Woke up in this lady's yard with her screaming and crying and yelling at me with a broken clavicle, no skin on my palms and hip and a concussion, I didn't know my name or home phone number. The street was called Gault in El Cajon in 1978. My mom was so pissed when she got to the hospital. I smelled like shit all summer because i wouldn't shower because of the pain. Good times.
Hills are how everyone should learn how to ride a skateboard. Start on small hill learn to carve. Nowadays kids can kick flip before the even learn to push properly 😂
I grew up on a fairly steep street with a long curve in it. You weren't allowed to skate with the big kids til you started off on the top driveway (so steep you couldnt park cars on it in the winter when it snowed) and bomb the whole way. You had 2 choices ar the bottom, attempt to make the corner on to the next street where it was flat or superman it onto the grass field. Good times.
I am a godawful skater, but one time I bombed this big-ass hill in my friend's neighborhood and didn't bail. It's probably one of my proudest moments in my life.
I fucking love skateboarding. It’s like nothing else in the world and I’m glad to have a family all over the world that can agree to the same feelings that go through our body when we even THINK about skateboarding
I hit the wobbles going the fastest i've ever been on a skatie and spent the next 3 months growing my skin back. Still get sweaty palms watching footage like this 20 years later!
I love how Hewitt is pretty much always rolling a joint or always looking bombed whenever he’s featured in these videos. Pedro’s fs inverts are otherworldly
Fractured upper humerus straight across and shoulder head in a perfect Mercedes emblem..... bombing a hill in Leland , Mi. ten years ago....... physical therapy for almost nine months.
Dude at the end pulled an Andy Macdonald and damn near wrote an open letter to "the industry" letting them know he was coming to dominate. I wonder how his campaign went... Oh, and it's about fucking time we got a new season of Love Letters! Never stop.
Levi's Haka stance combined w/ The Hut Tuck is the best way to go about hills imo. 💪🏾🤙🏾 I'm a big&tall sk8r who nvr got too much into technical sk8n, and as i got older i wanted to git gud @ something i could still do, which was go fast. My favorite way to hit a comfy hill is to barge it open-armed like Hawken, then slowly lower down into more of a face-first Hutson style when the speeds get higher. Riding out all the speed once u reach flat is so satisfying💨💨 Loose trucks w/ med/hard bushings save lives. That way they wobble less initially, and are more stable @ higher speeds, but still respond when u want a deeper carve. Go Sk8!😅😅
Hey! More Loveletters- :) My fav. run in S.F.- from the top of Haight St. all the way down to the Mission district and then catch the 22Filmore back up to the top of Haight- rinse/repeat. (Golden Gate Park to Ocean Beach was fun too...) Wouldn't trade those years for anything! Best, *A.
gunner murphy In my opinion people on both sides who think "longboarding" is something different from skateboarding are kooks who don't know their own history. Notice they didn't say "longboarding" anywhere in this video. This is Loveletters to Skateboarding. Good on ya Grosso!!!
There's real longboarders that go just as hard and style, especially downhill. Then you have the college campus longboard posers. Definitely a big difference.
About 15 yrs ago in halifax ns i bombed from the Commons down to Barrington street with 5 fruends after we collectively drank about 4 quarts of rum..Double hill so its 2 blocks hill/ flat / hill with a loose right turn to downtown at the bottom..everybody ate shit except for me.i ride mad loose trucks and my speed wobbles were so bad they turned into vibrations like i was riding 20 flatspots ..pretty much prepared to die but rode it out down past Barrington Mall...big party after that! In over 35 yrs skating that was probably my favorite thing i ever did! Glad to see you back Grosso!
Bobby Bell haha thats nuts. I've done lacewood in Clayton park naked and then skated down to the common and dropped in the bowl still naked. 3am drunk as shit.
speed wobbles happen when your rear truck starts to try to steer the board instead of your front truck. you can eliminate speed wobbles by running a differential tightness on your front and rear truck (tighter rear truck than front truck) and always keeping your weight over the front truck. It doesn't have to be much tighter but I bomb hella hills and its been a minute since I caught speed wobbs. you can always set your board back when you go to the park
I love the respect that these guys have for downhill skating. As a downhill skater its cool to see that they view us that way. But mad props to you street, and park skaters as well I've tried it as well a crusin some parks and its so different and hard.
Justin Gough Indy is just trying to win you over so you'll but their longboard trucks, very few of the people here actually respect longboarders, if they did then they would bomb hills on longboards.
I'm so fucking stoked to have the letters back , welcome back grosso , and to kick it off with such a gnarly episode ( although I'm suprised no one mentioned the gx100 guys )
best hill-bomb of my life was on some shrooms... greatest feeling in the world so I did it about 15-20 times over and over again. Skateboarding is bliss
Faaked myself up proper when i was about 12. Saw Thrashin for the first time and had no idea what bombing a hill could lead up to. Needless to say i got fucked up good and proper. Its been almost 30 years later and still loving skateboarding.
Welcome back, Grosso! Nothing fills me with more anxiety than watching downhill. Maybe it’s sick adrenaline. Haven’t bombed a hill in years. Anyway, glad you’re back.
dayyyuumm that was fuggin sick. those slams !!!!! had me screw faced pretty bad lol. And didnt know the nek minnut dude ( Levi Hawken ) was a downhill beast props man killing it :) love this series
Gerwer is an American hero. I didn't know anything about downhill skate culture... I assumed it was weird old guys in aerodynamic armor, but these dudes are BUCK!!
Me and my best friend just threw a hill bomb event today we had like 50 people show up just from sharing the fuck out of a single post on instagram. Skateboarding always provides! We miss you jeff hope you’re hauling ass with some good homies in sone kind of spirit.
Sickkkkk! Great first episode for new season. Lil SDRE Seven in there too. Where's the TA episode/doc movie?? Love this show been frothing patiently for this return👍
Definitely did some hill bombs! Used to take an old box number plate and cut the shape of an open hand out of it, hot glue it to a gardening glove and use it as downhill gloves.
Man l was out fishing since May in Alaska and damn new love letters are out fantastic. Going down hill was the coolest after skating ramp. Hey let go to that part of town that has a big hill Jaja.
Sean Young bombing that SF hill in the rain and pushing while he did it is the coldest hill bomb ever. VERY close 2nd is Nuges hill bomb that was in his My War video also the Australian dude looks like an alien or something. Gnarly skater though lol
My 5 yr old daughter just discovered hill-bombing and instantly loved it. As a skater dad, I'm both super-proud and terrified at the same time because she's definitely no stranger to hospitals already
Woke up in this lady's yard with her screaming and crying and yelling at me with a broken clavicle, no skin on my palms and hip and a concussion, I didn't know my name or home phone number. The street was called Gault in El Cajon in 1978. My mom was so pissed when she got to the hospital. I smelled like shit all summer because i wouldn't shower because of the pain. Good times.
Michael Dismukes Gnarley!
This is a legendary comment
oh my god man
Hell yeah
Fuckin A!! \m/
Show of hands if you've bombed some hills!
Ethan Atwell 🖐️'s
You're gonna see a lot of skinned palms hahaha
Let's hope so! Gotta pay your dues lol
i left a lot of elbow meats on san franciscos
By far my worst 2 slams were on hills. 1 acorn and I didn't have a chin for a Summer
Speed wobbles: The hardest trick to land....dayum
I kinda jumped off, regret it till this day.
NEVER NEVER NEVER lean back - NEVER. Its all front truck - downhill is nothing like street and pool skating, nothing like it.
not for Sean Greene
The realest shit.
Them dreaded wobbles.
Hills are how everyone should learn how to ride a skateboard. Start on small hill learn to carve. Nowadays kids can kick flip before the even learn to push properly 😂
I grew up on a fairly steep street with a long curve in it. You weren't allowed to skate with the big kids til you started off on the top driveway (so steep you couldnt park cars on it in the winter when it snowed) and bomb the whole way. You had 2 choices ar the bottom, attempt to make the corner on to the next street where it was flat or superman it onto the grass field. Good times.
Straight up!!!! But whatevs its all good. It is funny seeing kids kickflip and struggle getting around the park lmaooo
and they go about 1mph
I am a godawful skater, but one time I bombed this big-ass hill in my friend's neighborhood and didn't bail. It's probably one of my proudest moments in my life.
I fucking love skateboarding.
It’s like nothing else in the world and I’m glad to have a family all over the world that can agree to the same feelings that go through our body when we even THINK about skateboarding
💙💙💙
skateboarding is the best
Ahh skateboarding. I love you.
Hi5 from your family in Norway!
I wish I had more friends to skate with.
Surprised frankies spitfire switch bomb wasn’t in this! That ones my all time favourite
Just a casual group of school children forming a hand held barrier across the intersection. No big deal.
I'm probably gonna watch this like 50 times just like every other episode
like without even knowing or remembering that you watched it last week on the toilet hahaha
@@reillyjarrosiak63I'm doin that same exact thing at this very moment.
I hit the wobbles going the fastest i've ever been on a skatie and spent the next 3 months growing my skin back. Still get sweaty palms watching footage like this 20 years later!
this Loveletters series is one of the best things on youtube
"Speed wobble is the hardest trick to land" very accurate! Lol
Truck Wars was a really good one. Let's see Wheel Wars
I love how Hewitt is pretty much always rolling a joint or always looking bombed whenever he’s featured in these videos. Pedro’s fs inverts are otherworldly
Fractured upper humerus straight across and shoulder head in a perfect Mercedes emblem..... bombing a hill in Leland , Mi. ten years ago....... physical therapy for almost nine months.
Thank you Vans, Six Stair, Grosso, and all others that make these incredible videos possible. Peace and Love.....
Dude at the end pulled an Andy Macdonald and damn near wrote an open letter to "the industry" letting them know he was coming to dominate. I wonder how his campaign went...
Oh, and it's about fucking time we got a new season of Love Letters! Never stop.
Levi's Haka stance combined w/ The Hut Tuck is the best way to go about hills imo. 💪🏾🤙🏾
I'm a big&tall sk8r who nvr got too much into technical sk8n, and as i got older i wanted to git gud @ something i could still do, which was go fast.
My favorite way to hit a comfy hill is to barge it open-armed like Hawken, then slowly lower down into more of a face-first Hutson style when the speeds get higher. Riding out all the speed once u reach flat is so satisfying💨💨
Loose trucks w/ med/hard bushings save lives. That way they wobble less initially, and are more stable @ higher speeds, but still respond when u want a deeper carve.
Go Sk8!😅😅
Yes! Finally a new season. Thank you guys.
Fuckin heart pumping just watching that, grin on my face like a fool. Years gone by...
So stoked the letters are back
The best skateboarding show ever!!!
I lived in the Lower Haight in the 90's. No footed nose wheelies down Fillmore on my BMX to start my day! Glad these videos are back!
Finally ! Waiting for new episodes takes too long. At 45 yrs old I don't have the god dam patience to wait !
Hey! More Loveletters- :) My fav. run in S.F.- from the top of Haight St. all the way down to the Mission district and then catch the 22Filmore back up to the top of Haight- rinse/repeat. (Golden Gate Park to Ocean Beach was fun too...) Wouldn't trade those years for anything! Best, *A.
Andrew Moore - yes! I still bomb Height all the time, I'm right off Hayes/Masonic - best fucking feeling in the world!
Watching this episode saved my life. Thank you Franky.
Jeff keeps delivering the goods, killer episode. Now go bomb a hill!
9.8 Frank
9.81
Hey at least he got the squared part
Lol
Im really happy to see downhill longboarding too instead of them deeming it kooky
gunner murphy In my opinion people on both sides who think "longboarding" is something different from skateboarding are kooks who don't know their own history. Notice they didn't say "longboarding" anywhere in this video. This is Loveletters to Skateboarding. Good on ya Grosso!!!
There's real longboarders that go just as hard and style, especially downhill. Then you have the college campus longboard posers. Definitely a big difference.
Unless you're bombing mountains or settin world records you can drop the fucking low rider, soft wheels and helmet. It's all superfluous
gunner murphy only because indy is selling longboard trucks now, they just wanna win all the longboarders over so they'll buy the trucks
gunner murphy nah, it's still kooky.
Great seeing new Love Letter. Those hill guys; damn.
About 15 yrs ago in halifax ns i bombed from the Commons down to Barrington street with 5 fruends after we collectively drank about 4 quarts of rum..Double hill so its 2 blocks hill/ flat / hill with a loose right turn to downtown at the bottom..everybody ate shit except for me.i ride mad loose trucks and my speed wobbles were so bad they turned into vibrations like i was riding 20 flatspots ..pretty much prepared to die but rode it out down past Barrington Mall...big party after that! In over 35 yrs skating that was probably my favorite thing i ever did! Glad to see you back Grosso!
Bobby Bell I've never been there but my wife (who attended Dalhousie)) just told me you're a nutbar for even attempting that. Good on ya!
Loose trucks save lives, that's fuckin gnarly
Bobby Bell haha thats nuts. I've done lacewood in Clayton park naked and then skated down to the common and dropped in the bowl still naked. 3am drunk as shit.
John Wentzell hahaha wicked! You arent the dude that skated the Cabot Trail in CB naked are you?
Bobby Bell unfortunately i can't claim that. And now I'm too old for naked skating.
In 1978, in my neighborhood, there were no pools, no ramps, no parks. Just hills.
Wow. That last clip was from a video called Board Crazy. I remember my mom bought it for me in 1990. First time I ever heard Nirvana.
speed wobbles happen when your rear truck starts to try to steer the board instead of your front truck. you can eliminate speed wobbles by running a differential tightness on your front and rear truck (tighter rear truck than front truck) and always keeping your weight over the front truck. It doesn't have to be much tighter but I bomb hella hills and its been a minute since I caught speed wobbs. you can always set your board back when you go to the park
One of the best love letter ever..🙏
I love the respect that these guys have for downhill skating. As a downhill skater its cool to see that they view us that way. But mad props to you street, and park skaters as well I've tried it as well a crusin some parks and its so different and hard.
Justin Gough Indy is just trying to win you over so you'll but their longboard trucks, very few of the people here actually respect longboarders, if they did then they would bomb hills on longboards.
Jon Michael Williams i honestly would never by indys rkp its a pretty basic one and i already have much better precision trucks
Liked before I watched it of course.
Clip at 13:21 always cracks me up
Basically like the start of an F1 race, with the guy out front sipping a beer.
Bombing hills in SF is still my favorite feeling in the world, nothing compares
I'm so fucking stoked to have the letters back , welcome back grosso , and to kick it off with such a gnarly episode ( although I'm suprised no one mentioned the gx100 guys )
Ride in peace Grosso, you fucking legend. ❤️
Out of it tht the New Zealand dude is on here. Famous in nz for the "nek minnit" sketches. Good skater too
Who else stoked about season 9?
best hill-bomb of my life was on some shrooms... greatest feeling in the world so I did it about 15-20 times over and over again. Skateboarding is bliss
Are you 12? Drugs are cool man!!!
Jeff Grosso and Vans thank you for this !!! And Nuge ! The letters helps everyone in skateboarding young, old, Sick or healthy. :)
Thank you for this.
Faaked myself up proper when i was about 12. Saw Thrashin for the first time and had no idea what bombing a hill could lead up to. Needless to say i got fucked up good and proper. Its been almost 30 years later and still loving skateboarding.
Bombing hills is where I learned what a skin graph is.
These comment stories are great!!! This is what we did as kids before they built skate parks in every town in the USA lolz
Wait.... did that dude hit a deer? Haha
Ryan Cottingham that deer totally killed that guy.
I thought it was a kangaroo
Is there any way that you guys can make Frank a constant fixture on this show?
9 seasons and he's made 7 appearances... That's not near enough.
Frank should be a constant on every show about skating, and some not about skating.
@@joshbarth9469 Hell yeah!
Frank is a fuckin' awesome and hilarious dude.
The capitola classic! Classic
Once I had hold my friends husky on a leash and it started running and I had crazy soeed wobbles, I cant imagine going down these hills lol
Laughing at the image of Jeff Grosso thinking about those duck tail suits and just melting inside with rage
Welcome back, Grosso!
Nothing fills me with more anxiety than watching downhill. Maybe it’s sick adrenaline. Haven’t bombed a hill in years.
Anyway, glad you’re back.
dayyyuumm that was fuggin sick. those slams !!!!! had me screw faced pretty bad lol. And didnt know the nek minnut dude ( Levi Hawken ) was a downhill beast props man killing it :) love this series
Gerwer is an American hero. I didn't know anything about downhill skate culture... I assumed it was weird old guys in aerodynamic armor, but these dudes are BUCK!!
always been fan of vans.
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Damn finally a new episode! Hell yeah! I might bomb a hill on my lunch break. #deathwobble
Love you grosso! RIP
going downhill is so important to skateboarding because it is the first "trick" you learn. you can do it on any skateboard. there are no boundaries.
New season 🖤 letters !!! GRACIAS 👊🏽🔥!!!! .
Sooo gnarly.
Yes he’s back!!!
Did 50mph runs in the late 70's on video tape somewhere. Kryptonic reds and a jean jacket were my weapon of choice.
RIP GROSSO,A KING
Well needed
Ty Jeff finally ca hills
Me and my best friend just threw a hill bomb event today we had like 50 people show up just from sharing the fuck out of a single post on instagram. Skateboarding always provides! We miss you jeff hope you’re hauling ass with some good homies in sone kind of spirit.
Lee "the rocket" Taylor! Legend. Had that clip on an old VHS tape called Board Crazy. From 1990 I believe
Love the letters!!
Great episode!!!
I love how Nuge is always rocking the 13th Floor Elevators shirt
Jeff's alive!!!!! Welcome back dude! Gerwer must be pretty high because its 9.8 meters per second squared at ground level.
RIP Jeff Grosso!
Sickkkkk! Great first episode for new season. Lil SDRE Seven in there too. Where's the TA episode/doc movie?? Love this show been frothing patiently for this return👍
Dude at the end is priceless
Great one
Awesome video. I love bombing hills 💜
Finally new letters and this ones a sick one and close to my heart being from SF
Thank the gods you're back!
just love.... GO!
Definitely did some hill bombs! Used to take an old box number plate and cut the shape of an open hand out of it, hot glue it to a gardening glove and use it as downhill gloves.
And we are back!
AND WE’RE BACK!! Fuck yess!!
Oh my fuck, thanks Ganesha this is back! I've been going a little mad on the rainy days without my dose of letters. Stoked.
Man l was out fishing since May in Alaska and damn new love letters are out fantastic. Going down hill was the coolest after skating ramp. Hey let go to that part of town that has a big hill Jaja.
Bombing hills on a "short " board is fucking gnarly as it gets.
Those Frisco cats are straight savages.
bro that's some scary drop God is good B Bless
I remember Levi from Brisbane in the 90s. Skating hills there was big back then and I had to get used to it.
YES!!! Love it keep it up
Taking a gnar slam hill bombing in Aptos a couple years ago got me back into skating. Thank God for #SpeedAddiction 💯
Nuge's 13th Floor Elevators shirt is sick!
Pedro causally eating cereal while Frank is talking is great
loved the sunny day real estate inclusion
Sean Young bombing that SF hill in the rain and pushing while he did it is the coldest hill bomb ever. VERY close 2nd is Nuges hill bomb that was in his My War video
also the Australian dude looks like an alien or something. Gnarly skater though lol
bloody on point> saturday night and still no pants ! big up from italy
The fuckin' Don "mach fuckin' 5" love this already
Jeff Grosso.... Nobody will replace you...
My 5 yr old daughter just discovered hill-bombing and instantly loved it. As a skater dad, I'm both super-proud and terrified at the same time because she's definitely no stranger to hospitals already
hey you are back !