The early 90’s were a magical time for skateboarding.Anyone who wasn’t there could never really understand. From around late 1987 through ‘93-‘94 was essentially the birth and development of modern street skating and I am grateful to have been a part of it. I’m 45 years old, got my first real board in 1985-86 (it was an Alva Fred Smith Punk Size deck), never in the last 36 or so years ever ‘quit’ and will consider myself a skateboarder until I draw my last breath.
I am 48 and when I was a little teenage skater at a local skate shop demo where I was one of the shot team Frankie made a big deal about a trick I was doing. His level was so much higher than mine, but his kindness to compliment me stayed with me for ever. I love skateboarding and how it changes our lives forever. Nothing ever lifted me up like skateboarding has. Frankie is part of my skateboarding life story. He is as nice as he sounds in this interview. Everyone he talks to is his friend. A legend!!
@Frank Bonazza III Yeah, Rodney is a great guy. I talked with him for a few minutes at a demo at Stonehenge shopping center in Raleigh back in '93. I asked if he could still do the Caballerial Impossible to Mute grab he did in Rubbish Heap and he said that he hasn't done the trick since the video filming. He said that he would try it though and got it on the third try right in front of me. Rodney was just on another level and seeing him skate in person just leaves you in awe.
As another mid 40's guy that dedicated over half my life to skateboarding, that ollie at that time in skating was soo far ahead of its time. I still regard that trick as one of the best enders of all time. Seeing him make that trick, and his whole Propaganda part, was one of the definitive things I can look back on that inspired me to make skating such a huge part of my life. Cheers Frankie and great interview as always @thenineclub
This is one of the things I’ll always remember about my childhood. I’m still good friends with the guy that lent me the skate videos to watch on VHS 😂😂😂. So grateful to be alive as a kid back then - no school shootings, teenagers weren’t trying to have babies, fast food and candy tasted better, no social media BS, and the list goes on. The 90’s kids had it the best!
Frankie is the father of the Hammer style of Skateboarding... I'm 47 and he was my fav for years. I watched Propaganda and Tropical Fish à thousand times. You're a Beast Frankie
I still remember a friend of mine saying, "You gotta watch the new Powell video, Frankie Hill ollied off a mountain!" I was like..."Yeah, right," and then I watched it and I was convinced it was fake. I thought there was no way someone could ollie something that big and make it look so easy.
It was a bigger ender than Tony Hawk's, and Tony Hawk's part was always the climax of Powell videos until then. You had to be around at the time and understand what had come before and where skating was to appreciate how inspiring Frankie's mute grab was.
@@montanaplease From watching other videos related to the gap I believe that a fence was put along the top which meant it was unskatable. That may explain why it never gained popularity as a skate spot. I could not find anything out about its current state though.
Frankie says he felt like he was in a horse race, but really he'd already won. He opened the door for everyone else. Before him, the gap wasn't possible. It became possible because of this man and his huge cojones
I'll take a lot of flack for this, but the Jaws Lyon gap was forgettable for me. Again, it was Boulala that created that opportunity. Jaws rode on the coattails of that attempt... I digress. All this gnarly shit is just beyond my comprehension!
i have a gap that will probably never be hit that has an up hill landing and a lil bit bigger than this gap but you have a downhill shitty road runway in a small town in oklahoma it has been my dream to back 180 it since i was 13
Frankie Hill shouldn't put himself under the table. He IS a Skateboarding legend. Sadly the younger generations don't know/recognize/are not interested (in) these glory Skateboard-history-times anymore. For me, Mr.Hill was, what Nyjah Houston is today.
I'm 47 and still watch Propaganda from time to time. I remember skating a friend's backyard ramp when the tape showed up in the mail. About 10 of us huddled around the tv to watch it. That gap was mind blowing at the time, I must have watched it a thousand times.
I had the cover of that Thrasher issue behind Frankie on my bedroom wall. When I saw that Ollie I remember thinking "Frankie Hill jumping down a hill". Cause that gap looked huge. And Frankie's mute grab was perfect.
For you young guys, this man is the original Pat Duffy or Jamie Thomas. Frankie was responsible for modernizing massive handrails literally years before anyone else in the industry. A lot is owed to this overly humble man.
He was a Pioneer for doing huge tricks and gaps. He was my idol and doesn't get spoken about anywhere near enough. Ban This and Propoganda were legendary
2005ish first time I saw the clip. Can we get a math guy to like look at board size and compare them to classic gaps and sets to get some historical questions answered?
no I was thinking about the school with stairs and rail beside a long grass gap with a concrete ledge at the bottom, was in 411 and everyone hit it, plus think Tyrone Olson did some trick and was on the cover of CCS
This video part and his part in ban this is what made me want to skate every day and the rest of my life .. I'm 40 now and it still makes me feel the same way ...
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If u are in your 40’s early 50’s we lived during (IMO) the best time of skateboarding history
i feel like someone is gonna say the exact same thing 20 years from now
The early 90’s were a magical time for skateboarding.Anyone who wasn’t there could never really understand.
From around late 1987 through ‘93-‘94 was essentially the birth and development of modern street skating and I am grateful to have been a part of it.
I’m 45 years old, got my first real board in 1985-86 (it was an Alva Fred Smith Punk Size deck), never in the last 36 or so years ever ‘quit’ and will consider myself a skateboarder until I draw my last breath.
I was there. Greatest time of my life.
Agreed! Great memories.
@@oui2611There's only one time when skating evolved dramatically - and that was early 90's/late 80's
Frankie Hill is a beast.
Frankie Legendary status........
One x
A true legend! He changed the way kids skated BIG after that part. 47 years young and I still watch this part. Love it!
I am 48 and when I was a little teenage skater at a local skate shop demo where I was one of the shot team Frankie made a big deal about a trick I was doing. His level was so much higher than mine, but his kindness to compliment me stayed with me for ever. I love skateboarding and how it changes our lives forever. Nothing ever lifted me up like skateboarding has. Frankie is part of my skateboarding life story. He is as nice as he sounds in this interview. Everyone he talks to is his friend. A legend!!
What was the trick?
@Frank Bonazza III that’s awesome!
@Frank Bonazza III Yeah, Rodney is a great guy. I talked with him for a few minutes at a demo at Stonehenge shopping center in Raleigh back in '93. I asked if he could still do the Caballerial Impossible to Mute grab he did in Rubbish Heap and he said that he hasn't done the trick since the video filming. He said that he would try it though and got it on the third try right in front of me. Rodney was just on another level and seeing him skate in person just leaves you in awe.
"Bomb'drop"..?@@Rufusdos
I talked to him once myself but it was before Ban This. Awesome dude even back then. He was so stoked that we all were together doing cool tricks.
As another mid 40's guy that dedicated over half my life to skateboarding, that ollie at that time in skating was soo far ahead of its time. I still regard that trick as one of the best enders of all time. Seeing him make that trick, and his whole Propaganda part, was one of the definitive things I can look back on that inspired me to make skating such a huge part of my life. Cheers Frankie and great interview as always @thenineclub
Its crazy how many big gaps were done hungover/drunk haha. Nuge Ollie-ing el toro hungover comes to mind
Boulala and Dollin as well lol
@@c1dtl39 hungover or drunk lol
For every trick done wasted or hung over there’s another 1000 not done from the skater being to hung over and to wasted 🤪
frontside flip down love gap too!
Sheckler kickflipping the Costco gap too
This is one of the things I’ll always remember about my childhood. I’m still good friends with the guy that lent me the skate videos to watch on VHS 😂😂😂. So grateful to be alive as a kid back then - no school shootings, teenagers weren’t trying to have babies, fast food and candy tasted better, no social media BS, and the list goes on. The 90’s kids had it the best!
Frankie is the father of the Hammer style of Skateboarding...
I'm 47 and he was my fav for years.
I watched Propaganda and Tropical Fish à thousand times.
You're a Beast Frankie
42, he was one my favs too.
I still remember a friend of mine saying, "You gotta watch the new Powell video, Frankie Hill ollied off a mountain!" I was like..."Yeah, right," and then I watched it and I was convinced it was fake. I thought there was no way someone could ollie something that big and make it look so easy.
I was 14 years old when I saw this clip in Powell video. That made me want to skateboard for sure.
Same
I'm glad the put the clip in this time, too many stories about clips w/o the actual clip lately.
It was a bigger ender than Tony Hawk's, and Tony Hawk's part was always the climax of Powell videos until then. You had to be around at the time and understand what had come before and where skating was to appreciate how inspiring Frankie's mute grab was.
This 'Grass Gap' is the birth of 'gnarly'.
Such a legendary ollie! Epic story!
Does the gap still exist today? Would be great to see a hd video on it if so
I doubt that it’s still exist. Otherwise, you would have everyone and their mom’s doing things like 360 kickflip down it and putting it on RUclips.
@@montanaplease From watching other videos related to the gap I believe that a fence was put along the top which meant it was unskatable. That may explain why it never gained popularity as a skate spot. I could not find anything out about its current state though.
@@cabaistecut the fence
Frankie says he felt like he was in a horse race, but really he'd already won. He opened the door for everyone else. Before him, the gap wasn't possible. It became possible because of this man and his huge cojones
Yeah! Everyone was in disbelief at the time. Not until the more recent Jaws mega stair gap has that happened.
I'll take a lot of flack for this, but the Jaws Lyon gap was forgettable for me. Again, it was Boulala that created that opportunity. Jaws rode on the coattails of that attempt... I digress. All this gnarly shit is just beyond my comprehension!
@@holdmusic_ how tf is this forgettable
@@01suku77 I want to delete my comment lol
@@holdmusic_ fair enough. Once you go that big a rolled ankle will shatter into a million pieces. You really have to know what you're doing.
Please Powell Peralta release all of Frankie’s unseen footage from this era. Do we need to sign a petition?
Hawk put his hand down on every 900 he did. No one's criticizing that.
i have a gap that will probably never be hit that has an up hill landing and a lil bit bigger than this gap but you have a downhill shitty road runway in a small town in oklahoma it has been my dream to back 180 it since i was 13
Yeah i remember that one. Still got the Propaganda VHS sporting from my shelf. Great story!
I’m pretty sure Frankie Hill was one of the skaters in the movie Hook. Do they talk about that is his episode?
Yes
Got a drawing of frankie hill on my wall :]
Frankie Hill shouldn't put himself under the table. He IS a Skateboarding legend. Sadly the younger generations don't know/recognize/are not interested (in) these glory Skateboard-history-times anymore. For me, Mr.Hill was, what Nyjah Houston is today.
I remember watching the video with my friends. When we saw Frankie making it, we couldn’t believe it!
That's a really big gap even for today, the amount of time he's in the air is crazy
I remember watching this like it was yesterday. I couldn’t believe what I had seen. Years later Markovitch became my hero.
Markovitch is the MAN
Chris Markovich hooked me up w/ A1 Meats wheels in Carlsbad back in early 90s...He still rips...🍻
Do you know where I can find the footage for Markovich BS 180’ing that gap?
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a whatever video that was in.
@@Spitfire515O The Color video from 1993. He also ollies it earlier in the part.
You guys are getting smahed with the porn spam OVA HEA!!!
Gnarliest gap for a heavy board with no nose!
I'm 47 and still watch Propaganda from time to time. I remember skating a friend's backyard ramp when the tape showed up in the mail. About 10 of us huddled around the tv to watch it. That gap was mind blowing at the time, I must have watched it a thousand times.
I had the cover of that Thrasher issue behind Frankie on my bedroom wall. When I saw that Ollie I remember thinking "Frankie Hill jumping down a hill". Cause that gap looked huge. And Frankie's mute grab was perfect.
Propaganda was my first skate video
Roberts needs to recreate this.
Thank you Mr. Hill
i remember showing that clip to people in mid 2000's as the biggest drop rolled away from and everyone agreed
When I seen him crush that hill, I was in shock.
Can't believe Kris Markovich or anyone backside 180d that gap its so big.
I was thinking Jeremy Wray would have wanted this gap
Boys, back in 87 in Houston, Corey Key could Ollie like Sean Sheffey.
Such a revolutionary jaw dropper for us 80s dudes!
Propaganda & frankie hill literally changed my life . I'll always appreciate and remember it with happiness
For you young guys, this man is the original Pat Duffy or Jamie Thomas.
Frankie was responsible for modernizing massive handrails literally years before anyone else in the industry.
A lot is owed to this overly humble man.
I know what he's talking about. After that gap Sheffey was on Hill's tail, then Markovich ... then Duffy.
That bank Markovich cleared in Prime when the EPMD song quits, is up there too.
3:05 “das nah goo” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
frankie was the don in the day
I really want to see any current pro dude to do this mute grab over that same gap, honestly i dont think any would dare.
I remember first seeing the clip and it changed everything. Hill was so gnarly. Neverendong handrails, gaps.
The days of gaps, ledges, stairs, embankments and curbs.
Having been in awe of that gap for so many years it is nice to hear the story behind it.
He was a Pioneer for doing huge tricks and gaps. He was my idol and doesn't get spoken about anywhere near enough. Ban This and Propoganda were legendary
So so rad. Legend
2005ish first time I saw the clip. Can we get a math guy to like look at board size and compare them to classic gaps and sets to get some historical questions answered?
holly shit i'm back in 1988
Legend
Legend
Absolute legend.
Pure inspiration 🔥
I love seeing Rog back in the seat!
Another legend. ❤
correct
Fuck yes
Most iconic savage ollie ever japan air actually right
Way cool!
Just think like 30 years later there’s some crazy bastard they can do a 360 kick flip down that same gap
I think I remember this, is this the old famous school gap .... and was Propaganda the old Consolidated video?
no I was thinking about the school with stairs and rail beside a long grass gap with a concrete ledge at the bottom, was in 411 and everyone hit it, plus think Tyrone Olson did some trick and was on the cover of CCS
@@shadyp-zv3uf You might be thinking of Carlsbad gap
It was a Powell video.
Funny how the Powell Magic with hidden kickers and cut/ paste editing isn’t discussed like it was in his Talkin Schmitt episode 🤷♂️
I was a skater in the early 90's I remember this ollie gap in propaganda
It's crazy that the basketball hoop in the background is the same height as the gap.
This video part and his part in ban this is what made me want to skate every day and the rest of my life .. I'm 40 now and it still makes me feel the same way ...
in which video did kris markovich do the 180 gap?
Color Video ( 1992 )
@@TheDailyWipeout thanks!!
When y’all gonna have Matt Eversole on!?
Hahahahaha “eehhuumm this is uh not good!”
Haha Frankie Hill ollies a hill! Lol
This is the greatest podcast ever.
Definitely a big gap!
What a great interview
I love that man
I remember Frankie
That gap is huge
Yay rog!!
I don't imagine anyone who is using RUclips wants to be told to subscribe. When I feel joy within myself I choose to subscribe and if the RUclipsr keeps telling me to subscribe then I press unsubscribe.
its called algorithm buddy, get with the times.
Agreed. If someone wants to watch something they will. Not because they’re being asked to.
@@slappy__gilmore congratulations because you're wrong lol. It's been proven to work because you'll get those extra clicks while you guys who are bothered by it will just roll your eyes and close the video out. The numbers they might lose is dwarfed by the numbers they gain. It's why every channel does it no matter how annoying it is. Channels that don't do it will be blessed by the algo for a while and once it moves on to boosting a different one in the same space as yours you'll be left with only those that took the 5 seconds to sub. Welcome to the future where humanity is controlled by a bunch of nerds that have unlocked the secrets to controlling thought and behavior.
@@huuuuuumpy I’m good on that
I guess you're subscribed to no one then
You graduated HS at 19?
Some places start kids a year yearly or a year late. 17, 18, and 19 is normal to grad at.
Mike the situation rips!!!