Came here for the skating but was enthralled with the stories of climbing and surfing. Such captivating stuff. Such a huge moment for all of these sports and I’m so stoked to watch this year
I'd rather watch aggressive inline. It's been growing underground and is bound to be coming back to the Xgames. Blading should be respected like skiing, hockey, and figure skating. It's the dry land version of surfing and snowboarding no different than than skateboarding being the dry version of those. Blading is awesome.
The fact that these other replies are actually real is stunning to me. Just wanted to say i also got emotional as they talked about new youth and kids hopefully having the chance to see these things (especially skating for me) and how they could be introduced to the sports, to skating and how they could be inspired and find the genuine passion for something like this. All this making me think about when i, only in recent years found my passion, my inspiration for skating and found myself tearing up for a second but smiling all the way through.
Bruh these replies are so weak these people put more Into their sports than you probably do in anything your entire life. How many documentaries have been made about you? Sorry what? 0?
Pleeease make climbing a 3 discipline event in future!! Rad that it's included, so psyched, but Bouldering, sport and speed are all so different and each worthy of their own podium for sure
All 3 are included this time but they are combined into one podium but it’s not really that great because speed climbing and bouldering are very different from each other.
I guess it's gradual steps. I similarly wonder if vert skateboarding will ever be included. Such a significant and distinct part of the sport not represented this time.
@@diarmidbaillie vert is the equivalent to snowboarding’s half pipe I feel. Big tricks, high energy I feel the that it is only a matter of time until the IOC recognizes it too.
1:07:30 I couldn’t hold up my tears watching this hole sequence of Kyra Condie. I have never climbed, I was here mostly for the skate part of this but I don’t know why it just felt so much inspirational for me
Climbing is super fun to watch! It's a sport that changes every time and makes athletes do problem solving under time pressure and within the limits of their bodies. I absolutely love it. Speed is crazy impressive too, but we won't get to see the real pros in this games because of the unfortunate combined format, since most of the top speed athletes don't have access to proper training facilities for Lead and Bouldering 😕
This really made me cry. What a beautiful documentary Specially watching Tony Hawk and skateboarding. I don't do skateboarding but i grew up playing THPS, watching my neighbours skating. My cousin skating. Thank you!
As a skateboarder watching this I have tears in my eyes the whole time. I haven't been around since the 90s but early 2000s were still pretty rough for skateboarding (at least where I am). Skateboarding has come a long way and has had it's ups and downs but I am hoping that with the Olympics it will only go up. Thank you for even accepting skateboarding.
I started this video not thinking I’d watch the entire thing. It was SO captivating and enthralling, I was hooked. The stories of hardship and many years of working at these sports being recognized. The human spirit is amazing. We have all gone through so much during the pandemic…. I can’t imagine what these athletes went through but this film gave me insight. As a former USA competitive swimmer of 15+ years, I can relate to these athletes. This was such a great film! Really well made. And I will have my family watch it too :) Excited for the opening ceremonies on Friday 💪🏼
Here's to hoping that competition ice climbing gets included in the Winter Olympics at some point! If you've never watched it you absolutely should, they do some crazy moves with those picks hahah
I think the biggest thing skating taught me is to be nice to people. I've been there and been discouraged when I just started out and felt like everyone was judging me. But, since I got better I realized it was much more of a mental game and just that extra little confidence of someone believing in you made all the difference.
I hope sometime soon i can find some people to be that for me, as someone who lives in a very small town with no other skaters within a two hour drive radius, I’ve heard how important and influential having a skating community, skating friends, the support of other skaters can be especially as a beginner (and I’m a very new beginner). Honestly in my tiny, tiny town the most I’m worried about is the vicious, nasty little scooter kids that will always show up at our one little skatepark just down the road.
This was such a great video! Feeling inspired while in lockdown. Climbing has made such a difference in my life and the community is what makes it great. Can't wait to see it debut at the Olympics ✨ Thank you for showcasing such strong female athletes across the sports in this film.
I am SO glad I saw tony hawks in xgames before he retired. Kudos to my parents for caring enough to see my older sister and I enjoyed the skater culture and allowing us to watch the Xgames
I didn’t realize the video was 1.5 hours long until I was half hour in 😅 love these sports and being able to learn the history and see history being made!
I remember my older cousins teasing me and offering to put skateboard wheels on their surfboards just so that I would stop bugging them to teach me to ride both. I was lucky enough to learn how to skateboard before riding a bike in Hawaii before coming out to SoCal in the early 70's. Can't help but be grateful to think about all those pioneering athletes who trailblazed the way for future generations. They've given so much to their perspective sports in pushing boundaries (in mind, body, and spirit), in sharing their talents, knowledge, and time to help others to improve their skills in these sports. What a crazy awesome gift! Sooooo happy to see their dreams come to fruition! Summer Olympics games......FINALLY!
I've never watched the Olympics, other than the opening ceremony, but I'm so excited to watch climbing! I really hope they'll also have split medals in the future, like they have for gymnastics. The sport deserves it. And we have some amazing skateboarders representing the Netherlands, so I'll definitely be watching that for them as well! Rooting for Keet! 💪🏼
Amazing video! Loved learning about the struggle behind the decision. I'm a climber, so I'm super excited to see this amazing sport at the biggest sporting event in the world! Skating and Surfing will be incredible too, the judging process will be interesting to figure out haha
I'm actually really nervous about how these sports progress. Especially Climbing and Surfing as they take place primarily in the outdoors. It's going to choke out our already crowded public lands.
It couldn't of happened to three cooler sports. Hopefully they make it through OK. Beautifully crafted documentary, very moving and engaging. Congratulations on great efforts on all sides in disseminating radness.
@@slushie.2332 it’s subjective yes but I think there’s truth to it. I’m not ragging on other sports. But skating and surfing are not sports that are second nature like running or kicking a ball. There’s so many variables in both, especially surfing. They take years to get a decent grasp of
El mundo en verdad está cambiando y está dando espacio a generaciones más jovenes. Es bello se le de su lugar a disciplinas tan compleja como el skate. Me conmueve porque es un deporte que ha sido parte de casi toda mi vida y por mucho tiempo muchos nos han visto con malos ojos cuando lo único que haciamos era patinar y divertirnos. Patinar es de las cosas más bonitas de la vida, sientes la vida mientras lo haces, experimentas una gran libertad y gran dolor. Cuando logras un truco después de practicar por mucho tiempo tienes una sensación de plenitud increíble. ¡Ojalá más personas patinen y existan más espacios para hacerlo! Será increíble el encuentro entre los equipos de Japón, Brazil y USA, mi corazón está con todos.
Yeah! Janja's gonna win that gold medal. I hope they eventually allow climbing to have more medals to that climbers can medal separately as well as all-around - kind of like gymnastics.
@Loretta Ritter A bit sad to dignify speed climbing to the level of an individual medal (I'd much prefer bouldering and lead to get the two Paris medals), but at least better than the current (limited) risk of having an speed athlete, whose skillset does not transpose 'outside' at all, win the first climbing olympic medal.
One reason I started to watch the Olympics as a kid in the 90s was snowboarding and I always hoped to see skateboarding and others sports like these as well. I started watching other events too, but without snowboarding, I would have never started to watch the Olympics in the first place. I love it when new sports are added and valued in this way.
I'd rather watch aggressive inline. It's been growing underground and is bound to be coming back to the Xgames. Blading should be respected like skiing, hockey, and figure skating. It's the dry land version of surfing and snowboarding no different than than skateboarding being the dry version of those. Blading is awesome.
So this video completely overlooked the actually resistence and obstacles for skateboarding to join the Olympics. It wasn't so much that IOC rejected skateboarding, but that the disparate and proudly disorganized world of skateboarding -- a sport that was already profitable with small companies -- was not impressed by an initial power grab by a Rome-based non-skateboarding organization run by rollerskaters (Federation Internationale de Roller Sports, or FIRS). In the same way, Gary Ream himself was not fully embraced by most of the skateboarding community at first, with many seeing his efforts were a cash-grab on behalf of his Woodward brand and also the money that would flow from the IOC. Ultimately, enough corporate interests (Nike, Vans, Mountain Dew) and skateboarding heavyweights like Tony Hawk swayed the skateboarding community to Ream's USA Skateboarding, and FIRS was given only partial control over the Olympics qualification process. Ream himself seems to have persuaded most skateboarders of his genuine intentions and respect for the sport, but FIRS -- which never had an Olympic-level sport itself but had the insider European connections with the IOC -- is still profiting from something they are completely alien to -- but had the requisite connections within the IOC to make money for everyone.
I'm excited to watch skateboarding, in both Men's and Women's Street and Park. USA has skilled skaters of course, but Brazil, Japan, and all of the other countries participating have skilled skaters as well. it will be a very close competition. and I hope that people who have never really seen skateboarding will enjoy it.
What a fantastic and engaging documentary! I was enthralled and inspired! I really enjoyed watching the Women’s skateboarding and how all the competitors were so happy for each other. Watching them chair lift the final competitor after she fell on her last round was so uplifting, it nearly brought me to tears!
People who don't understand what these sports did for kids like us growing up and meant to us are people who never had to struggle to be themselves. Yeah i said it!
@@chrisroyster5754 Except there's a stark difference between reading and skateboarding, though I think you already have an implicit bias against these sports in one way or another.
When I went to Hawaii in January last year before the world pretty much shut down, I was seated next to a person who skates or skated for Nike. He told me that skateboarding would be added to the Olympics. Watching this video reminds me of that moment.
@@taboransky6 that is not Alex Honnold, because the guy is carrying a parachute and not wearing la sportiva shoes. Look up dean potter free solos with a parachute. You will learn that the clip is in fact of dean potter
As a life long skateboarder I was originally against skateboarding in the olympics. On the other hand it deserves the respect that will come along with being apart of them. Skateboarding is one of the best things your child could fall in love with.
Glad you include surfing and skateboarding. This sports is famous than other olympic sports and you can check that on top athlete instagram influencer. Top 17, mick fanning - surfing Top 30, tony hawk - skateboarding Top 52, kelly slater - surfing
Watching it over and over as a very fresh beginner, the tension and awe seeing it every single time. So incredibly inspiring and fuelling for passion for skating
Brilliant story of the journey of these sports to become recognised by the world for what they truly are. For me, their dedication, technical and physical prowess demonstrate that they are undoubtedly athletes worthy of their place in the Olympics. Can't wait to see the first events!
As a kid I skateboarded and surfed growing up in Florida, and I've been fortunate to have rock climbed a few times. Had I grew up out west I totally would have been a climber. I love everything about all 3 sports! Ecstatic to see them now Olympic sports. Loved everything about this documentary, just one question. Which of you 200+ jerks clicked the dislike thumbs down button?
Although the content is different from the video, I would like to express my sincere "thank you" to the people who commented on the sympathy for the Atami landslide disaster in Japan. Please be aware that disasters have occurred in various places these days. After that, we received messages from Koreans celebrating the disaster and the death of people, such as "Congratulations on the Atami sediment disaster," "May more deaths," "Celebration, the destruction of Japan," and so on. Those who were worried, the Koreans celebrating the disaster in Japan, certainly received the message. Thank you very much.
Love to see the sport grow but still can relate being a poly boarder of different styles rediscovering surfing through a surf adapter and realizing the true cultural impact but noticing the barriers as a real sport in my community
I know what a big deal the Olympics are but this will be the first one I'll be watching since I was kid simply because of the excitement of watching skateboarders on the biggest stage.
Love the animations 😂 It's great to hear people talking about skills like this. How many people before would compare skateboarding to swimming for example??
Lol. My friends and I were just talking about this and we both looked back on our childhoods. All those hours invested on Tony hawk's Pro Skater on my Play Station to the scars and bruises all the way to humping rails on epic fails, I wouldn't trade it for the world.
I am incredibly disappointed at how they olympics handled sport climbing. The fact that speed was lumped in with bouldering and lead shows that no experienced climbers were consulted when the olympics implemented sport climbing. I can at least kind of see an argument for putting lead and bouldering together, but it's unacceptable to put speed with them as well because it is just so different. Other new sports like skateboarding and karate get 4 and 8 events respectively, so you cannot say that they didn't want to put too much in a new sport. All climbers are asking for is 6 events: speed, lead, and bouldering for men and women. This is all we will ever need. Watering down the talent by having too broad of an event will hinder climbings ability to grow as an olympic sport.
In the next olympics they are going to have to make a doc about how breakdancing got into the olympics much in the same way as skateboarding, surfing and cliimbing
Skateboarding, Surfing and Sport Climbing. Climbing in the natural world, with adventure, risk, and multiple skills, can never be replicated and displayed in a competitive event. The need for a synthetic surface allows climbing to be grouped with skateboarding and surfing. So the most beautiful, difficult and challenging climbing will never be in the Olympics.
@@tonybarnes3858 Exactly its the inconsistencies of the natural that become so normal. Living in Hawaii so many years the competitions are always "on call" so theres a swell coming and people fly from all over the world for it. Luckily swells predicted better than weather
im 45 and i remember back when i was in 6,7,8th grade skating and wondering why or if ever this would ever become a reality... not gonna lie i may have teared up a couple times.
![Oscar Maydon x Fuerza Regida - Tu Boda [Official Video]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/_ymicn0_GYc/mqdefault.jpg)
Came here for the skating but was enthralled with the stories of climbing and surfing. Such captivating stuff. Such a huge moment for all of these sports and I’m so stoked to watch this year
@Censor Me ^^^^ somebody's mommy didn't love them.
Bring Inline skating back
I'd rather watch aggressive inline. It's been growing underground and is bound to be coming back to the Xgames. Blading should be respected like skiing, hockey, and figure skating. It's the dry land version of surfing and snowboarding no different than than skateboarding being the dry version of those. Blading is awesome.
If you want a documentary about the counterculture beginnings of climbing check out Valley Uprising!
Gab
V
Why am I crying all the way through these stories? Like Olympic channel you really got me with this documentary
You sat thru the whole thing and wonder why you wasted you time with this?
Get a life dude.
wimp
The fact that these other replies are actually real is stunning to me. Just wanted to say i also got emotional as they talked about new youth and kids hopefully having the chance to see these things (especially skating for me) and how they could be introduced to the sports, to skating and how they could be inspired and find the genuine passion for something like this. All this making me think about when i, only in recent years found my passion, my inspiration for skating and found myself tearing up for a second but smiling all the way through.
Bruh these replies are so weak these people put more Into their sports than you probably do in anything your entire life. How many documentaries have been made about you? Sorry what? 0?
Pleeease make climbing a 3 discipline event in future!! Rad that it's included, so psyched, but Bouldering, sport and speed are all so different and each worthy of their own podium for sure
I may be wrong but I believe in 2024 they will change it to bouldering and sport being one podium and speed being it’s on. But I agree with you!
I thought all 3 disciplines were included
All 3 are included this time but they are combined into one podium but it’s not really that great because speed climbing and bouldering are very different from each other.
I guess it's gradual steps. I similarly wonder if vert skateboarding will ever be included. Such a significant and distinct part of the sport not represented this time.
@@diarmidbaillie vert is the equivalent to snowboarding’s half pipe I feel. Big tricks, high energy I feel the that it is only a matter of time until the IOC recognizes it too.
1:07:30 I couldn’t hold up my tears watching this hole sequence of Kyra Condie. I have never climbed, I was here mostly for the skate part of this but I don’t know why it just felt so much inspirational for me
It's worth watching the whole Toulouse event. Solvenia had quite an amazing tear evoking moment too.
Same, I had no intrest in climbing what-so-ever and now I cant wait to catch it
Climbing is super fun to watch! It's a sport that changes every time and makes athletes do problem solving under time pressure and within the limits of their bodies. I absolutely love it. Speed is crazy impressive too, but we won't get to see the real pros in this games because of the unfortunate combined format, since most of the top speed athletes don't have access to proper training facilities for Lead and Bouldering 😕
Same fam. Olympics bring the best out of everyone
I Think surfing, climbing and skateboarding will have one of the best competitions of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics
We hope you enjoy them!
@@Olympics Please include BMX / Bicycle stunts and Motorsports category next time in the Olympics.
@@aomoussynonymous8712 Well BMX is already in the Olympics with BMX Racing but BMX Freestyle is coming in to the Olympics this year.
@@zacharyelder349 Great !
@@zacharyelder349 no it is not
My 3 favorite sports of all time being added to olympics in one year. 🥲 we were misfits, now we are olympians.
When the misfits grow up, they become the leaders. The leaders made us olympians. The misfits made the leaders.
I thought your favourite sport would have been mud wrestling?
nooo i want parquour
Just learned about this Woodward fellow. Mad respect for being instrumental in making skateboarding for accessible to kids and the culture.
I’m so great full for people like him who know how important it is to do things like this for kids
The Olympics has finally caught up with the 90's.
Better late than never
Lol
It is the Olympics, something so historic and ancient
Hindsight is 2020 afterall
@@mig3420 Not anymore. Now its just a corporate money grab. Thankfully the athletes make it worth watching.
I saw Tony hawks 9 at outback steakhouse as a grom on the TV's ... I'll never forget it
This really made me cry.
What a beautiful documentary
Specially watching Tony Hawk and skateboarding.
I don't do skateboarding but i grew up playing THPS, watching my neighbours skating. My cousin skating.
Thank you!
As a skateboarder watching this I have tears in my eyes the whole time. I haven't been around since the 90s but early 2000s were still pretty rough for skateboarding (at least where I am). Skateboarding has come a long way and has had it's ups and downs but I am hoping that with the Olympics it will only go up. Thank you for even accepting skateboarding.
Skateboarding was my life when i was a teenager and the whole lifestyle around it seemed so buetiful to me its was like living in pure nostalgia
I started this video not thinking I’d watch the entire thing. It was SO captivating and enthralling, I was hooked. The stories of hardship and many years of working at these sports being recognized. The human spirit is amazing. We have all gone through so much during the pandemic…. I can’t imagine what these athletes went through but this film gave me insight. As a former USA competitive swimmer of 15+ years, I can relate to these athletes. This was such a great film! Really well made. And I will have my family watch it too :) Excited for the opening ceremonies on Friday 💪🏼
Here's to hoping that competition ice climbing gets included in the Winter Olympics at some point! If you've never watched it you absolutely should, they do some crazy moves with those picks hahah
I would be so scared for ice climbers, it looks dangerous! Then again, I don’t know much about the sport.
You’ve gotta love the fact that the Olympics show their respect to the X Games!!
Nike SB
@@NazriB Yep, Nike.
..just not the BMX part of it..
I think the biggest thing skating taught me is to be nice to people. I've been there and been discouraged when I just started out and felt like everyone was judging me. But, since I got better I realized it was much more of a mental game and just that extra little confidence of someone believing in you made all the difference.
I hope sometime soon i can find some people to be that for me, as someone who lives in a very small town with no other skaters within a two hour drive radius, I’ve heard how important and influential having a skating community, skating friends, the support of other skaters can be especially as a beginner (and I’m a very new beginner). Honestly in my tiny, tiny town the most I’m worried about is the vicious, nasty little scooter kids that will always show up at our one little skatepark just down the road.
This was such a great video! Feeling inspired while in lockdown. Climbing has made such a difference in my life and the community is what makes it great. Can't wait to see it debut at the Olympics ✨
Thank you for showcasing such strong female athletes across the sports in this film.
yess i love climbing
I am SO glad I saw tony hawks in xgames before he retired. Kudos to my parents for caring enough to see my older sister and I enjoyed the skater culture and allowing us to watch the Xgames
I didn’t realize the video was 1.5 hours long until I was half hour in 😅 love these sports and being able to learn the history and see history being made!
I remember my older cousins teasing me and offering to put skateboard wheels on their surfboards just so that I would stop bugging them to teach me to ride both. I was lucky enough to learn how to skateboard before riding a bike in Hawaii before coming out to SoCal in the early 70's. Can't help but be grateful to think about all those pioneering athletes who trailblazed the way for future generations. They've given so much to their perspective sports in pushing boundaries (in mind, body, and spirit), in sharing their talents, knowledge, and time to help others to improve their skills in these sports. What a crazy awesome gift! Sooooo happy to see their dreams come to fruition! Summer Olympics games......FINALLY!
I've never watched the Olympics, other than the opening ceremony, but I'm so excited to watch climbing! I really hope they'll also have split medals in the future, like they have for gymnastics. The sport deserves it.
And we have some amazing skateboarders representing the Netherlands, so I'll definitely be watching that for them as well! Rooting for Keet! 💪🏼
Amazing video! Loved learning about the struggle behind the decision. I'm a climber, so I'm super excited to see this amazing sport at the biggest sporting event in the world! Skating and Surfing will be incredible too, the judging process will be interesting to figure out haha
I'm actually really nervous about how these sports progress. Especially Climbing and Surfing as they take place primarily in the outdoors. It's going to choke out our already crowded public lands.
@Alex Guzman
So you’ll be one of those people who are like, “I did This Sport before it was cool!”
It couldn't of happened to three cooler sports. Hopefully they make it through OK.
Beautifully crafted documentary, very moving and engaging.
Congratulations on great efforts on all sides in disseminating radness.
These are 3 of the hardest sports on earth, really well included! cant wait to watch it all at Tokyo!!!
A hundred percent!
That’s subjective, they have all 3 boards sports now, so that’s pretty cool. I don’t climb but climbing is very fun to watch
@@slushie.2332 it’s subjective yes but I think there’s truth to it. I’m not ragging on other sports. But skating and surfing are not sports that are second nature like running or kicking a ball. There’s so many variables in both, especially surfing. They take years to get a decent grasp of
@@albinochewie543 yeah. I snowboard and it isn’t the same as traditional sports.
What a well made documentary. Thank you! 3 legendary extreme sports 🙌🙌
Excellent work to everyone involved in this doc. Phenomenal!
So glad you enjoyed ;)
El mundo en verdad está cambiando y está dando espacio a generaciones más jovenes.
Es bello se le de su lugar a disciplinas tan compleja como el skate.
Me conmueve porque es un deporte que ha sido parte de casi toda mi vida y por mucho tiempo muchos nos han visto con malos ojos cuando lo único que haciamos era patinar y divertirnos.
Patinar es de las cosas más bonitas de la vida, sientes la vida mientras lo haces, experimentas una gran libertad y gran dolor.
Cuando logras un truco después de practicar por mucho tiempo tienes una sensación de plenitud increíble.
¡Ojalá más personas patinen y existan más espacios para hacerlo!
Será increíble el encuentro entre los equipos de Japón, Brazil y USA, mi corazón está con todos.
Can i get a glimpse of Janja Garnbret and Tomoa Narasaki 🥺
@Loretta Ritter hi
Yeah! Janja's gonna win that gold medal. I hope they eventually allow climbing to have more medals to that climbers can medal separately as well as all-around - kind of like gymnastics.
@Loretta Ritter A bit sad to dignify speed climbing to the level of an individual medal (I'd much prefer bouldering and lead to get the two Paris medals), but at least better than the current (limited) risk of having an speed athlete, whose skillset does not transpose 'outside' at all, win the first climbing olympic medal.
Congratulations to Marco, Gary and Fernando!!! Tony Hawk and Thomas Bach!!!! You guys rule!
One reason I started to watch the Olympics as a kid in the 90s was snowboarding and I always hoped to see skateboarding and others sports like these as well. I started watching other events too, but without snowboarding, I would have never started to watch the Olympics in the first place. I love it when new sports are added and valued in this way.
idk about skateboarding or surfing, but climbing seems like something that should have always been in the Olympics.
Shut the Fok up skateboarding and surfing should definitely be in the olympics
@@jakegray8850 Learn how to interpret a text, peanut brain.
Kyra! Such an Inspiration! I may have cried just watching this.
Same ❤️😭
tony hawk is still a teenager
he may be like 50 but he will always still be a teenager
Finally, Extreme Sports getting the recognition they deserve
I can't believe curling came first!!??!!
I'd rather watch aggressive inline. It's been growing underground and is bound to be coming back to the Xgames. Blading should be respected like skiing, hockey, and figure skating. It's the dry land version of surfing and snowboarding no different than than skateboarding being the dry version of those. Blading is awesome.
Except for BMX.
@@CrymInAction Maybe someday
So this video completely overlooked the actually resistence and obstacles for skateboarding to join the Olympics. It wasn't so much that IOC rejected skateboarding, but that the disparate and proudly disorganized world of skateboarding -- a sport that was already profitable with small companies -- was not impressed by an initial power grab by a Rome-based non-skateboarding organization run by rollerskaters (Federation Internationale de Roller Sports, or FIRS). In the same way, Gary Ream himself was not fully embraced by most of the skateboarding community at first, with many seeing his efforts were a cash-grab on behalf of his Woodward brand and also the money that would flow from the IOC. Ultimately, enough corporate interests (Nike, Vans, Mountain Dew) and skateboarding heavyweights like Tony Hawk swayed the skateboarding community to Ream's USA Skateboarding, and FIRS was given only partial control over the Olympics qualification process. Ream himself seems to have persuaded most skateboarders of his genuine intentions and respect for the sport, but FIRS -- which never had an Olympic-level sport itself but had the insider European connections with the IOC -- is still profiting from something they are completely alien to -- but had the requisite connections within the IOC to make money for everyone.
They snubbed BMX completely in multiple programs like this.
Tony hawk literally being the first skateboarding athlete (vert wise) and the rest is history
I'm excited to watch skateboarding, in both Men's and Women's Street and Park. USA has skilled skaters of course, but Brazil, Japan, and all of the other countries participating have skilled skaters as well. it will be a very close competition.
and I hope that people who have never really seen skateboarding will enjoy it.
Well will find out which skateboarders from around the world has what it takes to get to the top spot in Skateboarding.
@@zacharyelder349 it's gonna be great, there's gonna be some gnarly tricks thrown down!
@@Taylor-xn2qx Me too and if i have a feeling USA will dominate skateboarding in the Olympics.
M
Nyah vs yuto going to be epic !
I can't wait to watch climbing at the Olympics! Where can we get a full schedule?
The ifsc website has it! I believe the qualifications starts on August 3rd.
@@samanthas4642 thanks!
I really hope Muska turns up in the crowd and screams “do a kickflip”
I still can't get my head around on how far this "do a kickflip" sketch got from Rodney Mullen...
@@xavascal_6988 Imagine Rodney Mullen competing in the Olympics today, that would be the headline!
I’ll never forget seeing Tony’s 9 landed on live tv… still gives me goosebumps
Wish i could have been there to see it live
I was 4 so I thought it was cool but mostly remember my dad and uncle screaming after it happened.
What a fantastic and engaging documentary! I was enthralled and inspired! I really enjoyed watching the Women’s skateboarding and how all the competitors were so happy for each other. Watching them chair lift the final competitor after she fell on her last round was so uplifting, it nearly brought me to tears!
Thank you for using our song ❤️
You guys are mad underrated
You guys are awesome you deserve it.
Song name
@@k-popshorts223 muikumkiiiikjhhhhu hi uuhhhhhhhhhhh
Got so emotional when it came on, thanks :)
So glad that Tokyo will introduce Skateboarding to the Olympics! ❤
I love all of these sports cultures and communities. These will be the best sports to watch this year!
People who don't understand what these sports did for kids like us growing up and meant to us are people who never had to struggle to be themselves. Yeah i said it!
that’s exactly it. that’s why skateboarding being in the only pics means so much to me.
people who struggled dont usually have time to play.
They are activities, not sports. Reading does the same for others
that doesn't make it a sport.
@@chrisroyster5754 Except there's a stark difference between reading and skateboarding, though I think you already have an implicit bias against these sports in one way or another.
@@ashamedtuber344 What I implicit is common sense, as they both fall
under the same umbrella as activities, not sports.
When I went to Hawaii in January last year before the world pretty much shut down, I was seated next to a person who skates or skated for Nike. He told me that skateboarding would be added to the Olympics. Watching this video reminds me of that moment.
This is an absolute GEM of a Documentary well done
I hope the skaters represent the culture well, as said by Masekela in the end. Got my hopes up for Andy Anderson especially.
I love how they just throw a clip in there of Alex Hannold at the end hahaha job well done, I was crying the whole time
Almost certain that’s dean potter
@@Alexaichang That was indeed Alex Honnold, shot taken from his Free Solo documentary :)
@@taboransky6 that is not Alex Honnold, because the guy is carrying a parachute and not wearing la sportiva shoes. Look up dean potter free solos with a parachute. You will learn that the clip is in fact of dean potter
@@Alexaichang I'd love to, but I just can't find that scene again lol
Great video! Really well done. Kudos to all involved.
As a life long skateboarder I was originally against skateboarding in the olympics. On the other hand it deserves the respect that will come along with being apart of them. Skateboarding is one of the best things your child could fall in love with.
34:05 "What was the name of the flying tomato?" loool
Absolutely the best documentary about the three new sports in Olympics 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻👌
This got me in my feelings being a long time skater and rock climbing is something ive been wanting to get back into.
The excitement of some of these moments they talked about like Tony hawk 900 had me very emotional
I remember watching the rock climbing during the junior olympics and I got soooo excited 😂 can't wait to see it in the regular Olympics!
Unbelievable documentary! I cried multiple times throughout. Thank you for this amazing story.
The video is done in English, why not add subtitles for other languages when used.....
Glad you include surfing and skateboarding. This sports is famous than other olympic sports and you can check that on top athlete instagram influencer.
Top 17, mick fanning - surfing
Top 30, tony hawk - skateboarding
Top 52, kelly slater - surfing
I appreciate IOC for is honest covering
4:30 minutes and i´m already starting to cry
The 900 still gives me goosebumps 20 plus years later.
Watching it over and over as a very fresh beginner, the tension and awe seeing it every single time. So incredibly inspiring and fuelling for passion for skating
Kyra is my absolute idol! As a young female climber there's finally and Olympic athlete I can look up to and it's amazing!
Brilliant story of the journey of these sports to become recognised by the world for what they truly are. For me, their dedication, technical and physical prowess demonstrate that they are undoubtedly athletes worthy of their place in the Olympics. Can't wait to see the first events!
It's so inspiring and touching! Thank you for this great film!
As a kid I skateboarded and surfed growing up in Florida, and I've been fortunate to have rock climbed a few times. Had I grew up out west I totally would have been a climber. I love everything about all 3 sports! Ecstatic to see them now Olympic sports. Loved everything about this documentary, just one question. Which of you 200+ jerks clicked the dislike thumbs down button?
This might just be the best thing I've ever watched. 🖤
Although the content is different from the video, I would like to express my sincere "thank you" to the people who commented on the sympathy for the Atami landslide disaster in Japan. Please be aware that disasters have occurred in various places these days. After that, we received messages from Koreans celebrating the disaster and the death of people, such as "Congratulations on the Atami sediment disaster," "May more deaths," "Celebration, the destruction of Japan," and so on. Those who were worried, the Koreans celebrating the disaster in Japan, certainly received the message. Thank you very much.
For me it was Shaun White who made skateboarding and snowboarding come to light. The flying tomatoes was the one who got me hooked.
the song at @1:00:38 goes so hard with those edits!
"For Aisha" - MEMBA if you don't know it 🤘
I hopping that some day the olimpics will inclued artistic roller skating, is a beautiful Sport and it needs more difusion and recognition
Love to see the sport grow but still can relate being a poly boarder of different styles rediscovering surfing through a surf adapter and realizing the true cultural impact but noticing the barriers as a real sport in my community
Logo on a Beer Can..lol
Skateboarders are the best! haha..
Wrestling was one of the first olympic sports all the way back in grecian times and they wanted to kick it out. Wow.
That new president after 2013 really changed everything, what a GOAT.
I represent parkour, it is a newer discipline and I was very interested in watching these alternative sports grow but still have a real spirit.
Big respect to all athletes who competed!
I know what a big deal the Olympics are but this will be the first one I'll be watching since I was kid simply because of the excitement of watching skateboarders on the biggest stage.
Love the animations 😂 It's great to hear people talking about skills like this. How many people before would compare skateboarding to swimming for example??
I so exciting for Tokyo Summer Olympics and World Debut.
still waiting for channel surfing to be in the Olympics
Can't wait for Freediving to be part of the Paris Olympics again soon.
Awesome! greetings from Greece 🇬🇷
Cannot believe climbing was packaged into one event instead of the separate discplines it is.
I can’t wait to watch Sofia at the Olympics...
Lol. My friends and I were just talking about this and we both looked back on our childhoods. All those hours invested on Tony hawk's Pro Skater on my Play Station to the scars and bruises all the way to humping rails on epic fails, I wouldn't trade it for the world.
Don’t know why I’m crying 😭
Sofia Mulanovich representando al Perú :)
I LOVE that they used the soundtrack from Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1!!!
I am incredibly disappointed at how they olympics handled sport climbing. The fact that speed was lumped in with bouldering and lead shows that no experienced climbers were consulted when the olympics implemented sport climbing. I can at least kind of see an argument for putting lead and bouldering together, but it's unacceptable to put speed with them as well because it is just so different. Other new sports like skateboarding and karate get 4 and 8 events respectively, so you cannot say that they didn't want to put too much in a new sport. All climbers are asking for is 6 events: speed, lead, and bouldering for men and women. This is all we will ever need. Watering down the talent by having too broad of an event will hinder climbings ability to grow as an olympic sport.
You're not wrong
Seeing Ashima crying in Toulouse was pretty hard cus she is one of the best climbers, but combining speed pretty much striped away her chances…
In the next olympics they are going to have to make a doc about how breakdancing got into the olympics much in the same way as skateboarding, surfing and cliimbing
Thank you for this. Been a fan of skateboarding since I attended X-Games 1998 in Oceanside
I was supposed to make a project on skateboarding and hence came for info but after watching the video I want to include all of them in it.
I am so excited to watch these on my TV screen come Saturday
11'50" I know that pool, not because of skating, but because of Stoner Rock, KYUSS etc.. So cool to see Skating in the games...
Skateboarding, Surfing and Sport Climbing. Climbing in the natural world, with adventure, risk, and multiple skills, can never be replicated and displayed in a competitive event. The need for a synthetic surface allows climbing to be grouped with skateboarding and surfing. So the most beautiful, difficult and challenging climbing will never be in the Olympics.
I'm a surfer its the same thing for Olympic surfing
@@AuRowe I see...for example the huge breaks accessed by boat and far from land..or where the coast must be read for reefs, rocks, sharks...
@@tonybarnes3858 Exactly its the inconsistencies of the natural that become so normal. Living in Hawaii so many years the competitions are always "on call" so theres a swell coming and people fly from all over the world for it. Luckily swells predicted better than weather
whos cutting onions? this was really well done.
im 45 and i remember back when i was in 6,7,8th grade skating and wondering why or if ever this would ever become a reality... not gonna lie i may have teared up a couple times.
Hey Galen and Phil...you crushed this!!!!
loved the visuals, great job wzrd