Go For It! Part 2 - Vintage 70's Skateboarding

[rctrue]

I never got the whole "let's cross our legs and ride down a hill together thing" lol

[EV5852]

No offence but this is called longboarding today

[SpeakLikeBatman]

@EV5852 How? at the end they were riding on penny boards...just because there not doing kickflips doesnt mean there longboarding

[WeMakeVideosCA]

it looks like girls skateboarded a lot more back then or is that a guy with long hair :/

[ForReal261]

i would love to go to the early 70s in L.A. and Santa Monica and Venice...Thats where it got famous if uve seen the movie 'Lords of Dogtown'

[samtheskater100]

dam i wish i could go back to the 70s i would be like a pro...

[trenton8521]

lol its impossible to smash into a vw bug and cause that much damage to it.

[bmcgee675]

If he can tighten his trucks with his hand, they're EXTREMELY too loose.

[planetoperator]

the concourse in downtown s.d. .... we still rip it today 2011

[Aseastin]

why wasn't I born back then ??

[MrBazza63]

i used to go to a place like this in the 70s, called skate city in london. i found a skateboard at work it is from the 70s. its got 70mm pink kryptonic wheels and california slalom trucks and slalom deck. verry very fast. im keeping it forever. priceless

[lesterclaypool1]

@MrBazza63

Hey, Brah, If God gives you a free skateboard...keep it...'cause hey, free skateboard, right?

[shredthensmoke]

that blonde skater girl was sooo hot!

[disgust82]

what song is this? its in bones brigade video show as well

[guitarsehole]

Aaah the old catamaran!

[fatalcoolfatalcool]

Ahhh, Carlsbad Skatepark! R.I.P.

[mattbpatterson]

i rented this when i worked at west coast video ala 1995

[BuzzDyou]

ps to lesclay, you're right about the aluminum decks though..lat'r Buzz

[rubenmartens00]

1:30 chris pfanner !

[chechepepe007]

people had balls back in the 70s

[MegaSkaterD00D]

if we did this now we would proberly get arrested

[yodastoe21]

This is the Shiz-it :)

[godsucksmyballs]

Original Skateboarding! I like that.

[chh5555]

@godsucksmyballs Actually this is 2nd generation. The 1st wave was more than a decade earlier with metal wheels, even the smoothest asphalt or concrete gave an incredible numbing buzz to the feet, and the noise! The urethane wheels and sealed ball bearings came in the 70s with the style like in this vid.

[BuzzDyou]

@chh5555 You mean "Flintstone chippaways" clay wheels, during the earlier part of the 70's and the later part of the sixties. Dig the catamaran style of two skaters interlocking feet and arms. My older brother and friend rode down "Rio Hondo College" Whittier, California,, hill north entrance onto Workman Mill road thru traffic light, about 15% grade.. these guys were psycho!! This parking structure is namby-pamby by comparisson.....lat'r Buzz

[lesterclaypool1]

@BuzzDyou

I think he means the aluminium skateboards from the 40's and 50's with the metal wheels.

You see them turn up at skate shows every once and a while. Most of them were homemade, decks of a scooter modified, for example.

I've never tried one and I don't think that I would. Flintstone chipaways were enough of a death trap, IMO.

[BuzzDyou]

@lesterclaypool1 Um yeah, the actual use of "skateboards" didn't become popular until the sixties, anything prior to this was merely a "skooter". I started out on a Black Knight, wooden deck and clay wheels with an axle that pivoted. Easy to find on gooogle. Some chick auctioned one last year for ten measley bucks.. stoopid! I also put an old skate, nailed to a 18" 2x4, got bored after 15 minutes, just too frikken slippery, bad experiment, insto trash. Got the skater for xmas in 1967....

[lesterclaypool1]

@BuzzDyou

It's all about you, isn't it bro?

How about you SHUT UP AND SKATE :).

[8bitbeatbox]

the afro, the all blue skateboard, the color, the quality of the vid(or the lack of it :s), makes this video the best skateboard vid i've ever seen! love it!

[shittyshit69]

i get baked and watch this video at night after surfing

[cowboysfan782008]

What those guy's are doing at :25 is what we used to call "catamaraning" back in the day, and it wasn't on wimpy downgrades like that parking structure they are on, it was down steep hills. It was a lot of fun and because of the way your weight was distributed you could handle steeper hills and more speed without your wheels wobbling. I had posters of dogtown guy's on my room walls in 1978-79'.

[eanator3000]

sick video!!! but the best part was the afro!!! hahaha

[trotp3]

@eanator3000 afro dude is Larry Bertlman i think...they're skating Carlsbad, (RIP)

[PolandNBA]

ilove the black afro dude XD lol

[Aaroniguess]

the end was pretty sick that guy had his feet all close to the nose of his board going down that hill.i never seen anyone do that before!.

[DillStudios]

Was the last part fake or not?

[sjk72]

I could watch Alva all day.

[dbspaceoditty]

@sjk72 he is an ass hole. didnt know him back in the day, but he knocked many toddlers over and a deaf kid last year during the vans lakewood visist

[sjk72]

I don't know how he is as a person. He was just an amazing skater.

[scurfskate]

man i wish i could live then.. i dont want a cell phone i dont want a lap top, i dont want a car. i just want a skateboard in 1975

[chibibotto]

i second that

[guthywoodry]

@scurfskate

Everything you say is The Truth.

Skateboarding to the extremes is the closest thing I've ever known to Heaven in my life.

-As I remember, the Sun shone brighter & the days were always longer, -back then.......

P.S :

-(I Diagnose speed-wobbles at the end of the film, always my nightmare too !)

[chh5555]

@scurfskate Dude I wish I could take you back there with me for just one day.... you wouldn't wanna come back!

[scurfskate]

@chh5555 dude i dont think i would ever want to come back.

[inde169]

@scurfskate It was way rougher and bloodier than it looked..well worth it though...enjoy ya'll peace



[inde169]

@scurfskate It was way rougher and bloodier than it looked..well worth it though. Larry Bertleman made it look like magic.....enjoy ya'll peace

[riffraffrichard]

@scurfskate Go for it! Be what you believe , I'm heading that way. Simplicity is truth



[omgHARLAN]

dude that hill looked so burly from the top but once he got to the bottom cruisin it seemed actually not that bad

[RATTTHEPUNK]

fuck this garage isnt there anymore.... i was trying to find it a couple weeks ago in downtown san diego but the highest gaage i found was the horton plaza mall garage

[imflyinn]

dude this is fucking awesome I live in san diego hopefully this parking lot is still there

[nitrobyname]

Cool,,, banana boards!!!!

Found one of those in my neighbours shed a few years ago,,,

Being a modern day skater, found it so hard to skate, so much fun bombing parks and hills when I got the hang of it though!!!!

[bunnasoo2]

OMG I remember in the late 70s doing that thing with two people sitting on skateboards facing each other. That was so fun!! I can't remember what that was called.

[pleutman]

in england it was a catamarang

[runcornrich]

forget Alva... the originator of the "low pivotal style" is on before him Larry Bertleman - the rider with the 'fro...

[dbspaceoditty]

@runcornrich yes, he has a trick named after him on the west coast. the Berteleman slide. that thing where you put your hand on the ground and slide, i can do 360s on the ground and 720 berts on ramps

[skate4ever420]

How times have changed!!

[supdudeimkris]

lol that last part when the dude bombs the hill :)) lol...couldn't really get over on how the speed tuck used to look back then :)) looks freaking weird:)) i guess cause the board was pretty small:)) but the tuck wasn't that good...he got speed wobble a bit there on the last part:)) lmao:))

[commanderjime]

WHATS THE MUSIC?

[astmaattack]

i was born in the wrong generation

[pleutman]

that guy at the end got off quite lightly,if it wasn't for that beetle car breaking his speed,he could of really smashed his fuckin face in further on!

[pleutman]

That jazz that occurs in this is so carefree and mellow...you can really mind your own business and do your own thing to it! i,d buy the album! cha cha wub a dub cha ta ta ta zub a dub za... 1:30

[pleutman]

Oh yeah,and in the 70s when the sex pistols was like the latest swear word on the block,we used skateboards to launch breeze blocks and rocks down the hill to see what would happen if we tried riding it..ever ran for your life when a big scary man comes after you after you have just stuffed his cortina with a foot sqare of purbeck rock from a wall?big kids can bolt faster and your left behind! poo your trousers ha ha!

[pleutman]

I remember skateboards in the late 70s as the bigger kids had them. i could knee board but not stand up..i remember big kids eating shit and their dads picking them up off the floor while they were crying really scary loudly(so it must of REALLY HURT!!)any way ,my morbid interest in the danger factor of this led me to skate in the 80s.if it wasn't for the smash your face in factor,skating wouldn't be as fun..

[mitchbarry94]

1:42 is that alva

[madercic3aolcom]

Yup, that's Alva starting at 1:42 and again a bit later.

[mitchbarry94]

sweet thought so thanks man ; )

[florfisc]

I thought I saw a bunch of the the z-boys in the first part. Peralta and Adams, right.

Dude, the crash scene at the end of this one is so goofy...

[fingerkalis]

what a five star ending

[lemonite1]

This film proves that you don't have to do switch kickflip ollie 540s to have fun. timeless...

[smedley]

@lemonite1 This film proves that you don't have to wear shoes either.

[auldsk8r]

Is that Larry Bertleman in the yellow shirt?

[80sNoize]

i love 70' socks

[Inokea]

When you look back on the stuff we used to do with the equipment we had it's amazing.

[maximocremoso]

1:53 niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice! really tripi

[InScaneMusic]

this is the same jazz inst. that was i the first bones brigade video years later

[BanastreTarletonBand]

omg that is awesome way better than todays skateboarding

[FATEBOARDER]

take it back

[parlanus]

that guy's a gun at 4:20

[boytsinelas]

lol, crashed.

old school skateboarding rules.

[EODleadguitar]

wow ...this rules

[jtw1113]

tony alva...has a way of making concrete move like water?

[Braden343]

+1 for the catamaran! O.-

[sk8cebu]

yeah old days of sk8boarding.. luv it