Mark GONZales Wins 1985 Contest 

Looks fucking fun.

Indeed. This contest in its entirety has been uploaded before, but in an improper ratio which left the quality lacking.

@@Nominay my man, if everyone understood that you don't fuck with ratios you leave them as they were originally the world would be a much better place.

@@Nominay I hate it when people mess with the ratios.

@@topproducts4349 Sometimes you have to adjust your settings to save them in the proper ratio depending on the video software you use.

Looks ok me should it be shitier?

In his teens and already totally over the banal interviews.

I'm still amazed he was 180 olling to 50/50 down the handrail in Ohio Skateout. I think that was '87 but the video came out in '88.

I started skateboarding in the 80s, I guess more late 80s. It went from Hosoi & Hawk launching huge airs to Natas & Gonz riding walls and rails. When Natas Ollied the hydrant 😮😮

@@Nominay It was '88. I was there. He was insane.

Could not agree more, It was still so primitive in 85!

Madeline Monahan I agree. It was a historical time having to do with the evolution of skateboarding, and that was all a phenomena within a certain time very different from today. You can never know it if you weren't there, but I do recommend Sean Cliver's book, "Disposable". It's a great read with awesome pictures.

1991-1992 was only one year and the difference between those two years is incredible. 55mm wheels in early ‘91 to bearing covers by late ‘92. Deck shapes, nose length, smaller trucks, flat mounting hardware, recessed truck mounting holes, etc.

It's amazing how much Gonz changed in the next 4 or 5 yrs...... This is before he was abducted by aliens and came back with anti gravity device implants in his head

I agree hard to watch....I would have blown them away

Ur welcome fella.

Tell us more 😃

Rest assured, if Gator was involved, you just knew it was going to be a shit show of epic proportions. He was the Keith Moon of skateboarding, straight up party animal rockstar.....right before he went off the deep end. In fact, the guy was always nuts lol!!,

@@crazyralph6386 I sensed that about him then. Wasn't too surprised about the murder, shocking as it was. That documentary on him/that was so damn disturbing and sad.

Thanks dude.

Word! I stopped in '92, mongo or mall grab wasn't a thing.

Mongo definitely was ,, in London in 1988 I heard : ah he’s pushing mongo :

I heard mongo by 90 in the US

On Powell 3 wheels too. Only mountain board wheels are bigger.

Hosoi himself was one of the first street skaters to get off the ground. In the mid 80's he could ollie higher than Gonz.

I didn't expect them to know my name...

Not to many people could do it then or now so i would definitely think you where king shit

If you have any stories that involve Shattner himself I'd love to hear it.

260woodman I'm thinking to myself, damn I could have been pro! lol

Gonz tries to do a kickflip in Oceanside '86. Earliest attempt of one I recall at a pro contest on video.

Bill Danforth wears it as an odd badge of honor that he's never done an Ollie. it's as if to him, to do one would be selling out. I know that Duane Peters had disdain for ollies, as if they weren't hardcore for "real" rippers like him.

Nominay yeah Duane Peters and other skaters like him were odd. Idk how you even go around the city without the Ollie.

Neither Hackett

He got 3rd

Kind a like Christian never really likes doing front side anything on a ramp

Shelby I edited Agent Orange on there. The actual soundtrack that was done for the video originally is truly cheesy.

Rodney Mullen was one of his key influences (in developing street skating). That was the difference between him and most others.

@@Nominay I think the Ollie and Kickflip inspired him...... But the rest was all Mark

@@terrybates5509 I recommend reading about the influence of the Mullen "Trix You Can't Do" article from Thrasher fall of '86 - the issue after Gonz was featured on the cover.

Skating has progressed more than any of these guys in 1985 could’ve ever imagined. Imagine someone doing a 360 kickflip down 15 stairs back in those days or an Ollie impossible over that 55 gallon drum they have sitting out there on that course.

@@montanaplease most of these skaters weren’t even street skaters. They were very dudes trying to figure out how to street skate to stay relevant as the vert seen was beginning to take a back set to the rawness of street. I will say the level of progress from these NSA contests in mid 80’s to early 90’s was really fucking mind blowing.

Oh and I know that cause I was 11 and at this event. And was huge into street skating. Actually the year after this was another NSA street contest and even better cause the vert dudes were gone and it was pure street (for the most part) and I think the weekend after that was CASL and I won highest Ollie.

@@scottlandb6579watching Gator try to street skate is hilarious. Fuck that scumbag

He was one of the best street skaters in the 80's.

Paddy O'Lantern Correct.

:D

Holy shit I’m dead

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It's okay to see mongo as poor form imo, but it's not okay to let it bother you.

When I started skating in 84, nobody handed me a manual on how to skate. Nobody really skated where I come from in rural NC at the time. Mongo is just how I learned to push. I never had any issue with it, and nobody ever said anything to me about it. And I used to be shop sponsored, and did decent in contests.

@@ZEMO74 My friend coined the term Goofy Goof for that, that's how I ride :)

But style matters! And mongo push just does not look like street surfing, it has no flow.

@@laboutique6257 tell Rob Roskopp that he has no style hahahaha

I recommend the whole Living In Darkness album.

Mullen changed skating for the worse? I'm not sure how anyone changes skating like that. Someone else will end up coming up with a trick if it's not done first by one of the lauded pioneers.

@@Nominay lol skating wasn't about flip tricks or even kickflips until they coppied freestylers.. It was still gnarly before flip tricks.. You just aren't aware of the "Freestyle conspiracy". Grosso even did a Love Letters episode on it before he died(rip) ~but he didn't create the conspiracy or the beef. it was already established by dudes who hated freestyle skater. I'll leav eit there since you don't agree .

There are 3 different Agent Orange songs on here.

MARK... DID YOU CLEAN UR ROOM & MAKE YOUR BED???

@@markprice2225 Sure, yeah , sure

Just came to say the same thing. Stoked.

Thanks

I hope the 15 minutes wasn't too long for you guys, but I wanted to provide some context. I whittled down this almost 2 hour long contest video to 15 minutes - not bad! :-)

:)

Same with rap music.

Method airs, Kick flips, Street Plants (inverts) and Frontside/Backside Boneless... hilarious to watch now... Do an Invert for your son or neighbor kid, they are amazed.

I'm Skateboarding Every F'n Day and I can't believe how much I'm into it and progression is Crazy. I'm fully invested with an 8 element, an 8.25, & my new old school shaped deck with Ace 55s!!!

Nominay Am I crazy or did you have more old videos ? I could’ve sworn you were the one who had Rodney’s 1986 Oceanside street attack videos among others ...

@@Aglassact77 My sister dated him, and she can be seen at the end of the Oceanside interview hugging Rodney as the camera cuts out. She and my dad were there, not me. My Rodney videos were originals but I deleted the uploads. Most of them have been reuploaded by others.

What were you thinking when Gator got arrested and convicted for that horrific crime?

​@@chrisperez3614You mean my reaction at the time, in 1991?

@@NominayOh that makes sense, I’ve talked to you before on your old uploads several years back. I thought RU-vid maybe deleted your account or videos. Nice to hear from you. Rodney, lance, amongst many others were serious influences in my teenage years , so lost obscure skate videos like your’s Were very valuable to me. In my mind he’ll always be the greatest! Fun fact: My uncle Dave Dillberg was a Pro skateboarder in the 1970’s and pioneered long-boarding (mainly downhill) luge speed challenges on Signal hill . He and Hester were put in the Skateboarder Magazine for being the fastest skateboarder’, and inducted in the Guinness book of world records .

TheTruthNothingMoreNeverLess Exactly!!!💯💯 Me and my homies were there!!

Carlus Lutz Savannah slamma was dope! I had that contest on vhs, my mom chucked it along with animal chin and public domain. Back then, I was pretty pissed. Hosoi and Cab crushed it 💯🔥

Old school is still better

Sam Stoner word

"Give Me It" by The Cure

Shelby literally had a tire 😂😂

I finally got around to skating an original Gonz Vision in '89. It was indeed a good board for that time.

Plus skateboarding evolved very quickly. It's like comparing dog years to human years.

It was a brand new song then.

Nominay it’s over 30 years and I still jamming to it baby

@@DaBears08 And to this day one of the best music videos.

Rachel Queen He was an early pro street skater. He rode for Hosoi then.

I think that pivot landing was called an ollie shifty.

It was a supportive community among peers then for the most part.

@@Nominay Still is.

@@jasondashney It was so small then compared to now.

Rafael Avina "Give Me It" by The Cure

Thanks!

I was searching for this comment 🤣😂

It was the price a pro skater paid for sticking only to vert. Mike McGill noticably depleted his career the same way, except he didn't bother skating street contests. He doesn't even do any of the archaic street skating in Animal Chin, like the other guys do.

💯😂💯😂💯

True

Thanks. I put a lot of editing into this.

Exact same

Thanks. That part I did. The music originally put to this is hideous.