@@RealSkateStories You said it perfectly. Natas was at the peak of his power. That injury really hurt his skating career. A big guy like that too makes it even harder. But he wasn't a drug person and he was smart. He made a great life for himself.
Pure gold! I remember when everyone was loosing their minds at the skate shop about Natas and his video parts.People were so stoked and animated in describing what they saw. His boards were so functional and responsive. I had 2 and remember my Ollie’s and dock drops were cradled so securely. Wall rides were so much more smoother and took less effort than other boards.However none of us could emulate his style exactly and I admire him to this day.
The more I see Natas skating, I see in his style what was coming up the next years. He runs out a lot in fakee, switches the board a lot under his feet, something unusual in those years ending the 80's. And not me or my skate friends noticed that at the time. Even though we watched WOF. SOF over and over again, as we did H-Street, and the Bones tapes. Still have some of those VHS in a box. I stopped skating in the year 91, came back in 94, and felt like an alien. Switch stance, ultra small wheels and grown up freestyle boards. Me, with my then the widest 8'25 skull & Sword powel deck I could buy, was clearly an old skooler back in 94-95. Even the brands changed in that sort period I took a break. My last board before the break was a Powel Peralta Bucky Lasek, 9'25 wide. After the crazy small wheels and boards, things got a kind back to what I believed was normal. So I was a bit before time in 94, prefering wider boards and not so stupidly small wheels. It took a time to make people understand that 7'75 to 8'25 is the best board size.
Word, you nailed it. Natas' place in skate history cannot be understated. Furthermore, the majority of the kids that started or got decent at skating in 91-94 never really evolved past the slow, twirly flippy mindset. Unfortunately, a lot of them are now gatekeeper types and podcast hosts with little to no knowledge of or respect for pre-kickflip skate history. The next generation after that started using normal sized equipment and skating all types of terrain and took skateboarding to the amazing state it's still at today and continues to evolve.
@@RealSkateStories Yeah, I'm glad that the internet has provided a lot of scenes the ability to showcast what was the deal back in the 90, 80, 70, and even late 60's, so people become aware of what happened before they were even born. That puts every generation of skaters or rockers, hip-hoppers, punkers, in their own place, able to respect those who paved the way before them. And if a +50 year old skater showes up at a park, doing old stuff, at least he should be respected for 1: still able to ride and willing to ride, 2: those old tricks are still cool to see, and should never be forgotten. Actualy, I have the feeling skating has not much evoluated from the 20' onwards. Maybe a few turns more in a mc-twist, or some more advanced flip to someting, but the decks and looks of skating has not seen a mayor change as I experienced in the 90', being a skater of the late 80'. I still have 2 sk8s, and a longboard, and I can show up with those boards at any park, and people would not look like what the hell are those 2 boards. That was the case when you showed up in the mid 90' with a vision gator or a santacruz jeff kendall from the 80'
Kids these days don't understand how difficult it was doing technical tricks on the boards back then.Plus the weight of the board too.Natas was doing tricks year's a head of everyone else.He was doing frontside kickflips on quarter pipes and one footed 180 Ollie's in 1988.I mean he had them wired too.Thanks for taking the time and energy to upload another blast from the past.Your footage always brings back great memories.Ps,hope you did well surfing in the masters.❤🤙
@@kins749 true I was a fan but being from NYC Shawn Sheffey the dude in the black SHUT shirt blasting Ollie’s 2 feet higher than anyone else. That was our man. All respect to Natas, Jim thebode and all those legends.
Oh My God. I'm in that video with the COC shirt on walking with the 2 boards at 00:51, Harrisonburg, VA. WOW, blast from the past. Thanks!! Thank you for showing how this was done!!
It's mind boggling that Natas was doing legit frontside flips on transition in 1988. It took the rest of skateboarding like 5 years to catch up to the stuff he was doing back then. Great videos my man!
It looks like "today"'s moves.... only when you look at the cars do you realise just how damn long ago this was... 53 year old skater from London, I have had the Speedfreaks part tattooed on the brain most of my life.
I have heard that, and also heard it's not true...and also heard other pro skater's name used in that story besides Gino....so fun yes....fact? We need some proof.
Me and this other guy used to trade skate and surf mags back and forth in history class and one day he showed me Kaupas launching. Mind was blown. Good job keeping the history alive and enjoy the warm water.
¡¡NATAS!! Sí, mi amigo Mullen Y Spidey, viejo pero sólido y todos los demás; Es bueno ver el video. Extraño mi casa en Santa Bárbara y extraño patinar con todos los equipos. Gracias por llevarme a casa nuevamente por un rato. Las canciones fueron geniales..... Ven a visitar Atlanta alguna vez y tráelo. ! vive para siempre.
Super grateful to you for filming and sharing this! Natas is an absolute legend on every level. Love your commentary and stoke, this is important skate history right here! Keep 'em coming and good luck in your comp!
I was born in 86 in Carlsbad so tony was x games tong and these guys I can’t remember. What was the timeline with bones overlapping Santa Cruz? Who did gonz ride for in 88? Etc plz
I wrote a list of every trick Natas did in his two first video parts, I was able to do most of them eventually, except spin on fire hydrant and I never did frontside wall rides or slide on a dumpster or on top of a truck roll bar lol
Frontside 180 kickflip at 7:31 is insane for that era, and so beautifully done! Amazing footage, though I don't think the rap song is a very good fit for the visuals.
Thanks for your opinion. When I was filming in 88 with Natas Public Enemy was on heavy rotation. SO stoked to use a PE track in here. Appreciate your opinion but mine is 180 degrees opposite...nothing rolls with skateboarding as well as 90 hip hop beats.
Thank you for all your videos and history. Do you see a WLA Courthouse video coming in the future? With all the great skating that came out of there, it would make a great video in my opinion from your perspective. I grew up 2 blocks from there from 85-96 so its close to my heart and will be demolished soon. Please let me know if I can fill you in on any history of this place. Thanks again.
Thank you. There have already been a few videos made about that. Two didn't even mention the first ever published clips filmed there (that I shot and edited: Eric Dressen - Risk It).
@ I know. I was skating with Eric a lot at that time and after that. He would give me shoes and his boards. Tony Alva also lived one block away in 88’ and was the first actual pro I saw there. Also sold me and my friends boards from his apartment. A lot of history there aside from the Tony Hawk game. Anyway, I like the way you present videos and it’d be cool to get your perspective. Anyway, Just an idea. Thanks again
I see the baby Sheffey in the old school Shut tee and a pair of Limpies(?) with the cojones to say, "I'm gonna sesh with--and do back-to-back ollies with!--Natas."
Thank you for this awesome video and the history lesson. I have a couple of important historical questions for you and because my current setup is an SMA/Santa Cruz Natas Panther II, I do believe that my questions are valid ones. 1. What is the trick called where Natas flies up the bank, ollies into the air and then takes his feet off his board, springs himself off the fence into the air with both feet, landing back on his board coming down the bank? 2. What were the size of Thunder trucks that Natas used on his signature pro model decks in 1986 - 1989 during his most celebrated years as one of the main innovators and pioneers of street skating? Thank you for reading my questions and for any information you might be able to add to the important history of Natas Kaupus.
3:04 If anyone can tell me where another Natas fside pop shuv exists, let me know; I don't remember this trick from any of "speed freaks" or "reason for living" or "strange notes" and the way Natas does it is mint
So YOU ( narrator ) filmed all this NK footage ? This vid jst popped up / took me bck to skate days . . . This footage is some of the best of sktbrding ever of all time
Natas came up to one of the Willamette Dammit contests in Eugene, OR, 86 or 87. Launch ramp and some obstacles in a lot downtown. They pushed the ramp against a wall, started launching huge wall rides. I think he won? Didn’t matter. We estimated his wheel marks at around 15’, he was landing flat and riding out. Most guys were bailing. Me and my friends had never seen anything like it.
Some of the first vid of Sheffey the world had seen. I remember when Sean and Greg Hunt drove out from Michigan and both had so much power and raw talent. Sheffey could b/s Ollie over everything… At Mach 1,000,000 Haha And Natas was the first person I ever saw front feeble anything
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This is the best Natas footage I've ever seen. Thank you so much for this!
🙏💯
@@RealSkateStories You said it perfectly. Natas was at the peak of his power. That injury really hurt his skating career. A big guy like that too makes it even harder. But he wasn't a drug person and he was smart. He made a great life for himself.
I was there 0:52 Off The Wall Skateshop in Harrisonburg Va , Natas and the dudes put on a show man , blessed day ✝️
Only 800 views! wow criminal.
this needs to be shown at School.
Know your past and those that came before you.
SHEFFY is just raw POWER!
30K on 12/1/24
I love how he was going for it in the demos, it’s so great to see the people you admire genuinely enjoying themselves.
Pure gold! I remember when everyone was loosing their minds at the skate shop about Natas and his video parts.People were so stoked and animated in describing what they saw. His boards were so functional and responsive. I had 2 and remember my Ollie’s and dock drops were cradled so securely. Wall rides were so much more smoother and took less effort than other boards.However none of us could emulate his style exactly and I admire him to this day.
The more I see Natas skating, I see in his style what was coming up the next years. He runs out a lot in fakee, switches the board a lot under his feet, something unusual in those years ending the 80's. And not me or my skate friends noticed that at the time. Even though we watched WOF. SOF over and over again, as we did H-Street, and the Bones tapes. Still have some of those VHS in a box. I stopped skating in the year 91, came back in 94, and felt like an alien. Switch stance, ultra small wheels and grown up freestyle boards. Me, with my then the widest 8'25 skull & Sword powel deck I could buy, was clearly an old skooler back in 94-95. Even the brands changed in that sort period I took a break. My last board before the break was a Powel Peralta Bucky Lasek, 9'25 wide. After the crazy small wheels and boards, things got a kind back to what I believed was normal. So I was a bit before time in 94, prefering wider boards and not so stupidly small wheels. It took a time to make people understand that 7'75 to 8'25 is the best board size.
Word, you nailed it. Natas' place in skate history cannot be understated. Furthermore, the majority of the kids that started or got decent at skating in 91-94 never really evolved past the slow, twirly flippy mindset. Unfortunately, a lot of them are now gatekeeper types and podcast hosts with little to no knowledge of or respect for pre-kickflip skate history. The next generation after that started using normal sized equipment and skating all types of terrain and took skateboarding to the amazing state it's still at today and continues to evolve.
@@RealSkateStories Yeah, I'm glad that the internet has provided a lot of scenes the ability to showcast what was the deal back in the 90, 80, 70, and even late 60's, so people become aware of what happened before they were even born. That puts every generation of skaters or rockers, hip-hoppers, punkers, in their own place, able to respect those who paved the way before them. And if a +50 year old skater showes up at a park, doing old stuff, at least he should be respected for 1: still able to ride and willing to ride, 2: those old tricks are still cool to see, and should never be forgotten. Actualy, I have the feeling skating has not much evoluated from the 20' onwards. Maybe a few turns more in a mc-twist, or some more advanced flip to someting, but the decks and looks of skating has not seen a mayor change as I experienced in the 90', being a skater of the late 80'. I still have 2 sk8s, and a longboard, and I can show up with those boards at any park, and people would not look like what the hell are those 2 boards. That was the case when you showed up in the mid 90' with a vision gator or a santacruz jeff kendall from the 80'
Frontside flip @7:30 is incredible
Kids these days don't understand how difficult it was doing technical tricks on the boards back then.Plus the weight of the board too.Natas was doing tricks year's a head of everyone else.He was doing frontside kickflips on quarter pipes and one footed 180 Ollie's in 1988.I mean he had them wired too.Thanks for taking the time and energy to upload another blast from the past.Your footage always brings back great memories.Ps,hope you did well surfing in the masters.❤🤙
Natas was the skater we all wanted to be in the late 80s, his ollies were the stuff of playground legend
@@kins749 true I was a fan but being from NYC Shawn Sheffey the dude in the black SHUT shirt blasting Ollie’s 2 feet higher than anyone else. That was our man. All respect to Natas, Jim thebode and all those legends.
Just something special about Natas' wall rides - he really surfs those walls.
I can watch Natas ollie, launch, and wall ride all day
Yeah he didn't just bash his wheels onto the wall and drop/slide down. He carved and could create speed on his wall rides
Getting air was everything back in the day. Natas sure did it with style and grace. Love and respect from Australia
Oh My God. I'm in that video with the COC shirt on walking with the 2 boards at 00:51, Harrisonburg, VA. WOW, blast from the past. Thanks!! Thank you for showing how this was done!!
It's mind boggling that Natas was doing legit frontside flips on transition in 1988. It took the rest of skateboarding like 5 years to catch up to the stuff he was doing back then. Great videos my man!
caught the board in best tom penny fashion lol
All the while skating heavier boards and not pussy popsicle sticks!💪
Natas is the man! He was truly ahead of his time. A pioneer of street skating outside of Rodney Mullen!
probably my favorite skater. real street skating, alley-oop wall ride..sick!
Him & Gonz, forever the best, they changed the game....those demo's too, when we were total outliers...good times for sure! Thanks for this!!!
Him doing those frontside wall rides was just so insane back in that time! He came up with wall rides and doing handrails before anyone else.
Absolute legend. 🤌 Idolized him growing up, for both his style and the "gnar" factor.
Sheffey with some big Ollie’s!!!
@@darrenmcclellan9869 right ! Thank you ! Everyone just glosses over him going 2 feet higher than anyone else !
skyscraper boardslide! great finale . Great to see the rest of that tape!
What an animal!
Natas, was my first skater I met. one I never forget
Such an inspiration to us in the street ❤️🤙
Thankyou Natas !!!
It looks like "today"'s moves.... only when you look at the cars do you realise just how damn long ago this was... 53 year old skater from London, I have had the Speedfreaks part tattooed on the brain most of my life.
One of my favorite all-time greats! Fun fact: Gino Iannucci is one of the 3 kids that props up the box at 12:20 for Natas to board slide.
I have heard that, and also heard it's not true...and also heard other pro skater's name used in that story besides Gino....so fun yes....fact? We need some proof.
Me and this other guy used to trade skate and surf mags back and forth in history class and one day he showed me Kaupas launching. Mind was blown.
Good job keeping the history alive and enjoy the warm water.
Thank you. Same! I remember the first shot I saw of Natas. He was doing a slob grab wall ride over some stairs I believe. Mind completely blown.
dig the sheffey gems and so many nbd's by Natas!
Natas mini - my first real deck 1989
Feels like yesterday.
Great Tricks by Natas Kaupas at that time. I am a fan of it. 👍🤘
I got me a natas board and ride that jawn everyday to work much love too the pioneer ❤❤❤❤
You are total crushing it! Awesome commentary and edits. Thank you for keeping up the great work!
This upload is amazing 😍 this is a humanitarian service right here! Should be called "how to look beautiful on a skateboard pt1."
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These are so good, thankyou especially for the commentaries, the best 👍
Natas always had a smile and looked like he was having fun. Love the frontside flip on the quarter.
Nice speech intro Bro!
indispensable skate history. thank you for posting man!!!
The spin kept me in. Going off kept me Cool. The wall ride at 2:23 was Humongous
¡¡NATAS!! Sí, mi amigo Mullen Y Spidey, viejo pero sólido y todos los demás; Es bueno ver el video. Extraño mi casa en Santa Bárbara y extraño patinar con todos los equipos. Gracias por llevarme a casa nuevamente por un rato. Las canciones fueron geniales..... Ven a visitar Atlanta alguna vez y tráelo. ! vive para siempre.
Buena onda!!
Thank you.Natas rules
Grande Natas Kaupas! Um dos meus skatistas preferidos dos anos 80!
Natas was my favorite skater when I was a kid and started skating. Thank you very much for these gold nuggets!!
Cool to see the landsdowne footage!
even after all these years. Natas footage is still the bomb shit. He will always be a legend to me.
skateboarding really reached a high point with Natas around, dude was skating another dimension. time traveler.
Super grateful to you for filming and sharing this! Natas is an absolute legend on every level. Love your commentary and stoke, this is important skate history right here! Keep 'em coming and good luck in your comp!
Thanks so much Shane!! I will keep this rocking because of comments like this!
Thanks again for posting this stuff. My childhood , waking up in the morning watching his video part and then skating everywhere.
ahhh man u r legend! natassssssss
OG gnarly work🏆
AMAZING!!! thanks for sharing this to the world!!
incredible never before seen by many stuff.
Holy shit the airwalk body varial!
Truly one of the all time greats
Another great Director's Cut! Keep em coming!! Thank you!!!
Natas, what an irreplaceable style
I was born in 86 in Carlsbad so tony was x games tong and these guys I can’t remember. What was the timeline with bones overlapping Santa Cruz? Who did gonz ride for in 88? Etc plz
Bones (Powell) and Santa Cruz were the biggest companies in the mid to late 80's as well as Gonz' sponsor: Vision
3 minutes in and let me tell you how many people were doing front shoves off the nose back in 88....NO ONE!!!
Awesome! Cheers for posting!
gotta have that PE - so sick
I think you said it all brother.
Dope❤
Love the D.R.I. hat
I wrote a list of every trick Natas did in his two first video parts, I was able to do most of them eventually, except spin on fire hydrant and I never did frontside wall rides or slide on a dumpster or on top of a truck roll bar lol
So good, thanks! interesting to see all these behind the scenes materials as I used to watch his video parts all the time as a kid
Thank you for uploading this ❤
King
Tear it up.
Que lo que! Yo vivi en RD.
Just thanks!
👍🔥👍
Frontside 180 kickflip at 7:31 is insane for that era, and so beautifully done! Amazing footage, though I don't think the rap song is a very good fit for the visuals.
Thanks for your opinion. When I was filming in 88 with Natas Public Enemy was on heavy rotation. SO stoked to use a PE track in here. Appreciate your opinion but mine is 180 degrees opposite...nothing rolls with skateboarding as well as 90 hip hop beats.
Was also really surprised to see Natas doing this at this time.
Thank you for all your videos and history. Do you see a WLA Courthouse video coming in the future? With all the great skating that came out of there, it would make a great video in my opinion from your perspective. I grew up 2 blocks from there from 85-96 so its close to my heart and will be demolished soon. Please let me know if I can fill you in on any history of this place. Thanks again.
Thank you. There have already been a few videos made about that. Two didn't even mention the first ever published clips filmed there (that I shot and edited: Eric Dressen - Risk It).
@ I know. I was skating with Eric a lot at that time and after that. He would give me shoes and his boards. Tony Alva also lived one block away in 88’ and was the first actual pro I saw there. Also sold me and my friends boards from his apartment. A lot of history there aside from the Tony Hawk game. Anyway, I like the way you present videos and it’d be cool to get your perspective. Anyway, Just an idea. Thanks again
sick
So fly.
Full gnar.
His FS wall rides were the best.
I see the baby Sheffey in the old school Shut tee and a pair of Limpies(?) with the cojones to say, "I'm gonna sesh with--and do back-to-back ollies with!--Natas."
Thank you for this awesome video and the history lesson. I have a couple of important historical questions for you and because my current setup is an SMA/Santa Cruz Natas Panther II, I do believe that my questions are valid ones.
1. What is the trick called where Natas flies up the bank, ollies into the air and then takes his feet off his board, springs himself off the fence into the air with both feet, landing back on his board coming down the bank?
2. What were the size of Thunder trucks that Natas used on his signature pro model decks in 1986 - 1989 during his most celebrated years as one of the main innovators and pioneers of street skating?
Thank you for reading my questions and for any information you might be able to add to the important history of Natas Kaupus.
I never noticed until watching this almost 40 years later that sheffey and natas have similar styles.
Fucking awesome
this amazing!!! is that sean sheffei looking like a little skinny dude?!!!
3:04 If anyone can tell me where another Natas fside pop shuv exists, let me know; I don't remember this trick from any of "speed freaks" or "reason for living" or "strange notes" and the way Natas does it is mint
Sean Sheffey with the Shut NYC shirt.
Fkkn damn.. flow to die for. Him & Stranger footy from bitd.
7:32 this is the first first flip front I’ve seen in a skate video.
So YOU ( narrator ) filmed all this NK footage ? This vid jst popped up / took me bck to skate days . . .
This footage is some of the best of sktbrding ever of all time
Natas came up to one of the Willamette Dammit contests in Eugene, OR, 86 or 87. Launch ramp and some obstacles in a lot downtown. They pushed the ramp against a wall, started launching huge wall rides. I think he won? Didn’t matter. We estimated his wheel marks at around 15’, he was landing flat and riding out. Most guys were bailing. Me and my friends had never seen anything like it.
I believe a young Gino Ianucci is one of the kids holding up the funbox for the wallride at the end.
🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
Thought I was gonna see footage of that gonz and natas double wall ride for a sec
Some of the first vid of Sheffey the world had seen.
I remember when Sean and Greg Hunt drove out from Michigan and both had so much power and raw talent.
Sheffey could b/s Ollie over everything…
At Mach 1,000,000
Haha
And Natas was the first person I ever saw front feeble anything
Caught frontside flip in 88 🤯
i film super 8 on a bealieau 4008. i hae seen this photo before and i was always thinking where is that fisheye. looks so good. i need one
Yeah man, the C-mount Century 3.5 Sick lens but the 5.7 was my fave! Those cameras are magic.
Me transportó al pasado por unos minutos, gracias por compartir tremenda historia
The first all-terrain machine
So ahead of everyone, frontside kickflip 7:30 or what later was called "Muska flip".
That FS flip! Were folk doing them that way in 88??
Heck no. NBD all day!!
Shef and Andy Howell
Man. What could've been if Natas never broke his ankle.
First to be videoed kickflip wallride.
Janky ass obstacles like the ones we would build around the same time lol.Those were the days!
What song is this?
Public Enemy "Mind Over Matter"