The Gonz / Natas / Tommy G 1986

Sacto '86 Street Style Contest f/ Mark Gonzales. Natas Kaupas, Tommy Guerrero. Classic 80's Street Style Footage

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• Natas
• Kaupas
• Tommy
• Guerrero
• 80's
• skateboarding
• street
• style

[38Weissbier]

when I see this I can feel the magic,

when I watch a video made after 1992 I can't feel it anymore...

who agrees?

[jsnjsn13]

Mark gonz, Natas, Tommy Guerrero...sick dudes!

[YassineSaidi]

@38Weissbier Agree about the thing but not the year, I would set the limit to 1999.

1992 saw the sickest tech' exploits, well it was so much sketchy but still necessary to skateboarding's evolution.

and the rest of the nineties saw Muska, Thomas,... pushing the limits of urban equipement.

Well, nineties are the decades of limits : limits of tech, limits of hammers, as the eighties were the limits of style...

After 2000, nothing new grew, and it became so boring.

[rebusd]

@38Weissbier I agree about the phenomenon, just not the precise year. :)

[Superapeaholic]

@38Weissbier I agree 100%

[deathbypowerglove]

Natas and Gonz ARE skateboarding.

And I love how when Natas grinds the box *not shown* Gino is one of the kids holding it up

[KC7689]

this. is. awesome!

[rebusd]

maybe you could've... a lot of people have forgotten just how surf and party the scene was... the fucked up thing was that when the party was on, I was mormon. Took a lot of heat for that in those days... but never underestimate the sheer creative spark that drove these guys to do vert tricks on flat ground (if that doesn't define 'drunk and evicted from the skatepark', I don't know what does). And these guys are second generation compared to Lucero and Blender!

[rebusd]

I remember perpetually being a year behind each BBVS when they came out. And then don't get me started on WOF or SMN!

I was mildly disappointed to learn that Natas' name was actually only a Lithuanian masculine form of Natalia, and not the manifestation of evil that I thought was so cool in my Reign in Blood days...

Pity that out of these three that only Gonz lasted continually into the 90's, but cool that they _all_ contributed to other artistic media besides the street and board...

[fallendezpair]

same here

and LES

around november

[malcutron]

Good to know that I could have been Skatepro in the mid 80is. The "park" is so funny... But those earlygrab 360's were sweet.

[zagfa]

omg this is so sick :)

i love it.. so old school.

GREAT vid.