I remember Up The Rebels being newbomber ams? I’m sure this had Vaughan ect in it? Probably wrong.
lol. That was Toby Shuall in probably the most British part ever shot.
It’s the part Lucien references in Palasonic and (for me) something which is very relatable and pretty timeless…
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Ah yeah. I never got Toby Shaull really, he just did nollies over things, kinda like a London Paulo Diaz without the mystical powelly trick history.
Although, he did a few mindblowing things that put him in an elite “wtf how did they do that?” category.
Agreed. I liked how relatable that was.
Exactly, it just looked like he was a gangly one trick pony because unless you were in london and knew how ridiculously high/awkward those spots were then they just looked kinda boring, but then he’d do something like that 360 nollie heel and yeah I would be all confused, and blown away.
Yeah I can appreciate that now but at the time I wasn’t feeling it. I think I was still in a go getter phase.
You probably had a better idea of what he was skating and he’s one of those dudes who translates so much better in real life.
It is weird how some people just don’t translate well in footage but are mind blowing in real life and others come up with crazy footage but look so wrong on a board in real life.
Thread idea maybe.
I thought he translated well into footage, myself. I guess it is worth remembering the timeframe here; popped nollies like that were still fairly rare.
But then, maybe what you are saying sits with my comments about Headcleaner above…that video just didn’t do some of the people justice who were in there.
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Cheers for that, all makes sense to me.
It came out just as I started so to me a video over an hour long was amazing.
It was very relatable too, it being in the UK, Toby Shauls part as already mentioned, grind block set up on his street, so British, Woodley being young (also the sound track was rad).
Harry Bastard was my favourite skater for a good while because of that video, and years later seeing him in the flesh (as a full grown adult) I defo fanned out!
Its essential to get people who were about at the times point of view on these things otherwise its too hard to understand how influential a vid actually was at the time.
The impact it has on you when you were there at the time is impossible to understand if you try and look back retrospectively.
I dont know many under 25 year olds that would sit through Video Days/any ground breaking vid from back then because even though they might understand how crazy it might have been for the time you can never really feel it like you would if you were there at that time.
I’d agree with the OG bomber dudes as many of them were localish i’d see them skating regularly, Harry especially was great to watch in real life and way more than just big ollies on film. Not that Harry or Toby were bad on film at all just that the footage of big pop never looks anywhere near as good as in real life or if you know the spot for reference.
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There is a barrier in my town that he nollied back in the day and it is still amazing when you go to the spot now.
There was also an Octagon sticker stuck to a post at the spot that has only recently disappeared.
Unless the ollie is over a shopping trolley or a bin!!
yeah but even so, an ollie over one of those is over so quick I always dismissed until i’d be standing next to a bin/trolley and think yeah that’s fucked. I still found seeing it on video was boring. I’d witness harry ollieing over big shit most weeks for a while and that never got old.
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I’m V jealous, wish I could’ve seen it live.
I was learning to ollie at the time so seeing someone ollie a shopping trolley was magical.
It was cool to see yeah, it was cool that there was always a session at the skatepark and the local amazing skaters would join in on our regular weird obstacle sessions. I almost tripped out when Shipman would join in when he occasionally skated there and have a good sesh on a stupid contraption, and kill it of course. Another one that was better in real life. Amazing and styley on film of course but seemed to have more to offer than the casual spontaneity of stereo.
Saw Shipman and his brother a lot when I was a nipper, was always in awe at how natural and effortless he seemed on his board.
Feel very fortunate to have grown up getting to see pros at the time kill it on a regular basis.
I’d have loved that when I started skating, there was no one around here until we got good enough to start travelling to the nearest cities.
Had a session at Storm one afternoon.
It was usually empty weekday afternoons and I lived a couple of streets away so would pop in frequently for a skate.
One day he was doing some daft noseblunt on a block that was placed high up launching from a kicker.
Horsley was there taking pics.
Decent afternoon that.
haha, That was probably after one of these sessions. I would always drag shit around and make people skate them. He actually flip noseblunt slid that obstacle too.
One of the raddest skaters that came through one day just as we were making shit was Simon Skipp, he was hyped to skate some bullshit rather than standard skatepark stuff, really nice dude too. Snowy was on the session too but was a really straight faced quiet kid.
Plenty of Clangs