Vintage skateboarding footage from the late 1970's. Excerpt from 'Go for It!', A film by Hal Jepsen & Wilt Chamberlain. Featuring Tony Alva, Jay Adams & others
I miss this kind of skateboarding. Today it's like push, push, kick flip, kick flip push, push, back flip, fall down. We use to just go in the 70's, just zoom.
Wow I remember this day like it was yesterday...That's me at 7:55 carving the forever rides with two of the original Zboys, Wentzel Rumel and Paul Constantineau. Me again at 8:25 going over the light backside at Canyon pool. Best time of my life !
Hey Craig. I was there that day too. You can see me at the canyon pool footage. In white sitting above the light. I remember we were all skating and then the cameras showed up. I broke my palm that day and limped home though the canyon and hid the pain form my mom because she was pissed at how often I was getting hurt. ha. Stay well Craig.
If only videos were still commentated upon like this. I could picture it now "when one skater executes his most difficult manuevers, he attempts them switch, or in his opposite stance." That would be funny
Go For It was the first skate/surf film I ever saw and I saw it in a movie theatre in South Georgia 1975-6-7. It was actually produced by pro basketball player Wilt Chamberlin.
My baby sitters were supposedly in this movie - Debbie and Andrea. They lived in a back house on the strand in Hermosa and I lived in the apartments across the street on Hermosa Ave. Best childhood ever! Learned to skate on the hills in HB.
This is the movie that got me into skateboarding in a big way. Not long after this we built a portable half pipe out of plywood and would take it to events and shows. That was the good ol days by far. I remember the name Tony Alva being one of the best skateboarders. Living in Tennessee it made me want to move to California. Oh well I guess all good things come to an end.
@ trotp3 that was Alva and Muir with him. Personally I think Biniak was the better skater at the time, but then again I'm speaking about Dogtown. The South Bay skaters of Los Angles were way ahead of other skaters in terms of pool and pipe skating. I'm not taking about the freestyle skaters but the surf style skaters such as Kevin Anderson, Bob Moore, Howard Igalo, and the others at E.T. Surf. Kevin was aready hitting coping doing frontside slashers when this footage was being filmed!
Awesome - was looking thru some Skateboarder Mags form the 78 and this film came to mind. Thought about Go For It a number of times over the years, but never could locate a copy. It had segments on skiing, surfing, and hang gliding as I recall. The Extreme sports of the day. Was this ever released to DVD? Appreciate the clips.
The 70's style was so smooth graceful and tricks were not about the board they were about the bodies and balancing on the wheels. That is because all these kids surfed and their style was to get low and emulating carving up a wave
@@jimmytgoose476 fine. But the ones that did were the pioneers. Wasn’t it Alva who said “we’d hit the streets on our skateboards when there weren’t waves”…paraphrasing.. Regardless Of course not EVERY “stylistic skater” surfed. But, Geeez, it’s in the documentary how they transformed the surfing ideas, culture and styles into the street. The kids across the country in landlocked states were following their lead.
i'm pretty sure most of these videos are of the z-boys. i can spot tony alva and his curly hair in most of them. p.s. i have the orange board with the black grip tape at 0:24 . it's a santa cruz
anywhere from 24-30 inches, trucks could have beeen from quad roller skates or manufacturd trucks that were notable are trackers. most trucks were 2 1/2 to 3 inches wide kingpin
Awesome! Looks like mid 70's though as by '77 Tony had started Alva Skates and these guys are just starting to hit the lip in this video and the gear is older. Where's part 2? Oh, and the quality of the filming is muy bien!
Timeline about '73-'77. The schoolyard and Escondido reservoir footage is '73-'75, the pool footage pretty much spans '73-'77. I started skating in '71 on a clay-wheeled board, and completely into it until I went into the service in'79. The '70s was a great decade to be a kid.
@Arsinek You have to remember this was filmed in 1974, the urathane wheel was still new. There were skaters doing "tricks" at the time such as Ty page, but the tricks were done only on flat ground and banks. It was the generation of your so called "goofy" skaters that invented such "tricks" as the ollie (Alan Galfand). If you watch clips of what went down by 1978, I think you will be able to connect the dots.
I miss this kind of skateboarding. Today it's like push, push, kick flip, kick flip push, push, back flip, fall down. We use to just go in the 70's, just zoom.
True
Wow I remember this day like it was yesterday...That's me at 7:55 carving the forever rides with two of the original Zboys, Wentzel Rumel and Paul Constantineau. Me again at 8:25 going over the light backside at Canyon pool. Best time of my life !
Hey Craig. I was there that day too. You can see me at the canyon pool footage. In white sitting above the light. I remember we were all skating and then the cameras showed up. I broke my palm that day and limped home though the canyon and hid the pain form my mom because she was pissed at how often I was getting hurt. ha. Stay well Craig.
cwmiller2006 lier
@@bans1 What do people have to gain from lying about their past on the internet?
Back when the coping was the end of the earth :)
@@bans1 I no lie man
"No Trespassing" in the 70's, means "Welcome friends!"
This deserves SIX stars!
Stars.. gosh this site we use to rate in stars!
How true... I was a Skater of the 70's it was definitely a sport of finesse. God did we have fun on those long runs. Sweet Memories.
It still is about finesse 🙂
countryrock was the music of choice for skate vids back in the day
Things got better with punk 😃
I'm from '90 and this shit is dope. This is where is started boys, learn your roots!
THOSE GUYS ARE TOTALLY GOING FOR IT.
So Awesome I love to see the start of the pool days.
If only videos were still commentated upon like this. I could picture it now "when one skater executes his most difficult manuevers, he attempts them switch, or in his opposite stance." That would be funny
Saw this in the theater when it came out & I was in high school. Thanks for posting!
And the boards that time were about 5.7. Epic skating right there. I wish I has a set like that.
even being 16, i love to skate old school, i dnt care too much about technical tricks, old school is funner
Go For It was the first skate/surf film I ever saw and I saw it in a movie theatre in South Georgia 1975-6-7. It was actually produced by pro basketball player Wilt Chamberlin.
... because skateboarding and country music are naturals together...! ack
1976. MY. PAL. HAL. JEPSEN. RIP canyonlocalfilmscom
The pioneers of skating man :D
R.I.P. Bob Biniak! I wish I could talk to him about the keyhole pool footage!
If they had internet back then they wouldn't have this video. And if we left the internet, we could film a video like this.
This footage is absolutely amazing
My baby sitters were supposedly in this movie - Debbie and Andrea. They lived in a back house on the strand in Hermosa and I lived in the apartments across the street on Hermosa Ave. Best childhood ever! Learned to skate on the hills in HB.
If those were your babysitters, you were lucky!
i love the color of the 70's-
the hue-
This is instant fav, Escpecially love the footage of the legendary Z-boys doing there thing. Awesome even to this day I skate like this........kinda
This is the movie that got me into skateboarding in a big way. Not long after this we built a portable half pipe out of plywood and would take it to events and shows. That was the good ol days by far. I remember the name Tony Alva being one of the best skateboarders. Living in Tennessee it made me want to move to California. Oh well I guess all good things come to an end.
The seventies were so rad!
yewwwwwwwwwwwwww
lovin it
"bring it back"
This is one of the best videos I have ever seen!
Shit man! This makes me feel nostalgic of the 70s... And i was born in '87
1974 I went to the Pomona Fair " LA county Fair" and bought a Logan Earth Ski and Storker Wheels Good Times 👍 👌
Tony Alva, Bobby Piercy and Stacey Peralta. They were the KINGS!!!!
so cool
When the streets were a big skatepark. Golden years.
holy shit this is on here i have this on VHS lmao
great stuff !!
Mi primera película que vi en el.cine de skate superrrrr
all about the flow.
my dads in this
You have a cool dad
Most of those skaters were surfers, you can see the similarities of the surfing and the skateboarding back then.
Damn I feel relaxed after watching this shit, Skateboarding these days is all about frustration. ha!
Movie shaped my childhood
they make it look like surfing
Wait hold up... was that Wilt Chamberlain in the beginning? That is fucking crazy!!
The 70s ❤
How much you want to bet that the tent barrels eventually become a fixture in the surfskating scene.
Downhill madness at it's finest!
Loving those death wobbles around the 8:00 mark.
i could never stand having loose trucks
No carving then ?
back in the day they were more about the duckin' and weavin' rather than the jumps and air nowadays
Back then it was more about flow, style and soul, nothing technical about it.
@ trotp3 that was Alva and Muir with him. Personally I think Biniak was the better skater at the time, but then again I'm speaking about Dogtown. The South Bay skaters of Los Angles were way ahead of other skaters in terms of pool and pipe skating. I'm not taking about the freestyle skaters but the surf style skaters such as Kevin Anderson, Bob Moore, Howard Igalo, and the others at E.T. Surf. Kevin was aready hitting coping doing frontside slashers when this footage was being filmed!
awesome!!! thanks for sharing it!
where are these epic skate spots
Makes me think of buttons 🤟
the dude in the yellow shirt and white helmet was slamming left and right! lol
Don't forget Mr Incredible himself - Ti Page and king of the slalom - Henry Hester!
i barely 15 and but i still wish skateboarding was like this
To be honest Bro I am so glad it isn't. Way too many people in it for the wrong reason. 😈
@Aaroniguess , it was for me. Now at 47, it's harder and it's more painful when I fall!
OLD SKOOL SKATING RULZ!!!
Skitching a dog? Love it.
thanks for posting this
Awesome - was looking thru some Skateboarder Mags form the 78 and this film came to mind.
Thought about Go For It a number of times over the years, but never could locate a copy. It had segments on skiing, surfing, and hang gliding as I recall. The Extreme sports of the day.
Was this ever released to DVD? Appreciate the clips.
WE. LOVE. MY. PAL. HAL. JEPSEN.
The 70's style was so smooth graceful and tricks were not about the board they were about the bodies and balancing on the wheels. That is because all these kids surfed and their style was to get low and emulating carving up a wave
Millions of stylish skaters never surfed .
*"That is because all these kids surfed..."*
That is not true.
In Dogtown ,we all were surfers. Skating was secondary
I never thought it about it this way. "About the body not the board" love this.
@@jimmytgoose476 fine. But the ones that did were the pioneers. Wasn’t it Alva who said “we’d hit the streets on our skateboards when there weren’t waves”…paraphrasing.. Regardless Of course not EVERY “stylistic skater” surfed. But, Geeez, it’s in the documentary how they transformed the surfing ideas, culture and styles into the street. The kids across the country in landlocked states were following their lead.
👍A time when skate was more about riding, gliding. Whole fun!
One may say that the Ollie changed the skate scene for better and for worse.
Only for the better .
Beautifully put
Paul Hoffman at 4:54 doing nose 360's!
wow...old school boarding!! lol
@Aaroniguess Skating was fun then and it's still fun today!
actually, they are, look up Stereo Vinyls, Penny skateboards, Globe bantam. Retro is returning :D
Pennys are shit .
i'm pretty sure most of these videos are of the z-boys. i can spot tony alva and his curly hair in most of them.
p.s. i have the orange board with the black grip tape at 0:24 . it's a santa cruz
anywhere from 24-30 inches, trucks could have beeen from quad roller skates or manufacturd trucks that were notable are trackers. most trucks were 2 1/2 to 3 inches wide kingpin
Awesome! Looks like mid 70's though as by '77 Tony had started Alva Skates and these guys are just starting to hit the lip in this video and the gear is older. Where's part 2? Oh, and the quality of the filming is muy bien!
Timeline about '73-'77. The schoolyard and Escondido reservoir footage is '73-'75, the pool footage pretty much spans '73-'77.
I started skating in '71 on a clay-wheeled board, and completely into it until I went into the service in'79. The '70s was a great decade to be a kid.
You almost want to see the moment when they figure out that they could early grab airs off the lip.
@Arsinek You have to remember this was filmed in 1974, the urathane wheel was still new. There were skaters doing "tricks" at the time such as Ty page, but the tricks were done only on flat ground and banks. It was the generation of your so called "goofy" skaters that invented such "tricks" as the ollie (Alan Galfand). If you watch clips of what went down by 1978, I think you will be able to connect the dots.
Hmm. Here I thought Rodney Mullen invented the ollie.
Seems like not long ago. We were lucky to get a dedicated skate park ~76-77 where I lived
We hopped many a fence those days to get at pools
Thanks you surfing and the California sun. Epic good times brought to the land like when the fish climbed out of the ocean and became reptiles.
love the quote lol >:)
WaS.
WE. LOVE. MY. PAL. HAL. JEPSEN
watch this on silent and listen to Golden Time Of Day by Maze...its pretty cool to me.
Not a care in the world,,,those were great times
Very cooooollll...!! some of my old friends were thrashers in Santa Cruz and San Jose. They smoked many vacant pools in the hills
That soundtrack in the very beginning reminds me of early Passport. Does anybody know who may it be?
@ MrDacottage;
haha, it has that "old feel" because it IS old XD
Was it just me or did you see Conan skating 1:43 - 1:57
Now i see why helmets meant so little back then...
may that dog R.I.P.
08:32 .... haha, sweet move
how big were the boards back then? and what kind of trucks did they use?
A, small and B, crappy .
The Z-boys was the shit!
at 5:03 Peggy Oki rips!
Jay Adams and the Solo Kenter?
@Kingspawn000 You're right man! thanks!
@dogbowl77 amen brother, was that Alva and Red Dog with him??
@indyfan22k - that school looks like Kenter Ave...it's been a long time, can't be sure!
It's regressed slightly. I see more longboards in skate/surf shops than "normal" decks.
Remember the most cool character is Stacty Peralta.
cool
@dogbowl77 long live "the worm!" ...but what about the "Quever"?
did this movie have a trippy animation at the end?
whats the song while their skating in the resivoir?
😍😎