The last gap I tried 3 times first one landed and jumped off, 2 is in the video, 3rd never released made perfect and put my hands up but rolled away squared down because my knees were locked up
This is still a huge gap, even in 2018. Only a few have gone bigger. Jamie Thomas and Jaws, to name only a couple. Frankie started the whole big gap, big rail movement.
Was a 9 year old skater when this video dropped and this part was so insane. Frankie Hill was one of the all time greats . That gap was huge , and doing it on the boards of that time made it an even crazier feat to pull off . Seeing this clip was a trip down memory lane and even today the clip is still just as impressive .
This brings me back. What I wouldn’t give to be 12 again. Simpler days. The nostalgia brings me to tears. I must have watched Propaganda about 100 time and this clip maybe 200 times. Incredible.
We were lucky to live in those days,. No fuckin' phones just you and your friends, Nu metal, a future full of promise and a blessed time. So happy to have lived it to the bone (brigade for those you know ^^)
@@hurrukay8023 For me it was the late 80’s early 90’s but it won’t ever be that good. First time I ever kissed a girl I was 11 it was behind this huge quarter pipe buddies built and the Scorpions song “Wind of Change” was playing on a boom box in the distance. Batman 89 was the movie to see. Everyone wore Vans, Airwalk or Vision Street Wear shoes with a slab of duct tape on the Ollie side. Sk8TV was on every Saturday morning. Everyone had the hair long to one side “tony hawk” do. We waxed curbs and parking blocks everywhere. We were kids but we were all expert carpenters it was crazy. We knew how to build the shit out of ramps and finding a large sheet of plywood in an alley was like finding gold. The “posers” always had the latest models and newest equipment while the better skaters wore their decks out to the bone. It would hurt our souls when one of us “quit” and hooked up with a new crew of friends who “walked around”. Literally we watched Propaganda, Ban This and Hocus Pocus daily. I will never have friends like I did when I was 12. Do we ever?
as a kid i remember this part changed how i saw sweet skating. i got the video when it came out in 90', i was 10. the sound of the roll up then the pop, then silence... boom! the sound of the landing. never forget that. next week i had the blue bulldog board.
Sick as when released! And Frankie got a bad deal after that and not even Shrugged his shoulders but kept his head up and his heart clean... Frankie was that the top of his game and still is
Still remenber after buying propaganda going to my house to see it, 6 or 7 guys all skaters, here in Spain. I remember perfectly watching all this part we were so amazed, but after Frankie jumps the gap, we all started to scream something like fuuuckkkkk. It was really shocking to see Frankie flying like that
A year later and I still have this vid piece in my all-time favorites. Cats younger than me/43 or so just don’t understand how next level those tricks with a heavy ass board were, and particularly the pop off the nose Frankie had, on a board with barely any nose to begin with. People were still ‘throwing onto’ rails back then and he was stomping them from ollie and with speed.
I know this post is pretty old but had to comment..... I started skating a little before PROPAGANDA came out but when it did I would watch it over and over and over with my older brother until we were super super pumped, stoked & motivated to skate like fn crazy! That's how it was every single day that summer! Also, your section was the reason why i started olling gaps too! 🔥🤙😝🤙🔥
Its so weird learning about skating in the 90s. I had no idea who Frankie Hill was or even Jeff Kendall. There were so many great street skaters. I even skated back then alone, not even knowing how fast everyone was progressing. It was the second time quitting because no one was skating. I wish i would have just kept going even if no one was around. Skating can be your own thing....
favorite of favorites it's fucking shame that he was not introduced to so called skateboarding hall of fame what he did back then most people wouldn't even bother to do today
I feel like Frankie was before his time. Massive scale obstacles that were ahead of anything I had seen at that time. Would be incredible to see a 'rough cut' of this stuff. I doubt the footage exists any longer though.
I was 16 when me and my friends piled in the basement and watched Frankie’s part! We completely freaked out! We would watch his part go skate, go back watch his part, go skate.................
I was 14 and heavily into skating when this came out, and trust me, every skater was blown away. Nobody had ever seen anything this big, not even close. It was mind blowing. We would rewind the VHS tape over and over and watch this gap 100 times in a row. It was unbelievable and was the start of the big gap trend in skating, which is still here and keeps getting crazier.
