Yeah all skateboarding is cool no matter what style, SK8 or die! This is a great video and the year I was born! I started in 87 skating and I appreciate all of it.
I was there,still have the ticket stub! went there Steve day and Paul barrios,Steve is the eventer of the handstand kick flip and the 180 h.k.f. Steve drove us in the grasshopper, a green citron,Bently motor, like rolls royce. we met up with Russ howell, our mentor, and friend . Russell was our major influence!!! contrary to a lie in a major movie ,Russ ripped at parks and bowls . he was a animal, a magician on a skateboard
Wow, never thought I would see a video of this competition. I was represented by Switzerland. The Swiss Landsurfers Club. I won the European Championship in Downhill and the prize was a trip to Longbeach.I did the slalom, with all the EuropeansThnx for the video.❤
Wow. I’m 18 and some of these events looked really cool. It feels like some of these tricks could never be pulled off with modern skateboards. Free styling comes to mind. That looked awesome. I’d love to see that kind of stuff today.
I use a fiberglass Wayne brown skateboard Bought at their shop in Huntington Beach California. Bennett trucks and the first Sims pure juice wheels they ever made. I busted so many fee Stroud tricks handstands kick flips nose riding wheelie's tail riding wheelies with one foot barrel jumps you name it. The board had a very mellow kick in the back no kick in the front. Very lightweight board there was 27 inches long and 5 inches wide. Perfect for freestyle.
Æ N I Ǝ M A don’t quit on that man. Your joints are designed to last for a crazy amount of time. Look into some of this new wave of physical therapy and reclaim your movement. Look into Donnie Thompson’s “low back protocols”, Louis Simmons reverse hyperextension, and in general, kelly starret has a lot of free information in regards to increasing and improving mobility. Donnie Thompson is pure gold. He was a power lifter who set a world record back squat at 44 years old (1260 lbs). He attributes his longevity to very unorthodox rehab methods. Personally, at 32, knee surgery, a broken orbital wall, a near complete tear of my Achilles,; I’ve never been more agile in my life. I picked up the skateboard again with a brand new Perspective on movement and control.
9:58 - I never realized how much of an influence on Mullen that Russ Howell had, but the section of his run shown here is almost move for move identical. Kind of refreshing to see
having just gotten into skating last year I thought the gorilla grip was a joke trick for beginners who couldn't ollie, and here it is in competition before the ollie was even invented for flatground 8:47 pretty amazing to see it done so well.
Ed Nadalin would gorilla grip.& jump bikes at Huntington Beach. I liked jumping over people. Get 4-5 on there hands and knees, & go. I'm grateful I never landed on anyone.
I remember getting my first skateboard with polyurethane wheels around 1978 or so. My friend’s brother built a wooden ramp in their driveway which we practiced 180s on. Board sports have been part of my life since that time. I credit California skate/surf culture for its influence to us kids growing up in the Midwest 🛹 🏂 🏄♀️
I'm 46 years old. When I was a kid I dreamed of living in southern California.It seemed like the best place on earth. It's a far cry from what it was in those days. Damn shame to such a beautiful place.
I grew up surfing and skating here in So Cal....Los Angeles county Santa monica, venice, south bay... I still live here.. But the open border has turned LA in to a 3rd world overpopulated dump.. blows. not leaving no matter how fucked the latino invaders make it here.....
My first skateboard was "The Shark" My parents ordered from the Sears Catalog in the 70's. The good ole days of tube socks, burgers and fries, Orange Crush soda, and scateboarding. 🥰
Skitch Hitchcock also did Gorilla Grip jumps-his main stunt. I saw a demo of him in 1976 at Golf Mill, Niles, IL, age 11. Mom bought me his signature board-a flat fiberglass deck w/ urethane wheels, but loose bearings!
@@king_torre_calchi2242 yeah, that girl can definitely get it: thicc, stacked, and flexible. I think Ellen and I can invent a few variations of the Spider.
Wow. Flashback time. I think I got my first skateboard in about 1974. Maybe by the time of this competition I was using wheels wider than the trucks on a really narrow board and wondering why things became unstable when going downhill. It probably was something like a a Sims Taperkick board with sims Bowl Rider wheels and ACS 430 trucks sitting on 1/2" risers.
They still do a flip trick in this video, the old school kickflip which was done back then without the Ollie. You just stick one foot on the side of the board and flip it to the side and land on it. The Ollie kickflip is just an update to this and was invented by Mullen and is what we think of as a kickflip today but essentially it’s the same trick but just Ollieing into it.
This is when I started skateboarding at 12 years old. I grew up during the time when boards wheels and trucks were getting better and better by the year. Living in Tennessee we didn’t have the great parks like California but we started building our own ramps. I am proud to say that I was able to skate into the 1990s. There was only one or two friends of mine that truly took skateboarding seriously. We would travel to Georgia,Alabama and Florida to go to the parks to ride pools, bowls, snake runs and 1/2 pipes. Me and one of my friends got good enough to grind coping and do frontside and backside airs plus hand plants foot plants among other tricks. I think my buddy and I did pretty good coming from a area in the country with very little to ride. I know this sounds like a brag but I don’t mean it that way. It is because this video brings back memories of my beginning in the art of boarding. At least I know the people watching this video enjoys boarding and would appreciate the effort my buddy and I put into it.🤙🤙🤙
@Jamey Craig If you think skateboarding was dead in the early 90s you were either a big-arena vert skater or simply not paying attention. H-Street "Next Generation" and Plan B "Questionable" both came out in 1992 and are now acknowledged as classics full of heavyweight skating. Way, Cardiel, Agah and Carroll were the SOTYs. Switch skating first appeared. Mullen learned to skate street. Tom Penny appeared. Skateboarding was at a crucial stage and the evolution of tricks and culture in that period was incredible.
These are the older kids us 80s kids wanted to hang out with, but we werent cool enuff, until we started skatin'!! Then I'd slam hella hard and show off my bloody face to them...and theyd cheer!!! Ya!!!! Man I miss the 80s you guys!!!
Desaray Von Esson I was in love... She eventually worked in the pro shop atbthe Endless Wave in Oxnard... she was SO sweet...this was my era then in the 80's it became all vert.
Went to school with some of these people, one being Ellen Berryman, who went on to become a great field biologist, and who I'm proud to call a Facebook friend.
Funny but they seriously didnt feel that way back then. And that was back when grip tape was something you put on porch stairs. But looking back and still riding today yeah my ankles hurt just looking at them.
That blond dude with the stache rode for Hobie, I believe....Russ Howell? Man, I followed skateboarding and motocross so much in those days. Still love my Road Riders #4!
I was 5 in 1976 by 1985 me and my Brother were skating all over town sliding hand rails olieing off the highest set of stairs used to skate half pipe at skate jungle fun times!
I'd love to take someone like Tyshawn back in time with a few completes and blown some minds lol. "He jumped over a picnic table! No, with the same board! Like the board he started with! It went over the table too! I don't know how he did it!"
It's kinda crazy seeing this and noticing that at the time skateboarding was heading more towards popular culture than counter culture where it resided for a few decades. It took 44 years from this point to have skateboarding recognized as an Olympic sport, but I can help but think that it should have happened faster. I don't know why or exactly when, but somewhere along the line skateboarding went underground and stayed there for a good 25-30 years.
Kory Hermann Yes indeedy, but our sport is pretty complex these days. Flatland, street style ramps, vert ramps and slalom will hopefully the format. And maybe even huge distance and height comps too.
Awesome! Please add Henry Hester's slalom victory at around 7 min as one of the Key Moments. And the high jump winner at 7.40. And also Chris Chaput's freestyle victory at 10.55
Did you see this video? I as a skater since 88 who still skates 4 times per week for an hour and more have to say... kudos. No skater today can do what they can do. We are all stiff non flexible motherfuckers now trying to be hard and tough doing a very limited set of tricks.
@@TheAlphaFlamingo ... he did ride fly without a grab over the coping. The ollie on flat changed it all. Airing over the coping without a real ollie is not the same influential trick. Rodney was just to shy to claim it.
@@oskargarden4559 💯Rodney Mullen is from a generation that encouraged creativity and he was just doing wild shit. The "standardized" shit is nothing other than people copying a bunch of moves from innovators. I give MORE props to these kids doing original shit than copy trick from skate vids. Sure, jumping off 50 stairs on some parkour skating shit is gnarly and all, but it isn't foundation, style, or original.
Back in the day (75-76), contest skaters were performing compulsory “tricks” like 360’s, nose wheelies or slalom racing which would soon be blown away by vertical and pool riding as far as public interest was concerned. In fact vertical and pool riding kinda replaced the older ways just like the short board surfing revolution in the mid late 60’s. Many top performers found themselves less relevant as the eighties approached and the vertical and aerial era was already in full swing. It was in 77’ at Skateopia that George Orton’s radical, frontside, goofy foot attack would eventually take to the air. An empty pool of a classmate had irregular and large coping one had to avoid at the top. Those physical dynamics led to his abilities above the coping. As developed and showed off his new move, others jumped on the bandwagon like with any hot moves of the day, diluting Orton’s own pioneering radical aerial ways! Even Alva acknowledged Orton’s aerials we’re the first he’d seen, even though he tried to impugn the maneuver by referring to his earlier efforts as “bunny hops” (Skateboarder Magazine July 77’). Perhaps Tony had witnessed the future as George “Wildman” Orton was a pioneer in developing the most radical move in ALL action sports “ the Frontside Aerial”!
I am not a skateboarder but why has this vanished? I'd love to see especially an artistic interpretation, similar to ice skating. They obviously tried a lot of pioneer stuff but much is so nice. Why is all of this gone in modern skateboarding?
@@nkmcfrln I don't understand why you always feel the need to start interactions with total strangers by calling them a dirty name !?!?! Are you that miserable with your pathetically lame life that you feel the need to bash on everything and everyone !?!!?!???
@@youknowit1916 I have encountered this spaz boy on a few other comments sections of other videos about skateboarding and also he was talking trash on some guitar related videos, or maybe it was boss pedals !? Any way dudes a total fucking troll or just really really bad at come backs😉
@aunt jenifer And of course somebody that believes that the world is flat is following me around and posting multiple comments about me when I’ve said nothing to them.
The 'flip kick' haha, I think that's what Steve Olsen meant when he said the original kick flip on the nine club, I tried one yesterday and got it first go, so grippy though, using the sides of your board instead of the kicks(obviously they didn't really have kicks back in them days, but yea, pretty easy just wrap your toes around the edges of the sides and flip it.
They WERE called kickflips back then. The toe curl kickflip in bare feet was a variation on the gorilla grip approach to portable mini ramp Aerials by the likes of Skitch Hitchcock and Ed Nadalin. I met Ed Nadalin in 1977 while streetskating. He was world freestyle champ at the time (according to one competition organizer at least) I saw him do the 'gorilla grip' type toe kickflip, the parallel footed old school kickflip and a front kick toe flip. I did my first parallel footed kickflip one week later. Ed was an incredibly fluid freestyle rider. Very fast at footwork and consistent at spins nosewheelies etc. Still would look good freestyle wise today I think. Yes, Isamu Kilian and Mullen of course have taken it further from the likes of Andress, Hitchcock, Howell, Nadalin, Page, Saladino and Martinez but these guys were the base of early freestyle and streetskating. I know, I was there, as a kid! Just as Z boys kick-started early vert and bowl. Both styles kind of met in the middle despite what some have said. Adams and Alva did good nosewheelies too!
I'm 52 and saw some of these riders in the day. The Free Former team went on tour one or two years earlier and they came to Six Flags in Gurnee Illinois (was probably called something different then). I still ride. Mostly mini ramps and halfpipes - and I ride hard; still learn tricks. Frontside (grab) disaster to boardslide was the latest trick that even surprised me. Occasionally I make it out to the nearest bowl (it's in the Czech Republic) and attempt to learn how to ride it. Every once in a while I do an original kick flip for the kids....people under forty. And Olsen! "Bulky Olsen!" I even had a Steve Cathey G&S Fiberflex board! Great skaters back in the day! (There are great skaters in every day, though!) Cheers from Dresden!
I'd love to see current pro skaters do an old timey competition like this. It would be hilarious.
njt002 Yeah and on the boards from back then.
That actually sounds logs the greatest skate competition ever !!!!
just look up freestyle competions. they still exist and use weird ass boards
They will be. It's called the Olympics.
That freestyle has been ignored by the Olympic Committee just goes to show they are only in it for the cool points and not the sportsmanship
Even though the skateboarding skills have advanced, as a true skater, you gotta love and appreciate this.
VAL13C nah
Deathringer its an 80s generation thing. You wouldn’t understand.
Yeah all skateboarding is cool no matter what style, SK8 or die! This is a great video and the year I was born! I started in 87 skating and I appreciate all of it.
Advanced, hell no, we've gone backwards in terms of street skating
@@val13c59 70s
Woman, man, elders, kids, disabled, all about having fun and skate :D That was beautyful. Thanks!
All white, not a colored person in sight
@@c0ntag10n uh no I saw other people of race in the documentary and why does it matter anyways
but we're back to 12 different kinds of bathrooms 😂😂🤦🏻♀️
You can see how Rodney Mullen faithfully adopted the old school flowing surf style. Great video
I was there,still have the ticket stub! went there Steve day and Paul barrios,Steve is the eventer of the handstand kick flip and the 180 h.k.f. Steve drove us in the grasshopper, a green citron,Bently motor, like rolls royce. we met up with Russ howell, our mentor, and friend . Russell was our major influence!!! contrary to a lie in a major movie ,Russ ripped at parks and bowls . he was a animal, a magician on a skateboard
Ah memories.
lol jk i wasnt even born then
What are their thoughts on current skateboard?
Thank you for sharing and contribution. 76 the year I was born. Grew up on on skateboarding. I love it
Isaac Pulido same here August 18 1976 it was a great year😂😳😂
Wow , that is just awsome .
Wow, never thought I would see a video of this competition. I was represented by Switzerland. The Swiss Landsurfers Club. I won the European Championship in Downhill and the prize was a trip to Longbeach.I did the slalom, with all the EuropeansThnx for the video.❤
Wow. I’m 18 and some of these events looked really cool. It feels like some of these tricks could never be pulled off with modern skateboards. Free styling comes to mind. That looked awesome. I’d love to see that kind of stuff today.
I use a fiberglass Wayne brown skateboard Bought at their shop in Huntington Beach California. Bennett trucks and the first Sims pure juice wheels they ever made. I busted so many fee Stroud tricks handstands kick flips nose riding wheelie's tail riding wheelies with one foot barrel jumps you name it. The board had a very mellow kick in the back no kick in the front. Very lightweight board there was 27 inches long and 5 inches wide. Perfect for freestyle.
6 months after this Rodney Mullen would get his first skateboard
@Æ N I Ǝ M A Start skate again :D
@Æ N I Ǝ M A im 30 and i started skating again after 15 years
The end lol
I was just about to give this comment
Æ N I Ǝ M A don’t quit on that man. Your joints are designed to last for a crazy amount of time.
Look into some of this new wave of physical therapy and reclaim your movement.
Look into Donnie Thompson’s “low back protocols”, Louis Simmons reverse hyperextension, and in general, kelly starret has a lot of free information in regards to increasing and improving mobility.
Donnie Thompson is pure gold. He was a power lifter who set a world record back squat at 44 years old (1260 lbs). He attributes his longevity to very unorthodox rehab methods.
Personally, at 32, knee surgery, a broken orbital wall, a near complete tear of my Achilles,; I’ve never been more agile in my life. I picked up the skateboard again with a brand new Perspective on movement and control.
9:58 - I never realized how much of an influence on Mullen that Russ Howell had, but the section of his run shown here is almost move for move identical. Kind of refreshing to see
When tony alva and jay adams showed up on the scene they changed skateboarding from gymnastics on wheels to what it is today
Straight up! You can sure see the influence that guys like Russ Howell, Ty Page, and Bruce Logan had on this group.
But was that change for the better or did it make it a completely different type of competition.
Yep! Z-boys & Dog Town
@@ItsFinishedRuss Howell was in video
having just gotten into skating last year I thought the gorilla grip was a joke trick for beginners who couldn't ollie, and here it is in competition before the ollie was even invented for flatground 8:47 pretty amazing to see it done so well.
Modern skateboarding is about big dangerous air time. As a sport it has changed.
Ed Nadalin would gorilla grip.& jump bikes at Huntington Beach. I liked jumping over people. Get 4-5 on there hands and knees, & go. I'm grateful I never landed on anyone.
I remember getting my first skateboard with polyurethane wheels around 1978 or so. My friend’s brother built a wooden ramp in their driveway which we practiced 180s on. Board sports have been part of my life since that time. I credit California skate/surf culture for its influence to us kids growing up in the Midwest 🛹 🏂 🏄♀️
I'm 46 years old. When I was a kid I dreamed of living in southern California.It seemed like the best place on earth. It's a far cry from what it was in those days. Damn shame to such a beautiful place.
woodie will yes sir
Guess I’m lucky!
I grew up surfing and skating here in So Cal....Los Angeles county
Santa monica, venice, south bay...
I still live here..
But the open border has turned LA in to a 3rd world overpopulated dump..
blows.
not leaving no matter how fucked the latino invaders make it here.....
@@fucketaboutit racist much
@Jamey Craig lol what are you on about
Wow I see Russ Howell I think.....I won in the Cadillac Bahne National Championships in 1976 in Salt Lake City
this video gave me the feels.. miss the 70s
My first skateboard was "The Shark" My parents ordered from the Sears Catalog in the 70's. The good ole days of tube socks, burgers and fries, Orange Crush soda, and scateboarding. 🥰
Skitch Hitchcock also did Gorilla Grip jumps-his main stunt. I saw a demo of him in 1976 at Golf Mill, Niles, IL, age 11. Mom bought me his signature board-a flat fiberglass deck w/ urethane wheels, but loose bearings!
I liked how you called a skateboard trick a stunt, so old school!!! 😀
1:11 I wore socks like these while cruising on my Quicksilver board. I’m 59 now and I’m cruising on an Element. I lost the socks.
Chicas looking good back in the day.
That Desiree hyna was thick
Seriously. Women's style was so much better back then.
@@king_torre_calchi2242 yeah, that girl can definitely get it: thicc, stacked, and flexible.
I think Ellen and I can invent a few variations of the Spider.
Yup. 2020 chicas take note.
Wow. Flashback time. I think I got my first skateboard in about 1974. Maybe by the time of this competition I was using wheels wider than the trucks on a really narrow board and wondering why things became unstable when going downhill. It probably was something like a a Sims Taperkick board with sims Bowl Rider wheels and ACS 430 trucks sitting on 1/2" risers.
Yeah I knew they had to be some of those SIMS pure juice wheels....they made the longest
"Improvements followed" is now my new way of summing up how something got better or more adaptive for others.
I like the fact that different disciplines challenged skaters like speed, jump and so on. Not „just“ best trick over/on something.
Flip tricks are cool but these old tricks are dope af too. My man doing headspins at 10:35!
All those free style trick can't be done by today kids in 2019.
@@denoc817
Are you sure about that. They may be able to carry out the tick but how would they do in the competition back then?
They still do a flip trick in this video, the old school kickflip which was done back then without the Ollie. You just stick one foot on the side of the board and flip it to the side and land on it. The Ollie kickflip is just an update to this and was invented by Mullen and is what we think of as a kickflip today but essentially it’s the same trick but just Ollieing into it.
This is when I started skateboarding at 12 years old. I grew up during the time when boards wheels and trucks were getting better and better by the year. Living in Tennessee we didn’t have the great parks like California but we started building our own ramps. I am proud to say that I was able to skate into the 1990s. There was only one or two friends of mine that truly took skateboarding seriously. We would travel to Georgia,Alabama and Florida to go to the parks to ride pools, bowls, snake runs and 1/2 pipes. Me and one of my friends got good enough to grind coping and do frontside and backside airs plus hand plants foot plants among other tricks. I think my buddy and I did pretty good coming from a area in the country with very little to ride. I know this sounds like a brag but I don’t mean it that way. It is because this video brings back memories of my beginning in the art of boarding. At least I know the people watching this video enjoys boarding and would appreciate the effort my buddy and I put into it.🤙🤙🤙
The real trick was nobody’s hair got caught in their wheels.
During the handstand? I feel ya!
Wow !! Skateboarding has sure come a looong way....
R.I.P. Ellen O'Neal - I will miss you.
@8:47, did he ollie by grabbing the board with his toes? Madness.....
It's not an ollie, it's a toe grab
@@imacat4060 Yikes. Dude has some gnarly toes. :)
Called a gorilla hop actually
They were also doing flip kicks, not kickflips. The kickflip was invented by Rodney Mullen a few years later after he invented the flat ground ollie.
10:15 the porn music it the background, "Sure feels good!"
thanks ! for this footage, 70s skate,' so' mellow ' skating was back then. love it',!
Holy shit that hippie jumps are bigger than now a days
love watching Russ Howell- a superb athlete
It’s a good thing skateboarding feels 10x better than it looks or it would never have survived this era!
Rufusdos Landing on your elbows on asphalt or concrete doesn't feel very good though
@@nothing2see315 Haha I know, neither does breaking the ball-joint off the top of your arm! But skateboarding...it's worth it!
this era was beautiful to watch, & extremely difficult maneuvers for the time. Much of this is still hard to do today
@Jamey Craig If you think skateboarding was dead in the early 90s you were either a big-arena vert skater or simply not paying attention. H-Street "Next Generation" and Plan B "Questionable" both came out in 1992 and are now acknowledged as classics full of heavyweight skating. Way, Cardiel, Agah and Carroll were the SOTYs. Switch skating first appeared. Mullen learned to skate street. Tom Penny appeared. Skateboarding was at a crucial stage and the evolution of tricks and culture in that period was incredible.
9:41 - "the granddaddy of skateboard, TWENTY-SEVEN year old Russ Howell..." :-)
he was born 1949 :D
In today's time 27 is super young and not even close to retirement from skateboarding...
@@Karudzik he's still skating
These are the older kids us 80s kids wanted to hang out with, but we werent cool enuff, until we started skatin'!!
Then I'd slam hella hard and show off my bloody face to them...and theyd cheer!!! Ya!!!!
Man I miss the 80s you guys!!!
Alva , O'neil , amazing skaters for the day , total respect .
"Toe wheelies on the line." I lost it! Lol
6:15 righteous as fuck with the disco ball chain, why did I miss this era!
I had one of those G&S Fiberflex Slalom boards around 76-77
Desaray Von Esson I was in love... She eventually worked in the pro shop atbthe Endless Wave in Oxnard... she was SO sweet...this was my era then in the 80's it became all vert.
8:46 The guys just grabbed the board with his freaking toes.
The hippie jumps omg
Gorilla grip I think it was called.
Its considered a dumb trick nowadays
No ollie yet so had to resort to monkey business lol
Went to school with some of these people, one being Ellen Berryman, who went on to become a great field biologist, and who I'm proud to call a Facebook friend.
That handstand at 9:35 was pretty sick. Never seen someone go that far with their back.
Nornal in the dance world, but I'd never seen it done on a board until now.
Wonderful memories , thank you.
Those boards are so small, and trucks so narrow, insane!
Funny but they seriously didnt feel that way back then. And that was back when grip tape was something you put on porch stairs. But looking back and still riding today yeah my ankles hurt just looking at them.
This was awesome thank you! I'd love to get my hands on one of those G&S shirts...and a time machine!
This is waaay before my generation but growing up in SoCal everyone skated as a kid. Good times
That blond dude with the stache rode for Hobie, I believe....Russ Howell? Man, I followed skateboarding and motocross so much in those days.
Still love my Road Riders #4!
They should still do slalom racing, and both the long and high jump competitions
Its kinda cool to see how skateboarding has advanced throughout the years
I graduated high school in 76, I loved skateboarding.
Memories of those days, barefoot, cutoffs and t-shirt stuffed in my back pocket. Wind in your hair and free.
Fantastic upload
Amazing archive footage, thank you for posting up.
I was 5 in 1976 by 1985 me and my Brother were skating all over town sliding hand rails olieing off the highest set of stairs used to skate half pipe at skate jungle fun times!
They should make a movie about this! Having funny actors play these guys would be hilarious!
Lords of dog Town?
Do an epicly latered on this bunch of pioneers. I'd definitely check it out. I'd like to see the people before Mullen and Hawk
1:47 Tom Delonge's character from "First Date"
Still lives in his van
This is fascinating!
"Hey , keep those boards off the lines!" "I can't DEED.
What a great document 😱😍
the Long Beach Convention Center still has that entrance they were near in the beginning of the video. gnarly
It's hard to believe girls and guys my age were making skating history forty years ago, meanwhile I can barely pop a wheelie.
@customvideo454 What the fuck xD
Maybe you should get out more like go outside, and stop typing on the computer holed up in your dark bedroom.
@@roamlikekane lmao youre the obvious virgin replying to a 4 year old comment 😂
@@roamlikekane totally agree ... Brainless talentless millennial's
@customvideo454 yup totally agree ... Brainless talentless millennial's how did we let this happen. Kids had talent back then
Thanks for posting! Post more if you got it
Me in 1980.
Trucks were shite..
But we still ride them boards!
360 was cool back then .
And walking the dog. Ace... ;)
The snazzy disco music adds to the excitement.
So before the kick flip there was the flip kick,
Always something new going on in the world of wheels...
Postalferret Withrum lol
When kickflips were new they were called ollie kickflips.
All my dream set ups of the day..im 60 now.
The move at 10:22 was how we picked up our boards back then. It is like an Ollie but with no one on the board!
and along came Jay Adams and everyone on here just stayed at home from that point on !
I'd love to take someone like Tyshawn back in time with a few completes and blown some minds lol. "He jumped over a picnic table! No, with the same board! Like the board he started with! It went over the table too! I don't know how he did it!"
Someone PLEASE post the names and artists of the songs on this video-in particular, the songs that start at approximately 5:40 and 10:10.
Santa Monica Southside✊ Growing up in Southern Cal during this time was the BEST!
The girls 👍
Awesome ! Thanks for the video.
Loved it.
THIS IS SO AWESOME
It's kinda crazy seeing this and noticing that at the time skateboarding was heading more towards popular culture than counter culture where it resided for a few decades. It took 44 years from this point to have skateboarding recognized as an Olympic sport, but I can help but think that it should have happened faster. I don't know why or exactly when, but somewhere along the line skateboarding went underground and stayed there for a good 25-30 years.
The key to winning was the highest tube socks
The pole jumps are impressive.
I hope skateboarding in the olympics follows this format.
Kory Hermann
Yes indeedy, but our sport is pretty complex these days. Flatland, street style ramps, vert ramps and slalom will hopefully the format. And maybe even huge distance and height comps too.
Also they should use the same uniforms and skateboards.
Kory Hermann 😂😂😂😂😂
@@Fanaz10 don't you forget bout the hairstyle
Awesome! Please add Henry Hester's slalom victory at around 7 min as one of the Key Moments. And the high jump winner at 7.40. And also Chris Chaput's freestyle victory at 10.55
We'd have to wait a decade after this to see real trick innovation... a.k.a. Rodney Mullen.
2 years actually. Alan Gelfand was the first man to make any trick that was substantial. He made the ollie :)
It's all relative time wise...
Did you see this video? I as a skater since 88 who still skates 4 times per week for an hour and more have to say... kudos. No skater today can do what they can do. We are all stiff non flexible motherfuckers now trying to be hard and tough doing a very limited set of tricks.
@@TheAlphaFlamingo ... he did ride fly without a grab over the coping. The ollie on flat changed it all. Airing over the coping without a real ollie is not the same influential trick. Rodney was just to shy to claim it.
@@oskargarden4559 💯Rodney Mullen is from a generation that encouraged creativity and he was just doing wild shit. The "standardized" shit is nothing other than people copying a bunch of moves from innovators. I give MORE props to these kids doing original shit than copy trick from skate vids. Sure, jumping off 50 stairs on some parkour skating shit is gnarly and all, but it isn't foundation, style, or original.
I think Russ Howell came straight from work
We've come along way boys and girls. Looked like fun back then though.
Awesome!!!!
Back in the day (75-76), contest skaters were performing compulsory “tricks” like 360’s, nose wheelies or slalom racing which would soon be blown away by vertical and pool riding as far as public interest was concerned. In fact vertical and pool riding kinda replaced the older ways just like the short board surfing revolution in the mid late 60’s. Many top performers found themselves less relevant as the eighties approached and the vertical and aerial era was already in full swing. It was in 77’ at Skateopia that George Orton’s radical, frontside, goofy foot attack would eventually take to the air. An empty pool of a classmate had irregular and large coping one had to avoid at the top. Those physical dynamics led to his abilities above the coping. As developed and showed off his new move, others jumped on the bandwagon like with any hot moves of the day, diluting Orton’s own pioneering radical aerial ways! Even Alva acknowledged Orton’s aerials we’re the first he’d seen, even though he tried to impugn the maneuver by referring to his earlier efforts as “bunny hops” (Skateboarder Magazine July 77’). Perhaps Tony had witnessed the future as George “Wildman” Orton was a pioneer in developing the most radical move in ALL action sports “ the Frontside Aerial”!
G&S started making the fiber flex Slalom boards again in 2023.
I love ride my skateboard any times spaces. .. I forget all problèmes its à exelente sport émotions. ..
Thank god...I am not the only one pushing Mongo. 😊
Absolutely love this
California was still nice back then
I am not a skateboarder but why has this vanished? I'd love to see especially an artistic interpretation, similar to ice skating. They obviously tried a lot of pioneer stuff but much is so nice. Why is all of this gone in modern skateboarding?
Freestyle is still out there if you know where to look! Please watch my video Freestyle Footwork as one modest example in recent years.
Because it wouldn't attract a significant audience
So cool... thought these tricks only existed in video games
Then Rodney Mullen perfected Alan Gelfands ollie on flat ground and skateboarding changed forever.
Yeah, that happened right after this competition you fucking dork.
@@nkmcfrln Oh, look, an edgy person... wooooo.
@@nkmcfrln I don't understand why you always feel the need to start interactions with total strangers by calling them a dirty name !?!?!
Are you that miserable with your pathetically lame life that you feel the need to bash on everything and everyone !?!!?!???
@@youknowit1916 I have encountered this spaz boy on a few other comments sections of other videos about skateboarding and also he was talking trash on some guitar related videos, or maybe it was boss pedals !? Any way dudes a total fucking troll or just really really bad at come backs😉
@aunt jenifer And of course somebody that believes that the world is flat is following me around and posting multiple comments about me when I’ve said nothing to them.
The 'flip kick' haha, I think that's what Steve Olsen meant when he said the original kick flip on the nine club, I tried one yesterday and got it first go, so grippy though, using the sides of your board instead of the kicks(obviously they didn't really have kicks back in them days, but yea, pretty easy just wrap your toes around the edges of the sides and flip it.
They WERE called kickflips back then. The toe curl kickflip in bare feet was a variation on the gorilla grip approach to portable mini ramp Aerials by the likes of Skitch Hitchcock and Ed Nadalin.
I met Ed Nadalin in 1977 while streetskating. He was world freestyle champ at the time (according to one competition organizer at least) I saw him do the 'gorilla grip' type toe kickflip, the parallel footed old school kickflip and a front kick toe flip. I did my first parallel footed kickflip one week later. Ed was an incredibly fluid freestyle rider. Very fast at footwork and consistent at spins nosewheelies etc. Still would look good freestyle wise today I think.
Yes, Isamu Kilian and Mullen of course have taken it further from the likes of Andress, Hitchcock, Howell, Nadalin, Page, Saladino and Martinez but these guys were the base of early freestyle and streetskating. I know, I was there, as a kid! Just as Z boys kick-started early vert and bowl. Both styles kind of met in the middle despite what some have said. Adams and Alva did good nosewheelies too!
I'm 52 and saw some of these riders in the day. The Free Former team went on tour one or two years earlier and they came to Six Flags in Gurnee Illinois (was probably called something different then). I still ride. Mostly mini ramps and halfpipes - and I ride hard; still learn tricks. Frontside (grab) disaster to boardslide was the latest trick that even surprised me. Occasionally I make it out to the nearest bowl (it's in the Czech Republic) and attempt to learn how to ride it. Every once in a while I do an original kick flip for the kids....people under forty. And Olsen! "Bulky Olsen!" I even had a Steve Cathey G&S Fiberflex board! Great skaters back in the day! (There are great skaters in every day, though!) Cheers from Dresden!
Skateboarding made huge jumps between the 70’s and 80’s. Tony Hawks just starting out when this went on.
Excellent 👍😀
great video!
That mongo pushes kills me
10:52 The begin of the Pop and Ollie by Alan Gelfand and flatground ollie by Rodney mullen
1:25 Tom Delonge from the First Date music video :O