U.K. Skate Video Archiving *See 1st Post For Archive Link*

(V.) Late 90’s VHS release.

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You lot sure there was a 2nd one? I thought it was just the one…

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Yep, just the one - ‘Vol. 2.’ :man_shrugging:

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Ah, no. It’s called Vol 1.

Check it…

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(Vol 2 would have been a better name)

Just had to watch the link. Mandela in full effect. I was positive it was Vol. 2. I reckon he’s changed it :wink:

Edit: Even though I’ve just seen it and it clearly is Vol 1, when lockdown is all done I’ll be able to get to my VHS tapes, I’m still going to have a dig just to set my mind at rest. Weird.

I checked for those same reasons - but it’s actually titled that in the video.
I was first introduced to it by @Mark so maybe I just picked up the name Vol 2 from him?

There should be an epilepsy warning on the first one and half minutes. I can assure you it does calm down after that.

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Putting this together has reminded me of this old Manchester scene video…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxYhVxwyi4Y

I actually only had heard about it here and there and first saw it when it went online last year.

Well worth your time…

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Its mad that there are just under 350 videos in that list now…

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Ed Hubert who did Blokes had an earlier video - ‘Like’ DVD , don’t recall the date though.

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No War For Heavy Metal! That counts.

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Does every episode of Rad count then?

So this topic took me on a bit of google/nostalgia trawl across the internet looking for certain scene videos etc.

Came across this: when it's raining on our british isles...

Monster Network’s site.

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This probably doesn’t count but it was the first footage I ever saw of UK skateboarding.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-mIbhHblZRE

  • It was shown on BBC kids TV.

Yep! MN sent me that link yesterday. It hasn’t been updated since 2009 but theres some solid info in there.

He used to have an amazing pre-YouTube video clips page which was kind of like a British/International version of the old Bobshirt quicktime page.

At the time, it was so sick.

That ‘Like’ video is so sick. Dave Benson Phillips cameo!

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Glad this list has been made, as it’s given me a kick up my arse to get some of the older Welsh vids that aren’t online up and to put some things into the list. Going to grab some tapes off Tommy and get those up (hopefully) over the weekend.

I also messaged Fisher and he’s put the Exist video back public, which I thought was somehow deleted.

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Amazing. Theres a ton of info and probably a ton of videos missing still - so if anyone gets a chance and can fill in some stuff - or even post here, then the four of us on this can get it in there.

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I don’t want to tell you how to do your job but if you don’t connect this to data studio and use filters to create an interactive dashboard then I’m very sorry but you’re simply blowing it. :grinning: