Thank for all the comments, y'all. This is James the filmmaker, it was you all that gave me the heads up they inadvertently chopped a bunch of the audio. It wasn't Stash, it was TH-cam's good old AI not knowing I had licensed and purchased all of the music for this film. I apologize for the issue but Stash was great in helping get it fixed and now it is all up in its entirety. Enjoy!
Thanks for making this. A great insight into mostly unknown history. It left me wondering what happened to John OShea? He came back a year later looking worse for wear then died within the year after that? Incredibly sad, was great to see him and Doug reunited.
@@robertcrystals Thank you. If you watch it again, as a lot of people are inclined to do, you hear John projecting through the whole film, everything he says, he's speaking about himself.
Thank you for making this film. Somehow, I grew up skating in the Bay Area in the 70s and 80s, and until now, had never heard of the N Men. Thanks for the history lesson. Well done.
Not going to lie,I got super emotional watching Doug and John Hook back up after 30years.Dont even know them but its super relatable as we all have friends that we've lost and would give anything to have that moment again 🤙
Watched a bit further and it looks like John has joined Doug on the pipe......I may be wrong but I know what that shit can do to people's appearance in a very short amount of time,Sad i hope I'm wrong.😢
Congratulations on putting together such a fine documentary and a great tribute to John. I started skateboarding when you swiped a steel wheeled roller skate, tore it in half, and nailed it to a 2x4. Pebbles, cracks, and twigs would put you on the ground! I graduated to clay wheels and laminated Hobie/Vita-Pakt skateboards. I got hooked again at 25 with an NHS deck, Bennett trucks, and urethane Road Rider 4s. Banks, street racing, pools, pipes and the new skateparks fueled me until my knees finally gave up on me. BUT.....My kids got raised surfing, skateboarding, hunting and fishing.... and my Grandson loves riding between his Dads' legs just like my boys did. Nor-Cal skating will never die!
Hey James, thanks for the awesome documentary. Growing up in Australia and starting skating in the early 80's in a town called Albany with one of the oldest skateparks in the world that is now heritage listed I feel blessed to be a part of the world community of skaters who only know that feeling. I had never heard of the N-men but a big fan now, thanks for your perseverance with such a great film.
As a 55 year old ( not actually skating at the moment) but this film is making me rethink that . Great film , really well done . Thank you. Cheers Chris
I am a 60 year old man from Tennessee and started skateboarding in the mid-70s. My dad had a skate shop until the early 80s. I always bought the skate mags and couldn’t wait till the next issue came out. We didn’t have any parks close to where we lived but we built our own ramps and would travel 3-4 hours to skate at parks in other states. I of course knew about the Z-boys and Dog Town but never knew anything about the N Men. I am glad to find this information because I pride myself on knowing skateboarding history. It’s to bad the N Men didn’t get Recognition in the magazines back in the day. At one point in time even here in Tennessee we had a group of guys that could skate pretty dang good and probably a lot better than people might think. We had a few pools every year that got emptied that we skated until the cops were called. I feel like you have to get to a certain level of skateboarding to really really appreciate it and the history. Thanks for the video! 🤙🤙🤙
What a SICK documentary! It’s awesome y’all found Bill Golding and went about finding him straight up OLD SKOOL style. This is RAD boys! Thank you! I’m in my 40s, but grew up skating and my older cousins ripped, like…this brings MORE than my childhood back in floods, but reminds me why I still have a board.
What an incredible story. And so well told and edited. Ive been riding a skateboard since 85 and this is new inspiration to keep going. I hope Doug gets back on his board and rolls with the NMen again.
I'm an 80s BMX rider and I still ride. I got into skateboarding as a side thing in 1986 because BMX magazines would feature skaters as well. I must say that the history of BOnes Brigade and this documentary are the best i have ever seen in my life! such beautiful documentary's. Stay Rad guys!!!!
I’m 49 and ordered my first skateboard in 25+ years 3 days ago. I soo look forward to skateboarding again. Not necessarily to do the shit I did as a teenager but like you said it was a brotherhood of friends who skateboarded everyday together forum sunrise to past sunset. Thanks for sharing.
Im 49 for a few more weeks and love to go to all the local parks and carve and slash around. Good exercise and this doc helps us remember how special this has been in our lives. Ive met others my age at the parks in the last few years. Good luck
Randy’s Dad lived one house down from me. Troop 3! I was kickin my board my mom bought me. I said something like this board sucks. Randy came out of nowhere and took my board and did a handstand all the way down the street. I was friends with Steve and Jodie. Glad I found this video. I still skate. 50 years old now. My next deck is an N-Men deck. I’m in Klamath Falls Or. now. ROWYCO!
Thanks Ron Camron for mentioning my name. I would have thought at least one still shot of me. Sour grape’s. It was cool to see my old friends and learn of riders I never heard of very cool. Fix the audio it cut out five times, I didn’t get to hear a word Pokey said, that was the biggest bummer. I give it six stars out of five. -Gumby
hey bruh, this was awesome. Hey Doug, your homeboys came and got you, that`s priceless. that was the best part for me besides the photos and the skating. Salutations from Barcelona.
Thank you for the kind words. It is fixed now! Sorry for the hassle. I had to raise hell to get them to fix the audio and they did. It wasn't Stash it was TH-cam, even though I had permission and licensed all the music, for some reason they cut out a bunch of it. Good to go now, see what you missed.
Thank you for the kind words. It is fixed now! Sorry for the hassle. I had to raise hell to get them to fix the audio and they did. It wasn't Stash it was TH-cam, even though I had permission and licensed all the music, for some reason they cut out a bunch of it. Good to go now, see what you missed.
Thank you for the kind words. It is fixed now! Sorry for the hassle. I had to raise hell to get them to fix the audio and they did. It wasn't Stash it was TH-cam, even though I had permission and licensed all the music, for some reason they cut out a bunch of it. Good to go now, see what you missed.
Wow. Havent heard these names in well over 30 years. A kid from Sac-town moved to Long Island where i'm from, in the very early 80's . 80 or 81 I think, he saw us skating a half pipe one day, actully he just saw a skateboard in the air(no human attached to it) over the 10' fence as he was driving past with his mom. He knocked on the gate after begging his mother to turn around, and you could just see how stoked he was to find some of his own in a new section of the world. We hung out quit a bit after that , and he took to that 70's style death ramp like he'd been skating it his whole life. Absolute ripper, and it was through him where I learned of the legend of the N Men, as we would always pester him to tell us more about California, back then the dream was still alive and well, and thats where we all wanted to go. My how times have changed haha. Sadly his mother got fired from her job after a year, they packed up and went back to Sacremento.Even worse, I cant even remember his real name, we just called him Stymie, cause no matter what trick we pulled, he would drop right in and do it 5 times better, with way more style...Stymied again!!
Thank you for the kind words. It is fixed now! Sorry for the hassle. I had to raise hell to get them to fix the audio and they did. It wasn't Stash it was TH-cam, even though I had permission and licensed all the music, for some reason they cut out a bunch of it. Good to go now, see what you missed.
It is fixed now! Sorry for the hassle. I had to raise hell to get them to fix the audio and they did. It wasn't Stash it was TH-cam, even though I had permission and licensed all the music, for some reason they cut out a bunch of it. Good to go now, see what you missed.
It is fixed now! Sorry for the hassle. I had to raise hell to get them to fix the audio and they did. It wasn't Stash it was TH-cam, even though I had permission and licensed all the music, for some reason they cut out a bunch of it. Good to go now, see what you missed.
It is fixed now! Sorry for the hassle. I had to raise hell to get them to fix the audio and they did. It wasn't Stash it was TH-cam, even though I had permission and licensed all the music, for some reason they cut out a bunch of it. Good to go now, see what you missed.
They fixed it. Error on You Tube's part. James the filmmaker here, they apologized and corrected it. I hope you try it again and enjoy what you missed.
I remember one day in Fresno California, I was skating down the street to go see a Betty, and these dudes where painting a gas station, I noticed a bunch of skate stickers, and Randy and fish , and rob , and they said, hey man, do you know where any pools are, I said yes,, and took them to a square pool , that I would skate, it was deep with 3 ft vert. They ripped it apart, corner frontside air's . That's when I met them,, the sacto boys, where just as crazy as the Fresno boys..😂. Hello old friend, Axel g rind. Say's hello from Fresno..✌️
They fixed it. Error on You Tube's part. James the filmmaker here, they apologized and corrected it. I hope you try it again and enjoy what you missed.
They fixed it. Error on You Tube's part. James the filmmaker here, they apologized and corrected it. I hope you try it again and enjoy what you missed.
Update: Okay, sorry. Didn't realize TH-cam was at fault. I didn't know anything about Stash and thought it might be a pirate, clickbait type channel. I fixed it. I gave it a like, a sub, and I'll rewatch the documentary 🙏
Thank for all the comments, y'all. This is James the filmmaker, it was you all that gave me the heads up they inadvertently chopped a bunch of the audio. It wasn't Stash, it was TH-cam's good old AI not knowing I had licensed and purchased all of the music for this film. I apologize for the issue but Stash was great in helping get it fixed and now it is all up in its entirety. Enjoy!
Keeping the roots and history alive for the gens yet to come, thanks James.
Thanks for making this. A great insight into mostly unknown history. It left me wondering what happened to John OShea? He came back a year later looking worse for wear then died within the year after that? Incredibly sad, was great to see him and Doug reunited.
@@robertcrystals Thank you. If you watch it again, as a lot of people are inclined to do, you hear John projecting through the whole film, everything he says, he's speaking about himself.
Great documentary, very emotional and beautiful ❤
Cheers
I've been wanting more history of Northern Cali. Everyone always talks about South Cali. Thanks for the video bro. ♥️🤙🏻
‘You send the kooks to the decoys and you skate the good stuff” 😂 this is so rad. Had no idea my city’s skateboard history went this deep
well said! well made !! 😊
Stoked. Skateboarding History. The still imagery rules. 🔥
Thank you for making this film. Somehow, I grew up skating in the Bay Area in the 70s and 80s, and until now, had never heard of the N Men. Thanks for the history lesson. Well done.
Not going to lie,I got super emotional watching Doug and John Hook back up after 30years.Dont even know them but its super relatable as we all have friends that we've lost and would give anything to have that moment again 🤙
Watched a bit further and it looks like John has joined Doug on the pipe......I may be wrong but I know what that shit can do to people's appearance in a very short amount of time,Sad i hope I'm wrong.😢
@@just_golds that was my initial thought too... Sad either way.
Yeah that’s what I assumed, that they hung out and he slid into Doug’s habit. Not sure though, a heartbreaking ending.
Hell yeah. That’s so sick. I felt so happy for him.
Congratulations on putting together such a fine documentary and a great tribute to John.
I started skateboarding when you swiped a steel wheeled roller skate, tore it in half, and nailed it to a 2x4. Pebbles, cracks, and twigs would put you on the ground! I graduated to clay wheels and laminated Hobie/Vita-Pakt skateboards. I got hooked again at 25 with an NHS deck, Bennett trucks, and urethane Road Rider 4s. Banks, street racing, pools, pipes and the new skateparks fueled me until my knees finally gave up on me. BUT.....My kids got raised surfing, skateboarding, hunting and fishing.... and my Grandson loves riding between his Dads' legs just like my boys did. Nor-Cal skating will never die!
Hey James, thanks for the awesome documentary. Growing up in Australia and starting skating in the early 80's in a town called Albany with one of the oldest skateparks in the world that is now heritage listed I feel blessed to be a part of the world community of skaters who only know that feeling. I had never heard of the N-men but a big fan now, thanks for your perseverance with such a great film.
As a 55 year old ( not actually skating at the moment) but this film is making me rethink that . Great film , really well done . Thank you.
Cheers Chris
Glad that you enjoyed it!
There are parks everywhere to carve the curves. Im 50 not super active but I still roll and slash. This story was so inspiring
I am a 60 year old man from Tennessee and started skateboarding in the mid-70s. My dad had a skate shop until the early 80s. I always bought the skate mags and couldn’t wait till the next issue came out. We didn’t have any parks close to where we lived but we built our own ramps and would travel 3-4 hours to skate at parks in other states. I of course knew about the Z-boys and Dog Town but never knew anything about the N Men. I am glad to find this information because I pride myself on knowing skateboarding history. It’s to bad the N Men didn’t get Recognition in the magazines back in the day. At one point in time even here in Tennessee we had a group of guys that could skate pretty dang good and probably a lot better than people might think. We had a few pools every year that got emptied that we skated until the cops were called. I feel like you have to get to a certain level of skateboarding to really really appreciate it and the history. Thanks for the video! 🤙🤙🤙
Wow..That hug tore me up..
That dude sure knows how to take a good photo. Incredible past guys . Thank you for skateboarding.
I saw this at the Crest when it came out last summer... I wish this had audio all the way through
Try now, they fixed it!
no skateboard, no life! thank you for putting this together 🙏 stay badass, hell ya !!! 🤘🏼
Great work! This was awesome … I have watched it at least 10 times. This is what skating is all about
That was an awesome Doc Loved it!!!
Bill Goldings pictures are incredible!!!!💪
What a SICK documentary! It’s awesome y’all found Bill Golding and went about finding him straight up OLD SKOOL style. This is RAD boys! Thank you! I’m in my 40s, but grew up skating and my older cousins ripped, like…this brings MORE than my childhood back in floods, but reminds me why I still have a board.
I've been skating since I was 13 in 83 and never knew about them. This was SO good! Glad I was alone though. My eyes got a little wet.
What an incredible story. And so well told and edited. Ive been riding a skateboard since 85 and this is new inspiration to keep going. I hope Doug gets back on his board and rolls with the NMen again.
I'm an 80s BMX rider and I still ride. I got into skateboarding as a side thing in 1986 because BMX magazines would feature skaters as well. I must say that the history of BOnes Brigade and this documentary are the best i have ever seen in my life! such beautiful documentary's. Stay Rad guys!!!!
Im 50 and still BMX and skate. This story was really inspiring
Met Randy a couple years ago and had no idea he was in such an iconic movement. ROCK ON
I’m 49 and ordered my first skateboard in 25+ years 3 days ago. I soo look forward to skateboarding again. Not necessarily to do the shit I did as a teenager but like you said it was a brotherhood of friends who skateboarded everyday together forum sunrise to past sunset. Thanks for sharing.
Im 49 for a few more weeks and love to go to all the local parks and carve and slash around. Good exercise and this doc helps us remember how special this has been in our lives. Ive met others my age at the parks in the last few years. Good luck
23:29 Wait... Did Tony Alva just say the N-Men were just as great, if not better, than the Dog Town Guys?! That should be the tagline for this film.
Damn those still by Golding were gold.
Randy’s Dad lived one house down from me. Troop 3! I was kickin my board my mom bought me. I said something like this board sucks. Randy came out of nowhere and took my board and did a handstand all the way down the street. I was friends with Steve and Jodie. Glad I found this video. I still skate. 50 years old now. My next deck is an N-Men deck. I’m in Klamath Falls Or. now. ROWYCO!
Thanks Ron Camron for mentioning my name. I would have thought at least one still shot of me. Sour grape’s. It was cool to see my old friends and learn of riders I never heard of very cool. Fix the audio it cut out five times, I didn’t get to hear a word Pokey said, that was the biggest bummer. I give it six stars out of five. -Gumby
It was important to Ron to get you in there.
ride on!! : )
hey bruh, this was awesome. Hey Doug, your homeboys came and got you, that`s priceless. that was the best part for me besides the photos and the skating. Salutations from Barcelona.
Fixed!!
Many audio drops but ver important one that drives the story
@56:00 - @59:30
Thank you for the kind words. It is fixed now! Sorry for the hassle. I had to raise hell to get them to fix the audio and they did. It wasn't Stash it was TH-cam, even though I had permission and licensed all the music, for some reason they cut out a bunch of it. Good to go now, see what you missed.
@stash_freedocumentaries what's up with the spots missing audio?
I guess it might be copyright strikes for the background songs :-(
Thank you for the kind words. It is fixed now! Sorry for the hassle. I had to raise hell to get them to fix the audio and they did. It wasn't Stash it was TH-cam, even though I had permission and licensed all the music, for some reason they cut out a bunch of it. Good to go now, see what you missed.
Love the video but I had a lot of dead spots with the audio.
Might be copyright claims on the music? Just a guess
Thank you for the kind words. It is fixed now! Sorry for the hassle. I had to raise hell to get them to fix the audio and they did. It wasn't Stash it was TH-cam, even though I had permission and licensed all the music, for some reason they cut out a bunch of it. Good to go now, see what you missed.
Wow. Havent heard these names in well over 30 years. A kid from Sac-town moved to Long Island where i'm from, in the very early 80's . 80 or 81 I think, he saw us skating a half pipe one day, actully he just saw a skateboard in the air(no human attached to it) over the 10' fence as he was driving past with his mom. He knocked on the gate after begging his mother to turn around, and you could just see how stoked he was to find some of his own in a new section of the world.
We hung out quit a bit after that , and he took to that 70's style death ramp like he'd been skating it his whole life. Absolute ripper, and it was through him where I learned of the legend of the N Men, as we would always pester him to tell us more about California, back then the dream was still alive and well, and thats where we all wanted to go. My how times have changed haha.
Sadly his mother got fired from her job after a year, they packed up and went back to Sacremento.Even worse, I cant even remember his real name, we just called him Stymie, cause no matter what trick we pulled, he would drop right in and do it 5 times better, with way more style...Stymied again!!
Pretty cool you got Corey Webster narrating
great documentary i enjoyed it keep up the good work , love from uk
The Audio has been fixed!!!!
Can someone transcribe the missing audio for me real quick? Thanks in advance.
I was just wondering if anyone else was experiencing the missing audio.
Yeah it is missing.Very disappointing it's a good documentary and that just makes it less enjoyable
Thank you for the kind words. It is fixed now! Sorry for the hassle. I had to raise hell to get them to fix the audio and they did. It wasn't Stash it was TH-cam, even though I had permission and licensed all the music, for some reason they cut out a bunch of it. Good to go now, see what you missed.
Thank god the meagre audio was fixed!
Lol! Doug is like my pal, Matt Wigley from Bean, who disappered many moons ago!!
Great Doc! thanks for sharing
The Audio has been fixed!!!!
Whats with the missing audio? I was into it up to that
FIXED! Sorry everyone.
Great documentary, but wish audio was better.
It is fixed now! Sorry for the hassle. I had to raise hell to get them to fix the audio and they did. It wasn't Stash it was TH-cam, even though I had permission and licensed all the music, for some reason they cut out a bunch of it. Good to go now, see what you missed.
The audio gets cut at 8:19 😢
Copyright strike ?
It is fixed now! Sorry for the hassle. I had to raise hell to get them to fix the audio and they did. It wasn't Stash it was TH-cam, even though I had permission and licensed all the music, for some reason they cut out a bunch of it. Good to go now, see what you missed.
Why is some of the audio cutting out?
It is fixed now! Sorry for the hassle. I had to raise hell to get them to fix the audio and they did. It wasn't Stash it was TH-cam, even though I had permission and licensed all the music, for some reason they cut out a bunch of it. Good to go now, see what you missed.
Super Rad 👍🏼
Please fix the sound drops. This documentary is to important to even miss a second of it.
Fixed!!!!
Is the audio drop out from copyright ?
They fixed it. Error on You Tube's part. James the filmmaker here, they apologized and corrected it. I hope you try it again and enjoy what you missed.
I remember one day in Fresno California, I was skating down the street to go see a Betty, and these dudes where painting a gas station, I noticed a bunch of skate stickers, and Randy and fish , and rob , and they said, hey man, do you know where any pools are, I said yes,, and took them to a square pool , that I would skate, it was deep with 3 ft vert. They ripped it apart, corner frontside air's . That's when I met them,, the sacto boys, where just as crazy as the Fresno boys..😂. Hello old friend, Axel g rind. Say's hello from Fresno..✌️
Damn thanks 🎉❤👊
Классный фильм! Было увлекательно его смотреть!
I went the glory hole once in the mid 90’s with the palace team out of Portland. Really incredible experience.
That was some gnarly shit. Patrick UK still shredding cones at 57!
💙💙💙
There is stiLL PLenty GoLd in oLd GoLd Country . . .
Holy shit Greg Kuehn did the music
❤❤❤
Fuck yeah brothers.
Y does Jay Leno keep showing up in these docs?, his stupid steam powered cars and his weird creep pants
Skateboarding is not a "sport". It's transportation to go play sports.
JA
It's honestly karma after how y'all treated bladers tht now u get to taste your sport is dead
Stopped watching less then 25% in. The sound kept cutting out
They fixed it. Error on You Tube's part. James the filmmaker here, they apologized and corrected it. I hope you try it again and enjoy what you missed.
Disliked and no sub from me because of the audio issues. The documentary itself, though, is great.
They fixed it. Error on You Tube's part. James the filmmaker here, they apologized and corrected it. I hope you try it again and enjoy what you missed.
Update: Okay, sorry. Didn't realize TH-cam was at fault. I didn't know anything about Stash and thought it might be a pirate, clickbait type channel. I fixed it. I gave it a like, a sub, and I'll rewatch the documentary 🙏
please fix that audio issue!
FIXED! Sorry everyone.