This was a great time capsule! I worked with, was it, Ken? Uyehara at FTC Ski and Skate up on Bush and Franklin. Met Jim when he was hawking his first Real Skate decks to Ken. He brought in with him Danny Way, Tommy Guerrero, Marc Gonzales and a Jason Lee (later of “My name is Earl” fame)… after they were on a Civic Center/Embarcadero session and came by to show us the new Real decks. I said to Lloyd, Ken’s Dad… so, who are those guys. He just shrugged, LOL.. Lloyd. Ken told me, those are all guys who will go down in history as the SF crew. They’ll be Legends. He wasn’t wrong. Thanks for the flashback!
First set up was a second hand skinny board in ‘82. First big board was a Variflex Space Junk. First pro board was a Salba tiger, with Indy trucks and Tracker Ollie Wheels. SMA Thiebaud after that and I’ve had loads of his decks over the years. Favourite was the rabbit slick.
Wow. Good question. My first set up was a Vision Psycho Stix, Tracker Trucks, Powell Peralta Wheels 65mm, German Bearings, Powell Rails, skidplate, nose guard with black grip tape. My influence in skating was Mark Gonzalez, Frankie Hill, Mike Valelly, Natas, and a whole bunch of ams upcoming at that time before most became pro. I started when I was 12, circa 1984, and retired at 38. My time in skating and what skating has done for me is inexplicable. I owe skating everything, and skating owes me nothing.
The JT part here is so good🔥 Many thanks for the precious commentary Tony, pleeeease keep these going 🙏👍 First pro setup SC Kendall Pumpkin, Indy's...earliest influences: Kendall, Tommy Guerrero, Natas, Lance Mountain, Tom Knox...pretty much wore out Wheels of Fire for first major inspiration back in the day and what a soundtrack! I can remember early Bones stuff, Speed Freaks and Risk It were always being played, works of art to this day...peace out
@@RealSkateStories The thing is I cannot remember if I sold it or not, so long ago and my memory isn't what it used to be. I'm so hoping it turns up after a huge garage clearout, what a find that will be! Nothing like your first.
Those original SMA guys were true legends. Cut outs of Thiebaud, Julian Stranger, Natas all had their spots on my wall as a kid. Growing up in an urban east coast skate parks were pretty much non-existant and any sort of ramp was rare. But we had plenty of ledges, curbs, rails, etc. Those guys showed us how to use our environment, adapt to our surroundings. First very first setup was a Hosoi with black powell 3s and indys, But my next setup was a Natas Mini with Thunders, I can't remember the wheels, maybe still the same powell 3's LOL!
First real deck was the Roskopp III. My early influences were street: Dressen and Natas. Barbee had an enviable style but I never really liked the overproduced Powell videos. Despite living w/in biking distance of Mt. Trashmore, I didn't really go there much until '89. The big ramp was a snake session in the late afternoon and weekends. I guess you could go there in the summer and skate all day almost by yourself. The only other skater during that time was probably going to be Fud. But I did not do that, unfortunately.
Awesome video! My parents bought the Jim Theibaud board for me for Christmas of 89’. The board literally came via UPS on Christmas Eve. What a sweet memory. I was 14 @ the time.
My first set up was a santa cruz jeff grosso with tracker trucks and oj2s. Growing up in Ireland at that time we had no skateparks which is why we loved natas parts so much, grabbing massive airs off kurbs etc
The Banks at UCD were a good spot or if you knew Clive of Hill Street well enough you could go round his house and learn to skate his midi which I think he cut down into a mini because to many kids were getting hurt. From a skating perspective I was lucky to move to England in Nov 88.
@@RaulMeatFactory1975 The jeff grosso board I mentioned above was purchased in clives on hill street. I still remember my mums face looking at the prices. Every major town and city in Ireland has a free concrete skatepark nowadays, we could use a few more indoor ones though
RAD EDIT .........My time Our time, my 1st was a 2nd hand 1985 Nash "Heat Zone" which I bought of the dude that one week before showed me a copy of Thrasher Mag for the 1st time, that was September 1987.
Weird, remember skating with him after a demo, probably late eighties just goofing around on curbs and stuff. Teenage dork skating with a legend of the genesis of modern street skating. Glad I lived thru the evolution of all the tricks and creativity of that time. I still love skating at the ripe old age of 51 but will never be the same during the mid eighties-early nineties when the possibilities were endless and new tricks/styles emerged. Homegemy is the end of creativity, skating will always be the path to a new way of looking at the environment and utilizing in a different way. Once you skate there is no other way to look at the world differently. If you skate you know, or your don't. Maybe artists have a symbiotic view of everything else? Either way keep ripping and having fun, isn't that the point?
@@RealSkateStories Best time of my life after a Broken arm and other injuries I skated to get Better I learned how to fall it sounds crazy But the truth
Loved this! The board where my skating really progressed was the Thiebaud Joker. Watching this part over and over again I learned kickflip varials, kickflip underflips, etc. Love seeing the raw footage of Jim. 100% street skating with style for days!!!
These re-edits are magic! My first deck was a John Gibson, but Natas was my fav, and then Ray Barbee when he started appearing in the Powell vids. Thanks for sharing the memories!
First new setup was a Ron Allen mini, gullwing trucks with rat bones from split skates manchester UK 1987 My influence was my bro and the rest of the local skaters ❤ Thanks for Keeping the memories alive TR 🤙🐦
That was Amazing ! Great edit . I would watch his part before going skating when I was younger. My first real set up was a SMA board the Fast Eddie. I got the board at a surf shop called Gold Coast in Long Beach area and what was really rad is that the skater who sold it to me was in the video Skating with Rob and Natas. I just can't remember his name but he's in the video. Skating back then was so RAD !
Just found your channel......love seeing all the old classics, but it hurts a little knowing just how much time has flown by! My first real set up was a Schmitt Stix Miller riding on Gullwings and Bullets......learned so many tricks on that board, until the tail wore out. Next up was a Blind Gonz which was so light and poppy....snapped it in half coming down a big flight, which broke my heart, so I had to replace it with a New Deal No Deal. Grew up in the UK, but always dreamed of making it over to Cali one day.........ended up moving to San Francisco in 2000 and loved seeing all the classic Thrasher spots and just soaking it all up (instantly recognised the spot Jim's skating on Mission and 24th?). In my first few months of being there, I bumped into Bod Boyle and Tommy G.......he was just chilling in Dolores Park like some wise old sensei, ha! Man, just wish I could live it all over again.......miss those endless summers
My first set up was a second hand Schmitt Stix Jeff Grosso with Variflex everything else. I swapped it for an old Haro BMX, I wish I still had both. My influences/idols were and still are Gonz and Hosoi. I live in England so we were a bit behind and the weather doesn't help. When I get your notification it makes my day
@@RealSkateStories Yep and the flared out tail. It was very similar to the G&S Neil Blender. I wore out the top graphic too because the guy that taught me to push taught me to push mongo, which I got myself out of when I realised how ugly it looks. I still do it sometimes because of my muscle memory. If it's good enough for Eric Dressen and Bill Danforth it's good enough for me lol
First Setup - G&S Neil Blender Faces, Gullwing Phoenix III Trucks, Bullet Stained Glass wheels. Influences when I first started… Ray Barbee, Mark Gonzales, Chris Miller, Chris Livingston, Colby Carter, Matt Hensley, Ocean Howell, Tom Knox and the man in this video, Jim Thiebaud, one of the best people ever!
My brother’s hand me down Free Former. Then, I got a Ray Bones Rodriguez Sword and Skull which got stolen. Years later, I got a Hosoi Hammerhead. When I really got into skating, a Vision Jinx was my first kicknose deck and Dressen was my favorite skater.
My first set-up was a Dogtown Stonefish with tracker ultra-lights and rat bones wheels. The deck was too big really and so my next deck was a Gonz and I loved it. When I was getting into it at first I loved Tommy Gs part in FP and I really loved seeing pics of Natas doing his thing. The whole Dogtown scene looked so fucking cool that's kinda the attitude I tried to convey.
@@RealSkateStories lots of kneeboarding an getting the grip imprint from that nanner lol I'm from Dothan and we absolute knew dic about no Tom Sims or Alva or Page we were BMX bandits til '85. Or rollerskating. Fred Blood was sick! saw him in pics in BMX Plus skating in Del Mar or someplace an wanted those wide truck skates, then looked at the cost! Bought a Lucero next time was in Lakeland.
Awesome bit of history. Thanks for posting these.
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This was a great time capsule! I worked with, was it, Ken? Uyehara at FTC Ski and Skate up on Bush and Franklin. Met Jim when he was hawking his first Real Skate decks to Ken.
He brought in with him Danny Way, Tommy Guerrero, Marc Gonzales and a Jason Lee (later of “My name is Earl” fame)… after they were on a Civic Center/Embarcadero session and came by to show us the new Real decks. I said to Lloyd, Ken’s Dad… so, who are those guys. He just shrugged, LOL.. Lloyd. Ken told me, those are all guys who will go down in history as the SF crew. They’ll be Legends.
He wasn’t wrong.
Thanks for the flashback!
First set up was a second hand skinny board in ‘82. First big board was a Variflex Space Junk. First pro board was a Salba tiger, with Indy trucks and Tracker Ollie Wheels. SMA Thiebaud after that and I’ve had loads of his decks over the years. Favourite was the rabbit slick.
Wow. Good question. My first set up was a Vision Psycho Stix, Tracker Trucks, Powell Peralta Wheels 65mm, German Bearings, Powell Rails, skidplate, nose guard with black grip tape. My influence in skating was Mark Gonzalez, Frankie Hill, Mike Valelly, Natas, and a whole bunch of ams upcoming at that time before most became pro. I started when I was 12, circa 1984, and retired at 38. My time in skating and what skating has done for me is inexplicable. I owe skating everything, and skating owes me nothing.
It was tough enough doing Ollie's on them boats we skated back then and he's doing shifty kick flips curb dancing on stuff tail sliding just amazing.
Legendary stuff
The JT part here is so good🔥 Many thanks for the precious commentary Tony, pleeeease keep these going 🙏👍
First pro setup SC Kendall Pumpkin, Indy's...earliest influences: Kendall, Tommy Guerrero, Natas, Lance Mountain, Tom Knox...pretty much wore out Wheels of Fire for first major inspiration back in the day and what a soundtrack! I can remember early Bones stuff, Speed Freaks and Risk It were always being played, works of art to this day...peace out
the Kendall pumpkin with theat big ass fish tail!! So sick!
@@RealSkateStories The thing is I cannot remember if I sold it or not, so long ago and my memory isn't what it used to be. I'm so hoping it turns up after a huge garage clearout, what a find that will be! Nothing like your first.
Pure gold. Love hearing your insight into all this legendary footage and appreciate you going in and letting the footage breathe so much better 🙌🏻
Thank you 🤜🏽
Those original SMA guys were true legends. Cut outs of Thiebaud, Julian Stranger, Natas all had their spots on my wall as a kid. Growing up in an urban east coast skate parks were pretty much non-existant and any sort of ramp was rare. But we had plenty of ledges, curbs, rails, etc. Those guys showed us how to use our environment, adapt to our surroundings.
First very first setup was a Hosoi with black powell 3s and indys, But my next setup was a Natas Mini with Thunders, I can't remember the wheels, maybe still the same powell 3's LOL!
Jim is the man. Thanks for this episode!
Jim 🤘🏾🔥 🛹
First real deck was the Roskopp III. My early influences were street: Dressen and Natas. Barbee had an enviable style but I never really liked the overproduced Powell videos. Despite living w/in biking distance of Mt. Trashmore, I didn't really go there much until '89. The big ramp was a snake session in the late afternoon and weekends. I guess you could go there in the summer and skate all day almost by yourself. The only other skater during that time was probably going to be Fud. But I did not do that, unfortunately.
Man, my hmemory of Jim as a street skater was majorly askew - he's fuckin good
Vision Bullets and Trackers with red plastic base plates on the first Mark Gonzales graphic.
Awesome video! My parents bought the Jim Theibaud board for me for Christmas of 89’. The board literally came via UPS on Christmas Eve. What a sweet memory. I was 14 @ the time.
I knew the name but I never saw him skate. Such a talent. Thanks so much for the footage!
Absolutely awesome! first setup, Chris Miller
My first set up was a santa cruz jeff grosso with tracker trucks and oj2s. Growing up in Ireland at that time we had no skateparks which is why we loved natas parts so much, grabbing massive airs off kurbs etc
Hell yeah. Natas brought that to the world and opened up all kinds of spots people never really looked at before!
The Banks at UCD were a good spot or if you knew Clive of Hill Street well enough you could go round his house and learn to skate his midi which I think he cut down into a mini because to many kids were getting hurt. From a skating perspective I was lucky to move to England in Nov 88.
@@RaulMeatFactory1975 The jeff grosso board I mentioned above was purchased in clives on hill street. I still remember my mums face looking at the prices. Every major town and city in Ireland has a free concrete skatepark nowadays, we could use a few more indoor ones though
RAD EDIT .........My time Our time, my 1st was a 2nd hand 1985 Nash "Heat Zone" which I bought of the dude that one week before showed me a copy of Thrasher Mag for the 1st time, that was September 1987.
Weird, remember skating with him after a demo, probably late eighties just goofing around on curbs and stuff. Teenage dork skating with a legend of the genesis of modern street skating. Glad I lived thru the evolution of all the tricks and creativity of that time. I still love skating at the ripe old age of 51 but will never be the same during the mid eighties-early nineties when the possibilities were endless and new tricks/styles emerged. Homegemy is the end of creativity, skating will always be the path to a new way of looking at the environment and utilizing in a different way. Once you skate there is no other way to look at the world differently. If you skate you know, or your don't. Maybe artists have a symbiotic view of everything else? Either way keep ripping and having fun, isn't that the point?
this is extremely cool, thank you for uploading!
My pleasure, thank you!!
My first set up was a yellow free former . I guess my first influence would be Larry Bertlemann
I miss the old Days
Yeah man, we were lucky to witness this era!!
@@RealSkateStories Best time of my life after a Broken arm and other injuries I skated to get Better I learned how to fall it sounds crazy But the truth
Loved this! The board where my skating really progressed was the Thiebaud Joker. Watching this part over and over again I learned kickflip varials, kickflip underflips, etc. Love seeing the raw footage of Jim. 100% street skating with style for days!!!
Underflips!! So rad.
@@RealSkateStories agreed! Saw Jim do them in this video for the first time! My first set up was Bones Ripper with Indy's and Rockets.
The new and exciting level Sk8ing had back then will never be topped and certainly not outdone...thx 4 the nostalgia T.R.👑🍻
It was something else. Cool to spark those feelings back up. Thank you!
Awesome footage! My first board was a Variflex complete in 86 or so.
Thank you. Those Variflex had some wild graphics!!
@@RealSkateStories Ya! It only lives in my memory now but I remember it had classic 80's geometric shapes and bright colours.
These re-edits are magic! My first deck was a John Gibson, but Natas was my fav, and then Ray Barbee when he started appearing in the Powell vids. Thanks for sharing the memories!
The Gibson Zorlac? Epic!
@@RealSkateStories You know it! With fat, red Kryptonic wheels.
Merci Beaucoup !!! Much Respect G♤♤♤
oi oi!!
First new setup was a Ron Allen mini, gullwing trucks with rat bones from split skates manchester UK 1987
My influence was my bro and the rest of the local skaters ❤
Thanks for Keeping the memories alive TR 🤙🐦
87 that was a fire set up!! H Street cam in hot in the 8 7
@@RealSkateStories It was, but shot off under a bus wheel and snap in the 8 9. Friends sing "It's gone" by Ron Allen on my walk back home 😭😄
That was Amazing ! Great edit . I would watch his part before going skating when I was younger. My first real set up was a SMA board the Fast Eddie. I got the board at a surf shop called Gold Coast in Long Beach area and what was really rad is that the skater who sold it to me was in the video Skating with Rob and Natas. I just can't remember his name but he's in the video. Skating back then was so RAD !
That's unreal, what a precious moment in time, I can only imagine the spark that left you with.
Just found your channel......love seeing all the old classics, but it hurts a little knowing just how much time has flown by!
My first real set up was a Schmitt Stix Miller riding on Gullwings and Bullets......learned so many tricks on that board, until the tail wore out. Next up was a Blind Gonz which was so light and poppy....snapped it in half coming down a big flight, which broke my heart, so I had to replace it with a New Deal No Deal. Grew up in the UK, but always dreamed of making it over to Cali one day.........ended up moving to San Francisco in 2000 and loved seeing all the classic Thrasher spots and just soaking it all up (instantly recognised the spot Jim's skating on Mission and 24th?). In my first few months of being there, I bumped into Bod Boyle and Tommy G.......he was just chilling in Dolores Park like some wise old sensei, ha!
Man, just wish I could live it all over again.......miss those endless summers
My first set up was a second hand Schmitt Stix Jeff Grosso with Variflex everything else. I swapped it for an old Haro BMX, I wish I still had both. My influences/idols were and still are Gonz and Hosoi. I live in England so we were a bit behind and the weather doesn't help.
When I get your notification it makes my day
Thanks so much! That Grosso SS with the square ass nose? Classic.
@@RealSkateStories Yep and the flared out tail. It was very similar to the G&S Neil Blender. I wore out the top graphic too because the guy that taught me to push taught me to push mongo, which I got myself out of when I realised how ugly it looks. I still do it sometimes because of my muscle memory. If it's good enough for Eric Dressen and Bill Danforth it's good enough for me lol
First board skull skates, Indy’s, ojII elites and favorite skaters was Cab, Natas, Jeff Phillips and Gonz🤙🏼
Sick set up and wow some heavy hitters!!
Magical footage, those lipslides were very nice considering how less lipslidy the bigger older wheels were
No doubt. The board would barely have room to touch!!
First Setup - G&S Neil Blender Faces, Gullwing Phoenix III Trucks, Bullet Stained Glass wheels. Influences when I first started… Ray Barbee, Mark Gonzales, Chris Miller, Chris Livingston, Colby Carter, Matt Hensley, Ocean Howell, Tom Knox and the man in this video, Jim Thiebaud, one of the best people ever!
That Blender board was legendary!! Love who you were stoked on, what a list!!!
My brother’s hand me down Free Former. Then, I got a Ray Bones Rodriguez Sword and Skull which got stolen. Years later, I got a Hosoi Hammerhead. When I really got into skating, a Vision Jinx was my first kicknose deck and Dressen was my favorite skater.
I remember all those decks, even the Free Former. That Ray Bones was all time, had like 1 inch of nose 🤣🤣
5:59 Classy...
My first set-up was a Dogtown Stonefish with tracker ultra-lights and rat bones wheels. The deck was too big really and so my next deck was a Gonz and I loved it. When I was getting into it at first I loved Tommy Gs part in FP and I really loved seeing pics of Natas doing his thing. The whole Dogtown scene looked so fucking cool that's kinda the attitude I tried to convey.
Epic. Tommy G's footy at that point in time was so unique. Changed the game. You had an early eye for the rad street stuff that was out there.
@@RealSkateStories It was an amazing time, for sure!
First setup was a Birdhouse Andrew Reynolds’s with Indy’s and CCS blank wheels.
Straight into it with those Indys!! Bet no truck ever felt so good after learning on the best!!
👍👍
My first setup was a Kamikaze skateboard my parents got me from Target when I was 9 years old
You were pumped!!
Yes sir 👍👍after practicing in the grass for a couple of weeks I hit the concrete and couldn't get off the skateboards for 15 years
he said "nollie flip that would be bitchin!"
Could you post the rushes without added audio?That’d be dope:)
sure. here ya go th-cam.com/video/eKzPc6_OgOQ/w-d-xo.html
2nd hand California Free Former banana board. . . Influenced by my cousin Davie who lived in Lakeland and had a blue plastic board.
Those days were the best, just rolling was epic. Bet you guys had a blast just sidewalk surfin'
@@RealSkateStories lots of kneeboarding an getting the grip imprint from that nanner lol I'm from Dothan and we absolute knew dic about no Tom Sims or Alva or Page we were BMX bandits til '85. Or rollerskating. Fred Blood was sick! saw him in pics in BMX Plus skating in Del Mar or someplace an wanted those wide truck skates, then looked at the cost! Bought a Lucero next time was in Lakeland.
The homies must have loved when popsicle shapes came out. Oh why don’t we put a nose annnnnd a tail??
Yes, that changed up the game for sure.
Does anyone know what song this is?
"Wonderful" by Tab-One and Sunshine-J 💯