Loveletters Season 8: Dogtown 2.0 Part 1 | Jeff Grosso’s Loveletters to Skateboarding | VANS 

I remember some dude in Venice screaming he broke his ankle. He was doing a sweet wall ride and ate shit. I was with my parents around 83 and no one even helped him. He had to drag himself. TRUE STORY.

Vans tomorrow ill get my first vans shoes :o

I'll second that! A full documentary!

streetplants aren't inverts - grosso, loveletters to handplants, 2014

Skate rock!!!!!!! MothaFugs

ERIC F now you're sounding a lot like my girlfriend

Kim Rice Jim Muir's little brother Mike Muir is founder/lead singer of Suicidal Tendencies.

Why do you talk like this

Aaron "Fingers" Murray

TY

Yeah but eric dressen was better

the acid was good in the 70s

"skate nazi" look it up. Jay Adams had a couple decks released with that on the graphic.

Goes way back. Hardcore rebellious type surfers in the late 50s/60s were known for being violent and anti-social they had a punk rock attitude way before there was even music genre that fit their crazy mentality. They were like outlaw bikers at the time. They called themselves "surf nazis" and wore iron crosses to shock everyone and keep people away but it was never a political/racial thing. In the mid 60s Ed Roth sold iron crosses that depicted a surfer in the middle. Even goes back to early skating because he marketed them as "sidewalk surfer service medals" had ads with kids holding skateboards wearing rat fink german helmets and giving salutes. It was very apart of dogtowns "bad boy" image since the beginning. Watch the dog town documentary and notice the pictures of the surfboards that Jeff ho designed covered in swastikas with all sorts of old school 70s flare. Look up the old dog town articles from the 70s there's that one with the cholo looking dude holding a skateboard and on the ground you see the infamous dog town cross surrounded by swastikas. Look closely at the "locals only go home" and you can see swastikas on the wall. Look the hand drawn wes humpston dog town boards with sun wheel swastikas on them. He said they were meant to be seen as a sun worshiping symbol. Jay Adams coined the term skate nazi in an interview during the 70s when they asked what's up with him and other dogtown guys putting swastikas on their boards/equipment. He said it was a traditional ode to the original surf nazis a decade earlier and not meant to be seen as a political/racial trip. There was an old suicidal tendencies sharpie shirt at skate lab that read "suicidal skate nazi". Salba has a board that reads "SS-Skate Nazi" from the early 80s. In the mid 80s there was a dogtown ad in thrasher that depicted the cross surrounded by totenkopfs. Watch salbas speed freaks part and notice he's wearing a swastika tshirt at the beginning. Look at photos/videos of the famous Venice wall and notice the swastika behind it. When they made that movie "surf nazis must die" about a surfer gang of neo nazis that kill a black guy they got it all fucked up. Jay Adams has a swastika tattoo in the the form of two skateboards and under it it reads "100 percent skateboarder" he even unapologetically released a bunch of limited edition skate nazi decks in the early 2000s.

Daniele Arrigo why not you racist?

thanx didn't know! always thought surf nazis were actually neo nazi surfers lol

tryna see if anyone else noticed that lol