Eric Koston | Skate Register: The West LA Courthouse
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- The West LA Courthouse is arguably one of the most famous skate spots in Southern California, if not the entire world. In the second episode of our Skate Register series, Eric Koston takes us through the extensive history of The West LA Courthouse's contributions to skating from the early 90’s to present day, covering each era of progression that has pushed the evolution of skateboarding.
With The Courthouse's iconic stage, the fountain, the 4 stair, a 33 foot long outledge, and an infinite amount of ledges to string lines together with, the courthouse is essentially a public skatepark in the streets. In fact, In fact, @nikesb donated funds to designate the space as a legal skate spot in 2014 and the public has been skating it just about every single day since.
From the infamous switch flip switch manual by Chris Roberts, to the mind-blowing amount of unbelievable tricks Nick Tucker has done on it, the amount of skating that has happened on The Courthouse's sacred stage could tell a tale 10,000 pages long. But luckily for you, we won't make you read a novel. Instead, we put together a comprehensive collection of just about every significant trick that has graced the courthouse's grounds since we began skating it in the early 1990's. Listen up as Koston takes us on a trip down memory lane as we pay homage to The West LA Courthouse in 'Skate Register.'
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Make more of these, this is the best Berrics content in a while.
Jenkem does the same series better
@@spht9ng the dern brothers do a pretty good job too.
agreed
Best content Because they’re copying thrasher and jenkem..lol😂
More of these please!!!
Koston is a serious legend that pushed skateboarding in a way that I don't think will ever be replicated. Getting a peak into some of his insight is something we need more of. Looking forward to more of these with Koston.
Its rodney, rodney rodney,
Jah
I remember in thps 2 all my friends were picking Rodney. I always picked Koston
Pushed Mongo 😊
@@garrinking switch mongo, don't get it twisted
Crob must be in heaven now from Koston giving him that props! he's about to put that on loop!
Chris definitely deserves it.
Well, probably not after they put the Kelly Hart footy in there!
Oh they already know...
Shout out to crop on this one man
Fr shout out to crap
Koston's such a great story teller, we definitely NEED more of these.
Awesome have him remniscing with putting his mind into it. He's such a goofer most of the times in front of camera.
100 % ❤
as a nine club fan Im so proud of crob for getting his props. #SpecialSpecialSpecial
I want Crob on the nine club. Rog can host ;)
Kelly too :D
I was happy for Gabriel Rodrigues"s honor #GabeForever RIP
Come to think of it. i don't remember seeing any of Keenan Milton's tricks on there.
Was actually thinking watching this I'm stoked he was in it so many times. I feel like a lot of people only know him from Nine Club and don't realise how good he actually is.
For those of you who live in LA it seems normal to be in a place like this. But for those of us who live far away (in my case, Brazil) being in a place like this is a dream that I intend to fulfill one day. Long live skateboarding!!!
shout out to felipe ortiz
Even for us people in the US outside of LA would love spots like this. East Coast has some, Midwest has parks, West Cost has everything
I lived locally for about 5 years. Some of the best ledges around in my opinion and you literally never know who you might run into there!
True but even if you live in L.A. that place is a long-ass way from Venice beach/Santa Monica for example.
I can tell you this, it’s definitely normal but we know the significance of this place! I’m from the city born and raised for 26 years, courthouse will forever be legendary!
I have to say, I have cry a little bit. What an hommage not only to the place by it self but to the skate spirit in general. Thanks you for that.
This needs to be a whole series with the perspectives of seasoned pro skaters who've seen it all go down. Fully had my attention the entire time. Don't even think I looked away once. This was amazing.
love the way this was made. felt like if stranger things editors made a berrics video
😂 because of the music
It is great being part of the first generation of skaters to truly embrace nostalgia like this.
We obviously weren't the first, but the video parts and progression that occurred when we were coming up, along with the popularity and technology of today making this sort of retrospective possible, I absolutely love it.
If I'm lucky enough to live to be an old man I look forward to looking back on this current generation and seeing the insane stuff the future kids are landing.
Dang Crob really got his flowers in this. I'm stoked for him! Chris down plays his skating way too much, it's awesome he got some shine!
So sick it gave me the chills stoked koston mentioned crob and the out ledge🔥🔥
More of these please!! That SAD clip was a hidden gem!! Nick Tucker is a beast!!
100 % ❤
"You were just hanging out and you didn't realize what kind of progression was actually happening because you're just too busy in the moment having fun" - Eric Koston
Man, doesn't this perfectly explain how the good ol' day are made?
A lot of history in these spots. You can see Eric thinking about the good times its such a beautiful thing. Great edit guys. Eric you're a legend. It was you and Reynolds that were my heroes growing up
Need 1000 times more videos of skate history, so amazing
I could listen to this man talk all day 👏
I've been waiting for Koston to drop the total knowledge that makes him worth listening to. Thank you.
Wow...nice vid...love the aspect of the history....such poetry in motion.
So cool to hear the story of legendary spots like this one and even cooler to see the progression of tricks being done through the years. This might be the coolest series yet, looking forward for more!
Great video. Thanks for shining some light on these iconic spots. Looking forward to more content like this!
100 % ❤
i could watch these videos all day
series is amazing. from all the old footage to the knowledge of history.
100 % ❤
I finally made it to this spot in February at age 50. The place is magic. I could feel it. Skated out of my mind for an old man.
So stoked the clip I filmed is in this!
Top Tier content, this whole wave of Skateboard infographic media has been super satisfying to watch from berrics, Transworld, Chase on his new channel. This is the kind of content we need more of
I loved this series
Eric just credited all The Nine Club host in one famous skate spot.
So legendary it hurts!!!
These recent videos popping up documenting our spot history by the people that made it is so important. Great video.
Iconic skate spot. All those early 411vm's I watched in high school with footage of this place got me so stoked to go skate with my friends.
I love to watch this legendery staff. So glad I grow up on this perfect childhood of mine and era of skateboarding. watching you guys from other side of ocean. Thank you, you were and still are my heores :) mad love and respect to Eric
This covers the very reason I still love skating, progress. It just keeps progressing slowly, getting pushed further & further. The impossible becomes possible.
Poetry in Motion. Thanks Berrics / Froston... For somebody like me who has never been to the States and just watches 411VM vids growing up in the Netherlands and also skating... This was amazing!
Such a great video. Celebrates the pioneers who paved the way for the young bucks!
I love this series.
Great edit and music. Need more history lessons like this. 🔥
I feel this way about Legislative Plaza in Nashville because it was my EMB so to speak growing up in the South. We used to spend SO much time there ,and it was / is just an awesome place to skateboard plus you could always bomb the hills from downtown too !
What a video! Please, more docs like this with more iconical spots!
We often think about who made skateboarding what it is today and there are a lot of people to thank for it; including Eric who has done unbelievable things for this sport and culture. But we often forgot about the places and spots that shape the actual landscape of skateboarding. I love this series for that reason. I have been skating for around 25 years now and seeing how far it's come has been genuinely beautiful.
This series and Thrasher's "this old ledge are the best
Been wanting to meet Eric for ages. Maybe one day! KCMO rep!
Loved this! And for us skatenerds who never traveled to the US the insight here was a real treat! Thanks.
More of this. Great documentary fellas production is so good.
Such an iconic place. Good you can skate it without problems now. How ironic, some people is there progressing while some in the courthouse are regressing in life.
I'm loving these videos. Thanks!
This is so incredibly well produced. More of this please!
This video gives me goosebumps, I remember watching this spot in all the skate videos growing up, till I finally was old enough to move around LA freely and actually skating this spot. Such a legendary spot like the USC blocks.
This is good content, please do more spots in the future!
Best berrics content I’ve seen in the last 5 years
and they copyed it from the dern bros....
@@wotceseriescollector idk who that is but I wouldn’t be surprised
The wildest tricks that has gone down , and in this moment crob the switch flip switch manny comes 😃
When I was a kid I used to watch this videos and for me was just skateboard videos with people doing tricks without even knowing the amazing story behind it. Now watching this it makes you realised the meaning of every skate spot that today it became skateboard history. I love skateboarding man 🤙
The progression of skateboarding is so fascinating to me. Seeing what guys and girls are capable of these days is why I still try to keep up with it even though I stopped skating over 12 years ago 😅
Loved this video! ❤ Thankyou Eric, would love to see more videos like this 👌
these videos hit me in the feels, growing up in the 90s skating was such a special time.
This was beautifully put together
Should've done this with CRob
Watching Koston back in the early-mid 90s, he always had the sickest sht. No one, well beside Stevie and Kareem made pushing switch look so dope
Kalis
@@normanl.6891 yup
To me, Ray Barbee started the whole flipping up stairs thing. He was doing those in the 1989 Ban This video.
But there is something about mid-90's skating that always hits a soft spot with me. Those were my personal heydays when it came to skateboarding and hanging with friends. Basically life at that time was just bliss and we kinda knew it.
thank you Eric, true legend!
It needed to be Koston to narrate this , perfectly executed,an I miss my Koston 6's laker colored
I don’t skate, but I recognize probably 40% of the skaters he mentions, especially in the older footage but I just love this kind of history. I would like to see more spots talked about like this It comes to the history. Very awesome.
Such a great video, the editors did an amazing job with this one.
this was my era. not my hometown but i first skated here in 2001. i saw someone trying nollie flip front crooks and was just in awe of how much further along this scene was. the nostalgia for those decades, for watching the way skating evolved - it was magic.
Amazing content, would love to see skateboarding being documented like this more often
what a great video. amazing insight. 👏 could be on netflix or cable
"The ledge tricks were like, cool ledge tricks, but they weren't the most progressive" he says while footage is shown of him doing a switch flip fs tail nearly 30 years ago. That trick still holds up in video parts today, not as a single clip but still. Koston is such a legend
This reminds me of one year in the early to mid 90's we got into an abandoned manufacturing warehouse in Cherry Hill, NJ right near the old racetrack during the winter and we built an A-frame, a pyramid, and a couple quarter pipes inside it.. there were also ledges and a loading dock and the ground was so smooth. Eventually, word got out and kids from as far as LOVE Park used to take the peedline from Philly to skate it...
Love skateboarding and so privileged to live in LA and skate this spot.
This was awesome. I hope you guys keep making videos like this of other popular spots, narrated by the skaters who helped make them legendary. I could see one hosted by of Reynolds or Greco talking about the Wiltshire sets
Wow. 100% need more of these! We need one for New York and famous street spots like The Banks
Stevie with that violation game strong. legendary bails hahah
Love u Frost. Been my favorite skater for 25 years
Exquisite story telling sir
Need more of this
Please do more of these.
I stayed all weekend nights here for 4 years at the courthouse skating it with friends and having our own light equipment to skate. Lots of memories here for sure
Hmm, just when Thrasher started to do a series about iconic spots, the Berrics comes out with this, coincidence? I think not.
@@chancereynolds2060 Well that doesn't make it right, call Thrasher out as well if they do that. But right now it's the Berrics doing it.
Creager's bs flip at 3:16 has to be one of the best ones ever done
absolutely love these spot check deals.
keep em coming, we want to know about the making of what we do!
if you want to watch skate spot history vids watch the dern bros they started it
@@wotceseriescollector good call, thanks dude🤙🤙
Truly amazing
Incredible!
props to EK for his contribution to skateboarding and skateboarders!!!! salute 1000x bro
One of the sickest skate videos I’ve seen in a while.
PLZ.. more content like this!!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
such a legendary spot... being from New Jersey, i got the chance to fly out to LA a few years back. didnt bring my board cuz i was supposed to be chillin wit this chick the whole time. ended up walking to the courthouse with her. asked some little dude to borrow his board just so i could do the shittiest back noseslide on the ledge down by the fountains. got it on vid and will always remember getting to skate where hundreds of absolute legends skated.... felt insane..
i remember playing thrasher on ps 1 . on a demo disc an the courtyard was the only level you could play. man i fell in love with that game
Really well done E..😊 Put the comedian on pause. Great tone & texture to the piece 💜
So will they demolish ? I was hoping he would talk about that and the day they will shut it down :(
It is on the city’s court house list for remodeling, so most likely wont be the same.
Can’t wait to see the content these dudes make when they are 60 and 70 years old… Koston is God-like
i remember i switched tre flip nose manual this then nollie tre out and was so stoked. good memories
You guys should do these more koston doing it was amazing!! ❤
Rahhhh the tucker footege gave me full on goosebumps n made all my hair stand, I miss having the squad to really vibe check and push each other.... Skating on my own feels kinda like a shell of what it was. If I had a single preem manny pad spot it wouldn't be so bad but it's crust everywhere in Cornwall in the UK 😢 not even got good flat ground in car parks.
My childhood wrapped up in 12mins smh koston took it back one time fa da one time!🐐🙏🏾♥️
Kelly lowkey has the best trick on it but doesn’t rub it in Chris’ face 😂
For some reason I think Tiago's fs flip ss nose many is harder, but yeah both insane
@@healreadyleft youre right those are definitely the top 2 for sure
Shoutout to the Berrics for shouting out Crob and Kelly. Big love.
As a blader from New Zealand I’m hyped I got to session this spot 4 separate times during US tours over the last 7 years
More episodes like this! Koston in Vans is too rad
the way this is made is so cool to me, take koston to an old spot, let him talk and reminisce, and then find the clips that match it after
10/10 production
its cool to hear koston talk about it and I like this video and most of berrics content but this other group dernbros have been doing videos like this for about a year
Legendary spot! I need to head up north to LA and check it out, probably can't do much but would be a memorable experience 🤘🏼