Hey this is Jonna Hayes. Many of you original Sadlanders will remember me. I was a first gen Sadlander with no skills so I always had tunes in the park.. so I was better at playn ball and smokin weed that I was boardin. But i sure do miss all the fun and friensdhips we shared. I'm sorry I keep missin Sadland reunions. anyway those were great, carefree times. Sadlands Forever! Jonna
My dad was a little little kid skating with you guys here, showing him this fucking blew his mind to the core, he didn't realize that ducking around at this weird park by your house would eventually be a part of history, I've heard nothing but stories of the Lester kasai shoot
Thank you Lynn Cooper for providing the old video footage for this episode, who was also featured in this episode wearing the Vision Street Wear T-shirt. Lynn Cooper was my brother in-law for a few years. I first met Lynn around 1987 -1988 at CASL freestyle contests; my oldest brother Terry Trimble introduced me to a lot of other freestyle skateboarders that also rode pool, ramp and street back in the day. I skated and competed mostly freestyle and street, passing a lot of them up in competition. I don't care so much about that, as all of them always inspired me in many ways throughout my career. Generous, caring, strong willed people like Lynn truly are great examples of the kind of people I look up to, great person that should always be respected.
Dude that was my childhood. I miss those days so much. I remember when my best friend broke his ankle at Sadlands. He snapped his Neil Blender board there as well. I also relive these days by doing old school skateboard review videos. It was such a great time to be a kid. 🛹🔥
I grew up right around the corner from sadlands off Greenbrier and before I started skating I rode my POS bmx bike there jumping the walls out of the basketball court. Used to sit though and watch all these dudes rip the craters and I just had to get a skateboard. I learned how to skate here. We moved away in the summer of 86. I remember a Sunday afternoon before we left, Lester showed up to skate and he showed a few of us kids how to drop in, do rock n rolls and axle stalls. Super cool guy. I’m 53 now and still skate when I can with my young daughter who’s into it now. Was lucky enough to find an 85 sx series Lester clown/hydrant deck that I proudly display on my wall. Will always these times and this place.
Hi Jonna. I just want to say thank you. Even though you weren't a huge part of the riding going on, you were still a part of a movement, or better yet a unique angle on skateboarding. I have insurmountable respect for you, everyone that considers themselves a Sadlander, and everyone that contributed to skateboarding in a way that gave me the ability to ride today. A huge thank you to anyone who was a rider back then, if it weren't for you I wouldn't have the same passion I do for riding.
Sadlands was a great place. Just a fun vibe, never saw a cop... First visited in 1988, moved to CA in ‘89 and skated it on and off for while. Came there one day and was so bummed that every decent thing to skate had been torn out.
Lester was the shit. So approable and cool as hell. He was the guy how taught me to drop in on the big side (right side if you were coming down the hill) he was also giving us younger kids his wheels all the time. We lived across the street at park view apt. Loved that place. Also learned how to table top going up the rock walls in the basketball court. Memories...
We did a road trip to Sadlands, and yeah when we got there we were like, this is it? Then we skated for hours. There was a fountain at Central City Mall in San Bernardino that was shaped like that which we skated to death. I also feel lucky to have skated Pipeline and the Nude Bowl.
When I was a little kid in the mid 80s there was this older dude in my neighborhood who skated with my big brother. He was the first guy that I ever heard talk about Sadlands. It was like this mythical place to me. I never got to skate there until '98 when all the best shit was gone. Still fun to cruise thru the snake run tho. Buena Park, CA represent
My generation was the first generation of skateboarders at that Park In those days in the mid-70s. Our crew was only about 5 people Max. BMX bikes and skateboards Danny and David We're all a couple years younger than me. I used to smoke cigarettes get stoned in sixth and seventh grade writing that Park. Rip up Moraga. On my 250 Suzuki tear up the railroad tracks I looked at neighborhood on fire. Everybody hated me.
My cousin is in this video. That is badass. Him and his brother showed me pics and told me all about this spot when I was 12 and we met up in New York at our Grandma's house in East Meadow. I think they may have called it, "Moon Park" or something like that? Anyway, it was cool to see my cousin in this one.
John Bobincheck I wasn't sure if I remembered correctly since I was 11 when Ronnie and Donnie told me. I guess I could have asked Ronnie since I talk to him ever few weeks. He now lives in Vegas but I think they just had a Sadlands reunion. I saw pics on his FB page the other day.
what about the embocombo you never even did a piece on the EMB that has the gonz gap and it was featured in curb dogs i grew up watching curb dogs i had a copy on vhs
Another wicked episode, love it! Thanks a bunch for this. Seen'em all and I do hope you have something on downhill and hillbombing coming - that would be ALSO be the shit, hehe. Keep up the awesomeness
These planters definitely weren't designed for skateboarding but how cool is it that this spot and that crater/volcano design would end up influencing so many skate park designers all over the world. Learn your skate history kids..
Neil blender was so good. Ahead of his time. I had a Lester kasai board, skated to death. I so bad wanted to skate there after seeing Neil skate there on video.
I always thought Grubville Missouri was called the Sadlands, since that’s where I grew up. I had a backwater 2 lane highway,a dirt road and a hillbilly bar that I could skate on/at... 😬🤪😉
I guess the Sadplant named the Meloncholie (or however it used to be spelled) and then anything melon related. Funny how trick names start and then evolve.
one other skateboarder that came back from hell on earth...got clean when people were writtten off. have some grosso street burners and they are super sick wheels; anyone who made it through that shit some of these chaps did i.e. grosso, peters, hosoi, adams, alva, etc. are rock stars. anyone who was there back in the early 80's and put up with all that shit are survivors and deserve to be on top because anyone who bitches about ego, probably can't even do a fucking ollie over a 1 ft. gap
So the local government just decided to roughen all the crater shaped surfaces one day? why? The place reminds me of the Five Dock bowls/Snakerun in Sydney Australia, was a 70s park with a snake run in to a hell deep bowl, parts of the snake run and deep bowl (rough surface no coping) still exist but it was refurbished in to a great modern spot.
No one that loves skateboarding would give a thumbs down to any Love letter video. I honestly don't know how you get to these videos if you're the kind of person to possibly give a thumbs down.
how the hell are a bunch of kids from cali doing crazy shit at a random park in the 70s influence the living shit out of me. skateboarding man...........
So the city saw these kids as delinquents for skating concrete that they created, failing to recognize that heavy shit was going down. I mean it’s better be here skating than getting into stupid shit. There’s our government at work but it’s changed for the better. Skateparks are pretty much in every town now where I’m at.
Hey this is Jonna Hayes. Many of you original Sadlanders will remember me. I was a first gen Sadlander with no skills so I always had tunes in the park.. so I was better at playn ball and smokin weed that I was boardin. But i sure do miss all the fun and friensdhips we shared. I'm sorry I keep missin Sadland reunions. anyway those were great, carefree times. Sadlands Forever! Jonna
I’m pretty sure I remember you. Yeah it was great times
I'm so stoked that Grosso made this series for us to enjoy, and I miss the shit outta him. Thanks for everything Grosso!!!
those inverts on such a small transition!
My dad was a little little kid skating with you guys here, showing him this fucking blew his mind to the core, he didn't realize that ducking around at this weird park by your house would eventually be a part of history, I've heard nothing but stories of the Lester kasai shoot
Hilarious - I grew up with and knew every one of these guys. Killer post
We skated here all the time in 1984-87. Killer. Thanks for uploading it!!!
Thank you Lynn Cooper for providing the old video footage for this episode, who was also featured in this episode wearing the Vision Street Wear T-shirt. Lynn Cooper was my brother in-law for a few years. I first met Lynn around 1987 -1988 at CASL freestyle contests; my oldest brother Terry Trimble introduced me to a lot of other freestyle skateboarders that also rode pool, ramp and street back in the day. I skated and competed mostly freestyle and street, passing a lot of them up in competition. I don't care so much about that, as all of them always inspired me in many ways throughout my career. Generous, caring, strong willed people like Lynn truly are great examples of the kind of people I look up to, great person that should always be respected.
appreciate they took the time to get a sad historian to come through with an interview, respect.
Dude that was my childhood. I miss those days so much. I remember when my best friend broke his ankle at Sadlands. He snapped his Neil Blender board there as well. I also relive these days by doing old school skateboard review videos. It was such a great time to be a kid. 🛹🔥
I grew up right around the corner from sadlands off Greenbrier and before I started skating I rode my POS bmx bike there jumping the walls out of the basketball court. Used to sit though and watch all these dudes rip the craters and I just had to get a skateboard. I learned how to skate here. We moved away in the summer of 86. I remember a Sunday afternoon before we left, Lester showed up to skate and he showed a few of us kids how to drop in, do rock n rolls and axle stalls. Super cool guy. I’m 53 now and still skate when I can with my young daughter who’s into it now. Was lucky enough to find an 85 sx series Lester clown/hydrant deck that I proudly display on my wall. Will always these times and this place.
I use to go there almost every morning. I miss that place.
Hi Jonna. I just want to say thank you. Even though you weren't a huge part of the riding going on, you were still a part of a movement, or better yet a unique angle on skateboarding. I have insurmountable respect for you, everyone that considers themselves a Sadlander, and everyone that contributed to skateboarding in a way that gave me the ability to ride today. A huge thank you to anyone who was a rider back then, if it weren't for you I wouldn't have the same passion I do for riding.
Sadlands was a great place. Just a fun vibe, never saw a cop... First visited in 1988, moved to CA in ‘89 and skated it on and off for while. Came there one day and was so bummed that every decent thing to skate had been torn out.
Lester was the shit. So approable and cool as hell. He was the guy how taught me to drop in on the big side (right side if you were coming down the hill) he was also giving us younger kids his wheels all the time. We lived across the street at park view apt. Loved that place. Also learned how to table top going up the rock walls in the basketball court. Memories...
This brought tears to my eyes...I was 3rd gen, I grew up watching Lester kill it every day. I remember the day I went and they covered the crater
5:42 kevin bradley douse the same sort of summersault in "cherry"
i need 2 lurn dat !!!!
Gonz....... is that you?
@@Jamieclarkisokay that's really him.
Yeah Chavo! 👍
Sad lands looks like a lovely skate park thanks
this is the place I found skateboarding in 1985, I'm 36 now. I miss this place.
puggz deathmarch you found skateboarding when you were 2 years old?
Actually that would make you negative one when you found it..........
@@frazerrhughess holy shit, learn how to do maths, you're an embarrassment.
We did a road trip to Sadlands, and yeah when we got there we were like, this is it? Then we skated for hours. There was a fountain at Central City Mall in San Bernardino that was shaped like that which we skated to death. I also feel lucky to have skated Pipeline and the Nude Bowl.
5:18 Neils front tail block/scrape such a simple trick executed perfectly balanced looks so fn sick the way Blender does em
I grew up skating that shit. Also, The V in Fullerton. Those were the days.
I was lucky enough to have skated that place Back in the day. I remember taking the bus out there all the way from Riverside a few times.
Sadlands Rules! also the bowl in the brookhurst skatepark.
That is cool to know the history of that place I've been there when i was younger, recognizing that place on this video made me stoked! \M/
The last story teller was hilarious.
Sal still hangs around Orange County
When I was a little kid in the mid 80s there was this older dude in my neighborhood who skated with my big brother. He was the first guy that I ever heard talk about Sadlands. It was like this mythical place to me. I never got to skate there until '98 when all the best shit was gone. Still fun to cruise thru the snake run tho. Buena Park, CA represent
3:10 thousand percent right, thats an FA type ad today
My generation was the first generation of skateboarders at that Park In those days in the mid-70s. Our crew was only about 5 people Max. BMX bikes and skateboards Danny and David We're all a couple years younger than me. I used to smoke cigarettes get stoned in sixth and seventh grade writing that Park. Rip up Moraga. On my 250 Suzuki tear up the railroad tracks I looked at neighborhood on fire. Everybody hated me.
hated in the nation, me too
Great spot! Skated there numerous times. Texas had the FTW planters, same design(Moonscape?) Nice video, cool to see Terrence!
Thank you Sadlands for giving us Lester!
Whoa! Grosso and Jim Gray sitting next to each other!
Wish it was still there. Be crazy to see what dudes could do on it now.
One of my favorite loveletters.
Sadlands lives... in Puerto Rico. The Mayagüez skateplaza looks like a replica of that, but with more stuff.
Hell yeah, our crew skated there in 85-86.
Rifght on.
My cousin is in this video. That is badass. Him and his brother showed me pics and told me all about this spot when I was 12 and we met up in New York at our Grandma's house in East Meadow. I think they may have called it, "Moon Park" or something like that? Anyway, it was cool to see my cousin in this one.
+Erik Molnar Yeah, your cousin is right it was also called Moon Park or Brookhurst Park.
John Bobincheck
I wasn't sure if I remembered correctly since I was 11 when Ronnie and Donnie told me. I guess I could have asked Ronnie since I talk to him ever few weeks. He now lives in Vegas but I think they just had a Sadlands reunion. I saw pics on his FB page the other day.
Also crater park was what we called it down the road at Disney elementary
what about the embocombo you never even did a piece on the EMB that has the gonz gap and it was featured in curb dogs i grew up watching curb dogs i had a copy on vhs
Turtles was the Boston equivalent of this: a weirdly designed park that unbeknownst to the designers was super fun to skate.
Lester was such a gnarly ripper.
Gotta come to blob lands in England! Similar stuff
'Nother great vid! Keep it up Grosso!
Another wicked episode, love it! Thanks a bunch for this. Seen'em all and I do hope you have something on downhill and hillbombing coming - that would be ALSO be the shit, hehe. Keep up the awesomeness
wtf, these shows are really getting good
I was a regular at Brookhurst in 75. Then the Concrete Wave opened.
Why didn't they show any of blenders part in speed freaks? He's shredding in that video
That closer was fucking funny!
These planters definitely weren't designed for skateboarding but how cool is it that this spot and that crater/volcano design would end up influencing so many skate park designers all over the world. Learn your skate history kids..
Neil blender was so good. Ahead of his time. I had a Lester kasai board, skated to death. I so bad wanted to skate there after seeing Neil skate there on video.
I always thought Grubville Missouri was called the Sadlands, since that’s where I grew up. I had a backwater 2 lane highway,a dirt road and a hillbilly bar that I could skate on/at... 😬🤪😉
just about to mention blender then I say your comment---damn.
Lester Kasai !!! Cool! Do a video on Lester!
Grossos doing God’s work
2:27 that invert photo is sick as fuck
Anyone know the song at 4:58?
That intro was fuckin genius!
Love the letters
.."it's even better." Truth
keep these coming dude
Neil Blender skating that place is still no Gnarly now. He so naturally talented. Guy was so ahead of his time.
I guess the Sadplant named the Meloncholie (or however it used to be spelled) and then anything melon related. Funny how trick names start and then evolve.
What's the origin of the melancholy (melon) grab? We call it sad here in the north of Spain...
86 WAS MY FIRST YEAR . PSYCHO DAVE WITH NO SHOES ON LONG BOARD CRUZIN CARVING - SMOKING A BIG JOINT AND BLAST OFF
RIP the KING
That looked like f*ckin' rad spot!
Anyone know what the first song is?
Kids dont realize back then skating was illegal everywhere u went but every group of skaters always had that one spot they could go.
What about the Sea Breeze man?
Awesome. Brings back the memories of youth and skating in SoCal.
Chris Ciborowski i only skated riverside california the street that parts of suburbia was filmed on
i started skatinging a weird bad skat lab park that people had torn apart
Gonz would smash this.
Totally bro
Brookhurst park what up!
do a hill bombing one! these are sick
Grosso said moves! gigglefuck
How about a loveletters on Blender! How rad is that!?!?!
Oh I've gotten so fuckin wasted at those benches so much crazy shit and I'm pretty sure sal was born with those sunglasses on fuckin indigent!
one other skateboarder that came back from hell on earth...got clean when people were writtten off. have some grosso street burners and they are super sick wheels; anyone who made it through that shit some of these chaps did i.e. grosso, peters, hosoi, adams, alva, etc. are rock stars. anyone who was there back in the early 80's and put up with all that shit are survivors and deserve to be on top because anyone who bitches about ego, probably can't even do a fucking ollie over a 1 ft. gap
So the local government just decided to roughen all the crater shaped surfaces one day? why?
The place reminds me of the Five Dock bowls/Snakerun in Sydney Australia, was a 70s park with a snake run in to a hell deep bowl, parts of the snake run and deep bowl (rough surface no coping) still exist but it was refurbished in to a great modern spot.
Damn!!!
fuck i use to play football at that park and had no idea
Why the hell would they jack hammer this place?..oh yeah because people were having fun.
Yes Lester Kasai
No one that loves skateboarding would give a thumbs down to any Love letter video. I honestly don't know how you get to these videos if you're the kind of person to possibly give a thumbs down.
Rebuild it the exact same.
so what he is saying is that it's not skate able? anymore hmmm not even one crater!
I wanna skate sadlands real bad. Someone should try to replicate it at a legit skatepark somewhere.
Yo Grosso's do a video on pig skateboard.
This is in thps2
how the hell are a bunch of kids from cali doing crazy shit at a random park in the 70s influence the living shit out of me. skateboarding man...........
So fucking smoooottthhhhh
Heavy Duty
This is one of those where you watch it and go, if those guys can ride like that on that, then I have no excuses.
more 'letters grossman!!!! nowww
3:54 oh fuck! lol
I literally live 2min from here, its rad but ghetto
how so?
RIP
This is where skateboarding began forming like the white stuff accumulating on the side of grosso's mouth 😂
niel was the man
stockton skatepark is just like this shit
fun fact : neil blender is mentioned in every loveletter video :D
mothafuckin neil blender... yiss
So the city saw these kids as delinquents for skating concrete that they created, failing to recognize that heavy shit was going down. I mean it’s better be here skating than getting into stupid shit. There’s our government at work but it’s changed for the better. Skateparks are pretty much in every town now where I’m at.