Blender skateboarding circa 1985

Legendary skateboarder and artist Neil Blender doing what he does best. If you know who Neil Blender is and haven't seen this video yet, this will make your day.

• Category

  Film & Animation

[doctrap007]

I was in college in the 1983 at Texas A&M and my roommate and I were heading home to San Antonio for the weekend. We stopped to skate in the empty swimming pool of an abandoned hotel in San Marcos, Texas. We were skating for a good hour and this truck pulls up pulling a trailer that says "Thraser" on it. Three guys get out. One guy is a photographer and two guys are skaters. They come and ask us if it is ok if they skate with us. Of course we say sure. It was Neil Blender and Jeff Phillips.

[hater2nd]

Skateboarding has lost almost all personality since then. Younger kids that skate are mostly jock mentality now. I'm only saying that because some of these comments are really fucking ignorant. Learn your history, just because you learned to kickflip before you could ollie doesn't mean you have style. I wish skateboarding was still in touch with art.

[grey pvc]

niel blenders run on the streetstyle in tempe video is a major contributor to my venture into graffiti. and for those of you that are all "the industry has taken over, its not cool anymore 1. the 80's was the epitome of "skatemania" it was way bigger in 1984 than it is now industry wise. and just to let you know that even though niel blender kept it real, and was/is creative as hell and a rad guy, he owns alien workshop. he grew with skateboarding, so stop slagging off the way people do it now.

[oakstbomber]

This is boss

[Jeremy Barnes]

Streetstyle in Tempe. When my buddies and I started skating back in 86 this was the only skate vid we had access to, it was actually in Blockbuster at the time.

[KingCustoms7]

I wasn't sure which move was Neil's "Gay twist". They could have all been called that..

[ThAlexander332]

nice potato to recorde

[Jeremy Davis]

Sooo sick, blender is def a favorite of mines. Wish I skated in this time period. Now skating is super gayyyy. Keep classic.

[Angryjazz]

This is the single greatest contest run in the history of skateboarding...

[dialga9812]

my dad put on this video cause he said when they were in 6th grade he skated with tony hawk and neil blender

[frankensteinmoneymac]

This is the type of attitude that modern skateboarding lacks....Its just become another sport to most kids... commercial...no soul, no artistry. And yes I am an old grumpy cuss who thinks yester-years where better than the modern age *grumble grumble*

PS oh yeah, and classic Goth music is great, but the new EMO stuff sucks.

[rebusd]

lot of that going around... :)