Ben's 1989 Old School Skateboard Video

[deathrowsk8team]

Dude u couldve gotten sponsored!!

[precisionbizzle]

Having an 80s setup, doing tricks on those boards are hard to trick on (heavy as hell!). I grew up on today's modern boards, but I enjoy riding old school decks so much more. I like your style!

[marcopenal]

Excellent video, I admire the style and tricks that time, I skated in the years 1985 to 1990 and returned in 2007.

Still prefer the old deck school.Tenho a very old style.

(Google Translate)

Marco Aurelio da Silva - 45 years old

Brazil

[AnimalMother1976]

Are the wheels around 2:00 Vision Protons?

[rsbellomy]

Watch a lot of H-Street? Nice video.  I'd give almost anything to have my Lucero Street Thing from 1988...

[tonyhawksacriminal]

not a single kickflip yet many tre's haha sweet

[celticgddss13]

Hey can you send me a copy of this video? I would like to put some killer back ground music to it and re-publish it.

[JohnnyPetsCats]

Busting out lips like they're nothing

[shithell666]

you should have submitted this to Veriflex, they would have sponsored you.

[TERRORDACTYL667]

should've been sponsored, i wish i could skate in the 80's

[nrop000]

that wasn't too bad just a bit slow

[up0state0skate]

He should have definitely been sponsored

[donttexttheex]

Yes you should have! You were sick for back then

[homeboy9232599]

this is why i dont want to put skate vids on youtube. fukin trolls and flamers will be like. lolololololol ur a fag u sux quit nao lool when they can barley ollie

[hatsdontfit]

sick, gives me flashbacks, just ordered a reissue vision deck

[Jon95McC]

@hatsdontfit Where did you order it from and what vision board did you get? :)

[hatsdontfit]

@Jon95McC its a "Vision Original Old School Reissue Jinx Leopard Oval Skateboard Deck" if you google that a bunch of sites will pop up that carry the reissue decks, i love it !!!!!

[Jon95McC]

@hatsdontfit Sweet thats a nice looking board! I want the green vision gator old school deck, the reissue vision boards are so nice! How much are you paying for yours and what site are you getting it off?

[radbran1]

i think you should have gone faster and bigger a littler mor like the hokus pokus vid from h-street

[randomnessrocksu]

ha there were skater haters even back then! they prolly raised their kids to be assholes too

[CeramicSkateTeam]

sick video! what deck where you useing in this? also sweet sneakers!

[DayEnder616]

Can you imagine doing a tre flip in front of them or a forward flip there reaction would be interesting?!

[sjs4763]

@DayEnder616 The kid did a "tre flip" in the video3 times. You're a moron, a lot of tricks were invented way back then and are still used today.

[wootadam]

woah dude what kinda shoes were those? there kinda sick.

[DerFabe666]

Yea, it was exactly the time when I started to skate as an 8 years old boy. We didn t know anything about skateboarding in our small village in Germany, where we grew up. Just Ollies and 180s - hahaha. Would have been great to have guys like you in town!!! You were rocking in this time - wow!!!

[joefosho737]

you really like lipslides dont you? haha. you're great! especially for the time

[alexamy72]

yes you are good



[renegadepoptard]

cops are idiots

[skating1998]

love the 360 shoves / impossibles and yes u should have DEFIANTLY got sponsored back then.

[circa73skater]

god damn your basement was amazing lol. and great spots. too bad you didnt get sponsored and go pro or something, you seemed good enough.

[Murdaweapon187]

Dude this video is the shit. I want to start skating again. My friends and I used to make tapes like this all the time with the big huge VHS camcorder. This guy could have been sponsored maybe for a local team but there was a lot of guys that were this good or better. I started really skating a lot around 1990 and my friends were into doing ollie impossible like it was nothing and triple kickflips.

[forks74]

I was skating this year, I was better at mini ramp then street but I was doing big hand rails an flips in 89

[akmklmnopk]

yo do you still skate

[RadioWerewolfFans]

I love that era of skateboarding.

[papertowelheadlock]

Wow much better than I was at twelve! This is right when I started skating,Airwalk shoes and Hstreet videos!

[Primoslide86]

Woah,seeing a vid with virtually no kickflips is weird...but still,i didn't know they wher doing handrails bigger than like 3 or 4 back then...good job,and do u still skate?

[boloby]

Wow, seeing old home videos is so nostalgic, even though I don't know this guy and probably live on the other side of the country. Good stuff. You were much better than me back then (though, I didn't really start until late 1990, having just cruised for five years). As was pointed out, going faster might have made a difference in sponsorship, especially back then. But he certainly had enough tricks in his bag.

[surfinbirdbeaman]

rodney invented nollie 3 flips in 92' fyi dude

[surfinbirdbeaman]

yeah!!!

[surfinbirdbeaman]

yeah! lahti showed me this video 13 years ago, I was in awe. talula,oshkosh, rotation station, the island, the alley, the gallery, flatley park. yes you would have been pro if youtube was around then. & 3flips were invented in 89' kids dont understand progression, this was a legite sponsore me video, great memories! -Matt from the new Surfin' Bird 114 s. broadway. Ben should have been sponsored! he's on the new surfin' bird team if he wants!

[surfinbirdbeaman]

yeah!

[rrrickster69]

dude most of that stuff is still impressive to this day!!! awseome vid

[FonghoulaForsure]

You still ride? I have a shit ton of oldschool decks NOS and used, if you looking for what you used to ride hit me up.

[Johrdann]

pure natural

[skateboy4155]

badass

[wjc133]

I think you had great potential to get sponsored bro,I really like your change ups from one trick to another on the curbs man...really makes me motivated

[bonehead711]

Nice vid ben! I like that concreate rail. Used to have one just like it miss my chop stix. Rock on man hope your still skating.

[ruga666]

check my channel for some classic 80s skate rock !!!

[FarAboveTheGround]

Great vid brings me back

reminds me

[TeddyBearChris016]

that was awesome. Im 17 and im big into old school skating. This vid gives me some inspiration. To all skaters out there.....Skate On! P>S> u could have been sponsored.

[blackshirts420]

you could never be sponsored, almost gets hit by cutlass at 0:46

[SuperBrandone]

dude, your skills were good. I started probably around that time 88-89 when I was in 7th grade....I still push around the park with my sons...but man this vid brings back some memories. I couldn't imagine trying to skate one of those boards now though.....I got used to the new shapes by the time the mid 90's rolled around. good stuff man!!!!

[BlisterOnTheMoon]

You were great!! I love ''amazing feet'' trick!! How is it called?

[agent5095]

Yeah I think you could have gotten sponsered. Post a video of your self today. I think I might have a spot on a team for you. But I'll check with my associates.

[sk8punkfilm]

u still skaten today?

[jamiewilly]

cool video dude u defently have skills i remember that sma shirt u had on i had one of those and you have bridge bolts to noturios for snapping what ever happened to them

[rjfpace]

Sweet. Where did you grow up? I like the train in the beginning.... Good steady dedication to the craft. Props.

[WimpyTV]

You were so good, you could have maybe made it to H-Street.

[rpincemin]

dude that cop look's and sounds like mr. layhe

[ruga666]

definately rad, tricks are really gnar

[DOLLINRULES]

That was a good watch, really good for that time

You still skate?

[throwawaykid69]

i just gotta say this fool is better than most skaters now ahaha fuck dude props, respect all that shit to you!

[JDrockerDUDE]

hey whatchinmewatchu, its from the 80's there bearings werent neerely as fast. Also there boards were big and heavy, and the cameras were tape, not digital, so fish eye was out of the quesion back than. so stfu and think about what era that is.

[mmuldoor]

Or a pressure flip/ollie impossible?

[mmuldoor]

dude was that a 360 flip in the basement?

[wyopotter]

jk you should of got sponsered

[wyopotter]

i meen your decent?

[travesty70]

question is...do you still ride?

[whatchinmewatchu]

no sponsorship, sorry. decent skating bad video and camera work made it look like you were riding slow, which u were kinda. also who you gonna convice to buy a product in wisconsin? uless you rode at the turf companies would not care how good u are cause there is no one to market to there. its too cold. if you sent it around you should have atleast got some free goodies tho. i did back in the day when i made my video about this time.

[WimpyTV]

hey whatchinmewatchu, there are alot of skateboarders in wisconsin, even where i am (beloit). i agree with what JDrockerDUDE said. besides skateboarding isn't all about sponsorships.

PS: Wisconsin isn't always cold. It's gotten to 150 degrees here.

[JesusSkater97]

good for an old school skater

[sk8erguyvids]

Hell yeah bro!! Backside lipslides and handrails in 89!! Great tech tricks too, railslide to grinds, love it!! Good video from the year I started!! Still skate??

[brainwashvictim]

HA!! those where the days....was this in Wisconsin? A couple of those spots look like ones I hit out there around '91.....

[TinPotSkateboards]

360 ollies and nice lipslides,good shit for 89.......should have gone to santa monica?

[keekster100]

0:33 what would u call this 180 boardslide maybe?

[Weltar]

Great ben!

[BJ1465]

your grinds are so oldschool and i love it!

[asiansk8er91152]

you should have gone pro

[skatepunk2425]

yeah that was really good

7:11 was awesome

and also the rest

:D

[snakesession]

Thanks for posting this vid. Brought me back to 1989. Awesome 360 ollie and early hand rails.

[punkr123g]

i think this is when skateboarding was starting to go street and turn hip hop instead of punk

[mg016]

Nice skating. My last year of skating was 1990 when I broke my ankle.

[XbrutusX11]

you should have gone pro

[XbrutusX11]

nice shuv its and oh my god 5:09 that was the nicest 360 flip i have ever seen (guess)

[zecaptaintunaart]

Woah, this is amazing. More so because of when it was made. Very nice.

[fuseavk]

wow...that is an old fish style board huh? fat sides up by the nose?? if so man, you just got alot more props from that! nice skating

[heterosapien69]

2:21 knows how to skate but doesn't know how to fall right.

[NoCheeseJustCrackers]

Dude, that no comply 180 1 footed 360 shuv-it at 28 seconds was NICE!!!!!!!!!!

[wazaby666]

You were amazing considering your were not this tall for this boat board!!! :D i found those blunt stall to nosepic pretty sweet!!! also fs 360 nosegrab and bs 360 ...lip slide to smith sweet stuff !!! i had encourage you of course!!!

[fax8]

Dude, great video! Missing the old days! You definitely should have got a sponsor!!! I really would like to have a skatepark basement! So cool!

[bmxbroseph]

yeah for the time you were good and could have gotten sponsered:D but now kids like you are all over the skatepark. but hey it been almost 20 years for it to progress since then...

[jdog67895]

u couldve gotten sponsored by the way!

[LimonStreet]

0:40 to 0:42 , Is a No Comply 360 Shove-It ?

[OscarBeatBox]

Can you say me this trick?

0:39 - 0:44

thank you

[2SHEA]

after watching this and mike vallely's vid... i feel like doing more old school tricks.

for me, they look much cooler!

[SmackeralJoe]

I like the old school style of skating better.

[brokenseasonlondon]

dude man this was sum epic shit you could have got sponsered piss easy i like the vid man

[myouri]

Nice man

[elfboy473]

YOU SUCK!!!!!!!!!!

[revolutionrider4]

He doesn't suck dude

that was the style back then

he could've easily gotten sponsered

[canniballamb1]

do you still skate? if you do, cool man. cool video too!

[klopityklop123]

tht cop soundz canadian

[NecroButcher91]

Those were some sweet moves. You definitely could have got sponsored.

[izzystradlincool]

I remember you from Green Bay. There were so many of us that ripped GB before you. I remember skating your basement. You couldn't skate vert at all though. I never once saw you at Boldt's ramp or anywhere vert oriented. None of us from GB were ever good enough to be sponsored in those days.

[bensvids]

I think you have me confused with Brian Emmers. That is his basement in the video. I am from Appleton. Didn't really skate much in G.B. actually...

[MrsKoffer]

pawäääz alda

[bob0marly0the0legend]

deffo gud gud

[killertofu101001]

lots of shove-its, you should have been sponsored

[livefortoday2007]

I was watching this and I finally figured out that :24 to :44 is the oshkosh skatepark. It has been refinished it. It is radical.

[onkelhiphop123]

nice i fogot this cool tricks

[z7rockchalkz7]

that basement is so sweet!Also those boardslides are killer

[r2rodrums]

man , you should have benn sponsoed.

[samuel199166]

was flip tricks invented back then?

[BlaqkDragonArmada]

00:40 is awesome.

[malcutron]

cool tricks, but sometimes they aren't stylish enough. If you would have been faster you could have been sponsored. Are you still skating?

[bensvids]

Agreed.  Faster would have taken it to the next level.

[Scot1122]

This makes me want to go out on the old deck in my basement and mess around, haha.

[camaruzzo]

maybe not sponsored but you had some nice tricks man !

ooohhhh I loved that no comply/revert shuvvit thing !!!

[drboose]

for the time? YEA, you should have been sponsored!!!!!!!!!

[insame0504]

0:38 - 0:42

thats the sickest looking old school shit. i love no-comply tricks

[YouKnowProduction]

Yea you should of been sponsored, but if you kept skating till today you would be really good and be sponsored by a good company.

[soFLAallday]

im sure u coulda picked up a sponsor no prob especially if u can do handrails on old school boards

[nativitycruz101]

its very hard to skate on old skool decks you know

[xXGARAGEROCKXx]

:o awesome!

(y)

[Modrocker83]

sponsorship should've been yours!!

[Modrocker83]

skateboarding in l.a. gears are we...thats fucking gnarbuckets!!!!!! yeah, that security guard is like jim lahey...haha, gotta love trailer park boys!!

[cena1150]

yeah u should have been sponsored

[menkins74]

That security guard at the start is like Mr Layhy

[tonybelanger10]

gnarly dude rock on

[STLKemo]

89 my ass 1992 93 tre flips n sk8 parks were invented

[sinebass808]

judging by board shape, more like 90 or early '91. he also has bridge bolts which were really popular in '90.

BTW, there were many skateparks in the 70s and 80s: Pipeline, McGills, Del Mar...

360 kickflips (tre flips) came out around '88. FYI

[bensvids]

Shakle me Not has a 360 flip... Toward the end, Hensley.

[srobertson51]

it's like a mix between donger/matt hensley

Man 89 i had a g&s chmp street jr monster nice video makes me remember the good ole days

[happymaster2994]

u got like a skatepark in your basement right, give me a tip plis im starting out

[happymaster2994]

what skateboard u used

[happymaster2994]

that bums me if you had the talent why you didnt try harder to be sponsored im sure u would,do u still skateboard

[9196224]

you almost kids nailed by that car

[mattbpatterson]

you could have been on HSTREET, haha.

Oh that rental cop at the beginning is classic. Same story across America in the 90's. I thought I told you punks to leave.

[jrvi4]

dude you should totally get sponsored

[mattnzack]

yeah man you totally shoulda been sponcored. for 1989 that was sick!

do you still skate cuz you still can get sponsored.

[HaNdsoFBLoodCss]

yeaH wtf why u didn't get sponsored....are u still skating?

[happymaster2994]

you didnt kickflip in the whole video guess they werent invented in 1989.you rock anyways cant believe you didnt get sponsored.

[Luckyhat66]

No, people were doing kickflips way before that.

[thekeith111]

yes he did, at 3:12 theres a varil i think down some steps and at 5:10-ish theres a 360 fliper.....

[bensvids]

You are right, straight kickflips were (and still are) not a good trick for me...

[sumasalts2xxx]

dude if u didn't want a pro sponsor at least get a skate -shop sponsor dude i've never seen switch girnds except in skateboarding games but dude how did people miss u at being such a good skater

[Brettlives]

Damn, man you should start skating again. If you don't already(i haven't seen your pro)

[Hbills1243]

that kid is really good is this really from 1989

[cubby1812]

this kid is sick! how did the world miss this one???

[phishphandesire]

still remember my first board (veraflex doesn't count) Powell Peralta with Tracker trucks and mini powell wheels. It was mint

[phishphandesire]

yo them hitops is tiiight

[GrindxbacK]

i love this estyle

[Bajric5585]

sick style

[MrNeilBritto]

wow that was nice!

some really good tricks there

my favourite were the backlips on ledges way too gnarly for 89!!

[samsrgb]

nice !!!

[phoenixicarus]

I've never seen switch-ups on a skateboard -and you even rip with Reeboks on! Cool.

[GearsGeek18]

Man you had it made as a kid I wish I had a basement like that!!

Anyways its cool you kept all this footage man I hope you have it for the rest of your life.

[loleur123]

omg u ruleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees

[ThePurdude]

hahaha

even 20 years ago, cops were still douche bags

[homiescopies]

luv the hi-tops !! all the OG oshkosh park and Tulula park footy. did you still sk8 at the oshkosh park in the mid 90's?

nice historical retrospective.

[jkt999]

nice! how old were you in this video?

[burntguy7]

yeah i live in south milwaukee wisconsin which usually has the worst weather because the lake michigan is only like 20 minutes away its starting to snow already

[paperbagluchadero]

no.

[rodnywaren]

sick video bro! do you still rip?

[ironkatia]

this is badass. thank you soo much for sharing this amazing piece of skating history.

[RubioRaver]

Nice pool Deck

[tcsealey19]

man props man.those boards are heavy so good job

[maiden666x]

im loving the 360 flip things

[Zenndoqg]

that was amazing you should have gotten sposored

[burntguy7]

how come you didn't get sponsored

im not even close to as good as you were and some guy came up to me saying we would sponsor me

[scrodezilla]

watch out! it could be a predator.