these tricks may seem simple by todays standards but if it wasn't for these kids no one today would even know what a skateboard is, it would be right up there with the pogo stick . try doing todays tricks with their steel wheels - apples and oranges- can't compare
These are not steel wheels and it wasn't because of these kids that we know what skateboarding is today. It was Craig Stecyk who brought skateboarding back and into the public's mind with his articles and photographs in Skateboarder Magazine. The skaters he focused on and the things they were doing, changed skateboarding forever.
@@staubach1979rt Those were "clay" wheels, as were used on rink skates. When one was riding clays and hit the smallest pebble on the sidewalk, the skate stopped moving and the skater went flying. Had it not been for Frank Nasworthy coming out with the "Cadillac" urethane wheel in 1972, the sport would likely no longer exist.
Back in the '60's there wasn't much of a choice in shoes, Most of us had a pair for everyday shoes and a pair for church (dress up shoes) But most of the time we didn't even want to wear shoes. Summetime up until then meant not wearing shoes or a shirt and what my friends called Short Pants. Plus many things promoted being barefoot. We had stickers that looked like a barefoot print. They made gas pedals for cars that were a barefoot shape etc. Even songs like BAREFOOTIN' ..
I wonder how today's skaters would react if suddenly mid-air their boards turned into a 60's Sidewalk Surfer or Surfer Sam! Crunch go those clay wheels!
I was born in 1968, most of my childhood & early teens were spent barefoot. I would even count the days I was able to go barefoot without ever having to put on shoes. The bottoms of my feet were permanently dirty, and were like the sole of a shoe. LOL As kids we did everything barefoot, riding bikes, playing kickball, skating...
Without them we wouldn’t have had their tricks to build on. Same thing with art and music. We owe a lot to the firsts. Those boards were a lot harder to skate on as well.
As a kid who skateboarded back then. YES. We made our own boards and tried to make them look like a surfboard, so we mimic surfing moves. They were very rigid, and the wheels were crap. The good boards and wheels didn't come out until the 70's.
Probably 80% of the worst wipe-outs I've seen in my life I witnessed in the summer of 1965 (grin). Skateboarding with no helmet, no shoes, and those boards - yikes! My brother and his friends were into jumping a broomstick laid across two trash cans. Jumping off the skateboard, over the broom, and (once in a while) landing back on the skateboard, lol. Such great memories - thanks for posting this.
THese were just solid wood flat with no kicktail boards made by Hobie or Makaha, they had hard clay wheels with loose ball bearings that could easily fall out. Build your own with a solid piece of wood and find some old clay wheeled boot roller skates, take the wheels and trucks off the skates screw them to the wood or look up Makaha Skateboards, they are selling exact replicas of theirs 1960's skateboards
6:43 Judge really just said "A front wheelie most difficult for girls and uh especially for uh being uh large girls like she is" or something like that. This is great watching.
wow! esto que realmente son ánimos para patinar, para los que decían que la skateboard no es para mujeres ahí les tienen una muestra muy clara de que nosotras también podemos!
Bill Flemming on ABC's "Wide World of Sports", which didn't mind showing events before they were cool, like skateboarding. And in era when most TV cameras were black-and-white and bulky, the shot at 1:29 must have been from one of the few hand-held minicams of that day, and even those were heavy objects.
It was cool on the streets. Now a days using that term would mean ghetto. But back then kids stayed out side in the streets so everything started there and by the time it reached yuppies living rooms the kids on the street were in pools. So no TV was actually late with the sport.
hey, do you own those videos? or do you know who does? We are a band called Jonah Gold & his silver apples, and we'd love to use parts of that in a music video, if we are permitted.... the link to "starrfilms" leads to a for-sale domain unfortunately....
@music4kx they are most likly G&S boards. I have a few and they are really alot of fun. You can find them for sale if you just google vintage G&S skateboards
If you want a new board in the old 60s style, do a search for "longboards" and usually companies that make the big long sidewalk surfers also specialize in old school boards. They won't have clay wheels, but those things were like riding on round rocks anyway. They make new retro-style wheels that look like the old ones, but won't send you into a macadam faceplant from one tiny little pebble.
does anyone know what brand name or style those boards are?? i want something like those but all i see are penny boards that are plastic (which i may eventually settle for). i don't even know what you call this board style is so i don't how to look it up either :/ help please with any info you can give!
I'll never understand how people say Jay Adams is the "spark who lit the fire", or Peralta/Alva.... or "Rodney Mullen is the godfather of skateboarding"... People we're skateboarding 10-20 years before them.... how are they the ones who inspired everyone? Someone clearly inspired them... Yeah, they were the first stars of the sport.. but they didn't start it.
Seriously it probably was! I first stood on a Moonskate? in 1970. Took me about half an hour to learn to travel 15 ft without falling off! The wheels seemed like some sort of rubber clay composite (progress from the ones in the vid) The board was about 4 inches wide! I first did a kickflip in 1977 after seeing Ed Nadalin while streetskating do 3 variations. Rode vert that year on urethane. Nosewheelie 360's anyone? 14 was my record I think. 21+ frontside. Good to see all the skating forms now. Isamu, Sky Brown - incredible!
The 2nd chick is wearing a helmet but no shoes, hehe. Protect your head but it's ok if you rip your toes off :0) I used to sk8 barefoot, I don't know why. I lost a lot of foot-skin, and god forbid if you fall.
Walking the board IS how this video shows. A day one 'trick' nowadays. Along with tic tac. Endovers are rapid consecutive 180's into 'fakie' 180's back into forward 180 etc! Walk the DOG however is the freestyle footwork trick currently back in fashion. The toe pivots on the board while doing consecutive forward 180s in a literal walking fashion. Fills in time between more complicated tricks and maintains good board control. Space walk is the non contact 'tic tac' but somewhat harder. Another good fill in trick and good for balance training for manuals etc. Backward spacewalk- 270 spacewalk- and if you're really good 360 spacewalk! These tricks can look naff if done badly, or too choppily or slow. But if done at right moment between other harder tricks (and smoothly/rapidly) people might start to think you're the next Mullen! Or Isamu!
how did they get a temporary concrete pad onto and off of the baseball field ?? Too bad ABC doesn't show stuff like this nowadays instead of nascrap. the announcers are creeping me out. lol none of the contestants came from very far away.
We definitely still skate, but the “well-known” skaters that skated more in the modern style (vert ramps, grinding, flips. Etc) came after these skaters. Tony Hawk and his crew built on what you see here as skating became more like what it is today. Street skating also altered skateboarding as we know it, and since Tony, Rodney, and many male skaters were becoming so popular as a crew, it was seen as a more masculine sport, and Jackass really exposed skateboarding to a larger audience/community, mostly of young men. Still, plenty of female skaters kept at it, and today there are some really impressive up and comers like Sky Brown.
