The tricks, style, and filming techniques in this 1988 Powell Peralta video were hugely influential. No one had seen street skating portrayed quite like this. When Mark Gonzalez picks a Classic you know it's for real.
Mike complained about how that was him warming up but Peralta insisted on using that. He left out some of his best stuff that was filmed, which you can see in his "Sponsored" documentary. The Speed Freaks video was also His zenith at progression before it began to wane with Rubbish Heap.
Me and my sister loved this video part as a kid. It was one of our favorites. Watching it now I realize why it was so cool. Mike V has great style, and the way they just send him down a sidewalk and whatever happens makes it in the video is so awesome. Its not like these days where they take months to film a part and try to perfect every trick. We get to see tricks with style and character, and even the few slip-ups ended up flowing into other tricks and it just came together so well. Mike V be proud of this one!
My friends and I also loved this video on vhs copied 100 times to share 😆 My friend had lime green elephant Deck. Never understood how he rode it, it always felt heavy. I had a few Jeff Kendall ones with independent shocks, can't recall the wheels tho 😆. We're old. Lol man we're old.
@@Goggalor1990 just admit you suck and don't like watching good skaters because it makes you feel down about your own skating and want to quit. Im not great either but I love watching new shit and how crazy skating has got, this video is complete ASS just like MIke "HOTTER AND HOTTER AND HOTTER" Vallely. Its hilarious that even the kook lame ass Braille skaters make Mike "im a badass" Vallely look foolish on a skateboard. When a chinless Pedo like Aaron Kyro can out skate you I think its time to hang up the Pro moniker
man im 13 and i would kill to live in those days. my dad was sponcerd by santa cruz believe it or not and he tolt me what it was like in thise days and it sounded like so much fun.
WHAT!!!!! STREET SKATING IN IT'S PUREST SIMPLEST FORM!!! LOVE THE OLD-SCHOOL STYLE BRO!!! MIKEY V. KILLING IT REPRESENTING NJ, NY, PHILLY AND THE WHOLE EAST COAST!!!
Watching MV ollie the shopping trolley blew my mind. After first watching this back in 88 (aged 13) I tried the same although clipped the trolley, face planted, knocked out my front teeth & and broke my wrist. Greatest days of my life ;-)
Yeah, that was nuts. Even if it was off a curb. I remember ollieing a mini shopping cart on it's side. Looked at it years later and had no idea how I could have done that. And I remember it was on a Powell Ripper board that had the tail so wore down that it seemed almost non-existent. I don't think I hardly even popped the tail when I ollied on that thing.
@Colton R I don't think I've ever felt better in life than when I was in the zone like that. There is one day that I can remember from probably 1988. Me and a couple friends were skating at a truck stop that had a weigh station that had a ledge. I was hitting every trick I tried. My friends couldn't believe it. I was laughing. Of course by today's standards what I was doing was nothing. I never forgot that day over all these years. I was riding a Kele Roscrans board which I later lost into Lake Michigan while skating on the Chicago lakefront. A couple years ago, I found that Vision still makes that exact deck which I bought. The guy at the shop said they even still use the same press. Pretty cool.
Still my favorite skater ☺️ love his aggressiveness and willingness to not give up his roots. I'm the only skater in my town who does 'streetplants' and boneless variations
@@Djc00lness back in the 80s when I was a teen (I'm old) my very first deck was a Lance Mountain, and my second was a Vallely. Noses on those things didn't freaking exist 😂
@@nathanbellamy1976 Dude, skateboarding is not easy. If it was the. nobody would be doing the easiest thing on the planet which is clocking into work and giving your time and independent thinking over to a greedy industry.
When i started skateboarding i didn't realize how amazing his style was cause i couldn't ollie up curbs and ollie of stairs. But i learned how to ollie of stairs and how to ollie up curbs and now i realize how amazing he style is. Just improvising while rolling down the streets and when you mess up a trick just make it another cool trick. And another reason is that i just love to roll down the streets and do my thing.
The_ _EquAsian skaters today are basically pussies XD I gave to look up to mike and chris cole cause god forbid any girl be good or inspiring. Im 22. Your gen is better than mine and smarter. Trust me mines a bunch or pussies.
Mike V was my favorite skater growing up. It’s a shame he doesn’t get the respect he deserves. Street skating as it exists today for all these Instagram skaters wouldn’t exist without the help of Mike V. In the days of x games and mega ramp nonsense Mike V was doing the real shit in the streets all along. Was always my biggest influence. Nowadays Eric Winkowski is my favorite for the same reasons, he’s keeping style alive.
Seriously man I played the Tony hawk games religiously and I remembered it being valley like it was yesterday, there was a clip on RU-vid talking about how he got called valley for a while and there was confusion but I haven’t seen it in a while
Holy shit bro I just found this out about 2 years ago as well I think your on to something. I know for a 1000 percent fact it was mike valley, I remember someone in the game literally saying “hey look it’s mike valley”
A friend once advised me to get a Vallely deck. I'd never heard of him but I was about to buy a new one, I couldn't decide between Vallely's deck or Gregor Rankine's. I went with Vallely's and to this day I still reckon it was my favourite deck, just a great shape and I loved the elephant graphic 🤘👍
There's rereleases of it around right now. I think just the concave might be modernized a lot. Same shape, bottom and top graphic. Saw on Amazon and eBay.
Gonz fav part is Mike V..? Wow that says alot. Kinda forgot how good this part was & still is.The nine club brought me here...when i think no comply usually Ray Barbie comes to mind but Mike Vs got a real sick one too
This was huge back in late 80's...Stacey Peralta was a genius for the way he changed Suburbia EVERYWHERE.. *Every suburb in every state had a skate scene because of STacey... *Funny how tech Mike V would become after this and how he became known for being old school though.... Funny 2.0 how Mike V didn't take the BS from World Idustries ghetto skaters...
OK one more comment, this guy is so smooth and fluid and it's such a sign of the times that he can pull off 20 super technical street moves and doesn't need a group hug from his posse 🤣🤣
Natas, Vallely, Gonz ripped the streets... they created street skating..with out them and the mutt...Mullen the popsicle board would have ever been dreamed of...
He used the same technique that Alan Gelfand used when he first did it on tranny. Everyone knows Mullen created a million tricks but it was Gonz who took it to the streets first. Mike V was along for the ride too but not as influential on today’s skating as Gonz.
I fuckin love this kind of skating...Just cruise street, get your tricks from A to B. Don't give a shit if you fail, just continue.....I so wish I could do that.
"People always come up to me and say "you're my favorite skateboarder.. for old school!" and what people don't realize, is that when I was doing this stuff, it wasn't old school" - Quote from mike vallely...
Mike V just has good style why he’s skating, he makes skating look cool!!! Maybe not the most technical but he doesn’t really ever mess up either, I’m sure he didn’t have to try a trick 30 times!!! I can understand why The Gonz likes this part so much, it’s someone who is good a skating having fun!!!!
I wouldn’t be surprised if this part inspired Mark’s part on Video Days!!!! It’s got a lot of the same spirit to it!!! It’s following a skateboard leave the house and how he gets around seeing something and skating it without a lot of thought just skateboarding!!!
It's like watching the old videos of Tom Penny in Sorry when he's a kid. Those heavy boards and flop style just lend themselves to a unique type of skating. It's honestly really cool to watch. My cousin gave me his old Powell Peralta setup he used in like 91 when I first started skating. I thought it huge, old, and lame and got rid of it probably around '01. Stupid decision. Man I wish I would've kept that thing.
I really like this part. I like this style of skating more than the style now. Not saying the style now is bad because its not; I'm just saying that this era of skating was better.
