Ed Templeton - New Deal promo

[chrishaven76]

Makes P-Rod and Sheckler look like dipshits.

[bizzmarky76]

The early 90's was a great time for PURE skating. No ceral boxes, vert was dead, no goddamn x games. Believe it or not kids, there was a time when skateboards had different shapes and skaters had theirnown unique styles. It wasn't popsicles, corporations and Mullen clones like it is today.

[562ole]

i like the sarcasm in the warning

[MyWendal]

This is a great video but the soundtrack is pretty damn gay.

[Nominay]

@MyWendal lol, cept I like the song Justin Gerard skates to .. and the into montage instrumental

[MyWendal]

@Nominay Yeah the song Justin skates to is pretty good. Co-signed.

[ivahnsean]

@MyWendal are talking shit about the odd numbers? or the sound quality?

[MyWendal]

@ivahnsean Odd Numbers. Even back when the video first came out i hated most the music to this video.

[grabyourgat]

HBHS was the all time best skate spot ever. I went to that school too :) I loved 7th Street in San Pedro too.

[cbertrand76]

wow, how can you destroy such a soundtrack... please re-compress :(

[Nominay]

Those old video recorders showed the date on them like my Mullen footage. You can tell this was all done in a month Jan-Feb. '90. Obviously Ed was doing impossibles in 1989 making him the first street skater to do so. Jeremy Klein has the earliest, most defined, new school part in Rubbish Heap, clearly Ed was skating similarly at that time too.

[MyWendal]

@Nominay 1990-'92 to me was the golden era of street skating. Guys like Jeremy Klien, Templeton, Jason Lee, Mark Gonzales, Guy Mariano were coming out with all the new stuff and the style was really good. Then around '93 'new school' tech with clown clothes got kinda ugly. The style was lost.

[Nominay]

@MyWendal I agree ... up thru Virtual Reality it was great ... but then take Goldfish the next year, in spite of some cool stuff, the evolution of skating seemed deflated at that point

[MyWendal]

@Nominay Yeah, there some exceptions for sure. The Real Video was awesome. But by in large it was an ugly era with super technical tricks with horrible style, skinny boards, tiny wheels, huge clothing....After a few years skateboarding began getting it's style back. Especially with the Zero guys, Heath Kirchart, Rodney Mullen any many others. By 2002 I finally stopped skating after 16 years but looking back my favorite era was definitely the early 90s.

[robowen1]

that first one foot ollie........fuck

[ootslaton]

Man, this making me all nostalgic and misty!!! Thanx for the post!

[muvico1]

epic video, god bless vhs. i still can't do all the tricks shown,but i keep trying.

[gonzoreveco]

Que recuerdos esos años de skate!!!!!!

PSC

[solfors]

Aaaahhh Those were the days! Odd numbers and skating, that sums up the nineties for me!

[grigamofa]

song!!!!

[bdarling30]

The song is Holiday; the band is the odd numbers.

[saysumthinstupid]

TOY MACHINE ed templetons the fucking man

[HAPPYxBANANAxCAKES34]

this guy created toy machine ! HELL YA ! AND another team forgot which :/

[xthedon]

I drove to huntington beach to skate at Huntington Beach High School. I found all those cement benches and sidewalks he skated in this video. I thought that was cool cuz he was one of my fav skaters. But funny thing is one of the schools he was at in this video turned out to be just a few blocks from my house in Gardena/Hawthorne area. 135th street school. Then learned there was a skateboard factory that made decks right on crenshaw. I was like small world.

[kaiserwilhelm]

@xthedon Was that recently or a long time ago?

[xthedon]

Back in the 90s, probably early 90s

[damnthosecongas]

KILLIN the one footers

[johnoXdamage]

no demo called the number its no longer in service

[brainpalsey]

man, i remember wanting his board so bad...

[removablecloud]

anyone seen the bonus footage that was after useless wooden toys had finished, black screen'd for a while then new footage kicked in with an odd numbers tune - in this world? would be cool to see that again!

[xbacksteinx]

yeah I remember that :)

[chriswoodsucks]

anyone know the song ?

[sinebass808]

"holiday" -odd numbers

i love this band. you can get this on itunes

[sheenawannagigi]

classic. ed was like 18.

[LikeYoung]

Im gonna try that number and see if I can get a demo hooked up

[suicide1112]

Nothing better than a curb grind.