Chet Thomas | Globe Opinion | 2001

[@rhymezgalore]

2001 was a great year for skateboarding. bless all skaters

[@bitoku29]

So true🙏🙏

[@Widderic]

Hell yes it was. Opinion was a breathe of fresh air and treated skateboarding with seriousness. But we also had Hook Ups: Destroying America and Shorty's: Guilty which are both fantastic. What an awesome year.

[@blackseven4561]

I'll skate, till I can't walk. - Amen

[@recession81]

Facts

[@bradleyho1442]

Always loved his style . Awesome skater with a great attitude. Best hard flips

[@peterpacciani666]

Golden eraaaaaaaaa

[@clarkb689]

Probably the most underrated/appreciated skater of 90 and 00’s.

[@Jonakaiii]

One of my faves watching growing up in the early 2000s. Globe made some dope ass shoes.

[@DomDC55]

I got his shoes and tore them up in a week, but it was the hardest week of happy skating I ever did!!!

[@johnm3946]

18 years ago and still holds up, Chet's good!

[@recession81]

Good? That's an understatement hes more of a legend than just good.

[@NicholasPR]

I learned how to hardflip by watching this when it was new. Nobody I skated with had the balls to attempt these, for good reason. I remember slowing down the playback and taking it in again and again, watching foot placement, the pressure and leg movements to make it fold, and still being so awestruck by how stylistically beautiful his were. He made it look so effortless. I was the first one of my crew to land them and it stayed that way. Thanks Chet

[@VENGEFULHEXX]

Definitely has an underrated hard flip

[@paulmatthews1396]

This came out when I was 14 and watching ir brought back so many memories... fucking beautiful.

[@alfonsos.7425]

Best hard flip in the game. He was a hero of my generation

[@alexanderballou7312]

I challenge that statement . Ryan Gallant has the best hard flips .

[@recession81]

Better than Daewons hardflips yeah I said it 😂

[@recession81]

HolyCow ItsRumsda Dreaming how? No one does hardflips better than Chet Thomas

[@recession81]

HolyCow ItsRumsda Why are you hating on Chets hardflip?

[@recession81]

HolyCow ItsRumsda No one cares what you think sorry to break it to your dumbass 😂

[@anthonysmith2309]

One of my all times favorite skater. I remember first seeing him in early 90s in hi karate video Santa Cruz. I was 13 at the time.

[@1439of2000]

Big Pants Small Wheels part was my first seeing him. Legend

[@GregMuniz7]

Watched this all the time when I first started skating. First favorite skater.

[@skate_health7319]

Straight G, Thomas was sick when darkstar was popping. Best Hardy’s ever

[@recession81]

This brings me to tears every time, thank you Chet Thomas 🙏

[@juggalosanchez89]

Such a great video, wish I still had a VCR.

[@randomdogger5278]

Antonio Sanchez I liked his and Danny Gonzales part

[@JosephACampbellJr]

18 years ago,and still incredible 🙏🏽

[@schwinnbike18]

4:07 mesmerizing tre flip

[@cearodriguez1952]

LEGEND

[@frankaragon2347]

Amazing Skater. I never got to meet him in my skating days but, I will never forget him sending me some vouchers to get two free pair of shoes from a catalog. After writing to him when writing and sending letters was a way of communicating lol. Also send me stickers. Such a great person hopefully some day I get to meet him now that we’re a lot older…. I don’t skate anymore a wife and kids and life happened. 😁

[@Symmetry77]

Super sweet hard flips

[@donaldfaircloth1736]

I remember when he skated at Carolina beach park 30yrs ago!

[@joe_8699]

When ya finaly make it, yes that feeling is soooooo sweet

[@Colombia_finest]

dammn! remenbering I see chet thomaz on skateboard mag for globe! daamn he skating so good 🙏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💯

[@RodneyNicotine]

I miss this era of Skating.

[@cruisinginmy94]

I never had a pair of Globe shoes until now. They're still making them now like then so I went with them this time. Globe's CT 4. Skated them yesterday and biked them today. They're awesome! Alot of people had them then and now. I was skating & biking on Airwalk, Axion, Converse, DC, Emerica, ES, Etnies then. Alot of companies aren't making their shoes awesome anymore.

[@fortodaymark]

I bought an all-black Adio pair. They were money.

[@rebusd]

Great guy, got some footy of him in 1995 doing those hardflips over the hip pre-contest Slam City. Personable and positive. @4:33 He owns those hardflip reverts which bear his name

[@Widderic]

"Skating is my life but it's not the only thing IN my life. Just life itself can get hectic and it helps to be able to have a creative outlet and for me, that's Skateboarding. Just hopping on your board and cruising down the street and doing whatever you want, no one telling you what to do or when to do it." I'm 36, Globe's Opinion was my first skate VHS and I was most likely learning backside flips and nose grinds at the time. I peaked around age 25 and was doing switch 360 flips down stair sets, and for a short time I was sponsored, but life, love, career, etc took over. I still skate with my homies a few times a year when we meet, and I can safely say that "I'll skate 'til I can't walk." Once a skater, always a skater. They can never take that from us.

[@FearThePlagueDoctor]

I had two pairs of his pro model shoe, including the limited edition all black leather ones. This dude is one of my favorite goofy skaters of all time, endless style. And that switch flip at 3:02 or so, idk how he did it but I love the sound every impact of the board makes. I always have.

[@emmpak]

Chet Thomas is a Legend!😊

[@sylvaincedricjosephine8408]

Best style ever

[@recession81]

Still

[@mitch3384]

Such a dope ride. Excellent flow.

[@theemblemguys]

One of the BEST to ever do it. Chet fuckin Thomas

[@skunfour]

Love this

[@recession81]

Insanity, what a crazy part

[@noobidiot4628]

Spawn

[@wesleysaldan]

Daaamn! This dude is so 🔥

[@MrFlashwall]

that fakie hardflip in the yellow shirt brings back so much memories

[@w.umusic1857]

🔥

[@newyardleysinclair9960]

Man I watched this video so many times before going outside to skate so many times

[@relikcrew]

Hardflip legend

[@devonsomething.1909]

Legend seen him live once North Delta, bc rotary park grand opening.

[@wessplasma6064]

Clean AF

[@SKEPCUNT]

Big ol nasty hardflips😍

[@Doomreb]

i remember these days lol

[@TruthSpeaker3]

Soty 2021

[@bogdanbar4942]

Mistrz Schodów ✌❤

[@ZendelWashington]

2:45 that nollie hardflip was interdimensional

[@barbaloka4520]

Fakie!!! Not nollie.

[@danielmiller6723]

Wonder what he was doing to prepare himself

[@kylerochez815]

Ghetto bird at the end so sick for 2001

[@alexshred177]

More of 20 y after,it s still my fav part,him and jayme fortune

[@edwinguzman2456]

Good video part

[@philippkoch6129]

Come to DUS please ! Lets move again

[@Spacemommy1]

I’m buying ur Globe G2 Typhoon skate board soon can’t wait 🤘🏽

[@cleepatron8billion210]

This video

[@allthentik703]

G.O.A.T.

[@adammada511]

Chet Thomas Globes were the best shoes ever created!

[@gregpenismith1248]

I really like them, but they charge me a fortune for size 15. Even in the early 2000s they were $110 before tax.

[@deangoldbarry5480]

I mean this still does hold up pretty well in 2022. 21 years later. Just sayin

[@GoukiCastle]

no handrails?

[@theredball]

Shermanator?!

[@chef_guy_chong]

Hard flip f/s crooks. This guy was tech gnar.

[@miked6523]

What is he doing now?

[@Emotionsmomentefotografie]

Raising his 2 kids ♡ my cuzzo

[@NihilistGhost]

He has something from Nicholson.

[@Ajox191]

Besides Opinion and the Darkstar video Battalion, Chet didn't have that many videos... I know he did a 411 a while ago but that's it.

[@alexshred177]

He was overrated i think but still very good,some guys like fortune didn t got any recognizition

[@alexshred177]

Many adds and some covers in the magazines at the times

[@1439of2000]

You must be pretty young. he was in quite a few Santa Cruz and Powell videos since the late 80s.

[@Ajox191]

@@1439of2000 Yeah but he was pretty young and wasn't doing the tricks or have the level of talent he did in his later videos like Opinion which was his best work.

[@encyclopediabrown1334]

Did he just bust a hardflip front crook? Dude And a hardflip back nosegrind to fakie….. 🤯

[@Soopatone]

I know this part and I know these tricks but the song don't click

[@bergennielson6106]

exactly!!!...???

[@bergennielson6106]

I'm expecting some dj shadow or something real hard hitting...

[@apealeal3973]

This is the original song

[@naggyboo7644]

@@apealeal3973 I can confirm. I'm old and I bought "Globe - Opinion" as a VHS tape when it first came out in 2001. Song is the same. The video had some very odd song choices all around. There was a bagpipe/rock band version of amazing grace (which was actually pretty good) and a really weird cover of sweet home alabama.

[@apealeal3973]

@@naggyboo7644 yeah this video part was something that stuck with me throughout all these years.. I come back every now and then

[@Luke-qp9fd]

I wonder if he can still walk 🤔

[@Painless1992]

Come on Globe, I know you could've ripped and compressed this upload better for youtube...

[@suburbia8831]

Darkstar isn’t doing to good

[@drinkingpoolwater]

always thought he looked like jason williams, the nba player. “white chocolate”. he really tried to skate like rodney mullen, carbon copy.

[@WhatisReal11]

corny but still sick