This is when I started skateboarding at 12 years old. I grew up during the time when boards wheels and trucks were getting better and better by the year. Living in Tennessee we didn’t have the great parks like California but we started building our own ramps. I am proud to say that I was able to skate into the 1990s. There was only one or two friends of mine that truly took skateboarding seriously. We would travel to Georgia,Alabama and Florida to go to the parks to ride pools, bowls, snake runs and 1/2 pipes. Me and one of my friends got good enough to grind coping and do frontside and backside airs plus hand plants foot plants among other tricks. I think my buddy and I did pretty good coming from a area in the country with very little to ride. I know this sounds like a brag but I don’t mean it that way. It is because this video brings back memories of my beginning in the art of boarding. At least I know the people watching this video enjoys boarding and would appreciate the effort my buddy and I put into it.🤙🤙🤙
Probably about the last footage of an event just like this. Everything was about to explode in parts, pieces, who and where and brought to us in living color in Skateboarder mag! I started skating in 76 with shitty boards and wheels like this, not for long. Not much of the barefoot surfer style lasted much longer, too much money in selling shoes. And it was the dawn of flight ~ what a beautiful time to be 13 and live that bright flash in time that changed everything. So sad it was over as fast as it started.
I remember the days when you'd see a skate magazine on the newsstand. Seemed like half of them went barefoot. Guessing still part of the surfer culture. Not sure if any of today's skaters would go barefoot.
Like Obi-Wan said, "elegant skating for a more civilized age." :) Cool to see the roots of what would turn into freestyle as we know it from the 80's onwards.
40 million old plastic 🛹 ended up in landfills for sure in the late 70s. No such thing as recycling ♻️ in these days. Boards got way better &easier in the 80s
Wow, never thought I would see a video of this competition. I was represented by Switzerland. The Swiss Landsurfers Club. I won the European Championship in Downhill and the prize was a trip to Longbeach.I did the slalom, with all the EuropeansThnx for the video.❤
My first skateboard was "The Shark" My parents ordered from the Sears Catalog in the 70's. The good ole days of tube socks, burgers and fries, Orange Crush soda, and scateboarding. 🥰
I'd love to take someone like Tyshawn back in time with a few completes and blown some minds lol. "He jumped over a picnic table! No, with the same board! Like the board he started with! It went over the table too! I don't know how he did it!"
Awesome! Please add Henry Hester's slalom victory at around 7 min as one of the Key Moments. And the high jump winner at 7.40. And also Chris Chaput's freestyle victory at 10.55
Some pretty incredible skills here despite the outdated tricks compared to these days. I don't know why, but I split my sides laughing when that guy @8:55 did that two board manual trick.
I am not a skateboarder but why has this vanished? I'd love to see especially an artistic interpretation, similar to ice skating. They obviously tried a lot of pioneer stuff but much is so nice. Why is all of this gone in modern skateboarding?
I don't see any either county's compering because its in America so why in the hell call it a world skateing competition? You Guy's do that with everything Even your football you call world champs. Why that's all I ask why?
Back in the day (75-76), contest skaters were performing compulsory “tricks” like 360’s, nose wheelies or slalom racing which would soon be blown away by vertical and pool riding as far as public interest was concerned. In fact vertical and pool riding kinda replaced the older ways just like the short board surfing revolution in the mid late 60’s. Many top performers found themselves less relevant as the eighties approached and the vertical and aerial era was already in full swing. It was in 77’ at Skateopia that George Orton’s radical, frontside, goofy foot attack would eventually take to the air. An empty pool of a classmate had irregular and large coping one had to avoid at the top. Those physical dynamics led to his abilities above the coping. As developed and showed off his new move, others jumped on the bandwagon like with any hot moves of the day, diluting Orton’s own pioneering radical aerial ways! Even Alva acknowledged Orton’s aerials we’re the first he’d seen, even though he tried to impugn the maneuver by referring to his earlier efforts as “bunny hops” (Skateboarder Magazine July 77’). Perhaps Tony had witnessed the future as George “Wildman” Orton was a pioneer in developing the most radical move in ALL action sports “ the Frontside Aerial”!
All my dream set ups of the day..im 60 now.
Jumping barrels. That was the trick to beat. They had no idea then.
It's like when the Whright brother's flew they're first airplane.
I was a 70s kid, and all of this looks bizarre because it it lasted For two years at best.😅
This is when I started skateboarding at 12 years old. I grew up during the time when boards wheels and trucks were getting better and better by the year. Living in Tennessee we didn’t have the great parks like California but we started building our own ramps. I am proud to say that I was able to skate into the 1990s. There was only one or two friends of mine that truly took skateboarding seriously. We would travel to Georgia,Alabama and Florida to go to the parks to ride pools, bowls, snake runs and 1/2 pipes. Me and one of my friends got good enough to grind coping and do frontside and backside airs plus hand plants foot plants among other tricks. I think my buddy and I did pretty good coming from a area in the country with very little to ride. I know this sounds like a brag but I don’t mean it that way. It is because this video brings back memories of my beginning in the art of boarding. At least I know the people watching this video enjoys boarding and would appreciate the effort my buddy and I put into it.🤙🤙🤙
Alva , O'neil , amazing skaters for the day , total respect .
Wonderful memories , thank you.
Probably about the last footage of an event just like this. Everything was about to explode in parts, pieces, who and where and brought to us in living color in Skateboarder mag! I started skating in 76 with shitty boards and wheels like this, not for long. Not much of the barefoot surfer style lasted much longer, too much money in selling shoes. And it was the dawn of flight ~ what a beautiful time to be 13 and live that bright flash in time that changed everything. So sad it was over as fast as it started.
G&S started making the fiber flex Slalom boards again in 2023.
Wow I see Russ Howell I think.....I won in the Cadillac Bahne National Championships in 1976 in Salt Lake City
I remember the days when you'd see a skate magazine on the newsstand. Seemed like half of them went barefoot. Guessing still part of the surfer culture. Not sure if any of today's skaters would go barefoot.
On a grip tape it would hurt 🤕
People also went barefoot in the streets
Like Obi-Wan said, "elegant skating for a more civilized age." :) Cool to see the roots of what would turn into freestyle as we know it from the 80's onwards.
40 million old plastic 🛹 ended up in landfills for sure in the late 70s. No such thing as recycling ♻️ in these days. Boards got way better &easier in the 80s
There was wood boards back then I think or no?
Wow😮🎉
legal
Wow, never thought I would see a video of this competition. I was represented by Switzerland. The Swiss Landsurfers Club. I won the European Championship in Downhill and the prize was a trip to Longbeach.I did the slalom, with all the EuropeansThnx for the video.❤
Thought I was watching jackass for a minute
They didn't have kickflips. They had flip kicks
It's like another dimension. Very similar but alien at the same time
Doesnt look any stupider then 2023 Instagram clips. Mid to late 90's skating was the best. Zero Kook vibe.
LoL No. Those were the Noobs, and when Culture became MORE Commercial and Middle Of The Road Rehash. 80% atleast Kook Vibe.
Firstwave Autotune Era. 2nd Wave Hot Topic. Adam Levine Generation.
5:08 Fastest Mongo Pusher in the West!!! LOL
1:47 Tom Delonge's character from "First Date"
Still lives in his van
My first skateboard was "The Shark" My parents ordered from the Sears Catalog in the 70's. The good ole days of tube socks, burgers and fries, Orange Crush soda, and scateboarding. 🥰
I'd love to take someone like Tyshawn back in time with a few completes and blown some minds lol. "He jumped over a picnic table! No, with the same board! Like the board he started with! It went over the table too! I don't know how he did it!"
Awesome! Please add Henry Hester's slalom victory at around 7 min as one of the Key Moments. And the high jump winner at 7.40. And also Chris Chaput's freestyle victory at 10.55
I dunno. This era had it's own style.
9:31 She should have called it the scorpion. It would have made more sense. : )
when snatch stank.
3:07 pretty sure that's Marsha Brady
This is just a fad. It'll never last😎
ロドニーミューレンの原点か！
Wow, Boobs sure were swell back then.
What? 😅
Skateboarding made huge jumps between the 70’s and 80’s. Tony Hawks just starting out when this went on.
Some pretty incredible skills here despite the outdated tricks compared to these days. I don't know why, but I split my sides laughing when that guy @8:55 did that two board manual trick.
R.I.P. Ellen O'Neal - I will miss you.
Flip-Kicks xD
nice to see 70s ppl get bodied lol
I don't think I've ever seen Rodney Mullen do the Spider.
I am not a skateboarder but why has this vanished? I'd love to see especially an artistic interpretation, similar to ice skating. They obviously tried a lot of pioneer stuff but much is so nice. Why is all of this gone in modern skateboarding?
Freestyle is still out there if you know where to look! Please watch my video Freestyle Footwork as one modest example in recent years.
Because it wouldn't attract a significant audience
I don't see any either county's compering because its in America so why in the hell call it a world skateing competition? You Guy's do that with everything Even your football you call world champs. Why that's all I ask why?
You can see how Rodney Mullen faithfully adopted the old school flowing surf style. Great video
I mean... this is the same stuff me and my idiot friends all did...
Back in the day (75-76), contest skaters were performing compulsory “tricks” like 360’s, nose wheelies or slalom racing which would soon be blown away by vertical and pool riding as far as public interest was concerned. In fact vertical and pool riding kinda replaced the older ways just like the short board surfing revolution in the mid late 60’s. Many top performers found themselves less relevant as the eighties approached and the vertical and aerial era was already in full swing. It was in 77’ at Skateopia that George Orton’s radical, frontside, goofy foot attack would eventually take to the air. An empty pool of a classmate had irregular and large coping one had to avoid at the top. Those physical dynamics led to his abilities above the coping. As developed and showed off his new move, others jumped on the bandwagon like with any hot moves of the day, diluting Orton’s own pioneering radical aerial ways! Even Alva acknowledged Orton’s aerials we’re the first he’d seen, even though he tried to impugn the maneuver by referring to his earlier efforts as “bunny hops” (Skateboarder Magazine July 77’). Perhaps Tony had witnessed the future as George “Wildman” Orton was a pioneer in developing the most radical move in ALL action sports “ the Frontside Aerial”!
Man, were the girls sexy AF back then.
Corn ball action at its best!wheres tony and jay all ready?
thanks ! for this footage, 70s skate,' so' mellow ' skating was back then. love it',!
Absolutely love this
Excellent 👍😀
Awesome!!!!
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