Classics: Mark Gonzales in Video Days 

To all the young kids on here saying this is lame and the tricks are easy. This guy (gonz) along with several other great skaters were the best of their time. The tricks that are done in this video were all new and very creative. Watching these videos when the came out was amazing. The same way you young guys see a new skate video today and say " that was sick" . Well that's how we felt back when this came out. Skating was evolving fast and this is one of the guys who made skating what it is today. Respect is due! This skater is in his 50s today and still skates. I personally loved skating growing up. Time flies kids. Enjoy it!

Dude he just flows like water...

i think the music goes perfectly with his style

2:50 is so ahead of it's time

Anytime I’m bummed on my skating I watch this part and it reminds me why I started skateboarding in the first place. ❤️ Everyone wishes they could skate like the Gonz.

This segment to me always just defined the heart of skateboarding. Just flowing free. So dope!

i love how wallenberg looks brand new

So thankful that vert footage is sandwiched in between the street for our viewing pleasure. He kills it.

Never understood the hype behind Gonz when I started skating. As I've grown older though...wow. Fucking legend.

That transition from half cab to the most stylish backside air in the world plays on repeat in my mind.

31 years later and this is exactly still how every skater looks lol

Watching Mark skate is like the improv. piano happening right now...just jumping, poppin', switching, gliding and having fun! Pure skating.

5:50 - and that's why it was called the "coffin"

Hands down my favorite skater of all time

i try to watch this as often as i can

It's so important to look back at the classics. Mark is so damn great! An artist in many categories. Skateboarding is so lucky to have him as part of the industry. Much love, Gonz!!

Probably the most important section ever. Definition of skating

Mark just makes skateboarding look like so much fun.

the thing I love about this part is not just how big Mark goes but also how he seems to get into some confined spaces that you'd almost have to be a dancer to get out of.

Mark Gonzales is a legend. I used to watch most of video days in slow mo on vhs (mostly Jason lee and Rudy johnsons parts) but Now, seeing Marks part nearly 20 years later, his style is so loose, and he was doing so much switch shit way ahead of anyone, and he's skating transition like its no big deal!

that edit at 3:14 is like stanley kubricks' 2001: space odeyssey when the ape throws the bone and it becomes a spaceship

Geez, Mark Gonzales has to be the most well rounded skater ever. He has innovated and inspired and continues to to do so today. Cheers sir! Thanks for it all!

His love for playing in traffic is still there to this day.

I starts with skating 97 when i seen this clip in the movie "kids" thx "gonz"

Absolute mad lad. This man is the reason why skateboarding became what it is in the first place. He just makes it look fun and appealing. That's talent, a bit along the lines of Mullen, and to a lesser extent, Kareem Cambell

Pure stream of conscienceness ..totally free form,absolutely amazing.Everyone wishes they could skate this way.thks was like 30 years ago too.Unreal. As much as I love watching Gonz skate street,I think he may have been the best Mini ramp ripper ever as well.Skates so fast no matter what.

This section never gets old, even 31 years later. My love for it only grows. At release I thought "damn this is incredible but I wish I could get more 80's gonz" but as the sands of time flow, I come to recognize the true greatness, especially with the vert runs and the explosive improvisational lines, making this the perfect part (never mind the 'Trane').

Brings back so many memories watching this. I miss those days..

I don’t think people understood what they had just witnessed with this part back then 🤯 The whole Video was nuts. So good.

Smooth natural flowing skater from my era.....those were the days.....Gonz was way ahead of his time....

Hands down best classic skate video i seen in my teen years

Legend says he's still cruising around to this day.

this is my favorite classics video thrasher ever uploaded!

Bro , in 2019 every skater dresses like Gonz in this part. Those clips with the black pants and shirt looks like today lol

Hey Thrasher.. Instead of just ripping other youtube videos, why don't you upload the full quality transferred from the actual VHS tape. Y'all are big boys, we know you got the funds for it

That’s some creative Be-bop, Frontside Ollie-up, grindin’, swingin’, 12-Bar, blue note, street n’ 1/2 pipe bucket o’ beans on the Bass, slappy to revert, ride cymbal groove... Bill Evans: Tri-tone substitution, Thrasher funkifying half-Cab, syncopated paradidle stare rail to Five-0, felt on the 2&4 shuffle, many times to Fakie, but blues riff, or Backside air, Tripplelet, Fast plant, 251 turn around the 12 Bar, Inverted frontside, Altered Dominant!!... And YEs the GONZ and Coltrane disciples could pull off with Radical l,lV,V changes.. After salvation Through Christ Jesus.. is there a gift that could trump Skateboarding, Jazz, the Gonz and Coltrane.. I’m just sayin.. Thay’er it BE.. perhaps the finest gifts from above to Mankind👍🙏👋

As someone who grew up spending my summers at Kona Skate Park I remember watching hours of videos with these pioneers then stepping outside and trying to learn new trickes. Mark, Rodney and Natas are definitely my three favorite!

THE best skate video ever. hands down.

It doesn't get much better than this.

This is the best skate part of all time. Hands down.

i can confidently say that this is my favorite part of all time

This is my first time watching this video. Wow, Gonz was killing back in 1991. I had just gotten out of the game, so I missed this whole transformation. Gonz was on a whole nother level. Much props Gonz. Thanks for being an inspiration. We love you homie.

I was 3 years old when this was released.... My all time favorite video part... Light years ahead of his time......

Appearently 0:55 is the first ollie front 360 ever recorded, oh and 3:13 is the best editing ever

Gonz is a monster. Still the smoothest, most badass creative skater period. He took chances, he tried the craziest shit between him and natus and created Street skating as we know it today. He was doing switch shit before anyone was even thinking about it. I'm talking 1990. Haha so insane and I'm so fortunate that I got to meet him in my hometown of Fargo North Dakota when he was on tour with his team and he was the most gracious guy and he was drawing pictures for everyone at the party. I was in awe of how genuine he was and honest. He really didn't like being around a ton of people like that partying and he just sat in a corner and Drew sketches of people for them. And just knowing how much of an impact he made on skateboarding blew me the fuck away.

This was also in the 1995 Larry Clark film KIDS.. thanks for sharing this beautiful video

I remember when this video came out. I never get sick of it.

this is sick, I love all the half cabs and 180's everything so spontaneous makes me want to skate

So ahead of his time. It’s literally crazy awesome.

This is one of the most relaxing videos to watch when you’re high

Video Days was one of videos that upped the bar and hit you out nowhere. Gonz's skating is just wow...Smooth, flexible and stylish.

The Gonz! Vision Gonz my first board with rails and schedders!! God bless you Gonz!!!

The most important video part in skateboarding history. Shaped everything to come.

street, vert, mini ramp……he tears it all up with style.

one of me favorite skate video parts of all time

I'm not of these days, but in can see, there is something about he's style. So confident...

Fr I saw this clip mid90s during moter shop when they start to playing that clip on the tv

favorite trick ever filmed :40

I absolutely love the accompanying music.

omg soo sick! couldnt imagine how amazing this would have been 20 years ago!

I plan on getting a Beamer for my birthday, I’ve always loved how gonz skates and makes it look like the time of his life in each clip. Much respect ❤

One word for this part: Pure. This is pure skateboarding. Having fun on any terrain. Also, that Wallenberg gap was insanity at that time. It's still a monster to most of us mere mortals.

He’s just out cruising. He is the definition of a sidewalk surfer or a soul surfer

His style is timeless love ya Gonz

I could watch Mark skate all day. His skating's just so natural. You can't fake that shit. A lot of people try...but come up way short.

hes a wizard

The jazz accompanies this part well. the free flow, spontaneous, creative energy are traits shared by jazz and skating

Ahead of his time

its so much fun to watch him skate

Such an undeniable flow. This makes want to skate :)

This is what skating is all about, the Gonz is having fun. I get so pumped watching him, Jason Adams, Louie Barletta. It is so boring to watch all this flip in flip out bullshit, that dominates skateboarding today. I want it to become uncool again.

Gonz looks like this is just how he gets around on his skateboard. Very smooth and stylish. Love this.

I'm pretty sure I left a comment on a forgotten RU-vid account. But this part is still so good.

I needed that.

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue, David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust, The Beatles - Sargent Pepper, Rakim - Paid in Full, The Gonz - Video Dayz

Favorite video part. Reminded me of why I started skating in the first place.

This guy was the real deal. So creative and fluid.

EMB, Wallenberg, Benecia and so many other great spots. MG is all about fun and full of life you can tell by watching him skateboard

His hand steez at the end of the front board at 4:49 is too cool. Its like hes speaking sign language to the curb

@goblinob Stay Gold is an amazing video, and it really shows the best of skating in our time, how far out the boundaries are being pushed. Stay gold homie.

One of the best skater in the 80s and 90s with more powerfull style in the streets and vert. Gonz was the best rider in the oldschool history

Me and my friends use to dig watching this kat skate down in South Gate CAL. He lived next to the park on Southern Ave. Swell guy.

favorited. timeless video..

Bank run at 1:15: passers-by have no clue they're witnessing one of the greatest, most creative lines in world history.

always gets me hyped to go skate....

Front shove, f/s 180 switch 50, half cab. One of my favorite lines of all time.

The best shots are the one that follow behind him. What a grounded rider

It's the year 2019 how come nobody has made movies about these SKATE LEGENDS?!??

A masterpiece by the Gonzfather

You can tell he’s having fun. So natural.

Loved this then and even more now, the Gonz in uniquely sleazy

Still unbelievable

One of the best ever!

i love the intro for classics sooooooooooo much. "and now for my next number, I'd like to return to th "-,wick to the"-,wick to the CLASSICS!" XD

His style's indescribable, it's not super clean but it looks so natural to him like he's not even trying this is just incredible

gonz is soooooo good! so raw and perfect at the same time. nobody could shred street and vert like that in those days...damn

I totally used to skate the Mark Gonzales original board. I had two of them. Miss those days.

Wow. I love the style

this is the best footy of mark I've ever seen he was incredibly smooth and daring always my favorite besides rodney actually that's apples to oranges completely

I wish i couldve been there when this first came out so i could really appreciate it. It was probably awesome for it's time. Not to say it's not good now.