I'm 45 now and loved this video when it came out in 1987. I remember going to Spyder Skate & Surf shop in Hermosa Beach, CA to buy it the first day it was available. Good Times.
i got this for my 11birthday and watched it everday before school till it burnt out. still remember every word in it and think it probably shaped the person i am. cheers santa cruz, classic
***** yes my friend it was a different era .....a different time.skateboarding was admired and "cool" as is is now. it was dangerous the gangs would yell skaters suck and throw shit as they drove by .the jocks would scream skaters suck and throw shit as they drove by.after school rumbles some group always against the skaters.it was shorts over sweat pants. now its girls pants . what ever happened to tube pants. anyways I gotta hipper to nurse .slaatte
First skate movie I ever watched, and I watched it when it came out back in the day. And now it's 2019! Skateboarding, the Fountain of Youth. 🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙
Powell Peralta generally made the best 80s skate videos, but Santa Cruz's Wheels of Fire really topped them all. The soundtrack is truly memorable. Natas's part blew my mind back then.
+Jessebaseballny Its sad watching it now, I remember the last night the Pipeline was open.. It was a heavy moment for everyone that 'grew up' there that night.
christbait yep i agree its sad that pipeline is gone, but that also adds more reasons as to why Salbas piece is the best in a skate video. I cant imagine how you guys felt that night like a piece of your youth was suddenly gone.
Funny how skateboarding is coming back this way, with longboarding being so big, penny boards and all that. People are re-finding the fun in just shredding on a board and being good at it, than worrying about how many technical flip tricks you can do.
It will never really phase out like it did in the past. There are just so many options now and with net so much easier to get motivated. There has never been a better time to skate, young or old. I'm never gonna stop, its a serious addiction with so many benefits.
This video inspired and shaped me and my brother on so many levels that I still think about it until this day (12/20/18). We are excited to watch this again after so many years!
bassage13 yeah, yeah. The spinny thing on top of the fire hydrant was pure CLASS mate. Great days for street skating ('87 - '90 was when I was shredding it). Kool bro.
I remember the shopping center me and my friends skated finally got security to run us out. We gave those guys a hard time just like in the video. 80's were a great time to be a live.
One of the finest videos of the 80s..their team killed in that time period..its really a toss up between this streets on fire.and the early h street videos..anyways..always..fun 2 watch .no matter how many times..never gets old...FUSE1..NS .812.. ..
Got this tape in beta. I remember going to someplace store to record this from my friend's VHS tape to beta. When I finally got it, all time in replay mode. Seeing all this USA locations, the music. Great memories of a different and simplier era
Pissed I let a friend borrow my VHS copy years ago and never got that shit back. As a kid I I got Wheels of fire x-mas of 1988 and played that shit every fucking day. Natus to this day is still the fucking man !
Están bien los.videos.de.profesionales . Gente con estilo 😎 pero no hay que olvidarse nunca de.los.buenos ratos.y de.la naturalidad y la.gracia de aquellos.maravillosos.años.
Back then, we had fads on the coast first, and skateboarding was like this in the early 80s in California valley. Abandoned pools and half-pipes in the backyards. By the late 80s we'd moved to the mountains and we'd fly 50 mph down steep hills. One thing I really appreciate is that those guys encouraged pads and equipment, allowed total abandonment knowing you could roll out.
I was 12 or 13 when I got my copy of this VHS. I watched it over and over again. It definitely framed a lifestyle that I thought I would have at 19 or 20. Didn't happen. "I like to sit in my room and listen to a lot of loud music and play my guitar. It's loud. It's cool.".
Pay Respect. I was a ‘vert button’ Street Kid in the early 2000s too. Without this, You wouldn’t even be commenting on skate videos. Also, learn some good music.
Omg that takes me back to so much fun I had.I actually enjoy this more then skaters Today,skate like robots,no style.You could say I was obsessed with skateboarding,eat sleep skate.
Natas part was way ahead back then. Ollie up to FS 360 ollie down the beach ledge, manual to FS ollie out etc., all in '86/87. Not to forget proper levelled-out ollies with boards that had pretty much no nose. And these wallrides....
i got this on VHS when it first came out... the kid in the store was goin on bout the animal chin video but i went with this... im glad.. the other was ok, but Wheels is FULL ON SK8!!! thanks
Man, I wish I could get my hands on one of those late 80s early 90s decks again, I still love and favor that shape. I found one in the trash a while back it had Peralta mini cubics on it but they were pink and the deck was snapped in two. Bummer.
Yeah, they're back again, we have OBrien - Reaper / Rosko - Target / Kendall - Graffiti / Kendall - End of World / Grosso - Demon. I'll stick with modern shapes but prefer the larger dimensions still for street. Don't think I could go back for progression sake.
MEGA..... LOVE IT BEFORE RUclips THIS VIDEO WAS LIKE ROCKING HORSE SHIT THE 80S SKATEBOARDING ROCKED WE WENT GOSHEN IN BURY I REMEMBER JEFF ARTSEL AND BILL DANFORTH ETC COMING TO OUR LEISURE CENTRE ON THE MASSIVE HALF PIPE TONY HAWK COULDN'T ATTEND WE WERE GUTTED THINK THERE WERE 5 PRO SKATERS IN TOTAL THERE CAN'T REMEMBER THE OTHERS NAMES......A BIG PIECE OF MY CHILDHOOD WE ALL DID IT IN OUR STREET.....BEST TRICK WAS A KICKFLIP OVER 3 BOARDS
I saw this a couple of years after this posted date, it hasn't aged too well though. Which makes it even more surreal. Its just a few years between each SC video with very large margins in terms of evolution.
The crossbones that Christian Hosoi does,is the best ones ever made-in the history of sk8boarding...)!To bad he got sent to jail,because of those 30grams of MethAmphetamine-that finished of the highflying hero...)..personally-i still thinks that he's the best vertical skater-EVER...)))!!!
Not really. He got sent to jail in what? 97, 98, 99? The meth USE had finished him off as a topical skater long before that. Prison wasn't what did it. If anything he's one of the few people prison saved.
Trip to me is I was nobody that got in to skating. Started to hang with the popular skaters in the 80s. Ended up meeting the guys of the time. Later I joined in playing guitar, also met the guys of the time in hard rock. Most were just normal guys. Now like some protected class, and these chick skaters are ripping like us back then without some credit. I take a deathcore girl and skater chick over a lot of this stuff now.
The first skate video I owned living in the sticks had very little to skate on butt hills church parking lots and empty pool hardeez loading dock the library in lesueur Minnesota but I had to walk or build a ramps
The dude in my Art class at Westchester Hi in L.A. Aaron Murray was freinds with Christian Hosio he even had his own skatboard brand skeleton with 9 fingers cuz he cut one of them skating!!!
Still watching in 2023 like me ? Let's get a thumbs up👍
also in 2024
How good is the intro and music, the game has moved on a long way since this video but the style, simplicity and music is still amazing
Still watching 2024
This were the real 80's..No cell phones,no internet,just a streets,asphalt,green grass and beautiful blue sky...Best decade
LOL, YA RITE, GRAMPS!!!
🤘🤘🤘
We definitely remember it that way. Seems like youngsters think we were nuts! 😆 80s skate scene was and still is unparalleled! 👊😎🛹
@@Thallod your generation is soft
Mike Smith we skate better tho :)
Best soundtrack of any skate video I've seen...
you forgot the alien workshop soundtrack
The "Soundtrack" of my life... still singing these songs since 1988 when I Sk8.
oh my god..!..SANTA CRUz's WHEELS OF FIRE-i STARTED TO CRY WHEN i HEARD ALL THE CLASSIC MUSIC-THANKS!1!
Eight Dayz ‘What’s so strange about me’ has to be one of the all time greatest skate tunes..
They totally nailed it on this.
💯
I'm 45 now and loved this video when it came out in 1987. I remember going to Spyder Skate & Surf shop in Hermosa Beach, CA to buy it the first day it was available. Good Times.
Love the soundtrack and slow motion filming. Much better than using videotape.
These guys were gods to me when I was kid. Still got mad respect for these cats. This video changed my life forever.
Natas Kaupas is awesome and this has to be one of the best sound tracks from a Skate Video.
Thumbs up if you're watching in 2018!!!!
I always like to think of myself as a of the times
Eve Lyn still bad ass 30 years later.
Still rad
Thumbs down if watched in 2019
2020 shit
i got this for my 11birthday and watched it everday before school till it burnt out. still remember every word in it and think it probably shaped the person i am. cheers santa cruz, classic
Same, all the time, when sk8 vids cost SO MUCH. Kids have no fucking idea how lucky they are today with this stuff.
great old school skating, the good ole days!
***** yes my friend it was a different era .....a different time.skateboarding was admired and "cool" as is is now. it was dangerous the gangs would yell skaters suck and throw shit as they drove by .the jocks would scream skaters suck and throw shit as they drove by.after school rumbles some group always against the skaters.it was shorts over sweat pants. now its girls pants . what ever happened to tube pants. anyways I gotta hipper to nurse .slaatte
First skate movie I ever watched, and I watched it when it came out back in the day. And now it's 2019! Skateboarding, the Fountain of Youth. 🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙
Yes same here! It still holds up, such a great soundtrack as well. The very first I rented from my local skateshop, changed everything 👍
damn i miss those days it was amazing be a teen or child and listen this kind of music and watching skate videos and be skater too
Powell Peralta generally made the best 80s skate videos, but Santa Cruz's Wheels of Fire really topped them all. The soundtrack is truly memorable. Natas's part blew my mind back then.
Streets on Fire is also great
this is my childhood. Love it forever. Little bit tears come along.
This video was my inspiration to start skating...it's been 32 years and still love it! Love the soundtrack!
Steve Alba's piece in this video is the best in any other skate video. I don't think I'll ever see a better spot.
+Jessebaseballny Its sad watching it now, I remember the last night the Pipeline was open.. It was a heavy moment for everyone that 'grew up' there that night.
christbait yep i agree its sad that pipeline is gone, but that also adds more reasons as to why Salbas piece is the best in a skate video. I cant imagine how you guys felt that night like a piece of your youth was suddenly gone.
Natas doing a Back 270 lip on even just a curb is pretty ahead of its time lol. mid 80's super-tech!
Funny how skateboarding is coming back this way, with longboarding being so big, penny boards and all that. People are re-finding the fun in just shredding on a board and being good at it, than worrying about how many technical flip tricks you can do.
It will never really phase out like it did in the past. There are just so many options now and with net so much easier to get motivated. There has never been a better time to skate, young or old. I'm never gonna stop, its a serious addiction with so many benefits.
@Figgy Newton far out man, 7 year old comment you're replying to haha.
This video inspired and shaped me and my brother on so many levels that I still think about it until this day (12/20/18). We are excited to watch this again after so many years!
Definitely, one of the best sk8 vids EVER. So bad, so good & soooo 80s.
31:33 That music is so chill and mellow, love it even still...what a blast just to sesh on that...SC forever.
Natal Kaupas @26:06 Best street skating segment on any video at the time. My VHS tape was worn out at this section from over usage.
*Natas lol
Andre La Rouge And then Streets on Fire came out he became a legend. That part changed the history of skateboarding.
bassage13 yeah, yeah. The spinny thing on top of the fire hydrant was pure CLASS mate. Great days for street skating ('87 - '90 was when I was shredding it). Kool bro.
I remember the shopping center me and my friends skated finally got security to run us out. We gave those guys a hard time just like in the video. 80's were a great time to be a live.
The MUSIC, though!! Love everything about this!! 2018 in da house!
Good old times!!! \m/
One of the finest videos of the 80s..their team killed in that time period..its really a toss up between this streets on fire.and the early h street videos..anyways..always..fun 2 watch .no matter how many times..never gets old...FUSE1..NS .812.. ..
It's hard to compare Wheels with those, they seem like the next gen in skate vids, just as good though.
This video is forever timeless this will forever be a artifact of culture
Jeff Kendall. So smooth. So great.
Pumpkin Eruption. My first board.
Love this VHS. Such a great soundtrack.
My first as well. This video is responsible for so much, lol. I still can't remember what happened to it.
This was the video I studied when I started skating back in the day. Prob saw this vid hundreds of times. Music is epic! Sure brings back memories.
so 80s it hurts, i love it!
Got this tape in beta. I remember going to someplace store to record this from my friend's VHS tape to beta. When I finally got it, all time in replay mode. Seeing all this USA locations, the music. Great memories of a different and simplier era
I remember back when this came out, I hooked my vcr up to a tape deck and recorded the songs- great soundtrack!
You were a step ahead of me as I just set a tape recorder in front of the TV and hit record.
This could be the best skate film ever made.
Jessebaseballny . Streets on Fire kills this video
It's definitely one of them.
Maybe, but this was the first, it means a lot to many skaters from that era.
Bro this is a good one but nothing beats animal chin
Yeah agree Animal Chin are legend. the movie ever seen and the team Bones Brigade@@jizzo385
i love this old school videos,i did grow up watching and listening them
Pissed I let a friend borrow my VHS copy years ago and never got that shit back. As a kid I I got Wheels of fire x-mas of 1988 and played that shit every fucking day. Natus to this day is still the fucking man !
love this one , i remember watching it in 1988 i was 21 , it made me go out and buy a board !
The question is do you still skate today?
Best skate time of my childhood ! the 80's best decade ever period ! feel pitty for the youngsters now these days!
I’m glad this is out and one of my favorite memories 🙏
Están bien los.videos.de.profesionales . Gente con estilo 😎 pero no hay que olvidarse nunca de.los.buenos ratos.y de.la naturalidad y la.gracia de aquellos.maravillosos.años.
Natas, the greatest street skater that ever lived.
One of the big four, no question.
Tom Penny:Hold my beer. 😂
@@chrishendricks4613 The only thing right about that statement is the laugh emoji at the end of it.
Back then, we had fads on the coast first, and skateboarding was like this in the early 80s in California valley. Abandoned pools and half-pipes in the backyards. By the late 80s we'd moved to the mountains and we'd fly 50 mph down steep hills. One thing I really appreciate is that those guys encouraged pads and equipment, allowed total abandonment knowing you could roll out.
Still have a lot of decks from this time ! I lived it so badly
I was 12 or 13 when I got my copy of this VHS. I watched it over and over again. It definitely framed a lifestyle that I thought I would have at 19 or 20. Didn't happen.
"I like to sit in my room and listen to a lot of loud music and play my guitar. It's loud. It's cool.".
Thumbs up if you watching this in 2017!!!!!
Jeff Phillips hell yes Jeff-i actually know the Pope of Gull Wing!
sure
Jeff Phillips what is the first song?
hell yeah..this made me who I am today
eight dayz - Claus Grabke
This and the Shackle me not soundtracks are my favourite skate movie soundtracks ❤
this makes me proud to have grown up a skater in Santa Cruz
One of the coolest documentaries I’ve ever seen.
Can't stop listenning to it. Sometimes I watch only the beginning of the video only to hear it (even if the whole video is great)
Wheels of Fire has aged pretty darn well, all things considered when viewed with the Vision video from ‘87 and Animal Chin.
If I owned a skate shop, these old school videos would be playing all the time!
I'm glad you dont
@@Corinthians-kjv but you're just here watching old school skate videos anyway. You aren't the sharpest tool in the shed are you Mark?
50th 'like' chea boy
Mark MacRae for cryin* out loud Mark 😂
I'd go regularly if you had Donkey Kong JR.....
Pay Respect. I was a ‘vert button’ Street Kid in the early 2000s too. Without this, You wouldn’t even be commenting on skate videos. Also, learn some good music.
Thanx for uploading this!! Brings back so many good memories..
Before the dark times ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Man I miss the bad old days!!
That intro went so hard.
my favourite skater was Hosoi. Same board and everything......So many good skaters in this video...
Santa Cruz for life !
THE HOLY GRAIL OF SKATEBOARDING VID GREW UP WITH IT AND THANKS TO TECH THESE DAYS IS STILL ABOUT...
Omg that takes me back to so much fun I had.I actually enjoy this more then skaters Today,skate like robots,no style.You could say I was obsessed with skateboarding,eat sleep skate.
Ow hell yeah, thanks ! Depuis le temps que j'la cherche ! VIVE NATAS KAUPAS
...and again 2020. Greetings from Germany !
wao good memories of the late 80s... I remember renting this video on Betamax!
This is a huge part of my life from like 1987 to 1991 then other stuff came out...
Classic I remember watching this movie love it
Times were better than now much more fun!
This was the first video I ever saw...... Back then the sound track was almost as important as the skating.
watching this in 2016
Natas part was way ahead back then. Ollie up to FS 360 ollie down the beach ledge, manual to FS ollie out etc., all in '86/87. Not to forget proper levelled-out ollies with boards that had pretty much no nose. And these wallrides....
Eight Dayz - What's so strange about me ?
Thank you, it helps me, it's very beautiful
I've been looking for the name of this song for like 4 hours thank you
i got this on VHS when it first came out... the kid in the store was goin on bout the animal chin video but i went with this... im glad.. the other was ok, but Wheels is FULL ON SK8!!! thanks
I cringe so much more with Chin, this has its moments though.
Awesome days
Man, I wish I could get my hands on one of those late 80s early 90s decks again, I still love and favor that shape. I found one in the trash a while back it had Peralta mini cubics on it but they were pink and the deck was snapped in two. Bummer.
Yeah, they're back again, we have OBrien - Reaper / Rosko - Target / Kendall - Graffiti / Kendall - End of World / Grosso - Demon. I'll stick with modern shapes but prefer the larger dimensions still for street. Don't think I could go back for progression sake.
Billy is my Idol.
Pure classsssss!! :)
It's Santa Cruz so I love it. Tom asta is the best rider on the team.
sooooo coooool
Am skating like this in 2018
Cheers for posting!
MEGA..... LOVE IT BEFORE RUclips THIS VIDEO WAS LIKE ROCKING HORSE SHIT THE 80S SKATEBOARDING ROCKED WE WENT GOSHEN IN BURY I REMEMBER JEFF ARTSEL AND BILL DANFORTH ETC COMING TO OUR LEISURE CENTRE ON THE MASSIVE HALF PIPE TONY HAWK COULDN'T ATTEND WE WERE GUTTED THINK THERE WERE 5 PRO SKATERS IN TOTAL THERE CAN'T REMEMBER THE OTHERS NAMES......A BIG PIECE OF MY CHILDHOOD WE ALL DID IT IN OUR STREET.....BEST TRICK WAS A KICKFLIP OVER 3 BOARDS
I saw this a couple of years after this posted date, it hasn't aged too well though. Which makes it even more surreal. Its just a few years between each SC video with very large margins in terms of evolution.
I had two different Roskopp decks and a Jeff Kendall deck back in the day
This was my first skate video, beta format recorded from another copy
One of the Greats
The crossbones that Christian Hosoi does,is the best ones ever made-in the history of sk8boarding...)!To bad he got sent to jail,because of those 30grams of MethAmphetamine-that finished of the highflying hero...)..personally-i still thinks that he's the best vertical skater-EVER...)))!!!
Ground Control-X He came back from prison still blasting huge airs.
Not really. He got sent to jail in what? 97, 98, 99? The meth USE had finished him off as a topical skater long before that. Prison wasn't what did it. If anything he's one of the few people prison saved.
Salbas part in this can teach you everything you need to know about skating transition.
Aquellos Años 80 Full skateboard and Surf !!
Legends. 'Nuff siad.
shit dude, what happened to us, skaters back then actually used everything they seen to skate
Blew J true bro. Skater back in the 80s.
This and "Streets on Fire" too. The soundtracks are awesome!
what's the song during Roskopp's bowl skate @ 10:48 ????? I"VE BEEN LOOKING FOR YEARS!! fml
Eight dayz, so strange..
Trip to me is I was nobody that got in to skating. Started to hang with the popular skaters in the 80s. Ended up meeting the guys of the time. Later I joined in playing guitar, also met the guys of the time in hard rock. Most were just normal guys. Now like some protected class, and these chick skaters are ripping like us back then without some credit. I take a deathcore girl and skater chick over a lot of this stuff now.
Loving Roskopps hair
The first skate video I owned living in the sticks had very little to skate on butt hills church parking lots and empty pool hardeez loading dock the library in lesueur Minnesota but I had to walk or build a ramps
Wow had this on vhs independent trucks with some slime ball wheels on a McGill
2019 80s Never End
The dude in my Art class at Westchester Hi in L.A. Aaron Murray was freinds with Christian Hosio he even had his own skatboard brand skeleton with 9 fingers cuz he cut one of them skating!!!
Lol Spidey flipping off the camera like was somebody. His sticker art endured more than his skating did.
I used a natas board back then loved the shove its