I remember meeting Mike while he was on tour with Julien Stranger. Absolutely awesome guy. Some kid had a shit board and really worn out shoes. Mike gave him new shoes and a deck...even put the new board together for him. Thats the Mike that always stuck with me.
i met mike at an element demo and i was in line waiting to get a pic and i was the Next person he get a call he has to leave but i ran up and asked him for a picture and long story short i got a pic an autograph and he gave me a element shirt out of his personal bag and still got that shirt
I remember seeing it 16 years ago on RUclips. I just found it cool that skateboarding had someone who would stick up for them least that was how I saw it.
Mike V is an amazing story teller, but the Nine Club guys listen so well, and it turns a 2 minute story into a fully detailed story from how filming for Black Label led to the fight. Love this show
Man I find myself all the time having to minimize the video and then check the title of the video over and over again whenever I am watching a video on this channel because I'm always like "I thought this video said it is about 'so and so'....and so did they just get the title wrong or something..??".......And then eventually they get to whatever the video is supposed to be about and that is in the title and stuff lol tbh.
People who didn't skate in the early 2000's will never understand how much the general public hated skateboarders and the push back/harassment skateboarders had to deal with. Back then young skaters would constant get bullied by grown men or ganged up on. Imagine seeing footage of your bullies get beat up (when nothing was on footage), it was amazing!
We were criminals in the public's eye back in the 90s-00s. I came up in Boston and the police used to swarm Copley Fountain on foot, in cars, on bikes, and even on horse in a mad scramble to yoke up as many skaters as possible. They would snap your board and arrest you if caught. Skating was a very unique time back then, especially on the east coast with almost no skateparks. It was 98% street.
Yup…we had targets on our backs, when all we wanted to do was rip it up with our buds and lay down some sick tricks…one cop literally tackled me off my board and pulled heat….Ridiculous
I spoke to him at the Houston demo. The tour bus was getting ready to leave while he was still skating the bowl. I told him that the bus was leaving and he said that he didn’t care about the bus and that he just wanted to skate. Then he took a picture with me. Legend.
@@Nikpredmi so it's better if he just went beating on people, he has shit to lose now, beat someone up get sued. When I'm rich, I'm calling the cops too fool lol
@@spec3280 Because I'm 5' 10'' and he was the same height as me when I met him. And then I saw your comment and was confused, so looked it up and every seemingly credible source I could find said he's 5' 10''. Idk man, maybe he was wearing different shoes when I met him.
I'm glad Chris and Jeron do this. I still get to hear about skating and listen to some of my favorite skaters be featured since i dont anymore. Thanks for doing this guys.
Mike V is Every skaters “MY GUY!” Tough as Nails on the street!….. Tougher than nails on his Board! This guys NO BS attitude was probably one of the most influential things for me to “Man up” and to just fully commit to any trick I wanted too land! & The charity work he has done in more recent times makes him #1 in my eyes! All Hail the KING! 🤘🏻👑
I skated from mid 90s to about 2010. That era was golden. The shoes. The clothes. The footage. It was all so fresh and real. Street skating was blowing up. I loved it and I was the jock type in school but I loved skating just as much and made so many good friends. Really molded my outlook in life as a youngster.
I started in 1986 and still skate. Hockey and skateboarding are my only exercises. I love it, even when it hurts and I can't hardly work the next day. My left ankle is black and blue right now. Why did you stop?
I had travelled from Ireland to California for a few weeks and saw that Mike V's band happened to be playing in Anaheim. I went over and there were loads of cool opening bands and lovely people. I met Mike after he finished his set and he seemed as happy to meet me as I was him. Absolutely lovely guy.
Hearing him say "that was the end of my ollie" hurts. Having a fundamental component of so much skating sealed away by injury... And yet still having such a distinct style as to be able to keep skating anyway... Stomp one out for Mike V.
I get the chills hearing about the fight story. When I was a kid I was obsessed with that Mike V video, still got the dvd.... it makes it even more legendary he was coming back from a gnarly ankle injury.
Mike V and Jamie Thomas were always the skaters you really felt that drive from growing up. So many dope skaters but watching V get back up and kill it really was its own movie. Dope
My grandma found a dvd of the gigantic skatepark tour from 2001. She gave the dvd to me as a very young child and it hyped me up to skate so much. I wanted to be like those guys so bad and go on tours like them. I just wanted to live that lifestyle. I already wanted to learn how to skate because of my dad, Rest In Peace, but Tony Hawk’s games and videos really put it over the top for me. Thank you dad and thank you Tony for making me the skateboarder I am today.
Man I havent really skated hardcore in like 12 years, I totally forgot about Mike V on the tony hawk tour, I had to quickly go back and re-watch it, he was so intense and fast, damn nostalgia trip
The only thing that is consistently disappointing about the 9 club, is how they reference a specific piece of footage constantly, and never bother to edit it in, in the long format show or even the chopped up highlights. This would make the show much more able to transcend skateboarding and spread the love beyond.
This interview brings back nothing but some of my best childhood memories. I fucking loved these dudes. I couldn’t even sit still for an entire x games episode I had to run out and skate half way through every time. Much love Mike you and many others were heroes to a lot of us.
if you were a skater when this happened...yeah. you know how skaters were treated and looked at in society. this was when skaters were treated...poorly to be nice. MV fight story really starts at 26:30 as we learn he's backing up his team-dope
Man the days that I got shit talked just for carrying a deck. Jeez how time flies. Mike showed them that we hurt ourselves as part of our hobby, so what do we care what you try to do? Lmfao. Good times.
@@shanedelgado666 Man I was there at the skatepark watching my brother skate when this Happened. The skatepark was called Seaskate which was right next to Key Arena where the Supersonics played. They tore the skatepark out in 2006 I believe. But yea this is one of my fond memories from my teenage years seeing Mike V beat the hell out of some frat dudes talking shit for no reason.
Haha…. By this time skateboarding was mainstream. I started skating in the late 80’s. It was looked down upon then but it was starting to be accepted. By the late 90’s it was on commercials.
@@wickedlee664 Yea it was mainstream for sure. But skaters were definitely still hated by people and chased off by cops. I'm not a skater but my brother is 42 so y'all are about the same age and he started skating at 6 years old. And like I said I was there when Mike V beat those dudes asses. They were frat dudes that were driving around the Seattle skate park calling them "skater F@gs". But yea skating was definitely mainstream when this happened, which it happened circa 2005 or somewhere close to that. That's one of my fond memories as a youngin.
@@MiniatureMorpheus Oh damn, okay that's why he mentioned something about the ankle. But didn't realize it was both his feet and the issues lasted till now. That sucks man. Skating can be one hell of a dangerous sport though, that's not a surprise at all.
He'd rather step off his board and roll around on the ground twirling his board around with his hands anyway. Everyone who kisses this guys ass as a legend only does so because hes the only "pro" whos skating sucks so much it doesn't discourage all these little geeks from quitting skating making it seem unattainable, you can just USE YOUR HANDS!!!!
I still watch the Ton Hawk Tour every once in a while Got the DVDs for Christmas as a kid with Tony's trick tips Mike V was one of my favorite parts of those didn't realize how close it was to not happening.
@@joebloggs9719 Koston is in the second Mike V and Bucky in the third. funny having Tonys crap Street Style next to Kostons but we used to see a lot of it. Even Rodney went on tour with Tony and Rodney doesn't do anything for nobody.
This reminded me of my memories of when people would talk smack to my skater friends and I back in the 90s. People thought of skateboarders as punks or something, but not tough guys. That Vallely video was our strength. Lol
I wasn’t around in the 90s but skaters now mostly either don’t know how to fight at all or they’re gnarly af and there’s not really much of an in between.
Anyone who’s skated a demo or good session knows the feeling of skating with a good group of guys and the energy it puts off for everyone around. You try things you never would normally, the feeling is just unbelievable. Skateboarding is an art and to have the energy of everyone behind each other makes for a amazing show.
Good times man, even though I've only had some half-a55ed sessions with a few peeps, but def the vibe is something that words cannot describe or define. That's what makes life....life.
Been a fan of Mike v a long ass time man. Loved his show drive and the positive messages he would send through skateboarding. He would always meet with regular real people and I really appreciate that. So many pros act like goobers but Mike v was a real 1
Hi this is the greatest interview I have ever seen in regards to what we go through as skateboarders and how we see the world and our passion. It was mentioned we are a different breed and no one understands the passion and effort we put in to do what we love. Injuries are a way of life not a hinderance. Mike V I don't believe I ever met you but I have met and skated with Tony and a few others you know. You have always been an inspiration to a large number of people I know so thank you
I’m 1 minute in and remember him at Millenium Park in Calgary on the Tony Hawk tour in 2001 or so battling out a gnarly acid drop into a steep bank.. demo skater 100% much respect to Mike V 🙌
Toni is a hero, I was in Münster and remember when I heard the news no pros from the US will participate... the indoor hall is pretty big and everybody was hyped when Mike V was skating the other years. Good memories...
I still have all of the hawk tour dvds and that was when I was in high school completely consumed by skating and though there were a lot of huge skate videos at that time (sorry, yeah right, the end, one step beyond, menikmati…) those your dvds were always my favorite and were super motivating
Mike V has ALWAYS been one of my favorite skaters of all time!!! There is no faking in him, he is genuine and what you see is what you get! Just a great soul. And all round dude! There no one I’d rather have at my side in a fight than him! Mike V you are the man- don’t ever change! keep shredding my man!!! 🤙🏼⚡️
I can’t believe I’m seeing this. MV was the most incredible part of the the hawk tour at KONA park in Jacksonville. Everything he’s saying is so tru. He blew my mind and stole the show. Huge hip gap and a huge kflip Indy. I’ll never forget it
Saw Mike V shred Edison NJ during one of his demos. Freaking beast and that energy just makes you wanna climb onto the ramps and shred right next to him. Deff props deciding to do that tour with the foot injury in its shape. After 2 ankle surgeries myself and realizing Im never making money out of skating, I'm hesitant to do big gaps and drops, and the gnawing pain just haunts. I'll still throw it down at parks though can I appreciate the transitions being a little softer than raw street skating. Some of the wildest and best times. Love seeing these pod casts with all the legends. Now, to rewatch that fight scene.
I remember in the late 90’s mike skated for my home board shop B.Y.OB in Long Beach…they would have demos n the parking lot and mike absolutely shred them to pieces so he isn’t bullshitting when he says that’s all he ever wanted to do!!! What an awesome inspiration!!! Shout out to you mike v
Hey Mike, you're right, I just watched it again and in the late 80's skating delt with the same shit. You punked those punks for all who pushed a skateboard and took shit for it. Glad to hear the context of it and the mindset getting in tour too. Peace brother
the skaters started the fight. that's the conspiracy behind it all. They started it, Mike V assaulted 4 people and then backed off once the guy in the Hawaiian shirt started swing back at him
Mike V is a true fucking legend for real!! Always looked up to this guy. I'm a hockey player to, and when he threw down with Kipper from the Kings saying " don't hold back". Classic
The tour did a stop at the Louisville concrete park. Remember seeing Kerry Getz and willy Santos destroy the island boxes. Mike V and Alex Chalmers did a follow the leader run throughout the whole park. My dad took me to that shit. The park was still newer. GREAT f****ing times!!
@@tempsitch5632 Well for one I'm pretty sure he was highly influenced by 80's hardcore punk bands and even has a band himself which reminds me of Black Flag specially Henry Rollins damage era Black Flag. Also if you have ever read Henry Rollins book Get In the Van you will see the similarities between the two they both have trouble with anger issues and are ready to fucking throw hands at a drop of a dime. They're both Legends
@@facepalmdeath3785 Mike V was even singing in Black Flag last I checked. It's been a few years but full circle really. Mike V and the Rats and Revolution Mother both have some jams
I remember seeing that fight video and just thinking “sometimes you run your mouth at the wrong guy.” Also, one or two of those guys were not at all prepared to fight that night, but they pressed anyway.
A large chunk of my childhood was spent skating around and looking for spots, to keep us out of trouble. I vividly remember our skate crew watching Mike V beat the ever -living, fuck out of those dudes and we watched it weekly. You used to get us fired up, to stand up for ourselves when security, or randos, felt that they could grab/push you off your board while you rolling up to the spot. We were small but we would dream about going “ Mike V” on someone, if we ever needed to. 😂 You put some fire in our hearts, brother! 🤙
I was in Seattle and at the skatepark watching my brother skate when this happened. It was some frat dudes from UW. It happened at Seaskate right next to Key Arena. The park was torn down in 2006 I believe. But yea fuckin awesome! One of my fond memories of my teen years.
I grew up watching Hawk, Mountain, Cab the entire Bones Brigade. Actually got a chance to meet Mike V right before my skating days were cut short due to a car accident. This video was great.👊🏻
Have had the pleasure of skating same spots as him in the 90's in New Jersey at places like Deiner Park (Rutgers) and Brooklyn Banks, and then printing a couple photos of him in my magazine Rare Breed in the late 90's and up until this day he's always been a super respectful and friendly person. Practically no skateboarder on the planet has showed more passion and love for skating like Mike V has shown. He truly CARES.
@@CircuitRider-nr3id Who's "we"? And explain why you disagree. I know him in real life, not through social media, I think my judgement of him is pretty accurate.
I was born in 87, started skating at 5 years old. Definitely, we were treated like unwanted animals by literally everybody. Had to get in fights, treated like scum criminals by police, towns threw us garbage toy like skateparks to further enforce strict no skating laws all the while using that skatepark grant million dollars for their track and baseball fields, honestly. Even up until the early 2000s. Only teachers and parents were accepting. I didnt really notice skating being accepted until really 2014, because it's more popular than football. Mike was like a hero for us, fighting security
Everyone should read the book Think and Grow Rich. Mike V did the exact principals described in the book. He healed a catastrophic injury in 50 days? Insane! He had extreme determination (cutting off the cast), faith (he believed in himself not the Dr) and action (dude skated like a madman), there was no way he wouldn’t have been successful. Beautiful story.
After he tells the fight story and the interviewer says "that's why we love you," he isn't lying. Was a fan of Mike before the fight video, but after i watched it, it wasn't so much the fight, it was the fact that he stood up for skaters is what we all love.
I was at that Seattle stop of the Tony Hawk tour. I was friends with the owners at Rain City Skate Park (RIP) so I was able to get up on the vert ramp to watch. Bam actually used my shoulder to get up on the vert ramp railing to tail drop into the big bank in the street course.
Never saw him skating in a demo or on tour, but saw him in Sydney, on his Spoken Word Australian Tour back in 03-04 maybe... Genuinely the nicest guy, down to have a chat with everyone after the show...
I remember seeing this video back in the late 90’s (how did we see these?) I was 15 and just starting skateboarding and as far as I was concerned Mike V was the baddest man on the planet.
I grew up in hicksville rural town in Sweden. We were hated by the "Raggare"-group (a weird Swedish Rockabilly thing) and got chased by them. They burned down our DIY skatebank and boxes we built because the town never built anything for skateboarders. The Mike V-fight has always felt so vindicating. I had never seen a skateboarder stand up for "us" in that way before.
I remember when all of this was happening. I think the fight footage was in a 411 or something with Bam talking over it from the van. I always got the impression that Bam filmed it to put it out and Mike was not thrilled at the time. There is no way that happened in 2005 though, it must've been closer to 2000 to 2003ish if not earlier. I also forgot that Tony had other tours before the Boom Boom Huckjam stuff and that Bam was on them too.
Saw Mike V at Skatepark of Tampa contest when I was 14. He wasn’t the most technical guy but he was the most gnarly. I still remember him battling to get this huge wall ride (which he got after getting all bloodied and banged up.) Also he signed my SPoT towel and drew a lighting bolt on it
I was there at the Boycott in Germany, I remember Tony still skating the contest while everyone else hung out at a local pool. Meet Mike there and talked a bit!
There was this dude he hung out with in Cky called "Mike Vallely", and he was the douchiest blowhard I've ever seen. He was a 5'8" balding manlet who looked like he hit the gym maybe twice a week to do only chest and arms, and he would get super aggro over nothing in order to look like the "tough one" of the crew; which isn't really much of an accomplishment, because the bar isn't set very high in the first place. His accomplishments included scattering 4 timid teenagers by flailing his arms like a windmill, and shoving a middle-aged mall cop away while the security guard was just trying to do his job. He also had a brief stint as a hockey enforcer, where presumably his appreciation for violence might serve some sort of purpose, but then, to absolutely NO ONE'S surprise, the MOMENT he had to fight someone as strong, or stronger than him, who was equally as fond of violence as he was, he got his shit pushed in regularly. Never won a single fucking hockey fight in his life and was CONSTANTLY getting thrown to the ice. The guy was the definition of coked up blowhard. Mike Vallely, ladies and gentlemen. A possible contender for "faggiest skater in all of existence". Possibly faggier than even Bam Margera himself.
@@cloisneely3433Yep I sure did. In the 90s me and my crew were the kids that used to meet up at the McDonald's parking lot on Sunset and Fountain and then we'd go hit all the main spots like Lockwood.
The fight story starts here - 21:06
You are a saint
Thank Christ. I mean Chris.
Thank you!! Shiit
Thanks
Thx I love the guest but the host annoys the fucking fuck outta me
I remember meeting Mike while he was on tour with Julien Stranger. Absolutely awesome guy. Some kid had a shit board and really worn out shoes. Mike gave him new shoes and a deck...even put the new board together for him. Thats the Mike that always stuck with me.
i met mike at an element demo and i was in line waiting to get a pic and i was the Next person he get a call he has to leave but i ran up and asked him for a picture and long story short i got a pic an autograph and he gave me a element shirt out of his personal bag and still got that shirt
Ive allways heard he was a great person also and he really cares about getting kids into skating.
Literally hear the same story about every popular skater ever.
@@mikec5400 I think it's because most of them understand what it was like before the money and they Remember being that kid who has the shitty board
dude is a legend in his own right. He is a great guy but tough as nails.
I’m 40 years old this month. The Mike V fight video has been with me for half my life. Definitely one of skating’s most iconic personalities!
it was always one of my favorite parts of the cky tape
I remember seeing it 16 years ago on RUclips. I just found it cool that skateboarding had someone who would stick up for them least that was how I saw it.
@@stonecold3697I swear I first saw it on Big Brother #2...
But maybe it was CKY?
@@labbeaj deff CKY
i'm 35 and it's been with me for over half haha
Mike V is an amazing story teller, but the Nine Club guys listen so well, and it turns a 2 minute story into a fully detailed story from how filming for Black Label led to the fight. Love this show
They're FUCKING ANNOYING... Just let the man tell a story, let him paint a picture, stopping interrupting to ask absolutely pointless questions.
really are huh. reminds me of good talks i had with buddies back in the day. friends are too hard to come by nowadays :/
@@heavendog3194 go to a few skateparks my man you'll be surprised people your age are still skating or getting into it
Man I find myself all the time having to minimize the video and then check the title of the video over and over again whenever I am watching a video on this channel because I'm always like "I thought this video said it is about 'so and so'....and so did they just get the title wrong or something..??".......And then eventually they get to whatever the video is supposed to be about and that is in the title and stuff lol tbh.
People who didn't skate in the early 2000's will never understand how much the general public hated skateboarders and the push back/harassment skateboarders had to deal with. Back then young skaters would constant get bullied by grown men or ganged up on. Imagine seeing footage of your bullies get beat up (when nothing was on footage), it was amazing!
We were criminals in the public's eye back in the 90s-00s. I came up in Boston and the police used to swarm Copley Fountain on foot, in cars, on bikes, and even on horse in a mad scramble to yoke up as many skaters as possible. They would snap your board and arrest you if caught.
Skating was a very unique time back then, especially on the east coast with almost no skateparks. It was 98% street.
Yup…we had targets on our backs, when all we wanted to do was rip it up with our buds and lay down some sick tricks…one cop literally tackled me off my board and pulled heat….Ridiculous
I remember just having to constantly look over our backs back then.
Skateboarding is not a crime bumper stickers back then. Gucci ads in thrashers these days
Are you serious? That's when the industry moved the most actual decks. More decks were bought them then now
I spoke to him at the Houston demo. The tour bus was getting ready to leave while he was still skating the bowl. I told him that the bus was leaving and he said that he didn’t care about the bus and that he just wanted to skate. Then he took a picture with me. Legend.
He's such a rare golden apple in a sea of rotten apples lol
@@lca89 and Andy Anderson
We all looked up to Mike V when that video came out, doing what we all dreamed of. LEGEND
FACTS! I couldn't skate for shit but I could fight and that right there gave me an in with skaters. 🤣
I wasn't even a skater, and that video was awe inspiring, lol.
Mike V is the nicest scary guy ever
He’s a clown dude called the cops at my local skate park
@@Nikpredmi so it's better if he just went beating on people, he has shit to lose now, beat someone up get sued. When I'm rich, I'm calling the cops too fool lol
exactly! Probably the best person to have as a best friend.
@@spec3280 How did you mistake 5' 10" for 5' 5"?
@@spec3280 Because I'm 5' 10'' and he was the same height as me when I met him. And then I saw your comment and was confused, so looked it up and every seemingly credible source I could find said he's 5' 10''. Idk man, maybe he was wearing different shoes when I met him.
I'm glad Chris and Jeron do this. I still get to hear about skating and listen to some of my favorite skaters be featured since i dont anymore. Thanks for doing this guys.
Mike V is Every skaters “MY GUY!”
Tough as Nails on the street!….. Tougher than nails on his Board!
This guys NO BS attitude was probably one of the most influential things for me to “Man up” and to just fully commit to any trick I wanted too land!
& The charity work he has done in more recent times makes him #1 in my eyes!
All Hail the KING! 🤘🏻👑
I skated from mid 90s to about 2010. That era was golden. The shoes. The clothes. The footage. It was all so fresh and real. Street skating was blowing up. I loved it and I was the jock type in school but I loved skating just as much and made so many good friends. Really molded my outlook in life as a youngster.
Bro like 98- to 2009 were super innovative years and so many amazing videos came out
Just those osiris where nasty.
I skated in the 90's. I still skate at 54. Beefing shit hurts a lot more now🤣. I'll admit it, I long board a lot more
Darkstar days. Spitfire fire lights
I started in 1986 and still skate. Hockey and skateboarding are my only exercises. I love it, even when it hurts and I can't hardly work the next day. My left ankle is black and blue right now. Why did you stop?
I had travelled from Ireland to California for a few weeks and saw that Mike V's band happened to be playing in Anaheim. I went over and there were loads of cool opening bands and lovely people. I met Mike after he finished his set and he seemed as happy to meet me as I was him. Absolutely lovely guy.
Hearing him say "that was the end of my ollie" hurts. Having a fundamental component of so much skating sealed away by injury... And yet still having such a distinct style as to be able to keep skating anyway... Stomp one out for Mike V.
I get the chills hearing about the fight story. When I was a kid I was obsessed with that Mike V video, still got the dvd.... it makes it even more legendary he was coming back from a gnarly ankle injury.
Mike V and Jamie Thomas were always the skaters you really felt that drive from growing up. So many dope skaters but watching V get back up and kill it really was its own movie. Dope
Two aggressive ass dudes
My grandma found a dvd of the gigantic skatepark tour from 2001. She gave the dvd to me as a very young child and it hyped me up to skate so much. I wanted to be like those guys so bad and go on tours like them. I just wanted to live that lifestyle. I already wanted to learn how to skate because of my dad, Rest In Peace, but Tony Hawk’s games and videos really put it over the top for me. Thank you dad and thank you Tony for making me the skateboarder I am today.
Tony Hawk helped make skating popular again, and he definitely helped introduce a whole new generation of skaters (myself included
Grandmothers are the best
@@joshuasmith6346 they are. I love that woman to death.
My grandma (RIP) also supported my skating, she used to call it skit or skeet, she was so rad.
Man I havent really skated hardcore in like 12 years, I totally forgot about Mike V on the tony hawk tour, I had to quickly go back and re-watch it, he was so intense and fast, damn nostalgia trip
The only thing that is consistently disappointing about the 9 club, is how they reference a specific piece of footage constantly, and never bother to edit it in, in the long format show or even the chopped up highlights. This would make the show much more able to transcend skateboarding and spread the love beyond.
Copyright strikes is probably the problem. They will be demonitized if they use loads of other footage
Isn’t it a podcast?
@@tornoofo17 You're watching it
@@tomjordan6092 using it like that is fair use
@@wayge tell that to rad rat
Dude he was in my top 5 skaters growing up. What an awesome dude. Miss those days so much
This interview brings back nothing but some of my best childhood memories. I fucking loved these dudes. I couldn’t even sit still for an entire x games episode I had to run out and skate half way through every time. Much love Mike you and many others were heroes to a lot of us.
if you were a skater when this happened...yeah. you know how skaters were treated and looked at in society. this was when skaters were treated...poorly to be nice. MV fight story really starts at 26:30 as we learn he's backing up his team-dope
Man the days that I got shit talked just for carrying a deck. Jeez how time flies. Mike showed them that we hurt ourselves as part of our hobby, so what do we care what you try to do? Lmfao. Good times.
@@shanedelgado666 Man I was there at the skatepark watching my brother skate when this Happened. The skatepark was called Seaskate which was right next to Key Arena where the Supersonics played. They tore the skatepark out in 2006 I believe. But yea this is one of my fond memories from my teenage years seeing Mike V beat the hell out of some frat dudes talking shit for no reason.
Haha…. By this time skateboarding was mainstream. I started skating in the late 80’s. It was looked down upon then but it was starting to be accepted. By the late 90’s it was on commercials.
@@wickedlee664 Yea it was mainstream for sure. But skaters were definitely still hated by people and chased off by cops. I'm not a skater but my brother is 42 so y'all are about the same age and he started skating at 6 years old. And like I said I was there when Mike V beat those dudes asses. They were frat dudes that were driving around the Seattle skate park calling them "skater F@gs". But yea skating was definitely mainstream when this happened, which it happened circa 2005 or somewhere close to that. That's one of my fond memories as a youngin.
Mike losing his Ollie is a tragedy. That man had legendary pop.
He lost his ollie? What happened?
@@snakejuce screwed his ankles up so much that he can't get that signature pop anymore. He can barely ollie now.
@@MiniatureMorpheus Oh damn, okay that's why he mentioned something about the ankle. But didn't realize it was both his feet and the issues lasted till now. That sucks man. Skating can be one hell of a dangerous sport though, that's not a surprise at all.
He'd rather step off his board and roll around on the ground twirling his board around with his hands anyway. Everyone who kisses this guys ass as a legend only does so because hes the only "pro" whos skating sucks so much it doesn't discourage all these little geeks from quitting skating making it seem unattainable, you can just USE YOUR HANDS!!!!
@@snakejuceit’s in the video
I still watch the Ton Hawk Tour every once in a while
Got the DVDs for Christmas as a kid with Tony's trick tips
Mike V was one of my favorite parts of those didn't realize how close it was to not happening.
Lmao I do too bro. I got the same DVD set
Is that the trick tips DVD with Eric Koston? I used to love watching kostons incredible style
@@joebloggs9719 Koston is in the second Mike V and Bucky in the third. funny having Tonys crap Street Style next to Kostons but we used to see a lot of it. Even Rodney went on tour with Tony and Rodney doesn't do anything for nobody.
I was today years old when I discovered that fight video, learned who Mike Vallely is and watched his explanation here. Great dude. All due respect.
That is just outrageous. Career ending injury, and he was just like...fuck it. What a lunatic. His foot must be mangled now
Mike V Inspired me in 1997 411VM basics of skateboarding . Thanks for teaching me how to Ollie. Now in 2022 nothing has changed absolute legend!!!
I remember downloading skate vids on kazaa and stumbling upon this fight when I was 12 years old.
Mike V is now way up at the top of the list of people I'd really like to sit down and just have a couple drinks with.
This reminded me of my memories of when people would talk smack to my skater friends and I back in the 90s. People thought of skateboarders as punks or something, but not tough guys. That Vallely video was our strength. Lol
I wasn’t around in the 90s but skaters now mostly either don’t know how to fight at all or they’re gnarly af and there’s not really much of an in between.
That's when someone got smacked in the face with some trucks. Independents meet shit talking face
What a great podcast! This was amazing by Mike and all the guys. Great interview
there's something different about this Era of skaters that is just so nostalgic yet inspiring ❤️ ✨️
Anyone who’s skated a demo or good session knows the feeling of skating with a good group of guys and the energy it puts off for everyone around. You try things you never would normally, the feeling is just unbelievable. Skateboarding is an art and to have the energy of everyone behind each other makes for a amazing show.
Good times man, even though I've only had some half-a55ed sessions with a few peeps, but def the vibe is something that words cannot describe or define. That's what makes life....life.
Skaters are scum.
the fact that he had a lisfranc injury and got no treatment and went back to skating immediately is nuts, beast mode
Been a fan of Mike v a long ass time man. Loved his show drive and the positive messages he would send through skateboarding. He would always meet with regular real people and I really appreciate that. So many pros act like goobers but Mike v was a real 1
Hi this is the greatest interview I have ever seen in regards to what we go through as skateboarders and how we see the world and our passion. It was mentioned we are a different breed and no one understands the passion and effort we put in to do what we love. Injuries are a way of life not a hinderance. Mike V I don't believe I ever met you but I have met and skated with Tony and a few others you know. You have always been an inspiration to a large number of people I know so thank you
Great interview! It's like walking through a memory.
I’m 1 minute in and remember him at Millenium Park in Calgary on the Tony Hawk tour in 2001 or so battling out a gnarly acid drop into a steep bank.. demo skater 100% much respect to Mike V 🙌
One Word. LEGEND.
Toni is a hero, I was in Münster and remember when I heard the news no pros from the US will participate...
the indoor hall is pretty big and everybody was hyped when Mike V was skating the other years. Good memories...
I still have all of the hawk tour dvds and that was when I was in high school completely consumed by skating and though there were a lot of huge skate videos at that time (sorry, yeah right, the end, one step beyond, menikmati…) those your dvds were always my favorite and were super motivating
Mike V has ALWAYS been one
of my favorite skaters of all time!!! There is no faking in him, he is genuine and what you see is what you get! Just a great soul. And all round dude! There no one I’d rather have at my side in a fight than him! Mike V you are the man- don’t ever change! keep shredding my man!!! 🤙🏼⚡️
Mike has really became emotionally mature and has deeper insights & wisdom about himself. Beautiful my dude.
cariuma marketing is doing miracles
Cariuma is the worst thing to happen skateboarding
@@jennatallya2806 spoken by a 16 year old
I met Mike when I was a kid skating Cheap Skates in Pennsylvania. He was really, really nice to me and helpful.
I can’t believe I’m seeing this. MV was the most incredible part of the the hawk tour at KONA park in Jacksonville. Everything he’s saying is so tru. He blew my mind and stole the show. Huge hip gap and a huge kflip Indy. I’ll never forget it
I've been on a kick lately looking up all of my favorite skaters from back in the day. It's very cool to see where these dudes are.
i remember seeing his ''drive'' movie, that was a really nice video
I saw him with Ed Templeton doing a demo for TV in Pittsburgh and I couldn't believe my eyes--so much energy and passion.
He used to do demos with Ed a lot, saw them as well in what must of been 98 or so. They signed a one dollar bill I still got to this day lol.
Chris Roberts, great listener. Always on the ball.
Saw Mike V shred Edison NJ during one of his demos. Freaking beast and that energy just makes you wanna climb onto the ramps and shred right next to him.
Deff props deciding to do that tour with the foot injury in its shape. After 2 ankle surgeries myself and realizing Im never making money out of skating, I'm hesitant to do big gaps and drops, and the gnawing pain just haunts. I'll still throw it down at parks though can I appreciate the transitions being a little softer than raw street skating. Some of the wildest and best times.
Love seeing these pod casts with all the legends. Now, to rewatch that fight scene.
Why am I not surprised that Kelly's Hearts dad is an E.R. doctor.
lmao
I remember in the late 90’s mike skated for my home board shop B.Y.OB in Long Beach…they would have demos n the parking lot and mike absolutely shred them to pieces so he isn’t bullshitting when he says that’s all he ever wanted to do!!! What an awesome inspiration!!! Shout out to you mike v
Hey Mike, you're right, I just watched it again and in the late 80's skating delt with the same shit. You punked those punks for all who pushed a skateboard and took shit for it. Glad to hear the context of it and the mindset getting in tour too. Peace brother
ghey
the skaters started the fight. that's the conspiracy behind it all. They started it, Mike V assaulted 4 people and then backed off once the guy in the Hawaiian shirt started swing back at him
Mike V. Is hope! He is my inspiration! Pain is the process! Nicest guy ever! True blue human that loves the community and gets it all
Kelly hit the mark talking about the dr not understanding skaters. That’s a good sound bite that’s serious
Mike V is a true fucking legend for real!! Always looked up to this guy. I'm a hockey player to, and when he threw down with Kipper from the Kings saying " don't hold back". Classic
The tour did a stop at the Louisville concrete park. Remember seeing Kerry Getz and willy Santos destroy the island boxes. Mike V and Alex Chalmers did a follow the leader run throughout the whole park. My dad took me to that shit. The park was still newer. GREAT f****ing times!!
This was one of the best pieces I've seen from the nine club. They make so much great stuff. I remember this when it took place.
Mike is a legend I would say he is the Henry Rollins of skating
How ?
@@tempsitch5632 Well for one I'm pretty sure he was highly influenced by 80's hardcore punk bands and even has a band himself which reminds me of Black Flag specially Henry Rollins damage era Black Flag. Also if you have ever read Henry Rollins book Get In the Van you will see the similarities between the two they both have trouble with anger issues and are ready to fucking throw hands at a drop of a dime. They're both Legends
@@facepalmdeath3785 Mike V was even singing in Black Flag last I checked. It's been a few years but full circle really. Mike V and the Rats and Revolution Mother both have some jams
@@tempsitch5632 Because he'll never admit his love for the cock and relies on his tough guy persona. They're basically the same person.
Henry Rollins is the Henry Rollins of skating.
It clearly really bothers the guy that that fight is what he’ll be remembered for
I remember seeing that fight video and just thinking “sometimes you run your mouth at the wrong guy.” Also, one or two of those guys were not at all prepared to fight that night, but they pressed anyway.
A large chunk of my childhood was spent skating around and looking for spots, to keep us out of trouble. I vividly remember our skate crew watching Mike V beat the ever -living, fuck out of those dudes and we watched it weekly. You used to get us fired up, to stand up for ourselves when security, or randos, felt that they could grab/push you off your board while you rolling up to the spot. We were small but we would dream about going “ Mike V” on someone, if we ever needed to. 😂 You put some fire in our hearts, brother! 🤙
Mike Valley skateboards like a bat to the throat. It's amazing how he barges everything.
I was in Seattle and at the skatepark watching my brother skate when this happened. It was some frat dudes from UW. It happened at Seaskate right next to Key Arena. The park was torn down in 2006 I believe. But yea fuckin awesome! One of my fond memories of my teen years.
Stand Strong is one of my favorite skate videos of all time. It’s more of a great doc/profile of Mike V than just a bunch of parts and demos
What a great storyteller. That was awesome.
Mike Valley shows the true Spirit of a Warrior, commitment, knowing your body.. everything is work and continues to work for it..... 💪🏻💪🏻
That fight boosted his career big time
21:27 The Fight part
I broke both femurs when I was 19 and the doctors td me I wouldn't be able to skate or snowboard...I'm 35 and still shredding the gnar.
How the FUCK do you break both femurs?
Rock climbing or falling I should say 😂.
Fuck yeah!
I grew up watching Hawk, Mountain, Cab the entire Bones Brigade. Actually got a chance to meet
Mike V right before my skating days were cut short due to a car accident. This video was great.👊🏻
the Vallely, Seffy vs rent a cop was epic.
I can totally see Mike V and Tony’s side in the Boycott debacle
legend. never more proud to be a skater than when i saw Mike beat up a crew of jocks.
Mike V is a great storyteller, very easy to follow. I've never really been into skating, but I respect it and him.
Have had the pleasure of skating same spots as him in the 90's in New Jersey at places like Deiner Park (Rutgers) and Brooklyn Banks, and then printing a couple photos of him in my magazine Rare Breed in the late 90's and up until this day he's always been a super respectful and friendly person. Practically no skateboarder on the planet has showed more passion and love for skating like Mike V has shown. He truly CARES.
With all due respect, we disagree.
@@CircuitRider-nr3id Who's "we"? And explain why you disagree. I know him in real life, not through social media, I think my judgement of him is pretty accurate.
I met Mike V at a skate demo in my local area back in '02 or '03. He was and has remained one of my favorite skaters of all time.
I was born in 87, started skating at 5 years old. Definitely, we were treated like unwanted animals by literally everybody. Had to get in fights, treated like scum criminals by police, towns threw us garbage toy like skateparks to further enforce strict no skating laws all the while using that skatepark grant million dollars for their track and baseball fields, honestly. Even up until the early 2000s. Only teachers and parents were accepting. I didnt really notice skating being accepted until really 2014, because it's more popular than football. Mike was like a hero for us, fighting security
21:22 is about the fight.
Everyone should read the book Think and Grow Rich. Mike V did the exact principals described in the book. He healed a catastrophic injury in 50 days? Insane! He had extreme determination (cutting off the cast), faith (he believed in himself not the Dr) and action (dude skated like a madman), there was no way he wouldn’t have been successful. Beautiful story.
After he tells the fight story and the interviewer says "that's why we love you," he isn't lying. Was a fan of Mike before the fight video, but after i watched it, it wasn't so much the fight, it was the fact that he stood up for skaters is what we all love.
I was at that Seattle stop of the Tony Hawk tour. I was friends with the owners at Rain City Skate Park (RIP) so I was able to get up on the vert ramp to watch. Bam actually used my shoulder to get up on the vert ramp railing to tail drop into the big bank in the street course.
Never saw him skating in a demo or on tour, but saw him in Sydney, on his Spoken Word Australian Tour back in 03-04 maybe...
Genuinely the nicest guy, down to have a chat with everyone after the show...
I remember seeing this video back in the late 90’s (how did we see these?) I was 15 and just starting skateboarding and as far as I was concerned Mike V was the baddest man on the planet.
I grew up in hicksville rural town in Sweden. We were hated by the "Raggare"-group (a weird Swedish Rockabilly thing) and got chased by them. They burned down our DIY skatebank and boxes we built because the town never built anything for skateboarders. The Mike V-fight has always felt so vindicating. I had never seen a skateboarder stand up for "us" in that way before.
21:27
(when he actually starts to talk about 'Mike V vs four random ocks')
mike once tried to fight me outside an antique shop but luckily my dad has a gun
I remember when all of this was happening. I think the fight footage was in a 411 or something with Bam talking over it from the van. I always got the impression that Bam filmed it to put it out and Mike was not thrilled at the time. There is no way that happened in 2005 though, it must've been closer to 2000 to 2003ish if not earlier. I also forgot that Tony had other tours before the Boom Boom Huckjam stuff and that Bam was on them too.
I think the fight was in one of the CKY videos
It was definitely in cky2k. Mike v vs. 4 random Ocks. 😂
@@darrellmiller9055 yup yup lol... classic movie
Cky3
@@infinidominion yes. My bad. But still, mike v is the man 😂
You think that's crazy, you should see the video of Nora beating the shite out a crew of scooter kids outside a Toys R Us.
lol you got a link?
Bro that's 100% cap, it was outside of a middle school
Don’t blue ball us man
Straight destruction
Saw Mike V at Skatepark of Tampa contest when I was 14. He wasn’t the most technical guy but he was the most gnarly. I still remember him battling to get this huge wall ride (which he got after getting all bloodied and banged up.) Also he signed my SPoT towel and drew a lighting bolt on it
Tom Green impression was pretty good
I’m 36 now and the Mike V fight video is one of my earliest memories of skate videos/scenes.
Mike shouldve got into MMA back then. Dude could've been a champion.
Could've been.....If he wanted to. But he skated instead. Mike V does what Mike V wants.
I love the guy but that's an insane statement.
I was there at the Boycott in Germany, I remember Tony still skating the contest while everyone else hung out at a local pool. Meet Mike there and talked a bit!
There was this dude he hung out with in Cky called "Mike Vallely", and he was the douchiest blowhard I've ever seen.
He was a 5'8" balding manlet who looked like he hit the gym maybe twice a week to do only chest and arms, and he would get super aggro over nothing in order to look like the "tough one" of the crew; which isn't really much of an accomplishment, because the bar isn't set very high in the first place. His accomplishments included scattering 4 timid teenagers by flailing his arms like a windmill, and shoving a middle-aged mall cop away while the security guard was just trying to do his job.
He also had a brief stint as a hockey enforcer, where presumably his appreciation for violence might serve some sort of purpose, but then, to absolutely NO ONE'S surprise, the MOMENT he had to fight someone as strong, or stronger than him, who was equally as fond of violence as he was, he got his shit pushed in regularly. Never won a single fucking hockey fight in his life and was CONSTANTLY getting thrown to the ice.
The guy was the definition of coked up blowhard.
Mike Vallely, ladies and gentlemen. A possible contender for "faggiest skater in all of existence". Possibly faggier than even Bam Margera himself.
Mike is a LEGEND! Thanks for this interview guys🫡
MIKE V is that guy you want on your side in a bar fight.
10000000%
Watched this shit so many times. It never gets old. The tony hawk demo story too
Is Mike's daughter in her 30s now? I remember seeing him with her in the 90s. I feel old
411 #32 I remember yeah dude gettin old
I see you everywhere
Did you skate lockwood backnin the dayz
@@cloisneely3433Yep I sure did. In the 90s me and my crew were the kids that used to meet up at the McDonald's parking lot on Sunset and Fountain and then we'd go hit all the main spots like Lockwood.
I was at the Hawk tour in Seattle 2001 met Mike V. He’s a rad individual for sure.
Imagine acting like you have deep morals about skating while wearing a Cariuma tshirt.
Okay?
I'm pretty sure he's either the owner or sponsored either way he's accomplished more than you ever will with skating
I never imagined that all these years later we'd be getting the story behind this occurrence from the man himself.