Eric Koston: Epicly Later'd (Part 1/6)

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Here it is, folks, the Epicly Later'd series on the man considered to be the greatest street skater of the modern era. What does that mean exactly? Nothing really, but Eric Koston is the standard by which all street skaters are judged. How did this come to be? Where did Eric hone his skills? Who was his guru? Answer: "El Gato." El Gato, or Eddie Elguera, nurtured young Eric's astonishing natural abilities and brought him places that allowed this talent to blossom. Many people will learn about Eddie after watching this series. Please enjoy.
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@BestFitnessBands 10 лет назад

Wise old man Eddie "I think you need somebody who believes in you not for what they can get out of you, but for who you are as a person."

@yeezywesty3651 5 лет назад

yeah it's important.

@chrisellersagangsta 4 года назад

That’s a rare find

@MycoMatty 3 года назад

That’s el gato for you.

@K26epic 3 года назад

Cheers to that!

@Teknakill Год назад

HIT HARD

@HarrySchilbach 5 лет назад

Yo. Do a Kick-flip

@jamesbest9741 4 года назад

Dick

@moaazkhalil1028 4 года назад

Ffs can somebody do a fucking kick flip ???

@chaonghabibdiev 11 лет назад

"he's been sick for 21 years" get well soon eric, love your skateboarding

@lustforlow-end6022 2 года назад

I really wish people would stop saying “sick” when they mean good. It sounds so stupid 🤦‍♂️

@mtparkourartist 2 года назад

@@lustforlow-end6022 siiickk

@mtparkourartist 2 года назад

@@lustforlow-end6022 hes Sikh*

@Swansen03 2 года назад

@@lustforlow-end6022 'sic' ...... just like 'werd'....

@lovelyrat33 Год назад

Dude you made me laugh out loud!

@Ross-pb1cu 2 года назад

I was fortunate enough to have Koston as a counselor at Lake Owen when he was amateur. He was already super talented. He would do effortless ollie impossibles to feeble grinds. His landings were always super clean. He also landed a 540 over the hip ramp (in the video). Truly one of a kind. Eddie El Gato was also super amazing, and a great mentor to all us kids. He was the first person I ever saw do a 180 to nose blunt on vert. Some of the best memories of my life.

@afrikan1641 9 лет назад

He had a good mentor/friend to guide him the right path, most pro skaters join bad friends, start drinking beer and doing drugs and just vanish. Like Antwuan. Good thing this dude is laid back

@Jerrywasaracecardriver225 8 лет назад

Lolo Ndlovu hahaha most skaters drink and do drugs dude antwuan isn't the only one

@propskate 8 лет назад

Lolo Ndlovu okay so eric Ellington and andrew Reynolds were not THE perfect mentor to show twuan the right way through skateboarding ? come on dude antwuan was a fuckhead who threw his talents away, he showed up to demo for fame and getting wasted. BUT yeah good thing he's back on his board

@Keskosbar 8 лет назад

+Ab CRXsi peeps use drugs and drink before the fame too. It just gets easier and wilder

@LunchBXcrue 7 лет назад

yeah man makes me think of brandon novak, everyone around him said he had what it took to go pro but got into heroin and gave it all up

@s8ba 5 лет назад

Bring me Peter pan yea thank god novak changed his ways cause he really wasted his talents truth be told.

@hunterlafountain6060 8 лет назад

What I learned: -He always rode new trucks -He was hella good at shuvs

@jamesbest9741 4 года назад

U didn’t learn shit then!

@HeyJodyBryan 8 лет назад

I met at the Huntington Beach pier a few years ago. He's been one of my biggest idols growing up. I had like 3 pairs of his Koston es'. I almost shorted when I saw him in person. I wanted to take a pic and ask for an autograph but he was with his family and I didn't want to bother him.

@balriel7229 7 лет назад

Jody Bryan you probably did the right thing

@evgenykholodov9924 5 лет назад

good for you m8, im sure he appreciated it

@roncriswell2685 5 лет назад

Good on you,so many people nowadays feel entitled to a pic and autograph and don't care if someone is with their families or eating. They will just get mad and scream "I pay your bills when I buy your shit so gimme gimme now"...

@dougthealligator 4 года назад

George Ramos to take a shit and then snort it, you know?

@audioamateur 4 года назад

@George Ramos as in, an electrical short

@moldyrefrigerator 9 лет назад

I met Eddie Elgeurra yesterday hes an awesome dude still rippin' it.

@gunplakiwi 10 лет назад

Such an amazing mentor

@KingOfTings1 11 лет назад

thank u for being a proskater who answers comments

@nexpnyzml6613 6 лет назад

Who else got hyped when he mentioned San Bernardino and Redlands

@spacedoutl4634 5 лет назад

Man has been my favorite skaters for years and never knew he was from San Bernardino

@googlemail9110 11 лет назад

Eric Koston is one of the most inspiring of our day

@theeturnone 11 лет назад

its cool to see mike carrol interviewed about eric koston. . . both my favorite skaters for the last 20plus years

@stolendrugs 11 лет назад

great episode. koston is a real legend in the game. that es menikmati video part is on of my favorites

@cobraking7146 4 года назад

Big ups to Eddie. People need that shit homie, encouragement, support, role models. ✊ Respect

@dannyjonesjr4188 3 года назад

Between him and Stevie Williams are my favorite skaters of all time!! Koston's skateboarding career is legendary!!

@Gameboy-Unboxings Год назад

Stevie Williams is black.

@king216OH 10 лет назад

watching this video just makes you feel good inside

@slimchance7748 4 года назад

Went to sk8 camp in Oregon, summer of 90’ Skated a lot of mini ramp w/ El Gato, & some w/ Koston...he was intense! 2 yrs older than me (huge difference then!), & obviously way better!! Fun times

@kronker 11 лет назад

I'm so happy Vice goes all over the place with their coverage. I hope they do something on an unknown or highly controversial MMA fighter that no one else is covering.

@JG-nk7ld 6 лет назад

Love Epicly Laterd but it seems like every single video has skaters talking about other skaters saying "no one else was doing this at the time" about all of them at the same time ha.

@erickmedina2747 5 лет назад

Jamie Guidry 0

@evgenykholodov9924 5 лет назад

true that but still theres so many things out there maybe they were doing different things that hadnt been done yet. things.

@johnnydrama8709 5 лет назад

No dought

@night1247 4 года назад

well look, there‘s so many ways to skate, they all might have been telling the truth

@dougthealligator 4 года назад

Skating was a lot more amorphous back then though, what would become street still hadn’t really been solidified and most dudes had pretty different styles. Just look at how different Kostons shit from this time is compared to what Mike V was up to.

@autopsy202 4 года назад

Koston was my favorite skater back in the day. He is still an epic champ but when I was younger I had the shoes the board all of his stuff. Great skater

@larryzeno7133 5 лет назад

I remember skating with you in upland 90 bad lands! Improv skate scenes! What a ride brother!

@MikeHoczbig Год назад

Skating in the 90’s & early 2000’s was the best.

@fixeduzx73 5 лет назад

Skated with Koston at a 118 board shop demo back in the 90’s I was like 13/14 just star struck as hell! He signed my Girl Board too... 😎 memories 🤓

@michaelchacon4784 8 лет назад

San Bernardino, Redlands, and highland is the area I'm from. That's crazy knowing these guys would skate around my area.

@youpoopedyourtube6075 8 лет назад

i lived in rancho cucamonga for a while thats trippy tho

@alexcorona 6 лет назад

Michael Chacon Joey from Andele is from the area also. As well as Daniel Espinosa, lots of history in the I.E. The Primitive guys come out here to Riverside once in a while. You'll see PRod and Spanish Mike eating at the local joints.

@korylooper3170 5 лет назад

Michael Chacon Yup. Lots of video parts at Cajon and Pacific High. Do you know Mark and Jonathan Stewart AKA Bob and Ziggy? Black kids one with dreads. They are probably the two best skaters from San Bernardino when we were all growing up. And Rudy.

@TheVision114 11 лет назад

Respect to Eddie man. Good dude, deserves recognition.

@societyofsin 11 лет назад

Great series! This brought back a lot of good memories. Should do Daewon Song next.

@swagfordaaays 11 лет назад

sick vid im definitely watching all the parts

@panterino 5 лет назад

Believe in you for who you are as a person, not for what they can get out of you. - Eddie

@bennyshambles 11 лет назад

Epicly Later'd comes through again... skateboarding's History Channel? O'Dell is doing us all a tremendous service.

@maxrasche 6 лет назад

Lake Owen tho!!! Had the best week ever there like 15 years ago... Rad to see it in this video.

@jchastain789 11 лет назад

been fucking with koston for hella years, glad to see some new footage....

@albertofradique326 3 года назад

BONS TEMPOS 👏😀 QUE SAUDADE! 🤜🤛

@lustforlow-end6022 3 года назад

That front lip to front board on the ledge at ab 5:41 was amazing. Koston probably did it first try, just messing around, not even thinking about it!

@cfitzg 3 года назад

Koston the legend. Great piece.

@cfitzg 3 года назад

Somebody needs to re-open Lake Owen ASAP. The next wave is coming...

@DerekBlais 11 лет назад

Great! Thanks for this.

@brandonsouba2295 6 лет назад

Nice Lake Owen Skate Camp (closed, previously an off-shoot of Woodward based in Wisconsin) appearance at 9:11

@NoRestForTheWeary 11 лет назад

YESSSS!!!! i KNEW vice was waiting to drop something awesome!

@jarkokoo 11 лет назад

Awesome stuff, once again.

@narayguy 10 лет назад

thank you

@spyderhex 6 лет назад

Didnt realize froston was that good at such a young age.. incredible.. that blunt to frontside bigspin off the coping was bananas and was like 14 at the time.. so much pop..

@BRIANGOODSP33D 10 лет назад

good story thanks for sharing

@meatloafzombie 11 лет назад

Koston had some of the sickest pro shoes in the late '90's.

@gerhardbronkhorst2239 4 года назад

I was in school, when this dude skated back in 99 - 2002 eric koston es shoes, yeah man!

@skatingpamper3181 11 лет назад

best series on youtube

@kylegray3838 Год назад

KOSTON STILL A FUCKING LEGEND 10 years after this was posted.

@larryzeno7133 5 лет назад

Remember the 16th street sk8 shop? I never knew you made Hst. Ya baby!

@crikey1mate 2 года назад

Eddie dude is like the most insightful and sound speaking pro skater to ever live

@YourBeastRoy 11 лет назад

If its even possible i have even more respect for Koston, THE MAN

@imarandomeer 11 лет назад

I always used Eric Kostons' gear in Tony Hawks Pro Skater 1, 2 & 3. I always had faith!

@thinglizzy2718 2 года назад

Dude he back 360d that enormous spine at the end. Good god that was insane

@JohnSmith-ij6ms 5 лет назад

germs sticker on his board in the early 90s? pretty sick

@MrTrevorg18 11 лет назад

Back in the Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 days on Playstation 1, You were the only character i'de play as. Legend

@soulcheckw2 11 лет назад

Koston. Still my fav street skater!

@rebusd 5 лет назад

I look at Koston this way: in an era where skateboarding was developing so fast that few were actually concentrating on performance and consistency, Eric had both quality and quantity. And when style finally went completely out the window, Eric and a few of his contemporaries kept things both smooth and tech, influencing the Reynolds, the Coles, the Haslams, et al, giving us the street skating we consider familiar to this day. I know there are kids out there who can pick apart his 101 stuff, but a lot of those kids would have been into little league or roller blading back in the day, and certainly not getting threatened, chased and arrested in an activity that few were certain would be around in ten years, let alone sponsored by Nike.

@joenobody5913 2 года назад

Got chased off plenty of times roller blading back in the day

@Shiftttyyy 4 года назад

Anyone finally find out the song at 4:22? It's been 7+ years 🤣

@arianazuniga611 3 года назад

Yo I found it! It’s called out rage is by thee fourgiven

@MainOffenderKZ 5 лет назад

damn elguera speaking some real words in here

@tomf4087 2 года назад

I remember seeing him h-street video and thinking this is the future of street skating and why hasn't he got a bigger part in the video. Sealed the deal with 101 part.

@michaelchacon4784 11 лет назад

I'm from Redlands.. Cool to know Koston is from the City over.

@williams7713 3 года назад

He's my favorite

@illmuskyhunter3313 6 лет назад

Holy shit I grew up fishing on lake Owen and I got to see the camp didn't know he was an instructor. Sad it's gone

@ThePokemonCard 5 лет назад

Legendary!

@CSDonohue11 11 лет назад

Koston SO OG. I have 1 of his Girl decks, i still use in my trunk. SO DOPE.

@heathcliffe8446 5 лет назад

Sick it, Vice.

@joslinnick 6 лет назад

Skateboards do tip! That was a very astute observation by Koston's Daughter.

@Technoko 7 лет назад

Could someone ID the song at 4:22 ?

@daonpa 11 лет назад

I didnt know that :) Thank you... Anyway Id say hes the best.

@traumaaofficialpage 11 лет назад

Legend.

@milessmith1080 10 лет назад

Hello, If you really are Erick Koston, I Just want to say that I love your style and your an awesome skateboarder that I wish do become someday. Thanks for Reading (:

@erichanhauser3190 5 лет назад

This shit is great. Love it.

@anthonygonsalves7020 7 лет назад

Aaaand he co-started a new skate company. Psyched for him!

@dhopss 10 лет назад

koston is the man!!

@MultipleChoice162 7 лет назад

10:00 that is so true and so deep

@littlebear2477 3 года назад

Eddie is a legend

@prontoshadylane 11 лет назад

right on

@conorokeefe9161 11 лет назад

he is by far the best skater, have all of his shoes in my bedroom, half of them not even skated and even some of his old lakais- so sweet

@SimonWorlds 4 года назад

Eddie Elguera knew what was up, the guy has great wisdom and an all round nice guy.

@raiderrichard7291 5 лет назад

I remember watching this dude skate on my Nickelodeon video now portable dvd player

@hysteriahpc 11 лет назад

Lake Owen Wisconsin..Big up!

@alligatorwine84 10 лет назад

epicly later'd dennis busenitz or matt mumford!!!

@yungjamez312 10 лет назад

same here brother!!

@UrJefasPimp226 4 года назад

Nobody: Subtitles: S K A T E B O A R D I N G S O U N D

@jenkemblunt879 3 года назад

germs logo on his board about 3:30. sick

@AlastairMcIlrae-wy4ul 11 месяцев назад

90s King.

@LIINOOOSS 10 лет назад

Whats the name of the song that starts 4:22? :)

@mwes24 11 лет назад

Eddie Elguera seems like a genuinely good person.

@Blunderous919 9 лет назад

this is cool as aye

@Filiolus 11 лет назад

3:31 that happened to me when I started. I fell and cracked my lip open and had to get 11 stitches. Was like 7 years old, quit skating at like 19 haha.