I was born in 82 and lived in a small town in East Tennessee, my local mom and pop video store had one (obligatory) skateboard video in the whole shop. This one. I rented it, returned it and rented it again, and so on and so on. I watched it incessantly when I had it. When I didn't I daydreamed about it until I could rent it again. I watched it so much, that the tape eventually broke inside the casing. Psycho Skate was the reason I became obsessed with skateboarding in the late 80's early 90's and why I started skating. Obviously, living where I did, there was next to zero outlets for any sort of professional aspirations of the sport, but that didn't stop me. I skated almost every single day from age 8 until when I was 14, I was 50/50 grinding a rail, the board slipped off and I fell on my back and my left leg went completely numb for several minutes. During those minutes I was convinced I'd become partially paralyzed and made up my mind right there, that if I was able to walk again I'd quit that day. I still miss it, but mostly I just miss the feeling of being young and obsessed with something so pure, something that brought so much joy and passion to my life in a way nothing else ever did.
Man I loved skating in the 80's. We even had our own crew called Local Street Crew. Love these time capsules. The things guys are able to do nowadays is just crazy but I love my nostalgia
My first skateboard video. And it was rented, stolen, and kept. VHS days!! God I'm freaking old but still enjoy pulling out the board and watching videos. Cheerrs!!!
So clear to see now that the Hosoi / Hawk battle divided skateboarding...these days it's all about tricks, most people don't care about style...I miss the Hosoi days!
@@simonvance8054 I always thought the 80’s style was way better but felt like I had to do the modern stuff to fit in. I don’t really care for flip tricks much anymore. Also the boards were way more cool too! Everything just looked better to me.
Style was tucking in a shirt inside your waistband and making it flow like a cape. Skaters are smoother in every way today compared to back then. Im saying this at almost 50 years old and skated full time from 1985 to 1999
OMG I Love this video. I bought this exact video in 1988 after seeing the TV commercial; I was in college and this was an awesome intro to the modern styles of skating, many new things since the 1970's/80 when I was active.
Because he is/was completely crazy and had zero impulse control. Some of the people who toured with him on the Swatch tour said they weren't the least bit surprised when they heard what happened.
Desolate an awesome time for skateboarding it's pretty interesting the way they made the movie. I got myself a old school board so ready to go shred some streets
Think this was def my first skate vid!!What great memories then,think i had my Variflex still before i upgraded to my McGill!!Believe i had this and a Schmidt Stixx Vid,Damn I feel Old!!!Hosoi is Soo Fluid and graceful with his huge airs,had a magazine page hung on my wall of him on his hammerhead doing a Huge Christ Air,Such an Iconic pic for Me,For Skating!!Almost Forgot,This also introduced me too The Descendants!!So good too skate too
100th Comment! Best of the best across various teams...Hosoi, Hawk, Gonz, Mullen... can't get better than that. These guys are huge contributors to skateboarding!
Nice at 25 39 my favorate skate pool I have a pic I framed on my wall of my house carving the tile of the nic deep left hand kidney pool on my skate board with a Vision Deck !
Eddie Reategui, The Gonz, and Hosoi ! What a trip man! I got Hosoi and Alva's autographs back in 2012 at Gravevine Mills mall in Tx at the Journey's backyard BBQ🔥 ☮
I never watched this back in the day. Don't know what I would have thought of it back then. Of course I knew of Gator based on all the ads, contests, and that certain event in his life that occurred. What I didn't realize is just how good Gator really was. It was kind of easy for a lot of the skaters to get overlooked/overshadowed because the mags (and vids) loved Powell Peralta, y'know? All about exposure back then and certainly, no internet. This is great to watch. Thank you.
He was a good vert rider. He got left behind when street skating became the most popular form of skating. There really were only a handful of 80's pros that made the transition to 90's relevancy. Tony Hawk was one, Cab was another, a couple more but not many.
How everything has changed from my days of skating being looked down upon as the dregs of society and we were. And damn proud of it. Then they got the least Street guy out of everyone to make a street skating videogame and the world changed over night. Life is crazy.
I was at the event when i was 7 years old,couldnt imagine living that life as a super pro skater, it was so differnt and changed landscape so quickly frim mid 80 -95.
@@ArcHiveChannel no man it was called the primo slide because Primo Desiderio invented it 87-88 and there was even a brief write-up in Thrasher. All I know for sure at least is that it was NBD and that they didn't call it the "mullen slide" or "mutt slide" (which would have been even catchier lol. Mullen did however exalt the trick and he may well have done it first but AFAIK it was "Primo primera" ;)
Gator committed a heinous crime and he's doing the time. But this Gator, the one in the video, he didn't. This was well before it happened, well before he even thought about doing something like that, and I'll always love this Gator. Old Gator rules. This Gator didn't murder anyone, so I'm comfortable staying a fan--of Old Gator.
I could imagine beavis and butthead reacting to this, making fun of the part at 5:12 like "I wonder what he'll do, beavis. hehe, hehehe, hehehe" and then when he says "incidentally" beavis would go on about doing things incidentally and butthead will be like "if you don't shut up I'm gonna instadentally kick your ass!"
you only get one life (i think?) do what makes you happy. the authorities are evil, and there is no reason to support their systems, whatsoever. if youre days are not fun now, change yoru life.
I remember seeing ads for this video on MTV when I was 14. I wanted to get it but my parents wouldn't let me. Guess they were kinda anti skater at the time.
@@ArcHiveChannel yup. That's what I get for having a nervous mom who worked a receptionist at the Emergency section of the hospital. And sees a lotta kids come in from skateboarding, motorcycle, and football injuries. I'm surprised she actually let me ride a bike.
Aww man. My folks let me skate. Got me my Lester Kasai deck and let me build a 6 foot quarter pipe in the driveway. But we didn't get cable so no MTV lol
It's funny and sad as I was 16 when it came out and was already mostly street or skating,Southbank,Kennington or meanwhile 2 the only vert in London was the giant ramp at Latimer Road which was very dodgy at times like meanwhile 2 if your a lil white skate rat and on your own bunking off college,luckily after a couple times they realised I had less money than those lil kunts. The point of this is its literally the torch passing. As soon as you see Mark Gonzales do that first boardslide,vert Died! Fair play to Bobby Puelo for archiving shit like this and revisiting these classic times. Gonz is Gonz as I'm not religious but Fair Play is Gator outta prison yet😂😂😂😂❤
I turned it off after Gator appeared... It makes me sick to my stomach that he will have line ups of reporters wanting to interview him for $$, once he's released from prison, borderline hailing him for his heinous crime. I much rather wish the girl he murdered was still with us, and he wasn't.
Those were the days as some say, and they kinda were. Gator turned out to be a rapist and a murderer, and unfortunately Hosoi took a few wrong turns as well.
You have to hand it to Powell, Vision, and Santa Cruz for selling millions of boards, designed almost exclusively for skating large halfpipes, to kids all over the world, most of whom were in places where those ramps and skateparks mostly didn't exist unless you built one yourself. That's like selling scuba gear to someone in Kansas. Master marketing there.
and I'd bet long odds that's a big reason why the skate boom of the 80's crashed hard in the early 90's. Those big boards weren't good for much other than big ramp skating, which weren't most places. Street got popular because that works a lot more places.
That's not correct, a lot of people just bought'em for cruising down the streets, the 80s boards cruised really well, in 'Back to the future' for example shows Marty Mcfly using his Powell board to cruise down to school. Of course half pipes were the most progressive form of skating back then, but every pro also skated street, like Hosoi here at 10:30, and that's what appealed to kids who didn't have ramps nearby.
Nothing like selling scuba gear in Kansas at all, everyone had concrete avaliable, and the boards were not good for making modern street tricks of today, but they cruised great, more like the surfskates of today which people buy for cruising and surf training
@@fernandomaron87 yeah, but they weren't particularly well suited for the type of skating that most kids started doing in the late 80'/early 90's. Street got popular because there weren't any ramps in a lot of places. Even mini ramps were kinda rare. I'd bet that apart from California, at any given time in the late 80's/early 90's, most states didn't even have a vert ramp anywhere, and if they did, it wasn't up for long. Try a kickflip or an impossible to manual or a nollie kickflip on a Hosoi Hammerhead board with giant wheels and then try one an early 90's Blind board. People started running wheels that were barely bigger than the bearings, and it was 100% to make flip tricks easier. Way easier on the smaller, more narrow board with smaller wheels made for skating curbs and ollieing over stuff rather than going 30 mph doing 10' airs out of a 12' tall vert ramp. But you are right though that if you are just hammering down the street at top speed, having a bigger board with bigger wheels tends to work out a bit better.
@@mikecynic5167 I remember wearing one blue & one red vision shoes. (Was into BMX freestyle in the 80’s but I wanted to be the Christian Hosoi of BMX!) I remember wearing Airwalks too! AND multiple swatch watches! (Swatch was and still is a legit watch brand. I wish they were still $20)
@@ArtVandelayOfficialVisions lasted longer if you pulled any air or ground Ollie’s, thanks to the re enforced rubber padding on the mudguard. The grip tape absolutely tore up Airwalks
Wtf are you even talking about? This video is from 1987, he was a skate superstar still and she was alive yet, the crime only happened in 1991, why would they make a movie about her then?
How can a guy be more likeable after having paid their debt for a horrible act than he was prior to committing the act? Gator was such a prick I almost didnt buy several pairs of street wear shoes. Some of the cringiest gear ever by the way.
Really because Rodney Mullen is the best street/free syle skater to ever live even back then he was better than any skater nowadays Harley anything changed in skateboarding since the 90s everybody steal chips with no Style
@@justin1978 u are so right, hitler should be remembered for his contribution to men's facial hair design too. poor little bitch never gets any love for THAT! good point.
He WAS regularly third place versus HAWK & HOSOI. That ended over 20 years ago because of his raping & killing a lady he was dating with. Besides that, he's out of prison!
Just in case anyone was wondering why there are these "lame" strips of plastic screwed left and right on the board. The boards then where, beacuse of the tapering and because of the wood used itself, prone to breaking. They really could not take a lot of punishment then. Just so you know. The science of skateboard manufacturing, especially in concern to how the wood is processed, what wood is used, lightyears more advanced now. There where almost no "pro boards" then. Meaning manufactured by skateboarders themselves.
There were former skaters active in the industry already, Alva, Peralta, Hosoi and Lucero a bit later, but most of the industry was being managed by business men.
Vision was definitely the lamest thing to happen to skateboarding in the 80s.. Buncha suburban kids trying to be hard with those lame Vision Street shirts. TO funny.. Just here for Mullen..
I was skating in the 80’s, raving in the 90’s, traveling in the 00’s, working in the 10’s, locked down in the 20’s.
I ignored them knock down the whole entire time F what the government say's
Raving. And you publicly admit that shit?
Come back out and skate! 😎✌️
Cringe
How old are you right now
Healthy, in shape kids, outside, doing active things. I miss the 80's.
Yeah, kids didn't play video games in the 80s.
Yeah the main star of this video went on to murder his girlfriend and hes currently in prison. Very healthy.
i started skating again because there is concrete bowls everywhere now
Not a chubby person in sight!
(+@@charliegrsmy❤❤❤😅ñu mom)
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I was born in 82 and lived in a small town in East Tennessee, my local mom and pop video store had one (obligatory) skateboard video in the whole shop. This one. I rented it, returned it and rented it again, and so on and so on. I watched it incessantly when I had it. When I didn't I daydreamed about it until I could rent it again. I watched it so much, that the tape eventually broke inside the casing. Psycho Skate was the reason I became obsessed with skateboarding in the late 80's early 90's and why I started skating. Obviously, living where I did, there was next to zero outlets for any sort of professional aspirations of the sport, but that didn't stop me. I skated almost every single day from age 8 until when I was 14, I was 50/50 grinding a rail, the board slipped off and I fell on my back and my left leg went completely numb for several minutes. During those minutes I was convinced I'd become partially paralyzed and made up my mind right there, that if I was able to walk again I'd quit that day. I still miss it, but mostly I just miss the feeling of being young and obsessed with something so pure, something that brought so much joy and passion to my life in a way nothing else ever did.
You can feel that again!🛹
Man I loved skating in the 80's. We even had our own crew called Local Street Crew. Love these time capsules. The things guys are able to do nowadays is just crazy but I love my nostalgia
We were "bonebreakers". Haha.
I owned this on VHS back in the day. I never thought I'd see this again. Thank you 👍
My first skateboard video. And it was rented, stolen, and kept. VHS days!! God I'm freaking old but still enjoy pulling out the board and watching videos. Cheerrs!!!
Hilarious - this was also my first skate video🤙
Life was great when this came out..not so much anymore..
you better make some changes my friend
Absolutely brilliant! So much more style back then!!
So clear to see now that the Hosoi / Hawk battle divided skateboarding...these days it's all about tricks, most people don't care about style...I miss the Hosoi days!
@@simonvance8054 I always thought the 80’s style was way better but felt like I had to do the modern stuff to fit in. I don’t really care for flip tricks much anymore. Also the boards were way more cool too! Everything just looked better to me.
nah this was wack. 60s skaters were way more stylish
@@LittleBrother-t6nhell ya! Those clay, metal, and hard plastic wheels really enabled those guys in the 60s to shine lol.
Style was tucking in a shirt inside your waistband and making it flow like a cape.
Skaters are smoother in every way today compared to back then.
Im saying this at almost 50 years old and skated full time from 1985 to 1999
Mark "Gonzo" Gonzales was my boy! Good times!
OMG I Love this video. I bought this exact video in 1988 after seeing the TV commercial; I was in college and this was an awesome intro to the modern styles of skating, many new things since the 1970's/80 when I was active.
Yes , still skating at 52 but it's more dangerous now
Some of my OG LEGENDS!!Damn Gator,why??????? 😢
Because he is/was completely crazy and had zero impulse control. Some of the people who toured with him on the Swatch tour said they weren't the least bit surprised when they heard what happened.
man even 40 years ago skateboarding was kicking ass. Good that something doesnt change
Yah and Music, fashion and movies were better too! Social Media has ruined this planet dude
Desolate an awesome time for skateboarding it's pretty interesting the way they made the movie. I got myself a old school board so ready to go shred some streets
Rodney Mullen... what a creative mind that dude has
Love him. He seems like the kindest person too. So talented
Miss it! Seems like so long ago.
It is
@@timkincade9763yes it was. :(
I ordered this from a TV commercial ….then watched this and became a Dag Nasty fan during the film
same here
Think this was def my first skate vid!!What great memories then,think i had my Variflex still before i upgraded to my McGill!!Believe i had this and a Schmidt Stixx Vid,Damn I feel Old!!!Hosoi is Soo Fluid and graceful with his huge airs,had a magazine page hung on my wall of him on his hammerhead doing a Huge Christ Air,Such an Iconic pic for Me,For Skating!!Almost Forgot,This also introduced me too The Descendants!!So good too skate too
Vision street wear never forget 😂
100th Comment! Best of the best across various teams...Hosoi, Hawk, Gonz, Mullen... can't get better than that. These guys are huge contributors to skateboarding!
And Hosoi is just the best.
My childhood revisited. When we only care about simple things.
Nice at 25 39 my favorate skate pool I have a pic I framed on my wall of my house carving the tile of the nic deep left hand kidney pool on my skate board with a Vision Deck !
Thanks !!!!!!!!
It's been 30 years since I've seen this video that I had in k7 and that I watched on repeat😁🤙
Eddie Reategui, The Gonz, and Hosoi ! What a trip man! I got Hosoi and Alva's autographs back in 2012 at Gravevine Mills mall in Tx at the Journey's backyard BBQ🔥 ☮
I never watched this back in the day. Don't know what I would have thought of it back then. Of course I knew of Gator based on all the ads, contests, and that certain event in his life that occurred. What I didn't realize is just how good Gator really was. It was kind of easy for a lot of the skaters to get overlooked/overshadowed because the mags (and vids) loved Powell Peralta, y'know? All about exposure back then and certainly, no internet. This is great to watch. Thank you.
He was a good vert rider. He got left behind when street skating became the most popular form of skating. There really were only a handful of 80's pros that made the transition to 90's relevancy. Tony Hawk was one, Cab was another, a couple more but not many.
Gonz pulling kickflips on those old decks like nothing.
There making all new vision clothing and sneakers in Canada now ,too bad they won't ship to the US
How everything has changed from my days of skating being looked down upon as the dregs of society and we were. And damn proud of it. Then they got the least Street guy out of everyone to make a street skating videogame and the world changed over night. Life is crazy.
Rodney mullen , like WOW, the granfather god of freestyle skating , 2024, RESPECT.
I miss those early days of snowboarding
Don't Die Wondering
21:45 That's the EZ7 skatepark in Houston
9:20 that shit gave me goosebumps
I was at the event when i was 7 years old,couldnt imagine living that life as a super pro skater, it was so differnt and changed landscape so quickly frim mid 80 -95.
that ditch is so bad ass. i wonder if they let mark gator out of prison. he has been in there forever. a lifetime
September 30 2020 and Ragowski is still LOCKED UP 😝
All that for a major loss of control...just watch this if you did not yet
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@@davidgaudreault5080 that boy was PU$$Y WHIPPED and the truth did not set him FREE 😜
@@gkhanjriii91-04 bruh stop using the tongue emojis ur weird asf
Well that's kind of how a life sentence works dumbass ....
😝
I love the old 15:00 breakdancing the board
8:40
I wish more skaters popped those hand planty grab things these days, they look cool. Flashing them grab rails for the camera ☺️
Lots of people still do egg plants bro~
Lots of people still do handplants and footplants bro
Hand plant ,not planty, goon talk
When you land primo, thank this dude 14:58
And he thanks Rodney Mullen.
@@ArcHiveChannel no man it was called the primo slide because Primo Desiderio invented it 87-88 and there was even a brief write-up in Thrasher. All I know for sure at least is that it was NBD and that they didn't call it the "mullen slide" or "mutt slide" (which would have been even catchier lol. Mullen did however exalt the trick and he may well have done it first but AFAIK it was "Primo primera" ;)
Gator committed a heinous crime and he's doing the time. But this Gator, the one in the video, he didn't. This was well before it happened, well before he even thought about doing something like that, and I'll always love this Gator. Old Gator rules. This Gator didn't murder anyone, so I'm comfortable staying a fan--of Old Gator.
He made parole 😳
@@gkhanjriii91-04 oh shit I forgot he was coming eligible! thanks for the update. I bet we're gonna get a vice episode on him soon
@@geologick the time served came up. I'd like to see the episode 🎯🙏🏼👍🏼🤙🏼
I also subbed to your channel 🤙🏼
@@gkhanjriii91-04 thanks man!
Gator has done said he wants nothing to do with skating or the scene I'll always be a fan of his skating and abilities but not his crime
Man what a killer video, gator slayed those moves man. Totally wicked, I wonder what he’s been up to
he's out of jail im' pretty sure
Slayed a woman later.
@@tricatfilms6136 Nope. Gavin Newsome keeps reversing his parole. I'm honestly glad he is still in jail.
@@angrytater2456hes in there because the dead daughters dad is friends with the mayor
@@JimmyHandtrixx OK? Newson is still the one that reversed the parole. I guess the father called in a favor.
so rad
This is insane!
"Jump ramping" 🤣
15:15 to 15:45. The 80's summed up
I could imagine beavis and butthead reacting to this, making fun of the part at 5:12 like "I wonder what he'll do, beavis. hehe, hehehe, hehehe" and then when he says "incidentally" beavis would go on about doing things incidentally and butthead will be like "if you don't shut up I'm gonna instadentally kick your ass!"
Super dope
Jonathan Howell Thanks. I like it too.
thank you for this video
It’s a classic.
Gator is STILL in the joint 😜
Thank god hope he rots there
@@ianbyers6508 Hell YEAH 👊🏻
didn't they find out he killed more than that one chick? he had everything then went outta control
Not now , he got out in July 2022
@@zartan138 yup farker made parole
Man I was born in 2006 wish I was born in this era yo
Que saudade 😭
Man what good days skate all day smoke and skate all day and night now I'm 50 work all day and work .what happen lol....
Right?!? Damn, being an adult kinda sucks
You can always come back dude. I'm 42 and hoping to be skating at 50. 37 years skating. It's never too late.
you only get one life (i think?)
do what makes you happy. the authorities are evil, and there is no reason to support their systems, whatsoever.
if youre days are not fun now, change yoru life.
52 still skating, but takes longer to heal and hurts worse
10:11 - 10:18 yup , that’s everything that hurts on me rn 🤣
Same here. Old age.
Same, especially the heel spurs and the knee from pushing.
4:32 minute mark it’s Lars on the drums from Metallica 😳
Still got scars from the 80s , jad a atom bomb jeff kendall. Bmx had a gt pro performer and a hutch trickstar. Them went the dayz
I see why everyone liked vert in the 80s
I watched this while taking a sh*t. Nice video btw LOL
I’m doing the same 😂😂
Same bro
Don’t we all.?
Yep porcelain thrown vid watching checking in.... lol 🤣
Me too
I remember seeing ads for this video on MTV when I was 14. I wanted to get it but my parents wouldn't let me. Guess they were kinda anti skater at the time.
Now you have it. Enjoy.
@@ArcHiveChannel yup. That's what I get for having a nervous mom who worked a receptionist at the Emergency section of the hospital. And sees a lotta kids come in from skateboarding, motorcycle, and football injuries. I'm surprised she actually let me ride a bike.
Aww man. My folks let me skate. Got me my Lester Kasai deck and let me build a 6 foot quarter pipe in the driveway. But we didn't get cable so no MTV lol
It's funny and sad as I was 16 when it came out and was already mostly street or skating,Southbank,Kennington or meanwhile 2 the only vert in London was the giant ramp at Latimer Road which was very dodgy at times like meanwhile 2 if your a lil white skate rat and on your own bunking off college,luckily after a couple times they realised I had less money than those lil kunts.
The point of this is its literally the torch passing.
As soon as you see Mark Gonzales do that first boardslide,vert Died!
Fair play to Bobby Puelo for archiving shit like this and revisiting these classic times.
Gonz is Gonz as I'm not religious but Fair Play is Gator outta prison yet😂😂😂😂❤
whos that girl at 9:50? EDIT i see her name is Christian
Safety gear, whats that lol
O.53❤
First skate video I ever owned.
Such a shame what happened to gator. I mean wtf. Still 30 years later I can't work it out. Was he on meth?
Anyone, by chance, know what street that is in La Costa?
Sensacional!!!
ANDE DE $KATE OU MORRA!!!!🌠💣🌠💣🌠🙌
i'll try the lea dog was revolver the i think pregnate female is also gypsy she never eat squiel i think she was almst pregnarte
i let him go ate grass till tree
virginia beach FTW
windsor woods represent
I and the Father are One John 10 30
who's the girl dancing?
Gators ex Brandi , he killed her best friend when she dumped him ..psycho sk8
@@danielwilson6529 oh so that's why I never heard of him
No that’s Brittany, before Brandi
her name is Brittny is was before Brandi
@@falquest this. Wonder what ever happened to her? She was a cute girl. I recently saw Brandi on that show “Shattered” she looks A LOT different now 😱
why did Hosoi look so awful in Blue Grass Aggression Session film? He looked lost at that venue.
Too stoned probably
September 2023 Gator made parole 😳
He'll never be welcome anywhere. It's not like Hosoi, Martinez or Jay Adams going to prison for drugs. I'm sure Jason Jesse wants a piece of him.
I turned it off after Gator appeared... It makes me sick to my stomach that he will have line ups of reporters wanting to interview him for $$, once he's released from prison, borderline hailing him for his heinous crime. I much rather wish the girl he murdered was still with us, and he wasn't.
After they made skate Betty #1 they should have destroyed the mold.
In prison is where HE is & he'll never leave his cell!!
Too bad GATOR!! You were regularly about 3rd place, but you'll now be LAST PLACE!
FOREVER!!!!
Quelque temps avant qu'il pète sa coche...
Some time before he leaves his mark. At first my translator said before he starts farting!
Psycho Patrol sounds better than Psycho Platoon. To close to The Bones Brigade.
i couldn't move the trucks easy
Those were the days as some say, and they kinda were. Gator turned out to be a rapist and a murderer, and unfortunately Hosoi took a few wrong turns as well.
psycho skate indeed
Cringey..BUT SO GOOD. RADD!!
cringe?
Could he have rivaled tony hawk?
Nah. People like Hawk and Mullen were in a different zone. Separate from others. In my opinion.
Him and hosoi. Phillips etc were almost always a step below hawl in pure technique. Style was debatable
Xavier Rivera Very true. There were few at the top.
Hawk was more technical , Hosoi was the king of getting massive air and huggge tricks .
Agreed.
I can’t believe he ended up in prison because he had impersonated Ferris Bueller😔
You have to hand it to Powell, Vision, and Santa Cruz for selling millions of boards, designed almost exclusively for skating large halfpipes, to kids all over the world, most of whom were in places where those ramps and skateparks mostly didn't exist unless you built one yourself. That's like selling scuba gear to someone in Kansas. Master marketing there.
and I'd bet long odds that's a big reason why the skate boom of the 80's crashed hard in the early 90's. Those big boards weren't good for much other than big ramp skating, which weren't most places. Street got popular because that works a lot more places.
That's not correct, a lot of people just bought'em for cruising down the streets, the 80s boards cruised really well, in 'Back to the future' for example shows Marty Mcfly using his Powell board to cruise down to school. Of course half pipes were the most progressive form of skating back then, but every pro also skated street, like Hosoi here at 10:30, and that's what appealed to kids who didn't have ramps nearby.
Nothing like selling scuba gear in Kansas at all, everyone had concrete avaliable, and the boards were not good for making modern street tricks of today, but they cruised great, more like the surfskates of today which people buy for cruising and surf training
@@fernandomaron87 yeah, but they weren't particularly well suited for the type of skating that most kids started doing in the late 80'/early 90's. Street got popular because there weren't any ramps in a lot of places. Even mini ramps were kinda rare. I'd bet that apart from California, at any given time in the late 80's/early 90's, most states didn't even have a vert ramp anywhere, and if they did, it wasn't up for long. Try a kickflip or an impossible to manual or a nollie kickflip on a Hosoi Hammerhead board with giant wheels and then try one an early 90's Blind board. People started running wheels that were barely bigger than the bearings, and it was 100% to make flip tricks easier. Way easier on the smaller, more narrow board with smaller wheels made for skating curbs and ollieing over stuff rather than going 30 mph doing 10' airs out of a 12' tall vert ramp. But you are right though that if you are just hammering down the street at top speed, having a bigger board with bigger wheels tends to work out a bit better.
I wonder if Gator dreams of skating from
His prison cell?
nah
Lol pycho skate
Jesus, please forgive me for wearing those clown shoes. I was just a kid!
Vision shoes were great. They beat Airwalks for sure.
@@mikecynic5167 I remember wearing one blue & one red vision shoes. (Was into BMX freestyle in the 80’s but I wanted to be the Christian Hosoi of BMX!)
I remember wearing Airwalks too!
AND multiple swatch watches! (Swatch was and still is a legit watch brand. I wish they were still $20)
Airwalk and vision shoes were sick
@@ArtVandelayOfficialVisions lasted longer if you pulled any air or ground Ollie’s, thanks to the re enforced rubber padding on the mudguard. The grip tape absolutely tore up Airwalks
Here's to hoping psycho never get's out if jail
Gator in jail since 1992
Since late 1991 actually, the trial was in 1992 but he was arrested by late 1991
Skating has always been lame, that's why I started in 1983. Still the biggest waste of time on a useless wooden toy. Think I'll skate tmrw😵
Should of been about the girl he murdered not him
Wtf are you even talking about? This video is from 1987, he was a skate superstar still and she was alive yet, the crime only happened in 1991, why would they make a movie about her then?
He belongs in prison FOREVER.
How can a guy be more likeable after having paid their debt for a horrible act than he was prior to committing the act? Gator was such a prick I almost didnt buy several pairs of street wear shoes. Some of the cringiest gear ever by the way.
didn't take much to be a pro back then
Wasn't much to do on a skateboard yet, people were still figuring them out back then
let see you do a unit, frontside invert, Mctwist, bean plant, staplegun etc... it was a differen't time dude, skating was evolving.
Really because Rodney Mullen is the best street/free syle skater to ever live even back then he was better than any skater nowadays Harley anything changed in skateboarding since the 90s everybody steal chips with no Style
Seriously?
@@fukcensorship9395 Yeah, but Gonz took those tricks and did something with them other than doing them stationary.
gator murdered a woman, people forget that!!
and sexually assulted her, bashed her head in, put herin a surf bag, chocked her, dumped her in the desert. he is a POS.
No one forgets that. He's still in prison.
Doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy and celebrate the good things that he did
@@justin1978 u are so right, hitler should be remembered for his contribution to men's facial hair design too. poor little bitch never gets any love for THAT! good point.
@@stephenlowe8158 I thought I was being sarcastic when I wrote that.
He WAS regularly third place versus HAWK & HOSOI. That ended over 20 years ago because of his raping & killing a lady he was dating with.
Besides that, he's out of prison!
Won’t be buying a Gator board then!
Just in case anyone was wondering why there are these "lame" strips of plastic screwed left and right on the board. The boards then where, beacuse of the tapering and because of the wood used itself, prone to breaking. They really could not take a lot of punishment then. Just so you know. The science of skateboard manufacturing, especially in concern to how the wood is processed, what wood is used, lightyears more advanced now. There where almost no "pro boards" then. Meaning manufactured by skateboarders themselves.
There were former skaters active in the industry already, Alva, Peralta, Hosoi and Lucero a bit later, but most of the industry was being managed by business men.
God damn the 80s are hard to watch. Skating was sick but editing sucked hard.
Never liked the term "fakie".
This pre gator going to prison for murder
Tons of 80’s vert skaters dressed like homosexuals
Nay that's today's kids , we only had to genders and knew what bathroom to use
Vision was definitely the lamest thing to happen to skateboarding in the 80s.. Buncha suburban kids trying to be hard with those lame Vision Street shirts. TO funny.. Just here for Mullen..
Dude, you obviously weren't around back then. Vision was sick.
Trying to be hard? Dude you got bad vibes
Maybe it was you that was the problem....
lol mullen was freestyle gay as fuk! 😂 vision may have been commercial but they had the best videos by far!