I sincerely believe that 1987 was the peak of humanity. All those thousands of years leading up to 1987 were just for 1987. Then it all started to go downhill and will never be that high again. Damn. This video is evidence. The music, the clothes, the style, the attitude, every fucking little detail can't be beaten.
42 yrs old and I still skate Santa Cruz roskopp face decks , old school reissue ones , fkn love them , either with Powell rat bones for park , and Santa Cruz vomits for street, and for cruising slime balls, Santa Cruz alive and well in the U.K. in 2018✌🏻🤘🏻
I miss the 80´s Santa Cruz sb with kryptonics wheels and smith trucks....I was just 17 and skating all the time with my bro and friends. No cell phones, no internet, just skate....heaven
I agree. I can just imagine Scott and his film crew talking about how amazing the stunts were and how they needed to be in super slo-mo to be able to really appreciate them. And he was right, it’s a film showcasing skating - it makes sense to have sone of the sequences in slow motion. The slow motion in Wheels of Fire is one of the things that always stands out when I watch it.
This is an amazing feeling watching this all over again after all this years! I used to skateboard with all this movies! I truly believe i lived through the best years of skateboarding! I'm 43 now but I just want to buy a skateboard again and go crazy, what a feeling....
Have they re-released all the PP boards as well? I think it was amazing they did that for the glory days of SC...I can see me purchasing one of them again eventually. They can def see the 40 somethings coming.
The raging waters footage with the soundtrack really brings back what the 80s actually felt like. the vert skating was legendary. they were blasting airs out of that ramp, nearly all the shots are tracking them against the sky.
I'm 45 now and loved this video when it came out in 1987. I remember going to Spyder Skate & Surf shop in Hermosa Beach, CA to buy it the first day it was available. Good Times.
First skate movie I ever watched, and I watched it when it came out back in the day. And now it's 2019! Skateboarding, the Fountain of Youth. 🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙
i got this for my 11birthday and watched it everday before school till it burnt out. still remember every word in it and think it probably shaped the person i am. cheers santa cruz, classic
***** yes my friend it was a different era .....a different time.skateboarding was admired and "cool" as is is now. it was dangerous the gangs would yell skaters suck and throw shit as they drove by .the jocks would scream skaters suck and throw shit as they drove by.after school rumbles some group always against the skaters.it was shorts over sweat pants. now its girls pants . what ever happened to tube pants. anyways I gotta hipper to nurse .slaatte
Powell Peralta generally made the best 80s skate videos, but Santa Cruz's Wheels of Fire really topped them all. The soundtrack is truly memorable. Natas's part blew my mind back then.
Here's the soundtrack... 01 WHAT'S SO STRANGE ABOUT ME? - Eight Day’z 02/03“Baby Don’t Love Me” and country/blue-grass tune (Jeff Kendall part) 04 STANDING ON THE VERGE - J.F.A. - (Jeff Kendall part) 05 DIFFERENT WORLDS - Eight Day’z - (Rob Roskopp skating down path) 06 HE WHO BEATS UP CHILDREN - Eight Day’z - (Freestyle part - not sure of skaters name) 07 WHEELS OF FIRE (I’m on fire) - Screaming Lord Salba & The Blue Flames 08 POOL - J.F.A. (Love bowl??) 09 JULIE'S SONG - J.F.A. 10 PICK POCKET MAN - Eight Day’z (NATAS bit) 11 LEAVE ME ALL ALONE - Eight Day’z (NATAS bit) 12 MY MOVIE - J.F.A. 13 ABA - J.F.A. 14 WHAT'S SO STRANGE ABOUT ME - Eight Day'z
Natas killing it... His part really stuck out to me. His skating is really down to earth. This video illustrates the line between what is flailing and what is thrashing.
+Jessebaseballny Its sad watching it now, I remember the last night the Pipeline was open.. It was a heavy moment for everyone that 'grew up' there that night.
christbait yep i agree its sad that pipeline is gone, but that also adds more reasons as to why Salbas piece is the best in a skate video. I cant imagine how you guys felt that night like a piece of your youth was suddenly gone.
This video and Animal Chin were our two go two videos. We lived to watch these and skate that was it. Being inside the house was not in the cards… you would have had to have been sick or it was raining outside.
I remember watching this with all of my buddies at my house in 1988. Some of the best days of my life. I'm now 43 and still hop on a board every once in a while. For being old and fat I can still ollie kick flip and other tricks as well.
I've actually met with the guitarist, who played on this. He shared rare photos and a video, which was shot live in a cinema. Absolutely stunning material
bassage13 yeah, yeah. The spinny thing on top of the fire hydrant was pure CLASS mate. Great days for street skating ('87 - '90 was when I was shredding it). Kool bro.
One of the finest videos of the 80s..their team killed in that time period..its really a toss up between this streets on fire.and the early h street videos..anyways..always..fun 2 watch .no matter how many times..never gets old...FUSE1..NS .812.. ..
Funny how skateboarding is coming back this way, with longboarding being so big, penny boards and all that. People are re-finding the fun in just shredding on a board and being good at it, than worrying about how many technical flip tricks you can do.
It will never really phase out like it did in the past. There are just so many options now and with net so much easier to get motivated. There has never been a better time to skate, young or old. I'm never gonna stop, its a serious addiction with so many benefits.
My friends and I used to watch this over and over back in the late 80s, along with Streets of Fire. Then masses of videos started coming out in the early 90s and my mates moved on from the old 80s vids. But I never stopped watching this (and a few others like Molecules of Motion, Sick Boys, Animal Chin and Public Domain). Every now and then in the 90s and 2000s I’d put on Wheels of Fire if I was hosting a bbq or get-together and all of the old gang would be so into it! Even mates who weren’t into skating would comment on how well it was shot and how cool the soundtrack is. It was an all-round favourite, long after it’s release.
I remember the shopping center me and my friends skated finally got security to run us out. We gave those guys a hard time just like in the video. 80's were a great time to be a live.
This video inspired and shaped me and my brother on so many levels that I still think about it until this day (12/20/18). We are excited to watch this again after so many years!
I was an Aussie kid living in Hong Kong and I skated with the locals there and when my birthday came around I just wanted a Rob Roskopp face board with indi trucks and slime ball wheels. I got it and I was In heaven. I remember all the names and all the boards that came out.
When I first got into skating I used to love studying those California Skate Shop? ads in the back of the mags that had a hundred or so images of tiny decks in black and white to learn all of the names and companies. I’m the same, if you give me a company name from the 80s I can still name all of the riders lol
I’m gonna say I was raised right, I’m 20 years old now, born in 2004 and grew up watching these kinds of videos, I still have a VHS copy of this and a vhs player that still works (most of the time) but I love this music, the clips, the way they dressed, everything I love it all and apply it to my life style.
Están bien los.videos.de.profesionales . Gente con estilo 😎 pero no hay que olvidarse nunca de.los.buenos ratos.y de.la naturalidad y la.gracia de aquellos.maravillosos.años.
Fuck yeah, I grew up skating at The Pipeline and those spots Steve Alba's segment shows. Steve and Micke were the kings of Pipeline hands down. We wore the shit out of this VHS in junior high watching him and Natas's segment over and over and over..
Got this tape in beta. I remember going to someplace store to record this from my friend's VHS tape to beta. When I finally got it, all time in replay mode. Seeing all this USA locations, the music. Great memories of a different and simplier era
hemmojito Zero nose, enormous tail, flat as a pancake, heavy as lead, way too high off the ground...and Natas could still ollie trash cans and fire hydrants. Amazing.
wowzers! I got this cassette tape in 1987,88 ,it was called born to skate! Some of the tracks to this documentary are on that tape. I haven't herd them since then 💥kaboom, plus all those designs on the boards bring me back big time!!!thanks for putting this up.
Pissed I let a friend borrow my VHS copy years ago and never got that shit back. As a kid I I got Wheels of fire x-mas of 1988 and played that shit every fucking day. Natus to this day is still the fucking man !
Back then, we had fads on the coast first, and skateboarding was like this in the early 80s in California valley. Abandoned pools and half-pipes in the backyards. By the late 80s we'd moved to the mountains and we'd fly 50 mph down steep hills. One thing I really appreciate is that those guys encouraged pads and equipment, allowed total abandonment knowing you could roll out.
37:58 This footage is stuff of legends. I've seen plenty of Raging Waters skate videos, but no other could replicate this. The blue sky and blue waters on background with Christian flying high and that soundtrack, it's poetry in motion.
I was 12 or 13 when I got my copy of this VHS. I watched it over and over again. It definitely framed a lifestyle that I thought I would have at 19 or 20. Didn't happen. "I like to sit in my room and listen to a lot of loud music and play my guitar. It's loud. It's cool.".
