Yeah its crazy to see this Grosso and what he looked like on the later episodes we straight up got to watch him get old old on this show, shit there's probably some kids who grew up with this hahaha
I love it! Such memories! We skated this parking lot full of curbs at an old folks home for a few years. Wax those curbs n slide n grind forev! We started getting booted, until the old folks complained, guess they loved watching us both destroy the curbs, but also give the security guys hell! Gods bless those cool ass old folks! Think it helped that we skated to firehose , not usual punk rock stuff at the ramp we had when older.
Man, been watching these all over again. Bummed. The Grossman has always been in my top 5. What a bummer. Hope his family is doing alright. We areso lucky to have all this footage of him
I skated with Jeremy Henderson down in Key West in 1990ish and he was doing slappies on unpainted, unwaxed curbs. Just leaned back and shralped through it.
I'm tearing up. Every hero of mine is in this. I skated street from 1984-1997 pretty hard. This video was amazing. watched all these videos growing up. R.I.P. Grosso... I always wanted to be part of this family. Thanks guys for everything.
curbs & jersey barrier skating are my favorite things to skate. FS slappies took a while. i learned to skate jersey barriers by waiting until highway traffic was zilch so i could run into the middle of the road and shred that shit lol. Then i found a spot beside an old folks which the fucking love
Hell yeah man I was about 15 around 95 and those were the best times of my life.. you don’t really appreciate it until your older, made me start skating again
As an old skater I can appreciate this so much! True to life for real, all those dude’s are my heroes, please don’t anyone ever give your opinion when you don’t ride? Ok
all the names from when I was skating were magic. ....and still are..... I love my life....I always think I wanted to live my life loving george Harrison and making music but when u live the life of skating in the 80s u know your blessed you know who u r.......tom groholski Toni hawk jasson jessee losi nooooooo gator this was my time and it was great
Natas in Wheels of Fire, Tom Knox in Speed Freaks, Eric Dressen In Streets On Fire and Matt Hensley in that H Street video opened my mind to what was possible on curbs... 1993 in Atlanta Dave Holbrook R.I.P. used a caulk gun, tube if Liquid Nails industrial adhesive to glue a piece of angle iron about10 feet long onto a granite curb in front of his house to do slappees on, we skated that for hours at a time. I bet it’s still there...
RIP Grosso - watched Grosso in the mags since i was a kid..He a lil older than me, gonna miss this show, wish they coulda made a love letter to good ole Florida.
This is one of my favorite episodes. That dulcet sound of grinding a well broken in curb is the music of my adolescence. (Sorry to sound like a fortune cookie)
Absolutely fantastic. There was an eight foot curb in the corporate park behind my house that I must have slid and grinded 1000's of times in the late 80s and early 90s. I never thought of it back then, but it was kind of a dance. It's funny when I drive by it now. It's just another curb. Grizzled, un-waxed, un-touched. That curb and I share a secret though, and that secret is awesome.
The control Julien had on the blunt where he rolls out fakie was JasonLee/Jovante levels of smooth.. This hypes me for sure. I want a Julien deck but his Syringe model is too big and wide. What did Julien have between that model and popsicle?
Jeff, I had your board and I loved it! Beautiful board. Red stained canadian maple. Rode that thing everywhere until I discovered driving and girls. You signed a sticker for me at a demo that you and John did in Whittier I still have it somewhere. I learned to skate vert at Skate City (still have my ID). Tighten your trucks all the way and follow me. That was my lesson. Curbs do rule. Another thing is that you could spend hours with some surf wax and a curb.
without curbs i would have never learned how to boardslide,noseslide, 50-50, etc. Best feeling in the world at 11 years old and......29. Yikes i`m old!
Curbs and parking blocks was all I really had to skate growing up in the late 80's. There weren't any parks where I lived and the street spots were shit. We didn't have shit to skate so we spent hours in the parking lot at this bank.
Learning good backside grinds atm. Gotten some good full block ones, no full speed ones yet though. Glad I started doing them. It feels good getting up there, loose Indy's ftw
Honestly the reason I went outside and decided to be a skateboarder was because I saw a pro on TV killing handrails session a curb and say that it was his favorite thing to do but everyone wants the handrails. At the time it made actually doing tricks so accessible for me.
I still remember when I saw a no comply for the first time. Can't remember what vid though...I spent the next month skating at the bank beating up the curbs and blocks non stop. Maybe Animal Chin.....
All hail the curb you know that rolling onto a painted red curb was your first trick. me and a friend had great times with curbs for hours when we started. as i progressed to other friends they hated them me too no curbs in a video part (unless you are rodney mullen)
I used to ollie curbs before I got my injury but I never really figured out how to hit a curb to get my ass to grind/slide like that. Looks phat though!
thanks dude! you kinda re-inspired me to go into my neighborhood and fix me up a curb. i ended up smoothing it out with a old truck hanger and waxing the shit out of it, it dont grind quite yet but im still ganna work that shit till it does!
RIP Grosso. Really gonna miss this show.
Matt Larsen I hope they do one more as a love letter to grosso with all the people that loved him.
Mee to bro
Yeah its crazy to see this Grosso and what he looked like on the later episodes we straight up got to watch him get old old on this show, shit there's probably some kids who grew up with this hahaha
How did he die?
Jon Gray Jeff passed away from a heart attack
This is my favorite love letter. RIP JEFF GROSSO
same here , GROSSO FOREVER
Yes curbs are funner than a 10 million dollar rollercoaster
way more funner
yes yes yes!!!! well spoken
Bowls too
This episode never gets old
Jay Dilla I've watched every love letter and I still watch them all the time 👍👍
These are cultural jems of skating i need this on dvd
Facts .3rd time full watch right now
I love it! Such memories!
We skated this parking lot full of curbs at an old folks home for a few years. Wax those curbs n slide n grind forev! We started getting booted, until the old folks complained, guess they loved watching us both destroy the curbs, but also give the security guys hell! Gods bless those cool ass old folks! Think it helped that we skated to firehose , not usual punk rock stuff at the ramp we had when older.
One of the best feelings I've ever had in skateboarding is slappy grinding a curb. magical.
Gonz creeps up in all of these.
Man, been watching these all over again. Bummed. The Grossman has always been in my top 5. What a bummer. Hope his family is doing alright. We areso lucky to have all this footage of him
I skated with Jeremy Henderson down in Key West in 1990ish and he was doing slappies on unpainted, unwaxed curbs. Just leaned back and shralped through it.
That friend is a true street skateboarder... period.
Painted kerbs are rare in the UK so he's used to that.
There is a huge sense of accomplishment when you slappy a virgin unpainted curb. It's like you have arrived.
@@chrissawyer4060 the frontside crunch makes your soul vibrate
I'm tearing up. Every hero of mine is in this. I skated street from 1984-1997 pretty hard. This video was amazing. watched all these videos growing up. R.I.P. Grosso...
I always wanted to be part of this family. Thanks guys for everything.
curbs & jersey barrier skating are my favorite things to skate. FS slappies took a while. i learned to skate jersey barriers by waiting until highway traffic was zilch so i could run into the middle of the road and shred that shit lol. Then i found a spot beside an old folks which the fucking love
This was by far my favorite episode.. RIP
In 1995 I was 10 years old and I ollied my first curb. I was 2 blocks from my parents house skating with my friend Jedd. It was the best feeling ever.
Hell yeah man I was about 15 around 95 and those were the best times of my life.. you don’t really appreciate it until your older, made me start skating again
As an old skater I can appreciate this so much! True to life for real, all those dude’s are my heroes, please don’t anyone ever give your opinion when you don’t ride? Ok
This is the best episode of the letters. Curbs.
julians last words! 🙌 too epic
Stage 11 Independent trucks... Slappy's could not be any easier today as they were in the 1990's. Enough said.
Shelby Hosey I agree 100% I only skate Indy’s when I’m skating curbs
@@grass49 - Indys are THE best when riding pools... hands down!
love that sound of grinding a curb, best feeling ever
all the names from when I was skating were magic. ....and still are..... I love my life....I always think I wanted to live my life loving george Harrison and making music but when u live the life of skating in the 80s u know your blessed you know who u r.......tom groholski Toni hawk jasson jessee losi nooooooo gator this was my time and it was great
Remember watching this episode when it was first posted. Got me so stoked to grind some curbs.
RIP Grosso
Some of the fondest memories of my life were skating curbs with my friends in the late 80's.
don't skate no mo but still an enthusiast and supporter. watching vids like this make me wanna get back on a board...
never too late to pick it up again
steve cliffe go skate!!
steve cliffe. me too.
Do it
Do it! Remember, you don't stop skating because you got old, you got old because you stopped skating.
Bank with Curb, still my favorite.
Had a curb session the other day , never gets old . RIP Grosso
😔🙏🏼🖤
This is the first video of his Im watching since he left us... 😔Rest In Power Grosso 🙏🏼 he’s alive in skateboarding forever
Love you Grosso.. you will live forever through skateboarding
Curbs and chaos, right on man!
Man, all these videos are an amazing walk through history. Keep 'em coming!
Skating through Portland in the 80s, no phones, only the sound of Sarge terrorizing curbs at 100 mph to alert you to where the crew was.
I could see Portland not sucking back then
Grosso's such a legend
...More fun than a ten million dollar roller-coaster, and they are free.
The Stranger anecdote at the end... everytime I'm asked to partake in civilian shit this anecdote replays in my mind.
The only thing I wish was included is old footage of Archimedes skating... Maybe it doesn't even exist.
Man, that guy was unreal.
Curbs and Chaos!
Natas in Wheels of Fire, Tom Knox in Speed Freaks, Eric Dressen In Streets On Fire and Matt Hensley in that H Street video opened my mind to what was possible on curbs... 1993 in Atlanta Dave Holbrook R.I.P. used a caulk gun, tube if Liquid Nails industrial adhesive to glue a piece of angle iron about10 feet long onto a granite curb in front of his house to do slappees on, we skated that for hours at a time. I bet it’s still there...
RIP Grosso - watched Grosso in the mags since i was a kid..He a lil older than me, gonna miss this show, wish they coulda made a love letter to good ole Florida.
Learned backside slappys today. The sound is fantastic. RIP Grosso hope your grinding some shit wherever the hell you are
This is one of my favorite episodes. That dulcet sound of grinding a well broken in curb is the music of my adolescence. (Sorry to sound like a fortune cookie)
Please, bring those series back, it will be great!!!
Used to play skate on curbs in the dead of winter. Shovel snow to skate a curb. Good times
Nothing like getting a curb waxed and adding more wax over time. It's the best feeling, I swear.
Wax sucks . Prep it properly with a rubbing brick and resin . More effort = better result .
First Loveletter I watched before Jeff Passed. Grosso forever 🤙🏼
I need to work but just can't turn off love letters !
I love when Grosso is with Lance and he said Lucero made up the slappy and when he was with Lucero he said Lance made them
Best episode yet.
Absolutely fantastic. There was an eight foot curb in the corporate park behind my house that I must have slid and grinded 1000's of times in the late 80s and early 90s. I never thought of it back then, but it was kind of a dance. It's funny when I drive by it now. It's just another curb. Grizzled, un-waxed, un-touched. That curb and I share a secret though, and that secret is awesome.
Rip to the ripper. Love you bro.
“It’s like a right angle half pipe” haha hell yeah.
this video should have over a million views
sick series JG ! More ! i love skate history and the footage highlites.
super great episode.
“Funner than a ten million dollar roller coaster.” Julien’s outro/PS is a top-rung letters highlight.
The control Julien had on the blunt where he rolls out fakie was JasonLee/Jovante levels of smooth..
This hypes me for sure.
I want a Julien deck but his Syringe model is too big and wide.
What did Julien have between that model and popsicle?
Jeff,
I had your board and I loved it! Beautiful board. Red stained canadian maple. Rode that thing everywhere until I discovered driving and girls. You signed a sticker for me at a demo that you and John did in Whittier I still have it somewhere.
I learned to skate vert at Skate City (still have my ID). Tighten your trucks all the way and follow me. That was my lesson. Curbs do rule. Another thing is that you could spend hours with some surf wax and a curb.
Great, now I wanna skate curbs. Like I didn’t have enough problems in my life before watching this. 🤣
without curbs i would have never learned how to boardslide,noseslide, 50-50, etc. Best feeling in the world at 11 years old and......29. Yikes i`m old!
tom knox was the man at curbs .
Thank you Jeff Rich and Buddy
Curbs and parking blocks was all I really had to skate growing up in the late 80's. There weren't any parks where I lived and the street spots were shit. We didn't have shit to skate so we spent hours in the parking lot at this bank.
Gone to soon, Jeff Grosso! Legend
🖤😔🙏🏼
Best thing on YT... You are missed
How the fuck has it already been a year... was so stoked this morning to see lance post goo and those little groms and lucero doing sweepers
Gonz's part in Video Days is my all time favourite part in any video.
one of my favorite episodes of this series for sure! slappys are amazing! :p
Learning good backside grinds atm. Gotten some good full block ones, no full speed ones yet though. Glad I started doing them. It feels good getting up there, loose Indy's ftw
Red curbs saved my life back in the day. Lmao.
Honestly the reason I went outside and decided to be a skateboarder was because I saw a pro on TV killing handrails session a curb and say that it was his favorite thing to do but everyone wants the handrails. At the time it made actually doing tricks so accessible for me.
Holy shit, the soundtrack on this one. CAN “Dizzy Dizzy” and PIL “Socialist” during slappy grinds ... nice!
I still remember when I saw a no comply for the first time. Can't remember what vid though...I spent the next month skating at the bank beating up the curbs and blocks non stop. Maybe Animal Chin.....
My Heart goes out to his family ..
the commentary at the end is so true. you would be some where and see a shiny new red curb of the perfect height and all you could do was lust for it.
No mention of the Curb Dogs???? lol.... crazy ass video that was hahaha
Simon Woodstock was an absolute curb killer in the late 80's n early 90's. Stoked on that picture of Gavin O'Brien at 7:33 !
amazing content
Well that was pure joy.
1st board tom knox everslick, hot pink grip indy stage 6 i believe. 1st skate vid Zorlac Zero Hero. & curbs were my best friend!!
What is the name of the song with Natas skating? Captain song.
Firehose "Brave Captain".
Hey what's up Julian, Danny S. and Arco! *Had to have that old Safeway curb in there. :) *A.
All hail the curb you know that rolling onto a painted red curb was your first trick. me and a friend had great times with curbs for hours when we started. as i progressed to other friends they hated them me too no curbs in a video part (unless you are rodney mullen)
A+ on the P.I.L. tune!
what is the beginning song. its beautiful. it reminds me of if the Eagles and led zeppelin had a baby
Great Video
So much fun
Roll In Peace. Champion.
Anyone know which video the blender clip is from ?
Need to see in full !!! (on the red curb)
+Russell Wells -in powell's "Ban This" those clips and even more are featured in Lance Mountain his part. Check it out it's on RUclips.
Lucero's plank-like skateboard is so cool!
Bit of "Dizzy Dizzy" by Can going on in the background, I appreciate.
so glad someone spotted this
It's Lance Mountain skating, so a Powell video, I'd assume. Don't know which.
I used to ollie curbs before I got my injury but I never really figured out how to hit a curb to get my ass to grind/slide like that. Looks phat though!
RIP GROSSO LOVE YOU BROTHA
Does anyone know the name of the ledge spot on palmetto st. It's near where they shot it's always sunny
Curbs forever. My broken old body misses slappies more than anything.
God bless you Jeff xx 😇
Why was there no mention of Jason Adams
2:17 frontside crooks on a curb!!! ALL HAIL WHO EVER THE HELL!!!!!!
@crashedupderby thats a front feeble bud. but still sick though
Thanks grosso for showing me curbs
thanks dude! you kinda re-inspired me to go into my neighborhood and fix me up a curb. i ended up smoothing it out with a old truck hanger and waxing the shit out of it, it dont grind quite yet but im still ganna work that shit till it does!
best episode, always wondered what those were called, 5:30, "Natas called them tootsie wall curbs"
Mark Reategui - "Tootsie Roll" curbs (named after the shape of the candy)
Which name of the video with Lance Mountain skate a curb in 3:59?
Hmm...i think it is wierd/funny that no mention was made to Mike V's curb skating..they just showed that one Mo Comply over the double parking block