Tommy Guerrero - Future Primitive - 1985

This is still my favorite video part of all time.

Tommy G's part in Future Primitive was the first real street skating video segment, and the first to spotlight the streets of SF as the natural skatepark that they were and are.

No one ever skated with the kind of style that Tommy had. A true legend.

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[bandini]

Crappiere: to understand it better, consider that "street skating" used to be just surfy carves & spins. Tommy (& Gonz & Natas & a few others) were the first wave of dudes who added ollies, boardslides, airs, & various other creative little street maneuvers, some of which have aged well (the co-comply for instance) & some of which haven't (street plants). Tommy was the first one to have a real, widely-distributed street video part, & for my $ has one of the great styles of all time. That help?

[Carl Thompson]

Admittedly, I'm here because of Wednesdays with Reda.

[howva]

I want to know what this crappiere guy said, no doubt it was crappy, yeah? har har. Also this makes me want to go to San Fransisco!

[Jeff Starch]

looks better then a hd!

[ColinBrunnemer77]

Cool. He's pretty much the speed-demon guy right now

[TheWorstWarlock]

I don't know who that is. I'll have to check.

[amla98]

Just stop.

[iggirocks]

The ollie he did over the bushes was probably the biggest anybody had ever seen at the time. Never mind the fact that it was the first proper street skating part ever on video. So drop the attitude and learn a little bit of history. By the way, how old are you?

[commentsrdumb]

Before Hstreet & World industries changed the status quo of skating from contests to video parts, the bulk of skating was done either in a park, pool or a halfpipe. In 1980, kids ONLY skated in these 3 venues. Skating was also only seen in mags and contests. When "skate videos" 1st came out, it was still the parks, pools & halfpipe era. THIS video part was one of the 1st with a spotlight over a skater who JUST skated the streets...COMPLETELY INSANE for a time when skating was dominated by Vert.

[illiciousness]

I caught this about 3 years after it was released, and even then it was mindblowing to see someone just attacking a natural urban environment, up until then there was no flips, spins, nollies at least that I know of (sans flatland tricks, but they were done in isolation, on the flat, with next to no speed). This clip, and then Natas' Wheels of Fire clip in 88 were really the blueprint for modern skating. Lines + Obstacles = Radness.

[Adam Flores]

Amla98 we'll said :) I love you...you go to a skate park and there is no individuality