Animal Chin 30 Years - Tony Hawk, Steve Caballero, Mike McGill & Lance Mountain 2/4 

If you don't have a smile on your face throughout the whole video, you're dead inside.

The "They've been skating for like 3 hours" bit almost made me tear up. 30 years later and they're still kicking ass. Absolute legends.

"they're skating like 16 years olds" Here you go 16 years old skaters! no pressure...

And here I was, thinking only Hawk was still skating and being a legend. This was hands down one of the coolest videos I have ever watched!

This is literally the coolest thing I've ever watched in my entire life like no joke

Steve is like the cool grandpa that everyone wants

I am 54 and have skated since I was 4 ! I will skate till I die, it is a way of life !!!

Used to watch "Search for Animal Chin" over and over as a young teenager and wanted so badly to skate like them. I'm 46 now and haven't skated in almost 30 years and I'm in tears watching this. These guys inspired me back then and still inspire me now. Unbelievable!!

RIDE - I'm horribly fkn depressed and in my 40's, but this shit still made me smile through all the shit like it did 30yrs ago. Feelin' the love.

I teared up a little when they started gettin' it.

This is skateboarding, man. Friends having fun on their boards.

Who else played Steve Caballero in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2!? ♡

"If you look too hard for Animal Chin, you're never going to find him" - Johnny Rad

When I was younger, I thought tony was the coolest guy on the planet and his bag of tricks were unbeatable/unbelievable. But after all these years and all the documentaries and videos like this that are out, all I can do is think how humble these guys turned out and classy they are. And lance mountain has since become my new favorite guy to see doing vids. You can tell he was and is a great guy

This might be the most wholesome video on the internet :')

Anyone else tear up a little when they all first saw the ramp.... they all looked so happy.

This shit almost made me shed a tear👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿still the best sk8 team ever!!!!

that double tail tap though! rippin' style, holmes.

Man, it’s been that long?! My first “pro” skateboard was a Tony Hawk mini...tracker trucks, rib bones, tail and a nose bone. Man I wanted that board to last forever. These guys were my idols. I still get all excited when I think of those days. And I still look at curbs the same way. A few years ago I was going into the Shoprite to buy some food and outside were some skaters. Me being like 40 at the time I saw them just like me and my friends those 25 years ago. One kid bumped into me said “sorry sir..” and then asked me for some change! I tried to stike up a convo with them about skating. They couldn’t believe that an old guy like me had broken in the very curbs they were skating on. Me and my friends would buy candles inside the grocery store and wax those curbs up and grind them til they were skateworthy. They looked at me like I was some kook. It was kinda sad really, I expected a different reaction kinda like “hey cool!” I walked away after giving the one kid some of my change feeling the shortsightedness of their youth. We were little shits in those days too! Always getting in peoples way, scaring old ladies, getting kicked out of parking lots. We thought we’d never grow up and skate forever. Some things never change.

I am not even a skater, but this video touched my heart, seeing these guys having fun as they used to have many years ago 👍🏻

The best feeling over came me watching this!! My childhood love for skating is back!! Thank you

this made my 51 year old ass smile laugh and get tears in my eyes seeing them together on the ramp and esp Johnny Rad! These guys inspired me to skate and have fun. I found chin! I can no longer skate due to arthritis in my knees but shit man, this video makes me want to try again. Lance was always my favorite. If you can find it, buy the Bones Brigade video hits cd. has songs from the videos and a bunch of Johnny Rad including live tracks!

Wow, just wow, I almost started crying. You guys are legends period.

There’s never been a group of skaters I’ve respected more than these guys!

Fuck I'm flooded with emotion,just beautiful,really beautiful.

In 1986, I was 12 years old, had a Valterra skateboard and didn't really know what really good skateboarding looked like. We lived Louisiana, so the videos took a while to get to us, and at that time you had to rely on your friends getting a VHS copy from another friend before you actually got to see it! So It was probably 1988 before I saw this video and we all probably have different emotions or memories of how we felt when first watching it but we all probably agree we loved it! Watching this short film on the 30th anniversary fills me with such happiness. The guys I have admired for so many years seem vulnerable, older and yet they offer no regrets they just get out there and skate! When my little girl is a bit older, I look forward to showing her The Search for Animal Chin and hope that she understands the message behind the film. Thank you Stacy, Lance, Tommy, Mike, Steve and Tony. You took me back to age 14 and a sense of simple enjoyment that I hope the younger generations can achieve. Kudos!!

I was in 8th grade when Chin came out. My friends and I watched this video at my buddies house over and over until it was like 3am. We knew every line and emulated everything they did. This video was my best years as a kid. Watch chin, hit up a ditch or the launch ramp session, rinse/repeat.

Animal Chin is doing what you loved as a kid 30 years later. These guys have officially found Animal Chin.

This gave me goosebumps. Absolute LEGENDS!!

Guys, I discovered this video just a few days ago and to be honest, it brought a few tears in my eyes!! At first, I thought, no way, they didn't/couldn't do it, but then, I watched, and watched, and re-watched, etc... :) Good job guys, keep it up, you have been/are/will forever be an inspiration for so many people out there!!!

Every single one of these guys are my heroes growing up I’m 51 and skating again and it’s so rad to see these guys still going hard love all you guys. Thanks for all the years of fun.

Animal Chin began 9 years of hardcore skating for me. This brought back a lot of memories! So cool!

Absolutely beautiful! I grew up watching these guys, emulating them, and watching this now really brought back many memories of me flipping through page after page of Transworld or Thrasher, cutting pages out and hanging them on my walls. So thankful to have skateboarding in my life!

It's beautiful to think that when these guys were coming up people didn't think you could have a career let alone skate past your 20's and here we are today with these legends twice that age and ripping just about as hard as they did when they were kids. If it wasn't so cold and shitty out I'd be fired up to get some right now

Watching these guys skate together brings back so many good memories! Makes me wanna hunt down my old crew!

"Check the footage of Tommy on that ramp, none of us could do it right now" - Awesome

Dude this is legit one of the coolest things ever, got me teary!

This is so epic...words cant describe

Freaking smiling and have tears .....This was and still is a part of my life , amazing😂

Awesome memories seeing this movie the first time in the 80’s. I’m still skateboarding at 45 and love it 😍

I'm sure this could put a smile on ANYONE'S face!

wow this is possibly the greatest thing ive ever watched

it was so good to be a skateboarder in 80,s not meny people were in to it felt special

Man the Scene with Johnny Rad at the end was the icing on the cake. Favorite video ever.

This is an incredible moment in skateboarding history. One for the ages

Forever young...

Bought back a lot of memories. Video not only turned back time for those guys . It turned back time for those of us who were young back then. I didn’t even have a Powell Peralta . Had a Hosio , Sims Jeff Phillips , Madrid Eddie El Guerra , Schmit stix John Lucero, Santa Cruz Air tech . Im 47 now & I still remember those boards & names .

I'm 51 now and watching these legends skate the original chin brings back alot of great memories for me....cheers Bones Brigade!!! 🤘😜🍻

These guys made skating cultural, so stoked to see them still having fun rippin it up. Time to dust off the board.

puts a smile on my face seeing them this happy legendary stuff right there

This video nearly brought me to tears. I saw The Search for Animal Chin when I was a kid. Seeing all my favorite heroes skating together again was amazing.

So many amazing memories! That was a great time in my life. Thanks Bones Brigade for being a big part. I am still looking for Animal Chin as much today as I did back then.

Used to watch Animal Chin and all kinds of Bones movies when it would rain with my friends mid 80's it would get us so pumped to skate when it was nice weather again

Me and my cousin loved skating and the search for animal chin we watched so many times, we were both 49 right now but he passed away yesterday and it brought me here..RIP brotha

When I was 12, those young people inspired me to love skateboarding... Now I'm 48 and they're doing it again... Four excelsiors Thank you Bones Brigade! Saludos desde Mexico...!

Man.....this made me feel nostalgic and depressed. So happy for these dudes, it's awesome to see them re-experience the chin ramp and still killin it at their age.

I almost cried watching this. What you all have meant to my whole life for these past 30 years, I can't begin to put into words. I know how modest you all are, simply because of the humility that you all exhibit. But you are my heroes. I loved my Guererro deck- it was my favorite deck of all time. And each one of you have distinct spots of overwhelming joy in my life. I can't begin to thank you all enough. BTW, you guys shredded that new Chin ramp!!!

I got tears of joy when they did that 4 invert shot. Absolutely amazing!

Skateboarding and genuine friends... What more could you ask for

Steve Caballero's board was the first skateboard I ever owned. It was Silver with a Blue Dragon on the base deck. Damn I miss that board.

Giving me the feels to see these dudes skating together again!

46 and still skating...thx Bones Brigade!

I was born in 1983, my brother was born in 1975.. I remember my brother had this movie .. We would watch this movie all the time, in the late 80s. Gleaming The Cube was a cool movie also.

What an incredible documentary style, animal chin recreation video. Straight up legends coming back together again. Love it.

i love this so much makes me smile

Steve Caballero my favourite skater since I was 12 back in 1988 and seeing real skating for the first time in Police Academy 4. I long since stopped skateboarding but still watch a lot and I watch this video with a tear in my eye and a smile in my heart. Look at their faces at the end, that is the meaning of life right there.

McGill- “If anyone could find Animal Chin Johnny, you can”. McRad- “You God damn right Mike!” LOL!!!!

I absolutely love videos like this. It's so awesome seeing all the old school stuff and history of skating!

Easily is one of my Top 5 favorite uploads on RU-vid. I enjoyed the heart and soul of this production.

The older I get the more I appreciate coming up in this era. These guys are still my heroes.

Time is cruel. Stuff like this reminds me of my childhood and how it is gone and never coming back.

The best! So many memories from that era.

i didn't realize it but I was smiling the whole time. i can't wait to see who does what next on it!

Back then in 1987 we borrowed this movie on VHS cassette in our skate shop, gave our ID as a deposit, because this cassette was only available there once and we watched it countless times. That was the best and most beautiful time in my life!

We watched that video over and over again. Sooo many classic lines; just pure fun, then and now.

Utter legends. This is so so sick :) the Bones still have it!

This made me smile and cry, so many feels :)

Unbelievable. As an 11 year old kid my first Powell Peralta board was in 1986. This is one of the most inspirational videos I've ever seen. God bless all of you guys.

A thousand years from now, this will still be the coolest thing!

Makes my heart fill with joy. This is so awesome!

I was hoping it will never end! What a fun video to watch!

....we watched this a hundred times for motivation and followed it up skating all night....great soundtrack!

Yesssss!!!!! That was so sick!! Even Johnny rads band makes an appearance. Stoked!!

Possibly THE most awesome video ever.

Flooded by so many memories. I love it.

Every time I watch this it takes me back... I freaking miss those days so much . Every generation has their memories but the 80's they were the coolest. I remember watching that vid over and over again , got ya energized and back out to skate . Seeing these old farts like me still killing it is amazing.

Im 37 now, I bought the Search for Animal Chin in the mid 90's at a clearance bin in Blockbuster Video and it changed my entire view of skateboarding. Just an amazing one of a kind gem that made a massive influence in skateboarding culture.

I got a bit misty watching this. It meant so much to all of us. I have Animal Chin loaded up on my phone so I can watch it anytime, anywhere! :) ♡

this is skateboarding and why I love it an the community it comes with

I don't know what happened between to skateboarding between the Dogtown era and the Bones Brigade era, but thank God these boys took it to a whole different level of skateboarding. Im Stacy's age, and to see what the guys are doing on these ramps is absolutely awesome! It brings back memories of my youth!

Everyone that felt emotion from watching this has the fire of life, skating, and spiritual perseverance in them… We have been given skateboarding by the pioneers of the sport; we’ve carried the torch, passed it on, and the flame still burns bright in younger generations.

On the inside, I'm crying...and it's a good cry. These guys exemplify the amazing potential and gift that life offers and is! Wonderful stuff.

Damn this made me emotional like for these guys doing wat they love to do for this long and still at a high level together having a good time just makes me so happy. these are my heroes

The real Animal Chin is the friends we made along the way.

Watching these guys skating and pulling the moves they did thirty years ago almost identically was thrilling. ThAnk you tony and the bones brigade! and thank you Stacey!

Seriously gave me goosebumps, cause id watch Animal Chin when i was younger🙌🏻🙏🏻so rad!

My teenage years when my skating was exploding as I learned so much on a daily basis. Here I am now at 45 years old, and smiling ear to ear watching this. It brings back soooo many memories of how many times myself, my brother and friends would watch this and then get so pumped up to go out skating. Man, those were the days. The Bones Brigade and Animal Chin will live on forever.

Bones brigade still tearing it up ! Those guys are the kings of vert, full stop.

Please give us more. 10 minutes is not enough. I just did not want it to end. Miss you guys so much!

Total man crush on ALL of you guys! You just don't know how much pleasure you have brought to one mans life! Thank you for being you!