H-Street ~ Hokus Pokus (1989) Part 1 of 7

[redshine4]

Easily the best skate video on earth!!!

I've been waiting for someone to upload this for years! Must have been spelling it wrong, because it was posted in 2009. DAMN!!!

This video is legendary!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm with meistermarwin, I want the music!!!

[meistermarwin]

whats the name of this music ?

[SSDecontrol94]

@meistermarwin google h street special edition soundtrack bloodspot, you'll find a bloodspot that'll have a media fire link to it

[Three60Flips]

wow the memories are flooding back, best times of my life, wish l could trully go back and do it all again, sk8 all day and all night, 360 flips, backside tail slides, backside flips down stairs, and ruling the mini ramps

[saveforit]

I went to the premier of this film in leicester.... It was totally RAD!! i saw matt hensley and ron allen there too, They were the days, never forgotten. this film just bought it all back!!

[greasysk8bords]

ahhhh the good old days :)

[blastbeatingjerk666]

this video changed my life!

[dabiz34]

2nd greatest skate vid!

[kevinbaconisbest]

1:41 :D They filmed a part for The search for animal chin at the same place.

[KENTSTYLE180]

Ban this was an amazing vid, but this just touched what the average skater was doing at that time. Sessions on anything and anywhere, it's what it was all about.

The Blind video that came later was a great too.

Love Skating for life!

[crossbones80]

Just about everything sucked in comparison to this. This changed skating. Drove it underground. Made the half-pipe passe'. EVERYBODY went street. Hensley, Barbier, Donger, Reeves, Erickson (R. I. P.), Ortega, and the rest of the H-Street posse changed it all. Period. Halfs came back, but the street became the place.

[puppaducka]

Does anyone remember a skate vid from Magnuesson where there was a bunch of guys skating in a rose garden and doing tricks through the empty ponds.? For the life of me i can't remember the name of that vid.

[Lavern4101]

Thing I love about these 80s and early 90s videos is how you can clearly see how skateboarding was progressing. Just a year prior to this video was Shackle Me Not and look how much the style and tricks progressed in just a years time. These days nearly everything that's done in videos has been done a million times already but back then everything was about being new and progression. Guess there's only so much you can do on a skateboard.

[Diskoboy1974]

Still have my Sal Barbier "Oakland Raiders" deck!! This video rocked my shit, back in the day!

[thunderclapgravy]

Still one of the best skate vids.

[tangoarmy]

Still rad.

[hetuparekh]

after all these years, and it's been many, this video still moves me! i love it! and i love the spirit of the moment of the moment forever!

[naughtypagan72]

Damn that brings back the old days. *sniff*

[peteair]

finally a video which NOBODY can hate! this is just way too awesome!

[metropolismodern]

Sweet! I have this on VHS but no VCR! Thanks for posting!

[kurleedaddee]

My ALL time FAVORITE skate video. Matt Hensley had the most influence on the way I rode on the street. Thanks so much for posting this. Brings back so many memories.

[fptr75]

wild barbeque man get otcha dogs

[Funkypod21]

Hi dan

[samplejunkie84]

rest in peace kit ericson....

[MrGlenfistoffury]

I'm 32 year old I still skate now this was ma 1 st sk8 vid back in 92 ish I'm glad I had a pair of them vision street wear sk8 best trainer ever made

[NosajElttil76]

This, World Ind. "Rubbish Heap", Blind "Video Days", Plan B "Questionable", damn the list goes on. All twenty or more years ago? Memories of going out and trying this stuff. LOL

[Lavern4101]

@NosajElttil76 I'll add 'This Is Not The New H-Street Video to that list but yep all those are classic skate videos from the golden era. Those old Powell videos really suck in comparison.

[kuririn1975]

H-Street skate godz. Best board I ever had was the Tony Mag...with the Kid dripping out a faucet

[mrwes677]

Im 33 yrs old and skated for around 13 yrs and this was def my favorite video to get amped up to go downtown and tear it up!! Yeah Matt! Thanks for posting the most influential skate video of all time!

[alkohol4all]

@2rude the at 9:20 is loud and proud by slackface

[steelazfan]

omg i use to watch this shit everyday b4 i skated hahahahhahahahha skate on

[tcpd1]

h-street matt hensley. best board i ever had.

[Gatchan77]

Great !! i had this movie on vhs at the time (i think i still have it). It was the only skate video i had. Thanks.

[Caneone420]

Ron A and Jim T would pull up to my junior high school (willard) circa 87' and put the jump ramp against the gym wall and session for a few hours. I went to Oakland tech. unfortunately for me academicly....but skate wise there was no better school to skate except maybe the deft. and blind school. long live the memorys of the originators

[ivahnsean]

imagine doing a 360 flip over 7 stairs with that board? i couln't even do that with a new school board. i skated my ron allen no scratch board long into the mid 90's.

[twistedflamingo1]

what's the hand trick called at 6.34? i've seen it on loads of videos but i still dont get how it's done

[ironfloppy]

Supremo questo era fare skate che bei tempi

[BooradleyTobey]

@Ape1nope That;s the park I was talking about!! RIP!!

[sksb]

Skated all these spots with all these dudes back then. Ray & Jeff in San Rafael, big ups to Georgetown. Me an Noah used to go to Benicia all the time. He used to call those "drop tail" Indys. Cant forget the sessions with Ron at Oakland Tech too... Makes me want to dig up some old footage from '89 myself-- great post-- thanks!

[NATG1937]

a true classic

[swes2006]

classic>>> makes me cry to realize im 35yrs old and dont skate anymore......

[BooradleyTobey]

There's footage in here towards the end that's what USED to be my local park but the city demoed it about three years ago and now all it is is grass. Rediculas.

[fukuandieyuppieskum]

@BooradleyTobey Bummer. :(

[BooradleyTobey]

@fukuandieyuppieskum Yeah. That was the first skatepark I ever went to. =(

[hualmaceful]

THIS IS THE VIDEO THAT CHANGED IT ALL

[SSDecontrol94]

@BooradleyTobey Benicia?

[Kn0base]

@thelawguy666 It's been an Ollie North since the 80s. This and Shackle Me Not all most made me burn my Animal Chin tape... fuking amazing. I remember I got an H-Street jacket that had the big arrow cross on the back from my local... some jock thought it was a white power sign and attempted to kick my ass for it. He learned that gullwings to the head fuking hurt worse than fists. first time arrested too if I remember correctly... all thanks to this video :D

[Kn0base]

@thelawguy666 It's been an Ollie North since the 80s. This and Shackle Me Not all most made me burn my Animal Chin tape... fuking amazing. I remember I got an H-Street jacket that had the big arrow cross on the back from my local... some jock thought it was a white power sign and attempted to kick my ass for it. He learned that gullwings to the head fucking hurt worse than fists. first time arrested too if I remember correctly... all thanks to this video :D

[Kn0base]

@thelawguy666 It's been an Ollie North since the 80s. This and Shackle Me Not all most made me burn my Animal Chin tape... fucking amazing. I remember I got an H-Street jacket that had the big arrow cross on the back from my local... some jock thought it was a white power sign and attempted to kick my ass for it. He learned that gullwings to the head fucking hurt worse than fists. first time arrested too if I remember correctly... all thanks to this video :D

[Kn0base]

@thelawguy666 It's been an Ollie North since the 80s. This and Shackle Me Not all most made me burn my Animal Chin tape... fucking amazing. I remember I got an H-Street jacket that had the big arrow cross on the back from my local... some jock thought it was a white power sign and attempted to kick my ass for it. He learned that gullwings to the head fucking hurt worse than fists. first time arrested too if I remember correctly... all thanks to this video :D

[deepmar]

What great memories this video brings...Matt Hensley, Sal, Way...all the hall of famers in this one. 

[alkohol4all]

fukuandieyuppieskum i have another song up from the video its from the slams section.

potential threat-self inflicted pain

[alkohol4all]

@fukuandieyuppieskum i play guitar.

[alkohol4all]

gun and a tear. great song listen to that in my car. glad i found the link for all the h-street hokus pokus songs. again awesome video. i actually wanna learn how to play gun and a tear.

[fukuandieyuppieskum]

@alkohol4all Hell yeah dude, I'm glad you found it too! What instrument do you play?

[2rude]

@fukuandieyuppieskum Hey bro....can you tell me where I can find it too, please? Thanks so much man!

[anderzfrisk]

@alkohol4all Dude I've been trying to get the songs from HP forever...can u share the link ?

[2rude]

@alkohol4all Dude....which song is this at 9:20?? Thanks so much man!

[SSDecontrol94]

@alkohol4all that was the first song I listened to in my car after I got my license

:')

[spacinjason13]

what about the asian kid singin "i can get no satiofaction" and the song from the slam section. i gave my copy of hocus pocus to my nephew along with a skateboard. thank you, whoever you are that posted this on you tube. omfg. ollie north, ollie one foot, in the hick town i was in at the time we called it an ollie douche bag, jealousy maybe.

[fukuandieyuppieskum]

@spacinjason1I think I can't get no.. is either at the end of part 2 or the beginning of part 3. :)

[peterskateman]

7:05 first ever 5050 foward flip???

[rebusd]

V.

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S.

I was hoping for more Ray, but while this Ternasky proj lacks the post-punk ambience of Shackle, it had more film; which influenced my own videography from the get go.

Plus, this one had Hensley kickflip/shovit melonning over garbage cans in 1989. Beat that, epicly latered...

[rebusd]

V.

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[TheThrashbear]

All time classic, verry inovative for that time. Those were the days!!!

[Alycat35]

why you got a be goin around breakin some wood? Get the shit out of here

[thelawguy666]

and why was the music soooo good in the old videos but so super shitty these days!?!

[klars2000]

When i saw this video my jaw dropped. There was snow on the ground and they were doing things we never saw before. This video changed the game.

[booboocubs]

Praise Jesus to you Yuppiekiller for uploading this, I heard about this vid around 10 years ago and I am just now seeing it. Man I wish I wasn't fat so I could skate again.

[jaystoneification]

u assholes have no clue this is fukin sk8in bitches...

[chachipower]

I was nearly impossible for me to make it past the halfway point of this video back in the day without wanting to go out and skate. Glad to be able to watch it again. Video is long gone

[MegaTom13]

The most influential skate video of all time.

[neoffi]

thank you so much for this upload... i remember when i first saw this. and how i wanted to put my skateboard away after seeing these crazy kids. that was just too much. still it only boosted my love for the art. thanks man

[jonasbjarki]

rad! i started skating in the summer of 1988. my buddy had the Zorlac Metallica deck and I had some Vision "Kele Rosencrans" board. We borrowed this video from some guy and never gave it back. I still have it. I even got copies of the demo songs used on the video from Sub Society and Wheezing Maniac (dollar on a platter) before there was any such thing called the internet. thanks for uploading! lot of good memories here! Cheers to all skaters, young and old!

[dynatox]

name?? age???  sal barbier!!!!!!!

[Thumperdevine]

"you have a job or anything?"

"no Ma'am, just a vagrant!"

God, that caught me in some vicious memory feedback! Thanks for posting this. It was a great, great video. It cost £30 when it got here to the UK - even now that's pricey for a vid - and a few of us banded together to buy it. Must hav seen it 200 times. Thanks!

[momentofsciencetx]

Damn. I grew up skating in the 80's and early 90's this video was what changed the style of skating. It went from tricks you saw watching Bones Brigade to what these guys where doing. I think H-Street and what their skaters where doing set the tempo for the current skating style.

[winnerdinner1]

Wheezing Maniac - Dollar On A Platter

The Cry - Twist Of Fate

The Cry – Alone

Potential Threat - Self Inflicted Pain

DJ Dek - Am Rap

Naranda - Dance Of Life

Plaid Rentina – Plastic

Handicap Porno (instrumental)

Blind Justice (instrumental)

[winnerdinner1]

best skate video ever track list Sub Society - Hard Cory Sub Society - Rock Star Sub Society - A Whole Lot Less Kirk & The Jerks - Gun & A Tear Kirk & The Jerks - To Be A Hero Kirk & The Jerks - One Way To Do It Figure Ground – Intro Wonderful Broken Thing - Trains Wonderful Broken Thing - Roam Around Failure To Follow Instruction (FFI) (instrumental Stack Face - Loud And Proud Stack Face - Yo Racist Little Max – Satisfaction Loop Zilla - Telephone Betty

[WaveRiding74]

"yyyeeeaaahhhh Matt."

[DJnedKnowledge422]

i prefer to watch this with the vuvuzelas present

[Flakatak76]

SUB SOCIETY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mgar69]

Those where the dayz!

[mfetty77]

Been watching this vid for yrs now, still love it. Thanks for posting. Who sing the song thats in Sal's part though? Can't find it anywhere.

[flyingape11]

daiy watch here, too. i play guitar along to the first track every morning before work at 36 years old.  now i know what tis like to be one of the old fogies. long live old school hardcores!

[drendpers]

behold!!!! for the holy grail of skateboarding

[julianzeasar05]

i got an h-street board, i just skatet in "actionpark" in gothenburg, it rocks

[775k]

switch your so freeken right it should be mando for anybody with a skateboard to watch this...the kids now days have no clue what this video started....

[alkohol4all]

now i feel like getting an old school board with vision footwear.

[friendofCHAKA]

The first time i saw this i knew i was never going to be good enough to be a pro skater!

[vernon1979s]

my life's baby milk is in this video !

[vernon1979s]

HOKUS POKUS always Smooth as silk ...

im grinding down memory lane ...first saw this videotape in 1993 ...

LIFE CHANGING ...

[kaiserwilhelm]

Man, I remember when I was little everyone wanting the sal barbier shoes.

[burritosandsnow]

stop breaking this wood!!

[HarryBeLulzFonte]

Check my vids for sk8 rock music and link to the mp3s of them and more!

(I'm not a spam bot, just sharing da love =)

[alkohol4all]

if you want the soundtrack from this video i have a video with the link.

[alkohol4all]

if anyone wants the soundtrack from this video come check my channel. I have a video of where you can get all the soundtrack from hokus pokus.

[flacomercy]

Damn, this video brings me back!!! Thanks for posting. And you're right, we were calling them Ollie Norths before Skate or Die came out on Nintendo, when Oliver North and the Iran-Contra scandal was still kicking in the late 80's early ninties. These kids just don't know.

[agent5250]

OH MY GOD I FEEL SO OLD LOOKIN AT THIS VIDEO I still have my matt Hensley deck on my wall along with jeff kendall

[alkohol4all]

fukuandieyuppieskum quick question i found all the songs from the credits is there anywhere i could download it. i might try limewire and check but if you have any info message me.

[alkohol4all]

still have this video and watch it everyday my fav. video next to plan b questionable

[fukuandieyuppieskum]

@alkohol4all

I've got Questionable uploaded, but jewtube made me audioswap.

[countingmoons]

@fukuandieyuppieskum lol.. jewtube

[moosepupp92]

@fukuandieyuppieskum lol- jewtube.

[XtalGameVids]

@alkohol4all omg same here bro! respect the old school! schackle!

[hualmaceful]

THIS IS THE VIDEO THAT CHANGED IT ALL, FOR REAL...

[AncientRage2]

Most def

[StraightPunkEdge93]

This has to be the best skate video I've ever seen

[SwitchRich]

It's funny, but to me watching clips from this vid is quite an emotional experience. It reminds me of the time when I really discovered skateboarding. I remember yelling at the TV as almost every trick in this opening montage was something which nobody had seen before. In terms of pure progression you simply don't get vids liks this nowdays.

[Gmancrap]

Yeah because every trick is the same and its looked down upon to try to mix free style in your skating.

[mothercruncher]

@SwitchRich

Amen to that. I remember every bit of music, every trick every nuance of conversation even 20 years later. Me and my friends played this video THAT much. I remeber be SO psyched up after watching and then going out and skating like a man (boy) possessed. I get all misty eyed just watching.

[moosepupp92]

@SwitchRich fuck.

[ryanjroth9]

hokus pokus really made 3flips a normal trick

[primus1111111]

6:36 sal flip...so sick :O

[dateman303]

Sweet video!!!!

[papablueclef]

kids...

[koleradaman]

I bought Tony Magnusson skateboard after watching this vid..... THX for upload. Reminds me of lost time :)

[msikes1]

i just had to point out the DUM ASSSSSS below that obviously didnt experience these wonderful times.............YEH it was called an OLLIE NORTH...but mainly only for giggles........or to give it an official name...........the name one foot was too misleading............could be a one foot anything............and especially if it was on accident....i think i accidently did a one foot mctwist varial kickflip shove-it heelflip off a 2-foot ollie ramp....JUST A SHORT WHILE AFTER VEIWING THIS VIDEO

[hellyeahdad]

We used to watch old psycoskate and scmitt stix vieos untill this vid came out then we would watch it religiously. good times

[abxy6001]

Excellent, (and such high quality video at that!)

Thanks

[nocomplyimpossible]

We used to worship the old powell peralta videos in Ireland late 80s, then this and shakle me not came out and we all went HOLY S....................

[4wheelbites]

If Kids...only knew.......it wasnt about.......doing what u saw in videos....it was about SKATEBOARDING = INNOVATING.......

[fukuandieyuppieskum]

no shit. hell, i'll still destroy a curb with all kinds of slappy variations. Don't forget your late ollie norths either!

[4wheelbites]

Ollie Norths?????....what ever dude is called a One Foot!.......you prob....got ollie north from your tony hawk game

[fukuandieyuppieskum]

well i didn't even know you could do that trick in tony hawk pro skater, i don't play it much. Actually, I used to call it one footer until I read it in Thrasher, as is with your back foot off, ollie south. so no need to assume there, I've been skating for 17 years strong now.

[Wolfy2929]

@fukuandieyuppieskum

i grew up with it being called a Ollie North.

[sckryde]

lol

i remember dudes calling it an ollie north..

that was like 1992 ...LOL

[jjuice69]

@4wheelbites Yeah well it is and always was the Ollie North. find the trick tip from the Thrasher from I would say probably summer of 88 or 89...it's there.

[thelawguy666]

@4wheelbites LOL! thats right- thats exactly where it came from- all the kids say ollie north and it drives me CRAZY!!!!

[madrazo815]

@4wheelbites

It's an Ollie North..

[ButtPooTV]

@4wheelbites Yeah dude, all the sudden people are shutting down the term "ollie north". I've been skating since '97 and that's what myself and, I thought, everyone else called it too...even Rowley.

[radbran1]

@4wheelbites ya dude i saw it in cbc skate boaring mag thrasher and transworld

[vernon1979s]

youre so true ... it was a ritual more or less ... not fashion

[flash60orange]

la meilleure vidéo de skate de tous les temps!! la musique et tous simplement genial du debut a la fin!

[longded]

who else forgot all about vision ??

;]

[Rupasera]

i did... until now. babies saved me from some sprained ankles. still looking to get my feet on some airwalk vics.

[longded]

make sure its high top lol ! always use a bandage in my boot myself! saves strapping it up after you pull something!

;]

[Rupasera]

now why didnt i think of that.

oh well. old skoolers never die..

[fredoklein]

das waren noch zeiten dann konnte man tail und nose noch unterscheiden nicht wie heute

[TubeTimmetje]

1989, the same year I had the chance to skate with Matt Hensley en Ray Barbee in Munster, Germany. It were great times!

[slbiggs36]

The irony of that immigrant talking to those kids about property rights!

[paulkayaknenninger1]

Dude Is Pissed, Notice he takes off his glasses, In preparation for War! He has obviously had run in's with skaters before. Brace yer Self Fool.

[longded]

lol he thought he was providing a valuable sevice bless!

;]

[soulmachineNo1]

Vision DV8's, Vision baggies, H Street hoddie... Fucking great days man.

[SwitchRich]

Yeah, I still remember watching it for the first time. Every trick was like 'How?' 'What?'

Back in those days you never knew what to expect from a new skate video as the progression was taking place so quickly. Nowdays you're lucky if you're genuinely surprised one when watching a vid.

[SwitchRich]

How can this only have 1,319 views? Criminal. It should become mandatory viewing for anybody who has been skateboarding for more than 3 days.

[cincykidcat]

omg, omg omg!!!!! Thanks you so much : )

[LadyKier37]

SOOOOOOO happy this video is on here....I own the original video....I just can't find it...but soooo happy I could watch it on here. Thank you! Best Skate video EVER!

[paulkayaknenninger1]

Thanks fukUandyuppieskum for putin it out there. Im 32, I skate almost every day. and the last thing I do before I leave work to skate is watch some Hokus pokus to Git Stoked!! Wit a Gun and a Tia!!

[boilerwestbrook36]

This is not the new H-street video! Found it!

[boilerwestbrook36]

Hey what was that video where it starts out with matt hensley skatin and rippin it up to AC/DC's Back in Black? Gotta find it.

[dirtboy896]

0:51 is pretty decent even by todays standards! 8 stair 360 flip on that oldschool board is nutty.

[luckeysleven777]

awsome

[hyenamano]

thnks for uploading too ..in great quality ...sick

[jonnydigital666]

I must have watched this about 500 times back in the day, Every word is etched on my brain, ha ha. I had a D Way board, H-St tee, hoodie and even bought some vision DV8's to complete the H-St look! LOL

[hemmojito]

Thank you for uploading man, used to watch this video and skate still hearing the songs in my ear. So f**in' great.

I'm gonna go skating now...

[Mun0z387]

I still have this on tape

amazing what they did especially dating back to '89