As an English teacher and someone who has skated since 88, I think that this critical analysis is absolutely on point. Thanks so much for taking the time to put it all together. I thoroughly enjoyed every second of it.
@@adambane1719lol you look. Since when is being an English teacher a 'flex'..? He's giving the content creator his props for having a take that has some merit based on being a skater and an academic. Teachers don't even get paid that much. You must work a convenience store counter or something.. get a life...lol
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@@adambane1719 we never used the word cringe your millennial is showing. Punk was an extension of the ages of critical thinking it's not just mindless rebellion
Here’s some little known info about Brolin for you. He comes from my town Santa Barbara and was good friends with our very own mighty contribution to punk rock RKL, Rich Kids On LSD. He actually really did skate so he knew how way before the movie Thrashin. He also dabbled a little with drums and it’s rumored in old punk rock lore and legend that he may even have played with RKL once or twice in the early punk scene. It’s good he went into acting and saved his life. Sadly RKL and a shooting gallery filled with the old Cito rats, almost all of us skate punks from that bygone era when skating was anti everything are either dead, prison, mental hospitals or junkies barely hanging by a thread knowing we should’ve died way back then and gone down in flames in youth history forever to be spoken about in shudders and whispers by the ones that were really there. The ones that still bear the scars we inflicted on them in the dark alley ways of the 80’s LA /California scene. The ones who knew how dark it really was back then. The kind of darkness that would give birth to punk rock fury. I’m one of those kids at heart still, the only difference is I’m cursed to barely hang on by a thread. But at least I can put on Thrashin and even though that movie was nothing like real life it helps the memories I have come flooding back and I get to live again. Forever young, forever punk, forever free. Skate or die.
Keep on keeping on mate. A lot of us Scottish kids from back then adopted the skate or die / punk rock ethic too and some of us looked to California and specifically Venice Beach as a sort of urban skate-surf-spray painted paradise where you could skate on quality concrete all day and hang out at the beach because of the scene and the beautiful weather (since half our life consisted of looking out the window to see if the rain had stopped or cruising the towns to find sweet skate spots). But I guess the grass is always greener on the other side, and heaven only exists "somewhere else". The dark side of the kind of stuff you are talking about is something we didn't get to see too much. But maybe we just chose to see the sun and the surf and the scene and, more importantly, the street skating. I still get the board out now and again, still watch skating on RUclips, still watch Animal Chin and Public Domain and all the rest, and still drool over what would be great spots on my travels. And still think...skate or die! Although now it's probably more a case of...skate before I die! Only WE know how good it was though! And that's something you never lose. And I hope to fuck I never will!🤟😔✌️
my Dad brought a vhs copy of Thrashin home for me in 1992 when I was 8 years old. I watched it almost every day that summer before trying to learn how to ollie. I still watch it at least once a year, it's the best!! If you are able to find a copy of the DVD I highly recommend buying it, movie commentary with Alan Sacks- Steve Olson-Robert Rustler and Josh Richmond is well worth the purchase
161,000 views. 352 subs (including now myself) High quality review. No ridiculous intro, good voiceover. Keep at it man. I just watched Thrashin' for the first time and this review was a great capper.
Wow, I'm a self-declared 80s skateboarding connoisseur and I knew (or noticed) less than 10% of the things you included here. Just the one-foot 180 power slides by Natas comment (yeah, he did them in both 'Wheels on fire' and 'Streets on fire') made the video worth-watching. Amazing.
I skated at the Del Mar Skate Ranch a few times before it closed, it was pretty awesome. Whenever we went there, you’d usually see Cab, Steadham, Hawk and Hosoi among others there. Also Rodney Mullen would be in the freestyle bowl. People would usually gather to watch them skate. Fun times and I miss it.
was it there or upland that had like 4 ft of "vert" that was past vert? when i watch videos and look at pictures it seems like it would be easy to do until the day came i was standing in the deep end of a pool that still had a puddle in the bottom.there were these local ocean city md guys that were tearing it up and grinding. i was a little intimidated at first. to say the least.nobody told me about the whole weightless thing that happens.
Sweetest RUclips video I've come across in awhile. I'm 40 and discovered this movie at around age 4 or 5 thanks to my cuz Scott who got me skating around the same age. I still enjoy this film. Timelessly unique- this video is why RUclips rules and tv drools
The best skateboarding movie hands down! Discovered the vhs of it at a flea market in 2002 and was curious so I bought it for 25 cents. My friends and I used to film each other acting out the scenes when we would go out and skate like "CHRISSY I'M GOING OKAYYY!" 🤣🤣 This was super well done bro I wish it never ended. Gonna share it around!
my people . 50 still hitting the bowls in Philadelphia. I AINT NEVER GONNA STOP! i cut my legs off im going to the top of the hill and crawling on my board! wooooo!
I remember going to see this flick when it came out at the now torn down, Westland Mall in Lakewood, CO. off of Colfax. I skated there with my two best friends and my newly acquired Hammerhead deck i saved up for by mowing lawns. Every seat was sold out to a kid, and every single kid had a board in hand - and no parent in sight. Can you imagine, a theater and every kid in the seat had a big bulky board with them? It was a sight to see and wonderful memory. At the very least it is absolute 80's skater fashion GOLD (even if it was suburban Hollywood wardrobe). It's great historical documentation from a short glimmer at a very specific time in American teen pop culture.
@@jacklandon9739 Yes!!! Man, I Love North Shore! I remember when I first saw the trailer on TV with Mia Peeples and the guy from Teen Wolf and Flight of the Navigator (Matt Adler), I was stoked. That time was so amazing! Also, the original Point Break, BMX Bandits, The Dirt Bike Kid.
The thing to remember is that Thrashin’ was filmed in 1986… so after Back to the Future, but before the major boom of the late 80s and the hey day of Powell, Santa Cruz and Vision. Only two (2!) skate videos had been released by then. It was really based on the early 80s scene and things changed quickly after this point. As a reflection of the time it’s not far off.
It is a semiglamourized portrait of reality- as u pretty much just said. When Circle Jerks Wild in the Streets comes blaring on- if you didn't want to skate AND listen to punk rock- you'd have to have been braindead! Much love!
More than 2 skate videos had been made at that point: 1) Bones Video Show 2) Future Primitive 3) SkateVisions 4) SGI Sure Grip Int. Summer Sessions 5) Del Mar & Upland contest series. Probably more (Schmitt Stix?) these are just some of the ones I can think of at the moment, all pre- 1986.
@JimmyHandtrixx Right. Also, Gullwing- 'Molecules of Motion' Maybe even Skull Skates(?), Then you had the 'Curb Dogs' 'Skateboard Super Stunts. Maybe these were after Trashin? Doesn't matter, I listed off enough of them in my other reply. I was always surprised that G&S didn't put out a video in the mid to late Eighties!🤷♂️🤙
As a teenager I loved Thrashin in the late 80s. I had no idea how authentic it was, but I knew it had something I wanted. Great movie (despite the terrible dialogue)
Dude, you really did a great job researching all these "fun facts" about the movie! I grew up in this era, and though this movie is certainly corny to watch now it was one I watched many times over with friends as a kid. It'll always have a special place in my heart, like many 80s movies. I appreciate you making this! Cheers. ⚡️🤘⚡️
Very cool dive on this vid. It's always been about that skating, we always knew the acting was cheezy. Stacey doing all the scenes, all the downhill stuff was awesome. Hosoi boneless off the top off a car 6:09...... priceless
That movie inspired the hell outta me as a kid. I bugged my mom to rent it over and over again, along with the couple of Powell videos at our small town VA video store. I felt i had outgrown it by the time Gleaming the Cube came out, however. Such a simpler time.
This was an awesome essay. I probably haven't seen Thrashin' since I was a kid and had completely forgotten Brolin was in it. I wouldn't see any of the Powell-Peralta skate vids until my mid-20s, and never knew about Thrashin's connection to Future Primitive.
The shot of the Daggers cresting the hill is iconic. It was definitely copied in Christian Slater's Gleaming the Cube when him and his crew go out to avenge his brother's death
I don't even remember 99% of this movie but what I do remember is that it was one of only a few hollywood movies that depicted skateboarding in the 80s and to 80s kids that grew up in that era it was everything... Even at the time Thrashin was a budget movie and felt dated to us where as Gleaming the Cube kind of influenced the generation with it's bigger budget and fancier skate scenes filmed with the likes of Tony Hawk and Rodney Mullen...
Shit Tony Hawk, Natas, Caballero, I can't even remember all of the pro skaters that are in Thrashin' also. But I admit that I did(and still do) like Gleaming the cube better. But have a love for both because it's from my childhood.
I'd say the Daggers are more inspired by The Jaks than anything, the Jaks were a punk skate gang from the 80's, who even used jeans vests and all. Duane Peters was a honorary member of The Jaks and Tony Alva also hanged out with them. I suggest you to watch Steve Olson's interview at the Nine Club, where he mentions the producers of the movie called him and Dave Hackett with the idea of making a movie about them, and wanted them to help work on the script to get the lifestyle right. I'm calling bull**** at this chick gang theory. I think a skater girl gang would be pretty cool, but this gang is clearly inspired by The Jaks.
The "chick gang theory" is straight from the horse's mouth. Paul Sacks discussed, during a May 29, 2011 Thrashin' post-screening Q&A, that the idea for the screenplay was inspired by an LA Weekly article about the Hags. There's no way he could have missed it as the article in question shares the page with a review of Sacks' movie "duBEAT-e-o".
@@breadandcinemas6996 I got it, i guess maybe the chick gang sparked the idea, but i still believe the whole concept of the gang was designed after the Jaks, even at the scene where Robert Husler does a backflip at the truck's wall and falls on the skateboard, there's a Jaks graffiti at the truck, check it out. I guess if he really was inspired by the girl gang he would put a girl gang in the movie maybe? There's plenty of female badass bikers gang movies from that era, it wasn't something unusual. I also believe If the Jaks weren't an inspiration, he wouldn't go after Olson and Hackett who were skate punks to get their help and support.
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I met some idiot fronting on me at a circle jerks show asking if I skated who claims he was in the daggers lol I knew he was full of shit and the Jaks were the basis of this
Great vid man I watched this movie a shitload back in the day and tons of skateboarding related stuff anything skateboard related wish I could skate now but my legs just aren't with it enough. Love the scenes and music in this movie it really does have a fantastic vibe!
I used to watch this movie when I was 12 years old and it came out on VHS. Ahh the Golden Era of skateboarding and entertainment. I would identify every skater in the movie haha Powell Peralta for Life!.
4:44, cmon. Rodney is the GOAT. And a few frames later. When i was a kid, that Alva add was the business. Dig my man Bill Danforth. The bald dude, skating the ramp shirtless in 501s wearing 13 hole Docs. What a Total Legend.
I chuckle at film representations of 'teen life', wedging a 'romeo & juilet' plot into it and all that. I lived in the east SF valley in the late 80s. Knew tons of skaters, I can't skate to save my life, but I was cool with them. I hung with musicians and did Sunset mostly. But despite the cheezy hollywood aspect of the movie, there's a lot of just raw San Fernando valley in the film too. I thought all skaters did was ride skateboards, they made a movie too, huh.... About the same time "the decline of western civilization part 2" was what was going on in other parts of town in the 80s. Ahhh the 80s, good times. Then there was all the craziness down in orange county.....Lets not forget the deserts too.
What an excellent piece on Thrashin. As a skater since the 70s, and with fond memories of the 80s reseurgence and this film, I say you nailed it. Especially @13:14. They absolutely would have skated the ramp violently. Left a mess, and maybe spray painted a big penis on it or something but def wouldn't just burn the ramp to the ground. haha Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for this video . I started skating in 1980 and went til 2001 . This brings back so many memories of the best years of my life as I’m in my 50’s now and neuropathy from the diabetus has left me barely able to walk even. I will have to redouble my effort to find this movie on DVD. Btw I would give anything to have a pair of ox blood red vision street wear hi tops again.
For me I was in the mix in the 80’s: skateboarding , going to punk rock, go-go, hip-hop and reggae shows, spray painting and goofing off! Didn’t pay NO mind to these films (Gleaming, etc.) but then I had kids and watched them on “Movie Night”, when video stores were still a thing, and it was corny as heck but still “wholesome” enough for us as a family. I did my best to not emulate self destructive behavior and teach my kids about counter culture yet not being entrenched in any type of way that bespoke following the herd. To me skateboarding was a tool in my kit that was fun, active, rebellious and exciting - a culture that as much as I identified with parts of it, I couldn’t get down with the destructive components that seem to be some of what I’m reading in these comments. Bless Up to all the elders that came before us 70’s-80’s kids, our contemporaries and to all the youth coming up nowadays - y’all are the “game changer’s”!!!!!
Totally spray painted my Lance Mountain board white after seeing the white deck in this movie. LoL. Remember this was pre internet days and even though we teens were "real" skaters some things we saw in this weird movie we emulated. I had Thrashin on VHS, DVD and now HD streaming. It's a GREAT movie for what it is AND a total look at how the world looked then. I wasn't in Cali...and we sure rocked some Veriflex and Kryptonics completes. They were cheap and serviceable.....and I still love Kryptonics to this day but I'm no Alva and never was. Great video. Really enjoyed it.
I appreciate that someone (this channel) finally acknowledged that cult film does not mean good. It literally means, it's shit but has a fan base. I can't count how many arguments I've had regarding this. Just because you like it, don't mean it's good. It means you like it, you enjoy it but it is crap. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a lot of cult films. But it don't make my opinion right. Just means i/we am/are entertained. We all have an opinion. That's OK. Just acknowledge it's not factual. Your opinion is not right but is to you! No one can speak for everyone.
Josh Brolin.. Goonies to Thrashin, American Gangster, and No County For Old Men.. How time flies Damn.. I was 7 years old in 1987 when this came out.. I was so in love with Chrissy played by Pamela Gidley who sadly died young..
Well said, and put. I like how you got the first back to the future scene right. I see a lot of newer youtube skaters use the clips from Back to The Future 2 which came out years later. That first movie sparked a lot of kids to skate including myself. Nobody in that era thought thrashin was legit, it was the only skate video at video rental stores back then. My friends who skated which was like only 2 people always thought it was lame. Skating was new back then and I for one didn't want people to think skating in 1987 looked anything like thrashin. By 1991 skating had progressed so much and was still looked down on by everyone. If only people saw videos like Animal Chin, or better yet Video Days a few years later skating would have been looked at differently back then. I was still skating when questionable came out, I mean skating was DEAD DEAD in 92. Its crazy that skating has become what it is. Being a guy who started in 86, skaters got so much shit back then. It was so misunderstood. Now it's the future and it's weird to think such a thing exists still. Glad it has survived and it's changed. I still skate and it's weird to skate and have people not care. I'm always expecting the cops show up, but they drive by and wave hello.
Luckily, the clerk at our local video store skated so he ordered every skate video he could find. Nevertheless, footage was so scarce that I would record local news segments about skateboarding or watch Police Academy IV just for its 3 minutes of skate clips.
When I first saw this movie at the video store and rented it, watched it and had fun! But I couldn't figure out why Radley only wore socks but no shoes. You look at his skate double and he has on socks over his shoes. And then seeing this video on Thrashin' the curious state of Radley and no shoes has come back into my mind. What the hell is radley doing.
Here’s a little more info on Brolin, he is one of the friendliest actors(and best)I’ve ever met, in fact he walked over to me and introduced himself. Hope to see him again!
To this day, I have no idea what those jousting weapons were. I always thought it was a whoopie cushion attached to a handle. Maybe filled with rocks because of how it was able to break Corey’s arm.
Excellent review. Reply enjoyed listening to that. We (my skate rat friends and I) used to make fun of this movie endlessly, as it seemed really out of touch and at least a good two years behind the trends at the time. Loved your breakdown.
Shot at the Foxhills mall love it!!!!!!! I can see why Hip- Hop n Skating has it's parallels it was and has always been from the inside it's own thing.
Cool vid and walk down memory lane. Even back in the mid 80s the movie had its cringey parts but there's some cool stuff like the chili peppers and bits of Venice beach and pro skater stunt doubles etc.
Funny how freestyle is the heart and soul of modern street skating, Rodney Mullens existence is the reason modern skating is still a thing. Skating in the 80's in Chicago was a metal thing, not a western surfer thing, we found that s**t hysterical. Our attitude was, if you can't fight, f**k or skate to it don't bother!
Dude. Ever heard of Mark Gonzales or Natas Kaupas? Those guys were actually skating in the streets while Rodney was standing on his skateboard(not even rolling) inventing tricks. I hate this myth. Yes Rodney invented a multitude of tricks, but he is absolutely not The Godfather of modern street skating. That would be Mark Gonzales who actually skated in the streets. Rodney wouldn’t even skate a normal sized board until Rocco ordered his freestyle board to be focused. He’d still probably be standing there doing freestyle tricks fully padded.
Yes, the urban skating in this film was important. A lot of us (poor) kids didn't have access to ramps in the 80s or afterward, which required money or handy dads. We just skated whatever we found and loved it.
Remake by Stacy Peralta, yes! Girl's point of view - do you work for Disney? Would be so cool to do fresh vs hesh and we all know which skaters would be on which team.
I think I can confirm that's Natas just based on the trucks. They have a triangular hanger shape in late 85 or early 86 at the latest. Stage V Indys with the triangular hangar shape aren't available until 1986. Stage IVs and back have a different T shaped hangar which you can see all throughout the movie. The trucks that Natas would likely be skating would be Thunder Stage I which had both the triangular hangar and the extra meat roll similar to the Indy "Built to Grind" design. No other Thunder would have that detail after the Stage I which is replaced by the Stage II in 1987.
Why do I think this is also Natas in the Suicidal Tendencies (1984) video at 10:58, I think by this time he was already tied to the industy (yet relatively unknown) via Skip Engleboom (Santa Monica Airlines).
Good detective work. It's interesting that Natas skates his own setup, while Lance uses the Corey prop board and Cab clearly skates Radley's Alva. For some reason, he's also uncredited.
@@breadandcinemas6996 I dunno, him being in the vanguard of the burgeoning street skating movement (he is associated with Gonz from that time), he may have considered it prudent not to associate himself (publicly/overtly) with a part in what may have been perceived by some of his contemporaries as a "lame" skateboard movie. Hell, it even looks like he is donning a wig in the movie. i.e., he is willing to get the paycheck- but wants no other association that might damage his street cred (especially among his peers). By the time of Mike Carroll's EMB squad in the 91-93 era - a movie like "KIds" might be more acceptable to be associated with (like Harold Hunter.) You get a sense from interviews with Gonz (and others) from the mid to late 80s that they were very cognizant of what was "cool" (cool in terms of those who were or at least considered themselves hardcore, not mainstream "cool"). TLDR- I 'm guessing he felt (at the time) that he would take the money- and would prefer his name not be on any credits on the film- that could technically be there forever. I feel like later- with a film like "Gleaming the Cube," he probably had matured and recognized it was preferable to strike while iron is still hot (mature enough to see the shelf life of his skate career).
i liked the thunders inverted king pin which up until then i went through a king pin every few months and about the same time i found out about thunder bolts which i also never broke.its messed up when you have to carry your board home a piece in each hand
According to his Weekend Buzz interview, Huf knew Elf director Jon Favreau. He does not say who assembled the trucks incorrectly by I assume it wasn't someone at DLX (unless it was a joke on themselves).
I grew up in Jersey. I knew Biker Sherlock. He was nuts. We would party hard Jersey Shore. Unfortunately he committed suicide. If ANYONE who reads this post.. If your having thoughts of self harm. Please reach out for help. Suicide is a permanent solution for a temporary crisis.. Stay strong people. One love!
Great video bro. I started skating around 2004 so it was long after that movie but in a way all us skaters have the same experience and watching skate videos from other eras somehow still make me nostalgic for my own.
old vert legend steve olson (not be confused with shorty's steve olson) played one of the daggers. he talks about it in-depth on one of his appearances on THE 9-CLUB... lots of interesting behind-the-scenes info...
I was a kid that was wrapped up in the skateboarding and the BMX freestyle crazes and yeah we were pretty much starved for any mainstream images doing the craft professionals doing the things the only other outlets were those skate videos like you said and you could see it
much respect for catching that Natas move in the walk of fame seq;)I also think it was him even though he ain't credited in the skate doubles I believe.
It helps that there were far fewer pro skateboarders during the 1980s (only a handful of those could ollie a curb in 1986) and they all had very unique styles. In a 1988 Thrasher interview, Natas also talks about his negative experiences working in both Thrashing' and Gleaming the Cube.
As an English teacher and someone who has skated since 88, I think that this critical analysis is absolutely on point. Thanks so much for taking the time to put it all together. I thoroughly enjoyed every second of it.
"As an English teacher"..... hahahaha... what a cringe 'flex' !
@@adambane1719 i was thinking the same thing man lmao
@@adambane1719lol you look. Since when is being an English teacher a 'flex'..? He's giving the content creator his props for having a take that has some merit based on being a skater and an academic. Teachers don't even get paid that much. You must work a convenience store counter or something.. get a life...lol
@@adambane1719 we never used the word cringe your millennial is showing. Punk was an extension of the ages of critical thinking it's not just mindless rebellion
Here’s some little known info about Brolin for you. He comes from my town Santa Barbara and was good friends with our very own mighty contribution to punk rock RKL, Rich Kids On LSD. He actually really did skate so he knew how way before the movie Thrashin. He also dabbled a little with drums and it’s rumored in old punk rock lore and legend that he may even have played with RKL once or twice in the early punk scene. It’s good he went into acting and saved his life. Sadly RKL and a shooting gallery filled with the old Cito rats, almost all of us skate punks from that bygone era when skating was anti everything are either dead, prison, mental hospitals or junkies barely hanging by a thread knowing we should’ve died way back then and gone down in flames in youth history forever to be spoken about in shudders and whispers by the ones that were really there. The ones that still bear the scars we inflicted on them in the dark alley ways of the 80’s LA /California scene. The ones who knew how dark it really was back then. The kind of darkness that would give birth to punk rock fury. I’m one of those kids at heart still, the only difference is I’m cursed to barely hang on by a thread. But at least I can put on Thrashin and even though that movie was nothing like real life it helps the memories I have come flooding back and I get to live again. Forever young, forever punk, forever free. Skate or die.
Keep on keeping on mate. A lot of us Scottish kids from back then adopted the skate or die / punk rock ethic too and some of us looked to California and specifically Venice Beach as a sort of urban skate-surf-spray painted paradise where you could skate on quality concrete all day and hang out at the beach because of the scene and the beautiful weather (since half our life consisted of looking out the window to see if the rain had stopped or cruising the towns to find sweet skate spots). But I guess the grass is always greener on the other side, and heaven only exists "somewhere else". The dark side of the kind of stuff you are talking about is something we didn't get to see too much. But maybe we just chose to see the sun and the surf and the scene and, more importantly, the street skating. I still get the board out now and again, still watch skating on RUclips, still watch Animal Chin and Public Domain and all the rest, and still drool over what would be great spots on my travels. And still think...skate or die! Although now it's probably more a case of...skate before I die!
Only WE know how good it was though! And that's something you never lose. And I hope to fuck I never will!🤟😔✌️
Thats a great comment. Brolin has popped up in a couple of Loveletters to Skateboarding episodes, he seems like a genuine good guy. Cheers
This shit is super touching I really like Brolin I love this movie brings back so much nostalgia skated for over 30 years it was a pain in the ass LOL
His mom is Barbra Streisand and he was in the goonies ...amongst many other movies, have a great day🙂
@@larryl392 Stepmother i believe🙂.
Brings back so many memories. Thrashin' and Gleaming the Cube were key movies in youth. Strong work!
I mentioned Gleaming the cube in my comment as well 🤙🤙🤙
I worked on Gleaming The Cube and skated Del Mar with all the Pros”ya gotta luv the 80s
Corey had cockroach style
Yes they were! Gleaming was even more respected in my area than Thrashin
Plus Police Academy 4
Thrashin is the best man... it inspired me to skate... and I still skate to this day! Thanks Thrashin!
Thrashin and Police Academy 4 had me hooked as a kid and like you I'm still at it. Good on you, cheers
@@finnmcginn9931 ....wasn’t tony hawk in that movie as a stunt double? Have a great day🙂
Chew knew it Man! Sk84life!
my Dad brought a vhs copy of Thrashin home for me in 1992 when I was 8 years old. I watched it almost every day that summer before trying to learn how to ollie. I still watch it at least once a year, it's the best!! If you are able to find a copy of the DVD I highly recommend buying it, movie commentary with Alan Sacks- Steve Olson-Robert Rustler and Josh Richmond is well worth the purchase
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High quality review. No ridiculous intro, good voiceover. Keep at it man. I just watched Thrashin' for the first time and this review was a great capper.
Agreed. This review was insightful and to the point. I never thought of the marketing angle which is so dominant in films now.
Wow, I'm a self-declared 80s skateboarding connoisseur and I knew (or noticed) less than 10% of the things you included here. Just the one-foot 180 power slides by Natas comment (yeah, he did them in both 'Wheels on fire' and 'Streets on fire') made the video worth-watching. Amazing.
those are easy to learn .just put your front foot on the bolts.they deid blow my mind back then though. natas was so overlooked and underrated
I skated at the Del Mar Skate Ranch a few times before it closed, it was pretty awesome. Whenever we went there, you’d usually see Cab, Steadham, Hawk and Hosoi among others there. Also Rodney Mullen would be in the freestyle bowl. People would usually gather to watch them skate. Fun times and I miss it.
was it there or upland that had like 4 ft of "vert" that was past vert? when i watch videos and look at pictures it seems like it would be easy to do until the day came i was standing in the deep end of a pool that still had a puddle in the bottom.there were these local ocean city md guys that were tearing it up and grinding. i was a little intimidated at first. to say the least.nobody told me about the whole weightless thing that happens.
this was a damn fine review. well done!
Sweetest RUclips video I've come across in awhile. I'm 40 and discovered this movie at around age 4 or 5 thanks to my cuz Scott who got me skating around the same age. I still enjoy this film. Timelessly unique- this video is why RUclips rules and tv drools
The best skateboarding movie hands down! Discovered the vhs of it at a flea market in 2002 and was curious so I bought it for 25 cents. My friends and I used to film each other acting out the scenes when we would go out and skate like "CHRISSY I'M GOING OKAYYY!" 🤣🤣 This was super well done bro I wish it never ended. Gonna share it around!
watch cant stop the firm
I started skating in 1986, I still skate to this day. I appreciate this narrative 🙏
Me, too, and I'm 49 years old. Skating with my son on the weekends now. What could be better?
my people . 50 still hitting the bowls in Philadelphia. I AINT NEVER GONNA STOP! i cut my legs off im going to the top of the hill and crawling on my board! wooooo!
@@andrewfogleman9133 nothing. people that dont skate have no idea
I have seen this movie 150+ times. And is to this day my alltime favorite movie. Once we saw it 3 times, in one day.
I remember going to see this flick when it came out at the now torn down, Westland Mall in Lakewood, CO. off of Colfax. I skated there with my two best friends and my newly acquired Hammerhead deck i saved up for by mowing lawns. Every seat was sold out to a kid, and every single kid had a board in hand - and no parent in sight. Can you imagine, a theater and every kid in the seat had a big bulky board with them? It was a sight to see and wonderful memory. At the very least it is absolute 80's skater fashion GOLD (even if it was suburban Hollywood wardrobe). It's great historical documentation from a short glimmer at a very specific time in American teen pop culture.
This dude deserves more followers. Well done, sir. It takes me back.
This is a great video. Quality copy and narration. I enjoyed it, thanks!
Thrashin’ and Rad were two great movies from youth!
i forgot all about rad no way
Add the movie North Shore and you have all 3 that built our childhood love for extreme sports 🤙🏻
@@jacklandon9739 Yes!!! Man, I Love North Shore! I remember when I first saw the trailer on TV with Mia Peeples and the guy from Teen Wolf and Flight of the Navigator (Matt Adler), I was stoked. That time was so amazing!
Also, the original Point Break, BMX Bandits, The Dirt Bike Kid.
Thank you for posting this. I’ve been looking for years for any info on Thrashin’
The thing to remember is that Thrashin’ was filmed in 1986… so after Back to the Future, but before the major boom of the late 80s and the hey day of Powell, Santa Cruz and Vision. Only two (2!) skate videos had been released by then. It was really based on the early 80s scene and things changed quickly after this point. As a reflection of the time it’s not far off.
It is a semiglamourized portrait of reality- as u pretty much just said. When Circle Jerks Wild in the Streets comes blaring on- if you didn't want to skate AND listen to punk rock- you'd have to have been braindead! Much love!
just hope that scientists discover a way to create a legit hoverboard some day since you mention Back to the future
More than 2 skate videos had been made at that point: 1) Bones Video Show 2) Future Primitive 3) SkateVisions 4) SGI Sure Grip Int. Summer Sessions 5) Del Mar & Upland contest series. Probably more (Schmitt Stix?) these are just some of the ones I can think of at the moment, all pre- 1986.
@@marcusprince3999there were no doubt more...Alva had released 1
@JimmyHandtrixx Right. Also, Gullwing- 'Molecules of Motion' Maybe even Skull Skates(?), Then you had the 'Curb Dogs' 'Skateboard Super Stunts. Maybe these were after Trashin? Doesn't matter, I listed off enough of them in my other reply. I was always surprised that G&S didn't put out a video in the mid to late Eighties!🤷♂️🤙
As a teenager I loved Thrashin in the late 80s. I had no idea how authentic it was, but I knew it had something I wanted. Great movie (despite the terrible dialogue)
This was great, thanks for sharing.
PS- "dont drink that, foul" 😂
i still think about that line when there is something questionable in my fridge
@@chrhadden 😂 me too especially OJ 🍊
Dude, you really did a great job researching all these "fun facts" about the movie! I grew up in this era, and though this movie is certainly corny to watch now it was one I watched many times over with friends as a kid. It'll always have a special place in my heart, like many 80s movies. I appreciate you making this! Cheers. ⚡️🤘⚡️
Very cool dive on this vid.
It's always been about that skating, we always knew the acting was cheezy. Stacey doing all the scenes, all the downhill stuff was awesome. Hosoi boneless off the top off a car 6:09...... priceless
Shame 2 waste a classic dodge charger!
@@anjinsanx44 where did you see a dodge charger?
That movie inspired the hell outta me as a kid. I bugged my mom to rent it over and over again, along with the couple of Powell videos at our small town VA video store. I felt i had outgrown it by the time Gleaming the Cube came out, however. Such a simpler time.
Just found your channel. These are some of the best commentaries I've seen about movies here on youtube. Well done man. Definitely got a sub from me!
Great video! I rented Thrashin and Gleaming the Cube like 100 times on VHS in the 90s lol
That was very insightful. Hopefully this dude makes more content.
“I’m certain this is Natas Kaupas” I guessed that too by the fact he’s ollieing wayyyyyyy higher than everyone else.
This was an awesome essay. I probably haven't seen Thrashin' since I was a kid and had completely forgotten Brolin was in it. I wouldn't see any of the Powell-Peralta skate vids until my mid-20s, and never knew about Thrashin's connection to Future Primitive.
Thank you for this analysis. Please ponder Dagger origin stories and share them with us.
insanely well done video dude, thank you
This video is incredible! Thank you!
The shot of the Daggers cresting the hill is iconic. It was definitely copied in Christian Slater's Gleaming the Cube when him and his crew go out to avenge his brother's death
I was 12 in 86, this movie ruled and I still skate (poorly). Great video, cheers
we went to different schools together
I don't even remember 99% of this movie but what I do remember is that it was one of only a few hollywood movies that depicted skateboarding in the 80s and to 80s kids that grew up in that era it was everything... Even at the time Thrashin was a budget movie and felt dated to us where as Gleaming the Cube kind of influenced the generation with it's bigger budget and fancier skate scenes filmed with the likes of Tony Hawk and Rodney Mullen...
Shit Tony Hawk, Natas, Caballero, I can't even remember all of the pro skaters that are in Thrashin' also. But I admit that I did(and still do) like Gleaming the cube better. But have a love for both because it's from my childhood.
@@luciuskapahs5547 Absolutely bro.. The 80s in a nutshell. If I had Doc Browns Delorian that is where I would go first...
@@knifeknerdreviews4609 gun it back to '88 🤘🤘🤘
I'd say the Daggers are more inspired by The Jaks than anything, the Jaks were a punk skate gang from the 80's, who even used jeans vests and all. Duane Peters was a honorary member of The Jaks and Tony Alva also hanged out with them. I suggest you to watch Steve Olson's interview at the Nine Club, where he mentions the producers of the movie called him and Dave Hackett with the idea of making a movie about them, and wanted them to help work on the script to get the lifestyle right. I'm calling bull**** at this chick gang theory. I think a skater girl gang would be pretty cool, but this gang is clearly inspired by The Jaks.
The "chick gang theory" is straight from the horse's mouth. Paul Sacks discussed, during a May 29, 2011 Thrashin' post-screening Q&A, that the idea for the screenplay was inspired by an LA Weekly article about the Hags. There's no way he could have missed it as the article in question shares the page with a review of Sacks' movie "duBEAT-e-o".
@@breadandcinemas6996 I got it, i guess maybe the chick gang sparked the idea, but i still believe the whole concept of the gang was designed after the Jaks, even at the scene where Robert Husler does a backflip at the truck's wall and falls on the skateboard, there's a Jaks graffiti at the truck, check it out. I guess if he really was inspired by the girl gang he would put a girl gang in the movie maybe? There's plenty of female badass bikers gang movies from that era, it wasn't something unusual. I also believe If the Jaks weren't an inspiration, he wouldn't go after Olson and Hackett who were skate punks to get their help and support.
I met some idiot fronting on me at a circle jerks show asking if I skated who claims he was in the daggers lol I knew he was full of shit and the Jaks were the basis of this
Great vid man I watched this movie a shitload back in the day and tons of skateboarding related stuff anything skateboard related wish I could skate now but my legs just aren't with it enough. Love the scenes and music in this movie it really does have a fantastic vibe!
That Ricky line was perfectly inserted
This was awesome and so spot on. Nice work!!
I used to watch this movie when I was 12 years old and it came out on VHS. Ahh the Golden Era of skateboarding and entertainment. I would identify every skater in the movie haha Powell Peralta for Life!.
4:44, cmon. Rodney is the GOAT. And a few frames later. When i was a kid, that Alva add was the business.
Dig my man Bill Danforth. The bald dude, skating the ramp shirtless in 501s wearing 13 hole Docs. What a Total Legend.
Well done.. I was there and a part of this in SF during all this. Still have the VHS copy.. Thanks for the memories..Skateboarding is not a crime…..
you were part of the film?
I chuckle at film representations of 'teen life', wedging a 'romeo & juilet' plot into it and all that. I lived in the east SF valley in the late 80s. Knew tons of skaters, I can't skate to save my life, but I was cool with them. I hung with musicians and did Sunset mostly. But despite the cheezy hollywood aspect of the movie, there's a lot of just raw San Fernando valley in the film too.
I thought all skaters did was ride skateboards, they made a movie too, huh....
About the same time "the decline of western civilization part 2" was what was going on in other parts of town in the 80s.
Ahhh the 80s, good times.
Then there was all the craziness down in orange county.....Lets not forget the deserts too.
A true classic and still holds up. Seen it in theaters when it first came out with my Pops (RIP) 🍿
Great essay! And many thanks for "The Midwestern prom queen, at a ne'er-do-well gathering" 🤩
What an excellent piece on Thrashin. As a skater since the 70s, and with fond memories of the 80s reseurgence and this film, I say you nailed it. Especially @13:14. They absolutely would have skated the ramp violently. Left a mess, and maybe spray painted a big penis on it or something but def wouldn't just burn the ramp to the ground. haha Thanks for sharing!
Good stuff. Keep it up!
Thanks for this video . I started skating in 1980 and went til 2001 . This brings back so many memories of the best years of my life as I’m in my 50’s now and neuropathy from the diabetus has left me barely able to walk even. I will have to redouble my effort to find this movie on DVD. Btw I would give anything to have a pair of ox blood red vision street wear hi tops again.
I saw that movie in the 80s as a kid and started skating for over 3 decades - huge influence on me
thank you sir for your analysis of this really fun nostalgic movie to watch!
As a 13 year old at the time. This felt like our “Gone with the wind”
I made the most perfect Corey Webster spiders skulls and bones replica.
Even with the Jeff Grosso deck.
It’s epic.
For me I was in the mix in the 80’s: skateboarding , going to punk rock, go-go, hip-hop and reggae shows, spray painting and goofing off! Didn’t pay NO mind to these films (Gleaming, etc.) but then I had kids and watched them on “Movie Night”, when video stores were still a thing, and it was corny as heck but still “wholesome” enough for us as a family.
I did my best to not emulate self destructive behavior and teach my kids about counter culture yet not being entrenched in any type of way that bespoke following the herd. To me skateboarding was a tool in my kit that was fun, active, rebellious and exciting - a culture that as much as I identified with parts of it, I couldn’t get down with the destructive components that seem to be some of what I’m reading in these comments.
Bless Up to all the elders that came before us 70’s-80’s kids, our contemporaries and to all the youth coming up nowadays - y’all are the “game changer’s”!!!!!
Top notch video man. I dig it.
Totally spray painted my Lance Mountain board white after seeing the white deck in this movie. LoL. Remember this was pre internet days and even though we teens were "real" skaters some things we saw in this weird movie we emulated. I had Thrashin on VHS, DVD and now HD streaming. It's a GREAT movie for what it is AND a total look at how the world looked then. I wasn't in Cali...and we sure rocked some Veriflex and Kryptonics completes. They were cheap and serviceable.....and I still love Kryptonics to this day but I'm no Alva and never was. Great video. Really enjoyed it.
Cant believe this had an Underachievers clip in it 🤯
Something makes me pop this in the vcr all the time as background vid , this movie is my childhood
very nice video. thank you so much!
I appreciate that someone (this channel) finally acknowledged that cult film does not mean good. It literally means, it's shit but has a fan base. I can't count how many arguments I've had regarding this. Just because you like it, don't mean it's good. It means you like it, you enjoy it but it is crap. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a lot of cult films. But it don't make my opinion right. Just means i/we am/are entertained.
We all have an opinion. That's OK. Just acknowledge it's not factual. Your opinion is not right but is to you! No one can speak for everyone.
You killed that narration
This and "Gleaming the Cube" 🔥🔥🤟😍
This was such a fantastic piece‼️McTwist & Shout‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
Josh Brolin.. Goonies to Thrashin, American Gangster, and No County For Old Men.. How time flies Damn.. I was 7 years old in 1987 when this came out.. I was so in love with Chrissy played by Pamela Gidley who sadly died young..
Great things to say about him all is left are good memories RIP..
Great job, you did it justice. I learned a few things too!
Well said, and put. I like how you got the first back to the future scene right. I see a lot of newer youtube skaters use the clips from Back to The Future 2 which came out years later. That first movie sparked a lot of kids to skate including myself. Nobody in that era thought thrashin was legit, it was the only skate video at video rental stores back then. My friends who skated which was like only 2 people always thought it was lame. Skating was new back then and I for one didn't want people to think skating in 1987 looked anything like thrashin. By 1991 skating had progressed so much and was still looked down on by everyone. If only people saw videos like Animal Chin, or better yet Video Days a few years later skating would have been looked at differently back then. I was still skating when questionable came out, I mean skating was DEAD DEAD in 92. Its crazy that skating has become what it is. Being a guy who started in 86, skaters got so much shit back then. It was so misunderstood. Now it's the future and it's weird to think such a thing exists still. Glad it has survived and it's changed. I still skate and it's weird to skate and have people not care. I'm always expecting the cops show up, but they drive by and wave hello.
Luckily, the clerk at our local video store skated so he ordered every skate video he could find. Nevertheless, footage was so scarce that I would record local news segments about skateboarding or watch Police Academy IV just for its 3 minutes of skate clips.
we used to get 50 dollar tickets all the time
Started in 85-86 and the real weirdness is several of my friends from skating ended up being cops... from being chased and harrassed to being the man.
When I first saw this movie at the video store and rented it, watched it and had fun! But I couldn't figure out why Radley only wore socks but no shoes. You look at his skate double and he has on socks over his shoes. And then seeing this video on Thrashin' the curious state of Radley and no shoes has come back into my mind. What the hell is radley doing.
Here’s a little more info on Brolin, he is one of the friendliest actors(and best)I’ve ever met, in fact he walked over to me and introduced himself. Hope to see him again!
Epic skate knowledge. Ricky oyola opening clip from ee3 made me smile
To this day, I have no idea what those jousting weapons were. I always thought it was a whoopie cushion attached to a handle. Maybe filled with rocks because of how it was able to break Corey’s arm.
We used to love watching Thrashin just to count all the continuity breaks. Fun movie for skaters back then. "... I'm classy, I swear... I know him."
Excellent review. Reply enjoyed listening to that. We (my skate rat friends and I) used to make fun of this movie endlessly, as it seemed really out of touch and at least a good two years behind the trends at the time.
Loved your breakdown.
Not enough alcohol, drugs and violence, which was how we lived back in the day.
Shot at the Foxhills mall love it!!!!!!! I can see why Hip- Hop n Skating has it's parallels it was and has always been from the inside it's own thing.
Wonderful narration
Cool vid and walk down memory lane. Even back in the mid 80s the movie had its cringey parts but there's some cool stuff like the chili peppers and bits of Venice beach and pro skater stunt doubles etc.
Funny how freestyle is the heart and soul of modern street skating, Rodney Mullens existence is the reason modern skating is still a thing. Skating in the 80's in Chicago was a metal thing, not a western surfer thing, we found that s**t hysterical. Our attitude was, if you can't fight, f**k or skate to it don't bother!
Dude. Ever heard of Mark Gonzales or Natas Kaupas? Those guys were actually skating in the streets while Rodney was standing on his skateboard(not even rolling) inventing tricks. I hate this myth. Yes Rodney invented a multitude of tricks, but he is absolutely not The Godfather of modern street skating. That would be Mark Gonzales who actually skated in the streets. Rodney wouldn’t even skate a normal sized board until Rocco ordered his freestyle board to be focused. He’d still probably be standing there doing freestyle tricks fully padded.
@@rnfr wrong!
Second hand smoke set it off...
Yes, the urban skating in this film was important. A lot of us (poor) kids didn't have access to ramps in the 80s or afterward, which required money or handy dads. We just skated whatever we found and loved it.
Remake by Stacy Peralta, yes!
Girl's point of view - do you work for Disney?
Would be so cool to do fresh vs hesh and we all know which skaters would be on which team.
I think I can confirm that's Natas just based on the trucks. They have a triangular hanger shape in late 85 or early 86 at the latest. Stage V Indys with the triangular hangar shape aren't available until 1986. Stage IVs and back have a different T shaped hangar which you can see all throughout the movie. The trucks that Natas would likely be skating would be Thunder Stage I which had both the triangular hangar and the extra meat roll similar to the Indy "Built to Grind" design. No other Thunder would have that detail after the Stage I which is replaced by the Stage II in 1987.
You’re right. It was he.
Why do I think this is also Natas in the Suicidal Tendencies (1984) video at 10:58, I think by this time he was already tied to the industy (yet relatively unknown) via Skip Engleboom (Santa Monica Airlines).
Good detective work. It's interesting that Natas skates his own setup, while Lance uses the Corey prop board and Cab clearly skates Radley's Alva. For some reason, he's also uncredited.
@@breadandcinemas6996 I dunno, him being in the vanguard of the burgeoning street skating movement (he is associated with Gonz from that time), he may have considered it prudent not to associate himself (publicly/overtly) with a part in what may have been perceived by some of his contemporaries as a "lame" skateboard movie. Hell, it even looks like he is donning a wig in the movie. i.e., he is willing to get the paycheck- but wants no other association that might damage his street cred (especially among his peers).
By the time of Mike Carroll's EMB squad in the 91-93 era - a movie like "KIds" might be more acceptable to be associated with (like Harold Hunter.) You get a sense from interviews with Gonz (and others) from the mid to late 80s that they were very cognizant of what was "cool" (cool in terms of those who were or at least considered themselves hardcore, not mainstream "cool"). TLDR- I 'm guessing he felt (at the time) that he would take the money- and would prefer his name not be on any credits on the film- that could technically be there forever. I feel like later- with a film like "Gleaming the Cube," he probably had matured and recognized it was preferable to strike while iron is still hot (mature enough to see the shelf life of his skate career).
i liked the thunders inverted king pin which up until then i went through a king pin every few months and about the same time i found out about thunder bolts which i also never broke.its messed up when you have to carry your board home a piece in each hand
The backwards trucks were sent on purpose by kieth hufnagel (rip) since his friend worked on set and needed a complete. That's also his pro deck
According to his Weekend Buzz interview, Huf knew Elf director Jon Favreau. He does not say who assembled the trucks incorrectly by I assume it wasn't someone at DLX (unless it was a joke on themselves).
Those handful of Jaks were a diabolical move 😂 The US Bombs named a song after them.
Watched this at least 10 times a week back in the 80s
That eddie scene was awesome, classic movie, i loved this film,still do.
Great content. ❤❤❤
I grew up in Jersey. I knew Biker Sherlock. He was nuts. We would party hard Jersey Shore.
Unfortunately he committed suicide.
If ANYONE who reads this post..
If your having thoughts of self harm. Please reach out for help. Suicide is a permanent solution for a temporary crisis..
Stay strong people.
One love!
True dat 👍
Okay I'm well into the video now I got to give you some credit😮😅
Although huge in CA it was huge in Indianapolis especially College Park and north in Boone County. A lot of half pipes!
Great video bro. I started skating around 2004 so it was long after that movie but in a way all us skaters have the same experience and watching skate videos from other eras somehow still make me nostalgic for my own.
Uh Literally Other Generation And Culture
Fantastic jam packed info here but the delivery could have used 5 or 6 jolt colas.
Fright Rags is putting out Thrashin shirts. Dropping 7/18. 🙌
How can you say the dialog was terrible? What was the dialog supposed to be? It was perfect for this type of movie. The dialog was great!
They could have set the rhythm to iambic pentameter.
is corey gonna reside here...no hes just gonna live here 😂
you deserve more subs!
old vert legend steve olson (not be confused with shorty's steve olson) played one of the daggers. he talks about it in-depth on one of his appearances on THE 9-CLUB... lots of interesting behind-the-scenes info...
Nicely done.
I was a kid that was wrapped up in the skateboarding and the BMX freestyle crazes and yeah we were pretty much starved for any mainstream images doing the craft professionals doing the things the only other outlets were those skate videos like you said and you could see it
much respect for catching that Natas move in the walk of fame seq;)I also think it was him even though he ain't credited in the skate doubles I believe.
It helps that there were far fewer pro skateboarders during the 1980s (only a handful of those could ollie a curb in 1986) and they all had very unique styles. In a 1988 Thrasher interview, Natas also talks about his negative experiences working in both Thrashing' and Gleaming the Cube.
hes so cool he probably was to shy to see his name on the screen.i still think that guy is from outer space
Loved this one!!! Couldn't remember the name!
Loved it! Does weirdly balance a classic movie plot with the punk attitude of skating. Yeah, the canyon battle 🤣 pillow on a stick is right!
Great video! I love this movie
Love this movie, have it on VHS and DVD.
i had the pink Powell rat bones shirt thank you very much