In 1998, Tom Penny visited me in my bedroom just before I was going to sleep, he gave me a kiss on the check and whispered into my ear, "no one will ever believe you." before sneaking off into the night, never to be seen again.
He's a legend in every sense of the word. I remember running into him at some random corner store in Barcelona back in like 2008 and he just gave me this little acknowledging nod when he saw me carrying my skateboard, one of the best moments of my life right there lol!
Sweet story bro I remember he was at a board signing at “water brothers surf and skate” (which might be the most famous east coast shop located in Newport RI). It was 96-7 I was about 8-9 yrs old and he was so annoyed with all the fans lol. I never got my autograph
I skated in a demo with Tom Penny in Mission Viejo CA. Muska, Templeton, and Jesse Paez were there too. They had a huge pyramid box. I could not ollie over it. Jesse Paez did ollie it. Everyone barely could. Then Penny did a kickflip over it. Then he did a switch kickflip over it, then a regular frontside flip, and ended it with a switch frontside flip. I didn't even skate, I was just amazed with his flow. It was like 90 degrees and he had pants, hoodie, headphones, and a backpack on. He was in another world.
@@saxenas Yes, and yet he's one of the people that've had the most influence on skateboarding. Gotta love the irony My point? Be true to yourself and don't be a kook!
@@a7xSkateboarding yeah the clout chasing for ego gratification is cringe although i do understand the desire to chase it. Everyone wants to be somebody. Tom was like a monk in that sense.
Dude Tom is the best dude ever. I met him at Southbank, London a couple of years ago, he was the first one to come up to me as I was speaking to my friend who I found out was one of his best friends and said :'Hi my name is Tom, nice to meet you'. Then we filmed a couple of tricks with him, some chilling stuff, then he fronside flipped the stairs like second or third go, and he did it twice in a row as well. He is a legend, a living legend for sure, and I think no one should say a bad word of him until they meet him properly!!!! An inspiration and a true breath of life for skating
He's actually been living in Bordeaux, France for quite some time now, I skate with him at my local park and run into him at some skate related events, he's still rocking boots and baggy clothes. He doesn't skate as much unfortunately but still a really nice and down to earth guy to this day !
if you're a EU citizen it's pretty easy to live and work anywhere in europe, that's one of the reason it was created, it feels like there's no real borders and as long as you have your ID you can travel anywhere here without needing a passport or a visa
Est ce qu'il parle français couramment ? Je l'ai vu sur Paris ya 2 mois lors d'une demo de supra et j'osais pas trop l'approchais je savais pas trop quoi dire en anglais mais après toutes ces années (campagne + bordeaux) peut être que j'aurais pu lui parler en français ...
Always love Tom Penny....look the dude is 40 anything he puts out at this point is just frosting on one of the longest and distinguished Skateboarding careers ever seen.
Tom Penny is a legend, he was living in my town in France, near year 2000, I saw him some times and I bought his wheels, I was 16/17 and it was like riding God's wheels :) . He was discreet and seemed humble. I hope he's alright today
Well, he is British [UK]. So, I guess that's what he means, but, yes, you are correct, this is what skating should be about, regardless of where you are in the world.
I lived in England for three years. I'm east European. Sure, I wasn't greatly received everywhere in society but the skaters were real. As a bystander they seem to take way less jabs at each other (often disguised as what you call banter, which sometimes IS just banter, but eh, English culture) than construction people, retail people or whoever else I hung out with. Not to pat us all on the back here, but skaters seem to just be like that. Even in Bulgaria where people don't bother with manners nearly as much skaters get along, I remember a rock/rap division when I was a kid, but even that quickly went away. Cheers to a lifetime of getting along!
Tom Shot his sidewalk cover at my yard in london about 5 years ago - the tre flip on the mini with Lance mountain and rune gliffberg on the couch next to him.. Dude is the most humble, mellow and consistent skate rat to ever live. He knocked out about 20 perfect treflips in a row back to back, ponced a spliff off me, signed a couple boards for the house and then bounced. It was while he was filming for Albion. No matter what people think, Toms skating hasnt slacked even a bit, hes still just as sick as hes ever been, he just does less big stuff and he never warms up lol. Some of his recent footy is kinda sketchy but trust me, when hes in the zone its still magical and dudes almost 40 now lol Hes also got a kid now
I would love to see a Ghetto Child documentary... three parallel stories: Penny, Muska, Sheffey... I think it would be incredibly interesting to show how these legends intersected. The best era in skating --90s to early 2000s - was so personality and style-based.... larger than life characters that inspired us to express ourselves. From music to fashion, skateboarding was my big brother.
We used to smoke weed in the woods after watching the flip guys kill it in 411vm vol. 27...we never got around to the actual skating cause we just didn't flow like the guys in the videos so we went back in the woods and smoked some more. The 90's were the best..
Was chilling at Southbank Centre today having a drink with my bro and thought I’d spotted him chilling on the side. Eventually went up and just got chatting to him and his mates. So friendly, laid back and humble....said Southbank was his favourite spot in the world. Have never been in such awe talking to anyone before. More so for the fact he could of been anyone...no celebrity persona to him what so ever. Wasn’t even wearing skate shoes. Just wanted to chill with his mates. True legend.
That 411 # 11 part was pretty much my guiding design for every bit of skating I did. I was nowhere near his level but I strived for clean, cruising lines like that. I much preferred to go for the tricks I could land cleanly than the complex ones that ended up sketch. I just never wanted to break my pace. That was rule 1. Tom Penny pretty much instilled that in me.
I skated around and about with him at Radlands. We used to try and outdo each other with late shove its and huge one foot ollies. The guy was quiet and very solid. He was never there for long and he would never seem to session on a section....Just skate around then disappear. I love that he still dresses like a later 90's skater. Baggy jeans rule.
@@SH19922x Been a while....... but lets be real. I was a little more well travelled that Tom at the time. I skated with curtis mccann back when he was with powell peralta. I had a lot of influences that weren't fat kids on the corner of your street. Some of us were really good but didn't get signed up by the companies looking around at the time. You think Tom Penny just appeared? You think he was always the best? He was just another kid in baggy shit when we met.
I blazed with this guy and Chad Muska at Huntington beach skatepark ala 1997. I swear I will never forget! It's like I kicked it with the Beatles or Elvis Presley in their prime. He was the BEST!It's like he didn't notice he was the best skater of all time. His style and non nonchalant way of frontside flipping over 15 stair rails. Nobody did that before him....he was the first to make skating like that common
You missed a WHOLE era tom lived here in Argentina with his wife and son, we didnt know till one saturday skating in correo central spot, the dude started tre fliping and we all noticed and stood in shock and awe to see such misthical prescence, i dont know what it is, but he has some sort of vibe that gets you stoked to even see him push!
I think the biggest impact that Tom had on skateboarding was that, while he never invented a single trick, he pretty much singlehandedly (albeit unintentionally) invented the concept of STYLE. Before Tom, it pretty much didn't matter HOW you did a trick. You could mob your flips as bad as you want, bounce them off the ground, rolling super slow, whatever, and nobody cared. Along comes Tom, popping tricks super hard, catching them super high, rolling away effortlessly, skating with speed, grace, power, just making it look GOOD, man. Would there have been a Chad Muska as we know him, or any of the other subsequent "style gurus" without Tom Penny? I doubt it.
Tom has invented tricks or done nbd at spots. For sure his switch front foot impossible on the pyramid was nbd for that trick on a hip. When have you seen that since it prior? Hard af I guess as far as a flip or ledge trick never done than no. I don’t think it matters with his style and he took tricks to bigger levels never done so he innovated in other ways
+Steven Tchorz he was at a skatepark and asked us for a lighter first... Later he went out of weed and we gave him some... He mumbled something like "I'll give you some later.."... The whole day he was totally friendly and he really loves his fans..but he also was like a ghost that day.. He skated as if he was alone in the whole park. Everytime he skated all the other skaters stopped skating and you could see grown ass men watching penny skate and they all had the face expression of a 12 year old kid seeing someone treflipping for the first time in their life... That was a mad crazy day. He signed my shirt (which my mom later threw away bc it had holes in it)
i think he forget it ....he signed on your shirt...and how will one gently get some weed.....like this way....remember the day,,,and fuck the weed.......he owns you..be so stypid with this comment...dont do drugs was the meaning..only weed....so dont wait....:)
I'm surprised you didn't tell the story that Bam tells about Tom. They're at a contest somewhere and they were walking around outside and Tom was wearing his signature Timberlands and baggy pants. They saw some kid skating near an 8 stair on this rickety Walmart board that was falling apart under the weight of a little kid who couldn't even skate. Tom asked to borrow the board. Ran up the stairs, rolled up and did a frontside flip over the rail down the eight stair. First try. On a Walmart board. In Timberlands. I started skating in the mid-nineties and Tom Penny was definitely one of my favorite people to watch. This was when him and his Cheech and Chong board were the epitome of "cool" in skating. He was never really my favorite, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't dig on his style a lot. When I watch his videos today, especially his older ones when he was still a kid living in England, it almost feels as though he's incapable of falling off the board. It's like he's magnetically linked with the board. That Vert though! I knew that he was a good transition skater, but I had no idea he could skate vert like that. Someone who has an image as a hip-hop street skater who can skate vert as well is crazy. Something you would never see you today.
Obvs that story is a lie buddy boy, if the walmart board was failing under the weight of the little kid then there's no way he done a frontside dragonfire 1080 twist on it okay? Now go back to sleep and stop fuckin everyone around.
You mentioned that he didn't push during the line at that downhill school. Go there and just do 3 straight ollies and turn that corner. Hurts, doesn't it? Watch the distance he clears on that switch 180. Until you skate that spot, you'll never understand how nuts that line was. Tom also is the only skater I know of who shot 2 full page ad sequences in the same line (Oceanside high switch board the 12 and flip off the bump after the rail).
Jason Dashney I sk8d all over north county, sd, schools, parks etc I tried numerous times to copy pennys line..ive done it but sloppy compared to toms. I personally like bs 180s @ earls
Granted I haven't skated that school since about 1997 but I remember absolutely flying, and turning that corner had me right on the edge of wiping out and it scared the crap out of me. You're dead right that sometimes we can even do the same tricks as Tom, but they sure don't look like that. I guess that's why we aren't absolute legends, haha.
i was floored when i saw that line back in the day having already skate there. you cant see how steep the down hills are due to the fish eye. you fly there. and if you see how much speed he starts with before the first switch flip, it makes the entire line that much crazy. i know kasper did a similar line hitting everything, but didnt have the style of tom's
The only way to get any sort of context is to freeze frame where you can see the crack he clears and then compare that to where he starts. It's insane. You've been there so you know how damn far that really is.
I was going to post the same thing. I actually don’t think anyone could do the line he did. And he actually started with speed around the corner. So nuts. I got speed wobbles just dropping in from the top.
Thank you so much for this episode. Bumped into him and Ben Grove (another uk legend) in Barcelona. Bought him a Strongbow in Temple bar and that was that. Legend.
I'm 51 and Mike V. and Tom Penny are my all time favorite skaters. Mostly because they could turn any obstacle into a skate spot. I would be in the passenger seat of my moms car just staring at everything we passed thinking, I could do this or that on that on the side of the road. Tom is a legend because he's the epitome of what skateboarding is supposed to be. Rip to the fullest, have fun and who cares what anyone thinks. It's just you and your bros having the best time...on a side note I saw Tom and Steve Olsen do a demo in Corona, CA and it was the first time I saw them both in person. I've seen a ton of demos in my life all the way from John Lucero and Steve Rocco to the RB team and that Ghetto Child demo sticks out in my mind the most. Straight legends.
Brilliant video! I've never appreciated his skating much in the past but as I keep trying to progress and everything's so hard it's more Impressive just how casual his style is.
respect this dude who did the video. at first i was like, "blah, I'm gonna suffer through some nerd talking this whole time" and by the end I have the utmost respect for how he put this video together. Did a great job educating me on the history of Penny and really emphasized the story telling that is just a great aspect of this sport. loved how he showed some of his own home videos. new follower here and very impressed.
I remember Tom Penny at a flip demo in Rotterdam blaak. The old skatepark where he did this massive giant kickflip backside shifty over a funbox over a rail to another ramp. It was insane to see. Nobody did that. We skated that park everyday and we saw nobody doing that trick.
I thought I knew Tom Penny over the course of the 20 years that I've been skating, this video showed me how much I didn't know about him and also it heightens the legend.
Hey bro.... I really enjoy your vids. Its pretty obvious you are a skate rat at heart. Thanks for taking the time to do the research and editing. I graduated H.S. in 2000 so that puts us in the same age bracket more or less. This footage is from what I consider the golden age of skating. Keep the vids coming...thanks.
Great vid, so glad to finally get a dedicated video on Tom Penny, would love to see an epically later’d on him, but somehow I don’t think that will happen. I saw Tom skate in 97 on an Etnies/Emerica tour in Sydney St Ives skatepark, along with R Creager, M Johnson, Mike V and Koston. There was a rowdy group of drunk spectators cheering him on, don’t think he liked the attention.
I was skating at the pioneer in st.Albans once and Penny and his crew turned up. A load of new ramps had been built and one of them was a tiny vert quarter pipe probably less han 3 feet high, it was like it had been built as a joke with leftover wood. It was awkward to skate and small, not worth bothering with, but Penny was hitting it with all kinds of tricks. It seemed like it was the only ramp he saw as a challenge.
Pretty good summary for the young generation I'd say. Here's my personal sighting: at the first Lausanne contest in 96 (I think). He got fourth after Koston, Chris Senn and other heayweights but what struck me is that 1, he was drinking beer (a lot....) during the contest and 2, he never warmed up. Like he would sit on his board for 45 minutes, get up when he was called and just do his run and rip the course, with no warm-up whatsoever. Also him and another pro (Kareem maybe ? I’m not sure) did a sort of hippie jump over the car that was on the course, with the board flying through both windows. The other pro ate shit a few times but Penny landed it like perfect the firt time he decided to commit. A few years later I saw him again at a demo in Paris (Glissexpo) and it was pretty much the same show all over again. Living legend for sure.
I was at Radlands in August 1993 and saw him skate at the contest. In the practice he blasted a kickflip fakie over the coping on a quarter and I could see all the american pros in awe. I'm actually standing in the group of people near the door at 1:05, i have a bunch of pictures from that contest including Tom's front board in the clip (he did it a bunch), and Jeremy Wray was there backside 180'ing the pyramid to flat among other people. The contest was in one of the first 411 videos. I'll dig out the pics and put them on my instagram.
that session at the bank with the chain... it's just my all time favourite skate part. That's what made me realize landing a trick was a thing, and landing it with style was another! And man that style he had... never seen anything like that before or after!
Great to walk down Penny lane.. for sure the greatest legend/mystery skateboardings seen. I bet he would be considered somewhere along “the spectrum” of sorts- because it’s impossible otherwise to have that little of ego and be THAT good!!! All respect to the man. And I wish him well in the next 40 years too. Thanks 🙏🏽
Definitely one of the most steezy skaters around back in the day and he was always my favourite skater to get inspired by for that reason. I met him a total of 3 times... once at the Supra demo in Edinburgh at Saughton skatepark (he wasn't skating that day sadly) and then twice at MACBA in Barcelona where I had a good chat with him, got a pic and then filmed a line he was doing with my phone camera which I still have to this day and have never seen anywhere else... fakie tre on the flat and then switch nosegrind 360 shuv on the long ledge. It took him quite a few tries to make the last trick but when he made it, it was dope. That was an awesome moment in my skateboarding life haha! ✌😊
I'm not that much of a skater, I've only been skating for like 7 months but I've met him 3 times and all of em at Oxford, talk to him today even, he's an amazing it and its great to see his parts.
It's like he's never worried about bailing, he's got that confidence where his mind is thinking about how to bring it to the roll so easily. That's why I always liked his style
Thanks for making this video man! Tom Penny is the reason I would continue to skate for years. I would watch his eS Menikmati part then go skate right afterwards and he influenced my style in every trick.
i was skating in Bath (uk) skatepark in the late 90s and i was resting, just having a drink and Tom Penny was skating there alone. He just rolled up and ask if he could have some of my drink. He was really cool and humble. I saw him do the gnarliest late shove-it that day off a little ramp. He went so fucking high and the shove-it was so fucking late still dont get how he did it. He was basically landing his ollie as he did the shove. Bonkers.
you forgot to mention that nonody knew how to properly pop and flick a flip trick on a skateboard until Tom Penny came along. everyone was doing mob flip and pressure flips and was riding very sketchy/unnatural/arms flailing. he was the original Antwan Dixon in terms of effortless, un-replicable, style for his day. Tom revolutionized the sport. He is the greatest of all time.
These just keep getting better. Please do the story of Shorty's Steve Olson. I remember it taking some interesting turns. Also Adam Alfaro would be pretty interesting, though more current
You forgot about his part in the Skate Sauce video in 2011/2012! I met Tom in Barcelona in 2011 and he hadn't been skating for some time because of some hard times since some sponsors were taking advantage of Toms humbleness. Anyways we filmed most of the part in 1 day. Then had sangria on a boat just like he said we would if we got a trick that day. He loves skateboarding and when you're out skating with him it always turns into a magical day. Off the board as well. He may look a bit stiff in recent footy because he doesn't stretch and is 40 but he wouldn't skate for weeks or months and sometimes film those tricks. But if you look on our instagram we filmed some tricks with him recently in Copenhagen and since he had been skating a lot you could see that old Tom style creeping back in.
You did a great job with that section. Was great to get another sick section from Tom at that point in his career. I picked up one of the board he's skating in your video last week. Now have two he skated there. I'll post on Instagram soon and tag you!
The Search for Animal Chin. Spoiler... Chin is actually Tom Penny not an old Chinese guy. IMO, Tom is the most naturally gifted skater ever. I remember when High Five came out, it was just so incredible. Never seen anyone skate so casual. Mark Johnson who is one of my favorite skaters of all time had a part in High Five, but the one everyone remember is Tom's which I watched like 300 times. I kind of like how he just faded into obscurity. Animal Chin lives! Random sightings world wide.
I’m 40 years old now and a boring lawyer. Used to love skating when I was young. Saw Tom Penny at Harrow Skate Park, before he blew up at Radlands. He was dropping in on the flat bank and popping Nollie Heelflips over the fun box.
Used to see him skate at HB park around ‘97..had my head down and he somehow collided into me and I flew like 20 feet he was so powerful on the board ha..Was nollieing over this hip/rail so easily..Did a 3ft high ground nollie bs heel..casually while going back to the place where he could get speed to do something else..I didn’t know who he wasn’t the time but was thinking the guy was ripping too hard but made it look like normal somehow ha
What you fail to mention is that we, as in the the Brits, gave you, not only Penny but Rowley and Moul who were really the first Euro skaters that became accepted in the US thanks to Jeremy Fox. Jeremy nurtured these guys in the UK and moved his Death Box company to the US. There were more skaters involved but he upped the anti with these 3 kids. There were more and he has, to this day, promoted non US skaters through a UK originated brand, to the US. This was part of the break through of US companies signing up euro skaters to their own companies without referring to them as the 'Euro Division'. I suggest you look up such classic videos from the UK as Rollersnakes 540 etc. Recommendation from me for a view into UK skateboarding..Get Lesta.
I am 37 and still have dreams of skateboarding. I use to skate 4-8 hours almost every day. Some memories are more charishable without a camera in your face 24/7
darkslide180 is that true or confirmed if so fuck yes! I used to play darts on mushrooms and the connection is insane like a sixth sense I could definitely see Tom already sixth sense of feel on a skateboard translating heavenly to skateboarding on mushrooms at least a small enough dose to function
I eat tainted meat! When you get over all the vomit, then the visuals are insane, also , if you just chew on cow shit , you get just as high! Mad cow disease is fun! EAT MORE PEOPLE
I graduated in 1995 so I was in the midst of all this happening. It was a great time in skating. Went to SF twice in 96&98 and NYC 97. Denver n there somewhere too
That line from the industry part in 411 is one of the best lines of all time. Also, the tre flip from the Es ad hung in my local shop most of my childhood then all of my teens. Wish I still had it. That image is burned in my brain for life.
I met him in PB. Another story, next day he went and got a sandwich at the bldg on the corner of Felspar & Mission Blvd. It has a long 4-6 set and a wall parallel with the sidewalk. Switch fs flip with the sandwich, no tries, just did it as casually as we push... There's a rail on the wall now.
Around 2005, a friend told me that one of his mates had seen Tom Penny staring down to a light on the floor (probably five years ago or so, so around 2000 I'd say, maybe prior to that) - I think it was in a skatepark that had glass lights around. That's probably something one would do under the influence of mushrooms ahah :D
I was lucky enough to skate with him at radlands in the early 90s, he was so smooth and made the midi I was trying to skate look like a 2ft ramp. Personally I think his iconic style has gone in footage but still looks amazing in pictures.
I'm from Argentina and I hear that once Tom come to a little skatepark in a tiny town in Patagonia called San Patricio del chañar and do some unbilivible tricks and next day just dissapear. i also hear of he got a son with a argetinian woman livin in buenos aires
yeah that's true he had a daughter and Buenos Aires. I so Hem skating in Argentina ,I so him at the skate park call Metro Park skating a bunch of times
Skated with him for about 10 minutes at Huntington High in 96. Lots of legends used to skate the HS back then Tempelton and Muska etc..I was doing kick flips off a 3 stair, he was doing switch 360's..like he was sleeping...and just rolled off so causally.
I used to skate there too. One time the flip team just showed up. They just started ripping. Penny did this huge frontside flip over the kinked rail off of that hip. I was up by that manual pad when I saw that. It was f*cking unbelievable. Rowley did some amazing sh!t too that day. I'll never forget.
@@audiekid5456 Nice dude, I was probably there with you in the crowd skating around waiting to buy some trucks or wheels from those guys..I remember getting a used deck for $5 and some wheels for $3 from Ed templeton..those were the good ol' days
In 1998, Tom Penny visited me in my bedroom just before I was going to sleep, he gave me a kiss on the check and whispered into my ear, "no one will ever believe you." before sneaking off into the night, never to be seen again.
I interrupted my mid term studies to like this comment and leave this one.
one of the best comment I've read this year. :P👍
I️ was driving home from the taco shop.. and laughed hard imagining this comment
I bet he switch frontside flipped out your window.
shhhhh....
He's a legend in every sense of the word.
I remember running into him at some random corner store in Barcelona back in like 2008 and he just gave me this little acknowledging nod when he saw me carrying my skateboard, one of the best moments of my life right there lol!
Fred Zeppelin nice my dude 👉😉👉
Sweet story bro I remember he was at a board signing at “water brothers surf and skate” (which might be the most famous east coast shop located in Newport RI). It was 96-7 I was about 8-9 yrs old and he was so annoyed with all the fans lol. I never got my autograph
@@GasGotti - probably longing for a smoke.
Didnt want to like this as it was at 420 I'd retract my like if you would like. Just thought the comment deserved a like!
same thing happened to me with Arto Sari, in Barcelona, he was fat and rocking a captain's hat... not as epic as yours..
I skated in a demo with Tom Penny in Mission Viejo CA. Muska, Templeton, and Jesse Paez were there too. They had a huge pyramid box. I could not ollie over it. Jesse Paez did ollie it. Everyone barely could. Then Penny did a kickflip over it. Then he did a switch kickflip over it, then a regular frontside flip, and ended it with a switch frontside flip. I didn't even skate, I was just amazed with his flow. It was like 90 degrees and he had pants, hoodie, headphones, and a backpack on. He was in another world.
He is the most Core skater that has ever lived. He was all about his skating and nothing more. He didn't care what others thought.
The literal complete opposite of an influencer skater. Wish that influencer shit never started.
@@saxenas Yes, and yet he's one of the people that've had the most influence on skateboarding. Gotta love the irony
My point? Be true to yourself and don't be a kook!
@@a7xSkateboarding yeah the clout chasing for ego gratification is cringe although i do understand the desire to chase it. Everyone wants to be somebody. Tom was like a monk in that sense.
Dude Tom is the best dude ever. I met him at Southbank, London a couple of years ago, he was the first one to come up to me as I was speaking to my friend who I found out was one of his best friends and said :'Hi my name is Tom, nice to meet you'. Then we filmed a couple of tricks with him, some chilling stuff, then he fronside flipped the stairs like second or third go, and he did it twice in a row as well. He is a legend, a living legend for sure, and I think no one should say a bad word of him until they meet him properly!!!! An inspiration and a true breath of life for skating
No ya didn't dude, stop lying
S H it’s pretty likely this is legit, he’s known to do random stuff like that.
mans humble
It’s crazy how Tom Penny is everywhere and nowhere. Only skater that can be in 17 parts of the world at once.
He's actually been living in Bordeaux, France for quite some time now, I skate with him at my local park and run into him at some skate related events, he's still rocking boots and baggy clothes. He doesn't skate as much unfortunately but still a really nice and down to earth guy to this day !
STREET COFFEE 🇫🇷 How is it that EU citizens can travel, live, and work over borders? Ignorant American here.
if you're a EU citizen it's pretty easy to live and work anywhere in europe, that's one of the reason it was created, it feels like there's no real borders and as long as you have your ID you can travel anywhere here without needing a passport or a visa
Joseph Lozano You should head over to Europe, then become a typical apologetic American.
Salvador Reyes yeet
Est ce qu'il parle français couramment ? Je l'ai vu sur Paris ya 2 mois lors d'une demo de supra et j'osais pas trop l'approchais je savais pas trop quoi dire en anglais mais après toutes ces années (campagne + bordeaux) peut être que j'aurais pu lui parler en français ...
In his prime, Tom Penny was an absolute fucking force of nature.
Someone has to Upload this old TSA video.. Thats just ridioulos. .
I love that Etnies Hi 5 part so much.....I remember you can really hear Tom catch the board on all the tricks over that handrail...just mind blowing
I miss old flip team. Penny, Saari, Rowley, etc.
sk8 od I miss the 2000 es' team
yeah i started skating back in 1999 and there team was sick as fuck
I think early mid 2000’s flip was the most gnarly team.
Kyle Henderson don't forget the 2002 adio team. One Step Beyond was sick.
leipä od golden era
Always love Tom Penny....look the dude is 40 anything he puts out at this point is just frosting on one of the longest and distinguished Skateboarding careers ever seen.
Tom Penny is a legend, he was living in my town in France, near year 2000, I saw him some times and I bought his wheels, I was 16/17 and it was like riding God's wheels :) . He was discreet and seemed humble. I hope he's alright today
which town in Bordeaux dude?
I'm from the uk and tom is what i think uk skating should be about, no egos just skating with friends and having a good time doing what you enjoy.
brute91 it's not "uk skating" it just skating
MR OG DOGSHIT sorry
brute91 its okay bro
Well, he is British [UK]. So, I guess that's what he means, but, yes, you are correct, this is what skating should be about, regardless of where you are in the world.
I lived in England for three years. I'm east European. Sure, I wasn't greatly received everywhere in society but the skaters were real. As a bystander they seem to take way less jabs at each other (often disguised as what you call banter, which sometimes IS just banter, but eh, English culture) than construction people, retail people or whoever else I hung out with.
Not to pat us all on the back here, but skaters seem to just be like that. Even in Bulgaria where people don't bother with manners nearly as much skaters get along, I remember a rock/rap division when I was a kid, but even that quickly went away. Cheers to a lifetime of getting along!
Tom Shot his sidewalk cover at my yard in london about 5 years ago - the tre flip on the mini with Lance mountain and rune gliffberg on the couch next to him.. Dude is the most humble, mellow and consistent skate rat to ever live. He knocked out about 20 perfect treflips in a row back to back, ponced a spliff off me, signed a couple boards for the house and then bounced. It was while he was filming for Albion. No matter what people think, Toms skating hasnt slacked even a bit, hes still just as sick as hes ever been, he just does less big stuff and he never warms up lol. Some of his recent footy is kinda sketchy but trust me, when hes in the zone its still magical and dudes almost 40 now lol Hes also got a kid now
Got that mag cover and the deck he was riding in it. sick spot
I would love to see a Ghetto Child documentary... three parallel stories: Penny, Muska, Sheffey... I think it would be incredibly interesting to show how these legends intersected. The best era in skating --90s to early 2000s - was so personality and style-based.... larger than life characters that inspired us to express ourselves. From music to fashion, skateboarding was my big brother.
We used to smoke weed in the woods after watching the flip guys kill it in 411vm vol. 27...we never got around to the actual skating cause we just didn't flow like the guys in the videos so we went back in the woods and smoked some more. The 90's were the best..
Best poser story I've ever heard!
thats some loser shit
Kick flip to bogart...
Was chilling at Southbank Centre today having a drink with my bro and thought I’d spotted him chilling on the side. Eventually went up and just got chatting to him and his mates. So friendly, laid back and humble....said Southbank was his favourite spot in the world. Have never been in such awe talking to anyone before. More so for the fact he could of been anyone...no celebrity persona to him what so ever. Wasn’t even wearing skate shoes. Just wanted to chill with his mates. True legend.
I was at that party when the lights went off. Completely accurate. Absolutely insane listening to him skating and grinding in total darkness
i dont know rick
looks fake to me
No tf you weren't
u sound like a complete poser @Mike Kearney
Bullshit, i was there too and i didnt see you there !
The real f/s flip king. Style king. Just...king.
Yes! Love that you did a video on Penny. By far my favorite pro of all time. Thanks RadRat!
That 411 # 11 part was pretty much my guiding design for every bit of skating I did. I was nowhere near his level but I strived for clean, cruising lines like that. I much preferred to go for the tricks I could land cleanly than the complex ones that ended up sketch. I just never wanted to break my pace. That was rule 1. Tom Penny pretty much instilled that in me.
Great point that I think is lost on a lot of skaters today.
I skated around and about with him at Radlands. We used to try and outdo each other with late shove its and huge one foot ollies. The guy was quiet and very solid. He was never there for long and he would never seem to session on a section....Just skate around then disappear. I love that he still dresses like a later 90's skater. Baggy jeans rule.
Yeah i remember when you were evenly matched with the worlds best skater. Fuck sake
@@SH19922x Been a while....... but lets be real. I was a little more well travelled that Tom at the time. I skated with curtis mccann back when he was with powell peralta. I had a lot of influences that weren't fat kids on the corner of your street. Some of us were really good but didn't get signed up by the companies looking around at the time. You think Tom Penny just appeared? You think he was always the best? He was just another kid in baggy shit when we met.
One of a few people I have idolized in my 37 years.
I blazed with this guy and Chad Muska at Huntington beach skatepark ala 1997. I swear I will never forget! It's like I kicked it with the Beatles or Elvis Presley in their prime. He was the BEST!It's like he didn't notice he was the best skater of all time. His style and non nonchalant way of frontside flipping over 15 stair rails. Nobody did that before him....he was the first to make skating like that common
You missed a WHOLE era tom lived here in Argentina with his wife and son, we didnt know till one saturday skating in correo central spot, the dude started tre fliping and we all noticed and stood in shock and awe to see such misthical prescence, i dont know what it is, but he has some sort of vibe that gets you stoked to even see him push!
I had a Missing: TOM PENNY Milk Carton T-shirt. On the back it said “ have you seen me.”
Id kill for that shirt now
Have you seen Animal Chen?
I saw Tom Penny digging tunnels in one of my minecraft worlds back on xbox 360.
I think the biggest impact that Tom had on skateboarding was that, while he never invented a single trick, he pretty much singlehandedly (albeit unintentionally) invented the concept of STYLE. Before Tom, it pretty much didn't matter HOW you did a trick. You could mob your flips as bad as you want, bounce them off the ground, rolling super slow, whatever, and nobody cared. Along comes Tom, popping tricks super hard, catching them super high, rolling away effortlessly, skating with speed, grace, power, just making it look GOOD, man. Would there have been a Chad Muska as we know him, or any of the other subsequent "style gurus" without Tom Penny? I doubt it.
Utter bollocks
Imagine saying that or liking it, shame on you idiots
Paging Stacy Peralta, Tony Alva, Cab, TG, Chris Miller, Gonz, Lee, Hensley - Tom Penny invented style. You idiots
Somebody better tell Chris Miller and Christian Hosoi...
Tom has invented tricks or done nbd at spots. For sure his switch front foot impossible on the pyramid was nbd for that trick on a hip. When have you seen that since it prior? Hard af I guess as far as a flip or ledge trick never done than no. I don’t think it matters with his style and he took tricks to bigger levels never done so he innovated in other ways
10 years ago he was in Germany and borrowed weed from me.. He promised I would get it back... I'm still waiting...
roboliño schmidt elaborate homie!!! Give me details PLEASE!!!
+Steven Tchorz he was at a skatepark and asked us for a lighter first... Later he went out of weed and we gave him some... He mumbled something like "I'll give you some later.."... The whole day he was totally friendly and he really loves his fans..but he also was like a ghost that day.. He skated as if he was alone in the whole park. Everytime he skated all the other skaters stopped skating and you could see grown ass men watching penny skate and they all had the face expression of a 12 year old kid seeing someone treflipping for the first time in their life... That was a mad crazy day. He signed my shirt (which my mom later threw away bc it had holes in it)
i think he forget it ....he signed on your shirt...and how will one gently get some weed.....like this way....remember the day,,,and fuck the weed.......he owns you..be so stypid with this comment...dont do drugs was the meaning..only weed....so dont wait....:)
fotis stylos holy shit dude hahaha what fuckin language do you speak?!
greek..are you speAKING any other languange..?
I'm surprised you didn't tell the story that Bam tells about Tom. They're at a contest somewhere and they were walking around outside and Tom was wearing his signature Timberlands and baggy pants. They saw some kid skating near an 8 stair on this rickety Walmart board that was falling apart under the weight of a little kid who couldn't even skate. Tom asked to borrow the board. Ran up the stairs, rolled up and did a frontside flip over the rail down the eight stair. First try. On a Walmart board. In Timberlands.
I started skating in the mid-nineties and Tom Penny was definitely one of my favorite people to watch. This was when him and his Cheech and Chong board were the epitome of "cool" in skating. He was never really my favorite, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't dig on his style a lot.
When I watch his videos today, especially his older ones when he was still a kid living in England, it almost feels as though he's incapable of falling off the board. It's like he's magnetically linked with the board.
That Vert though! I knew that he was a good transition skater, but I had no idea he could skate vert like that. Someone who has an image as a hip-hop street skater who can skate vert as well is crazy. Something you would never see you today.
It was a kickflip, and not a Walmart board but just some piece of shit board. Good story though.
I just heard that from Bam, also. I think Bam said that Tom was one of the best skaters he had ever seen. Crazy.
It was the 10 stair rail in front of the long beach convention center
how you said a magnetic bond with the board.the silver surfer had a psycic link with his board.neat.that shoulda been his nick name
Obvs that story is a lie buddy boy, if the walmart board was failing under the weight of the little kid then there's no way he done a frontside dragonfire 1080 twist on it okay? Now go back to sleep and stop fuckin everyone around.
I skated Wakefield while he was skating,,he never fell or I never saw him fall.... Did 30 tricks with no bails. Freak of genius
You mentioned that he didn't push during the line at that downhill school. Go there and just do 3 straight ollies and turn that corner. Hurts, doesn't it? Watch the distance he clears on that switch 180. Until you skate that spot, you'll never understand how nuts that line was.
Tom also is the only skater I know of who shot 2 full page ad sequences in the same line (Oceanside high switch board the 12 and flip off the bump after the rail).
Jason Dashney
I sk8d all over north county, sd, schools, parks etc
I tried numerous times to copy pennys line..ive done it but sloppy compared to toms.
I personally like bs 180s @ earls
Granted I haven't skated that school since about 1997 but I remember absolutely flying, and turning that corner had me right on the edge of wiping out and it scared the crap out of me. You're dead right that sometimes we can even do the same tricks as Tom, but they sure don't look like that. I guess that's why we aren't absolute legends, haha.
i was floored when i saw that line back in the day having already skate there. you cant see how steep the down hills are due to the fish eye. you fly there. and if you see how much speed he starts with before the first switch flip, it makes the entire line that much crazy. i know kasper did a similar line hitting everything, but didnt have the style of tom's
The only way to get any sort of context is to freeze frame where you can see the crack he clears and then compare that to where he starts. It's insane. You've been there so you know how damn far that really is.
I was going to post the same thing. I actually don’t think anyone could do the line he did. And he actually started with speed around the corner. So nuts. I got speed wobbles just dropping in from the top.
Tom was the BEST skater to EVER pick up board. Period.
Thank u so much RadRat! Tom Penny is by far my favorite skater! Such a bummer I couldn’t meet him in person... yet. nice video!
Tom IS the best skater of all time! Period.
Thank you so much for this episode. Bumped into him and Ben Grove (another uk legend) in Barcelona. Bought him a Strongbow in Temple bar and that was that. Legend.
Tom! You’ve been skating with the lights off again!
“Huh? Oh I can roll a spliff now”
This TH-cam channel is so gnarly to all of us old skate heads! Thanks for the videos and keep em coming!
I'm 51 and Mike V. and Tom Penny are my all time favorite skaters. Mostly because they could turn any obstacle into a skate spot. I would be in the passenger seat of my moms car just staring at everything we passed thinking, I could do this or that on that on the side of the road. Tom is a legend because he's the epitome of what skateboarding is supposed to be. Rip to the fullest, have fun and who cares what anyone thinks. It's just you and your bros having the best time...on a side note I saw Tom and Steve Olsen do a demo in Corona, CA and it was the first time I saw them both in person. I've seen a ton of demos in my life all the way from John Lucero and Steve Rocco to the RB team and that Ghetto Child demo sticks out in my mind the most. Straight legends.
Brilliant video! I've never appreciated his skating much in the past but as I keep trying to progress and everything's so hard it's more Impressive just how casual his style is.
respect this dude who did the video. at first i was like, "blah, I'm gonna suffer through some nerd talking this whole time" and by the end I have the utmost respect for how he put this video together. Did a great job educating me on the history of Penny and really emphasized the story telling that is just a great aspect of this sport. loved how he showed some of his own home videos. new follower here and very impressed.
yeah he can rip surprisingly well
I remember Tom Penny at a flip demo in Rotterdam blaak. The old skatepark where he did this massive giant kickflip backside shifty over a funbox over a rail to another ramp. It was insane to see. Nobody did that. We skated that park everyday and we saw nobody doing that trick.
I thought I knew Tom Penny over the course of the 20 years that I've been skating, this video showed me how much I didn't know about him and also it heightens the legend.
Hey bro.... I really enjoy your vids. Its pretty obvious you are a skate rat at heart. Thanks for taking the time to do the research and editing. I graduated H.S. in 2000 so that puts us in the same age bracket more or less. This footage is from what I consider the golden age of skating. Keep the vids coming...thanks.
Thank you for this video I'm in my 30s and just getting back into skating Tom penny was my idol
Tom Penny is a British national treasure, one of the few people that makes me proud to be British
True
The best coming out of The UK
Oh my god that frontside flip over the pool hip is unbelievably smooth
How in hell did I NEVER heard about him until now lol. He appears to be quite a remarkable skater!! Great vid
@Rad Rat ...Making part 2 anytime soon? Been almost 2 years bruv!
Great vid, so glad to finally get a dedicated video on Tom Penny, would love to see an epically later’d on him, but somehow I don’t think that will happen. I saw Tom skate in 97 on an Etnies/Emerica tour in Sydney St Ives skatepark, along with R Creager, M Johnson, Mike V and Koston. There was a rowdy group of drunk spectators cheering him on, don’t think he liked the attention.
I was skating at the pioneer in st.Albans once and Penny and his crew turned up. A load of new ramps had been built and one of them was a tiny vert quarter pipe probably less han 3 feet high, it was like it had been built as a joke with leftover wood. It was awkward to skate and small, not worth bothering with, but Penny was hitting it with all kinds of tricks. It seemed like it was the only ramp he saw as a challenge.
I met him...smoked weed with him at Huntington skate park ala 1997. I swear I'll never forget. Like I blazed with Elvis in his prime
Joint or blunt?
@@sean_69 metal pipe if I remember right. It was the 90's. Muska was there too
@@rodgermurphy5721 god damn that’s awesome! Wonder if those guys still smoke lol
Pretty good summary for the young generation I'd say. Here's my personal sighting: at the first Lausanne contest in 96 (I think). He got fourth after Koston, Chris Senn and other heayweights but what struck me is that 1, he was drinking beer (a lot....) during the contest and 2, he never warmed up. Like he would sit on his board for 45 minutes, get up when he was called and just do his run and rip the course, with no warm-up whatsoever. Also him and another pro (Kareem maybe ? I’m not sure) did a sort of hippie jump over the car that was on the course, with the board flying through both windows. The other pro ate shit a few times but Penny landed it like perfect the firt time he decided to commit. A few years later I saw him again at a demo in Paris (Glissexpo) and it was pretty much the same show all over again. Living legend for sure.
It was Tyrone Olsen, not Kareem
yeah that's it! I wasnt sure.
CroulantRoulant you saw that car hippie jump in person.. damn man that’s awesome
Wish I had been there, but have the Freak Brothers board he was skating in Lausanne on my wall here so all is good 😁
I was at Radlands in August 1993 and saw him skate at the contest. In the practice he blasted a kickflip fakie over the coping on a quarter and I could see all the american pros in awe. I'm actually standing in the group of people near the door at 1:05, i have a bunch of pictures from that contest including Tom's front board in the clip (he did it a bunch), and Jeremy Wray was there backside 180'ing the pyramid to flat among other people. The contest was in one of the first 411 videos. I'll dig out the pics and put them on my instagram.
thats sick, would love those pictures!
Instagram link pls
RIP Radlands
that session at the bank with the chain... it's just my all time favourite skate part. That's what made me realize landing a trick was a thing, and landing it with style was another! And man that style he had... never seen anything like that before or after!
Great to walk down Penny lane.. for sure the greatest legend/mystery skateboardings seen. I bet he would be considered somewhere along “the spectrum” of sorts- because it’s impossible otherwise to have that little of ego and be THAT good!!!
All respect to the man. And I wish him well in the next 40 years too.
Thanks 🙏🏽
Man I hope the skate community at large knows just how much of an asset you are to them. Keep doing what your doing man.
Great video man, really thoughtful and well put together.
Definitely one of the most steezy skaters around back in the day and he was always my favourite skater to get inspired by for that reason. I met him a total of 3 times... once at the Supra demo in Edinburgh at Saughton skatepark (he wasn't skating that day sadly) and then twice at MACBA in Barcelona where I had a good chat with him, got a pic and then filmed a line he was doing with my phone camera which I still have to this day and have never seen anywhere else... fakie tre on the flat and then switch nosegrind 360 shuv on the long ledge. It took him quite a few tries to make the last trick but when he made it, it was dope. That was an awesome moment in my skateboarding life haha! ✌😊
I'm not that much of a skater, I've only been skating for like 7 months but I've met him 3 times and all of em at Oxford, talk to him today even, he's an amazing it and its great to see his parts.
Saw him yesterday at MACBA, Barcelona. Same baggy clothes, boots and beanie hat as mentioned before. 40 years old but nothing has changed. Legend!
finally a video about my favourite skater
It's like he's never worried about bailing, he's got that confidence where his mind is thinking about how to bring it to the roll so easily. That's why I always liked his style
i saw him all the time at demos and the hb park during his prime. the legends are true. all of them
Thanks for making this video man! Tom Penny is the reason I would continue to skate for years. I would watch his eS Menikmati part then go skate right afterwards and he influenced my style in every trick.
i was skating in Bath (uk) skatepark in the late 90s and i was resting, just having a drink and Tom Penny was skating there alone. He just rolled up and ask if he could have some of my drink. He was really cool and humble. I saw him do the gnarliest late shove-it that day off a little ramp. He went so fucking high and the shove-it was so fucking late still dont get how he did it. He was basically landing his ollie as he did the shove. Bonkers.
you forgot to mention that nonody knew how to properly pop and flick a flip trick on a skateboard until Tom Penny came along. everyone was doing mob flip and pressure flips and was riding very sketchy/unnatural/arms flailing. he was the original Antwan Dixon in terms of effortless, un-replicable, style for his day. Tom revolutionized the sport. He is the greatest of all time.
Tom Penny is a legend
2005 I saw Tom Penny pissing in a bush at the skate park.
That's my Tom Penny story.
Best story ever!
Video? Post it!
Loved his carefree make it look easy style while not caring. I've watched that 411 video from the beginning of this hundreds of time back in the day
These just keep getting better. Please do the story of Shorty's Steve Olson. I remember it taking some interesting turns. Also Adam Alfaro would be pretty interesting, though more current
You forgot about his part in the Skate Sauce video in 2011/2012! I met Tom in Barcelona in 2011 and he hadn't been skating for some time because of some hard times since some sponsors were taking advantage of Toms humbleness. Anyways we filmed most of the part in 1 day. Then had sangria on a boat just like he said we would if we got a trick that day. He loves skateboarding and when you're out skating with him it always turns into a magical day. Off the board as well. He may look a bit stiff in recent footy because he doesn't stretch and is 40 but he wouldn't skate for weeks or months and sometimes film those tricks. But if you look on our instagram we filmed some tricks with him recently in Copenhagen and since he had been skating a lot you could see that old Tom style creeping back in.
You did a great job with that section. Was great to get another sick section from Tom at that point in his career. I picked up one of the board he's skating in your video last week. Now have two he skated there. I'll post on Instagram soon and tag you!
The Search for Animal Chin. Spoiler... Chin is actually Tom Penny not an old Chinese guy. IMO, Tom is the most naturally gifted skater ever. I remember when High Five came out, it was just so incredible. Never seen anyone skate so casual. Mark Johnson who is one of my favorite skaters of all time had a part in High Five, but the one everyone remember is Tom's which I watched like 300 times. I kind of like how he just faded into obscurity. Animal Chin lives! Random sightings world wide.
That es treflip ad was a staple on my wall. Wish I would've filmed half the shit I did when I could still physically skate. Really miss skateboarding.
He's a skater above everything else
He's one of those magic people.
Probly gets mad REM sleep
hahah yes. I am the opposite. Because i get little to no REM sleep. Wish I was one of them REM people
There is things u can take to achieve that
I’m 40 years old now and a boring lawyer. Used to love skating when I was young. Saw Tom Penny at Harrow Skate Park, before he blew up at Radlands. He was dropping in on the flat bank and popping Nollie Heelflips over the fun box.
Tom Penny is the perfect description of skateboarding
Used to see him skate at HB park around ‘97..had my head down and he somehow collided into me and I flew like 20 feet he was so powerful on the board ha..Was nollieing over this hip/rail so easily..Did a 3ft high ground nollie bs heel..casually while going back to the place where he could get speed to do something else..I didn’t know who he wasn’t the time but was thinking the guy was ripping too hard but made it look like normal somehow ha
Tom Penny kickflipping through a car blew my mind back in the 90's. The board goes through the car and he goes over the top and it was perfect!
It wasn`t a flip. It was a straight hippy jump of sorts.
Great video! As someone who came up skateboarding in the late nineties and early 2000's, I always wondered what happened to Tom.
What you fail to mention is that we, as in the the Brits, gave you, not only Penny but Rowley and Moul who were really the first Euro skaters that became accepted in the US thanks to Jeremy Fox.
Jeremy nurtured these guys in the UK and moved his Death Box company to the US.
There were more skaters involved but he upped the anti with these 3 kids.
There were more and he has, to this day, promoted non US skaters through a UK originated brand, to the US.
This was part of the break through of US companies signing up euro skaters to their own companies without referring to them as the 'Euro Division'.
I suggest you look up such classic videos from the UK as Rollersnakes 540 etc.
Recommendation from me for a view into UK skateboarding..Get Lesta.
This was a great videos to watch. Gotta admit that I'm surprised you didn't include tsa life in the fast lane.
Also Andrew reynolds many times said that he wanted to frontside flip like that guy. That guy was Penny.
I am 37 and still have dreams of skateboarding. I use to skate 4-8 hours almost every day. Some memories are more charishable without a camera in your face 24/7
Tom Penny is a legend, period. I call the Switch Frontside Flip the Tom Penny Flip, because he did that move so flawlessly.
amazing episode. love the retro ripper videos, keep em coming!
HOW DID YOU NOT MENTION HE WAS SUPPOSEDLY ON SHROOMS FOR THAT ENTIRE SW FS FLIP OVER THE RAIL SESSION IN HI-5
darkslide180 is that true or confirmed if so fuck yes! I used to play darts on mushrooms and the connection is insane like a sixth sense I could definitely see Tom already sixth sense of feel on a skateboard translating heavenly to skateboarding on mushrooms at least a small enough dose to function
Rad Rat doeant know what mushrooms are.
I eat tainted meat! When you get over all the vomit, then the visuals are insane, also , if you just chew on cow shit , you get just as high! Mad cow disease is fun! EAT MORE PEOPLE
@@HeadNtheClouds underrated comment
yo this is one of the best tom penny vids on youtube
I graduated in 1995 so I was in the midst of all this happening. It was a great time in skating. Went to SF twice in 96&98 and NYC 97. Denver n there somewhere too
Seriously quality video Rad, thank you.
That line from the industry part in 411 is one of the best lines of all time. Also, the tre flip from the Es ad hung in my local shop most of my childhood then all of my teens. Wish I still had it. That image is burned in my brain for life.
I met him in PB. Another story, next day he went and got a sandwich at the bldg on the corner of Felspar & Mission Blvd. It has a long 4-6 set and a wall parallel with the sidewalk. Switch fs flip with the sandwich, no tries, just did it as casually as we push... There's a rail on the wall now.
There will never be another Tom Penny. Best style best skateboarder!!
Around 2005, a friend told me that one of his mates had seen Tom Penny staring down to a light on the floor (probably five years ago or so, so around 2000 I'd say, maybe prior to that) - I think it was in a skatepark that had glass lights around. That's probably something one would do under the influence of mushrooms ahah :D
That school down hill line was dope. He did it off one push. Looks hella fast .
That one about the lights going out is great
This is one of your best videos yet! Very well put together :)
I was lucky enough to skate with him at radlands in the early 90s, he was so smooth and made the midi I was trying to skate look like a 2ft ramp. Personally I think his iconic style has gone in footage but still looks amazing in pictures.
I'm from Argentina and I hear that once Tom come to a little skatepark in a tiny town in Patagonia called San Patricio del chañar and do some unbilivible tricks and next day just dissapear. i also hear of he got a son with a argetinian woman livin in buenos aires
yeah that's true he had a daughter and Buenos Aires. I so Hem skating in Argentina ,I so him at the skate park call Metro Park skating a bunch of times
Skated with him for about 10 minutes at Huntington High in 96. Lots of legends used to skate the HS back then Tempelton and Muska etc..I was doing kick flips off a 3 stair, he was doing switch 360's..like he was sleeping...and just rolled off so causally.
I used to skate there too. One time the flip team just showed up. They just started ripping. Penny did this huge frontside flip over the kinked rail off of that hip. I was up by that manual pad when I saw that. It was f*cking unbelievable. Rowley did some amazing sh!t too that day. I'll never forget.
@@audiekid5456 Nice dude, I was probably there with you in the crowd skating around waiting to buy some trucks or wheels from those guys..I remember getting a used deck for $5 and some wheels for $3 from Ed templeton..those were the good ol' days