Old School - Alva...

[TimeTurners]

0:30 that must have been boring for the crowd to watch... up and down and up and down and...

[1SOADBITCH]

does anyone know which skateboard brand was the best late 70's early 80's.. lool i want 1. im 17 now i have a plan b. but i want one of the oldies skaterbords to comment back plzz..

[HawkesMakesVids]

@1SOADBITCH Zephyr, Z-flex, or go to alva stores, doubt they still do them, but it's worht a try.

[anklepantsmagazine]

@1SOADBITCH You can easily make your own just like they did back then. Check out the webisodes in the extras on the Dogtown and Z-Boys DVD - there's a clip of them building one just like they used to. It could also be a fun woodshop class project.

[beowulf1963]

@1SOADBITCH The best brands were Sims, Alva, G&S, Dog Town etc.

[thesk8boardingshow]

Brilliant video, good for you. That rock n roll at the end is AMAZING. Thanks for sharing that with us

[SirYarquest]

I'm 48, my son bought his first board last weekend, it was so great when he came in and ask me if I would teach him how to ride old school. Broke out my board from the eighties, I hate that I don't have my Alva board any longer, but just the same, I still got. Cutting 360's just like I did in my teens. Going to the skate park this weekend. Can't wait for the kids comments about "old dude" riding half pipe!

[fvckben]

@SirYarquest old bastard

[rhcp800]

I just met Tony at kona

[imfromunzid]

why couldnte the 70's be for ever

[Maturkus]

@imfromunzid I blame the 80's.

[rocknroll063]

This is cool! I was at that skateboard show at Solvalla in 78 i think it was. Still got a sticker Alva signed for me, and still have a Alva board with red 65 mm Kryptonics. I'm turning 48 this year and still ride it from time to time. Allso still have a New Sport Booster with Independent trucks and Sims snake wheels...I just loved when my son grew up and i could teach him how to ride. He is 20 now and just like his dad he will NEVER stop riding...

[splendidcurves]

Like music, cars, TV, and girls...everything looked (and was) more awesome in the 1970's. I don't see any of today's fancy footwork, but I guarantee you they were having a lot more fun back then. I'm itching for the spring thaw so I can hit the park (on my old school board)... ;)

[Tsuruyaa]

I wish life was still like this :(

[stickshiftart]

loved the cess slides on the pipe and the nosewheelie. Good memories.

[ihateidiotcomments]

This is all the way sweet.

Skateboarding is Not Crime

[UncleDeluxe]

Love skateboarding in the 70's- so awesome that people were amazed by a kickturn on a quarterpipe.

[nickill13]

ele anda na msma bvase que a minha

[nickill13]

MANO MEU PAI CONHECEU ELE...

meu pai é um skatista das antigas man

[sneakerpimp13]

Åkte på skateland från c:a 1982 tills det revs. Det blev många fina åk i poolen och snakerun-bananen, oftast i samma ohetsiga anda som Mike Weeds åk i klippet :)

På vintern, om det var snö så skruvade vi av truckarna och åkte ändå. Gick inte lika bra som med truckar och hjul dock att åka pool!

Kul att se rörliga bilder från Skateland.

[moosey62]

Listen you teenagers. We may be in or near our 50's now, but we fucking rocked.

;-)

Coming to a town near YOU

;-)

Shit. My kids are gonna read this. Hey. Do your fucking homework.

[jamesjuma1]

SKATE TOUGH OR GO HOME! THOSE WERE THE DAYS!

[drew333xxx]

Nice video but Tony Alva has been and always will be a self absorbed jerk.

[4metalmaniac20]

@drew333xxx do you think that just because you saw LoD?

[funnyheadpuppy]

@4metalmaniac20 alva says he is in the documentary z boyz u fucking retard

[BurbsDesperado]

legend

[vintageofthemonth]

beast!

who knows about a Nash Hang Ten?

Post comments on my blog...

[heavymattles]

yeah that rock n roll at the end was gnarly

[putthisonmytab]

That rock n roll at the end was crazy on a ramp like that haha awsome.

[miahman94]

who the hell cares about the song is anyone watching alva

[BagerBay3060]

Infra Riot - The Soundtrack of our lives :D This song is fucking cool dude :D

[z150a]

the name song is..... ????

[lionelvillahermosa]

''excellent''

[scottymacIII]

Does anyone remember this dude, Brewer, was in old skate rags in 70's, big blonde fro, was sponsored I guess. I hade a 34" brewer board I boght used at skatepark in fla. had bennett trucks, mistake bcuz of plastic baseplates kept breaking. OJ wheels, kinda slow compared to kryptonics, but ok. Still have that board, which was a bit longer than avg back then. Thx for the awesome footage, I'll shut the hell up now

[aandddesign]

@scottymacIII : hey! Brewer was EastCoast; boards never went past "logs"(no 7-ply Can. maple); We used ACS metal baseplates for Bennetts, 'til we all had to switch to Trackers; now Indy's: notice the Tracker hanger w/ Bennett-shaped baseplate. LimeGreenSimsSnakes gripped w/speed.

[jmorra]

The guy you are referring to Rodney Jesse. He rode for Brewer skateboards , which was a company that came out of Dick Brewer surfboards. Back then it was common for surfboard companies -- and even surf shops -- to have skateboards with their logo.Jesse had amazing style and could skate a pool as well as anyone at the time, but did not want to do the whole contest scene. I used to watch him at skateboard heaven in Spring Valley.

[7innocentminds]

Awesome vid... Thanks for make and post it... ;)

[Lengsel7]

Nice vid. Those halfpipes were brutal.

[misterrubiks]

@Lengsel7 they're more like 3/4 pipes lol

[Jamievaughan15]

@Lengsel7 Yeah, over-vert is brutal.

[assmuncher1984]

fuck whats on tv, tv is for lameass people anyway. Get a life. On the internet! (and please dont try to drag my username in to this, that shows your immaturity level, if you do, youre probably a person who squirms everyitme you hear "thats what she said")

[sk8erchick27]

where the hell is evey1 gettin this sweet old footage?

[nubsk8er4]

shoort shorts XD

[PopGuun]

Tony Alva and stacy peralta - both mexican - american

[dalarodsk]

svergie äger!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[footscraysteve]

The black guy who does all the cool ol school tricks from 2.30 is that Marty Grimes?

[EbbotSve]

The guy is Lance Dowdell from Salem, outside Stockholm. As I remember, he was the no 1 freestyle skater in Sweden around this time.

[932809970]

does someone sell one of those skateboards? i'm interessted

[ErikStrombom]

Hail old school skating ! fuck this era's skateboarders

[danguhz0n3]

bam margera is the biggest sellout haha.

[sk8erboy9555]

no one can skate beter than alva

[DirtSpray]

Heelyeahh agree

[PimblyCharles]

what band is playing in background? sounds like Tripping Daisy

[LetThereBePunk]

Infra riot

[dobby240]

imagine going back in time with paul rpdriguez or somthin and watching him skate against these guys, he would be a legend lol ... not that he isnt allready

[ryanking909780]

dude...p.rod is a little lameass streetskater..his daddy is famous and thats how he got known..fuck prod and fuck scheckler.give them an empty pool and a halfpipe and they wouldent know what to do with themselves.I outskate those two fools on a daily basis in my backyard pool and pipe.

[dobby240]

lol yeah ok and iv heard of you so much more on extreme than i have P-rod.. pff how silly of me...

[danguhz0n3]

bam margera, are you serious, fuck that guy. tony and the z-boys are fucking legends, bam margera and the the other sellouts should be sucking their dicks.

[ryanking909780]

YOU SAID IT RIGHT BRO...fuck bam and all those eastcoast fags

[laurencegrimwood]

bam margera shows the world his nipples and hes famous... woolah!

[CrissAngl]

to red blue rob dyrdek can sk8 bam cant bams a sell out i mean look at him he's too lazy to go out and get footage he still uses skate footage from viva la bam for his videos its been almost 4 years he needs to get off his ass. but tony alva is one of the greatest skaters ever plain and simple

[ryanking909780]

hey crissangel..go do a magic trick or something...ROB DYRDECK is the biggest sellout ever...axe deoderant-carls jr-mtv-nike...cmon bro..he should keep it SKATE and make wheels or trucks..custom griptape....fuck bam and rob they both suck!

[oilcityskates]

Whatever happened to the edger?

[Lengsel7]

Haha! Those crazy 8 foot wide, 12 foot tall, no flat bottom, no top deck halfpipes. Half the skill was just staying on the ramp.

[redblue2643]

what?! skatboarding was the best then. Now you got Rob dydrek, bam margera sell out mtv fucks!

[mautsta19]

what the hell u talkin about? i wish i grew up in those ages cause those were the good days

[poopmuncherz]

how would you no? it sucked back then

[mautsta19]

it was the beginning of skateboarding, everything had to grow for there to be next generation skateboarding

[astmaattack]

the way i see it every generation sees their own as suckish and others as awesome

[ollieroks]

i guess you turned pro the day you got on a board. go munch your poop man.

[markdm166]

ur a dumbass

[SnowPC]

think of it this way. if it werent for them, then skating would still "suck" today

[DYLANinja]

You are the biggest fuck ever.

[AwesomeTurn]

g-turn babby

[preciousbash]

I have style and really understand the joys of boarding beyond just doing trick after trick. Inthe 70's baording was an amazing artform and more of a way of being. There are some amzing riders out there but they are stylish and it's a souless look at how many tricks ina row I can pull off-a-thon. Stacy Peralta is my fav. I saw him Skate at a park in Paulo Alto in 78 . Amazing and a fun get event. Lots of cool stuff to see and it was ne big skater hang...Glad I got to experience it!!

[preciousbash]

I agre Rylanblu. I go tmy first skateboard when I was 7. I used to skatebaord and rollerskate all day long. I am 40 and still ride my board in Union Square Park in Manhattan and Hoboken Skate Park in NJ.

[Bubbles424tdb]

i bet his balance is like super human

[WasteCoast]

That waa some good old footage that i had never seen before. ......YEAH.......

[nobrains73]

Greatness.

[lollygaggin42]

lords of dogtown the documentary.. way better.

[skaterocknroll]

i like both equally

[xokawaiineonxo]

lance dowdell was pretty sick

[mattgokey]

cool freestyle segment

[rimehl]

this man sucks I hate him since I saw "dogtown"

[meatwadJ]

thats not how he really was dumbass

[mild49401387]

Please teach the name of a song and the musician name of BGM.

[bosley11111]

I skated with Shogo and Alva at the skate pool at hemsby near Gt yarmouth in about 78. They were no better than us trick wize but style was fantastic. completely changed the way I skated. Thats the big problem now. I'm 44 now and still love to skate. Where are all the kids with that great surfing style its an art

[RylanBlu]

I am 43 and was in a skateboard competition in 1977 and Stacy Peralta was the judge. I won in freestyle. I made up my own tricks. I was a total original and inventive! It was Art.

Kids today just blew it up with what they do. Nothing new has happened in 10 years. My girlfriends Dad managed Tony Alva.

[kaimana815]

Thats really cool dude and I agree...

[IDrumNaked]

Thats interesting...just very hard to believe.

[weedandpeace]

70s were the fuckin best to bad didnt liv then.i would do anything to live then

[OldSchoolSkater64]

those were the days!!!

[jimrambo98]

i got the alva skate deck yesterday fore my birthday i am fucking prouth

[stkbronsoy]

sweet video man.

[guitarguy780]

wowo man old skewl sk8in pwns i wish i was around back then damn it why didi i have to be born in 1988!!!!

[kimojaco]

why would it be bullshit his dad didnt know jay? i know jay... full on partier.

[22ndstreat]

Anybody know what song this is?

[stkbronsoy]

soundtrack of our lives. :)

[ElCubanCigaro]

man the bar is raised so high now for skating back then it was chill and now you have to be crazy good! its annoying. anyone who is a hater of people who skate and aren't super good should go to hell!

:D

and... i dont disbelieve eddiebestmc, but i would like to see some proof too!

[PanDooooo]

aw man. you just gotta love old school skating.

[Eddiebestmc]

my dad knew Jay Adams.. my dad was part of the Street gang sur 13 when he came to the US at first... and he used to drink and get high with JAy.. he got a few pics with him lol

im gonna post them up.

my dad and jay would always steal car stereos cause Jay was good with locks and my dad was good with wires

true stories

=]

[bakernerd]

lier

[dallas312]

stfu

[bakernerd]

wtf

dont talk shit

[dallas312]

im not talking shit.

[skater4eva14]

when u gonna out those pics up that sounds cool

[punkdrummer444]

bullshit. your dad didnt know jay. fuckin liar.

[pando999]

LORDS OF DOGTOWN

[Elementallity94]

best skateboarding true story movie ever

[cookieparty1]

YES!

[coolskaterlikeice]

damn

i wish tony alva was my dad :D

he's so awsome!!

[blackoutfestival]

Name of this music?

[Tara1823]

my dad use to skate wit them they r all awsome skaters

[celldwellercrisangel]

realy? thats awsome! there are great at skating too!~ i some day hope to get an ALVA board

[ferrarieddy2]

how old is your dad and what he called

[beowulf1963]

Härliga tider!

[goudviskes]

nice oververts man !!

ridiculous! tony alva rules !!

[GomerDose]

past vert

[insanityvision]

back in the Z-boys time it wasntabout fame it was about your ride.

[briguy1700]

what is the name of this song? it's amazing

[Tegelblomma]

Glad you liked it. It's "Soundtrack Of Our Lives".

[danithecook]

Los de la cancion son una banda sueca llamada Soundtrack Of Our Lives...

[roberttooo]

maximo el video :D

como se llama la cancion ?

wat is name the song ??

[danithecook]

los de la cancion son una banda sueca ...Soundtrack Of Our Lives

[roberttooo]

maximo el video :D

como se llama la cancion ?

wat is name the song ??

[patinandosinlimites]

yeah lo mejor es tony alva conchetumare

todo lo pajarone ql no aprenden de ete wm

[sneakerpimp13]

Jag växte upp 100 meter från Skateland och skejtade där 7 dagar i veckan. På vintern så skejtade vi även i poolen och banksen med bräda utan truckar för vi hade inte råd att åka snowboard. Började åka där runt 81 fram till de rev stället. Första gången jag ser rörliga bilder på Skateland. Har du mer film från skateland?

Mvh Andreas

[starcharm]

lords of dogtown portrayed him like he was an asshole....

he wasnt really like that right? i know he wanted to make money and stuff and fame....

[Skitel1992]

Dude Stacy Peralta Produced that movie. I think he may have been somewhat of an asshole, i think he changed after he found out sid was about to die...

[HeartHug46]

dude u know nothing about the z-boys sid is a fictional character they added to the movie the movie isnt exactley how everything went down the movie "dogtown and the z-boys" is a better reference

[kirbyostar2]

dude he was real y would they just pop him in the movie as a main charater if he wasent real

[HeartHug46]

ur retarded u know nothing my dad used to hang out in the shop back in the 70s all the time my dad was cool with all the z-boys and my family still knows them there is no sid

[ryantheturtleriggs]

sid isnt a fake charechter he is on the real dog town z boys documentary

[tubeboehm]

you're right he is fictional. But there was a kid dino that did get sick and skated with the z-boyz so it is a mix of real and not real.

[nero70198]

yo they are all good but alva is the best and you have to agree

[poopoop0000]

hahahahaha sry bro but u r wrong by far alva is good no doubt but JAY ADAMS is the real beginning of skatebording and in dogtown and z-boys peralta and alva both said that jay was better than them both

[HeartHug46]

haha yea tony was like that in real life he had that "mad dog" attitude i wouldnt call him an asshole though more like.....young and crazy hes not like that anymore though

[HeartHug46]

yaa we r cool he knowsw my dad my family always hangs out with him

[gravesituation]

fantastic footage! fantastic memories! thanks for posting!!

[Duriansead]

Hi Mate, This is the guy who got the Gul & Blå Team together. Good that you bring back the old stuffs for the now gen. Where on earth r u now? Mongolia? What Mongolia?Cheers! Andrew

[madal55]

Yeah, I reckon that's me standing next to Nick Malmstrom (Yellow, Red, Blue Hobie Team Rider shirt) and Gunnar from New Sport House Team. Also in the other ramp shot Lasse "Gringo" - who still owes me money!!!!

[Tegelblomma]

Hi Alan! We never met but I sure know who you are! So cool to hear from you. The footage in this film is based on my Super8 clips and photos from the magazines "Skateboard" and "Dare Devil". You said that you worked with a magazine called "Pipeline", I can't really remember that. To bad you lost those slides! Do you have anything left?

/ Uffe

[Duriansead]

Hi Uffe,

Good to see your 8mm footage. At least you got the old skool stuffs. I've tons of the old skate slides. Will show em some time on youtube. Keep you informed, then.

Cheers

Andrew

[madal55]

Thanks Uffe - Great to see this stuff - looking forward to see Duriansead's slides sometime. Regards. Alan

[Duriansead]

Tegelblomma, You sure did do a great job bringing back some vintage stuffs! Gul & Blä Skate Team's Lance Dowdell & Birger Stjärnborg were the hottest Swedish skaters at that time. And TA was our guest for his Swedish tour. Thanks for sharing

[gardensk8longboarder]

gr8 job

[cpsglenn]

Now THAT brings back some memories. Thanks for that ride back into the past. RESPECT, Glenn

[Mrjefferson000]

awesome video, never really looked at the really old decks in use before. nice to see someone thinks its relevant :) what are the songs out of intrest? if you know that is, cheers

[3Paul12]

TA has a wicked logo go TA!!

BTW is 2:20 a daffy?

[Tegelblomma]

Yeah, that's a classic daffy.

[3Paul12]

thank u it pretty insane eh

[MCR4Life365]

At 2:05 in the video is the BEST!!! By the way is that Tony Alva skating at that part?

[MCR4Life365]

Tony Alva is the BEST sk8r!!!

[ledzeppelinisthebest]

tony alva and jay adams = best skaters ever!!!

[NSDAPAO]

I remember yeah... Alva... never liked his decks actually

[Wardfolio]

Stacy even said Jay was better than all of them!

[johnw26660]

This is great footage. in '77 we could only see pictures in Skateboarder magazine. It wasn't until youtube that I finally got to see my heroes really move. True half pipes have all but disappeared> you had no time to think or set up

[GunPoor]

I can't believe T-Mag is that old.

[pando999]

stacey peralta and tony alva are the best

[healey444]

Jay boy adams is king he was the original he took chances tony alva stuck with routine tricks

[rockit43]

dont talk crap dude...........

[zookamedia]

cool..thanks man..

[shikimaru32]

tony alva...best ass skater from venice beach!

[bajukiewizard]

acornboy12 do you know who Tony Alva is?

[Sifter22]

oh yeah classic alva

[wptomkins123]

TONY ALVA IS KING!

[acornboy12]

ok..

[plutie]

fint ;D