In the season finale of Jeff Grosso's Loveletters to Skateboarding, Jeff breaks down curb skating with eight street heavy weights... "It's a building block for all skaters".
Yeah its crazy to see this Grosso and what he looked like on the later episodes we straight up got to watch him get old old on this show, shit there's probably some kids who grew up with this hahaha
As an old skater I can appreciate this so much! True to life for real, all those dude’s are my heroes, please don’t anyone ever give your opinion when you don’t ride? Ok
I love it! Such memories! We skated this parking lot full of curbs at an old folks home for a few years. Wax those curbs n slide n grind forev! We started getting booted, until the old folks complained, guess they loved watching us both destroy the curbs, but also give the security guys hell! Gods bless those cool ass old folks! Think it helped that we skated to firehose , not usual punk rock stuff at the ramp we had when older.
I'm tearing up. Every hero of mine is in this. I skated street from 1984-1997 pretty hard. This video was amazing. watched all these videos growing up. R.I.P. Grosso... I always wanted to be part of this family. Thanks guys for everything.
Man, been watching these all over again. Bummed. The Grossman has always been in my top 5. What a bummer. Hope his family is doing alright. We areso lucky to have all this footage of him
I skated with Jeremy Henderson down in Key West in 1990ish and he was doing slappies on unpainted, unwaxed curbs. Just leaned back and shralped through it.
Hell yeah man I was about 15 around 95 and those were the best times of my life.. you don’t really appreciate it until your older, made me start skating again
curbs & jersey barrier skating are my favorite things to skate. FS slappies took a while. i learned to skate jersey barriers by waiting until highway traffic was zilch so i could run into the middle of the road and shred that shit lol. Then i found a spot beside an old folks which the fucking love
all the names from when I was skating were magic. ....and still are..... I love my life....I always think I wanted to live my life loving george Harrison and making music but when u live the life of skating in the 80s u know your blessed you know who u r.......tom groholski Toni hawk jasson jessee losi nooooooo gator this was my time and it was great
Natas in Wheels of Fire, Tom Knox in Speed Freaks, Eric Dressen In Streets On Fire and Matt Hensley in that H Street video opened my mind to what was possible on curbs... 1993 in Atlanta Dave Holbrook R.I.P. used a caulk gun, tube if Liquid Nails industrial adhesive to glue a piece of angle iron about10 feet long onto a granite curb in front of his house to do slappees on, we skated that for hours at a time. I bet it’s still there...
This is one of my favorite episodes. That dulcet sound of grinding a well broken in curb is the music of my adolescence. (Sorry to sound like a fortune cookie)
RIP Grosso - watched Grosso in the mags since i was a kid..He a lil older than me, gonna miss this show, wish they coulda made a love letter to good ole Florida.
Absolutely fantastic. There was an eight foot curb in the corporate park behind my house that I must have slid and grinded 1000's of times in the late 80s and early 90s. I never thought of it back then, but it was kind of a dance. It's funny when I drive by it now. It's just another curb. Grizzled, un-waxed, un-touched. That curb and I share a secret though, and that secret is awesome.
without curbs i would have never learned how to boardslide,noseslide, 50-50, etc. Best feeling in the world at 11 years old and......29. Yikes i`m old!
Curbs and parking blocks was all I really had to skate growing up in the late 80's. There weren't any parks where I lived and the street spots were shit. We didn't have shit to skate so we spent hours in the parking lot at this bank.
Jeff, I had your board and I loved it! Beautiful board. Red stained canadian maple. Rode that thing everywhere until I discovered driving and girls. You signed a sticker for me at a demo that you and John did in Whittier I still have it somewhere. I learned to skate vert at Skate City (still have my ID). Tighten your trucks all the way and follow me. That was my lesson. Curbs do rule. Another thing is that you could spend hours with some surf wax and a curb.
Learning good backside grinds atm. Gotten some good full block ones, no full speed ones yet though. Glad I started doing them. It feels good getting up there, loose Indy's ftw
Honestly the reason I went outside and decided to be a skateboarder was because I saw a pro on TV killing handrails session a curb and say that it was his favorite thing to do but everyone wants the handrails. At the time it made actually doing tricks so accessible for me.
thanks dude! you kinda re-inspired me to go into my neighborhood and fix me up a curb. i ended up smoothing it out with a old truck hanger and waxing the shit out of it, it dont grind quite yet but im still ganna work that shit till it does!
I still remember when I saw a no comply for the first time. Can't remember what vid though...I spent the next month skating at the bank beating up the curbs and blocks non stop. Maybe Animal Chin.....
The control Julien had on the blunt where he rolls out fakie was JasonLee/Jovante levels of smooth.. This hypes me for sure. I want a Julien deck but his Syringe model is too big and wide. What did Julien have between that model and popsicle?
All hail the curb you know that rolling onto a painted red curb was your first trick. me and a friend had great times with curbs for hours when we started. as i progressed to other friends they hated them me too no curbs in a video part (unless you are rodney mullen)
