His line at the end ... its the best line ever ive ever seen ^^ I swear, no joke. So funny :) Crashing in the bushes, jumping on the board again, roll over some pencils (?) ... falling of again. ^^
I once got a present on my 16th birthday from a dear friend of mine that consisted of a collage of a ton of Tom Penny photos and I would look at that collage and dress like a photo from it everyday. Tom Penny is to skateboarding as MF DOOM is to hip hop.
To me Tom penny is like Jimi Hendrix, the way Tom is on a board like any situation he looks comfy and knows it in and out, doesn’t always do anything crazy but it’s still interesting. Just like Jimi Hendrix
@@debomb721 That would equate him more to Eric Clapton right? Clapton’s nickname is “Slow Hand” because he was comfortable and smooth but with legendary stuff. I compare Hendrix to Eric Koston if anyone because of his innovative goofy (literally) approach.
@@lukemaunder4839 I’m talking stylistically. That being said Clapton fucked George Harrison’s wife, then wrote a masterpiece about it, then George said it was no big deal. Maybe Tom is George? 🤔
That was in Dallas at the Jeff Phillips Park in 97 At this time it was called Rapid Revolution Myself, My friends: Canaan, Jeremy and Will were there skating with them. It was like a 2 day demo/ session. There were a ton of other Pros and AMS there that day, but youNEVER see footage of them that surfaced. Those vert walls were easily 8 to 9 feet tall. And he was blasting out of them 4-5 feet. No one else was on that level….it was insane.
0:37 - 0:40 was from a Mount Hawke open demo from about 1993. I was there and saw Tom, Geoff Rowley and Danny Wainwright totally destroy the place. I recall Tom doing the hugest inward heelfips to fakie on that same flatbank (a trick he never really documented on video?). Got to skate with them all too, which was one of the highlights of my skate life. Also, was at the first Radlands comp where Penny kickflipped the pyramid - nobody had ever seen anything like this nor thought it was possible until we saw it. Understandably, the crowd went mental over it!
But i heard back then 8 inch deck were seen as 'vert' decks. Not that much of a stretch, especially since people were riding 6" or 7" toothpicks in the 70's doing equally mad tricks
A friend of mine was on a bus with him and overheard him say "I've figured out skateboarding". Like there and then it clicked in his head and he could do anything. Like that end scene in the matrix.
tom penny was like an idiot savant, he just knew things about skateboarding that no one else did, probably born with it , that was cool enough. .Then the fact he was a skinny white dude from England who dressed like a gangster rapper (and pulls it off!) and has this booming deep voice and no ego, he's very unique
What I love about Penny that I don't see people talk about much, is the transition. He's a cool badass skater, but often we associate that with stairs and handrails, and kind of act like skateparks are uncool, but actually skating transition at skateparks is a dope as shit skill and Penny exemplifies that so well. Undeniably cool while doing tricks on tranny at a skatepark.
I saw him back in the day at that huntington park. I have no clue how he could do all those nollie tricks over that bump to rail. That bump was fast. Still blows my mind
I've always described Tom Penny as a skateboarding unicorn. He'd just pop up out of nowhere and everyone would be in complete awe and then he'd disappear. Doesn't show up with anyone, doesn't talk to anyone, completely destroys the park and then vanishes into thin air. And then you also hear all these tall tales about Tom Penny doing tricks not on video, no one knows if they're true or not but everybody assumes they are because it's Tom Penny
I remember him at Radlands. He was always just skating for himself. You could tell he couldn't give a shit about anything, just what he was skating. You couldn't tell if he was regular or goofy though. Utterly fluid in either stance.
When I was 15, we were skating a mini-ramp in the center of A'dam. At one point I remember standing on the top of the ramp and a guy comes up, drops in.. and with like within 50 sec. does a huge frontside kickflip. Turns out, we got some mini-ramp lessons that day. Everybody just sat down and watch Tom Penny skate.
Well said. Yes he could do cool tricks, but as skating evolves those tricks become easier and easier (not for me, mind you lol, for youngsters). What can't be replicated easily is the style. Tom Penny is the style king, always and forever.
Mystery, Reynolds said it. I’ve always found Tom penny mysterious, I thought he was a super stoner kinda dumb guy, but he’s well spoken and thoughtful.
I member skating at Jeff Phillips Park in Dallas a few years after this footage was taken and u wouldn't believe how many biters and lookalikes were posing and bailing sw fs flips on that hip I was little maybe age 12 and I remember thinking wow these dudes rip. Now is see they were busters
Video radio is an amazing skate vid. its the circa tour video from 2001 featuring jamie thomas, tom penny, chad muska, and am chris cole. a lot of "unseen" footage of these guys because back then it was taboo to show park footage in a video. but it was more or less a documentary on tour life. so you see skatepark footy of them
Who was the filmer talking about him who said he tried to bs nollie flip into vert ramp and ran out? I would so much love to see the footage. How the hell can you run out of any trick on vert, especially something coming down blind like bs nollie tricks. Can believe it though, I have a photo of him doing bs nollie flip on this huge gap between two steep banks at meanwhile, London 30 years ago
I got loaded with him muska bill Weiss in pacific beach California then got about 2 hours sleep headed downtown San Diego I was still hammered they killed it me not so much June something 1995 year of our lord.
@@poochimayne7294 Clearly you're a little slow. mullen inveted* the damn kickflip! the trick penny is most known for. .. your logic does not make sense. ...THERE WOULD BE NO PENNY WITHOUT MULLEN DUMMY
@@poochimayne7294 do some research. .. Tony takes all the credit. but even he took all these mullen tricks to vert. the man was a genius. there's no one who will ever match his contributions to skateboarding. EVER
Yo it really gets me just how trashed they be skating back in the day I can remember skating Colorado in the early 2000s ran into pros all the time the skatepark or skatespot was getting mad lit every time they was around I started smoking weed and drinking at skate parks and spots lol
I just wanna know if death box became flip because there was a death box in America as well my bet is the english one was first but couldnt be bothered with any controversy and court wranglings come on now out with the big guns!!!
@@dukeredi ah fair play the mind boggles at times deathbox concave where a game changer at the time of my junior ollies build quality too was noticable
Coolest guy at any demo. Went to e's demo one time. There was Koston (toolbag queer), Eldy (gamma elf), and of course Penny (upstanding, chill, genuine). Everybody acted forced to be there. Penny was being very nice to the kids, but nobody knew much about the guy, because every poser loves Chocolate. Penny, you are class. Only pro talking to the kids genuinly. The guy barely knew English, but I saw a man who loved his skateboard. This guy is like a cornerstone of the dogma we all envision, but never accuate.
@@blakebrooks157 They say he hit his head and forgot English because he was learning French for so long during his time in seclusion. I think he got tired of talking to anyone remotely American and made up some story. I believed the story because i was just a little kid. Did get to talk with him breifly.
