instantly! I later met him on another occasion leaving the XYZ skate premier. He let my Friend take a swig of his 40oz. What a cool memory to have. Then went to an after party that night and he was there. At that point he was truly faded..lol..skate genius though no doubt!
+john doe I saw him do a miniramp demo/contest when he was about 13 and he was just so extreme, when he did a one-foot the foot just shot out, when he tweaked his indys or melons it was always to the max, at face level out of the ramp. A fiendish skater from day one.
Theories of Atlantis, were you a Tampa local? I had been staying there with friends and was able to see the demo. My friend Johnny Randolph is seen all through that footage. Kenny Belov was working at the front desk that day. I think Freddy from Bolivia was working in the parking lot. I hung with Scotty and a few others after the demo.
Still blows my mind how he brought this style to the table back when everyone was still mobbing nollieflips/switch and still waving their arms. before style became an actual thing.
lee parquet yup that's what i thought....wow his clothes would pass 4 cool even today & this glorious raw clip of Tom🌙Penny✨is from '96 that's how far ahead of his time he was dude is definitely sk8 hall of famer 4 STYLE
This is how skaters should be filmed so u can acgually c if they r n e good, vid parts r misleading and all that dare devil non sense is stupid, this is Tom Penny skating just like n e kid would skate, he just happens to b really good, great video.
i only had a few things switch back in the day..i never got how many had switch back side tails and much more..it was so uncomfortable I didn't get into many switch and nollie tricks..i just couldn't pop..only switch trick I popped good was switch FS flips....props to the switch skaters
me & a friend were waiting for penny footage from96 when he stayed on in europe,after his footage from 411 europe 96,cz miniramp.anyway skating(all the magz & videos)were so boring without seing penny footage,we said there must be so much footage that people have filmed,hidden away, nearly twenty years later some of the best footage ever seen is only now comming out,crazy,penny switch backlip slides are amazing,last of the three from 411#16,its better to see penny dialing them up,penny steez
Dude was known to have lived off weed and alcohol around this time, but was obviously a psychonaut too, so yeah good point. Maybe a shroom hangover and a morning doober, who knows.
i've seen these clips many times before but just now realized that his right hand was broken and swollen, so he basically couldn't afford to fall and brace himself with his hands. he just had to land everything or at least land on his feet, which it didn't seem like was much of a problem for tom. he was and is the most beautiful skateboarder i've ever seen. sorry tom if that kind of shit embarrasses you, but I'm a skate nerd and to me, tom is one of the gods.
haha like at 2:47 you can tell he makes an effort to not use his right hand to brace himself but like who the fuck can fall like that and stay on there feet. and then just fucking laugh it off like "wow that would have sucked and hurt"
also a side note...one of arto's enders in menikmati was a switch backlip down a handrail which was some serious shit back then...but tom was casually doing them years earlier on park handrails like they were easy peezy japaneezy. sorry ill stop talking now.
Tom penny will always be my favorite skater. Kids now days just don't get it man and penny is the most pure skateborder there ever was or will be.
Hosoi
@@JohnnyBonesaw hah no
@@calstonjew HOSOI is tremendos on vert, Best style . Penny is the Best overall , style and tech on vert, street,.bowl, stairs, rails, bowls on regular and switch.
@@sk8academy241 Hosoi smashed the pu$$y all over the world. Like Elvis.
Get off his nuts 🤣
Wow man thank you so much for uploading this this is some of the best stuff for Tom I’ve ever seen
this is valuable footage. His FS flips are fucking legendary, his style is effortless. One of a kind!
That's how Reynolds based his fs flips on - Penny. Tom Penny's influence is well beyond what Tom even realizes.
i can't think of a skater in recent years that can compare to penny. he was so ahead of everyone else style-wise and trick wise during his golden years.
Miles Silvas
Gotta love how Penny would step up to the vert with no pads or helmet, bustin' out the tech tricks as if it were a mini ramp
Only other skater I can think of that did that and ironically around the same time was John Cardiel. Both Penny And Cardiel just have it like that.
@@juvedoo99 agree... would add Gonz to that group too..... all monsters.
That shifty flip man, that shifty flip... it's the archetype itself, defined by the master. It's so cool seeing this footage. Thanks for sharing this footy, much appreciated. It's like Tom Penny has always been good, exactly the same since day one, blessed with the gift of kickflip, frontside flip, switch flip, and switch frontside flip, any day, any time. The legend of Penny lives on.
People didn't start switch backlipping rails till like 10 years after this. Dude was amazing!
Ronnie Bertino in Plan B second hand smoke video. Did it on a street handrail. 1994 i believe.
IIS amazing
Switch back lips in 1996 were extremely rare. Ones with that much style even more rare. Damn.
Most gifted skateboarder that ever lived.
hell no
yepp penny is the best ever to do it, that style is to kill for!
you're all brain dead rodney mullen most gifted.. godfather of the first actual ollie, kickflip, heel flip.. and many many many more tricks.
🤣
@@c-doryc.5097 Hell YEAHHHHH!
I dont think there was anyone up until this point who could catch there tricks like this. The board control he has after he catches it is amazing, you dont even see kids nowadays even doing tricks that way. Im pretty sure he was the first to start flicking it in a certain way, and im pretty sure also was the first to start catching kickflips backfoot first. The way he pops certain tricks seems effortless to. He was the smoothest ever imo.
Loved watching him as a kid, I’m 36 now. Still one of the best fs flips and switch fs flips in the game
Hey Mikael. I actually filmed all of this stuff myself. Thanks for the compliment.
Theories Of Atlantis the spot brings nothing but amazing memories, an to think Tom jus killed damn near every obstacle in the first or second year of the spots opening
I seent it!
hell yeah. thanks for this. miss this dude's influence. he was my hero back in the day.
I was there that day in Tampa. It was probably the best demo I have ever seen. Rune Glifberg, Jeff Grosso, and Peter Hewitt were there as well. I can't even describe how amazing Penny was. I took so many good pics of Rune skating the very ramp. Just plain sick. That demo has became legendary now and I am so glad I was there for it. I believe Donny Barley was also present. There are so many things that went down after the demo was over. Penny had the "elephant paw". He had broken his hand a few days before at a demo in Texas but you couldn't tell by the way he skated....
That's insane. I noticed the paw. He's skating at 80 pct but 100 pct on a higher level than everyone else.
Yep I was there that day too! We skipped school and drove almost 4 hours. All the guys were great and watching Tom in the floor and Rune on the Vert will always be memorable!! Thank you Theories of Atlantis for posting this!!
I was there also that day it was a sick demo his hand was huge and he had to of been wasted every time I looked at Tom on the roll in he was downing a beer and still tearing up the whole spot.
You guys are so lucky. Rifling those Nollie flips was the signal that no one skates better.
This is Miles Davis level, the birth of cool.
Still skating when most have gone home. Legend
looks like he had crazy stamina
@@saxenas he definitely did some speed or something before he went skating
It's crazy how excited I get when I see Tom penny footage for the fort time whether its new or old
I can watch old Tom Penny clips all day.
Holy shit. I was at this contest... Crazy you have footage of this
"I dont mean to sound ignorant but who's tom penny?"
"uhh, this guy right here"
*kickflip*
Wow. That frontside halfcab flip on the ramp at the end was crazy.
Nollie bro
+fabian gonzalez NO BRO HIS REGULAR SOO ITS FAKIE THOUGH
***** nah the one at 4:27 that he didn't land. He's regular so it's definitely fakie.
Yessir. Aka a fakie fs flip. Shit is crazy.
Had to watch in slo mo. He flicked it with the foot he popped with.
Thank you so much for sharing this! Absolute Penny gold!
Really one of the greatest styles ever. His kick flips = moving works of art
Man this is so buttery, I love this too much. So good. Big up Tom on being welcomed in to the skateboarding hall of fame - so well deserved.
I love how he nollie flips pyramids like he's just cruising off a ledge it's freakin ridiculous.
I was glad to be there that day at the skateparkoftampa! !!
thank for posting this man
Watching this reminds me of how amazing effortless his style is. Looks like he isn't even trying...
95-96: PEAK Penny. Seeing him doing a sw BS lipslide down a rail melted my brain in those days.
I think this has to be the only video on TH-cam with 0 dislikes. So awesome!
Decent footage, man! Video gold! Tom is so casual...
i love how he just looks like he doesn’t care and it’s nothing
old time essentials.. without so much sponsors and crap
I could watch his kick flips and frontside flips on loop all day
what a talent and style... So much fun to watch
Great post!
All I have to say is wow!!!! This is some awesome footage of Penny.
Is he wearing a Magenta sweatshirt? I didn't know Magenta went that far back.
Holy shit that's exactly what I thought too
Bolin Cartest it's actually a Metropolitain shirt, but it does really look like the Magenta typo
Metropolitan is even weirder
Isn’t that like an older dude euro brand today? I thought they were recent too...
@@AlexGordonMusic It was a short lived wheel brand from the mid-nineties, I believe.
Love the description. You're rad!
So weird to stumble across this video. I was actually there for that demo where Penny's hand was broken. It was pretty damn rad!
I was there as well! His hand looked like it had been inflated to three times it's normal size!
Thank you so much! Do you have any more footage of Penny that you could post on youtube? Would be sooo grateful!
Tom was under filmed. So was Mcrank.
SO gnar and so rare when a skaters style is totally 100% unique and original.
The whole skating is art sounds cliche or w/e but watching this is like looking at a beautiful painting or sculpture by a great artist
I personally saw this guy skate in person on a mini ramp. I will tell you this, he was freakishly consistant. He landed everything with style and grace like it was nothing. He became my favorite skater instantly! I later met him on another occasion leaving the XYZ skate premier. He let my Friend take a swig of his 40oz. What a cool memory to have. Then went to an after party that night and he was there. At that point he was truly faded..lol..skate genius though no doubt!
+john doe I saw him do a miniramp demo/contest when he was about 13 and he was just so extreme, when he did a one-foot the foot just shot out, when he tweaked his indys or melons it was always to the max, at face level out of the ramp. A fiendish skater from day one.
man thanks for this upload,where'd you get this from,illmatic
Tom was is and will always be the best. This is pure art
Theories of Atlantis, were you a Tampa local? I had been staying there with friends and was able to see the demo. My friend Johnny Randolph is seen all through that footage. Kenny Belov was working at the front desk that day. I think Freddy from Bolivia was working in the parking lot. I hung with Scotty and a few others after the demo.
Was that a pre-shorty's explosion Muska off to the left edge of the fisheye during all the pyramid footage?
I came here for Tom Penny, and got also LESS THAN JAKE in the background! OMG!
Tom is and always will be the greatest
he isnt even trying. so effortless
Still blows my mind how he brought this style to the table back when everyone was still mobbing nollieflips/switch and still waving their arms. before style became an actual thing.
That style of fashion is coming back
This is the penny I remember watching !
this is the look ever penny fan or even most uk skaters were rocking in 96
including me and mat boulton had it to a t
agree till the baker Bootleg vhs was releasd ALI ´s new style is hip still today.
Ps: i still have my tsa visor beanie :-)
lee parquet yup that's what i thought....wow his clothes would pass 4 cool even today & this glorious raw clip of Tom🌙Penny✨is from '96 that's how far ahead of his time he was dude is definitely sk8 hall of famer 4 STYLE
unreal how good this dude is
This is how skaters should be filmed so u can acgually c if they r n e good, vid parts r misleading and all that dare devil non sense is stupid, this is Tom Penny skating just like n e kid would skate, he just happens to b really good, great video.
its evolution....skating is crazy now days..but oh well....that sh#s amazing...
Just amazing footage. Any stories from that day of Penny!?
hi hand is completely fucked, and he is destroying so hard and making it look so easy!
O.G.
That was the smoothest full cab i've ever seen on vert.
What the fuck is going on in those last seconds of this video haha. skating a full vert ramp like a mini ramp with no pads. goat!
this footage is epic
At 2:30 I am filming Tom from the bottom of the rail. Have white hat on.
At the end of the video I’m here, commenting
Fuck yeah
One of the best to ever do it
Originator of the Hands Down-movement right here!
Backside 180 nollie mellon is such a unique trick to have in your bag that you could pull out. So rare
stoke to hear some old less than jake in the background
It's a Metropolitan wheel sweatshirt. An old east coast company.
He a cold piece that nollie flip an all that tweeek on them kick flips
you have been extremely lucky to have seen Tom destroy Tampa.
I wonder when baggy trousers will be in fashion again?
i'm 15 and i live in brazil, i skate in baggy clothes, and trust me, baggy is coming back :D
+WheelyPlanking WORD
Whats that trick called where he kickflips 90 degrees in the air but lands straight when he comes back down?
thank you
tom turned the skateboard world on its head from 94-96 then dipped out and left us all scratching our heads
hes has the best style of all time
Unmatched a historic figure
Who’s here from the 9 club???
near the end of the video hardly anyone was skating near Penny, that's how good he was :D
Toms front side flips are a happy medium between Reynolds and Muska.
pure gold
4:12 that caballerial was so smooth
It's called a kick-flip shifty joemchang
this guy right here
dude is/was amazing
bons tempos, destrói tudo até hoje muito louco hehhe
i only had a few things switch back in the day..i never got how many had switch back side tails and much more..it was so uncomfortable I didn't get into many switch and nollie tricks..i just couldn't pop..only switch trick I popped good was switch FS flips....props to the switch skaters
Damn I never realized how insane his nollie flips were
I used to watch him shred Radlands. Original board wizardry.
😂😂
me & a friend were waiting for penny footage from96 when he stayed on in europe,after his footage from 411 europe 96,cz miniramp.anyway
skating(all the magz & videos)were so boring without seing penny footage,we said there must be so much footage that people have filmed,hidden away, nearly twenty years later some of the best footage ever seen is only now comming out,crazy,penny switch backlip slides are amazing,last of the three from 411#16,its better to see penny dialing them up,penny steez
Timeless
I've always wondered what drugs he was on this day. It's like those days on psychedelics were it all clicks and makes sense.
Dude was known to have lived off weed and alcohol around this time, but was obviously a psychonaut too, so yeah good point. Maybe a shroom hangover and a morning doober, who knows.
wtf you mean every time he came to tampa, this is like the only time he ever came to tampa
4:12 amazing!
i've seen these clips many times before but just now realized that his right hand was broken and swollen, so he basically couldn't afford to fall and brace himself with his hands. he just had to land everything or at least land on his feet, which it didn't seem like was much of a problem for tom. he was and is the most beautiful skateboarder i've ever seen. sorry tom if that kind of shit embarrasses you, but I'm a skate nerd and to me, tom is one of the gods.
haha like at 2:47 you can tell he makes an effort to not use his right hand to brace himself but like who the fuck can fall like that and stay on there feet. and then just fucking laugh it off like "wow that would have sucked and hurt"
also a side note...one of arto's enders in menikmati was a switch backlip down a handrail which was some serious shit back then...but tom was casually doing them years earlier on park handrails like they were easy peezy japaneezy. sorry ill stop talking now.
Amazing
Style and grace
I just hope those baggy pants return
so cool
Special talent
0.01.. Who's Tom penny..? This guy right here... Bang perfect kick flip!
noo way, were you homies with him back then or now
That BS Nollie Melon @ 2:03 remains to be one of my fave tricks over the years. Sooo casual...
Was always kick flipping the fun box at RL 👊🏼