Epicly Later'd: Eric Dressen (Part 1/5)

Epicly Later'd steps out of its 90s comfort zone with a skater who's been pro for five decades. Yes, five decades. Turning pro in 1978 at the age of 13, and then going on to become a pioneer of street skating, Eric Dressen has had a very well-rounded career. He has witnessed firsthand the rise and fall of skateboarding three times, and each time affected Eric in a different way. These days, Eric skates for Santa Cruz and tattoos full time at Will Rise in Hollywood. In part one of the series, we hear about an era in skating when most of our viewers weren't even a sperm in their dads' balls, and kick-turning was considered a trick. Enjoy!
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[@CaptainFantastik1]

Style, power, and flow. That's means more to me than tech, rails, and gaps.

[@alanperez7657]

Yup

[@paulholmes8211]

Woooord

[@juvedoo99]

Why not both?

[@Buffalosabskis]

I like it all, but in the 2000s you basically had to skate steps and rails. I always loved guys like Dressen. Later on a bit Chalmers was huge in Flip Sorry. That part really showed people how amazing it can be to skate transitions still. That was always what I found the most fun too. I did spend days on college campuses going down steps and rails etc, but once a few of my friends started doing flip tricks down huge stuff I stuck to what I was best at haha.

[@computermun]

@@Buffalosabskis chalmers' part in sorry was always my fav for that reason, looked like the most fun type of skating

[@alanladdseinekatze859]

When Eric got known outside California, being pro for Santa Cruz in the late eighties, nobody told us about his legendary status he achieved by then. Somehow, he was publicized as being just another skater. So thanks so much for this outstanding portrait of maybe the most underrated skateboarder of all time.

[@DawnPeez]

that's a pro's pro... respect the legends that paved the way. love this episode.

[@chrisarmstrong8210]

How is it I've search Eric's old video parts for years, and just now seeing his Epically Later'd 9 years after it was posted? Way to go KZbin algorithm!😆🤘 E. DRESSEN IS HANDS DOWN ONE OF THE BEST ALL TIME, ALL TERRAIN RIPPERS!

[@cameronhawks]

Eric dressen has a sick style and is one of my favorite skaters. He is a big inspiration.

[@mchonnyable]

under rated legend

[@BK-tp3sg]

He is recognized globally. How is that underrated? He just skate boards

[@kekno]

Thank you so much for doing one of these on Eric. I started skating in the the early 90's and always thought he was rad as fuck but never knew he's been shredding that long! I honestly think these series are great ways to expose young skaters of today that may not know anything but the riches and fame that some skaters have now, that really shit wasn't anything like it is at all now a days. Plus seeing the fact that he teared up at the end because his dreams were met is an inspirational thing

[@cheothegeo2742]

Saw this dude outside the little shop I go 2 to get gear. Seemed like one of the nicest low key people ever.

[@flavalav6757]

I’m here because of the Eric Dressen heroine guest model board. Love how heroine skatelads have turned me onto some different cool styles of skating!

[@GrompereKichelcher]

EPIC PERSON SIR DRESSEN IS!!! Much love to you and thanks for coming to Luxemburg!!! Humble and modest!!! Hits it right on the spot! Lovely.

[@MrKukenimunnen]

Thanks a lot for the upload! I really enjoyed it.

[@itsMrNoble]

The thing that Dill said about Eric still asking to ride the bowl at Supreme was profound. I’ll never forget that as a good rule of life.

[@litehatesearth]

he still skates the supreme bowl to this day

[@trapperkreeper6105]

I had his original "Roses" board when I was a kid. The artwork on that deck was so great

[@bullet448121]

Great video.

[@mrsimo7144]

My all time look up to skater. At 49, I'm back on the ED everslick board. 🇬🇧🤘

[@drjones9600]

awesome Epic Dressen !

[@jeremyboucher5173]

EPICLY LATER'D is the best series on

[@kaspar_1982]

A 10 year old that gets to skate with the top skaters of the time, last of the free range kids. you will never see this time again, ever.

[@ca9968]

The second pro deck I ever had was one of the first Santa Cruz Everslick models that came out, I had a Dressen and my best friend had the SMA Petersen Everslick...such a good board and such a damn good skater!

[@ericengland8616]

Sick Dressen!! Good history rite there. Mahalo!!

[@idkwhatfor20]

i dont even skate but these clips are more interesting than shit on TV no idea who this dude is but for him to be this chill wit folks that see him as a figure i pretty cool

[@dingushussey4100]

Total f**kin' legend, and so damn humble, and just as good now. I remember watching the downhill scene from speed freaks and thinking, this is going to change street, so gnarly and fearless.

[@patrickfloresgomez]

I remember when dressen, cesario and my brother ray flores came to Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico at the beginning of the 90s

[@marccuomo6723]

Eric blew my mind on the troops of tomorrow vhs from 91.

[@carpaydeemm]

seeing those old issues of big brother brought back memories. Best skate mag ever

[@Andyooohhh]

F'N Epic! E.D is a Icon. Great clip

[@MartinKohoutekchannel]

I love him. What a great dude!

[@kenwithaK]

i had a dogtown dressen board in 1990

[@scottbarnes5069]

That's awesome.

[@djskizmarkey]

best show ever!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@PanamaSabroso]

Really want some ink by Dressen. Just got a set of his Formula Fours, and wouldn't mind that graphic on my leg

[@sonoman00ify]

I use to build the original Elephant wrench...I worked at a skate shop in Anahiem Ca. The old man that owned it invented the Elephant wrench. We usdd to skate Sad Lands withthe moon craters. Tony Hawk skated it with us one day. killer times

[@user-jl3fn8rn1c]

Hell yeah

[@losmuertos7444]

Fuckn awesome, str8 veterano, much respect.

[@Nepartinis]

VICE do documentary on Natas Kaupas, he is quiet one, but he is one man revolution :)

[@empireofdirtish]

first vid i ever bought this guy killed it speedfreaks what a don

[@damik181]

congrats on your HBO series, vice

[@ThaiShortsWreckEm]

best dude ever !!!

[@bigpoppafresh1000]

Its weird hearing Hosoi talking about people who inspired him, its usually the other way round on Epicly later'd

[@cloudig]

03:55 haha I remember when that big brother issue came out fuck that feels so long ago now!

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[@chetrok1]

Youre favorite skaters favorite skater!

[@danaustin4624]

Eric Dressen has been one of my FAVORITE skateboarders ever since I started skating! I remember being a kid, looking at his photos & videos & thinking, this guy is so RAD!!! He is definitely a inspiration, a TRUE LIFER!

[@That1Chick]

Hi Eric!

[@zanearmstrong6776]

I have the loose trucks and pool series dogtown boards! Those two are my babies ;)

[@thararalte2631]

wow

[@nnahomm]

Just stopped watching Odd future vids ... and now theyre on vice :O

[@thebillcollector]

Dressen and Natas were who I was trying to emulate. One of the best ever in my book!

[@kevinr2261]

Total legend!

[@knivesANDnumbers]

I fuckin love this skateboarding shit

[@robertbettis6552]

eric dressen the man!

[@besitstookeezbeshzhacuz9371]

🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@crazyralph6386]

One legendary skater, giving another one a tat. 😂

[@NickPearsonMD]

dont watch them? genius.

[@skwirlee13]

they did

[@devillesavage4035]

I used to own a pair of 88s best skate shoes ever! 👟

[@Chrissss205]

I bought his Spitfires, never heard of him before.

[@porovaara]

70s/80s/90s/00s/10s

[@ericpluard819]

jason dill is upriver.

[@THEODSTKING117]

wonder if and how Tyler covered up that OF tat lmao

[@rickmasterson1269]

The fs salad dressenz are fukin awesome....

[@SlickRick4EVER]

If you're the only one that skateboards in your school, shouldn't that be a good thing?

[@bondalero0074]

Original O.G, Eric Dressen! Santa Cruz’s #1 pro for decades.........#🛹

[@oaklandcityrepresent]

forreals

[@MrHogslice]

Seems just like yesterday.

[@jaypow_]

lord of board

[@wedfrest]

Total dude

[@lavishmcronald]

so that's where salad grinds come from... but it's actually a windshield wiper

[@o0GrayMatters0o]

the founding fucking fathers of skateboarding.... long before bridge bolts and the small wheel days, nevermind clean, tons of pop, catch before you land days. And today!? Forget it! Kids these days would look like super-human fuckin' aliens to the greats of the 80's and even 90's. Evolution, fuck yeah!

[@MPeachTv]

This is what happens when a channel becomes a view fein, a "sellout" if you wish to call it that. I myself don't mind because VICE is an awesome Jurno company.

[@JDILLLA]

that's quite the accusation my friend

[@outrajoana]

five decades...? Only been 35 years since 1978...

[@gammawave1739]

Epicly ladders

[@TheBarnicoat]

More accurately, "a skater who has been pro DURING 5 decades." You can be pro during 5 decades and only been pro for 31 years.

[@claytonreardon42069]

Really? honestly so many kids at my school skate. It seems like more people skate than don't.

[@paulrush4545]

[@Lightening3034]

more videos = more advertisements = more money

[@pandsdirect]

36 people just don't know.

[@neurocytohemotoxic]

I love how the "street" contests were full of ramps.

[@panictryouts]

You should see the street contests now, they are full of ramps... on the sides.

[@TheMaximumFromMunich]

getting more money ;)

[@ElWhytie]

Soon as I heard he worked on Fairfax I immediately thought shit he's bound to have fucked with OF. Then boom he works two doors down from Supreme.

[@GIitchclan12]

Woah holy shit i just realized i could drag the cc thing around and im high as fuck this is awesome

[@BreedersSyndicate]

Oh DURING 5 decades... that's one of the most confusing things I've ever seen VICE write! I mean 78-13 is 35 years lol. so It came off as he's been pro for 50 years, a little over twice as long as he has actually been skating

[@ezrhino100]

That's how good Dressen was.

[@ShaggyyUk]

Yeah they must of fucked something up with the video scheduler

[@Billionberry_]

Four decades not five

[@viehlee]

Uuuuuu that little bowl

[@TheHyperDonutsVideos]

Well see i thought it was "too" but i'm just really high so i'm like well fuck, and started over thinking it. But i know what you mean dude, kinda funny that i didn't realize that, but hey we all fuck up on shit like that.

[@nanotech2080]

More views for them, more money.

[@terreseco]

Well atleast not all hope is lost for vice. this was great.

[@imafirewall]

its a shame that skateboarding is dying out. I'm the only one at my school that skates

[@valgehiir]

:)

[@crazycatman5928]

As a mid80s/early 90s streetskater who was influenced by Natas/Hensley.....I had and still have mad respect for Dressen. Dude rips

[@TGODWIZ123]

He sounds kind of like Duane Peters

[@thehappyhandler827]

that indian mini is worth some dough I bet

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

Gibbs Gaming they go for between 800 -1500 bucks (mint). They aren't really Indian's, a company bought the trademark and slapped it on them. They were fun little 50cc bikes and they were tiny (less than 2 feet tall and 50+ pounds). My cousin gave me his in the 80s and like everything else I wish I still had I sold it in the mid 90s.

[@BreedersSyndicate]

antimarxism - you just got like 1000 cool points for being an e-warrior picking fights. somebody get this guy a cookie.

[@TroutMaskReplicaa]

more views, more cash.

[@thesly74]

lol kids.

[@jakesweet1000]

say you get $10 for 10000 view and they leave it as one video and they get that so they earn $10. if they break it up and get the same amount of views on each video they get $50

[@maxgreen2707]

So hot!

[@plebiannn]

More videos, more views total, more advertising money. Not that hard.