Vintage skateboarding footage from the late 1970's. Excerpt from 'Go for It!', A film by Hal Jepsen & Wilt Chamberlain. Featuring Tony Alva, Jay Adams & others
Wow I remember this day like it was yesterday...That's me at 7:55 carving the forever rides with two of the original Zboys, Wentzel Rumel and Paul Constantineau. Me again at 8:25 going over the light backside at Canyon pool. Best time of my life !
Hey Craig. I was there that day too. You can see me at the canyon pool footage. In white sitting above the light. I remember we were all skating and then the cameras showed up. I broke my palm that day and limped home though the canyon and hid the pain form my mom because she was pissed at how often I was getting hurt. ha. Stay well Craig.
Go For It was the first skate/surf film I ever saw and I saw it in a movie theatre in South Georgia 1975-6-7. It was actually produced by pro basketball player Wilt Chamberlin.
This is the movie that got me into skateboarding in a big way. Not long after this we built a portable half pipe out of plywood and would take it to events and shows. That was the good ol days by far. I remember the name Tony Alva being one of the best skateboarders. Living in Tennessee it made me want to move to California. Oh well I guess all good things come to an end.
If only videos were still commentated upon like this. I could picture it now "when one skater executes his most difficult manuevers, he attempts them switch, or in his opposite stance." That would be funny
I miss this kind of skateboarding. Today it's like push, push, kick flip, kick flip push, push, back flip, fall down. We use to just go in the 70's, just zoom.
The 70's style was so smooth graceful and tricks were not about the board they were about the bodies and balancing on the wheels. That is because all these kids surfed and their style was to get low and emulating carving up a wave
@@jimmytgoose476 fine. But the ones that did were the pioneers. Wasn’t it Alva who said “we’d hit the streets on our skateboards when there weren’t waves”…paraphrasing.. Regardless Of course not EVERY “stylistic skater” surfed. But, Geeez, it’s in the documentary how they transformed the surfing ideas, culture and styles into the street. The kids across the country in landlocked states were following their lead.
@ trotp3 that was Alva and Muir with him. Personally I think Biniak was the better skater at the time, but then again I'm speaking about Dogtown. The South Bay skaters of Los Angles were way ahead of other skaters in terms of pool and pipe skating. I'm not taking about the freestyle skaters but the surf style skaters such as Kevin Anderson, Bob Moore, Howard Igalo, and the others at E.T. Surf. Kevin was aready hitting coping doing frontside slashers when this footage was being filmed!
Awesome - was looking thru some Skateboarder Mags form the 78 and this film came to mind. Thought about Go For It a number of times over the years, but never could locate a copy. It had segments on skiing, surfing, and hang gliding as I recall. The Extreme sports of the day. Was this ever released to DVD? Appreciate the clips.
Awesome! Looks like mid 70's though as by '77 Tony had started Alva Skates and these guys are just starting to hit the lip in this video and the gear is older. Where's part 2? Oh, and the quality of the filming is muy bien!
Timeline about '73-'77. The schoolyard and Escondido reservoir footage is '73-'75, the pool footage pretty much spans '73-'77. I started skating in '71 on a clay-wheeled board, and completely into it until I went into the service in'79. The '70s was a great decade to be a kid.
i'm pretty sure most of these videos are of the z-boys. i can spot tony alva and his curly hair in most of them. p.s. i have the orange board with the black grip tape at 0:24 . it's a santa cruz
1975Brian rapp was captian of the beverñy high surf longboarder and Football team middelinebacker with coach jj moon and the duke kirk snyder and my beverly surfgirl Kim koskie at will Rogers state beach tower 18 the peak at sugarmans reef state beach was my favorite wave after beverly high canyonlocalfilmscom Paul rapp s go for it rules
1975 my bitchin dad from del mar 17 st oceanfrount directed go for it for me and my delmar surfgirl Marta hersh canyonlocalfilmscom jj moon rules state beach
you dont really see anybody do this shit in street skating anymore... all you see is kids grinding shit and jumping off ledges...doing like flip tricks and stuff.. not that fun. well at least theres a revival of the old school skating style
I started skating in 95 and by 2003-4-5 it became all about getting sponsored to become a rockstar. One day be in a video game too. We all wanted that in my neighborhood. We skated all day and night. Tried each other’s boards and learned that skateboarding is so vast in terms of gear, style, invention. I stopped for a while then picked it back up in 07 after watching Lords of Dogtown. I wanted to skate like them and learn a whole new style I’ve never seen before. My approach to freestyle changed after that. I wanted to look more graceful and fluid in any air trick. Just started again recently after a long layoff. Body reacts different nowadays but a good warm up works best for me before I start really going for it lol.
Wow I remember this day like it was yesterday...That's me at 7:55 carving the forever rides with two of the original Zboys, Wentzel Rumel and Paul Constantineau. Me again at 8:25 going over the light backside at Canyon pool. Best time of my life !
Hey Craig. I was there that day too. You can see me at the canyon pool footage. In white sitting above the light. I remember we were all skating and then the cameras showed up. I broke my palm that day and limped home though the canyon and hid the pain form my mom because she was pissed at how often I was getting hurt. ha. Stay well Craig.
cwmiller2006 lier
@@bans1 What do people have to gain from lying about their past on the internet?
Back when the coping was the end of the earth :)
@@bans1 I no lie man
"No Trespassing" in the 70's, means "Welcome friends!"
Go For It was the first skate/surf film I ever saw and I saw it in a movie theatre in South Georgia 1975-6-7. It was actually produced by pro basketball player Wilt Chamberlin.
How true... I was a Skater of the 70's it was definitely a sport of finesse. God did we have fun on those long runs. Sweet Memories.
It still is about finesse 🙂
So Awesome I love to see the start of the pool days.
And the boards that time were about 5.7. Epic skating right there. I wish I has a set like that.
THOSE GUYS ARE TOTALLY GOING FOR IT.
This is the movie that got me into skateboarding in a big way. Not long after this we built a portable half pipe out of plywood and would take it to events and shows. That was the good ol days by far. I remember the name Tony Alva being one of the best skateboarders. Living in Tennessee it made me want to move to California. Oh well I guess all good things come to an end.
I'm from '90 and this shit is dope. This is where is started boys, learn your roots!
countryrock was the music of choice for skate vids back in the day
Things got better with punk 😃
even being 16, i love to skate old school, i dnt care too much about technical tricks, old school is funner
If only videos were still commentated upon like this. I could picture it now "when one skater executes his most difficult manuevers, he attempts them switch, or in his opposite stance." That would be funny
R.I.P. Bob Biniak! I wish I could talk to him about the keyhole pool footage!
The pioneers of skating man :D
If they had internet back then they wouldn't have this video. And if we left the internet, we could film a video like this.
I miss this kind of skateboarding. Today it's like push, push, kick flip, kick flip push, push, back flip, fall down. We use to just go in the 70's, just zoom.
True
This is instant fav, Escpecially love the footage of the legendary Z-boys doing there thing. Awesome even to this day I skate like this........kinda
1976. MY. PAL. HAL. JEPSEN. RIP canyonlocalfilmscom
so cool
yewwwwwwwwwwwwww
lovin it
"bring it back"
Tony Alva, Bobby Piercy and Stacey Peralta. They were the KINGS!!!!
great stuff !!
holy shit this is on here i have this on VHS lmao
When the streets were a big skatepark. Golden years.
1974 I went to the Pomona Fair " LA county Fair" and bought a Logan Earth Ski and Storker Wheels Good Times 👍 👌
where are these epic skate spots
Most of those skaters were surfers, you can see the similarities of the surfing and the skateboarding back then.
Loving those death wobbles around the 8:00 mark.
i could never stand having loose trucks
No carving then ?
The 70's style was so smooth graceful and tricks were not about the board they were about the bodies and balancing on the wheels. That is because all these kids surfed and their style was to get low and emulating carving up a wave
Millions of stylish skaters never surfed .
*"That is because all these kids surfed..."*
That is not true.
In Dogtown ,we all were surfers. Skating was secondary
I never thought it about it this way. "About the body not the board" love this.
@@jimmytgoose476 fine. But the ones that did were the pioneers. Wasn’t it Alva who said “we’d hit the streets on our skateboards when there weren’t waves”…paraphrasing.. Regardless Of course not EVERY “stylistic skater” surfed. But, Geeez, it’s in the documentary how they transformed the surfing ideas, culture and styles into the street. The kids across the country in landlocked states were following their lead.
they make it look like surfing
Mi primera película que vi en el.cine de skate superrrrr
Back then it was more about flow, style and soul, nothing technical about it.
The 70s ❤
awesome!!! thanks for sharing it!
Downhill madness at it's finest!
You almost want to see the moment when they figure out that they could early grab airs off the lip.
WE. LOVE. MY. PAL. HAL. JEPSEN.
Wait hold up... was that Wilt Chamberlain in the beginning? That is fucking crazy!!
@ trotp3 that was Alva and Muir with him. Personally I think Biniak was the better skater at the time, but then again I'm speaking about Dogtown. The South Bay skaters of Los Angles were way ahead of other skaters in terms of pool and pipe skating. I'm not taking about the freestyle skaters but the surf style skaters such as Kevin Anderson, Bob Moore, Howard Igalo, and the others at E.T. Surf. Kevin was aready hitting coping doing frontside slashers when this footage was being filmed!
Awesome - was looking thru some Skateboarder Mags form the 78 and this film came to mind.
Thought about Go For It a number of times over the years, but never could locate a copy. It had segments on skiing, surfing, and hang gliding as I recall. The Extreme sports of the day.
Was this ever released to DVD? Appreciate the clips.
@Aaroniguess , it was for me. Now at 47, it's harder and it's more painful when I fall!
back in the day they were more about the duckin' and weavin' rather than the jumps and air nowadays
Makes me think of buttons 🤟
Skitching a dog? Love it.
Paul Hoffman at 4:54 doing nose 360's!
the dude in the yellow shirt and white helmet was slamming left and right! lol
OLD SKOOL SKATING RULZ!!!
Awesome! Looks like mid 70's though as by '77 Tony had started Alva Skates and these guys are just starting to hit the lip in this video and the gear is older. Where's part 2? Oh, and the quality of the filming is muy bien!
Timeline about '73-'77. The schoolyard and Escondido reservoir footage is '73-'75, the pool footage pretty much spans '73-'77.
I started skating in '71 on a clay-wheeled board, and completely into it until I went into the service in'79. The '70s was a great decade to be a kid.
@Aaroniguess Skating was fun then and it's still fun today!
Damn I feel relaxed after watching this shit, Skateboarding these days is all about frustration. ha!
Thanks you surfing and the California sun. Epic good times brought to the land like when the fish climbed out of the ocean and became reptiles.
wow...old school boarding!! lol
i'm pretty sure most of these videos are of the z-boys. i can spot tony alva and his curly hair in most of them.
p.s. i have the orange board with the black grip tape at 0:24 . it's a santa cruz
watch this on silent and listen to Golden Time Of Day by Maze...its pretty cool to me.
how big were the boards back then? and what kind of trucks did they use?
A, small and B, crappy .
We hopped many a fence those days to get at pools
whats the song while their skating in the resivoir?
Now i see why helmets meant so little back then...
Was it just me or did you see Conan skating 1:43 - 1:57
The Z-boys was the shit!
did this movie have a trippy animation at the end?
what are they're boards called
may that dog R.I.P.
Very cooooollll...!! some of my old friends were thrashers in Santa Cruz and San Jose. They smoked many vacant pools in the hills
@Kingspawn000 You're right man! thanks!
@dogbowl77 amen brother, was that Alva and Red Dog with him??
It's regressed slightly. I see more longboards in skate/surf shops than "normal" decks.
Remember the most cool character is Stacty Peralta.
😍😎
08:32 .... haha, sweet move
Yes it they are
@dogbowl77
Kevin the Worm! Boinkers!
@cwegers1 so were the 90s, when cartoons ruled the AIR!!!
the secret swimming pool spot.
TA!
Its probably dig uppable
Whats that tumbleweed doing on your head??
Everyone looks like Bo Duke.
wtf how they do that
1975Brian rapp was captian of the beverñy high surf longboarder and Football team middelinebacker with coach jj moon and the duke kirk snyder and my beverly surfgirl Kim koskie at will Rogers state beach tower 18 the peak at sugarmans reef state beach was my favorite wave after beverly high canyonlocalfilmscom Paul rapp s go for it rules
@TheChumzo how so?
afro dude look like he got his legs waxed
Watch IRA old school skate. I just posted. Sponsored by Pepsi in the late '70's. Did it all but was the best trick street skater ever!!
My dad used downhill/slalom, where the fuck did this go?
It just looks more like long boarding
Its called skateboarding. If anyone tells you the length of your board matters then you are being lied to .
@@jimmytgoose476 you just made me look back at a comment I made 11 years ago! Haha thanks for the memories.
Haha the Internet is forever 😃
okay....so...i blanked!! happens to everyone!!! :p oh, and u didn't hear me..u read it!! OH!
haha skurfers. ok thanx for the info. i will by a skurfer now haha lol
WE. LOVE. OLIVER. McKAY. RAPP. 1998. TOOK. 1. STEPS. TOPANGA. POINT. ME. AND. SHANNON. RAPP. ABBOTT. AND. THE. SNOWMAN. RICK. SNOW.
Now its just amerikarens
@bunnasoo2 tony hawk is overrated he's only famous because he was the first to 900, and it was just a matter of time before somebody did it.
1975 my bitchin dad from del mar 17 st oceanfrount directed go for it for me and my delmar surfgirl Marta hersh canyonlocalfilmscom jj moon rules state beach
so...wats ur point??????
Dog skitching?
@guitarsehole Watch your language...or step outside..?
you dont really see anybody do this shit in street skating anymore... all you see is kids grinding shit and jumping off ledges...doing like flip tricks and stuff.. not that fun.
well at least theres a revival of the old school skating style
Skateboarding died in the early 2000's
I started skating in 95 and by 2003-4-5 it became all about getting sponsored to become a rockstar. One day be in a video game too. We all wanted that in my neighborhood. We skated all day and night. Tried each other’s boards and learned that skateboarding is so vast in terms of gear, style, invention. I stopped for a while then picked it back up in 07 after watching Lords of Dogtown. I wanted to skate like them and learn a whole new style I’ve never seen before. My approach to freestyle changed after that. I wanted to look more graceful and fluid in any air trick. Just started again recently after a long layoff. Body reacts different nowadays but a good warm up works best for me before I start really going for it lol.
fukn music
longboarding
WOOW at 2:56 that dude was like an inch away from getting nailed on the head by that board.....
this driving below a tunnel an stuff is idiotic