Yeah, Mark was definitely one of the main one's with the juice in this period. He was just naturally progressing the whole of skateboarding (streetstyle wise) based on his youthful instincts and great style/board control (for example look how stylish and innovative his shifty tweak was on the boneless off the ramp). I don't think he was consciously aware of how influential what he was doing was and would become (and why he is called in many circles one of the fathers of modern street skating)- he was just out there doing what made sense to him. What really made an impression on me was (besides the application of the kickflip to streetskating) was that he was one of the first ones elaborating the possibilities of the backside ollie on street (i think it was a contest a year or 2 after this one and there is also VHS of it)- he was doing 90 degree backside ollies up to a ledge about 1.5 to 2 feet high at the contest to 50/50 an pivot stall- which was mind-blowing at the time (if you knew what was up)- I think on some levels it is comparable in magnitude of significance to Natas Kaupas' very first boardslide attempt at a contest in 1986 Oceanside.
Phelps recounted a story about a time the Gonz was slamming badly attempting a gap while there were kids watching him. "The Gonz would do it, so I have to do it." -apparently is what Mark said before landing the trick and then the kids cheered. The Gonz is not oblivious to much I don't think. Maybe he's an authentic liberal, in which case he'd have to me partially oblivious.
Slic Vic, Diamond Dick, Big Ace, Lock Cool Jock, Sporty "J." I'm sure I'm forgetting some. Your username caught me off guard. I don’t see a lot of JPE references (assuming it is a reference), but I grew up in what at the time was the 305. Same region that they were pumping tapes out of.
@@anthonyv6962 yeah, - I wasn't that well informed music wise (or knew the scene)- but I did appreciate the music and obtained some of those tapes. I'm guessing this was the 85-87 time frame- yeah I was in the (former) 305 too. Just used the name for nostalgic memory sentimentality (not because I was super into it).
I was riding a Mark Gonzales board when I was hit by a car doing 45MPH died twice and was broken and twisted in ways I never recovered from. Was in a wheel chair during the Go Skate comp in Sacramento 1985 Christian Hosoi's mom saw me and had all the greats come and sign my cast wish I still had it. Thanks for putting this video out.
80s skateboarding was so RAD. The style the flow the more simple tricks is very aesthetically pleasing to watch. Even the big shaped boards with cool grip adds to the style. 80s all day baby
So cool. I didn't know Jonny Kop was a mongo pusher. I was born in '85, and only know about him from that infamous ad of him doing the handrail boardslide. That fakie street plant thing off the drop was sick. So much diversity in the styles back then.
Super cool footage.... When this went down I rode a JFA Don Redondo Lincoln with four times the concave of these Powells and Hosoi's , my buddies all rode those decks but big concave was blowing up and it was underground.... cool video...
Forever I thank you for this memory 🙏me I started skateboarding in 2006🙏🙌greating you now in year 2024(❤skateboarding)🙏👍 I invest energy,experience 🙏skateboarding for is life 🙏🙏🙏greating from Germany
Cleaning up in my room 10 minutes before finding this video, I just found a photo I took of Tommy Guerrero mid-wall ride from summer 87' at the Fallout contest in Seattle. Bryce Kanights is taking a photo Tommy at the same time I was and is in the frame, too.
Cool seeing the transition period from freestyle to street. So much space and barely any obstacles. They were even throwing in old-school freestyle moves throughout their runs like hang tens and 360s.
I started skating in 86. Love this stuff. I seem to remember being able to do a lot of these tricks. But I was a rank amateur with no aspirations of going pro. Shit has progressed incredibly!!
so interesting to see, how outstanding Mark Gonzales already was, back in 85. He had more trick-variety, flow, consistency and speed than the other competitors.
Gonz still sounds exactly the same. This was such a good era. It got way too serious in the 90s, the baggy pants and small wheels was nothing compared to the pigeonholed street skaters of the 90s till just recently. Its so good to see new gens riding old school decks today. Even the skate games went that way, there isnt even an option to ride shaped decks, makes no sense.
I’m 54 and been riding a Santa Cruz Winkowski for a long while now. Old school shape but modern concave and rocker. Try one, you won’t be disappointed.
I love how things weren’t perfected by everyone yet. Sometimes tricks are landed so clean but, a hand on the ground, a tic tac after isn’t uncommon. Just reminds me of skating with friends as a youngn, no real expectations except having fun and being stoked on each others tricks
Maybe I’m just ate up, but I imagine time traveling back and entering this contest and just blowing everyone’s minds with all the modern tricks I know.😂
But you would have to do it on one of their boards with parts, grip tape, wheels, sneakers of that period otherwise its just showing up to a medieval battle in a 2024 tank
Rodney had been skating freestyle for years before this contest was filmed. He had already invented a ton of tricks but nobody cared. You can see some of his tricks being incorporated in this but not many. Street skating had already progressed into baggy pants and small wheels by the time Rodney switched from FS to street skating. It wasn’t like Rodney came onto the scene and everything changed it was more like guys like Gonz and Natas started to incorporate freestyle board flips over obstacles just so happened Rodney invented most of them. Most the skaters in the 90’s had no clue Rodney invented most the tricks they were doing. Rodney really didn’t get the credit he deserved till later on in his career
I know how this could be viewed by modern-era skaters, but what they were doing here is what they’d do on their way to a vert ramp, on their way to anywhere else, in their driveway, etc… this was just Dorking-Around, as Mountain would say. insert Rodney’s inspiration, popsicle-shaped dildo decks & stairs with rails & you have the modern. thanks, Dudes.
Jon Kop was quite a very athletic guy. His skateboarding was entirely differently oriented - lots of jumps and tricks taking feet off the table instead than on it - but was very creative.
If you were from anywhere but California you needed to go there to get up in the mix. That why we know the names Kendall, Roskopp, Danforth, etc. Plenty of unknown rippers worldwide who didn't.
Seriously... Or are you trying to be funny. Lot of things wrong with CA then and now, but saying you couldnt find some of the best in the world in both skateboarding and surfing aint one of them. On any given day maybe the best might be in the east or south too. Implying they outclassed cali... Not many in agreement. O'side has some of the best weather in the lower 48, at least a couple months of practice east coast guys miss out on. In mid january its 75 degrees and sunny. NYers can skate on frozen spit and lungers!
Not all skaters transitioned well from Vert to Street after this into late 80's early 90's, Hosoi, Gonz, Natas, Mullan of course all did well, but some like Mark "Gator" Rogowski... didn't. Tragic about that dude. He blew it smh.
100% correct. The tragic stories related to said transition (no pun intended) are many. Some freak talents like like Grosso, Blender and Phillips could have been the best street skaters of the next generation, but the threat of such a different game plan was too much after being on top. I need to do an entire video about that. Thanks for the comment.
@RealSkateStories I also liked Jeff Phillips, Neil Blender. I have so many memories of all those guys. Several great Skaters. I used to watch the Bones Brigade videos and then go skating and hours later would be starving. Had to deal some meal. Lol
I was 4 when this video was made. The progression from this to Welcome to Hell in a decade was incredible. Now I see 14 year old kids better than just about anyone skating from the mid 90s. I just don't understand this kind of progression.
most h9onest answer in history- what makes you bbetter? " i dont know- i just skate alot... fo you own thing and watch others trick" THIS is your answer online
For the freestyle category? Yes the freestylers were lucky. He did show up the next year, in 86 he won the freestyle category. he was still years away from skating street.
@@RealSkateStories I had a skate UK mag from back in 1990/91, that had a very interesting interview with him! He said the hardest thing he found about street was finding flow, and he hated that his runs/tricks looked like a mechanised production line! He name dropped... Gonz, Brian Lottie, Mike-V and Natas, as his role models in new street skating career...!
@@danslasher5243 yeah not to great lol. I used to see him at shell bowl Oceanside a lot and he ripped that place. I think a lot of people ripped off his punk rock " dark " look!! He did have the first street model though and NOBODY gives him love . Skateboarding industry has ALWAYS SUCKED ASS...till the wheels fall off
@@GeFarr Far from the first street skater but yes, first pro street board. First renown street pros I would say Tommy G and The Gonz. I gave GSD mad love- did a part on him in Risk It (1990) when he was already seemingly forgotten about. Skateboarding has always been about originality and dude was 100% original.
Was this around the time skateboarding died for a while? …I realize this stuff is hard for a non skateboarder to do…but (except for Gonzales and Guerrero) it looks cringy. …not trying to disrespect.
naa...it died much later on...very late 80's early 90's I think? Street just wasn't a thing. It was all bowls, pools and ramps back then. Things like the hand plants are ramp moves...that's what they knew. As someone else mentioned in the comments here, this was stuff guys did on the way to the bowls, or ramps...just messing around.
Yeah, Mark was definitely one of the main one's with the juice in this period. He was just naturally progressing the whole of skateboarding (streetstyle wise) based on his youthful instincts and great style/board control (for example look how stylish and innovative his shifty tweak was on the boneless off the ramp). I don't think he was consciously aware of how influential what he was doing was and would become (and why he is called in many circles one of the fathers of modern street skating)- he was just out there doing what made sense to him. What really made an impression on me was (besides the application of the kickflip to streetskating) was that he was one of the first ones elaborating the possibilities of the backside ollie on street (i think it was a contest a year or 2 after this one and there is also VHS of it)- he was doing 90 degree backside ollies up to a ledge about 1.5 to 2 feet high at the contest to 50/50 an pivot stall- which was mind-blowing at the time (if you knew what was up)- I think on some levels it is comparable in magnitude of significance to Natas Kaupas' very first boardslide attempt at a contest in 1986 Oceanside.
Phelps recounted a story about a time the Gonz was slamming badly attempting a gap while there were kids watching him. "The Gonz would do it, so I have to do it." -apparently is what Mark said before landing the trick and then the kids cheered. The Gonz is not oblivious to much I don't think. Maybe he's an authentic liberal, in which case he'd have to me partially oblivious.
🎯💯
Slic Vic, Diamond Dick, Big Ace, Lock Cool Jock, Sporty "J." I'm sure I'm forgetting some. Your username caught me off guard. I don’t see a lot of JPE references (assuming it is a reference), but I grew up in what at the time was the 305. Same region that they were pumping tapes out of.
@@anthonyv6962 yeah, - I wasn't that well informed music wise (or knew the scene)- but I did appreciate the music and obtained some of those tapes. I'm guessing this was the 85-87 time frame- yeah I was in the (former) 305 too. Just used the name for nostalgic memory sentimentality (not because I was super into it).
I was riding a Mark Gonzales board when I was hit by a car doing 45MPH died twice and was broken and twisted in ways I never recovered from. Was in a wheel chair during the Go Skate comp in Sacramento 1985 Christian Hosoi's mom saw me and had all the greats come and sign my cast wish I still had it. Thanks for putting this video out.
Best decade ever for toys, tv and skating....and for being a kid!
Good times fo sho!
As someone born in 1975... I agree 💯!!!!!
Definitely. I started skating in '85 after seeing "Back to the Future". 😂 And then "Skateboard Madness" shortly afterwards. Good times.
And cocaine and orgies and punk rock....
Movies too!!
80s skateboarding was so RAD. The style the flow the more simple tricks is very aesthetically pleasing to watch. Even the big shaped boards with cool grip adds to the style. 80s all day baby
Love it. I was born in 1970 so this video, the way it looks, the music and the clothes took me back. Crazy how skateboarding has changed.
So cool. I didn't know Jonny Kop was a mongo pusher. I was born in '85, and only know about him from that infamous ad of him doing the handrail boardslide. That fakie street plant thing off the drop was sick. So much diversity in the styles back then.
If you started on clay or steel wheels you’d push mongo, too.
@@fronts3165 Good point, never even though about that. I started on clays and always used all four pushes as I skated long distances for transpo.
Super cool footage.... When this went down I rode a JFA Don Redondo Lincoln with four times the concave of these Powells and Hosoi's , my buddies all rode those decks but big concave was blowing up and it was underground.... cool video...
I remember those JFA decks. I love the band.
That first track (No Friend Of Mine) I've never heard before and it's excellent - thanks!
This contest video was my first ever skate video I saw and it still hits as good as ever when I see it pop up.
This was my favorite time of my early teenage years!😊❤️🙏
Forever I thank you for this memory 🙏me I started skateboarding in 2006🙏🙌greating you now in year 2024(❤skateboarding)🙏👍 I invest energy,experience 🙏skateboarding for is life 🙏🙏🙏greating from Germany
Cleaning up in my room 10 minutes before finding this video, I just found a photo I took of Tommy Guerrero mid-wall ride from summer 87' at the Fallout contest in Seattle. Bryce Kanights is taking a photo Tommy at the same time I was and is in the frame, too.
RAD
that fs 180 gonz did over the curved curb was nicely done
Cool seeing the transition period from freestyle to street. So much space and barely any obstacles. They were even throwing in old-school freestyle moves throughout their runs like hang tens and 360s.
I started skating in 86. Love this stuff. I seem to remember being able to do a lot of these tricks. But I was a rank amateur with no aspirations of going pro. Shit has progressed incredibly!!
The opening is from the Oceanside Street Contest. Natas tried a handrail at this event. Yes--- in 1985!!!
Solid sound track
So glad I skated in this era!
The Gonz is still out there in the streets skating
so interesting to see, how outstanding Mark Gonzales already was, back in 85. He had more trick-variety, flow, consistency and speed than the other competitors.
Just so natural looking. How he just floats around reminds me of Chico Brenes.
4:44 this went straight into a rebuttal power slide after a amazing jump off the ramp
And I just got ready for the 90's!!
Gonz still sounds exactly the same.
This was such a good era. It got way too serious in the 90s, the baggy pants and small wheels was nothing compared to the pigeonholed street skaters of the 90s till just recently. Its so good to see new gens riding old school decks today.
Even the skate games went that way, there isnt even an option to ride shaped decks, makes no sense.
I’m 54 and been riding a Santa Cruz Winkowski for a long while now. Old school shape but modern concave and rocker. Try one, you won’t be disappointed.
You had me at “The Gonz” #SUBSCRIBED
I love how things weren’t perfected by everyone yet. Sometimes tricks are landed so clean but, a hand on the ground, a tic tac after isn’t uncommon. Just reminds me of skating with friends as a youngn, no real expectations except having fun and being stoked on each others tricks
The music is perfect for the video.
1985 X 1985
Power slides.. one foot airs.. and board hand flips..
Take me back baby
Maybe I’m just ate up, but I imagine time traveling back and entering this contest and just blowing everyone’s minds with all the modern tricks I know.😂
But you would have to do it on one of their boards with parts, grip tape, wheels, sneakers of that period otherwise its just showing up to a medieval battle in a 2024 tank
These boards are FLAT and HEAVY!! No nose. All the retro fish tails they have now are not like they actually were back then.
No way you could do it with boards of the era..
Nice Style back then and after this Rodney came and everthing changed forever!
💯
Rodney had been skating freestyle for years before this contest was filmed. He had already invented a ton of tricks but nobody cared. You can see some of his tricks being incorporated in this but not many. Street skating had already progressed into baggy pants and small wheels by the time Rodney switched from FS to street skating. It wasn’t like Rodney came onto the scene and everything changed it was more like guys like Gonz and Natas started to incorporate freestyle board flips over obstacles just so happened Rodney invented most of them. Most the skaters in the 90’s had no clue Rodney invented most the tricks they were doing. Rodney really didn’t get the credit he deserved till later on in his career
4:40 i love this variation he really has it locked in
So good
Better than good - awesome
@@Inexpressable That is so true
Holy shit, Bill Danforth had hair! This is historic indeed!
Love this!
I know how this could be viewed by modern-era skaters, but what they were doing here is what they’d do on their way to a vert ramp, on their way to anywhere else, in their driveway, etc… this was just Dorking-Around, as Mountain would say. insert Rodney’s inspiration, popsicle-shaped dildo decks & stairs with rails & you have the modern. thanks, Dudes.
Jon Kop was quite a very athletic guy. His skateboarding was entirely differently oriented - lots of jumps and tricks taking feet off the table instead than on it - but was very creative.
Song: “No Friend of Mine” by Aimless Device
Thank you!
@@RealSkateStories awesome song, no problem.
Legends.
“Grinders on the curb sounds dope”
Jon kop 6:40 is legend look at him what a animal or caveman
I have to admit I totally forgot about him. As a mongo pusher myself it was him and Danforth I gravitated towards at that time.
Most Excellent ¿
Gonz is still shredding 🤘
ssaad i was skating just like this in the south in the 80s and west coast made them celebrities
This video is 24K Gold!
Nice to see the Skull Skates boys Hosoi, Danforth, and Hackett.
🔥🔥🤘🏻🤘🏻johnee kop was rad!!
80s vert boards didn't really work on street eh. When they added a nose it became absolutely fire
So good, Gonz still rips and was ahead of his time. Any one know the music?
Aimless Devices "Hard To Be Nice" and The Second Coming "The Return". It's in the description.
Thank you
Hosoi is always fun to watch.
Supernatural steez.
In the thumbnail he looks so much like Felipe Mota it's crazy
Gonz talking about "practice" just like he was on the recent Hawk vs. Wolf show.
I don't know either way, Mark, good luck. Namastè.
Man. Back in the say compared to today’s skaters…never noticed how much tic tacking was done just to get speed/momentum
Mark tenía la misma cara de niño que de adulto, sólo cambiaban el pelo y los kilogramos de su cuerpo... jejeje
Cabal!
Cabal!
Tony with the goods!
No one tic-tac-toe like chavo
Where is Mark “Gator” Rogowski? I saw his solo street skate video on RUclips…it was 🔥
I was there ......O'SIDE
Mark Gonzales shudda been Speedy's radder brother than Slowpoke, his cousin, ~He pack a gunnn. . lol
we were all doing this back then n south and east coast- they ust glorified the west his run aint jack shit back then]
If you were from anywhere but California you needed to go there to get up in the mix. That why we know the names Kendall, Roskopp, Danforth, etc. Plenty of unknown rippers worldwide who didn't.
Seriously... Or are you trying to be funny. Lot of things wrong with CA then and now, but saying you couldnt find some of the best in the world in both skateboarding and surfing aint one of them. On any given day maybe the best might be in the east or south too. Implying they outclassed cali... Not many in agreement. O'side has some of the best weather in the lower 48, at least a couple months of practice east coast guys miss out on. In mid january its 75 degrees and sunny. NYers can skate on frozen spit and lungers!
Not all skaters transitioned well from Vert to Street after this into late 80's early 90's, Hosoi, Gonz, Natas, Mullan of course all did well, but some like Mark "Gator" Rogowski... didn't. Tragic about that dude. He blew it smh.
100% correct. The tragic stories related to said transition (no pun intended) are many. Some freak talents like like Grosso, Blender and Phillips could have been the best street skaters of the next generation, but the threat of such a different game plan was too much after being on top. I need to do an entire video about that. Thanks for the comment.
@RealSkateStories I also liked Jeff Phillips, Neil Blender. I have so many memories of all those guys. Several great Skaters. I used to watch the Bones Brigade videos and then go skating and hours later would be starving. Had to deal some meal. Lol
Someone should organize a contest with the exact same obstacles but with modern day street skaters.
That would be lit.
I thought the same thing. But have them ride the '85 shaped boards as well. Make it a level playing field.
No, Imitators are lame
Post that elsewhere
Was that Jeff Grosso in the stands?!
Its really weird to see some of them pushing mongo in a comp.
Back then the weed was horrible and the coke was pure… now it’s the opposite
"Yano, summa dat grinder onda curb wiff sum rokk n rollz"
Funny story xD
What came first.....the lawyer?.. or the insurance issues?
Jim Gray could skate.
No doubt. And STILL rips hard at 62!!
I was 4 when this video was made. The progression from this to Welcome to Hell in a decade was incredible. Now I see 14 year old kids better than just about anyone skating from the mid 90s. I just don't understand this kind of progression.
The first era is the coolest
You are a Millenial, right ?
A decade in skate history progression was a long time back then.
I didn't know Rob Roskop skated mongo.. Interesting.
The best was when McDonalds was 20ft north.
Mc Dogfood 😂😂
most h9onest answer in history- what makes you bbetter? " i dont know- i just skate alot... fo you own thing and watch others trick" THIS is your answer online
The gonsfather
Mark @9:18
How on earth do you push mongo?
Ask Bill Danforth.
@@reidellis1988 Yeah, and see if he doesn't get a board across his face for asking that stupid s**t!
Love,
A Proud Front Foot Pusher
Practice. I used to skate long distance for transpo and I would rotate all four pushes.
i dunno why everyone hates on pushing mongo- you can see how many pros did it- i think its better
Seems to me it's just not very efficient. Too many little unnecessary movements/steps to get set up.
A place where White boys could just be themselves, without the Hate.
Are you a Millenial ?
@@aotctd
I'm a Hare Krsna.
Lucky Rodney didn’t show up
For the freestyle category? Yes the freestylers were lucky. He did show up the next year, in 86 he won the freestyle category. he was still years away from skating street.
@@RealSkateStories I had a skate UK mag from back in 1990/91, that had a very interesting interview with him!
He said the hardest thing he found about street was finding flow, and he hated that his runs/tricks looked like a mechanised production line!
He name dropped... Gonz, Brian Lottie, Mike-V and Natas, as his role models in new street skating career...!
@@mr_ozzio5095 epic!
GSD first pro street skater ....
From my perspective I consider GSD skating on that clip not really outstanding. Back than he was all street I remember that …
@@danslasher5243 yeah not to great lol. I used to see him at shell bowl Oceanside a lot and he ripped that place. I think a lot of people ripped off his punk rock " dark " look!! He did have the first street model though and NOBODY gives him love . Skateboarding industry has ALWAYS SUCKED ASS...till the wheels fall off
@@GeFarr Far from the first street skater but yes, first pro street board. First renown street pros I would say Tommy G and The Gonz. I gave GSD mad love- did a part on him in Risk It (1990) when he was already seemingly forgotten about. Skateboarding has always been about originality and dude was 100% original.
@RealSkateStories Didn't say he was the first pro ...! You still looking for the van ...lol From my perspective a lot of people bit his style...IMO
@@RealSkateStories what about the street skater that refused to Ollie...can't remember his name
Was this around the time skateboarding died for a while? …I realize this stuff is hard for a non skateboarder to do…but (except for Gonzales and Guerrero) it looks cringy. …not trying to disrespect.
Think about it. 1985 these were the best guys in the world. Levels of tricks progress over time. This was 40 years ago.
naa...it died much later on...very late 80's early 90's I think? Street just wasn't a thing. It was all bowls, pools and ramps back then. Things like the hand plants are ramp moves...that's what they knew. As someone else mentioned in the comments here, this was stuff guys did on the way to the bowls, or ramps...just messing around.
Bill Danforth with hair 😂