I once watched penny skate mini ramp at a snowboard comp in the 90's. He was wearing a knackered old pair of what looked like timberland boots, and riding the ramp so effortlessly that everyone watching was hypnotised. At one point he was trying a kickflip to fakie above the coping and kicked the board away a couple of times. On the third try he caught the board, but ended up slamming really hard at the bottom of the ramp. After dragging himself back up the ramp, he sat down looking pretty broken and drank a beer. After about ten minutes, he dropped back in and nailed the kickflip to fakie and then pulled the most beautiful switch frontside flip out of the other side. He may not have had the largest bag of tricks of all time, but no one has ever made skateboarding look so effortless, and I doubt they ever will.
You're right, but he's had an insane amount of tricks as a teenager, at some point he might've decided to only film his smoothest tricks. His old videos have advanced tech tricks that are amazing even by today's standards.
Same, i started skating in 95 til 2005. The late 90s was thee best skating era. The clothes and shoes. Music , everything. Now im just old. But still always watchung skate videos.
@@vperkv6554 I just watched this video and went to comment, then realized I’ve already commented and you replied lol. Man oh man do I miss having a solid back and good knees!
@@mrchrisadams43 Nah it's all a revolving door, just different dudes doing the same tricks. Look at pat Duffy in 92. Then you got Eric Koston. Guy Mariano is still doing tricks no one else can do, Gonz was doing 270 nose blunts in 91. And kickflip front boards. Marc Johnson is still better than anyone else skill wise and Daewon song too.
I came here because Tom is my biggest inspiration and I became equally inspired by whoever made this video. I'm blown away. This is true art. Somehow the person that made this encapsulated every inspiration and emotion Tom ever gave me. I'm speechless. I came to be inspired by Tom and left being equally and doubly inspired by this edit. From the bottom of my heart thank you
@@隠れた I agree tho his kickflips of any sort are just something different. All of his flip tricks were good but his fs, bs, and kickflips regular and switch were something different. They just had such a perfect look to them
Makes me fucking gloomy and sad that this is almost 20 years ago, seems like yesterday i was Rolling down the street in my baggy pants and hoodie. Best time in my Life. Penny is my god.
My favorite legend skateboarders🤟🏻👆🏻. I remember him at Mystic cup 1996 in Prague Czech Republic 🤟🏻🚬🚬🙂. I see pure skateboarding !!!!🤟🏻🤟🏻🛹 thank you for a great selection of music !! Respect and peace ☮️❤️🇨🇿...
This is true freedom. It’s not a $2,000 stimmy from the government, holding power over somebody else to gain control, etc. It’s about entering a zone where only you reside inside your mind where everything clicks and melts away. Just you doing you while not hurting anybody else. Most people don’t reach this level of enlightenment or find themselves on a spiritual journey. I think some people will just say this is just Tom Penny skateboarding, but this is art. A man who unlocked his mind and tuned into the infinite. Not many in skateboarding and in life have transcended this like he does on a skateboard.
Beautiful. Words cant describe the content. Spent many a year skating at Radlands back in the day and my heart is always longing to be back there. Bring back 411 video!!!!
the hockey rink footage is in calgary, my aquatince was the es shoe rep and shared van space with tom for 4 days - he saw tom eat food 0 times the whole trip!!! just alcohol and blunts am pm.
In 2003, I was in a forest 15 miles outside of Bristol and heard a crazy noise. As I neared the sound and the mist cleared, I distinctly saw Tom Penny backside smith grind a fallen oak and 270 out. And just like that, he was gone! True story.
11:35 - is Oxford in the '90s. I was stood next to the filmer, he kept going around the corner and does another set of stairs out of view of the camera in the same line, so dope. He makes everyone around him skate better, anyone who has ever had the privilige knows what I'm talking about.
how he makes shit look so effortless is insane. super in the moment. I've had that skater tunnel vision feel before. but it's like its always on for him. true legend.
yup. it's called flow state. Michael Jordan trained himself for years so that he could enter it at key moments in a game. Penny, on the other hand, just seemed to have it naturally. dude must've had some accomplished past lives...
He is the best skater of the 90s period hands down. Was doing tricks before anyone else. I used to dress like him and learned to kickflip like him back when I started in the mid 90s. Tom you are the greatest!
When I first started skating and learned to kickflip I was told I skated like him and had the potential to be the next tom penny. I did get sponsored and traveled the country doing competitions from tampa am and more. I got distracted with drugs and the lifestyle much like Penny but I never came back. Big time regrets. Im 35 now and try to skate here and there but that time has past me by but I love to still go out and have fun.
I have to play Tom Penny clips on slow mo to truly appreciate what I'm seeing. The pop on his nolie cabs and threes is mind-blowing. The pop and catch of his frontside flips over the pyramid to flat is like a bird flying in full command of the air. So many more things I could mention. To hear the stories of how effortlessly he did mostly everything and at spots he was just visiting for the first time. Just amazing. His skating is inspiring me till this day.
the secret is easy to see yet hard to mimic.. he caught his flip tricks on the top of the trick.. right at the apex of coming back down to earth. Back in his time nobody could do that. It was like seeing someone rip a Stratocaster for the first time.. nobody knew that was possible
I think this 5:22 is the only time I have ever seen Penny do a heelflip and it's the steezyest heelflip srs why is no one talking about that. He's known as a kickflip guy...
I made almost this exact comment years ago on that trick. It's almost redundant with Penny. Penny can literally do every known "basic" trick you can think of plus like a hundred alien ones.
Definitely a pioneer without realising it at the time, and thinking about it, amongst others...Geoff Rowley. I didn't realise that he is a year younger than me either. Skateboarding has a long history and Tom is part of a significant shift in that history. Nice one Tom!!!
Anything that involved a kickflip regular or switch he did so well. He made fs and bs flups look so good! Jesus I mean it really was a thing of beauty. Thise switch fs flip reverts on mini ramp popped a couple feet above the coping, like who was even thinking about stuff like that back then? Even if they were doing it they weren't doing it like that! What a treat it was to grow up in that era with him even if he was gone for a ling time, it just added to the insane ledgend that he is.
Crazy to see Tom skating along side Luan Oliveira at Flip demos! Both have the best styles in all of skateboarding in my opinion. Tom is a casual old school style while Luan is aggressive new school style with the quick feet set up before tricks.
Penny has this way of floating on a mini ramp and pool sk8ing its amazing and I don't see any other sk8ter who floats in this way. I have seem Tom sk8 not just in videos but IRL its a hypnotic effect.
Tom was the king of kick flips and front side flips. I remember watching the ETNIES Video when he did his first filmed 360 flip and was amazed. He was just so chill and would’ve loved to have a session with him back in the days.
Kick flip over steep pool hip 4:28 is so hard he makes it look butter like everything he does. The sleepiest style so fluid. Pure talent. I saw him Skate as a grom St Albans even as a little kid you could see the sheer talent
i wept when i first saw this video it made me realize that drugs was trying to make me forget that feeling back in 1995 1996 that cant be described , and heaven , if it exists is that point in time in my life
Holy god im old. I remember when that line at 1:09 came out dude. I remember because that phat as f switch 180 going mach. Always wondered where that spot was?
Hey Rodge, What's Happening Man.?? Yeah Your Spot On Tom Penny was A Phenomena that happens once every few generations to Produce Magic, he's Sooo Clean and Stylish it's Prodigy skating. Legend. 🙏
@@limitless5748 I saw him in person man. At Huntington Beach small crappy skakepark in 1997...it was like I saw Jesus when he walked the Earth. Muska was with him. I swear on everything that's a true story
He came to skate our local vert way back when he was still on flow for new deal (I think). Danny Wainwright and Joe Habgood brought him down. He was killing vert way back then!
1:00. I dont think anyone has any clue how fast hes going at Earl Warren. I couldnt even ollie off the second bump back in day because i would be flying. When he switch 180s past the crack is mind blowing that crack was so gnarly to clear...So crazy
I've seen this a few times in this video, maybe someone can help: When he tweaks his high flips when he goes 90° frontside, is he doing a kickflip shifty or is he really modding the frontside flip mid-trick because it felt sketchy? Either way... No one touches Penny. Been that way for almost three decades.
Life is a dream comes true. Tom penny is going skateboard until he dies. Death is a great opportunity to be no I - To be nothing; Not to be. What shall I become after I die ? Nothing and everything.
I just got the New Es Tom Penny Accel og X shoe in brown like penny wears it with Tom penny signature on the side etc They Are Sooooo Comfortable it's like waking in 2 clouds. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
He would skate with such an ease, like no effort at all. 4:20 that kickflip back tail and frontside flip right after seem like no big deal, He makes them look so natural.
I once watched penny skate mini ramp at a snowboard comp in the 90's. He was wearing a knackered old pair of what looked like timberland boots, and riding the ramp so effortlessly that everyone watching was hypnotised. At one point he was trying a kickflip to fakie above the coping and kicked the board away a couple of times. On the third try he caught the board, but ended up slamming really hard at the bottom of the ramp. After dragging himself back up the ramp, he sat down looking pretty broken and drank a beer. After about ten minutes, he dropped back in and nailed the kickflip to fakie and then pulled the most beautiful switch frontside flip out of the other side. He may not have had the largest bag of tricks of all time, but no one has ever made skateboarding look so effortless, and I doubt they ever will.
You're right, but he's had an insane amount of tricks as a teenager, at some point he might've decided to only film his smoothest tricks. His old videos have advanced tech tricks that are amazing even by today's standards.
+kudos100 every body wanted to do frontflips and kickflips like penny back in the day dude is a hella smooth
Not the largest bag of tricks? He could do every flip trick reg and switch. Im dont know where your comin from
That's an awesome story!
Facts✊🏻
He's the embodiment of an era that I hold dear to my heart. The perfect skater.
Same, i started skating in 95 til 2005. The late 90s was thee best skating era. The clothes and shoes. Music , everything. Now im just old. But still always watchung skate videos.
Yup.90s was golden
@@vperkv6554 I just watched this video and went to comment, then realized I’ve already commented and you replied lol. Man oh man do I miss having a solid back and good knees!
Nobody’s perfect mate
@@bobcumsley6798 when it comes to skateboarding, Tom is
BEST skater that ever lived...NONE even come close!
Stiiilllll facccs!
He had mystic and style...but youve got to admit the new class of kids are WAY better on terms of strait athleticism and skill
not the tricks, the style, thats how elegant tricks can be made.
He's a druggy bum lol. Rodney Mullen is the goat, and Penny doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence. What are you smoking???
@@mrchrisadams43 Nah it's all a revolving door, just different dudes doing the same tricks. Look at pat Duffy in 92. Then you got Eric Koston. Guy Mariano is still doing tricks no one else can do, Gonz was doing 270 nose blunts in 91. And kickflip front boards. Marc Johnson is still better than anyone else skill wise and Daewon song too.
That San Diego bank with chain footage is insane , that shit was super steep and sketchy and he made it look like he’s skating a curb haha
I came here because Tom is my biggest inspiration and I became equally inspired by whoever made this video. I'm blown away. This is true art. Somehow the person that made this encapsulated every inspiration and emotion Tom ever gave me. I'm speechless. I came to be inspired by Tom and left being equally and doubly inspired by this edit. From the bottom of my heart thank you
Man, thank you so much. Your comment made my year. Cheers!
@@DJnedKnowledge422 I loved the edit as well. The final clip at the park.. Felt like I was there. Took me back to my childhood. Thanks for making it!
There are flip tricks, then there's Penny flips. The way he flips the board just looks so good.
U mean kick flips?
@@隠れた you apparenty havent seen him do heelflip/fs heel
@@隠れた I agree tho his kickflips of any sort are just something different. All of his flip tricks were good but his fs, bs, and kickflips regular and switch were something different. They just had such a perfect look to them
Probably the best fan made skate edit I've ever seen. Music and clips were on point.
Makes me fucking gloomy and sad that this is almost 20 years ago, seems like yesterday i was Rolling down the street in my baggy pants and hoodie. Best time in my Life. Penny is my god.
+MAC2legion Hear, hear.
🤘
8 year's after your words here. And I got a year in my eye thinking back. Those were the days. 😀🤙
My favorite legend skateboarders🤟🏻👆🏻. I remember him at Mystic cup 1996 in Prague Czech Republic 🤟🏻🚬🚬🙂. I see pure skateboarding !!!!🤟🏻🤟🏻🛹 thank you for a great selection of music !! Respect and peace ☮️❤️🇨🇿...
I was there as a grom 👍🏻
This is true freedom. It’s not a $2,000 stimmy from the government, holding power over somebody else to gain control, etc. It’s about entering a zone where only you reside inside your mind where everything clicks and melts away. Just you doing you while not hurting anybody else. Most people don’t reach this level of enlightenment or find themselves on a spiritual journey. I think some people will just say this is just Tom Penny skateboarding, but this is art. A man who unlocked his mind and tuned into the infinite. Not many in skateboarding and in life have transcended this like he does on a skateboard.
1 HUNDRED
WooOOooow...Tom Penny...Definitly the best style of all time. The music's choise is perfect, man!
Probably the most complete collection of Tom Penny footage out there.
Good chit!
When penny was so sick, he dressed sick, skated sick and the music in his parts was perfect
Beautiful. Words cant describe the content. Spent many a year skating at Radlands back in the day and my heart is always longing to be back there. Bring back 411 video!!!!
the hockey rink footage is in calgary, my aquatince was the es shoe rep and shared van space with tom for 4 days - he saw tom eat food 0 times the whole trip!!! just alcohol and blunts am pm.
In 2003, I was in a forest 15 miles outside of Bristol and heard a crazy noise. As I neared the sound and the mist cleared, I distinctly saw Tom Penny backside smith grind a fallen oak and 270 out. And just like that, he was gone! True story.
tom penny is way too good, so much style. blows minds!!!
11:35 - is Oxford in the '90s. I was stood next to the filmer, he kept going around the corner and does another set of stairs out of view of the camera in the same line, so dope. He makes everyone around him skate better, anyone who has ever had the privilige knows what I'm talking about.
Dude thanks so much for sharing that! It seems the legends around his skating never end!
Was it around 97 after he had left the US?
how he makes shit look so effortless is insane. super in the moment. I've had that skater tunnel vision feel before. but it's like its always on for him. true legend.
yup. it's called flow state. Michael Jordan trained himself for years so that he could enter it at key moments in a game. Penny, on the other hand, just seemed to have it naturally. dude must've had some accomplished past lives...
Brilliant compilation....one of the greatest skateboarders of all time...
Tom is so amazingly talented. Clean tricks everytime and a style that can't be duplicated.
Penny had the Best Style of All Time Practically. Legend switch frontside flips.
Tom penny did all my favorite types of flip tricks, but also did them switch effortlessly
He is the best skater of the 90s period hands down. Was doing tricks before anyone else. I used to dress like him and learned to kickflip like him back when I started in the mid 90s. Tom you are the greatest!
When I first started skating and learned to kickflip I was told I skated like him and had the potential to be the next tom penny. I did get sponsored and traveled the country doing competitions from tampa am and more. I got distracted with drugs and the lifestyle much like Penny but I never came back. Big time regrets. Im 35 now and try to skate here and there but that time has past me by but I love to still go out and have fun.
Thanks for the upload, old Penny footage never gets old.
Penny will Always Retain Legend Status Forever in Skateboarding. This Guy is Flawless So Stylish in Which he does his Tricks, it's Amazing to Watch.
95 Tom Penny was throwing BIG gap and stair flips , 411VM. Dope AF
Wooow. I never knew he did all those switch stuff down rails back in the mid 90. I had his flip shroom deck back in 2002.
Same. Couldn't understand the hype. It was only when youtube started getting going, I found gold like this.
Its a Drink game...
Every frontside Flip a Drink a shot...
Penny i love you. Im drunk mann
Pure style pure talent 💯🔥 love tom penny style.
Skating in a white sweater fresh out the dryer.. no dirt cuz it's all first try... 😏🙌
Penny was One in a Billion, won't see too many like Penny Again when he was in his Prime he was Known in Every corner of the Planet Earth🌍.
By far the best style of FS Flips
Used to skate London with him in the early 90s.
No ego, just Style ❤
Best street skating style to grace skateboarding.
07:43 still to this day the most beautiful 360 nollie in the game
I have to play Tom Penny clips on slow mo to truly appreciate what I'm seeing. The pop on his nolie cabs and threes is mind-blowing. The pop and catch of his frontside flips over the pyramid to flat is like a bird flying in full command of the air. So many more things I could mention. To hear the stories of how effortlessly he did mostly everything and at spots he was just visiting for the first time. Just amazing. His skating is inspiring me till this day.
I only can repeat what Malcolm wrote: "Probably the best fan made skate edit I've ever seen. Music and clips were on point." !!!
Such a legend and mythical skater. His style was always so relaxed and poppy
What a smooth soundtrack. Thank u!
the secret is easy to see yet hard to mimic.. he caught his flip tricks on the top of the trick.. right at the apex of coming back down to earth. Back in his time nobody could do that. It was like seeing someone rip a Stratocaster for the first time.. nobody knew that was possible
I think this 5:22 is the only time I have ever seen Penny do a heelflip and it's the steezyest heelflip srs why is no one talking about that. He's known as a kickflip guy...
I made almost this exact comment years ago on that trick. It's almost redundant with Penny. Penny can literally do every known "basic" trick you can think of plus like a hundred alien ones.
Definitely a pioneer without realising it at the time, and thinking about it, amongst others...Geoff Rowley.
I didn't realise that he is a year younger than me either.
Skateboarding has a long history and Tom is part of a significant shift in that history.
Nice one Tom!!!
living legend
Anything that involved a kickflip regular or switch he did so well. He made fs and bs flups look so good! Jesus I mean it really was a thing of beauty. Thise switch fs flip reverts on mini ramp popped a couple feet above the coping, like who was even thinking about stuff like that back then? Even if they were doing it they weren't doing it like that! What a treat it was to grow up in that era with him even if he was gone for a ling time, it just added to the insane ledgend that he is.
Crazy to see Tom skating along side Luan Oliveira at Flip demos! Both have the best styles in all of skateboarding in my opinion. Tom is a casual old school style while Luan is aggressive new school style with the quick feet set up before tricks.
Penny has this way of floating on a mini ramp and pool sk8ing its amazing and I don't see any other sk8ter who floats in this way. I have seem Tom sk8 not just in videos but IRL its a hypnotic effect.
His switch push is sooooo buttery 🧈
I was just watching Aurelien and Andy Anderson do similar shit but Tom Penny just makes it look more beautiful. This old footage is dreamlike.
Damn that style! so laid back and casual.
Have to Admit Penny Was the BEST his smooth style and how he did tricks Was second to None.! Living LEGEND #
14:09 best backside flip ever at an angle ive never seen... this video is awesome.
Thankyou for posting this
Tom was the king of kick flips and front side flips. I remember watching the ETNIES Video when he did his first filmed 360 flip and was amazed. He was just so chill and would’ve loved to have a session with him back in the days.
His bs flips too! Kickflips of any sort switch or regular
Kick flip over steep pool hip 4:28 is so hard he makes it look butter like everything he does. The sleepiest style so fluid. Pure talent. I saw him Skate as a grom St Albans even as a little kid you could see the sheer talent
He's the Jordan of my Era.
Switch frontside flip at the Redlands street is legendary
Nice compilation
That switch back side flip at the beginning over that hip, there's no way anyone else could do it near that good back then.
1 switch f/s flip down the Carlsbad gap and I've been a fan since i was 16/17yrs old, I'm 41 now, style,ease n raddness.
i wept when i first saw this video
it made me realize that drugs was trying to make me forget that feeling back in 1995 1996 that cant be described , and heaven , if it exists is that point in time in my life
Best ever not even close
Dude that first trick alone, what year was that?! He wasn't even 16 was he? That style at that age, no one comes close.
Loosest clothes but the tightest skate style, In Tom we Trust
The birth of steez.
Pure and simple.
Ahh my man Harooo ! Miss ya bro.
The heelflip at 5:23 is the best one I have ever seen..ninja.
I enjoyed this so much!!!!
0:55 I remember that run SO well! So cool seeing it again after all these years. I hate myself for giving my away old skateboard VHS. :-(
Holy god im old. I remember when that line at 1:09 came out dude. I remember because that phat as f switch 180 going mach. Always wondered where that spot was?
Bruh??.. it's Penny, obvi- greatest Steez period. You ever really skated.. you know this.. I'm impressed by the soundtrack good vibes smoke and ride..
What a legend
Hey Rodge, What's Happening Man.?? Yeah Your Spot On Tom Penny was A Phenomena that happens once every few generations to Produce Magic, he's Sooo Clean and Stylish it's Prodigy skating. Legend. 🙏
@@limitless5748 I saw him in person man. At Huntington Beach small crappy skakepark in 1997...it was like I saw Jesus when he walked the Earth. Muska was with him. I swear on everything that's a true story
@@rodgermurphy5721 Bruh That's Doap Almost like witnessing Jesus.. Lol
@@rodgermurphy5721 bro these new Tom Penny accel og x shoes are Like Gold. Best Skate shoes I've Ever bought.!!!
Thank you for this Vid
amazing footage. thanks for the upload
blinding effort on the music selection as well as the footage mate!
Fucken love it I'm gunna get another deck.
He came to skate our local vert way back when he was still on flow for new deal (I think). Danny Wainwright and Joe Habgood brought him down.
He was killing vert way back then!
Tom penny giving us steeeez for 20 years
ahh..refreshing nice English music.
great mix!
1:00. I dont think anyone has any clue how fast hes going at Earl Warren. I couldnt even ollie off the second bump back in day because i would be flying. When he switch 180s past the crack is mind blowing that crack was so gnarly to clear...So crazy
Best to ever do it.
No one will ever look as good on a board ever. Nyjah is good but penny gots insane steez. Doesnt even look like he's trying.
Style pure Style
Jesus:) God is back. Thank you Tom for '94-'99 your years
I've seen this a few times in this video, maybe someone can help:
When he tweaks his high flips when he goes 90° frontside, is he doing a kickflip shifty or is he really modding the frontside flip mid-trick because it felt sketchy?
Either way... No one touches Penny. Been that way for almost three decades.
It is extremely shifty on purpose.
shifty
Life is a dream comes true.
Tom penny is going skateboard until he dies.
Death is a great opportunity to be no I -
To be nothing;
Not to be.
What shall I become after I die ?
Nothing and everything.
until then...SHRED. with no cognition of the present .. just chasing that feeeeling
eeewww ahh! skattting!!!!
sick penny killing the game eva since
🐐
I just got the New Es Tom Penny Accel og X shoe in brown like penny wears it with Tom penny signature on the side etc They Are Sooooo Comfortable it's like waking in 2 clouds. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Penny can do 100 FS Flips in a video part and I’d ask for 100 more🤣
#pennyformayor
#fsfpenny
sick edit man. nice one
I seen clip from issue 13 good shit 😎👊👍👍😤
He would skate with such an ease, like no effort at all. 4:20 that kickflip back tail and frontside flip right after seem like no big deal, He makes them look so natural.
A Rare Breed 💖
love it!!! that alice clip made it
I saw dude at the skate park break a brand new tom penny"🍄" skateboard on this 4 trick back in 05 😱🤷🏾♂️
of course there are harder tricks, bigger rails, bigger gaps these days, but man, tom had something no other skater ever had
We Love You Champ !
RIP harold
'Perfection has no style.' - Bobby Fischer, though I can't decide as to whether it applies to Penny, as I'm almost positive that that's amazing style.
Still a legend