It most definitely was… and I was so blessed so be a part of it. All of this footage was definitely part of the era and time where I had thrived off of this footage and was heavily motivated to go out and to learn all these crazy new tricks for both my regular stance and switch. By the time I was in my prime my friends were never able to beat me in SKATE. So yea that time in my life holds a very special place in my heart.
Bro, you don't understand how grateful I am for this. I'm teary-eyed. I've been hunting this footage down for well over 10 years! I even spoke to Sal Masekela about it!
the game has changed so far that people might not understand how this was straight ground breaking lol. For 50k that’s like how much Tyshan makes on instagram 😂
This is the period of time I was going the hardest, age 13 to 16. 2004 to 2007. I miss this time of my life so much I can’t even put into words. When Sorry! came out I watched it probably 150 times with my friends. Life seems soooo insanely different these days. If you are young, and you’re skating, savor every moment. Let it rip. 🤙
This line up is sick. This was at the pinnacle of skate boarding for me as a kid. I loved TNT's In Bloom video. Dying to Live, Sorry, This is Skateboarding, Yeah Right!. Man, those were the best times of my youth.
Like the golden era of football, skateboarding was so stacked it insane. You could name 100 names and they are all had their own styles, own characters , was an amazing time to be a kid and skateboarding and music and sport .
I was 10 years old and remember watching this like it was yesterday. Its the first time I ever saw someone skateboard in Nikes Like P-Rod Did. Made me find out what nike SB was.
Crazy to see how ahead of his time Paul was. You can watch an Xgames today and a lot of what Paul did in 2004 skaters will still be doing in contests today, including Paul. Which raises an interesting point about him. It's almost like in 2002-2005 his skills evolved into what skating is today. His development was about 20 years in the future only they didn't keep going. His skills sort of froze in time as the standard and everyone sort of took 20 years to catch up to the baseline he created. Levi Löfelberger, Riebero Gustavo and Shane O'Neil are the only three skaters I can think of that surpassed Paul in technical skateboarding (Levi probably the most technical), but these three guys are also past their prime and have set the bar as high as it's going to get, for now. But they didn't move the bar decades ahead like Paul did as far as we can tell now. Will there be another Paul Rodriguez who somehow moves skating ahead by decades? I leave it with this: Even in today's most elite contests, no one is doing the technical tricks Levi Löfelberger has done in his videos as normal regular tricks. Maybe he is decades ahead?
“Street skaters just don’t lands their tricks first try”. Give it 15 years. So cool to see how much things have changed. Now we have 360 flip noseblunt slides in a run. Crazy.
Imagine living in a world where you can play a video game and win 10 times as much. These young men where legends and competed at a level that was bone crushing. I loved skating and it was all about the adrenaline and showing off.
those weird old ridge flip skateboards with the grooves that were forr faster slides lol paired up with those tensor trucks everyone had with the slide plate
@@djsubliminalreeve I had that exact setup with a set of rock hard darkstar wheels, those things would powerslide on sandpaper they where so hard. Was it just my group or did everyone use skinny boards too? Anything over 7.5 felt massive to me, no wonder my heels where always bruised to hell.
I can’t believe I watched this on tv my era I was born was stylin too effortlessly, kids can’t wrap around the idea of this compared to today most skating today is watered down and toooooo much park, real street skating is getting more rare by the day
I cant believe how fucking good skaters are now a days with the 4k cameras too showing how well they do everything. Theres major levitation powers going on in 2022 compared to back then.
@@dsrree The level of skill isn’t what made this the golden age. You had the monthly magazines (the Skateboard Mag, Transworld, Thrasher, etc.) with the ads you would put on your wall. Companies still put out full length physical videos that you anticipated and watched over and over again before skating. Board brands were the biggest sponsor, giving teams a sense of identity. Sure some of it is nostalgia, but it was definitely a more “pure” time in skating.
@@God_Shen Depends what time period we're talking about. I'm fkn 33 dude, I got into skating around '98 and owned a shit ton of skate videos on VHS. My favs were Fulfill the Dream and Zero vids. If that was the golden age, then I still say skating is way better today. Some random ass dude literally did a bigger drop than the leap of faith recently.
rowley said old man becauze hes og of skateboard he and reynolds are insane and rowley probably my favorite skater ever just because his english balls are.huge
Don’t get me wrong, all the new kids coming up are super tech and go huge! ..but 99’-early 00’s there was sooo much style in skating. Most new guys look so robotic. NOT just Ny
An absolute murderer's row of skaters. Literally two generations of skaters who were bumping up against each other and pushing the sport to new, unimaginable heights. This was not the old guard barely hanging on while a new breed was pushing them out. It was a collective competition of two generations of skaters both pushing the sport at the same time. Something you never saw before and haven't seen since. It was an incredible time to be alive witnessing history right in front of you.
What a stacked line up. I hate the presentation format though. Felt like I didnt get to watch the actual contest and instead just saw some of the people talking about it.
