HOW TONY HAWK WON THE GNARLIEST POOL COMP EVER
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ย. 2024
- The year 1985. Considered by many as the gnarliest pool ever, The Upland Pipeline Combi Pool, was the location for Rage In The Badlands event was one of the most notorious skate contests of all time. Heros were made, and dues were paid. Part of the judging criteria was using the entire pool. Big, rough and sporting huge coping, the only way to survive this behemoth was to attack it with power, and the formula to hoisting the first place trophy would be to combine that power with high speed carving, linking lines with combos of tricks on the burly vert walls, and in 1985, whoever did that best and landed a McTwist would walk away a champion. There was zero margin for error, as perhaps the greatest performer ever here, and everyone's pick to win the event, Chris Miller, took one of the gnarliest slams ever this day. That left the field open, especially with both The GOAT Christian Hosoi and high flying daredevil Lester Kasai, although ripping, injured and not firing on all cylinders. Tony Hawk was inventing tricks on the daily and Lance Mountain was coming in hot, having recently added the McTwist to his well rounded repertoire. McGill's machine like ripping would be hard to beat and Stevie Caballero was always a threat to take the win on any terrain. It was impossible to ignore that this would be a day the the Bones Brigade would reign supreme, the only question was which of Stacy's prodigies had the endurance and passion to put it all together and come out on top. Hard to believe this was 40 years ago. It was day skaters are still talking about this day, and always will be.
Skaters: Tony Hawk, Chris Miller, Lance Mountain, Steve Caballero, Christian Hosoi, Steve Steadham, Lester Kasai, Neil Blender, Mike McGill, Jeff Grosso, Spidey Demontrond, Adrian Demain, Alan Losi, Eddie Reategui.
Music: Asylum Party, Good Riddance.
Addl' photos/footage by: Thrasher, Transworld Skateboarding, Don Hoffman, Mike Chantry, Glen E Friedman, J Grant Brittain, Tod Swank, Randy Baldwin, William Sharp, Skateboardworld Magazine, Jim Goodrich.
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Miss those days look at everyone they look happy. The great days of no social media
Exactly. NO social media. No government, academia, media, Hollywood spewing everything is racist. Telling us we all hate eachother. None of that crap years ago!!!!
👏👏👏👌👊
The days that you could go out and just be…
The only “connectivity” was with the people next to you. That’s how humans are meant to live!
Bright smiling White faces 🤗🥰
Me too my friend, me too 🫶
The 80s era was the greatest!!
Just ask Freddie Mercury!
This brought back images of my youth. I want to cry. Thanks guys
Me too
People that have never physically seen these pools have no idea how gnarly they truly are. Simply to walk up to the edge of one of them and look down would concern you. If all you ever did was roll into one is a accomplishment let alone pull off what they were doing. Great times in skate history!🤙
Here here. I used to feel sick to my stomach before dropping in to the pink bowl at Winchester, and Upland I wouldn't even think about it.
Like anything else it takes years of practice, and getting into the zone, of course no novice could ever drop in without eating shit, so who are you talking to the trolls?
@@shable1436 kinda of!! The people that did go to these parks and skated but never had the balls to drop in. I skated 4-5 parks in the south east and they had huge pools,bowls and 1/2 pipes.
Never skated these ones in Upland, but the Keyhole at Del Mar was sweet.
@@shable1436 all he’s saying is that you really can’t get a sense of how big these drops are without seeing it in person. That’s a totally valid comment to remind someone like me who’s never skated how talented these guys are. Why does that bother you so much?
I started skating in 1987. These guys were my heroes. If I had a time machine I'd go back to this contest 🤩. What a vibe it must have been. Wowwwwwwwwww!
Good times!!!
Me too😊
80s ruled
Shotgun!
Around the same time for me. 88-89 I recall. I was 10. Started w/ a PP Bug and then an Hasoi Hammerhead. Man, what great memories.
Im 50 now and sk8ed in the 80's and this took me back...ty
Yeah, me too! Skating in the 80's was amazing
Yes!!
im turning 50 next year, this olympics was the first time ive ever watched skateboard and I was glued to the screen. Really wish I would have opened my eyes to it way earlier, but, never to late i guess.
@@SuperYxskaft yea I'm almost 50 as well. Mom always told me , "you cant make money or get a job sk8ing or playing video games...WOW, was she wrong.
@@MayoMonster75 I like that about youtube/patreon and similar, that very niche interests and hobbys can now earn you a living that wasnt really feasible before.
The vibes back then were incredible.
Amen! It was a smorgasbord of style on display, both on the boards and off!
yeah its almost impossible to compare to today, I had just got my first board after this, so this was recent past type of action for me - but I remember the days - just up here in Canada it was hard to find any skate media/news back then - just Thrasher at 7-11.
These early kids were the real deal!! They often skated in pools intended for swimming...And made it look easy! Not like today's modern skate-parks.
EVERYTHING was better back then!
Cause we as a nation were only 20years into the Hart Cellar Act.
Now in 2024, it's dark outside, all day long.
See how calm the production is compared to now where you feel like youre being attacked by the commentators and energy drink ads
Reading the magazines and waiting for the next issue to come out was so much better than any social media. Saying that I appreciate this content has been available on social media 😅
Thrasher and Transworld was my escape from reality growing up. I was so obsessed that when I wasn't skating I was drawing it at school
@SlickDangler10 those Thrasher magazines were gold. Remember watching a movie with the same name, which was probably proper crap by today's standards, but got any skater where I lived all hyped up 😄
yt is not typical soc media .... i for one use yt only for video. no fb ig x and whatnot.
@RayEttler same here, only YT vids, no other social media
@@RayEttler it has the same capacity to suck you in
When Tony airplays the guitar and drums to the song he is skating to, big smile! 19:34
Haha, I never noticed that.
most underrated comment here. we all know you have to be at a master level to execute while being that relaxed. Tony was just having fun. Incredible
I was 12, and these guys were all my heroes.
Man....i was 7 at this time and this was what got me into skating. I had the same Maltese Falcon Tony Hawk deck with the red wheels and everything. This is the moment that shaped my life from 7-17 yrs old. Such nostalgia.
I miss those days. I had a few of those decks. Even the music way cooler back then.
Total magic, what guts! Chris Miller's slam represents the pinnacle of risk taking in skating. Also, Neil Blender has such great style.
He went big right into the pocket. Gnarly
@@5am_mills 💯
I have a Blender Mini from the mid 80's Blender was the man...
I remember watching him bail on a friends VHS tape he got soon after. I remember going into the Combi, and freaking out. Not like I was doing any tricks or anything. Barely connecting to the coping was enough. The vert on that pool was insane! Fontana CA were my stomping grounds from 83-88! Hell, Travis Barker, would follow us around back then on his board. My younger brother was his best friend.
Blender, Losi and Grosso's second run take the cake,for me.
Steve riding with Rush on in the background. You could tell he was rocking to it!
That park is so gnarly. I worked for new line out of Vancouver, building concrete parks and slam city jam in the 90's . These guys ripped and are still ripping. Thanks for this old footage.
Love the live soundtrack! The Cure, Echo & the Bunnymen, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Kiss, Rush, Toy Dolls, the list goes on......... And Hawk was n articulate gentleman even at that age..... Class act! Glad to see someone like that do so well in his career. Too bad ya gotta bust your body all up to be a pro in this sport!
THE MUSIC!!! EXACTLY!!!!
Ow man that new wave soundtrack! What’s that song starting around 11:25?
@@Planktonyeijk I didn't recognize that one, but Shazam says it's 25 O' Clock by Dukes of Stratosphere (A band I've never even heard of) 🤷♂️
@@evangaryhirsch Thanks for looking. My Soundhound didn’t recognised it. However I just found at an older comment that it is: Asylum Party - Julia. That seems to be the song!
@@PlanktonyeijkNice catch! I tried to compare it with what Shazam had come up with and was not completely convinced, but it did sound similar enough to make sense. It also came out the year of this video, so I figured it must be right. However, I now realize it was so wrong. I am convinced that you have come up with the correct song though! I was not at all familiar with it. I listened to the song, and then went back to the video and clearly heard him singing "Julia" and recognized the melody distinctly. Great catch! I am glad you didn't take my suggestion as fact without being firmly convinced. It shows that Shazam can certainly be fallible. What is funny is that song it claimed is very similar and even came out the same year. So it wasn't far off, but was definitely wrong!! Haha! Nice going though that process of discovery with ya... ✌️
McGill is criminally underrated dude was a ripper
I grew up in the 90s so I never got to see this before. I had no idea how much younger Tony Hawk looked compared to everyone else. And when the favorite Chris Miller took that nasty slam on his first go, I was like DAMN! This is awesome thanks for uploading.
Thanks for posting the time capsule! What a great blast from the past!
Great footagelove the single photos from back then!! They made me dream when I was 10 and they always do! Those legends got big balls to do what they do... much love from France)))) and thank you Sir!!!
I miss the 80s. It was a great decade.
After my 18th birthday I drove down to Upland with a friend and we got to skate Pipeline for a weekend. Salba showed up on Sunday and blew our minds. Another memory seared into my brain was the sound backside airs would make in the round side of the combi, CRACK! So sick…
Does the park still exist?
@@kidgrebo1 no, it was demolished in 1989 I believe.
I used to skate Del Mar as a young kid and watching these guys skate there in person was mind blowing. Thanks for the flashback.
I did as well. Best days ever! It's a F^&king driving range now.
I’m 49 and I’ll never forget the day these guys ,our idols at the time ) came to New Orleans!!
I miss this so much !
Growing up in the Inland Empire during those days, my Dad used to take my friends and I to Pipeline. Such cool memories.
It's wild to see this footage. Massive flashback to my youth and some amazing times. Thanks for putting this out there. First time seeing your channel!
That was badass Tony was just a baby back than now I feel old thanks for bringing back awesome memories
This is legendary in every way…the Skaters, the Park…this inspired us all then, and maybe even more now! They all were just kids and so rad, so fearless. Awesome.
Miller's completed runs are some of the best skating in the combi or any concrete bowl ever. Poetry in motion.
The 80's, such a great time to experience.
Miler's slam was the sickest. I remember it still being talked about in the mags 5 years later! And, remember: Pipeline was his home park! And he still slammed so hard!
I remember Hawk talking about coming to Pipeline for this contest and all the SoCal guys looking at the Combi and being like, "WTF is this?!!"
Also, Omar Hassan, who grew up at Pipeline, and was one the earliest guys to start the trend of ollieing into airs instead of early-grabbing, when they asked him in a pro spotlight why he evolved that kind of style, he said it was because the coping in the Combi was so fat you had to pop-out or you wouldn't get into the air!
Why didn't they change the coping to bullnose
@@shable1436 Because we were hard back then.
They were still talking about that slam in the mags in the early 2000's when I got into skating, haha. I never saw the footage until way later on youtube, like so much stuff that was talked about in the magazines. I miss that sense of wonder about legendary stuff you never thought you'd personally get to see, imagining what it looked like.
So awesome to see footage from this contest that I haven't seen before! Thank you so much!!
It's 2024 and earth is Hell. Bring back whatever Heaven this is. We have been robbed of our birthright and inheritance. There is no justice or justification for what has become of us.
Romanticize much?
Make it for yourself, forget everyone else.
Sir this is a skateboarding video
@@CrashHoax lol my b
Hear hear.
Pivotal time in skating. Got to skate Upland and it's maybe cliche' but honestly the square was the scariest most vert I've ever skated..was happy to get tiles..Everything done in that bowl was 10 times harder than anywhere else. Everyone was ripping💯..Where was Salba? Thanks! That was sick!🤙
Saw that video when it released. That Chris Miller slam hurt through the screen.
Pipeline! I lived right by there. Well I came back to that same area, but unfortunately the amazing Pipeline doesn’t exist there anymore. They did try to recreate it over in Upland Memorial park, but it’s not the same.
A blast from the past. Awesome to see. Thanks for sharing
When skating was still underground and an outsider sport. Still have my STEVE STEADHAM Powell Peralta board
I wish I still had mine. Traded it way back then for an Alva board that I still have but the Steadham graphics were much cooler.
@@theinsaneshecklador6598 I have the red and white with Purple Metallic Spade. really good shape I got it in I thought 84 but must have been 86. Tracker Trucks with bones wheels - I used it as my ramp board (we had a 16ft wide 9ft high half pipe in the 1980's. 8 ft transitions with 1 ft vert. 2ft wide roll in on one side. I have an old neil blender mini , that was my old street board too...
Had a sick Powell Peralta board in like 84. This douchebag thug, Butch snaked it.Tried to stop him, but he was a bigger tougher guy. Kicked my ass. Saw him like a year later sitting on the beach in Venice. Walked up behind him and kicked him in the head. Dude was out. Didn't get my board back, but I grabbed a fat bag of dank from his backpack and walked away. The 80's were a wild time.
I miss the 80's
The music at this event is timeless also
Man I miss this place. I drive by here from time to time and get all nostalgic. Thanks for posting.
I skated for Bare Cover a tiny skate shop in Mess Arizona. Tony was a lanky awkward kid who wasn’t well liked generally because his style was loose but he still managed to pull everything off. When pros came to town with their plexiglass half pipe competitions, we’d take them around to all the prime backyard ramps and pools. Toney never came to the “after parties”. He was considered a “straight edge”. Interestingly enough, he and his dad Frank saw the business possibilities and to this day, Toney’s the only big money guy from those days. 😎
I could watch this like a million X! Miller coulda been runner-up I always thought, but whew! RiP after that hang-up! Nobody could whoop Tony Hawk, he's Tony Hawk.
Cool video ! Great time of my life . Lester Kasai insane air and R.I.P. Jeff Grosso . I like Tony Hawk’s Carlsbad Pipeline sticker on the front of his helmet
awesome way to reflect on memories made personal and sharable.
skater students were the advance styles that existed...glad for everyone who separated themselves from previous group percentiles.
Tony hawk did take things further also continuing the skateboard scene and stuntellengence charms.
thank you to all who dared to become more capable in such ways somehow.
you brought more smiles to our lives and futuristic community standards.
outstanding goal levels!
I stumbled into this video,I had to check out Tony Hawk 15 yes old?he performed a trick no one ever accomplished!incredible skater who became a true legend from the West Coast, much respect from your fan in the Midwest.⭐️
Tony Hawk, Steve Stedham, CAB, Neil Blender, Lance Mountain
I love this channel. ✨
So sick. Had only been skating for a couple of years back then. Could drop in on vert, do 50-50's, rock'n'rolls and tiny airs above the coping, that's it. The tricks they were doing in that double concrete beast is so gnarly. Would love to go back in time to just cruise around and figure lines out. All those guys ripped it. Every old school skater has tht Miller slam etched into their soul, brutal to watch. Hanging up on any trick, especially to fakie is the worst. Just ask my left hip😵
He had his toes curled in his shoes, spark out
I STILL HAVE MY ID TOO! Did you ever skate The Back Door in Fontana? Those were my stomping grounds. Oh man, I haven’t seen the Chris bail in years! I remember my first time back in the Combi after seeing that. I was def freaking out. Man, The Pipeline was 80’s magic. I’ll tell you something though. I’m 52, and I miss my knees. 😂
Tony with the Carlsbad Pipelines surf shop sticker front & center on his helmet. First board I got was from that shop, and it was his Bones Brigade Hawk Skull. Carlsbad was a rad place to grow up in the 80’s. Mike McGill had a sick park out where the old 70’s Carlsbad Skate park was, next to the Cbad Raceway.
Great video. Such an amazing time to skate. So stoked I got to be a part of this.
Those were good times, I looked up to these guys. Now that I see this again, they were just kids, its crazy.
Tyrannosaurus Thumbs Up!!.. Tanks for the Mammaries!!
*Great Video Man* Nostalgic Vibes 🛹❤️
I remember Tony skating at Colton Ranch.....back in the early 80s. Nobody was skating back then. There was pro stuff but it was not popular until late 80s then in the 90s things picked up. There was a pool with 5 feet of Vert.....I could not believe people would just drop in that
It's crazy to see the audience. Everybody is into it and not a phone in sight! I hope they can bring back skateboarding in 2024!
Nobody had phone's until mid 90s up till late 90s, "the brick" Nokia 1996 was really the first ones widely distributed, but if you remember 70-150$ a month just for small amounts of analog data, and 100 texts. Sorry for the history, but computers isn't what's messing up society, it's social media itself, and all the world's information available to our brains at once, makes us overload, it will probably evolve our next generation
@@shable1436 nobody had a phone.
@@edithkramer7689 I don’t think he was saying that, I think he was just pointing out how nice it was to not see everyone pointing their phones or head down in their phones. I mean I hope anyone in their right mind knows their were no phones.
There is indeed a sh*tload of skating in 2024 wtf.
@damianb2374 I would like to see skateboarding make a comeback. Other retro hobbies have had their day recently and I think it would be cool if skateboarding could be the next wave
Thanks for the share that was FREAKING AWESOME
Got to ride the tiles in that pool. It was huge and intimidating as hell. Went once before closed down. No regrets.
Upland was gnarly. The coping, surface, vert, and working lines between the two pools was obvious. Miller's slam was legendary. I did a video on Christian Hosoi's recovery from meth and addiction and included some of this footage. He could skate Upland well along with Lester skated well, but hurt.
So bummed I missed this when I was living in Upland, I am sure my friend Mike Pike probably did’t though. Sick video man.
I still remember skating with Caballero at Campbell and Winchester skate parks in the early ‘80’s. After Campbell closed, we all went to Winchester to skate, but would hop the fence at Campbell with our bikes and just tear it up. Bikes became way more fun than skateboards. Good times.
Such an amazing time in Skating history, was a great experience and it shaped my life entirely. Growing up in O'side and CBad was epic.
Grew up there, too, man it’s just not the same as back then. The Stubbies Pro at the pier, Dad built us a half pipe in the back yard, going to Del Mar, and skating Batiquitos Ditch everyday.
@@RokkoPC for my 12th birthday my mom gave me 10$ and put me on the bus so I could go to the skatepark in TJ 😎just me and a buddy, no adults no older brothers just two 12 year old skate rats🤣 that would have been 85. She would be thrown in jail these days 🖕🏼
Sawr bones brigade doing a skate demo across the pond in Scotland. Was awesome 👍
this is sick. that thing looked terrifying
YEAH TR!🤙🏽🤙🏽
HOPE YOU'RE WELL MY MAN. LOVE&RESPECT FROM THE 805
Tony rocking the shit to The Toy Dolls. Doesn't get any better
Awesome can't believe I came across this. I haven't seen this footage in years. Was such a fan of these guys I mean growing up on the east coast and watching these guys and looking at the magazines I mean you just thought these guys were superheroes. I think I had almost everybody's bored at one time in that list. RLTW 3/75
Kids today be like. "That's how grandpa did it!"
i would literally do anything in the world to skate in 1980's-'93. the amount of things i would give up to skate Embarcadero.
Not one phone in sight. The 80s was an awesome time to be alive.
I love Tony, but I grew up a HUGE Hosoi fan. Dude was just so damn good.
Ya it sucks meth fucked him up.
Hosoi was legendary in the truest sense of the word.
This is amazing !!! Lance almost beat Tony !!! I have made surfboards for Lance, Christian Hosoi , Dave Hackett and Bennett Harada .Watching them do their thing out of the water was a real treat . Thank You .
I'm in my 40s and in 1987 was playing with GI joes and didn't know anything about skateboarding until TH-cam was a thing.
Since no one else is answering the question posed in the title, it was the varial at the end that did it. Lance also did a Mctwist, but Tony was the only skater to separate his feet from the board.
this is weird because i could swear i saw a documentary about bones brigade in which lance was portrayed as barely keeping up, as the guy who was put in BB as a manager, and they were all talking about how he struggled to do a mctwist and they even showed grainy footage of him finally landing one at home. he got all misty in the interview etc it was crazy because here he is shredding this pool! even McGill didn't do a McTwist in this video, only Lance and Tony!
How the fuck is talking about upland a "cliche".That combi separated the men from the boys and that's why I won't hear a bad word about Tony Hawk.That run he put together was fuckin insane,takes balls of steel what he did that day.There's footage of Phelps talking about how fuckin gnarly Tony's run was.Shout out Chris Miller,Lester Kasai,lance and Blender as well.Skaters that talk shit on Hawk don't know shit,that combi would make em piss their pants,shout out Duane as well,true legends all.Shit almost forgot Grosso,fuckin sick as fuck always...
Hawk was next level and not taking anything away from the other skaters!
I think hawk was like every kids favorite skaters favorite skater lol
I was 10 in 1985 and mowed yards to buy that McGill board. I remember how bad ass it seemed back then! Good ol' days.
Yeah man- I was 12, had a skateboard and these guys were the coolest most rad people on earth…
Fun times to be a kid
@stevemortillaro7201 For sure, man! I feel lucky to have been able to enjoy that time period. Not to mention all the other great stuff. Some folks will never know that feeling!
Dude Steadham’s inverts were unmatched. NO ONE has or will ever do them better than he did.
85-88 was a total vibe
Hel ye it was! I took a dump with Christian Slater in this pool circa 1988!
Skated with a lot of those guys at The Ranch in Colton!!!
Awesome time to be a kid! No pressure no responsibilities…
Biggest problem was how you were gonna get to the skate park that day!!!!
Greatest era ever!
The Badlands, awesome video great memories
At 20:11, it looks like Ian Ziering's character, Steve Sanders from Beverly Hills 90210 in the yellow shirt.
Very cool to see, I had met an gotten every autograph from the Bones Brigade back during that time , I was just a little dude but never forget about how cool that was ,
Wow, this really brought back some fond memories of my early skateboarding days. Some of those boards really take you back. Big fan of the early Vision Psycho Stick, Lance Mountain Primitive, and the Mike Vallely Elephant board. Think I’m gonna build one soon. Maybe a Lance Mountain Primitive with Indy 169’s, Powell Peralta G-bones wheels, u/ bolts, Rat bones grip tape, and old school rails.
0:06 is a perfect example of that 1980's hottie skater girls.
Tiffany 🙌
Tony started pumping to “she goes to Finos”, found the groove.
I came to the comments section to find out what song that was, thanks!
Props to Steve Cabellero for that 3th place finish.
That Chris Miller slam was brutal.
Making this look so simple shows how skilful they are. How good we once were, indomitability of youth
This was the same year I built a half pipe in my back yard. Actually I built it twice. The first time was with stolen wood so I had to disassemble it and give the wood back. Hey, I was 13 and my role models stunk.
We're you the House you can see the ramp from the Backyard on Sixth and Vineyard??
@@jonmacdonald5345 I was in Jersey.
Talk about flashback! I used to skate there when I was a kid.
21:15 ...the real Silent Bob..🤣
O Skate + rock, se loko, galera ja entra na rampa com sangue nos olhos para fazer manobras brutais! Esporte é vida!
The last skateboard I ever bought was a Chris Miller in 1990 and it was the first board with a big nose although it wasn't like the nose on boards a couple years later like the modern boards today.
Saw Uncle Rico in the audience for sure.
Holy Fuck! Tony killed it. Head and shoulders above the other amazing runs.
Hero of my youth!👍
Kudos to everyone who gave their all in this bowl. RIP Chris Robison !
Tony goes over and beyond!
No Fear!
Chris Miller . Soooooooooo smoooooooooooooooth .