Fav skater is Chris Cole after I saw him compete in the ES Game Of Skate finals in 2006 and miss the switch backside 180 late front foot flip by Alex Mizurov. Those were the glory days!
As for me, i fell in love with Osiris top brand with Red Dragon appareal (THPS serie), Birdhouse graphics of decks, My the most favourite skaters back in dayz were Brandon Turner and Peter Smolik mainly because 'Tha FedaralZ rappin grp featurin P.Smolik' and as a not native english speaker, that was combined with sk8boarding most pure and underground HipHop i ever listened.... Basicaly whole Shorty's Guilty video that inspired me to get HipHop style to nowadays.... (meaning FUKK SKINNY JEANS! BUT BULKY SHOES AND BAGGY PANTS ARE THE LOVE!)..... But honestly the very top skater i admire till today was/is/ will be.... The KING..... Rodney Mullen
This is THE BEST ERA in skateboarding and idk how I got so lucky but I got to grow up and get into skating along side ALL OF THIS! Born in 1989. I got a full page picture in my senior HS yearbook of me jumping to flat off the top of the super wedge. At night, under the bridge. Was wearing a pair of white Koston 3 shoes. That's one really good memory from that era
Born in 88, I agree this might be the golden era but the BEST one might be the 90s though. When you watch the old videos from 92-95 it looks like pure skateboarding, no mainstream bullshit and the level of skateboarding was going crazier every year. Anyway 2000 to 2010 were still so insane and I’m glad I started at this time too and not now.
This younger generation will never know the beauty skating was in the early 2000's puffy És shoes lol... 7.75 and under board now im riding anything over an 8inch 😆
Awesome video🔥also worth mentioning: - Baker 3 was a massive hit, skating and hijinx (maybe Baker's peak) - Zero and Chris Cole were insane (Getting SOTY twice in this decade) - Burton acquiring Alien Workshop and Habitat, also having Gravis and Analog under it's umbrella
Had a Chris Cole board and it was the best board I ever had…. Tbh I didn’t know who he was when I got the board and watched him in a zero tape afterwards… really lucked out.
@@darrentinonzii340 they literally asked us to add more in the comments 😂. Are you coming to RU-vid to tell all the commenters with opinions to "make a video?" How smart 🤪
This is when I started skating. Was decked out in Emerica, Krew, Altamont, and Baker. Had This is Skateboarding on repeat everyday. I wanted to be Reynolds so bad lol
I started skating when I was 11 in 2005, what a year to start skating, I was so lucky. My favourite memory was all the locals crammed into the skate shop to watch Fully Flared and the night time session after.
Summer of 03 was when I REALLY got super into skating. My first actual skate shoes were some Adio Wrays and my first board was a custom pink BlackLabel deck with some Grind Kings and shitty ass clear grip tape lol. Me and my buddy Juan would get our moms to drop us off uptown every Wednesday during that summer break. From like 8 in the morning till sometimes after dark, we’d be at it hard! Juan, I miss you bro
haha thats epic!! Those Adio Wrays were iconic and probably should made an appearance in this vid! So many good shoes in the 2000s. You should watch out Grind King video, such a crazy story associated with that brand!!
2008 financial crisis was poetic in the changing of decades. It was the end of the glory days of 2000s skateboarding, making great brands file for section 8 and disappearing, and having the stage set for the 2010s. This decade was arguably the greatest time in skateboarding!
THINK was my favorite board brand in the early 2000s. Also loved rooting through the new ccs catalog when they came in. Wish I would've kept all my skate magazines from back then!
Gravettes part in Born Dead, and Adelmo Jr. in Organikas Concrete Jungle gotta be my favorite skaters and video parts that introduced me to them. the Anti-Hero “hows my skating? Dial 1-800-EAT-SHIT!” board is a certified 2010s classic.
Honorable mention to my first pro board that wasnt a H.M.D/trash find.... a Muska Element with 3 fiend skulls wearing chrome lens Ray bans... matte black Ventures and 51mm Autobahns to seal the deal.... Scene/emo kid setup lmaooo.
This video makes me nostalgic and sad but so happy all at once. Born in ‘92 so it was truly a great time and a defining moment in skateboarding and in my teenage childhood years. Nothing like small town skating
This video was pure nostalgia for me. I was born in 92 and started skating in 2003. Best era of skateboarding and I’m so thankful to have live through it ! So many core memories
It's wild how big skateboarding was in the early 2000's yet getting skateparks and cities onboard to build a skatepark was such and uphill battle. Today skateboarding isn't as popular but it's far easier to get parks accepted and built.
I was there! I lived it! The golden age of skateboarding! I was the only one in Scotland at the time to have a G-Bag, had to get it imported as soon as it was released. Ah the good old days ❤️
@@ShredzShop Yeah I used to blast mine at break and lunch time. Haha! I never knew how popular they were in America! Such a cool design, would work just as well today!
Baker 2G MUST be in the conversation if you are going to talk about the 2000’s! Huge Greco fan here & I highly suggest that the Baker crew be represented in the part 2 of this series! I did see the title of this was an overview so I’m not going throw any grief your way (yet) 🧐🤨
Man, being part of the class of 2001, this was perfect. I think the shoes I miss the most are the Vans TNTs. They had some bangers in the 2000s, especially the mids. I feel like this era was the beginning of the marriage between energy drink companies and action sports.
Congratulations on your achievement for work milestone Honorable mention. 411VM Issue 60 was the 10 year Anniversary Issue in 2003. Along with On Video Skateboarding realeased in Summer 2000 until 2004.
GREAT VIDEO! Would love to see one of these for 2010's and/or in-depth videos for each year (e.g., Overview Of Year 2001, Overview of Year 2002, etc...) ❤🛹🔥
I got my first board in '94. After I tried to buy some classmates board for 20 bucks but had to return it cause their parents were pissed, I asked my mom for a skateboard for my 6th birthday. She took my to the local skate shop (shoutout Sunland Skate Shop in Sunland CA) I picked out a World Industries board with some green metallic sparkle flake trucks who's name I can't recall and a pair of Airwalks. Thinking back it was the absolute ugliest combo I could have gotten. Some random kid tried to teach my how to ollie in the parking lot and I promptly fell on my ass. "Yeah that's gonna happen a lot." and boy was that dude right. I didn't really have any friends who skated until years later when almost overnight in 2001/2002 it seemed like all of my friends were into it. By then I had sold my original setup and put together a new one with an element deck that some kid tried to sand the graphic off in woodshop with some of those Tensors with the orange plastic shield on the baseplate. Bought a pair of Vans Cab 6's. Vision streetwear used to stop by our middle/high school in Eagle Rock and give us free stuff. I'd always get a free deck. What I thought was interesting is how it eventually crept across the country. Every summer I'd visit family in Massachusetts and they were all into BMX until one summer (probably around 2003/2004) everyone was into skating. By then EVERYONE was into skater culture, specifically wearing those massive chunky Osiris shoes with socks stuffed under the tongues to make them extra puffy.
Favorite Skater in that Era.... had to be "The Boss" but id say Jaime Thomas would be a close second. Or in an Alternate Universe would go Koston, Daewon
This is my jam. I remember watching all those videos when they came out. Flip sorry and in bloom still my top two of all time. Alberta sucks but Cochrane park is pretty decent I back lipped that rail
Favorite skate show Nike sb P.ROD V lr shoes 🙌🏻 Janowksis Still rockin some Circas Favorite boards Real Deathwish Girl Creature Plan b Baker Atm Almost 5boro Superior Mob grip Grizzly grip Bones or Spitfire wheel Reds Bones or shorty hardware Tried all the trucks Independent, tensors , venture , krux , thunder Had some many good sets ups Let’s of broken boards I’ll never forget the skate days growing up on these times on the streets 😶🌫️
the era I skipped. I only learned to ride switch in the 2010’s. I never prescribed to the big pants and small wheels decade. I am happy to ride wide trucks and riser pads baby. You can keep your football shape or popsicle deck I just need a big Tail and and rails. enjoyment is different for everyone and I still enjoyed my bigger set ups. lucky for me they are easier to get now than they were for me in the 80s. Back then I only had a birthday and Christmas once a year. now I get paid every week L O L keep the videos coming. Love you crazy Canadians. Oops after watching this whole video I realized that I skipped the 90’s and 2010’s. I didn’t quit I just kept on riding the biggest boards I could get.
It'll be interesting to see what is said in the next decade. I remember being really involved in skateboarding from 2006-2014, and toward the end there was a huge push against Nike and the commercialization of Skateboarding by outside elements. Consolidated even released boards with pretty gnarly anti-nike graphics. A lot of the people I was around were talking about the death of style and how we'd inevitably have skateboarding as a job pathway to follow and not a passion to do. It's interesting seeing how people skate in the Olympics and to see that Woodward has a school now. While it pushes the envelope in one direction, I think it neglects the direction that guys like Ritchie Jackson and Gou Miyagi have historically filled.
Looking at boards my parents would never agree to buy from that CCS magazine! World Industries, Blind, Chocolate, Alien Workshop, Habitat, Zero, Hook-ups, Girl, Powell, Toy Machine, Birdhouse, Baker, Element, Almost, Anti-Hero, Enjoi, Real, Krooked, Flip, Zoo York, Dark Star, Black Label, etc!!
I used to think Danny Way and Ken Block, Race in Paradise🏁, were the same person back in the early 2000s. But those were the days I used to think I wouldn’t break a bone too, Buzz Lightyear. Before the booze. Those pools seem huge now, I landed my first heel flip in hella years. I’ll admit I miss street skating the most. That’s how I started. Keep on keep on, good ol’ Joe Dirt 🤙
I was on a Rodney Mullen “Cologne for Freestylers” Almost deck in the 00s, and running some DVS shoes that might have been Comanches but I don’t recall the specific model.
Crazy for how long some Brands survived. Think never realy had a Top Tier Pro but stayed arround for almost 20 Years. When i started most of the Brands were just created or werent createt at all. There were also many short lived Board Company. 101, A Team, Platinum, Color, Prime.
I think the most important video in 2003 was brian sumners tao of skateboarding that video was mindblowing because way before youtube there were not many how to videos atleast not good ones that i remember then came sumner gathering your favorite pros teaching you how to do tricks not only that dude performs almost every trick himself For me this is one of the best skate videos of all time
Man going to the mall with buddies to look at the World Industries decks and buy Hookups Stickers, then going back home and watching Flip Sorry, thinking I'd one day be a punk rocking Pro Skater even though I was afraid to Ollie 3 stairs those were the days ahah
My first ever real board was a hand me down from my step brother from the later 2000s and it was a 7.75 flip deck with destructo trucks with probably bones wheels
While I think this video is really well done, anyone who wasn’t there really and saw this video wouldn’t understand the gravitas the 00s had for skateboarding. Literally turned pro skateboarders into pop culture icons. And local skateboarders into the cool kids over night.
