How The Industry Perceived Osiris & The Storm 

Peter Smolik was so ahead of the times , was crazy for that era

One of the few videos I was able to find locally and I loved great skating and great music

The Osiris Storm mixtape was fuckin awesome. Had a remix of Eminem - Just Don’t Give A Fuck years before he popped on MTV

I feel like there was also a hint of jealousy from the rest of the industry towards just how big Osiris was at the time.

When The Storm dropped, everybody I knew in the Midwest wanted to skate like those dudes. Smolik was a legend to everyone.

People forget Osiris was one of the only companies dropping shoes for 40-45 bucks at the time.

Chris Dobstaff was 10 years ahead of his time.

Im wearing a pair of D3 OG rite now... been skating 38 years. Love the big shoes.

Mackin on cheese cause all i see is cheese macks!!!

For us in so cal (inland empire) at that time in high school, Osiris literally changed the way skaters dressed almost overnight. All of the sudden all I saw was Osiris. I know maybe in the industry DC might have still been larger, but in the trenches of all the skaters at school, it was almost all Osiris. I’d say DVS was second. So it’s actually kind of mind blowing for me to hear the insider side of things, because for us local skaters, Osiris was the top of the top. And the Storm was up there too with Fulfill the Dream and Welcome to hell in rotation for pre-skate inspiration. But then that all changed when the piss drunx Baker thing started. Then it was like the opposite vibe

The industry looked down on Osiris because they had transcended beyond skateboarding and had non-skaters wearing their gear (aka getting more money)

Osíris first Jerry Hsu pro shoe was my favourite show até the time...

An SD thing like it’s a bad thing San Diego will always be a skateboarder friendly town and can’t tell the story of skateboardings progress without the other southern Cali giant history is history bleSD day fam Real recognize real no matter where you’re from

Legendary Black D3's

Osiris alphas were one of my fave shoes ever

Osiris changed the shoe game

I skated his shoes in 8th grade, year 2000. Great shoes, good lace covers 👍👍 Come to find out later, everyone talked smack on my shoes behind my back because of the Osiris brand image lol

Good interview

Scott pazelt was dope.

The Storm was the first VHS that i got. I watched it a million times.

I was a kid when the Osiris storm video came out and we freaking loved it!!!! Washington st Loves that video! I rememeber youi guys did a demo here in my home town.. es and girl was the jock skaters that we didnt fuck with that! to be honest

This was a very good interview. I still remember watching The Storm on VHS in my basement with my friends. Central Missouri. glad to see Chad Knight is doing well

Funny thing about the first D3's looking indestructible, there was a later model called the D3 NTX that looked like it would fall apart after 5 ollies 😂

The Storm was the first skate film i ever purchased on DVD.

I watched the storm every day after school to get pumped to skate

Were you on that tour stop in Dallas when the team skated that secret rooftop in Downtown Dallas? I remember Coyne and Dobstaff throwing down some hammers there. I was hurt but my brother skated with you guys and I think he's the one that got Coyne to think about that huge Fronstside flip down that huge 1 block.

Shorty's Osiris is legendary

Riders of the storm

The Graff rules

Jerry Hsu

Man I loved Osiris when I was young. I was only 10 years old in 2000 but of course then went through like a DC phase. But nothing could ever compare to the Kenny Anderson Adio’s back in the day.