I used to skate as a kid in the UK in the 1970s . We used bits of plywood up against walls , builders skips aas small half-pipes anything we could find to make a ramp of kinds. Great fun great time to be young. I'm almost 60 now but still love to watch the guys who do it today .Skill level is unreal its so fluid.
skatopia is like a gay bath house for skaters. its a skatepark, but all the same stuff that goes on in gay bath houses goes on there. man on man butt sex and sucking on sweaty man meat is what goes on there. im not sure about skatopia specifically, but you can definitely find movies that will suit your interests. specifically man on man butt sex and sucking on sweaty man meat. you could probably put the gay sex video into an AI and have it change the faces to be you and your dad so its more nostalgic.
I just want to say that anybody that skates. Please dont forget to stretch eat healthy and dont do so much drugs. Im 27 and my knee is effd up because i didnt follow these rules. I would skate day and night. All day everyday. I can not skate today anymore. I can walk but my knee is effd up.
Don't give up man. You can strengthen and make better than ever if you are truly willing. Just treat your body well. Do therapy for that knee and keep staying active until you have built more stronger knees than ever..I believe in you bro.
I skated in the early 90s. We built a small quarter pipe. That was the closest we came to a skate park back then. Cool to see how everything developed since then.
BMX freestyle mid-80s in UK and did the same. We definitely 'aquired' some of the plywood from a few abandoned houses as well as we couldn't afford to buy it all as teenage kids. Its fantastic that kids now have so many great local skateparks for them to ride.
I had to leave my anecdotes about home parks. In 35yrs skating, I've ridden some nutty stuff. In Canada, riding indoors a few months a year is the reality. We built a very mini ramp in my buddies 1 car garage. The lip was about 22 inches above the flat. We had about 4 feet of flat bottom. The decks were just big enough to stand on, about 13 inches deep, we used PVC for coping and surfaced it in Masonite. My best trick was a wall ride across the garage door from one lip, over the flat, to the other lip. I was proud of that. Riding tight transition like this is weird on your body. If you mis-pump, you can really hurt your knees. Our first week of riding it, we all thought something was wrong with our guts, like we were constipated or something. It was the workout our core and lower back were getting. Crazy.
Nevermind, I fully get it now after watching the vid. It's a shame you can't show skaters but RU-vid is perfectly fine allowing anyone to show real life violence, murder & child abuse just to name a few. The world we live in is so upside down and backwards. 😖
can you imagine? him getting off his computer to do something?!? especially something that might be......DANGEROUS!?!??? no, you cant so continue to sit there terminally online.
I am 55, have arthritis, and can barely walk now, but I used to skate in junior high and all through high school to my senior year. I even made a sweet board in woodshop complete with perfect tail and paint job. Nothing fancy, but fluorescent green checkerboards with black lines, and a clear anti-slip plastic top. I ended up giving it to a girlfriend who loved it. Anyway, I still love watching skaters, BMX, and basically extreme sports because I find traditional sports to be boring. This is some cool stuff ! This is what a skater with deep pockets gets. NICE !
This has brought back so many memories of my own rich ramp life. Feel like I could write a book about building and riding weird stuff. In Canada we rely more on indoor terrain than cats in warmer spots. From riding little grinder bars and wedge banks in house basements to elaborately orchestrated, guerilla concrete spots built in broad daylight in public, I've built a lot of weird and wonderful things. Also had the pleasure of riding others jank. To this very day, in my buddies 1 car garage, stands a very tiny mini ramp. The decks are just deep enough to boardslde/rock, whatever. About 22 inches high from flat to top of coping. 4 feet of flat bottom. Pretty tight. I was able to wallride the garage door from lip to lip. Had to be there. Once lived in an old house with 3 other skaters. We built a small pump bump starting in the kitchen, taking you down three stairs into a hallway with a higher ceiling. We built a big wall ride on end wall and could turn around and pop tricks back into the kitchen. This poor old house also boasted a bank to ledge that is the reason I'm still better at no-comply to tail than anyone. Can pull a no-comply to tailslide on almost any size tranny. Haha. One time recieved a special invitation to an exclusive session on a 4 foot mini floating on a tiny Barge in the middle of a lake. I was told a time and a specific place to be on the shore for pick up. I was delivered by boat to the gnarge barge with session in full swing. Weird ride that. Many times at house parties, we'd build jumps over fires. We jacked up a big triangular curb and connected it in. It looked legit, like it belonged. Enough so the city workers painted it with yellow paint. This spot lasted several years, brought much joy.
My guy is back and funnily enough right as I get back into skating love your work been watching since the first skaters you will meet love your vids man, keep it up
This reminds me of one of my neighbors in college. I walked into the living room of their town house, and they had a full half pipe in the living room of their college house. It was awesome. I'm pretty sure there's footage of it in some party video that was filmed on campus for RU-vid.
cool, so some other guy besides you did something interesting a long time ago. awesome. did you call your mom and tell her yet? shes going to be so stoked bro.
brings back the memories of you sitting around with absolutely nothing to do and no goals to accomplish watching other people live real lives? i mean are they really memories or nostalgia if you're still stuck in the same rut as you were 20 years ago?
In Moscow we have Punk Fiction, which is a combination of bar, punk venue and skatepark. Bar on 1st floor, venue on 2nd and venue is actually a bowl for skating, and it turns in complete mess when moshpit happens. They also have ramp/scene on the outside, sometimes there are open air shows. People of this place are very friendly, they used to sell only vegan food two years ago, now they also sell meat, and beer of course. That's not a backyard park, but it's a good place to be
Wow! Rad! We had a thing kinda like that years ago. Some guys put some money together and bought an old movie theater. They built a massive wooden bowl with concrete pool coping. There was other stuff too. After hours was off the hook. It was also used as a music venue and occasionally we would be invited to ride while a band played. Ever ridden a big bowl where your biggest fear is having a death meal bands mic stand being thrown into the bowl, over and over. Metal heads falling into a 13 foot bowl. Drunk chick's in miniskirts dropping in. Skating with famous, drunk people. Haha, you know.
Wow, that turn over the two big holes in the wall at 3:57 was insane ! I had to rewatch it 5 times because it just doesn't make sense ! Imagine the neighbors of some of these houses who have a two story house and could just sit at the window and get free shows for hours upon days. My God the park that the 3 brothers own around 5:30 is very creative. Bob Burnquest is crazy good skating UP a building. Who needs furniture if you're Steve O. ? Skatetopia is sick.
I’m gonna build a small scale street skateboard area in my backyard soon ❤ this has inspired me 120% I skated back when I was 17 for a good 7 years so I have some skills but will need to dust off the cobwebs for sure
Not a skater but my artsy older cousin converted a small warehouse into a home like 20 years ago and the first thing he did after acquiring it was put a massive halfpipe in his living space. It even has its own staircase. It's still there, still maintained, still used. Lots of fun memories hanging out there and watching people use it over the years.
you could take a video of gay sex and put it into AI and have it changes the faces of the men to be you, your cousin, your brother, your grandpa and your dad so its more nostalgic. i just thought youd like to know that based on that lame ass story about your fruity cousin.
Holy crap skatetopia is a real place?! I always thought it was just an idea put into Tony hawks underground 2, or maybe it was American wasteland. I don't remember it being in pro skater 2 but I might be wrong
Like, number one as in Skatopia, not like... the chronological... you know what, nevermind, what am I even doing in these comments, I'm way too old and fat to skate
3:39 To avoid the pine needles landing in the park, they could probably make a really huge canopy tied around the trees. It’s a lot of work but aye so is building a skatepark in your backyard.
if you think this is the best sk8 documentary ever you should watch literally any other sk8 documentary since this isnt even a documentary its just a standard youtube list video. are you extremely sheltered or just really really slow?
Oh I think Trevor Jacob's house is where Estro Jen of Moxi Skates lives now! She posts a lot of great quad skating videos from there. There's also a massive halfpipe off the back where you can drop in from the second story porch now, but that may not have been there yet when Trevor Jacob lived there; I can't remember whether Jen was the one who had that built or not. She calls it the Estro Den and it's pretty rad :)
Actually I just rewatched her video, I guess it's a vert ramp with a mini ramp on the side; I'm still a bit new to the terminology. But yeah she does say in the intro video that she had it installed, and it says in the comments that Trevor Jacob is the one she bought it from. So yeah check out Estro Jen's channel to see how much cooler that backyard skatepark has gotten!
Yt is out of control!! Great video man! I'm always standing up for skateboarders, I have mad respect for you guys! I picked up a couple of skateboards from a roofing job I was doing....I put them in my car and I got pulled over by the cops over and over again...I gave them to a couple of kids at the park..and I never got pulled over again! F ing nuts!
Grew up on skateboarding in the 80s.... then I grew up and bought 3 Onewheels... If "Video killed the radio stars" then the Onewheel murdered the skateboard. Thousands of miles later, I'll never look back.
“Don’t even dare come back here and try to skate!”, says the skater. Skaters, historically renowned respecters of private property… there is a double standard here I appreciate.
It’s crazy to see this channel’s growth. I subbed early 2020 because I bought a skateboard and wanted to not be a poser. And looked up “skateboarding” in RU-vid. I get the itch to skate like once or twice a year now and I always come back to this channel. The first time I saw your videos was around the time you were at 75,000 and now look at you! A whole pillar of the community! 🥲
When I was a skater in the 80s and 90s in the midwest, you know what we had to skate? Nothing. There were no skate parks. Flat parking lots and shit. A curb with a weird hump was a major skate spot. We did shit like 'ollie the tumbling tumbleweed'. I used to take an empty soda box to the neglected tennis court down the street and just ollie it all afternoon because it was the only ridable cement around. These skaters today live in a skaters paradise. I'ts amazing to see.
That loop tony hawk almost died on can actually be opened and bob gapped it upside down...switch... Also, burnquist is not at all about inclusivity, his park is wildly private and you can barely even get an invite.
