BLIND: 14 Things You Didn't Know About Blind Skateboards

[@leizuworldwide]

Blind is such a legendary brand

[@ShredzShop]

Its got a crazy ass history for sure!

[@briancannon3987]

I had an all black blind board with a yellow light bulb. When I was a kid

[@crazycatman5928]

H-Street needs a documentary. Late 80s early 90s was a great time for technical street skating and H-Street lead the way.

[@suburbia8831]

Yes!

[@d2h655]

@@ShredzShop creature skateboards??

[@felixdrucker]

Watching your videos is like taking tutoring in skate history Absolutely love it, especially after a long skate day

[@ShredzShop]

Stoked you enjoyed em!! 🙏

[@JedBrownCORProductions]

Blind and World Industries back in the early 90’s really saved street skating! They did sooooo much back then. So influential!

[@ShredzShop]

👍🏻👍🏻

[@dameionduran1272]

10 years ago at fifteen, a punk kid skating downtown and pretty much anywhere there was a 3 step, I was a huge world industries fan. the art work was awesome! now 25 and a buddy hits me up before his wedding and says the boys are meeting at the skate park and they have a board, just be there. I throw on my supra skytops and we hit a session for the first time in nearly a decade. I just placed an order for a Blind deck lol its crazy I never knew the history between the two but I definitely have a specific art style I enjoy. Also grabbing a pair of vans because those skytops are going to be shelved for display purposes only as they seem to have been discontinued!

[@chrisshaw2754]

I remember buying a 9 ply Blind deck in the late 90s because I was tired of snapping boards. It was heavy but basically unbreakable.

[@imwithyou38]

those things were really good for grinding non rail related things because of the extra weight it was easier to balance, i never owned one because that was my early days of skating. i actually loved blind designs but i never actually owned one if i remember correctly

[@utke22]

the most underrated brand and the most underrated content creators talkin about it

[@ShredzShop]

Thank you!! 🙏 Stoked you enjoy the vids!

[@anthonymangia8890]

Do a 14 things you didn't know about ZUMIEZ. As much as I hate to say it, I think it needs to be done.

[@leestaggers2583]

I remember wearing "the uniform" back in the day lol an oversized white t shirt, baggy jeans and a pair of Airwalks and you felt like you were instantly the coolest dude in the neighborhood hahaha I had no idea that Blind basically pioneered that look but it does make sense now looking back on it. Blind has always been one of my favorite brands and I've skated several Blind decks over the years. It would be really cool to see a video like this about A Team and Think skateboards.

[@ThisNachoFriend]

Just went on another binge. Love the content. Can we see some videos on newer companies like Primitive and April?

[@ShredzShop]

We’ve got a Primitive vid! I’ll add April to the list.

[@JohnDoe-xf5jm]

Blind was always my fav.. artist.. truly

[@kommandokenny12345]

Jason lee will always be my favorite skateboarder. Love his acting too

[@mammoth-puppy3246]

I thought I knew a lot about blind, but this video was more knowledge for sure. More great content from shredz

[@ShredzShop]

Thanks!! Stoked you enjoyed!! 🙏

[@done.6191]

I lived through this so I knew all of this. Skating from the mid 80s until 2000 was truly the golden years.

[@JohnSmith-ck4xx]

I like ur style very informative and help remember some nostalgia thanks for that keep them coming

[@ShredzShop]

Thanks John! Glad you enjoyed!!

[@eplamoureux]

I had a pair of the yellow Blind jeans. They were hand-me-downs from our skate crew. One dude bought them, wore them a couple times, gave them to some other dude, wore them a couple times, then gave them to me. I was stoked! Yes! The Blind jeans were MINE!! These things were yellow. Like, really really yellow. I'm talking banana laffy taffy yellow. Big Bird yellow. Like, yellow. They held their color because they were so deeply soaked in stain color. So they were stiff as a board. And of course, they were massive. So the end result was, when I walked in them, my legs moved freely within the pant legs, and the pants just stood straight at attention. So basically, it looked like I wasn't walking when I walked around in them. It looked like I was just hovering. I was in college at the time, and you'd see me on campus, two giant bright yellow pipes, absolutely rigid, my arms swinging, my feet/legs just magically transporting me forward. Everyone laughed at me. Everyone laughed at me. So I gave em to some other kid in our crew. He was stoked!

[@ryry2040]

Although this guy talks and looks just like my douchey ex boss, goddamn is his content fucking gold!!!! Keep this good shit up :)

[@ShredzShop]

😂😂😂 “Ryan you’re fired”

[@chrismadison7276]

Watching from Phoenix Arizona! Great video! Keep em coming!

[@ShredzShop]

Stoked you enjoy the vids!! 🙏

[@ShredzShop]

And shoutout Cowtown Skateshop!! 🙌🏻👊🏻

[@Mixwell1983]

Mark Gonzalez is my cousin, his grandma Helen and my grandfather Don were siblings. His brother Mike used to draw some of the artwork too I believe. I only saw him a few times and one was at his grandfather Jays funeral. His brother Mike was at a fam reunion in the mid 90s..

[@ShredzShop]

Damn! That's so epic! Mark is a legend.

[@PhilLayshioh]

I just got the whole set of FUBK2 decks from 2001 and I’m stoked! Creager, Choi, Kasper, Shephard, Gershon and James Craig 🔥

[@andrewb4077]

Damn that’s a trip how much did you pay

[@Isaacw91]

YES! This is the video i have been waiting for

[@ShredzShop]

Hopefully we did you proud!!!

[@Isaacw91]

@@ShredzShop you most certainly did!

[@cronosthemc4450]

Blind’s what it? was the first skate video I got back when I was 10 in 2004. I Still have the dvd to this day. It’s Always been my favorite

[@ShredzShop]

First videos have a way like that!!

[@timboslice45]

@@ShredzShop Yep, I still have it too. I remember if you go into the board gallery in "Extras" and press left on Rudy Johnson's 40 oz deck, a reaper pops up and you can watch "Video Days"....cool little Easter Egg.

[@anthonysmith8321]

Love child video was when I was 13 and was skateboarding everyday. That video inspired me.

[@later_skateboards]

I remember them and their team best from early 00s, "what if?," days. So cool to learn about the other lives of the company's history. Thanks guys!

[@ShredzShop]

Glad you enjoyed!!! 🙌🏻👊🏻

[@later_skateboards]

Every week homies!

[@jonathantamayo2866]

Been waiting

[@nomisvagabond139]

Vision street wear 👳 lol . . I remember that stuff . . Thank you to brands like Blind and everything that followed .

[@ShredzShop]

Would be sick to see some re-issues!

[@psmechanical4839]

Cheers to Cochrane from Vancouver:) Grew up skateboarding there in the late 90s. Thank you for the amazing content 🙏🙌🏻

[@ShredzShop]

Rad! Come by for visit if you’re ever back in town!!

[@Shr13k]

Gideon Choi Lunch Money was my first deck back in 2000.

[@AdventuresInSkateboarding]

Awesome. I knew the OG history but not the what happened after Jason Lee left. Also didn't know Mark owned krooked skateboards. Makes me want to go pick one up. Marks youtube channel is pretty cool. You never know what you will get.

[@ShredzShop]

Yea, it’s cool when you look back at the older Blind stuff, looks super similar to modern Krooked stuff

[@ryanderocco4179]

Skated blind decks almost my whole life. Just recently tried other brand decks.

[@vladimirputin40]

How did they compare to Blind decks?

[@halbachman7878]

Ha ha! That comment at the end...so funny. Reminds me of reading Thrasher in the 80's and everything being new and underground...before the term "underground" was a thing. Thanks for getting me caught up on what happened with blind and Gonzo

[@ShredzShop]

Thanks for watching!! 🙌🙏

[@charliet3607]

I’m getting a new blind skateboard I’m so happy

[@timonuotio6395]

Good episode!! Watching from Finland!

[@ShredzShop]

Thanks! And that's Awesome!! Would love to do a Norway/Sweden/Finland skate trip at some point in my life!

[@timonuotio6395]

@@ShredzShop You should do that, but I think that here in Finland (and SWE & NOR) you have to use your imagination more because spots are not so easy to come up with.😂 Well at least here in the country side.

[@markfitzurka9995]

Another spicy one, like ,subscribe and comment. Gone through the whole library and made sure that I have a comment on all the videos

[@mikeprzysiezny]

Great video as always, funny and informative. I'm commenting because you gave a shout out to Micky Papa for being Canadian, but not TJ Rogers? They both represent our country with steez and pop.

[@ShredzShop]

TJ's the man, I feel like he's aging like fine wine!

[@skatefan216]

Always top notch content

[@ShredzShop]

Thank you!! 🙏

[@beardedhdd4796]

Bangin’ out the knowledge. Watching from Robin hood town. Nottingham.U.K.

[@angelokefalas3750]

Love this series! Keep up the good work!👊🍻🤘

[@ShredzShop]

Thanks Angelo! Stoked you enjoy the vids! 🙏

[@MichaelaBrooke18]

The ending was priceless!!

[@kooskoos8181]

What kind of shoes is jason lee wearing @2:01???? They kinda look like jordans.

[@halfpipefreak]

My first real skateboard was a Blind board. 7.75 with. i now ride 8.6 with boards. Whenever i see Blind boards rolling by in a skatepark i feel nostagia haha.

[@ShredzShop]

It always holds a place in your hear when it was your first board!

[@SammeLagom]

I love these history of skateboarding videos!

[@ShredzShop]

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@SoCalSeaChaser]

Watching this video reminds me of some great good old days when I was lucky to have been friends with the Rocco’s, crazy at times though..Going to WI in Torrance was always really cool, especially when Steve would let me pick out new decks, Gizmos, and clothes. I wasn’t close to being a pro, but all the stuff I got felt like I was sponsored, lol.

[@ShredzShop]

That’s so epic!! Definitely huge Rocco fans over here! Hear tons of crazy stories and folklore of the glory days at world industries!! Thanks for sharing

[@buffetline2605]

Have ya done a video on the history/evolution of the skateboard wheel?

[@ShredzShop]

We touched on it a bit in our history of skateboarding book. But it’d definitely be something rad to do a full vid on!! 🙌🏻👊🏻

[@L_E_L_0_U_P]

My first pro model I was bought in 2001 was a warped blind board and it changed my life.

[@tartnation]

Love this channel and skater

[@ShredzShop]

What in tartnation!?!

[@joseignaciohaas1861]

Big fan of the videos, and also Im waching the videos from Chile peace out

[@ShredzShop]

So rad!! 🙌🏻👊🏻

[@Negative.headspace]

Inspiration for life is always in videos like these

[@ShredzShop]

🙏🏻🙌🏻🙏🏻

[@jchastain789]

Remember zoo York and they had a show skate maps i think. I use to love that idk if yall watched. Fuel tv, captian and Kasey show was my shit

[@kokograves3316]

Can't believe spike jonze directed not only some of the best skate videos of all time, but also the movie HER thats INSANE

[@ShredzShop]

He's a legend!

[@sAuCeMALONE007]

Odubproductions

[@blind87us]

I grew up in Orange county, and when I started skating that blind section in round 2 was the jam, creager, gideon, Craig and Shepard man, I grew up in tustin and there was a good hand full of spots we skated in that video

[@ShredzShop]

That’s rad!

[@Primitive47]

Great content shredz 🔥🔥👌👌

[@ShredzShop]

Thanks David! Glad you enjoyed! 🙏

[@Chillphill83]

My first skateboard was blind because I was just in love with the grim reaper. I will only ever buy Blind!!!

[@MonkeyMagick]

Cool video. I usually used to ride Gonz decks back in the Vision days and then went over to Blind. The photo in my KZbin profile is from this year and yes, it's a Blind board.

[@CASTROH305]

what happened with Foundation Skateboards? awesome videos thx

[@ShredzShop]

They’re still around! Just let out a vid last week!

[@loscrows1836]

I met jason lee in Denton TX a few years ago and he was a super nice rad dude.

[@ShredzShop]

That’s awesome! He seems like he’d be mega cool!!

[@shellymenzies841]

Bruh, that Baker deck really pops against that wall ey! Looks sick. Although having a Jason Lee dodo skull deck on the wall (especially for this episode!) would’ve been sick(er)! ✌️😎🤟 🛹 _edit:_ Also, you forgot to mention that one of the early Blind logos (during the time they were feuding with Powell-Peralta) was an upside down/ flipped Powell-Peralta logo, turning the ‘P’ from that logo into a lowercase ‘b’ for their Blind logo. 🤙

[@CadenRiffle-f6m]

1:30 didnt age well

[@MilkSteak23]

3:48 Apparently they added two Jason Lee's to the team!? haha

[@marklewis35]

My favourite deck back in the day was my Blind Mark Gonzales Macaroni Kiss slick.

[@ShredzShop]

Gonna have to google this one!

[@marklewis35]

@@ShredzShop It 's a very odd graphic hahaha.

[@cbshaw]

Going for the spicy comment of the week: Count the number of times you say “actually” in your videos. Love the work you put into these. Keep them coming! 😎👍

[@ShredzShop]

haha this is a common comment in our vids, especially the Baker one 😂

[@HoodBodega]

10:31 This is probably an ad but that shirt is crazy

[@goofyskatinglifestyle]

Blind skateboards are awesome always skated em since I was 9 years old about

[@grimmkiller2161]

Jason Lee from My name is Earl, that's crazy.

[@ShredzShop]

Got some big breaks!! He still rips on a skateboard

[@2012ehecatl]

Blind jeans where my favorite back in the day

[@KeithStealth]

Yuto is on April.. he was on blind..but the what if video is a classic

[@brianv.8877]

I believe at 7:22 is the high school I use to go too. Looks so familiar

[@veryveryveryreal]

Keep up the good work......FYI Mark Gonzales is misspelled....go figure ✌🏽

[@ShredzShop]

Hehe we always have at least one screw up 😂🤦🏻‍♂️

[@SKREVR]

Do you have a vid on the demise of H-Street ?

[@ShredzShop]

Nope, would be a rad one though!

[@SKREVR]

@@ShredzShopYou should make one, you will get alot of views. That was an important generation of skateboarding, Matt,Sal,Kit Ericson,Ron Allen, And the Carroll brothers amongst other

[@kaws6616]

Altough i know noting about blind but i love your content bro. love from india

[@ShredzShop]

Thank you!! Whats the skate scene like out in India?!

[@jptrout235]

Those poser jnco jeans came after the blind jeans my dude.... did you know i went skating with rob D and julian stranger? Now u do... i think Andy Howell was there also

[@ShredzShop]

Damn! Skating with Rob & Julien is a serious flex. 👊🏻

[@jptrout235]

@@ShredzShop it says jnco been around since 85 but i never saw a pair until 95' 96'. I was lucky to be friends with felix argulles from miami thats how i met alot of pros. Felix skated for planet earth. Yeah im super old!

[@ILLAILLS]

Jason Lee almost sold his soul for 10k 😂😂😂

[@geezuschrist2734]

But that board graphic is now iconic and everybody remember him as the "my name is earl guy who used to skate" i bet if that board haved his name maybe some things would be really different to him in a good way.

[@ShredzShop]

It's a pretty funny story! 😂

[@sk8eboarding105]

later he sold his soul to sciencetology

[@Daniel-dr2jb]

@@geezuschrist2734 Jason Lee is already iconic, huge reason why modern street skateboarding is the way it is now.

[@geezuschrist2734]

@@sk8eboarding105 wow thats really lame, i would prefer to be the satanist skateboarder thant the scientologist skateboarder

[@sasproductions701]

what if was my era, fucking loved that video and the tracks and skaters. gallant patterson and ronnie creager and james Craig. i would also like to see a blueprint skateboards history video. because i use to always buy there boards and loved the team back then. then i quit skating for so many years and now blueprint is hardly around.

[@ShredzShop]

Yea Blueprint got sold to a super terrible company, kicked the team off and started making terrible stuff, not sure where they're at nowadays...

[@sasproductions701]

@@ShredzShop i bought a £35 blueprint sprayed heart deck wich is my fav logo like over a year or so ago from skate pro site. it was ok but didnt state mini size. and it was 7.6 when im a smaller feet guy. as the old 7.5 use to be normal length. but this blueprint was im sure of it chinese shit wood and no colour ply. which to me is quality.

[@MrGwaldo]

Video Days is still my favourite skate video. Guy was drinking water from the gin bottle though. Thanks from the UK for this channel.

[@ShredzShop]

It really has held up the tests of time more than almost any other video. The Gonz double kick board slide is still one of the gnarliest and ahead of it's time tricks ever done on a skateboard.

[@MrGwaldo]

@@ShredzShop so good they featured it in the movie “Kids”.

[@ShredzShop]

@@MrGwaldo Damn! I love all the crazy facts that roll in that I had no clue about!

[@MrGwaldo]

@The Jack! haha, that’s so true. I’d landed a few by the time Planet Earth’s now n later was out but would probably break my ankle trying one now. This video shows just how little of Guy’a true talent Powell had shown in their videos.

[@MrGwaldo]

@@ShredzShop there’s a part in the film where they’re watching Gonz do the famous kinked rail. A sadder connection is the whole Justin Pierce (RIP)/Guy Mariano/Gina Rizzo story.

[@typicalskateboarder3295]

I used to skate with Jordan Richter at Fremont Skatepark in 2016. When his Skate Camp started taking off. So all this, I learned already threw him.

[@ShredzShop]

Damn that’s rad!!!

[@johnmcduggle4032]

STILL down with the SkyTop!!!! I & IV are me FAVES!!!!;

[@bennyshambles]

There’s several things wrong with this video, but for starters, bLind jeans came out well before the mid-90’s. They came out in late 1991, when skaters started wearing bigger and bigger pants. The gimmick, besides being huge, was that the legs were long and unfinished (unhemmed at the bottom), so you could cut them to whatever length you wanted. They were a everywhere 1992-1993, then started to sorta phase out when almost every other skate company made their own jeans/pants (and they became more reasonably/less excessively baggy). By the mid-90’s, you hardly ever saw any skaters wearing bLind jeans. So they basically started that entire trend (along with the huge New Deal sun logo pants), then gradually faded to the background. They still made different versions of bLind jeans later on, but they were a far cry from the originals.

[@walkerog4250]

Who gives a fuck lol

[@haydoqt5162]

How accurate would you say "mid 90s" is as a skater film?

[@chickensnatch]

My first skateboard was a blind complete got it Xmas 2005, just bought a blind deck yesterday for my brother hella stoked

[@allegedman]

I want to see Levi do a board graphic.

[@ShredzShop]

😂😂

[@johantorino2004]

Can you do Darkstar Skateboards?????

[@Drowzy1369]

Any chance on doing a video on Creature, Death Wish or Welcome??? PLEASE

[@ogsxl]

can you do 14 things i didn't know about hill bombing

[@syedhusseinalkadri6439]

you should do the brand 'Think'

[@tbkrobinson635]

I got the grave digger tattooed on my forearm 🤘🏻

[@jakea7162]

Blind was my first board 🙏🏼

[@ShredzShop]

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@pedrotudoyt]

I wouldn't have imagined that graphic was Jason's at first, It seems weird that the deck was made with Lee's name without his permission at first, I'm sure they just wanted a famous pro to go along with this deck that they felt was secure to sell. Jason was avoiding getting canceled before anyone else.

[@ShredzShop]

Yea, seems like it fit way better with Natas anyhow.

[@joedent3323]

@@ShredzShop Natas is Satan bacwards.

[@Xavier086]

My first graphic was a Josh Kasper blind deck🔥

[@ShredzShop]

Kasperholics!!!

[@later_skateboards]

Samesh Gupta is the man!

[@10Outta10Baby]

TJ and Mickey holding it down for Canada

[@SabiaCDO]

I had a baseball cap of blind, back in the day. But the reaper logo needs a new pencil stroke. IMO, of course.

[@edgewhypaddra5969]

my favorite gyus from blind...gershon mosley and jack ilardi...forgot to mention

[@playy4110]

thanks Levi

[@ShredzShop]

THANK YOU!!!

[@francissobotka8725]

If you don't have a local skate shop zumiez is a better choice than mail order because your still supporting your local community instead of some shop in a different state or country

[@charliebrewer1668]

Did I just witness three guys split a 3 piece no biscuits? 😂🤣😂

[@anormalchannel6500]

Can never go wrong with blind

[@michaelmoses4901]

You missed a huge opportunity to note that Natas hurt himself badly on that 101 ''devil worship'' board which ended his career early...thus confirming the bad omen about it.

[@desiimari3]

Acabo de buscar "Blind Skateboards" ya que tengo una y wow yo ni sabía todo esto😭

[@user-el3vk2ug8g]

Love there decks so good

[@onecho2040]

Josh kasper and James Craig are badass!

[@ShredzShop]

Agreed! 🤝

[@ellzfromhellz6728]

No mention of Jake Brown or Bill Weiss? H-Street had the biggest influence on street skating regardless of their vert presence. Blind had vert skaters in the beginning as well. Also you failed to mention Cody McEntire. Still a good video though. You did cover a lot of shit. Keep these educational clips coming. We definitely need to keep the history of skateboarding alive. We lost our best teacher (Jeff Grosso). I’m pretty sure that Guy wasn’t drinking hard liquor in the Blind video…Video Days.

[@johnparker8270]

True h Street did a lot but so did new deal