The First Ever Documented Hardflip 

Daewon is so humble. Dude was legendary

Dude… that part is 32 years old and bro still out there killing it. Only Guy from that era still shreds and he was a child prodigy a couple years later

Never knew how funny Daewon was! Just really appreciated his superior discipline for the sport. You guys all rock!

The best are so humble

Daewon is such a cool, chill guy. Me my buddies Lil Mike and Lil Jeff met him in the late 90s at the puente hills mall and he was so humble, even had a sesh with everyone . Always got love for him

"Torey you weren't even the worm yet! You're right I was the sperm!" He didn't have to go that hard for a one liner😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣

Daewon still rips to this day. He could skate until he's 75 I bet lol...

TRUE LEGEND! .. so glad you guys finally got him on. how could you not love daewon, hes so humble. im 40 and this dude was killing it when i was a kid and STILL pushing the limits, dropping NDBs. dammit RODNEY! the skate world is dying for your interview! lets make it happen.

Always loved Daewon how he just finds a simple gap/curb/bench/whatever and then just finds ways to use it creatively. Its always struck me as “pure” skating, doing it for the enjoyment of it and finding ways to be creative and having fun rather that trying to get the next big part in a video. As amazing and insane as some pros are now I feel that vibe/approach is widely gone now.

Crazy how he is bagging himself out when that skate part still treads water today! Always loved Daewons skating. Saw him first in some old 101 vid I think. Oh and baggy is back baby!

torey dropping the one liner lmao

Deawon has always been my favorite skater and still is because he was just the most insane dude back in the day and did shit nobody else was doing. He was so far ahead of the game for so long. I know everyone knows about rodney vs dewaon and almost round 3 but I am surprised how little known deca 2nd to none is. He has the coolest part and he is the manual god. He does anything you can think of into a manual and switch nollie whatever. He switches so damn much in 2nd to none that I always forgot weather he was regular or goofy because he was so smooth any way and everything seemed easy peasy lol Which is even worse because I had the VHS and watched it until it was falling apart so I should have known his stance haha. If you have not seen 2nd to none definitely recommend watching the whole thing or at the least deawons part. another one he kills it in is him and chris haslem cheese and crackers which is surprisingly another not so well known video he is great in. Deca 2nd to none Below ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Q9xu36chROE.html Cheese and Crackers Below ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jI5WtdZdt30.html

Almost without exception the best skaters are the humble ones.

Daewon and Rodney are masters of their craft forever inspiration and innovative. Personally forever the 2 most inspiring people to me in all 23 years of skating. Since cheese and crackers and almost 1, 2 and 3. Still up there with my top videos watching with friends, girl yeah right, forecast, zero new blood, and this is my element. I just had to watch these videos but daewon and Rodney always gave me these sweet crazy ideas like putting a 15 foot square rail thing we found in the woods in 2006 and put it acrossed my dads yard from the side door sidewalk to the street. It was made of aluminum and felt perferct to just set in the grass.. I learned kickflip 50 50s and 5-0s while warping this rail we found going as fast as we can grinding the whole rail from sun up to sundown, i then made a whole skatepark rollin and quarter with a manual pad in my dad's driveway.. all of you at the nine club thank you. Skateboarding is forever. You all helped me find my love.

Deawon and a lot of skaters really ramped up the standards. The rest of us nineties kids had to try harder just not to suck , it weeded out a lot of half assers. It got "real" quick.

Iv known about Daewon for years but iv never seen an interview with him but he seems just as chill as I expected. What I didn't expect is how funny he is.

Man... so crazy. Skated since 96 - watched all this stuff a few years later and idolized them all as I grew up. Daewong was top tier for me as a kid.

I used to LOVE to play Daewon on Grind Session on playstation!!! He has always been my fav skater due to his technical skill!

I love how chill and humble Daewon has always been. I was lucky enough to catch him at Cajon HS when I went skating. One of the cooler memories from my youth

I got so stoked on the frontside double flip because I landed that once on my local skatepark hip and it was one of those moments where for a minute I acually felt like I am a good skater. Lol. Such a random fucking trick OMG. Salute Daewon🎉

I remember a big thing back in the day was people saying if they were born earlier and skated in the earlier days that they could easily go pro. Might even still be thought of today. But the truth is whenever you think that. Just literally pop on a Daewon vid from any point in time throughout his career. And that will always just humble you real quick like, yeah never mind. Lol

2:02 Years after I got into skateboarding I found out that that was at my high school "West High" in Torrance CA fkn blew my mind

Legend!!!!!

i wish Hardflips still looked like the one Daewon did in that clip

😂 Torey always nails the word play jokes. He would make a funny rad dad❤

Daewon is so humble

The early days of street skating were kinda weird looking but the shit Daewon pulls off has always been good

Cheech and Chong LoL both absolutely legendary skaters

Yes!

Daewon is a fuckin LEGEND. I grew up in Seoul and this dude was a GOD

90s skating was great.

Daewon is hilarious

So sick

just curious on the clips.. were they shot on a Sony VX1000? (obviously from back in the day)

dudes humble af

🎵 🎶🎵 Diiiiiiing... Diiiiiiing... ding-ding-ding. "Daewon Song."

When a Legend🛹👴🏼 talk, the World listen👂🏼❤

Haven’t been into skateboarding since I was 14 but this guy has a great energy and is so humble

Daewons sense of humor is great haha

Legend

Daewon is a living legend.

Pretty sure it came out in 92, you'll notice Jovontae kitted out in the same clothes he's wearing in questionable (airwalk nts) which is also 92.

This is skateboarding history

Daewon is a legend

Thats actually a very sick looking hardflip.

Daewon is too humble

i have a black label video from 91 the tricks in that is all more than i could do but just that compared to like 96 97 skating is crazy people started grinding like 16 stairs and shit out of nowhere and now people flip in flip out like, it seems like there’s no new tricks to be made but people are still out there doing new shit no one’s ever seen

had no idea Daewon did that

no views! never been this early loved this episode

My buddy is visiting California right now and just got a autograph from daewon out in the wild

Marshalls had the rugby shirts back in the day

Daewon just critiquing himself the whole time is so wholesome 😂

“I found this huge Carlsbad”

Good doctor meme thumbnail

You need more people mic'ed up. I can almost hear Daewon

I always thought I sucked at hard flips but mine look exactly like this. So technically I’m just doing it proper 😂

Rodney Mullens converting more catches on flatground and flip out to the gap of Carlsbad drop in a higher level of a game changer.

Fiskars... the only hatchet that has ever broke in the exact same way 3 times! (Moisture/condensation buildup that breaks stuff when it freeze and thaw on a daily basis, thats my theory atleast) -besides that fiskars does make good stuff, they're the mora of Finland;)♡

I think he's hard on himself because he knows what he's capable of. I believe the best of what he's done hasn't even been documented on film

I watched 3 vids and didn’t realize it was Daewon Song

daewon is a real joker. funny guy

♠

Inside kickflip sounds much more intuative than hardflip

why did it go all blurry at the end?

I never clicked so fast, I always wanted to know

humble to the point of being rediculous hahaha. like dude you ARE the best lol

His part in Deca's 2nd to None is absurd.

Wasn't Love Child from 1992 not 1991? The board shapes don't really match up.

Yes! Proper Hard-flip before it got vertical! 💯🔥😆

Thanks to my bum hip a kick flip is a hard flip

Inside kickflip makes sense as a name, not nearly as catchy though lol

damn anyone wonder what daewons head look like now before then?

Get Rodney get Rodney get Rodney get Rodney or John by his legal first name gah damn

So a hardflip is a half inward varial flip depending on over under catch?

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I have def seen one before Love Child. I tried to do them before Love Child and remember seeing it in a video and went ah thats it. I think it might have been Life, Soldiers Story or something around that time. But it was def before Love Child.

I was doing hardflips in 87' on my Vision Gonz. Undocumented of course.

Bro skates with zero pop🤣 he skates as if he weighs 250 lbs

That has got to be the most shittest hardflip ever but its fuckn dope

Was that really a hard flip? i was under the impression a hardflip flipped vertical. i called that a semi flip

Absolute longevity.🫡

Inside kickflip? So a hardflip?

i did them the o.g way straight up and down in-between the legs

it feels like watching skate more video except chirs..

I was the first one to do a forward flip that’s facts and dated on video

Daewon doing hardflips while tory was still sperm 😂

First like Yuto

that hardflip does not look like a hardflip at all. more like a klickflip to late BS shov it or something. super weird! never seeing anything like it

not guilty. lol

Why are these grown men still talking about skateboarding lol

When I first started skating in 2001 I used to skate with Miika Adamov who's basically the new Rodney Mullen on Enjoi and I could do a shove it and a hardflip and when I learned kickflips proper I could never do hardflips straight up like I used to never seen anyone do straight up and catch them like I used to. I was already like 6 ft tall when I was for skating as a kid so I wasn't worried about smashing my balls so the board would just cleanly rotate between my legs. I finally gave up on him a couple years later after a credit carded on grass gap.

anything related to andy anderson is a tough watch too

Fuck me, so not 91, much less "filmed 89 - 90". Wish fhe stars would care about history a bit.

was doing hardflips before him and mine are better