Me and my sister loved this video part as a kid. It was one of our favorites. Watching it now I realize why it was so cool. Mike V has great style, and the way they just send him down a sidewalk and whatever happens makes it in the video is so awesome. Its not like these days where they take months to film a part and try to perfect every trick. We get to see tricks with style and character, and even the few slip-ups ended up flowing into other tricks and it just came together so well. Mike V be proud of this one!
My friends and I also loved this video on vhs copied 100 times to share 😆 My friend had lime green elephant Deck. Never understood how he rode it, it always felt heavy. I had a few Jeff Kendall ones with independent shocks, can't recall the wheels tho 😆. We're old. Lol man we're old.
Mike complained about how that was him warming up but Peralta insisted on using that. He left out some of his best stuff that was filmed, which you can see in his "Sponsored" documentary. The Speed Freaks video was also His zenith at progression before it began to wane with Rubbish Heap.
WHAT!!!!! STREET SKATING IN IT'S PUREST SIMPLEST FORM!!! LOVE THE OLD-SCHOOL STYLE BRO!!! MIKEY V. KILLING IT REPRESENTING NJ, NY, PHILLY AND THE WHOLE EAST COAST!!!
@@Goggalor1990 just admit you suck and don't like watching good skaters because it makes you feel down about your own skating and want to quit. Im not great either but I love watching new shit and how crazy skating has got, this video is complete ASS just like MIke "HOTTER AND HOTTER AND HOTTER" Vallely. Its hilarious that even the kook lame ass Braille skaters make Mike "im a badass" Vallely look foolish on a skateboard. When a chinless Pedo like Aaron Kyro can out skate you I think its time to hang up the Pro moniker
Watching MV ollie the shopping trolley blew my mind. After first watching this back in 88 (aged 13) I tried the same although clipped the trolley, face planted, knocked out my front teeth & and broke my wrist. Greatest days of my life ;-)
Yeah, that was nuts. Even if it was off a curb. I remember ollieing a mini shopping cart on it's side. Looked at it years later and had no idea how I could have done that. And I remember it was on a Powell Ripper board that had the tail so wore down that it seemed almost non-existent. I don't think I hardly even popped the tail when I ollied on that thing.
@Colton R I don't think I've ever felt better in life than when I was in the zone like that. There is one day that I can remember from probably 1988. Me and a couple friends were skating at a truck stop that had a weigh station that had a ledge. I was hitting every trick I tried. My friends couldn't believe it. I was laughing. Of course by today's standards what I was doing was nothing. I never forgot that day over all these years. I was riding a Kele Roscrans board which I later lost into Lake Michigan while skating on the Chicago lakefront. A couple years ago, I found that Vision still makes that exact deck which I bought. The guy at the shop said they even still use the same press. Pretty cool.
man im 13 and i would kill to live in those days. my dad was sponcerd by santa cruz believe it or not and he tolt me what it was like in thise days and it sounded like so much fun.
Still my favorite skater ☺️ love his aggressiveness and willingness to not give up his roots. I'm the only skater in my town who does 'streetplants' and boneless variations
When i started skateboarding i didn't realize how amazing his style was cause i couldn't ollie up curbs and ollie of stairs. But i learned how to ollie of stairs and how to ollie up curbs and now i realize how amazing he style is. Just improvising while rolling down the streets and when you mess up a trick just make it another cool trick. And another reason is that i just love to roll down the streets and do my thing.
@@nathanbellamy1976 Dude, skateboarding is not easy. If it was the. nobody would be doing the easiest thing on the planet which is clocking into work and giving your time and independent thinking over to a greedy industry.
The_ _EquAsian skaters today are basically pussies XD I gave to look up to mike and chris cole cause god forbid any girl be good or inspiring. Im 22. Your gen is better than mine and smarter. Trust me mines a bunch or pussies.
Mike V was my favorite skater growing up. It’s a shame he doesn’t get the respect he deserves. Street skating as it exists today for all these Instagram skaters wouldn’t exist without the help of Mike V. In the days of x games and mega ramp nonsense Mike V was doing the real shit in the streets all along. Was always my biggest influence. Nowadays Eric Winkowski is my favorite for the same reasons, he’s keeping style alive.
@@Djc00lness back in the 80s when I was a teen (I'm old) my very first deck was a Lance Mountain, and my second was a Vallely. Noses on those things didn't freaking exist 😂
A friend once advised me to get a Vallely deck. I'd never heard of him but I was about to buy a new one, I couldn't decide between Vallely's deck or Gregor Rankine's. I went with Vallely's and to this day I still reckon it was my favourite deck, just a great shape and I loved the elephant graphic 🤘👍
There's rereleases of it around right now. I think just the concave might be modernized a lot. Same shape, bottom and top graphic. Saw on Amazon and eBay.
Seriously man I played the Tony hawk games religiously and I remembered it being valley like it was yesterday, there was a clip on RUclips talking about how he got called valley for a while and there was confusion but I haven’t seen it in a while
Holy shit bro I just found this out about 2 years ago as well I think your on to something. I know for a 1000 percent fact it was mike valley, I remember someone in the game literally saying “hey look it’s mike valley”
OK one more comment, this guy is so smooth and fluid and it's such a sign of the times that he can pull off 20 super technical street moves and doesn't need a group hug from his posse 🤣🤣
Natas, Vallely, Gonz ripped the streets... they created street skating..with out them and the mutt...Mullen the popsicle board would have ever been dreamed of...
He used the same technique that Alan Gelfand used when he first did it on tranny. Everyone knows Mullen created a million tricks but it was Gonz who took it to the streets first. Mike V was along for the ride too but not as influential on today’s skating as Gonz.
"People always come up to me and say "you're my favorite skateboarder.. for old school!" and what people don't realize, is that when I was doing this stuff, it wasn't old school" - Quote from mike vallely...
This was huge back in late 80's...Stacey Peralta was a genius for the way he changed Suburbia EVERYWHERE.. *Every suburb in every state had a skate scene because of STacey... *Funny how tech Mike V would become after this and how he became known for being old school though.... Funny 2.0 how Mike V didn't take the BS from World Idustries ghetto skaters...
It's like watching the old videos of Tom Penny in Sorry when he's a kid. Those heavy boards and flop style just lend themselves to a unique type of skating. It's honestly really cool to watch. My cousin gave me his old Powell Peralta setup he used in like 91 when I first started skating. I thought it huge, old, and lame and got rid of it probably around '01. Stupid decision. Man I wish I would've kept that thing.
it wasn't nearly as fishtailed as some of the older late 80s decks. I remember it being more tapered than a lot of the other boards. Definitely not a popsicle board, but you can see the trend of symmetric shapes starting with his board. Powell was even promoting his deck as the "deep spoon nose", which was much bigger than anything else in the Powell lineup at the time.
I fuckin love this kind of skating...Just cruise street, get your tricks from A to B. Don't give a shit if you fail, just continue.....I so wish I could do that.
Gonz fav part is Mike V..? Wow that says alot. Kinda forgot how good this part was & still is.The nine club brought me here...when i think no comply usually Ray Barbie comes to mind but Mike Vs got a real sick one too
i got to skate at your demo in ashland mike...you were on crutches mike santarossa was thier mike drake and me mike seely....i saw the place where you 180 at balboa banks over what it was thanks to los angelos i got perspective on you anilitied...thanks mike v... in one of your early parts i watched your shoe tie itself.... .sk8 mike skate skate...thanks for your real. i will be the only one who remembers the conversation we had....legend up in your mirror
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"Oh, so you want to go skating." In homage of Mike Vallely, my friends and I used to always say that.
so did we,
but were too scared to caveman the rail outside the front door.
@@DVLjack lol same here
Me and my sister loved this video part as a kid. It was one of our favorites. Watching it now I realize why it was so cool. Mike V has great style, and the way they just send him down a sidewalk and whatever happens makes it in the video is so awesome. Its not like these days where they take months to film a part and try to perfect every trick. We get to see tricks with style and character, and even the few slip-ups ended up flowing into other tricks and it just came together so well. Mike V be proud of this one!
My friends and I also loved this video on vhs copied 100 times to share 😆 My friend had lime green elephant Deck. Never understood how he rode it, it always felt heavy. I had a few Jeff Kendall ones with independent shocks, can't recall the wheels tho 😆. We're old. Lol man we're old.
At 4:20 I love how Mike starts running after the fakieflip and just keeps going. Don't ever stop!
it's like you can watch him get better at skating as the video goes on.
He has an amazing style, when he messes up a trick he just improvises and turns it into another trick.
Mike complained about how that was him warming up but Peralta insisted on using that. He left out some of his best stuff that was filmed, which you can see in his "Sponsored" documentary. The Speed Freaks video was also His zenith at progression before it began to wane with Rubbish Heap.
@@Nominay he seems like he's just fucking around and having fun and experimenting
"Oh so you want to go skating"
WHAT!!!!! STREET SKATING IN IT'S PUREST SIMPLEST FORM!!! LOVE THE OLD-SCHOOL STYLE BRO!!! MIKEY V. KILLING IT REPRESENTING NJ, NY, PHILLY AND THE WHOLE EAST COAST!!!
You know it's a classic when lines consist of 20 Ollie's and grabs. I love it
When it didn't need to be a dolphin flip down a 12 stair to be impressive lol. My kind of skating.
Wallrides, nosetips and grabs downstairs
@@Goggalor1990 Your type of skating is called amateur lol.
@@slimslam69 children be seem, not heard
@@Goggalor1990 just admit you suck and don't like watching good skaters because it makes you feel down about your own skating and want to quit. Im not great either but I love watching new shit and how crazy skating has got, this video is complete ASS just like MIke "HOTTER AND HOTTER AND HOTTER" Vallely. Its hilarious that even the kook lame ass Braille skaters make Mike "im a badass" Vallely look foolish on a skateboard. When a chinless Pedo like Aaron Kyro can out skate you I think its time to hang up the Pro moniker
the way he lands at 2:53 is so stylish, love it
That specifically spoke to me
Caveman is a very underrated trick.
@@JarthenGreenmeadow yup do a caveman with an Indy grab and it looks way cooler in pics than video
I'm glad to have grown up in a time where, when this part came out, it was astonishing. Same with Danny Way's part in Public Domain too.
When Gonz speaks, you need to listen.
Pure genius, raw talent. Unreal
Watching MV ollie the shopping trolley blew my mind. After first watching this back in 88 (aged 13) I tried the same although clipped the trolley, face planted, knocked out my front teeth & and broke my wrist. Greatest days of my life ;-)
Yeah, that was nuts. Even if it was off a curb. I remember ollieing a mini shopping cart on it's side. Looked at it years later and had no idea how I could have done that. And I remember it was on a Powell Ripper board that had the tail so wore down that it seemed almost non-existent. I don't think I hardly even popped the tail when I ollied on that thing.
@Colton R I don't think I've ever felt better in life than when I was in the zone like that. There is one day that I can remember from probably 1988. Me and a couple friends were skating at a truck stop that had a weigh station that had a ledge. I was hitting every trick I tried. My friends couldn't believe it. I was laughing. Of course by today's standards what I was doing was nothing. I never forgot that day over all these years. I was riding a Kele Roscrans board which I later lost into Lake Michigan while skating on the Chicago lakefront. A couple years ago, I found that Vision still makes that exact deck which I bought. The guy at the shop said they even still use the same press. Pretty cool.
he even makes the sketchy stuff look amazing
dude the way Mike V. lands these tricks is so amazing!! He and Rodney Mullen are both phenomenal skaters!!
that energy and editing, that's a really well done part, holds up surprisingly well
man im 13 and i would kill to live in those days. my dad was sponcerd by santa cruz believe it or not and he tolt me what it was like in thise days and it sounded like so much fun.
jus do made drugs and itll be the same
It was the best! I was your age when Public Domain came out, I was so blessed to start skating in this era!!!
aight kid you're 19 now, are you sponsored yet, or does your dad think you're a failure?
Same
Was a Great time.
Wow just wow, and this right here is the birth of modern street skating. What beast Mike was back in the day
Love ya Vallely!
You helped me in ALOTTA ways homie, stay strong!
Still my favorite skater ☺️ love his aggressiveness and willingness to not give up his roots. I'm the only skater in my town who does 'streetplants' and boneless variations
Man
When i started skateboarding i didn't realize how amazing his style was cause i couldn't ollie up curbs and ollie of stairs. But i learned how to ollie of stairs and how to ollie up curbs and now i realize how amazing he style is. Just improvising while rolling down the streets and when you mess up a trick just make it another cool trick. And another reason is that i just love to roll down the streets and do my thing.
Bring back the Airwalk Prototypes
Fuck yes
Egnimas where better
I had an unworn pair of those I'd saved all these years till about a year ago. My partner threw them out. True story.
@@nathanbellamy3308 that sucks man, they were so ahead of their time.
@@nathanbellamy3308 grounds for a breakup right there
wow almost 30 ago and is still AWESOME!!!
Unreal board control.
Glen Pls Forever...
i'm here cause of the 9club :)
severin häring same brotha
Basically the creator of the first modern board. We used to call it the double tail...! I had it as soon as it came out and it was my favorite board !
Mike's flow will remain forever unmatched.
Andy anderson
Dude this amazing the begeing of an unbeliveable era
wish skating was still like this.
S K what? Easy? Hahaha
@@nathanbellamy1976 No, for fun. Rather than doing like twelve different variations of the ollie. It looks cool and fun.
@@nathanbellamy1976 Dude, skateboarding is not easy. If it was the. nobody would be doing the easiest thing on the planet which is clocking into work and giving your time and independent thinking over to a greedy industry.
nathanbellamy1976 try some of this shit on an old school board it’s hard as hell
@@larrybanks867 No its not lol
We need to bring this style back
nah
Used watch this when I was a kid. My favriot video
he was soooo ahead of his time
the man who helped birth modern street skating in a classic part.
Nice!!!!
my fav sticker i owned back then. love this vid. Vallely, Hawk, Caballero and Nash were my favs in mid to late 80's
Mike V. I was thirteen when this came out. When skateboarding had soul.
So remember watching that video rad from start to finish legand 👊
I hate my generation I'm 17 and teens younger will not appreciate how amazing this shit is
The_ _EquAsian skaters today are basically pussies XD I gave to look up to mike and chris cole cause god forbid any girl be good or inspiring. Im 22. Your gen is better than mine and smarter. Trust me mines a bunch or pussies.
Hey fuck you, lady
Mike V was my favorite skater growing up. It’s a shame he doesn’t get the respect he deserves. Street skating as it exists today for all these Instagram skaters wouldn’t exist without the help of Mike V. In the days of x games and mega ramp nonsense Mike V was doing the real shit in the streets all along. Was always my biggest influence. Nowadays Eric Winkowski is my favorite for the same reasons, he’s keeping style alive.
True. A lot of this is like a skate scene in an eighties movies with less cuts. Which is amazing
Damn, Vallely and the Brooklyn Banks.. this was a golden era
Mike V. has a Militant street style to his sk8ting.
He nollied over that speed bump with an old school deck, that was cool.
That shit went hard asf haha small ass nose
@@Djc00lness back in the 80s when I was a teen (I'm old) my very first deck was a Lance Mountain, and my second was a Vallely. Noses on those things didn't freaking exist 😂
@@GroinFaceGroin nope, no noses! I street skated with a Hosoi. Ha!
A friend once advised me to get a Vallely deck. I'd never heard of him but I was about to buy a new one, I couldn't decide between Vallely's deck or Gregor Rankine's. I went with Vallely's and to this day I still reckon it was my favourite deck, just a great shape and I loved the elephant graphic 🤘👍
There's rereleases of it around right now. I think just the concave might be modernized a lot. Same shape, bottom and top graphic. Saw on Amazon and eBay.
I had that same one. loved that board too.
yeah I loved the design and would buy it again because of it but man, I couldn't skate that board!!!! It felt way too big for me.
@@oliveuk also the tail wasn't raised as much as most decks but I felt that improved my ollies, he was recognised for his outrageous ollies 👍
I love how when he messes up he plays it off so well.
You can always tell a Powell video by the cheesy guitar riffs and weird Animal Chin-esque sound effects
Watched this for the first time since I was 18 in '89. Loved Animal Chin 'Instrumental drop in' @ 1:38
That IS a rad part! Haven't watched it in a couple decades
It looks like his whole part was filmed in one Day. Amazing.
Woah! Gonzales and Vallely were my hero’s back then! Loved Vallely for his rawness, Gonzales for his sleaziness 💢👊🏼💢
Filmed and edited beautifully. We should all take notes.
This is a sick part for sure!
Such brilliant style
That kick flip at 4:07 made me feel a lot better that that is what mine looked like in 1991. I think my friends called them kick rolls.
BigSirZebras It kind of looks like a pressure flip.
We make fun of my homie mark for flipping like tha and call them rocket stands
@@icemansxl yeah here in nz we just call it "rocketing"
@Switch Dolphin dude those things really are hard to pop and flip
Waiting for this winter to end so I can get out and skate my old school board.
I remember seeing this vid when I was 9 hell yea he’s in Liberty State park. I haven’t seen this in over 30years. I love RUclips! 🔥👏🏻
Totally communicating with the concrete, what a wonderful conversation. 🤙🙏
THIS IS AWESOME...everything is sooo old looking.
Talk about old school I freaking love it man
Gonz is brilliant, this video section is what you call skateboarding
After 32 years of being a fan of this man's existence....today I realized that his last name is not "Valley"...this is some Mandela Effect F'ery.
Seriously man I played the Tony hawk games religiously and I remembered it being valley like it was yesterday, there was a clip on RUclips talking about how he got called valley for a while and there was confusion but I haven’t seen it in a while
Note, even Gonz mispronounced his name
Holy shit bro I just found this out about 2 years ago as well I think your on to something. I know for a 1000 percent fact it was mike valley, I remember someone in the game literally saying “hey look it’s mike valley”
You can see the World Trade Center at 3:37.
yea they look like ghosts :(
You cant see the World Trade Center in 2019
@@deadthemore3660 no shit because they're gone
Happy 9/11 never forget
Glad to was a kid back then
Bro, I see what he means by amazing energy! This part has an awesome vibe
That was amazing!
Met Mike yesterday. He just moved to my state 🙏🏽
What state is that?
I remember I used to have this on VHS lol I miss this
Fs wallrides are so dope.
Can we appreciate the fact that this was filmed in two completely different states (NY and Washington DC)?
OK one more comment, this guy is so smooth and fluid and it's such a sign of the times that he can pull off 20 super technical street moves and doesn't need a group hug from his posse 🤣🤣
Who is in quarentine in 2020 watching this great video ?
It's always good to see where you come from
Fuck if I havnt stumbled getting where I'm going
thats because he's skating for fun not profit now a days its not the same as the 70's and 80's
Natas, Vallely, Gonz ripped the streets... they created street skating..with out them and the mutt...Mullen the popsicle board would have ever been dreamed of...
And Eric Dressin
Umm what?? Mullen invented the flat ground Ollie and kickflip
He used the same technique that Alan Gelfand used when he first did it on tranny. Everyone knows Mullen created a million tricks but it was Gonz who took it to the streets first. Mike V was along for the ride too but not as influential on today’s skating as Gonz.
No comply impossible, that's crazy
4:03
"People always come up to me and say "you're my favorite skateboarder.. for old school!" and what people don't realize, is that when I was doing this stuff, it wasn't old school" - Quote from mike vallely...
Wow DC looks amazing back then. Can't believe how few people there were at all the monuments and how clean it was.
This was huge back in late 80's...Stacey Peralta was a genius for the way he changed Suburbia EVERYWHERE..
*Every suburb in every state had a skate scene because of STacey...
*Funny how tech Mike V would become after this and how he became known for being old school though....
Funny 2.0 how Mike V didn't take the BS from World Idustries ghetto skaters...
Mike was an inspiration to me for Years.. since his fist board. my favorate was the barnyard animals... would love to have one of those decks!..
This brought back so many memories of being 14 years old
Oh the feeling of my mind getting blown in the late 80s is coming back hard. Hey Kids, thanks for not rollerblading!
mike is awesome man. hes always skated hard
That music makes me cry...
hahaha my mate told me about this, he was totally right. The skating is amazing good, and amazingly sketchy!! Love mike V
When skating didn't have to be perfect, this is what used to get me hyped to just go!!
this is rad, man
It's like watching the old videos of Tom Penny in Sorry when he's a kid. Those heavy boards and flop style just lend themselves to a unique type of skating. It's honestly really cool to watch. My cousin gave me his old Powell Peralta setup he used in like 91 when I first started skating. I thought it huge, old, and lame and got rid of it probably around '01. Stupid decision. Man I wish I would've kept that thing.
Favorite board, I ever skated.
It's nuts that he was able to do all this on an old-school fishtail board.
That half cab flip to fakie flip on the boardwalk, was absolutely insane. So hard to do on those old school Powell decks.
it wasn't nearly as fishtailed as some of the older late 80s decks.
I remember it being more tapered than a lot of the other boards. Definitely not a popsicle board, but you can see the trend of symmetric shapes starting with his board. Powell was even promoting his deck as the "deep spoon nose", which was much bigger than anything else in the Powell lineup at the time.
I love the energy
Watched that on VHS a million times
Salute to the legend!
Awesome - we don't see enough Mike.
I fuckin love this kind of skating...Just cruise street, get your tricks from A to B. Don't give a shit if you fail, just continue.....I so wish I could do that.
The way he jumps and lands in 2:54 looks like part of a video game :o
shouts to Rutgers at 2:09. That's my old dorm back there.
Where is it? NYC?
@@philb5945 Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ - some in Deiner Park, some on College Ave near Brower Commons
Gonz fav part is Mike V..? Wow that says alot. Kinda forgot how good this part was & still is.The nine club brought me here...when i think no comply usually Ray Barbie comes to mind but Mike Vs got a real sick one too
He still wears that shirt to this day!
Fucken hell, that's some badass skating.
Wow! Mike V inspires me to be on the street everyday. Too bad I can't do that.
2:15-3:15 holy shit thats deiner park. I recently picked up skating, and have spent alot of time skating that spot! Looks exactly the same
i got to skate at your demo in ashland mike...you were on crutches mike santarossa was thier mike drake and me mike seely....i saw the place where you 180 at balboa banks over what it was thanks to los angelos i got perspective on you anilitied...thanks mike v...
in one of your early parts i watched your shoe tie itself....
.sk8 mike skate skate...thanks for your real.
i will be the only one who remembers the conversation we had....legend up in your mirror