BLIND: 14 Things You Didn't Know About Blind Skateboards
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ค. 2024
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Rocco starts World Industries and took a bunch of the worlds best street skaters with him. As the brand grew he started launching board brands under the world umbrella with his friends and skaters that he admired. The early team was Jason Lee, Ron Chatman, Jeremy Klien, Daewon, Shiloh Greathouse, and Jovontea Turner.
Brad Dorfman told Rocco that street skating was a waste of time and would never be a big thing. So Enemy #1 for Rocco is Dorfman. And in 1989, Mark Gonzales founds Blind skateboards under Steve Rocco and the world industries umbrella.
After pissing off Rocco by telling him street skating was a waste of his time, Gonz and Rocco decide to name the brand BLIND as a direct diss to the super popular Vision skateboards at the time. The original blind logo was drawn by Mark Gonzales and you can definitely see the resemblance between th OG logo and the current Krooked art.
The Blind Reaper logo came along in 1996 and was drawn and conceived by Mark Mckee.
Mark’s good friend Jason Lee moved over from the world industries. It was unusual for people to jump from the world camp because it was the biggest and coolest brand around at the time.
Rivalry starts between Blind and Powell after they steal the two biggest Powell Peralta Ams: Rudy Johnson & Guy Mariano at the time. Eventually, Rocco launches the famous “Dear George” ad and boards series. With graphics for Mark Gonzales, Jason Lee and Rudy Johnson. This is explained by Mark McKee in Disposable ‘ A history of skateboard art’ Vol1. The Dodo bird graphic ripping off Tony Hawk’s board was originally intended for Danny Way at the time. But there was such an intense rivalry between Danny and Tony at the time, they chose to give it to Jason Lee instead.
They would later piss off Powell Peralta again, when ripped off the soon to come out Powell Peralta Claudia Shiffer drawing board for Adam McNatt, and Sean Cliver drew a better version and Blind quickly released it before Powell.
-these stories are told in Sean Clivers Disposable Vol. 1 Book.
In 1989 Steve Rocco tells employee Spike Jonze to take the company credit card and start filming a video, he releases world industries Rubbish Heap.
In 1991, Spike releases his second ever movie, Blind Video Days movie which is one of the most. The team used to stay at Gonz’ house in Huntington beach and go filming all night with Spike.
The devil worship board was supposed to be for Jason Lee. Jason Lee didn’t want to upset people and said he didn’t want his name on it”. Gonz tells Jason, the board is evil and if he rides this board something bad will happened. Rocco even writes Jason lee a check for $10,000 to do the board, but Jason eventually refuses; the graphic ends up going to 101 and Natas Kaupas.
Mark McKee has been the man behind a number of iconic graphics: the American Icons Jason Lee graphic, Accidental Gun Death Guy Mariano 1992,
Beauty and the beast Henry Sanchez 1994, fucked up Blind Kids 1992 MM
jason lee burger graphic (1991). Jason Lee said this board also got him in Hot water with Mike V. Mike had recently quit world industries, and took offense to the ad thinking it was directed at him (he was a vegan and has recently released the Animal Farm graphic) Then Jason comes out with a Burger king graphic standing in front of BK with a shaved head. Mark Mckee has also done the iconic Markovich super size graphic, and the North Park series.
If you like baggy pants, check out Blind's iconic baggy jeans.
At the end of 1993 Johnson, Mariano, Gavin, and Wilson leave blind to join the rival Girl Skateboards camp. Jason lee decides to leave to found Stereo skateboards with Chris Pastras. And Mark Gonzales has differences with Rocco and decides to jump ship from the brand he started.
After some restructuring, In 2005, they release their second full length skate video: Blind ‘What If’. This video features: corey sheppard, jake duncombe, Grant patterson, Kris Marcovich, Carlos Ruiz, James Craig, Ronnie Creager & more. They also released the blind video, this is not a test, damn…, X2 vision. They were one of the earlier brands doing lots of TH-cam stuff. Adding lots of new people to the team, like Morgan Smith, Kevin Romar, Yuto Horigome, Cody Mac, TJ Rogers & many more. - กีฬา
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Blind is such a legendary brand
Its got a crazy ass history for sure!
I had an all black blind board with a yellow light bulb. When I was a kid
H-Street needs a documentary. Late 80s early 90s was a great time for technical street skating and H-Street lead the way.
Yes!
@@ShredzShop creature skateboards??
Watching your videos is like taking tutoring in skate history
Absolutely love it, especially after a long skate day
Stoked you enjoyed em!! 🙏
Blind and World Industries back in the early 90’s really saved street skating! They did sooooo much back then. So influential!
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10 years ago at fifteen, a punk kid skating downtown and pretty much anywhere there was a 3 step, I was a huge world industries fan. the art work was awesome! now 25 and a buddy hits me up before his wedding and says the boys are meeting at the skate park and they have a board, just be there. I throw on my supra skytops and we hit a session for the first time in nearly a decade. I just placed an order for a Blind deck lol its crazy I never knew the history between the two but I definitely have a specific art style I enjoy. Also grabbing a pair of vans because those skytops are going to be shelved for display purposes only as they seem to have been discontinued!
Do a 14 things you didn't know about ZUMIEZ. As much as I hate to say it, I think it needs to be done.
I remember buying a 9 ply Blind deck in the late 90s because I was tired of snapping boards. It was heavy but basically unbreakable.
those things were really good for grinding non rail related things because of the extra weight it was easier to balance, i never owned one because that was my early days of skating. i actually loved blind designs but i never actually owned one if i remember correctly
the most underrated brand and the most underrated content creators talkin about it
Thank you!! 🙏 Stoked you enjoy the vids!
Mark Gonzalez is my cousin, his grandma Helen and my grandfather Don were siblings. His brother Mike used to draw some of the artwork too I believe.
I only saw him a few times and one was at his grandfather Jays funeral. His brother Mike was at a fam reunion in the mid 90s..
Damn! That's so epic! Mark is a legend.
Although this guy talks and looks just like my douchey ex boss, goddamn is his content fucking gold!!!! Keep this good shit up :)
😂😂😂 “Ryan you’re fired”
I remember wearing "the uniform" back in the day lol an oversized white t shirt, baggy jeans and a pair of Airwalks and you felt like you were instantly the coolest dude in the neighborhood hahaha I had no idea that Blind basically pioneered that look but it does make sense now looking back on it. Blind has always been one of my favorite brands and I've skated several Blind decks over the years. It would be really cool to see a video like this about A Team and Think skateboards.
I’m getting a new blind skateboard I’m so happy
My first real skateboard was a Blind board. 7.75 with. i now ride 8.6 with boards. Whenever i see Blind boards rolling by in a skatepark i feel nostagia haha.
It always holds a place in your hear when it was your first board!
Love this series! Keep up the good work!👊🍻🤘
Thanks Angelo! Stoked you enjoy the vids! 🙏
I lived through this so I knew all of this. Skating from the mid 80s until 2000 was truly the golden years.
I had a pair of the yellow Blind jeans. They were hand-me-downs from our skate crew. One dude bought them, wore them a couple times, gave them to some other dude, wore them a couple times, then gave them to me.
I was stoked! Yes! The Blind jeans were MINE!!
These things were yellow. Like, really really yellow. I'm talking banana laffy taffy yellow. Big Bird yellow. Like, yellow.
They held their color because they were so deeply soaked in stain color. So they were stiff as a board. And of course, they were massive.
So the end result was, when I walked in them, my legs moved freely within the pant legs, and the pants just stood straight at attention.
So basically, it looked like I wasn't walking when I walked around in them. It looked like I was just hovering. I was in college at the time, and you'd see me on campus, two giant bright yellow pipes, absolutely rigid, my arms swinging, my feet/legs just magically transporting me forward.
Everyone laughed at me. Everyone laughed at me.
So I gave em to some other kid in our crew. He was stoked!
I thought I knew a lot about blind, but this video was more knowledge for sure. More great content from shredz
Thanks!! Stoked you enjoyed!! 🙏
Blind Body Bags were the shit though. Best chinos I ever wore. And Rudy Johnson’s sparkplug deck will always be one of my favorite blind decks.
YES! This is the video i have been waiting for
Hopefully we did you proud!!!
@@ShredzShop you most certainly did!
I like ur style very informative and help remember some nostalgia thanks for that keep them coming
Thanks John! Glad you enjoyed!!
Skated blind decks almost my whole life. Just recently tried other brand decks.
How did they compare to Blind decks?
Awesome. I knew the OG history but not the what happened after Jason Lee left. Also didn't know Mark owned krooked skateboards. Makes me want to go pick one up.
Marks youtube channel is pretty cool. You never know what you will get.
Yea, it’s cool when you look back at the older Blind stuff, looks super similar to modern Krooked stuff
Blind was always my fav.. artist.. truly
I just got the whole set of FUBK2 decks from 2001 and I’m stoked! Creager, Choi, Kasper, Shephard, Gershon and James Craig 🔥
Damn that’s a trip how much did you pay
Watching from Phoenix Arizona! Great video! Keep em coming!
Stoked you enjoy the vids!! 🙏
And shoutout Cowtown Skateshop!! 🙌🏻👊🏻
Jason lee will always be my favorite skateboarder. Love his acting too
Had nothing but Blind decks as kid. Still have an old Grimmy deck hanging up in my garage
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I remember them and their team best from early 00s, "what if?," days. So cool to learn about the other lives of the company's history. Thanks guys!
Glad you enjoyed!!! 🙌🏻👊🏻
Every week homies!
Vision street wear 👳 lol . . I remember that stuff . . Thank you to brands like Blind and everything that followed .
Would be sick to see some re-issues!
Cheers to Cochrane from Vancouver:) Grew up skateboarding there in the late 90s. Thank you for the amazing content 🙏🙌🏻
Rad! Come by for visit if you’re ever back in town!!
Great content shredz 🔥🔥👌👌
Thanks David! Glad you enjoyed! 🙏
Just went on another binge. Love the content. Can we see some videos on newer companies like Primitive and April?
We’ve got a Primitive vid! I’ll add April to the list.
Another spicy one, like ,subscribe and comment. Gone through the whole library and made sure that I have a comment on all the videos
Been waiting
Always top notch content
Thank you!! 🙏
Blind’s what it? was the first skate video I got back when I was 10 in 2004. I Still have the dvd to this day. It’s Always been my favorite
First videos have a way like that!!
@@ShredzShop Yep, I still have it too. I remember if you go into the board gallery in "Extras" and press left on Rudy Johnson's 40 oz deck, a reaper pops up and you can watch "Video Days"....cool little Easter Egg.
My first skateboard was blind because I was just in love with the grim reaper. I will only ever buy Blind!!!
I love these history of skateboarding videos!
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The ending was priceless!!
Good episode!! Watching from Finland!
Thanks! And that's Awesome!! Would love to do a Norway/Sweden/Finland skate trip at some point in my life!
@@ShredzShop You should do that, but I think that here in Finland (and SWE & NOR) you have to use your imagination more because spots are not so easy to come up with.😂 Well at least here in the country side.
Ha ha! That comment at the end...so funny. Reminds me of reading Thrasher in the 80's and everything being new and underground...before the term "underground" was a thing. Thanks for getting me caught up on what happened with blind and Gonzo
Thanks for watching!! 🙌🙏
Love child video was when I was 13 and was skateboarding everyday. That video inspired me.
Bangin’ out the knowledge. Watching from Robin hood town. Nottingham.U.K.
Love this channel and skater
What in tartnation!?!
My first pro model I was bought in 2001 was a warped blind board and it changed my life.
Can't believe spike jonze directed not only some of the best skate videos of all time, but also the movie HER thats INSANE
He's a legend!
Gideon Choi Lunch Money was my first deck back in 2000.
Watching this video reminds me of some great good old days when I was lucky to have been friends with the Rocco’s, crazy at times though..Going to WI in Torrance was always really cool, especially when Steve would let me pick out new decks, Gizmos, and clothes. I wasn’t close to being a pro, but all the stuff I got felt like I was sponsored, lol.
That’s so epic!! Definitely huge Rocco fans over here! Hear tons of crazy stories and folklore of the glory days at world industries!!
Thanks for sharing
Big fan of the videos, and also Im waching the videos from Chile peace out
So rad!! 🙌🏻👊🏻
Jason Lee almost sold his soul for 10k 😂😂😂
But that board graphic is now iconic and everybody remember him as the "my name is earl guy who used to skate" i bet if that board haved his name maybe some things would be really different to him in a good way.
It's a pretty funny story! 😂
later he sold his soul to sciencetology
@@geezuschrist2734
Jason Lee is already iconic, huge reason why modern street skateboarding is the way it is now.
@@sk8eboarding105 wow thats really lame, i would prefer to be the satanist skateboarder thant the scientologist skateboarder
Cool video. I usually used to ride Gonz decks back in the Vision days and then went over to Blind. The photo in my TH-cam profile is from this year and yes, it's a Blind board.
Going for the spicy comment of the week: Count the number of times you say “actually” in your videos. Love the work you put into these. Keep them coming! 😎👍
haha this is a common comment in our vids, especially the Baker one 😂
Inspiration for life is always in videos like these
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Remember zoo York and they had a show skate maps i think. I use to love that idk if yall watched. Fuel tv, captian and Kasey show was my shit
I had a baseball cap of blind, back in the day. But the reaper logo needs a new pencil stroke. IMO, of course.
Blind was my first board 🙏🏼
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Jason Lee from My name is Earl, that's crazy.
Got some big breaks!! He still rips on a skateboard
You missed a huge opportunity to note that Natas hurt himself badly on that 101 ''devil worship'' board which ended his career early...thus confirming the bad omen about it.
Love there decks so good
Those poser jnco jeans came after the blind jeans my dude.... did you know i went skating with rob D and julian stranger? Now u do... i think Andy Howell was there also
Damn! Skating with Rob & Julien is a serious flex. 👊🏻
@@ShredzShop it says jnco been around since 85 but i never saw a pair until 95' 96'. I was lucky to be friends with felix argulles from miami thats how i met alot of pros. Felix skated for planet earth. Yeah im super old!
Great video as always, funny and informative. I'm commenting because you gave a shout out to Micky Papa for being Canadian, but not TJ Rogers? They both represent our country with steez and pop.
TJ's the man, I feel like he's aging like fine wine!
I used to skate with Jordan Richter at Fremont Skatepark in 2016. When his Skate Camp started taking off. So all this, I learned already threw him.
Damn that’s rad!!!
Blind skateboards are awesome always skated em since I was 9 years old about
Blind is pretty sick
I want to see Levi do a board graphic.
😂😂
My first skateboard was a blind complete got it Xmas 2005, just bought a blind deck yesterday for my brother hella stoked
Finally!!!!
Hope it was worth the wait!! 👊
@@ShredzShop it definitely was!
There’s several things wrong with this video, but for starters, bLind jeans came out well before the mid-90’s. They came out in late 1991, when skaters started wearing bigger and bigger pants. The gimmick, besides being huge, was that the legs were long and unfinished (unhemmed at the bottom), so you could cut them to whatever length you wanted. They were a everywhere 1992-1993, then started to sorta phase out when almost every other skate company made their own jeans/pants (and they became more reasonably/less excessively baggy). By the mid-90’s, you hardly ever saw any skaters wearing bLind jeans. So they basically started that entire trend (along with the huge New Deal sun logo pants), then gradually faded to the background. They still made different versions of bLind jeans later on, but they were a far cry from the originals.
Who gives a fuck lol
15. Rocco offered blind to Lance Mountain but Lance said no thanks.
Damn! I didn't know that one!
It's true, Lance talks about it in his Nine Club interview
Acabo de buscar "Blind Skateboards" ya que tengo una y wow yo ni sabía todo esto😭
3:48 Apparently they added two Jason Lee's to the team!? haha
Altough i know noting about blind but i love your content bro.
love from india
Thank you!! Whats the skate scene like out in India?!
found this channel not too long ago, maybe a month but i love and have watched SO many of yor vids! though one constcructive cirtisim; into music too loud for intros. and most vids have different volueme levels, other than that lovin everything
Stoked you enjoy them!! Appreciate the feedback on the intro music!! 🙌🏻👊🏻
I wouldn't have imagined that graphic was Jason's at first, It seems weird that the deck was made with Lee's name without his permission at first, I'm sure they just wanted a famous pro to go along with this deck that they felt was secure to sell. Jason was avoiding getting canceled before anyone else.
Yea, seems like it fit way better with Natas anyhow.
@@ShredzShop Natas is Satan bacwards.
thanks Levi
THANK YOU!!!
Hahaha 😅 love it
I got the grave digger tattooed on my forearm 🤘🏻
Back in 2002 when I was 14 years old , every kid at shool wanted blind or world industries, beacause of the cool grafics.
Can never go wrong with blind
Let’s go!!!
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10:31 This is probably an ad but that shirt is crazy
Blind jeans where my favorite back in the day
Super interesting
Stoked you enjoyed!!
I grew up in Orange county, and when I started skating that blind section in round 2 was the jam, creager, gideon, Craig and Shepard man, I grew up in tustin and there was a good hand full of spots we skated in that video
That’s rad!
Yuto is on April.. he was on blind..but the what if video is a classic
Mustve been chilly had to put that jacket on 😂
I met jason lee in Denton TX a few years ago and he was a super nice rad dude.
That’s awesome! He seems like he’d be mega cool!!
what if was my era, fucking loved that video and the tracks and skaters. gallant patterson and ronnie creager and james Craig. i would also like to see a blueprint skateboards history video. because i use to always buy there boards and loved the team back then. then i quit skating for so many years and now blueprint is hardly around.
Yea Blueprint got sold to a super terrible company, kicked the team off and started making terrible stuff, not sure where they're at nowadays...
@@ShredzShop i bought a £35 blueprint sprayed heart deck wich is my fav logo like over a year or so ago from skate pro site. it was ok but didnt state mini size. and it was 7.6 when im a smaller feet guy. as the old 7.5 use to be normal length. but this blueprint was im sure of it chinese shit wood and no colour ply. which to me is quality.
Bruh, that Baker deck really pops against that wall ey! Looks sick.
Although having a Jason Lee dodo skull deck on the wall (especially for this episode!) would’ve been sick(er)!
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Also, you forgot to mention that one of the early Blind logos (during the time they were feuding with Powell-Peralta) was an upside down/ flipped Powell-Peralta logo, turning the ‘P’ from that logo into a lowercase ‘b’ for their Blind logo. 🤙
Have ya done a video on the history/evolution of the skateboard wheel?
We touched on it a bit in our history of skateboarding book. But it’d definitely be something rad to do a full vid on!! 🙌🏻👊🏻
can you do 14 things i didn't know about hill bombing
If you don't have a local skate shop zumiez is a better choice than mail order because your still supporting your local community instead of some shop in a different state or country
Samesh Gupta is the man!
I believe at 7:22 is the high school I use to go too. Looks so familiar
My favourite deck back in the day was my Blind Mark Gonzales Macaroni Kiss slick.
Gonna have to google this one!
@@ShredzShop It 's a very odd graphic hahaha.
TJ and Mickey holding it down for Canada
yooo i didnt know about alot of this stuff i live in huntington beach this stuff is so interesting
So much amazing skateboard history in Huntington Beach!!!
My first graphic was a Josh Kasper blind deck🔥
Kasperholics!!!
I used to have a preme x gonz sweater that had supreme in the OG blind logo on the front. sold it for like 300 quid. massive profit.
I know a guy down south (UK) who used to work at Lafayette supreme in NYC in the early days, and he actually paid off his mortgage selling supreme stuff online. He was essentially the pioneer for selling on facebook instead of ebay in the UK (a full decade before FB marketplace) supreme actually sued him in the end though as he was using their name on his shop.
I believe it's the same guy that has wavy garms now, or at least he started it. I think he sold it on.
Guy ripped me off actually and owe=s me about 200 quid. if I ever see him, he's fvcked.
my favorite gyus from blind...gershon mosley and jack ilardi...forgot to mention
Keep up the good work......FYI Mark Gonzales is misspelled....go figure ✌🏽
Hehe we always have at least one screw up 😂🤦🏻♂️