@@tomthumb7103 I have two setups and hop on every now and then. I make sure I do a kickflip every year, and plan on doing that until my last day on earth.
You can't even imagine the level of crazed stoke this video inspired at the time. I am 40, so I was about 14 at the time I saw this, and it was literally fucking insane. A 360 flip down 6-8 stairs? Before pop Tre's and catching kick flips early? This was the impossible standard you wanted to rush out your door and try and match as a kid. So amazing. So revolutionary.
I feel ya homie. i'm 41 & this was the new gold standard. I had my parents' old top-loaded VCR in my room & this stayed in it. we rigged the old school 2 VCR set up (u 'memba dat!) & copied this & WORLD INDUSTRIES "Rubbish Heap" back to back. stayed up many a nite watchin' both vids when I shoulda been asleep cause of school the next day.....man, GOOD TIMES!!!
satanlaffing same here lol I'm 40 and this VHS tape was passed around like a two dollar whore between me and my friends back in the day and the fucking sound track is killer.
watched that thing on VHS every single day after school growing up in South Africa. It was my escape from jockdom. The music stuck with me till this day.
Dig it homie!! I'm 42. This video made a difference to all of my friends. So did the music. One of the best videos well the best video of it's time. What a great team they had. A truly legendary lineup!!!
I went to Middle School and HS with Ben Job and was friends with Dave Sorensen, both AMs in this video. I’m 50 now. Such great times. I skated with almost all the street guys.
My buddy and I watched this all summer. Learned ollie-grabs like these guys, and were pumped. Before, we only had early grabs, changed everything. Some of the rail tricks were too crazy for me, at the time. Backside 360 ollies, one-foot ollies, learned by watching the vid. There was no internet! Bunch of new ramp tricks were cool, too. I actually watched the VHS until it got all wavy and bad tracking, heh. I still like seeing the 16mm film. If any video creators are still reading these posts, take a bow. Great work.
Hokus literally holds its weight in 40 karat gold ✨️. Hard to believe its been 33 years since this debuted. This is arguably the most innovative video ever! Without it,,, there's no Plan B Questionable, No Rubbish Heap, Video Days, etc. This set a precedent for 90s street skating like no other.
Considering that Mike Ternasky produced the first two H-Street vids before starting Plan B, there's no way it would have happened without him. Spike Jonze did the other two vids you listed.
This was the best ever.. nothing came close..the soundtrack is fucking awesome!! respect to everyone in this video , here and gone and to all that lived to skate.. precious times! 👊
This was my counter culture i idolized all the 80's-2k+ years and skaters as they came on the scene, maybe participate in X-games and earn sponsorships and such. my friends and I chased the dream of getting sponsored which never happened and probably for the better. But we had fun getting kicked out of every business establishment with a ledge, rail, curb, benches, loading docks, lol all day. everyday.
I recorded on my walk man with cable to the tv. The sound was as crap as possible but this soundtrack is the sountrack of my best skating year. I still have goosebump listening to it
@@markwarne5049 yes of course! But for me and my homies the friendships made it even more fun no matter the skill level. You could feel it in the air way more than today. Anyways, peace, God Bless and have fun skating!
I was 10 when this video came out, I'm 44 now and 4½ when I got my first board and out of all my years of Skateboarding, Hocus Pocus is the skate video that actually got me to learn tricks, this video amped me up so much, it was way ahead of times. I'd studied the tricks in slow motion and not come home until I was busted up or landed it. If I didn't get this video as a gift, my life would be very different. All my other skate videos got me to skate but Hocus Pocus push me to my limits.
Here i am at 39 yrs old and seeing this makes me feel like a teeny bopper again, skating on Saturdays and Sundays, everything was closed on Sunday here in San Antonio Tx so we had free reign over the mall parking lot, loading dock, and curbs and we also had the Kroger parking lot where we would take a launch ramp and just spend the day there with a bunch of buddies. We would have these skate jams behind a local bbq place called Bill Miller, there would be at least 50-80 kids skateboard & freestyle bike guy's, Those were simpler times, you know i always like the shape of H Street boards but i never had one i had the Guerrero with the pointed nose 2nd Gen which is a little similar but less concave and that was my favorite because i could bust waist high ollies on that board but i wore the tale down to a nub and then got a Lance Mountain with that bonite junk and split the tail and the was pretty much my last board. Skated from 86-92 and had fun doing it! Thanks for uploading this
im the same age i remember when my friend got a rodney mullen board and we all made fun of him, not knowing that it was the future of skateboarding, we all got the double vision board's remember those?, with the double tail, front and back ? then after that we had the skinnies.then everything got CRAZY
Yeah I remember those Vision boards because they were the first double tail boards. I always wanted a Hanz Lingren freestyle board because I like the Heckle And Jeckle Crow cartoon but I couldn't freestyle I was all street I couldn't even ride ramp. I remember skating through place fast doing big gaps and grinds and that's what I liked doing. I got on my son's board the other day and was doing some minor stuff but man I am way out of shape haha. My last board was the Tommy Guerrero with the Dagger and pointed nose which was his second design, that was my favorite board then it was my Rob Roskopp with the Monster Face because that thing had a huge tail but i didn't skate it that long because it was run over by my neighbors truck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My third fave was a Lance Mountain (those bonite stage and worst idea for a layered skateboard), i did a 5ft ollie to 50/50 stall and the tail split up till to where it starts to flatten out, I used Rat Nuts (remember those) to hold it together but after a few ollies they would just wear down and so i had to give up that board. I got to see Mike Vallely,Jason Lee, and Jessie Martinez once but living in San Antonio Tx not to many pro skaters came around but that was cool, Jason Lee was olling off a little launch ramp over two 50 gallon drums on top of each other and that was crazy. Those were simpler times, I like to call them YESTER YEARS! God bless
1thess523 i got on my sons board just now ,I can still ollie, and 180 shove it, then he did a lazer flip as he called it and said try that, LOL.YEAH RIGHT.. Damn i miss skating
GROUNDED! for showing off haha, I still have about a 10in ollie haha just a little shy of my waist high ollies back in the day (could be the 40lbs someone put on me while i was asleep), I was trying some heel flips and kick flips but the trucks were a little to loose but by the time I tightened them i was tired! I will try again some day haha. I think i'll look up what a lazer flip looks like, hey have you seen that dude Kilean Martian ( i think i botched the spelling of his first name), he's the modern day Rodney Mullen even though Mullen is still crazy good and skating
So glad I found this, and, 35 damn years later, I still remember every shot. Friends and I fuzzed the video up we watched it so much before going out skating. My music and attitude is still influenced by these early street vids all this time later, so satiyofactioning.
Man talk about bringing me back to my childhood!!!!! This video was the beginning of it all to me. These videos blew my friggen mind!! Just wish I could visit these days just once more!
16:52 I'm the kid standing next to the bench when Donger melon grabs over the box. I spent two weeks at that camp it was the best time of my life. That street course was kinda rough. There was barley any pavement as you can see Donger rolling into the dirt. It was small and just imagine 50 kids skating it at once.Not the most ideal situation.
Skratchtube dude you don’t know how many times i watched this video as a kid and i would get all pumped up and went to skate with my friends... simpler times, freedom, and it’s good to hear from someone who lived through that too... all the best for you!
I love Rubbish Heap but unfortunately, World didn’t have the depth of talent (yet) that H-Street did for Hokus Pokus. Vallely was obviously a big deal and Jeremy Klein and Ron Chatman have cool parts, but that’s about it. Ban This is fun and has some classic parts (The L.A. Boys, Frankie Hill) but really pales in comparison to Hokus Pokus.
Vista kids man those where the days Web park in RB when G&S was still around before Birdhouse. That was so much energy! Thank you Operation Ivy for making that happen the good old days bros!
The skating in this is mind blowing to this day and the soundtrack is amazing too. For much of the video you can’t hear the skating which seems unusual these days.
De los mejores videos de skate en mi opinión en cuanto ah todo en general musica, escenas y los trucos hasta eso son respetables despues de tanto tiempo, me motiva para Salir a patinar!!
H-Street was a complete game changer but this was skaters from multiple companies.. This is what 'Back to the Future, the Bones brigade, Natas , and Mark Gonzales spawned.
Kit Erickson RIP , You were the picture of what millions of grommets , me included , in the late eighties and early nineties tried so hard to aspire to become!
One hell of an awesome memory ! ! ! Skateboarders were like a giant family back then and to watch the sport continue to evolve confirms that skateboarding -which is afterall just having fun on a 4 wheel board- is bringing out the very best out of what humans have to offer and they are still doing all this with the same 4 wheel boards, not like formula 1 where the sport would die out if they didn't continually improve the car's performance. Or like tennis where the game is still the same as 40yrs ago and there is no real progress to notice. I'm so friggin' proud to have been part of the skateboard community. I know this video by heart as it was the central nerve of my skateboard existance, i used to play it every time b4 i went out skating. It was an inspirational H-bomb.
Like many of the people here i too have watched this video hundreds of times and the soundtrack is on point as well. Skateboarding in its rawiest and purist form.
You got me thinking about that, about where all of the friends that I used to skate with are. And until now, I really never thought about how different our lives turned out. I think we only lost one member of our crew (RIP EB). One dude has been in and out of jail. Another dude occasionally resurfaces on FB every 3-4 months, so I'm not sure if he too has been in and out of the joint or if FB just isn't his thing. But most of the crew is still alive and since we're all pushing 50 or pushed past it, I doubt many (or any) of us are picking up a board these days.
@@rebusd This was for sure solid and it shows street skating being fully ushered in but, Didn't 'Ban this' intro a legend or 2? Bucky, Danny way, Frankie hill, mike V, Ray Barbee, Chet Thomas etc?
@@RedactedFreePress Those guys all debuted in Public Domain. Ban This was Guy Mariano and Rudy Johnson plus Paulo and Gabriel . My only problem with BT and the LA Boys was that I’ve watched the recent documentary and it confirmed my suspicions that there was much good footy that was left out of the main vids. Also the recent powell mini RUclips stuff confirms same hypothesis 🙂 Ternasky would have distilled all the skating and cut out the theatre and he wouldn’t have cared what clothes someone wore for the video. Just my observations 🙂
a pessoa se dizer skatista e dar um deslike nesse vídeo, prova com certeza que ou não entende de skate ou realmente não é skatista! esse filme é um clássico!
I just found this , thnaks for the great memories, my buddies and i watched this video everyday for inspiration, get all pumped up and skate the rest of the day , so many good times , thanks again .
I think I watched this video about a half a million times when I was about 13. Brings back good memories when life was simple. My biggest worries were getting yelled at by store owners or cops lol good times
Thanks for posting this! What a great time for skating. Change was in the air and it was headed to hardcore street, mini ramps with sick lip tricks. I was in 8th-9th grade here and what a time to be a young skater. The music was good, the clothes were nice especially skate shoes(i had the light blue H-street shirt that year) and boards were really starting to change and get longer noses but not quite what we have today. Wish I could get a deck from this era!!! I remember when Matt Hensley came here to skate our only indoor warehouse spot. Good times!!!
satanlaffing same age here too. Old skull has great reissue boards. Just bought a Salba Witchdoctor anniversary deck. I was Santa Cruz all the way until h street came out. Loved my Ron Allen deck. Monster tail.
I was thinkin' about gettin' some old skool decks, the ones I used to have originally to maybe hang on the wall but I don't really have the room.....thank heavens for the TECH DECKS. I don't sk8 too much anymore, just for exercise purposes cause by body's breakin' down. I did get the re-issue CABALLERO & POWELL BONES t-shirts from old skull that I had 30 yrs. ago.
This is one, if not, theeee first skate video I watched. My uncle has an old H-Street skateboard and that's what I first learned how to ride, and he gave me this video. I still have it on VHS somewhere. Still one of the best.
It's crazy how big the boards and shoes are. The boards look like 4x4 off road vehicles. I ordered a Sal board immediately after seeing this in 89 or 90 whenever it came out. We used to call H Street on the phone after school. I remember talking to Alf, and some others. Maybe Sal. Watching this vid now 30 plus years later for inspiration to get some trick ideas and go skate
You would randomly call up a company, and end up speaking to the pros? That's hilarious. Awesome. I would've tripped out so hard on that as a little kid
I noticed Brian Lotti some of those clips we're in the planet Earth video now and later. I remember it when I was 13 when it came out. I knew he rode for h street in the 80s.
I grew up skating in the mid-80's to early 90's. This video is still one of the BEST skate videos of all time. I must have watched this video a million times. Still surprised the tape never wore out after all the times I watched the video. Fast forward, rewind, slow motion. Man...those were the days. I'm in my late, late 30's now. Wish I could do it again. Matt Hensley was my favorite skater. He had great style and good flow to his skating. Still own the original VHS tape. Would never sell it.
What you can't see is the sheer stoke that this movie conjured up in my thirteen year old world when it came out in 1989! We were used to PP and this blew the bones off of the whole brigade!
It's 2016, and this video is still one of the greatest. I remember a review of this in RAD magazine (british), the words were "H-Street....I think they rented stuntment to do this one." They were miles ahead.
I remember going to the video store with my mom and renting this video. I was about 9 or ten. It showed me the skater i wanted to be. It started me on becoming good. I wish i xould still scate but my body has other ides .
I watched this every morning for like 2 yrs before heading out skating!!So many awesome skaters,this Vid alone taught me more tricks than anything!The Donger,Danny Way,Sal Barbier...too name a few!Some awesome spots like HB High and McGills Skatepark...Epic
bruh- the 27 minute mark...I've had this song stock in my head for 33 fucking years. First time I've been able to find it. Now i need to figure out who it is....
I feel you, passed through the same with a few songs! Did a Shazam for you on this one, Roam Around by Wonderful Broken Thing: ruclips.net/video/uMUTUfeAaSg/видео.html
So funny thinking of this as old school. At the time this video really was a turning point in skating that marked the arrival of a new era. Great stuff.
46 now and this video still shapes my music and style choices. It was a part of the fabric of my childhood.
Same age and same feelings, bro !
Me too😂
Do you still skate???
@@tomthumb7103 I have two setups and hop on every now and then. I make sure I do a kickflip every year, and plan on doing that until my last day on earth.
Same same!
You can't even imagine the level of crazed stoke this video inspired at the time. I am 40, so I was about 14 at the time I saw this, and it was literally fucking insane. A 360 flip down 6-8 stairs? Before pop Tre's and catching kick flips early? This was the impossible standard you wanted to rush out your door and try and match as a kid. So amazing. So revolutionary.
I feel ya homie. i'm 41 & this was the new gold standard. I had my parents' old top-loaded VCR in my room & this stayed in it. we rigged the old school 2 VCR set up (u 'memba dat!) & copied this & WORLD INDUSTRIES "Rubbish Heap" back to back. stayed up many a nite watchin' both vids when I shoulda been asleep cause of school the next day.....man, GOOD TIMES!!!
satanlaffing same here lol I'm 40 and this VHS tape was passed around like a two dollar whore between me and my friends back in the day and the fucking sound track is killer.
thaumusfilms this was my pre skate fire
watched that thing on VHS every single day after school growing up in South Africa. It was my escape from jockdom. The music stuck with me till this day.
Dig it homie!! I'm 42. This video made a difference to all of my friends. So did the music. One of the best videos well the best video of it's time. What a great team they had. A truly legendary lineup!!!
Matt Hensley was decades ahead of his time. And He walked away....a king.....we love you Matt.
1000!!!!!? 🙌
I remember first time watching this video back in the day, I was blown away. Hokus Pokus was waaaay ahead of it's time. I'll never forget that day.
I'm the little kid who was stoked about getting a board from Ron Allen. N-Orbit skatepark Greenwood, IN. 10 years old at the time.
+darwin casey nice
darwin casey Yup! Ron's deck had the high kick and sick graphics!
that's tad, I've remembered that my whole life
Hey I was sponsered by N-Orbit Holy Shit......anyone have any pics from those comps behind the place. I have been looking for those for years?
You mean the Crazy Fool that stuck his head in the sludge?! mercy...
this video represents the best days of my life as a kid, what an epic, adventurous and beautiful time
Bro, we had the same life
Best times of my life
Indeed 🤙🤙
The same from Italy 🤙🤙🤙
Same
The soundtrack to this destroys everything on modern commercial radio. Classic video! It's not about the tricks, it's about the feeling!!!
Well said!
I went to Middle School and HS with Ben Job and was friends with Dave Sorensen, both AMs in this video. I’m 50 now. Such great times. I skated with almost all the street guys.
My buddy and I watched this all summer.
Learned ollie-grabs like these guys, and were pumped.
Before, we only had early grabs, changed everything.
Some of the rail tricks were too crazy for me, at the time.
Backside 360 ollies, one-foot ollies, learned by watching the vid. There was no internet!
Bunch of new ramp tricks were cool, too.
I actually watched the VHS until it got all wavy and bad tracking, heh.
I still like seeing the 16mm film.
If any video creators are still reading these posts, take a bow. Great work.
The Hensley stained glass window double kick graphic was the best board I ever had.
I grew up watching this video, best time of my life!
Same
@@jdmcnugent6808 same too
Me to I have still got my copy on video tape ❤
Hokus literally holds its weight in 40 karat gold ✨️. Hard to believe its been 33 years since this debuted. This is arguably the most innovative video ever! Without it,,, there's no Plan B Questionable, No Rubbish Heap, Video Days, etc. This set a precedent for 90s street skating like no other.
Considering that Mike Ternasky produced the first two H-Street vids before starting Plan B, there's no way it would have happened without him. Spike Jonze did the other two vids you listed.
Shackle Me Not was the turning point.
@@TheLexiconDevils Yup. Compare Shackle Me Not to what Santa Cruz and Powell were putting out. It was the first "modern" street video.
Shackle Me Not was the beginning but Hokus Pokus started everything that is happening now then those other videos built upon it
The best times when punkrock and skating where 1 and the same....im 44 and still and will always be that same kid some 33yrs later.
Ditto my friend. 43 this week myself. We grew up in the best times with great music. We were the pioneers of this style!!!
This was the best ever.. nothing came close..the soundtrack is fucking awesome!! respect to everyone in this video , here and gone and to all that lived to skate.. precious times! 👊
The hands down best time to grow up in the history of the world. 43 this week & there may never be a better generation!!!!
This was my counter culture i idolized all the 80's-2k+ years and skaters as they came on the scene, maybe participate in X-games and earn sponsorships and such. my friends and I chased the dream of getting sponsored which never happened and probably for the better. But we had fun getting kicked out of every business establishment with a ledge, rail, curb, benches, loading docks, lol all day. everyday.
The songs in this video are amazing. This time period wasn't so much about the tricks, but the good times skating with friends!
Fucking hell yes!
I recorded on my walk man with cable to the tv. The sound was as crap as possible but this soundtrack is the sountrack of my best skating year. I still have goosebump listening to it
Without tricks and progression skating would die an get bore fast.
@@markwarne5049 yes of course! But for me and my homies the friendships made it even more fun no matter the skill level. You could feel it in the air way more than today. Anyways, peace, God Bless and have fun skating!
@@bassage13song list pls
I was 18 in 89. Street skating went to a new level when this video came out.
You were like, I had no idea that was a possibility! Let me go out and try that, you know?
I had the Hensley board, this video changed my life.
I used to watch this video to get pumped for my sessions. Good times!!
me too. In 1990 . In Germany! Good times! Now I am old and still watching this
this came out the same time the 1st Mike Valleley board came out. Everyone loved that deck. Street and Vert. it had a perfect concave to ollie high.
same. I'd go break some wood
Great style and creativity! I am just subscribed to your channel from The Nine Club 💯👍🔔
Love this video, brings back good memories, Matt Hensley was my hero!
If you skated you would know one thing. H-street was a warm up to the start of your day before touching the streets.
I was 10 when this video came out, I'm 44 now and 4½ when I got my first board and out of all my years of Skateboarding, Hocus Pocus is the skate video that actually got me to learn tricks, this video amped me up so much, it was way ahead of times. I'd studied the tricks in slow motion and not come home until I was busted up or landed it. If I didn't get this video as a gift, my life would be very different. All my other skate videos got me to skate but Hocus Pocus push me to my limits.
Watched this everyday ten times a day to get hyped
Here i am at 39 yrs old and seeing this makes me feel like a teeny bopper again, skating on Saturdays and Sundays, everything was closed on Sunday here in San Antonio Tx so we had free reign over the mall parking lot, loading dock, and curbs and we also had the Kroger parking lot where we would take a launch ramp and just spend the day there with a bunch of buddies. We would have these skate jams behind a local bbq place called Bill Miller, there would be at least 50-80 kids skateboard & freestyle bike guy's, Those were simpler times, you know i always like the shape of H Street boards but i never had one i had the Guerrero with the pointed nose 2nd Gen which is a little similar but less concave and that was my favorite because i could bust waist high ollies on that board but i wore the tale down to a nub and then got a Lance Mountain with that bonite junk and split the tail and the was pretty much my last board. Skated from 86-92 and had fun doing it! Thanks for uploading this
im the same age i remember when my friend got a rodney mullen board and we all made fun of him, not knowing that it was the future of skateboarding, we all got the double vision board's remember those?, with the double tail, front and back ? then after that we had the skinnies.then everything got CRAZY
Yeah I remember those Vision boards because they were the first double tail boards. I always wanted a Hanz Lingren freestyle board because I like the Heckle And Jeckle Crow cartoon but I couldn't freestyle I was all street I couldn't even ride ramp. I remember skating through place fast doing big gaps and grinds and that's what I liked doing. I got on my son's board the other day and was doing some minor stuff but man I am way out of shape haha. My last board was the Tommy Guerrero with the Dagger and pointed nose which was his second design, that was my favorite board then it was my Rob Roskopp with the Monster Face because that thing had a huge tail but i didn't skate it that long because it was run over by my neighbors truck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My third fave was a Lance Mountain (those bonite stage and worst idea for a layered skateboard), i did a 5ft ollie to 50/50 stall and the tail split up till to where it starts to flatten out, I used Rat Nuts (remember those) to hold it together but after a few ollies they would just wear down and so i had to give up that board. I got to see Mike Vallely,Jason Lee, and Jessie Martinez once but living in San Antonio Tx not to many pro skaters came around but that was cool, Jason Lee was olling off a little launch ramp over two 50 gallon drums on top of each other and that was crazy. Those were simpler times, I like to call them YESTER YEARS! God bless
1thess523 i got on my sons board just now ,I can still ollie, and 180 shove it, then he did a lazer flip as he called it and said try that, LOL.YEAH RIGHT.. Damn i miss skating
GROUNDED! for showing off haha, I still have about a 10in ollie haha just a little shy of my waist high ollies back in the day (could be the 40lbs someone put on me while i was asleep), I was trying some heel flips and kick flips but the trucks were a little to loose but by the time I tightened them i was tired! I will try again some day haha. I think i'll look up what a lazer flip looks like, hey have you seen that dude Kilean Martian ( i think i botched the spelling of his first name), he's the modern day Rodney Mullen even though Mullen is still crazy good and skating
I'm 38 and still skate. nothing better than the late 80s early 90s aye.
So glad I found this, and, 35 damn years later, I still remember every shot. Friends and I fuzzed the video up we watched it so much before going out skating. My music and attitude is still influenced by these early street vids all this time later, so satiyofactioning.
Man talk about bringing me back to my childhood!!!!! This video was the beginning of it all to me. These videos blew my friggen mind!! Just wish I could visit these days just once more!
16:52 I'm the kid standing next to the bench when Donger melon grabs over the box. I spent two weeks at that camp it was the best time of my life. That street course was kinda rough. There was barley any pavement as you can see Donger rolling into the dirt. It was small and just imagine 50 kids skating it at once.Not the most ideal situation.
Skratchtube dude you don’t know how many times i watched this video as a kid and i would get all pumped up and went to skate with my friends... simpler times, freedom, and it’s good to hear from someone who lived through that too... all the best for you!
Rad
When kids actually would skate....now kids just stand around in circles....
I wanted to go to that skate camp so badly. But I was a kid and I lived in England. It looked so good.
Love the Nevado Country Ramp and dog. Beautiful music too.
In the original VHS box at moms house!!!...............THIS WAS SKATEBOARDING back then. This soundtrack brings it all back!!
What a year '89 was for skate videos, Hokus Pokus, Streets of Fire, Ban This, Rubbish Heap etc etc, amazing.
Ban this was my number 2. This was# 1 for me but Frank Hill's part is so dope. I actually went& found it on YT. Best era ever.
I love Rubbish Heap but unfortunately, World didn’t have the depth of talent (yet) that H-Street did for Hokus Pokus. Vallely was obviously a big deal and Jeremy Klein and Ron Chatman have cool parts, but that’s about it.
Ban This is fun and has some classic parts (The L.A. Boys, Frankie Hill) but really pales in comparison to Hokus Pokus.
Vista kids man those where the days Web park in RB when G&S was still around before Birdhouse. That was so much energy! Thank you Operation Ivy for making that happen the good old days bros!
This video was where street and virt became technical and set the stage for the 90s. This accelerated my virt skating!
I was all about Powell Peralta till The Mighty H Street came on the scene!
Jason Allen Me too I got that Matt Hensley mini with the first ever pointed nose . Where he's swinging from the street sign.!
pretty much everyone who was around 13-16 years old who was skating at this time had this same experience! lol
Same bro, this shit changed the way I viewed skating.
@@loroyj nice, the King Size Hensley with the eagle was the shit!
Yup you know what's up.. i grew up in Vista during those hstreet days...good times
I was 12 and skating on the east coast when I first saw this tape. I wore it out.
The skating in this is mind blowing to this day and the soundtrack is amazing too. For much of the video you can’t hear the skating which seems unusual these days.
Coming back to my youth on VHS !🥰🥰
De los mejores videos de skate en mi opinión en cuanto ah todo en general musica, escenas y los trucos hasta eso son respetables despues de tanto tiempo, me motiva para Salir a patinar!!
H-Street was a complete game changer but this was skaters from multiple companies.. This is what 'Back to the Future, the Bones brigade, Natas , and Mark Gonzales spawned.
H-Street needs to re-issue the Sal Barbier "Oakland Raiders" deck. That thing was a dream to skate.
Kit Erickson RIP , You were the picture of what millions of grommets , me included , in the late eighties and early nineties tried so hard to aspire to become!
Modern skating born with this video.
This film was a daily routine for my coming of age...it still amazes me.
Feeble grind on a handrail made me melt in 1990!
Damn the memories, bought this in the skate shop and the crew piled high in my living room to watch this.. Insane!!
I was 13 when this came out matt Hensley was my hero I tried to skate just like him these guys were on a different level.
One hell of an awesome memory ! ! ! Skateboarders were like a giant family back then and to watch the sport continue to evolve confirms that skateboarding -which is afterall just having fun on a 4 wheel board- is bringing out the very best out of what humans have to offer and they are still doing all this with the same 4 wheel boards, not like formula 1 where the sport would die out if they didn't continually improve the car's performance. Or like tennis where the game is still the same as 40yrs ago and there is no real progress to notice. I'm so friggin' proud to have been part of the skateboard community. I know this video by heart as it was the central nerve of my skateboard existance, i used to play it every time b4 i went out skating. It was an inspirational H-bomb.
Sal and Hensley!
Legends!
Brian Lotti as well
Airwalk Enigmas❤
Like many of the people here i too have watched this video hundreds of times and the soundtrack is on point as well. Skateboarding in its rawiest and purist form.
Awesome soundtrack!
Making me feel old but brings back great memories
I really miss all my 1988-1993 Skate buddies Some Alive ,Dead ,in Prison or just MIA ........... Good times they really were .
You got me thinking about that, about where all of the friends that I used to skate with are. And until now, I really never thought about how different our lives turned out. I think we only lost one member of our crew (RIP EB). One dude has been in and out of jail. Another dude occasionally resurfaces on FB every 3-4 months, so I'm not sure if he too has been in and out of the joint or if FB just isn't his thing. But most of the crew is still alive and since we're all pushing 50 or pushed past it, I doubt many (or any) of us are picking up a board these days.
and a year later, I decided to pick up a board again.
25:44 holy crap those wall-to-wall 540s are insane
I must have seen this video 1000 times during the last 25 years
Is this the ignacio??
the blueprint for modern street skating. kicked the crap out of Ban This at least in terms of tricks, if not quite as cinematic or cinematographic
@@rebusd This was for sure solid and it shows street skating being fully ushered in but, Didn't 'Ban this' intro a legend or 2? Bucky, Danny way, Frankie hill, mike V, Ray Barbee, Chet Thomas etc?
@@RedactedFreePress Those guys all debuted in Public Domain. Ban This was Guy Mariano and Rudy Johnson plus Paulo and Gabriel . My only problem with BT and the LA Boys was that I’ve watched the recent documentary and it confirmed my suspicions that there was much good footy that was left out of the main vids. Also the recent powell mini RUclips stuff confirms same hypothesis 🙂 Ternasky would have distilled all the skating and cut out the theatre and he wouldn’t have cared what clothes someone wore for the video. Just my observations 🙂
@@rebusd your right i forgot they came out at nearly the same time.
An Ollie North was everything to me.
The possibilities for skating seemed endless after I first saw this.
Haven't seen this for 30 years, thanks.
a pessoa se dizer skatista e dar um deslike nesse vídeo, prova com certeza que ou não entende de skate ou realmente não é skatista! esse filme é um clássico!
This has to be the best soundtrack of any video ever. Cept maybe the first few plan b vids.
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6 am work called and said its gonna rain over there. Luckily I'm here with my two quarter pipes in the garage getting hyped on this
I just found this , thnaks for the great memories, my buddies and i watched this video everyday for inspiration, get all pumped up and skate the rest of the day , so many good times , thanks again .
Still the best soundtrack. Fuck what they say.
I think I watched this video about a half a million times when I was about 13. Brings back good memories when life was simple. My biggest worries were getting yelled at by store owners or cops lol good times
This is definitely in my top 3 favorite videos of all time.
Big fan of h street back then. Modern concave and an alternate to the behemoth Powell.
Found this on a vhs cassette and am loving it
Thanks for posting this! What a great time for skating. Change was in the air and it was headed to hardcore street, mini ramps with sick lip tricks. I was in 8th-9th grade here and what a time to be a young skater. The music was good, the clothes were nice especially skate shoes(i had the light blue H-street shirt that year) and boards were really starting to change and get longer noses but not quite what we have today. Wish I could get a deck from this era!!! I remember when Matt Hensley came here to skate our only indoor warehouse spot. Good times!!!
we're like the same age. check out OLDSKULLSKATEBOARDS.COM. they sell old school shit from the 80's & 90's
satanlaffing same age here too. Old skull has great reissue boards. Just bought a Salba Witchdoctor anniversary deck. I was Santa Cruz all the way until h street came out. Loved my Ron Allen deck. Monster tail.
I was thinkin' about gettin' some old skool decks, the ones I used to have originally to maybe hang on the wall but I don't really have the room.....thank heavens for the TECH DECKS. I don't sk8 too much anymore, just for exercise purposes cause by body's breakin' down. I did get the re-issue CABALLERO & POWELL BONES t-shirts from old skull that I had 30 yrs. ago.
This is one, if not, theeee first skate video I watched. My uncle has an old H-Street skateboard and that's what I first learned how to ride, and he gave me this video. I still have it on VHS somewhere. Still one of the best.
1st video I had on VHS back in the day!! Great times!!!!
The best!
This was a fantastic video! Played it to death!! Just after this I bought "Life" Soldier's Story! They were the days! Proper skating and proper music!
Love that video
After this I'm checking out "A Soldiers Story" Thanks for reminding me of that man!!
It hits so hard when Hensley comes on with the Sub Society track 🔥 Hensley is goated
It's crazy how big the boards and shoes are. The boards look like 4x4 off road vehicles. I ordered a Sal board immediately after seeing this in 89 or 90 whenever it came out. We used to call H Street on the phone after school. I remember talking to Alf, and some others. Maybe Sal. Watching this vid now 30 plus years later for inspiration to get some trick ideas and go skate
You would randomly call up a company, and end up speaking to the pros? That's hilarious. Awesome. I would've tripped out so hard on that as a little kid
Matt Hensley was my hero!!! And this video was my Bible!!!
P.S. this video has better music than the last 15 years of music all together!!
Maaan id love to have this soundtrack. Video brings back great memorys.
type in Sub Society in I tunes search.. then you will see the soundtrack. enjoy
Back when life was simple and fun
I noticed Brian Lotti some of those clips we're in the planet Earth video now and later. I remember it when I was 13 when it came out. I knew he rode for h street in the 80s.
You fing rock for putting this up. I'm having Fugazi & Operation Ivy flashbacks!!!
My all time favorite skate vid. I still remember meeting most of these guys. Those were great times.
classic skating. love this era
HELL yeah ❤️❤️ H-Street videos
I grew up skating in the mid-80's to early 90's. This video is still one of the BEST skate videos of all time. I must have watched this video a million times. Still surprised the tape never wore out after all the times I watched the video. Fast forward, rewind, slow motion. Man...those were the days. I'm in my late, late 30's now. Wish I could do it again. Matt Hensley was my favorite skater. He had great style and good flow to his skating. Still own the original VHS tape. Would never sell it.
Fkn legend for uploading this, brings back so many memories of the good old skate with my mates.
Memories - what a vid! Colby Carter rips it - great style too
Great music in the background.
awesome Otavio! thank you
What you can't see is the sheer stoke that this movie conjured up in my thirteen year old world when it came out in 1989! We were used to PP and this blew the bones off of the whole brigade!
I remember being a vagrant and just skating during the 80's. Best time of my life.
all these tricks still hold up today
It's 2016, and this video is still one of the greatest. I remember a review of this in RAD magazine (british), the words were "H-Street....I think they rented stuntment to do this one." They were miles ahead.
morten4u ..man that rad mag was the best pal .. 👊
When Matt introduced the one footer it changed everything. Me n my friends that’s all we were trying at the time
I must have watched this every night for months back then
Oh wow!!! Thank you for uploading this in all it's gnarly VHS era glory. You are a hero.
4:22 ... I got completely bodied on a rail just like that once. Thanks Sal Barbier.
I remember going to the video store with my mom and renting this video. I was about 9 or ten. It showed me the skater i wanted to be. It started me on becoming good. I wish i xould still scate but my body has other ides .
Cant even push down the street or pump a small bowl bottom? Just the feeling of riding is release
@@xavierrivera9130 just havent taken very good care of myself. Im so jealous of some of these older skaters that still skate like they did in the 80s
I watched this every morning for like 2 yrs before heading out skating!!So many awesome skaters,this Vid alone taught me more tricks than anything!The Donger,Danny Way,Sal Barbier...too name a few!Some awesome spots like HB High and McGills Skatepark...Epic
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bruh- the 27 minute mark...I've had this song stock in my head for 33 fucking years. First time I've been able to find it. Now i need to figure out who it is....
I feel you, passed through the same with a few songs! Did a Shazam for you on this one, Roam Around by Wonderful Broken Thing: ruclips.net/video/uMUTUfeAaSg/видео.html
Sick ass vid ! Change my life from soccer to flying over gaps street skating was so sic! HStreet 4 life!
I totally wore out my VHS copy, aged 15 when it was released. "Mr Big himself..."
great skating is timeless, I still enjoy this stuff as much as any contemporary skating
Snap, Me and my friends would watch this before going out to skate.......awesome times and memories
p.s im just a bigger kid :)
So funny thinking of this as old school. At the time this video really was a turning point in skating that marked the arrival of a new era. Great stuff.
Yeaaahhh Matt...41 years old now...Think I didn't watch anything else for a year when this came out