Gator Vision Psycho Skate 80's Skateboarding Video 

I was skating in the 80’s, raving in the 90’s, traveling in the 00’s, working in the 10’s, locked down in the 20’s.

Healthy, in shape kids, outside, doing active things. I miss the 80's.

I was born in 82 and lived in a small town in East Tennessee, my local mom and pop video store had one (obligatory) skateboard video in the whole shop. This one. I rented it, returned it and rented it again, and so on and so on. I watched it incessantly when I had it. When I didn't I daydreamed about it until I could rent it again. I watched it so much, that the tape eventually broke inside the casing. Psycho Skate was the reason I became obsessed with skateboarding in the late 80's early 90's and why I started skating. Obviously, living where I did, there was next to zero outlets for any sort of professional aspirations of the sport, but that didn't stop me. I skated almost every single day from age 8 until when I was 14, I was 50/50 grinding a rail, the board slipped off and I fell on my back and my left leg went completely numb for several minutes. During those minutes I was convinced I'd become partially paralyzed and made up my mind right there, that if I was able to walk again I'd quit that day. I still miss it, but mostly I just miss the feeling of being young and obsessed with something so pure, something that brought so much joy and passion to my life in a way nothing else ever did.

Life was great when this came out..not so much anymore..

Vision street wear never forget 😂

Mark "Gonzo" Gonzales was my boy! Good times!

My first skateboard video. And it was rented, stolen, and kept. VHS days!! God I'm freaking old but still enjoy pulling out the board and watching videos. Cheerrs!!!

I owned this on VHS back in the day. I never thought I'd see this again. Thank you 👍

Man I loved skating in the 80's. We even had our own crew called Local Street Crew. Love these time capsules. The things guys are able to do nowadays is just crazy but I love my nostalgia

Gonz pulling kickflips on those old decks like nothing.

I never watched this back in the day. Don't know what I would have thought of it back then. Of course I knew of Gator based on all the ads, contests, and that certain event in his life that occurred. What I didn't realize is just how good Gator really was. It was kind of easy for a lot of the skaters to get overlooked/overshadowed because the mags (and vids) loved Powell Peralta, y'know? All about exposure back then and certainly, no internet. This is great to watch. Thank you.

Absolutely brilliant! So much more style back then!!

Some of my OG LEGENDS!!Damn Gator,why??????? 😢

And Hosoi is just the best.

OMG I Love this video. I bought this exact video in 1988 after seeing the TV commercial; I was in college and this was an awesome intro to the modern styles of skating, many new things since the 1970's/80 when I was active.

man even 40 years ago skateboarding was kicking ass. Good that something doesnt change

Desolate an awesome time for skateboarding it's pretty interesting the way they made the movie. I got myself a old school board so ready to go shred some streets

Just makes you realize how awesome Stacy Peralta’s Powell videos are

I ordered this from a TV commercial ….then watched this and became a Dag Nasty fan during the film

Rodney Mullen... what a creative mind that dude has

100th Comment! Best of the best across various teams...Hosoi, Hawk, Gonz, Mullen... can't get better than that. These guys are huge contributors to skateboarding!

Thanks !!!!!!!! It's been 30 years since I've seen this video that I had in k7 and that I watched on repeat😁🤙

Think this was def my first skate vid!!What great memories then,think i had my Variflex still before i upgraded to my McGill!!Believe i had this and a Schmidt Stixx Vid,Damn I feel Old!!!Hosoi is Soo Fluid and graceful with his huge airs,had a magazine page hung on my wall of him on his hammerhead doing a Huge Christ Air,Such an Iconic pic for Me,For Skating!!Almost Forgot,This also introduced me too The Descendants!!So good too skate too

Miss it! Seems like so long ago.

Eddie Reategui, The Gonz, and Hosoi ! What a trip man! I got Hosoi and Alva's autographs back in 2012 at Gravevine Mills mall in Tx at the Journey's backyard BBQ🔥 ☮

My childhood revisited. When we only care about simple things.

How everything has changed from my days of skating being looked down upon as the dregs of society and we were. And damn proud of it. Then they got the least Street guy out of everyone to make a street skating videogame and the world changed over night. Life is crazy.

Nice at 25 39 my favorate skate pool I have a pic I framed on my wall of my house carving the tile of the nic deep left hand kidney pool on my skate board with a Vision Deck !

Damn that's some psycho skating

September 30 2020 and Ragowski is still LOCKED UP 😝

Gator committed a heinous crime and he's doing the time. But this Gator, the one in the video, he didn't. This was well before it happened, well before he even thought about doing something like that, and I'll always love this Gator. Old Gator rules. This Gator didn't murder anyone, so I'm comfortable staying a fan--of Old Gator.

This is insane!

I wish more skaters popped those hand planty grab things these days, they look cool. Flashing them grab rails for the camera ☺️

so rad

"Jump ramping" 🤣

I love the old 15:00 breakdancing the board

Gator’s best trick is the Steering Column to double stranglehold

9:20 that shit gave me goosebumps

that ditch is so bad ass. i wonder if they let mark gator out of prison. he has been in there forever. a lifetime

Super dope

Que saudade 😭

I see why everyone liked vert in the 80s

Rodney mullen , like WOW, the granfather god of freestyle skating , 2024, RESPECT.

First skate video I ever owned.

I miss those early days of snowboarding

Man I was born in 2006 wish I was born in this era yo

thank you for this video

There making all new vision clothing and sneakers in Canada now ,too bad they won't ship to the US

Gator is STILL in the joint 😜

Man what a killer video, gator slayed those moves man. Totally wicked, I wonder what he’s been up to

When you land primo, thank this dude 14:58

15:15 to 15:45. The 80's summed up

the thing the mid 80's ramp guys didn't get: Getting 6 feet of air and kicking a leg out, then getting 6 feet of air but going backside, then getting 6 feet of air and hitting your tail on the coping, then getting 6 feet of air and flipping the board, then doing a handplant or a coping slide... is going to get fucking boring. I grew up in that era, and when street skating came out, or developed, it was sort of an "oh duh" moment. Because NONE of us kids had a fucking half pipe in our neighborhood. I knew one guy who was older with a half pipe. But I didn't know how to skate that thing. Street skating was inevitable, and it's weird everyone only thought half pipe.

Man what good days skate all day smoke and skate all day and night now I'm 50 work all day and work .what happen lol....

Don't Die Wondering 21:45 That's the EZ7 skatepark in Houston

I could imagine beavis and butthead reacting to this, making fun of the part at 5:12 like "I wonder what he'll do, beavis. hehe, hehehe, hehehe" and then when he says "incidentally" beavis would go on about doing things incidentally and butthead will be like "if you don't shut up I'm gonna instadentally kick your ass!"

Here's to hoping psycho never get's out if jail

Just in case anyone was wondering why there are these "lame" strips of plastic screwed left and right on the board. The boards then where, beacuse of the tapering and because of the wood used itself, prone to breaking. They really could not take a lot of punishment then. Just so you know. The science of skateboard manufacturing, especially in concern to how the wood is processed, what wood is used, lightyears more advanced now. There where almost no "pro boards" then. Meaning manufactured by skateboarders themselves.

In prison is where HE is & he'll never leave his cell!! Too bad GATOR!! You were regularly about 3rd place, but you'll now be LAST PLACE! FOREVER!!!!

Still got scars from the 80s , jad a atom bomb jeff kendall. Bmx had a gt pro performer and a hutch trickstar. Them went the dayz

virginia beach FTW

O.53❤

10:11 - 10:18 yup , that’s everything that hurts on me rn 🤣

4:32 minute mark it’s Lars on the drums from Metallica 😳

I watched this while taking a sh*t. Nice video btw LOL

I remember seeing ads for this video on MTV when I was 14. I wanted to get it but my parents wouldn't let me. Guess they were kinda anti skater at the time.

i'll try the lea dog was revolver the i think pregnate female is also gypsy she never eat squiel i think she was almst pregnarte

You have to hand it to Powell, Vision, and Santa Cruz for selling millions of boards, designed almost exclusively for skating large halfpipes, to kids all over the world, most of whom were in places where those ramps and skateparks mostly didn't exist unless you built one yourself. That's like selling scuba gear to someone in Kansas. Master marketing there.

I turned it off after Gator appeared... It makes me sick to my stomach that he will have line ups of reporters wanting to interview him for $$, once he's released from prison, borderline hailing him for his heinous crime. I much rather wish the girl he murdered was still with us, and he wasn't.

Gator in jail since 1992

It's funny and sad as I was 16 when it came out and was already mostly street or skating,Southbank,Kennington or meanwhile 2 the only vert in London was the giant ramp at Latimer Road which was very dodgy at times like meanwhile 2 if your a lil white skate rat and on your own bunking off college,luckily after a couple times they realised I had less money than those lil kunts. The point of this is its literally the torch passing. As soon as you see Mark Gonzales do that first boardslide,vert Died! Fair play to Bobby Puelo for archiving shit like this and revisiting these classic times. Gonz is Gonz as I'm not religious but Fair Play is Gator outta prison yet😂😂😂😂❤

Sensacional!!! ANDE DE $KATE OU MORRA!!!!🌠💣🌠💣🌠🙌

Anyone, by chance, know what street that is in La Costa?

i couldn't move the trucks easy

I and the Father are One John 10 30

who's the girl dancing?

After they made skate Betty #1 they should have destroyed the mold.

whos that girl at 9:50? EDIT i see her name is Christian

September 2023 Gator made parole 😳

Safety gear, whats that lol

Could he have rivaled tony hawk?

I can’t believe he ended up in prison because he had impersonated Ferris Bueller😔

Quelque temps avant qu'il pète sa coche...

Psycho Patrol sounds better than Psycho Platoon. To close to The Bones Brigade.

Such a shame what happened to gator. I mean wtf. Still 30 years later I can't work it out. Was he on meth?

psycho skate indeed

He WAS regularly third place versus HAWK & HOSOI. That ended over 20 years ago because of his raping & killing a lady he was dating with. Besides that, he's out of prison!

why did Hosoi look so awful in Blue Grass Aggression Session film? He looked lost at that venue.

Cringey..BUT SO GOOD. RADD!!

He belongs in prison FOREVER.

Those were the days as some say, and they kinda were. Gator turned out to be a rapist and a murderer, and unfortunately Hosoi took a few wrong turns as well.

This pre gator going to prison for murder

Jesus, please forgive me for wearing those clown shoes. I was just a kid!

Lol pycho skate

I wonder if Gator dreams of skating from His prison cell?

Skating has always been lame, that's why I started in 1983. Still the biggest waste of time on a useless wooden toy. Think I'll skate tmrw😵

didn't take much to be a pro back then

Never liked the term "fakie".

God damn the 80s are hard to watch. Skating was sick but editing sucked hard.

How can a guy be more likeable after having paid their debt for a horrible act than he was prior to committing the act? Gator was such a prick I almost didnt buy several pairs of street wear shoes. Some of the cringiest gear ever by the way.