I was lucky enough to have gone to Leland High School with Salman. Not only a legend obviously, but one hell of a nice guy as well. His whole family, brother and parents are great people. It was so awesome to have skated with him so many times - you always learned something or were totally blown away by his power. Sal has power, like Wade Speyer or Ben Shroeder power but with much more style. If you skated in SJ, especially in Almaden, Salman was our god, every skater wanted to skate like Sal.
Beta Ruled! Did you know there was a Vans store next to the 76’ station when the Beta strip mall was brand spanking new? Vans didn’t have much stuff yet but I remember buying some Van’s skate wheels there. Two red & two blue. I had a Pegasus rocker from Gremic’s in LG, Bennet Hi Jackers & Powerflex 3’s or 4’s, if I remember correctly. Gremic’s was named after owners kids Greg & Mike. Greg used to be able to spin like 20 360’s. I still think I have my Winchester Skate Park membership card somewhere??? Oakridge Mall dug out a Skate park but never laid concrete. And Campbell had a skate park back in the day!
rad. ha! leland high. i grew up in south san jose during early 70s thru early 90s. definitely saw sal skate at least once at a go skate parking lot. i don't know if he was testing a new board or what, but it was cool to see him pop a few tricks there. that was probably '93. i always liked his style. aggressive yet fluid and smooth. extremely creative. and the whole switch stance thing back then was so new. i don't know if young people truly realize how guys like sal revolutionized modern skating. i have one of his real decks. in fact i recently pulled it out to skate again after a long hiatus. it's a little worn, but not too bad. i slapped new wheels and bearings on it.
Years ago in an interview Salman said that he kept hurting his pushing ankle(right ankle) so in order to lessen the pain and keep skating he just learned to skate/push switch with his healthy ankle. I think the interview is in the Thrasher skater of the year issue from 93 or whichever year he won.
The Charles Barkley of Skateboarding!!! I somehow never got to see this ! This part was really thorough. Straight-up leading the pack for back then! Salman was the first pro with a massive switch ollie, and did sw. flips even before Rodney Mullen. He is also widely accepted as the first skater to ever grind switch. So now you know kids!!!!
we had salman and rick ibaseta judging a comp in st,albans uk around this time , he was doing head high switch ollie nose slap on a 8ft quarter pipe during the freeskate , sick stuff back then
Me and my friends would watch this video part daily. Nobody skated switch better and he also skated fast. We all adjusted out speed to skate as fast as Salman. All of his tricks popped. Such an underrated skater.
I miss the Safeway block. They ruined it with a badly placed speed bump. I saw Jason Adams make a long super bright spark on a 50 50 there. I also remember Salman and Shawn playing skate for Sodas, or was it Snapple? Great fun days.
salman agah was at pioneer? knew tom penny and that came down, and the death boys skate there from time to time but had no idea so many pros had actually done shit there. thats sick.
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I was lucky enough to have gone to Leland High School with Salman. Not only a legend obviously, but one hell of a nice guy as well. His whole family, brother and parents are great people. It was so awesome to have skated with him so many times - you always learned something or were totally blown away by his power. Sal has power, like Wade Speyer or Ben Shroeder power but with much more style. If you skated in SJ, especially in Almaden, Salman was our god, every skater wanted to skate like Sal.
Beta Ruled!
Did you know there was a Vans store next to the 76’ station when the Beta strip mall was brand spanking new? Vans didn’t have much stuff yet but I remember buying some Van’s skate wheels there. Two red & two blue.
I had a Pegasus rocker from Gremic’s in LG, Bennet Hi Jackers & Powerflex 3’s or 4’s, if I remember correctly.
Gremic’s was named after owners kids Greg & Mike. Greg used to be able to spin like 20 360’s.
I still think I have my Winchester Skate Park membership card somewhere???
Oakridge Mall dug out a Skate park but never laid concrete. And Campbell had a skate park back in the day!
rad. ha! leland high. i grew up in south san jose during early 70s thru early 90s. definitely saw sal skate at least once at a go skate parking lot. i don't know if he was testing a new board or what, but it was cool to see him pop a few tricks there. that was probably '93. i always liked his style. aggressive yet fluid and smooth. extremely creative. and the whole switch stance thing back then was so new. i don't know if young people truly realize how guys like sal revolutionized modern skating. i have one of his real decks. in fact i recently pulled it out to skate again after a long hiatus. it's a little worn, but not too bad. i slapped new wheels and bearings on it.
So ahead of his time.
So many memories as soon as I heard that soundtrack. Rainy weekends in Brizol watching skate vids (the only time you did back then).
loved Salman Agah. in the 90s i had cut outs of TWS and Thrasher of this dude on my bedroom walls. 36 now. still gives me chills
I was there when he switch ollied the table at lockwood, this guy is amazing!
What a beast! Just imagine if he was born 20 years later and the crazy shit he would be doing now; he would be like Milton only twice as beefy!
Years ago in an interview Salman said that he kept hurting his pushing ankle(right ankle) so in order to lessen the pain and keep skating he just learned to skate/push switch with his healthy ankle.
I think the interview is in the Thrasher skater of the year issue from 93 or whichever year he won.
king of switch.
His style was so solid too, pretty much no one had the kind of power that he did at that time. The song is sick as fuck too.
a piece of history.
The Charles Barkley of Skateboarding!!! I somehow never got to see this ! This part was really thorough. Straight-up leading the pack for back then! Salman was the first pro with a massive switch ollie, and did sw. flips even before Rodney Mullen. He is also widely accepted as the first skater to ever grind switch. So now you know kids!!!!
Such memories... this video had so much good skating and so much good music. Thanks for posting!!!
Great nollie frontside 180
we had salman and rick ibaseta judging a comp in st,albans uk around this time , he was doing head high switch ollie nose slap on a 8ft quarter pipe during the freeskate , sick stuff back then
Me and my friends would watch this video part daily. Nobody skated switch better and he also skated fast. We all adjusted out speed to skate as fast as Salman. All of his tricks popped. Such an underrated skater.
I didn't see any pop in his kickflips
Love you & miss you
Stay blessed!
The verse at the end. That is super switch stance. Wow. King solomon stay with the king my friend. We watch your everymove.
Salman Agah was a major influence in skating in the mid to late 90's.His talent on a skateboard was len
thanks for the up! salman is one of the great skate gods
such a monumental part in popularising switch stance skateboarding.
Thanks I have not watched this since I was a little kid!!!
Awesome, thanks for putting this up, just looked it up after reading the article on Salman in the new transworld, the mikey taylor cover.
I miss the Safeway block. They ruined it with a badly placed speed bump. I saw Jason Adams make a long super bright spark on a 50 50 there. I also remember Salman and Shawn playing skate for Sodas, or was it Snapple? Great fun days.
maybe if he rode softer wheels his board would not make so much noise ? IS
Charles Barkley the Salman Agah of the basket ball world ? is is is
Salmon was a beast
The line @ 3:18 is one of the best
Wow!! Laurence Fishburne can really tear s%$t the f&^k up!!!!
salman agah was at pioneer? knew tom penny and that came down, and the death boys skate there from time to time but had no idea so many pros had actually done shit there. thats sick.
Were’s his cast?
im suprised this dude never got nicknamed " The BaldBull". lol i used to always think of him as that back n the day
when is this video part from?????
He skates similar to Julien stranger
Bim
He looks tall
@joshadshade125 that's what it's all about
sal is going to come back in 2012 and fuck skating up sooo much the world is going to fall apart and he is going to win skater of the year 2013 lol
did anyone notice that at 0:37
he 5-0 one of the steps of the
wallenberg 4??? !!!
Yeah if you watch old skate videos they just skated the ledges there
The first one to actually hop the gap was mark gonzales
Also f s blunt slide
@joshadshade125
too much switch = Jereme Rogers
Sooo poppy
hes goofy?
could you not ruin the video with the jesus stuff at the end... save yourself not me.
he was overrated
Timeless...