Santa Cruz Skateboard Visits Tom Knox In Visalia 

Knox was so ahead of his time. I literally filmed his Speed Wheels part in one day and drove away baffled with what I had just seen. A true street pioneer and solid guy. Much respect.

Tom is my jiu jitsu teacher!

When I did judo with him at like 12 yrs old, he told me the same thing, judo will help you learn to fall, never broke a bone doing some crazy stuff skating, and now at 31, still skating, a true home skate legend who did it right, and helped to build that unique Visalia skate culture

This needed to be longer, much longer.

"if you can't jump up it dont jump down it" wise words from a wise man

Another massively under appreciated legend. Great clip. Hes still ripping and in great nick.

This made my day. I remember watching this part hundreds of times, studying every single trick. So cool to see Tom still has it!

This was my favorite part in speed freaks. Tom Knox very cool dude. Thank you for the inspiration.

I watched speed freaks a thousand times back then... Tom Knox and Jim Thiebaud were the best.

So that's why it took so long for Tom's board to come out. I met him right after that competition and he showed me his board before it came out. One thing I learned about skateboarding from him was not that he was technical.... it was that he was consistent. He would do simple tricks, solid. He was very controlled. His runs were solid. He would never remember me but I skated with him on about 5-6 different sessions. Twice in Visalia, the rest in Bakersfield with the guys from Wavelengths.

One of my favorite videos and skate parts. I tried to do every curb trick he did. I did. Thanks Tom.

Tom was my first skate inspiration with Natas. i used to watch his speed freaks part thousand times, and i've had his board when i was twelve. Now i'll try to keep my bag of tricks just like him, and stay in shape with exercise cause now i'm into swimming so he's still inspiration... twenty years later!!!

Sup homie? I remember hanging out with you guys and skating at the high school in Visalia. I'm smiling remembering these great memories as a youngster. Blessing brother.

He's still got it! :) That kickflip wallride and fakie nosegrind rocked my world and changed my life.

Tom Knox was a Great role model as a kid , great role model as grown man ! He's always been the best , still fast ,atv and having fun . Staying healthy has its privileges.

Damn this takes me back. I used to skate with Tom Knox, Seth Sanders, Travis, chuck gillette. Had some awesome skate sessions with them

Hey Tom....so remember skating the curbs at Mt. Whitney with you at lunch time. Good to see you're still killing it. Remember you were an awesome drummer too. So talented. Wanted to be like you when I grew up! Take care! It we always me, Rodney Powell, Eric Thomas, skating and drumming with Ed and Steve Jefferies.

The Tom Knox Santa Cruz shape is the best. It’s like a hybrid vert/street board, very versatile. 🙏

I live in Italy and I still have my skate Tom Knox Santa Cruz buyed when I was 15 years old 👍👍👍

The dude has always been solid. His focus and dedication have made him a professional on many levels.

My 1st real board was a Tom Knox board in the early 90's. I loved the wide tail.

Tom Knox,Natas, and Matt Hensley were my favorite street skaters in the 80’s!#SantaCruzsinceday1#87’JeffKendall1stpromodel”WorldEnds”

I still have my old Santa Cruz Tom Knox board from the 80's. It's beat up, but still plenty skateable.

i skated with Tom knox back in 1987 after, i met him at the visalia surf shop we skated a curb at visalia mall when gottchalks was still separated from the mall.

Those frontside hurricanes are stylin"!

This is a rad video. Makes me want to go skate and that is all you can ask for.

Es un gusto poder decir que tuve la gran oportunidad de tener 4 veces el tablero de tom knox a comienzos de los 90,s

Holy sh that first tailslide on the curb....never saw that approach before i wanna try it now...Tom Knox i remember his classic fire graphic always Santa Cruz por vida

Awesome interview, I was a younging looking to learn about this guy, he's awesome!

fucking legend. the curb master

That fire board was my first ever proper board. Best birthday present ever.

My second deck when i first start to skating was his deck and it was awesome

Still trying to reach the level of skill that Tom has. Once as a young skateboarder and now as one of his Brazilian Jiu Jitsu students. Much respect.

I can't say how inspiring it is to see this and how well Tom is doing. more of Tom and Wade Speyer

I just got 1 of your decks . very special

Knox was and still is the shit!

RES-FUCKING-PECT

I always liked Tom Knox. That interview where he ollied four milk crates made my bedroom wall much nicer looking. I was never much for Santa Cruz boards, I was more into H-Street at that time. One if my friends had that firat graffic as his first board. He got it with venture trucks and cockroach wheels. Another friend of mine that ripped was a diehard Santa Cruz guy. I can only remember him riding one board that was not NHS. He had the Tom Knox black flag board and a lot of those first ever-slicks of Tom's.

Amazeing stuff, he was and still is an icon

so sick I'm from Visalia I've skated the high school

Just got a flashback to when the everslick board came out. Who else remembers that?

Makes me smile

Learned my Ollie bones from watching him! This guy can skate!!

You're still ripping man! I think I have a pic of u skating Visalia park circa 1999 doing a styling B/S ollie.

you rock bro ! jiu jitsu is the answer. it keeps me young too

Still Charging🤙🏼

Music by Firehose

Besides all his curb grind which is so smooth and stylish, look at the last part at 6:56 ollie and 7:00min that air.. he has got style..!!!

Well done TK

LEGEND.

that seven stair at the lj williams is my favorite spot in visalia

👍 legendary

Fuck yes the real Tom knox

He seems cool as hell!

More of tom knox please

Still listening the song on my head but dont know what is the band name.

Where can i watch the whole video from Risk it ?

love it Live it

one of my favorite Humans. i am proud to call you Friend. XCNT interview as always. Fucking love the 'redux' tricks at the spots (complete with a VisaTweaker at Whitendale!) keep kickin ass..... and come down and surf ! LOL

Good dude

"If you can't jump up it don't jump down it" Tell that to Jaws😂

Just found out that there is another tom Knox! Kind of embarrassed, in my first deck, was a late 80s, Tom Knox Santa Cruz, with pink grip! It may have had gullwing trucks, or maybe they were variflex! The wheels were crap!!! I had bought it in 1990! LOL (pretty late!) To add insult to injury, I then, got a spare pair of Indy stage sixes, on the setup! This would begin, a history of bad setups for me!

I like music. Good punk music.

He filled out

Still can shred!

Hellllllyeahhhh❤

Curbs: fuck, that Tom Knox fuckers back. Aint no curb safe.

he reminds me of christian fletcherk

way to go

Oss tom knox

where is the place at 6:17

Rad!

Why do people have to be so rude! He was just asking a question. Damn

ledgend

Didn't he go to prison for assaulting a officer several year's a ago?

alit more tweekers inthe parkinglotk

alit more tweekers inthe parkinglot

Shralp

First

Nothing skating a nice curb

Speechless

Tom had a huge influence on me when I was a young man. Thanks for this interview. Tom rules!

An actual skater from that time with out a tragic life story..

Tom was the coolest. When i was about 13 or 14 he was in Bakersfield and was skating what we called the McDonald's banks. It was a small 3' bank behind McDonalds. He hung out with us the whole day and was just down to earth and super Cool. Im 45 years old now and have never forgotten that day.

I remember the everslick deck with the straight edge cross on the fist (top of the board graphics). :)

Tom is a good old friend...glad to see he has made some appearances on the web. "They call it Cal." - Tom Knox

Tom I knew your mother, she would come into my work place Save Mart super market off of Mooney Blvd. She comes shopping three times a week and I would talk to her while bagging her groceries and taking it to her car. She is very nice and cool, this was around 1988 -89. Didn't go to Redwood , Mt. Whitney was my stomping grounds. Was researching Santa Cruz and your vid came up lol. Peace brother.....

I fought Tom Knox before . I was in his jui jitsu class .

he reminds me of christian fletcher

Tom was a big figure in my childhood....

OK Tom Knox 2023. 😅 cool.

He goes to my jujitsu and is friends with my dad

Cement.

I remember a quote from Tom from a 30 year old interview: Once a skater always a skater. That kick flip wall ride 30 years ago on a bulky deck by today’s standards was insane. These kid’s today doing stuff using DIY videos from RU-vid have no idea how hard it was to learn a trick and not have anyone to teach you. We rewinds vhs tapes over and over just to rewatch a part. And if your VCR didn’t have slow mo....well your screwed trying to figure stuff out. We didn’t have smooth surfaced skateparks. We had rough rugged terrain and police making us leave. We didn’t have these decks modified to the designs of spin/flip tricks like today’s skaters. We had fish tailed/bulky decks that took a lot of time to learn a trick. Learning a 360 flip back then(last trick I learned) was hard/painful yet was gratifying. Nothing was giving to us easy. We worked for it. And I wouldn’t trade my youth for anyone of today and their experiences

Joder!!!he's brand new!!!!

I can’t count how many times I watched his part and then went out and tore curbs apart. He was one of the major influences in my skating back in the day. I rode A LOT of curbs. Sooooooo much grinding. I love it. Thanks for being so rad Tom. 👍

Tom Knox... I tried to mold my style between him and Neil Blender.

This made my day!

he reminds me of christian fletcher

Love this!!!