Hosoi Airs
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  • o Som é Big Audio Dynamite, com a musica Medicine Show

  • porra...valeu

    o japoneis foi louco mesmo

    q som é esse?

    abraço!

  • I want a hammerhead so bad

  • Hosoi was the illest

  • i dont think Hosoi was better than Hawk but he aired higher than Hawk

  • Hosoi is easily underrated. His impact on skating speaks for itself. Plus the dude soars!

  • nobody ever had more FLUID airs....and they happened to be HUGE too.....I loved Lester Kasai for his airs too.....maybe asian skaters are more fluid?

  • It is sad that Hosoi went through hard times, but I am glad that he is skateboarding again...who cares if Tony Hawk (who I also support) has all the the fame, etc.

  • Hawk and Hosoi: Hawk had him on all the tech stuff but Hosoi definately had him beat on fluidity, style and height . Hawk was so gangly and awkward even when he was breaking new ground and doing some whack varial 720 late finger flip to judo revert type shit.

  • Hosoi is a inspiration love how he reps being a follower of Christ

  • Hosoi is and was incredible, but look at the stats of hosoi vs hawk in comps. hawk had him for lunch. i think it's unfair to hawk to say he reaped the rewards of hosoi being in prison. the comps would have been unbelievable had he been out, though!!

  • the song is by Big Audio Dynamite

  • Hosoi was unique because he wanted to be in the air. The guy got height like nobodies business. When you see other sketer's- even the top one's, they are uneasy in the air. Anxious. This guy was just like a rolling stone and used it to launch at consistently insane levels.

    Who in the hell would have thought to try a freakin Christ Air maneuver unless you were floating 15 feet above contact. Hawk is great, but he's technical only. Hosoi was balls to the wall fearless.

  • the only thing this videos missing is a sick ass lay back grind.

  • What a gay fuckin' song

  • I just met this guy. He's really one of the coolest guy's I've ever talked to. He's a super good guy and just as cool as he was. Nothing but good words for him.

  • hosoi whats with the butt cape back then lol

  • @twentynothing lmfao butt cape, hosoi didnt give a fuck he would rock anything including spandex, lol he could get away wit anything fashion wise, he was a pimp

  • @twentynothing didint you know thats what makes him fly!

  • is he just vert? can christian actually do flip tricks?

  • @punkid77 Hosoi, along with Caballero and Hawk were the undisputed kings of vert, and basically still are. But they also basically invented every street trick still being done, including any flip tricks. Hell, even I was doing front and back side kickflips and every possible type of shove-its in the late 80s - those aren't anything new.

  • Spent last Saturday with Christian at a skate event we hosted. He shared how the drugs, skating, fame, money were a fleeting moment, but that while facing prison, he had a life changing meeting with Jesus.  For the first time in his life, he now has purpose, not to please the world with his great works, but to work for GOD, one person at a time, hearing the GOOD NEWS. Jeremiah 29:11 Discover the PLAN GOD has for your life.

  • no christ air?

  • How bad ass is Hosoi? The dude can pull off massive 14 foot airs while rocking spandex! Thats how bad ass he is! The Chuck Norris of skateboarding!

  • no one went as big and with as much style as hosoi, hes a fucking legend, if only he hadnt got into meth hed be a millionaire today and have 15 video games named after him, instead of tony hawk, but... he fucked up. anywayz much luv christ

  • so much pure style

  • with other guys like tony hawk you can tell they practiced and worked and worked at it.

    with christian you can tell that this is not a product of hard work--it's just PURE TALENT.

  • if you look up "superstar" in the dictionary, there is a pic of christian in like 92 getting crazy air.

    this dude was a legend. legends kids hear stories about before they go to sleep at night.

  • if you watch his documentary, "Rising Son," you will realize it was his father who created this skateboarding machine.

    his father saw what his son was good at and nurtured it. Christian was a lucky guy to have a father like that.

  • @Friggs0820 yeah, real lucky to have a father who smoked crank with him. his father's influence was just as bad as it was good.

    p.s. that documentary literally made me cry.

  • @Friggs0820 his dad also smoked meth with him... but ya he was very supportive of him in his early years of sk8ing

  • man you can tell the difference between Hosoi in 1986 and Hosoi in 1998. no doubt it was all that meth that was slowing him down.

    there is nothing cool about addiction. nothing at all.

  • great song... even better skater.

    if Hosoi didn't go to jail he would have been bigger and more marketable than Tony Hawk. drugs are bad news kids.

  • hes been back since 98 brother...you know though LOL

  • styles for miles

  • Hey cexa21...Very uplifting video brotha...HOSOI IS HERE TO STAY!!!...thats just the way god wants it :)

    You got any grosso footage?????

  • Epic. Hosoi was/is legend. Just watched the rising Sun documentary on Showtime a month or so ago and made me remember just how important his skating was to the sport and subculture of skating. A history timeline of vert could easily read Dogtown then Hosoi/ Hawk. Also props for the Big Audio Dynamite track. Hosoi was a fan of The Clash and this was Mick Jones' side project. ~peace~

  • PERFECT WORDS!!

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  • fuck that musicfude guy. the music goes with his life. great post man.

  • Thanks for posting this.

  • hosoi rocks.. the music.. not so much

  • @musicfude83 you are entitled to your opinion... but your opinion itself tells us that you are a loser. :(

  • God bless the internet!

  • Hosoi had the biggest airs !

  • I like the fFontside Alley Oop tail grab. I don't know what else you would call it? Frame 2:19

  • perfect

  • You're a moron.

  • cool guy.  loves to skate!

  • Hosoi airs make me believe in God

  • Hosoi was a bad ass. This is a cool vid.

  • @likestof69 what do you mean was

  • legend christ air.

  • OMG Rocket Air at 0:53

  • here is a true soul....killer sk8er and a down to earth fellow....he brought me to the lord when i prayed at his church with him.....ive been sober for drugs since july 1st 2009..and ive never wanted them since....

  • I met him the 80,s he was one cool dude. I am sure he still is. He was also a bad ass skater

  • there is nothing wrong with being cocky when you have every reason to be cocky and arrogant.. cocky and arrogant with a touch of respect for other people is how i like to put it....

  • It's the arrogant who stop doing what they do though. They think they're the best and see no reason to keep on doing what they do. The most modest skateboarders (like daewon song, tony hawk, chris haslam,....) will keep on going. Being arrogant and having respect don't go together at all.

  • it is truly badass when a guy is conceited and cocky and can BACK IT UP.. talkin bout the 80s hosoi..

    talk big and back it up bigger....

  • You said right bro....but he is also the nicest dude that youll ever meet.

  • BRO...you are so right my friend....he really turned his life around for the best....he could still be cocky if he wanted to but its all different now. †††††

  • remember sk8 or die for original nintendo?? lol that shit was bananas.. sk8 or die and duck hunt were the first games I ever played..

    i miss that shit.. i miss being a kid....

  • haha..hell yeah i rembember that game sk8 or die....remeber 720 in the arcades??...those were the first ever skate games....i miss the old days too..but i still skate and surf all the time bro!!!

  • if Hosoi didn't end up gettin lockd up for those years HE would have had that pro skater playstation game.. HE would have won the first X games.. its funny how fate works.. its sad that hosoi was in jail and tony hawk was reaping the rewards.. although hawk is a cool guy and im sure he felt bad for hosoi..

    maybe hes one of those guys who self destructs with too much money and fame.. and is better off living a more humble life serving god....

  • There's no fate. It's all cause and efect!

  • maybe.. maybe not..

    nothing can be truly known.. but this is one rightie-tightie upload....

  • so true bro........so true!

  • @Cexa21 its called Jesus

  • @Cexa21 maybe fate is the effect of will

  • there is no such thing as fate or god. shit happened cause it was his fault and no one else's. he decided to do drugs with his money and thats that and he got caught. shit happens...

  • @scotto2114 GOD DOESN'T GIVE UP ON US. WE GIVE UP ON GOD. STILL LOVE SKATEN BUT I LOVE DRUGS AND BEER. WHO DO YOU HATE MORE IN THE MORNING? I HATE MYSELF. SHIT HAPPENS IF YOU LET IT.

  • @theRealness0820 WHAT DID HOSOI DO, I KNOW THE ABOUT GONZ BUT WHAT HAPPENED?

  • @theRealness0820

    I'm no Skate expert, but this guy's tricks don't even come close to what i'v seen Tony Hawk en friends do.

    Serving god is just an excuse for the fcked up decisions he made in his life.

  • @theRealness0820 what did he get locked up for?

  • @iDrummercommayeh

    Apparently, he got locked up for trying to smuggle a pound and a half of crystal meth.

  • @theRealness0820 dude im not a hosoi hater but thatsa what happens when ui get greedy and start smuggling crystal meth lmfao with his skateboards come on brah

  • @theRealness0820 and tony hawk is better.....900

  • @theRealness0820 Hosoi was cool, but I would say Hawk would still have been the one savvy enough to get in and get a game deal. He was always a tech guy (not tricks) Hosoi was a party guy. It would have been cool to see him in those early x-game contests tho, but he was on the run :p He had such a great style, and went so high.

  • there really is nothing cool bout the 80s cept Hosoi....

  • "Medicine Show".. great song..

    Hosoi owned the world when skateboarding went commericial and blew up....

  • I met Hosoi last weekend at an art show featuring his work. Skills on the board and in creating art! A way cool bro! Stoked to know he's serving Jesus! We all should! Every last one of us!

  • god bless c.h. cuz he blessd me with jesus's never ending love. 8..)

  • what up cexa....just lookin at all the awsome vide brotha!!!!!

  • Hosoi is fucking sick!!!!!!!! He's easily one of the best vert shredders of the '80s.

  • hell yeah bro...you know whats up!

  • very well said bro!!!!..god bless you.

  • thers an o.g video called D.O.P.E.and christian was in it. i had seen his documentry on cable a while ago and was fukn stoked that he was that better than anyone but had had an unfortunate down word spiral..its fukd up man cuz he wouldve been ate up tony hawk in every x-game..but i give him props for making a rebound and tryn make a bad thing into a positive thing.cuz im 23 and it made a diffrnce in my life.

    i dont skate i ball but the passion is what me C.hosoi have in common!

  • hosoi is a great ripper and he always will be..he runs hosoi skates in my town and we all love the lord jesus....he will save your life if u ask for it!..soul skatin

  • hosoi > t. hawk if hed just stuck to gettng high on a skatebaord..but im no hippocript i love to smoke budd and play ball...madd respect for hosoi and his courage while behind bars..thats where iwouldve gave up.....MY FIRST TATT IS DEDIDICATE TO CHRISTIAN HOSOI...

    the lesson i learned from him is that even the greatest ones have flaws..flaws that derail a persons life by railing a lie of coke while railing a 20 ft stair rail.

  • I wish I could go back to 1995 and straighten Christian out to go to the X-games. I guarantee Tony Hawk would not be who is today if Christian would have been clean and gone to the X-games.

  • TAT IS SOOO TRUE!!  or when they went to japan and the best one there was "tony hawk" because hosoi was in the hotel room getting lost.. i wish i wouldve been there for him

  • christian really powered me to becomea better cristian and hes awsome at skating!!

  • i saw this dude yesterday at the skate jam

  • Thanks. I just do what I love to do.

  • right on bro.....if you skate....... keep skating and god loves you bro!

  • what an awsomes videos man....you have some great stuff bro...

    Im from huntington beach ca. and i was lucky enought to skate chickens pool with christian a few times back in the early 90s...but anyways...you have some great footage bro!!!

  • While I'm no religious man by any means, I respect Christian Hosoi for straightening his life out no matter what it took to get him clean. Whatever works for you... He was also the best vert skater of his time... if not ALL time!

  • he ALWAYS got like, 4 more feet in the air than others

  • He was the best

  • weird sk8boards they use to hav

  • AND that black guy that says " I believe I can fly!" well you know what Hosoi says?

    "Watch me, as I fly!"

  • oh yeh all style! what amazing talent and love for skateboarding, and to have him back again to watch "wow" life couldnt get better.

  • he really can fly man!

  • If you had the time to check the comments, you would know that is Medicine Show by Big Audio Dynamite !

  • racist.

  • what is the name of the song on his vidoe

  • total legend. great what he is doing with his life now. always rips!

  • not bad but always the same tricks

  • you got no fucking clue punk

  • this is coming from a 27 year old

    ok

  • nigger I lived this shit

    I watched Hosoi do backside airs at dle mar in 1981

    where are you at?

    Fuck this little hawaiin drug dealer turned bible thumper.

    Youre the one without any fucking clue.

  • whatever you got to say man

    you the man ha

  • del mar??? that was tony hawks favorite place to skate... makes me miss the old days even if i didn't live it. i wish i could have

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  • 27 means born in 82 right??? how the hell did you see him in 81???

  • He's pushing 42...born in '67.. I remember him form the late 80's and early 90's...he made Tony Hawk look like a 5 year old on a bigwheel..Hosoi was the best and could have been a household name had it not been for him using dope.

  • well said bro!!!...well said

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  • you got love brotha..i dont know who u wuz talking the shit to but i know ur on my homies side!!

  • hey bro...are you talkin to me? or someoone else.Christian is a friend of mine bro..lets clear this up.

  • i just met him

  • Christian Hosoi is the man, he's a living legend. He was neck and neck with Tony Hawk as far as the best skater back in the day, and then he fucked his life up with drugs. He's still the shit !! BTW I love the music. It takes me back to high school.

  • <3 christian hosoi he's awesome

  • it's so cool to watch footage like this. i wasn't around for any of this, and comparing it to vert skating of today, this is so much more sick. like, just seeing him do a backside air is more exciting to me than watching someone like PLG do some sort of nollie heel spinny thing. and people need to stop talking smack on him because he's a Christian now. just his beliefs, ya know? not a big deal really...

  • hosoi rox

  • And any Hosoi fan has to wonder how far he coulda gone with it. Vert-wise he had just about everybody's number in the 80's. and i really dont see why he couldnt have achieved TonyHawk-like status......

    Methizzamotherfucker

  • So it sucks thats he's a bible thumper now? i can tell by that remark that youre 17 yrs at the oldest.Not happy he's not a meth head anymore? perhaps he should ditch the bible,start moking meth again just so you can say he's not a bible thumper.......Youre a dick.....

    Hosoi was one of my favorite vert skaters in the mid 80's,and i still have pictures of me rippin it up on my Hosoi Hammerhead!!!

    God Bless you Mr. Hosoi

    God is with you,but he ALWAYS has been

  • sucks hes a total bible thumper now. and he gets paid mad cash to show up at lame churchy things. super gay

  • every time i check out some vintage footage your lurking around moaning.fuck off you cunt,your dad is a preacher and sodomizes you regularly

  • thats why my name is dannythelurker you fucking 12gaugefaggot. i am on youtube only to call out lame people. Bible thumping and skating does not mix. its like christian rockit doesnt work. so I think you should go fuck your self up a bloody hookers ass farm

  • fannythefelcher

  • as cocky as he was, he was ALWAYS cool the groms. myself included. he actually asked US questions about ourselves in 1989. dope.

  • I partied with Christian in 1985 in Dallas and then in 1987 in Virginia Beach one of the best skaters in the world today

  • im mor of a street skating kinda guy, but guys like this are just 2 gud 2 pass up

  • its not the clash but it sounds like mick jones from clash...

  • you're close... it's BAD, Bid Audio Dynamite

  • ok thanks are you a friend of him ?

  • I've met Christian for the 1st time when he was 12, at Marina Del Rey Skatepark. where I've used to work.

  • how thins that vert!

  • christan cool guy. i meet him back in the day. legend skateborder.

  • that stuff in here from 94 when chicken opened his pool is so sad thats when the Meth addiction started and watching him rip is insane... Considering he is entering his full on speed freak days...

    Bro is out now and clean but what might of been if this guy didn't get introduced the the glass dick...

    Nobody hit better airs than Christian...

  • song is :

    Big Audio Dynamite - Medicine Show

  • bad song. good skating.

  • my favorite skater growing up, I had many of his boards . .

  • vvvv hes out of jail dumbass

  • does anyone know who has sung the soundtrack?

  • The Clash! But what song is it? Anybody know?

  • he is here in austin tx to day

  • big audio dynamite...bionic airs dude...B.A.D.

  • The back-side ollie to tail....WITH SOME POP....was the baddest trick on the whole video. Not to mention it was in a freakin backyard pool. Not made for skating. To an old pool skater like myself....that was amazing. Think Ill watch it again.

  • Indeed... but this pool was build for skating! It is the Chicken's Pool in Huntington.

    But, Hosoi would do the same in a backyard pool with no worries ...

  • Oh really? I thought it looked very skatable. Non the less. Freakin amazing. Thanks for posting this. The late 80s and early 90s where my skating hay days. Its great to see footage from those times. Im glad CH is out of prison. He really didnt belong there.

  • $:1 yess 4:13 fuck gnar tist, man pause it man, nice

  • he catches sick air man!

  • at 0:55 is a rocket air holly shit this man is awesome

  • d-way did that w/ a backflip.

  • E ai Cexa..I'm Brazilian too, Vert Ramp was the era I grew up in in SP, Hosoy was a legend then..haven't been back for a long while, do a lot ot people still do vert in Brazil? I know Sandro Dias & B Burniquist are rated top skateboarders..I know that much...Cheers!

  • rocket air and christ air...best tricks ever!!

  • What's the song? I'm feeling it.

  • Medicine Show by Big Audio Dynamite

  • Thanks

  • i saw him skate a demo in fresno ca. in 86', he did THE biggest 540 ive ever seen, heck it was one of the biggest airs ive ever seen, save d way

  • good video / good song perfect combination

  • so were all these videos shot in Brazil? I noticed Hollywood and Huntington, did you go to the states??

  • There's also Germany in there... I've made all the images on this, so I did go to the States...

  • the best!!!! the legend air mem...

  • hosoi siempre entraba de 50-50....renember

  • THE BEST OF ALL TIME

  • The category i wrong.. This is truly ART!

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