G&S Skateboarding Team Video 1984

part of the 1984 G&S skateboard team video

[@kopingkiller]

back when skateboarding was pure. Everyone was just out to shred. Not trying to look like someone else or worried about street vs. vert. Just skate and do it with style.

[@Salty_Groot]

Back before the internet

[@richauger577]

Love that G&S team back then..So much fun to watch them skate the Del Mar keyhole...

[@Lengsel7]

Love the way Neil Blender holds those inverts like that. Very cool.

[@AdventuresInSkateboarding]

Love it. I still amate G&S boards in 2023

[@johnanthony6038]

Thank God someone filmed it 👍🙏

[@bumblescum64]

CLASSIC.....you gotta love youtube..................and all the good folks that take time to share..

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

Nostalgia is one hell of a drug. That black and pink G&S shirt is rad.

[@tulumize]

billy ruff 's backsaide carve at 4:18 is freeken kill kill

[@XMonkeyBrainizationX]

weird how 60% of nowadays skaters don't even know what kind of brand G&S is...

[@benhaney5843]

Probably more than 60%. And its not that weird, they haven't had a presence in quite awhile and most kids think the world started the year they were born. Usually most people have to be a little older before they start acknowledging or caring at all about history. Even with the internet and KZbin you still have to care enough to search and know enough to know what to search for. Why would a modern kid search for G&S? They wouldn't know enough to know they should.

[@markwaters6409]

And why would they...?

[@marksynnot1458]

Still got my G&S Bowlrider

[@soulofash2112]

It's not really all that weird. Element, Powell-Peralta, Plan B, Zero, Birdhouse, Blind, Girl, et al are the brands people know. They're the ones that have solidified themselves with excellent deck art, big names in skateboarding (Powell-Peralta with people like Stacy Peralta and Tony Hawk), and cultivating a certain image. Gordon & Smith are more about surfboarding. Always have been. Yes, their boards kick ass, and yes, I still have my Warptail 2 (that was Peralta's signature deck when he was on Team Zephyr back in the day) and it is EPIC, but it's not really a shock or weird or unusual that G&S isn't that well known of a brand when their primary focus is surfing, not skateboarding. Just sayin'.

[@reidellis1988]

What about when G&S rebranded as &? That was one of Andrew Reynolds first board sponsors.

[@yesthatjake5601]

Probably the most Billy Ruff footage I've ever seen in here

[@johnpope4023]

G&S team was thick !!!

[@espada9]

Needs more Blender...

[@exathletes-ci7ec]

Big up the Gordon & Smith fam, who remembers the " rollerball" wheel?

[@greedygreggor]

Neil Blenders inverts... legend

[@AntonBippe-kl8rx]

I have copy of this video I bought back in ‘84 at ambler trophy in PA. The creep who owned thd shop would make dupes then sell them as new for like 30$ in ‘84 dollars. The bands name is something like Todd and the mysterious if I’m not mistaken

[@charlesphillips3951]

My first surfboard was a G&S

[@trackmaniaIIDX]

The music 👌

[@tomf4087]

Chris Miller so good.

[@ROAsXe]

1:20 THE GRAY SLIDE! Man, those are hard to do!

[@DrinkLords12XU]

Gray slide MAN!!! Jim gray. Neil Blender stalled invert!!

[@jonoedwards4195]

Brilliant stuff, heaps of plastic to Surf! Excellent post Surfdudefour.

[@suburbia8831]

Chris Miller 🤙🏾

[@saintseiyaliveaction]

i was born in '84 :)

[@eduardopugliese6049]

Gray slide, great style!!!

[@haamishmcgarry]

Nobody can even skate this good now days lol.

[@theautisticowl7153]

Yeah, they skate better now, way more fuckin gnarly with no pads, and the dudes that do wear pads? Go even fuckin harder at this. go watch tershy skate a bowl

[@jimmytgoose476]

You obviously haven't watched any modern skaters .

[@punkwarlord]

The longer the "Yeaaahhh" the bigger the complement...

[@vegatarianzombie]

It will forever be a mystery what this song is...

[@marcelboogaard3809]

Billy Ruff was so underrated. Why wasn’t Phillips in the video? Was he already on Sims in ‘84?

[@manbaerpigg]

Ken Park before he signed to Vision....good post

[@escapedvivesectionist7011]

Jim Gray was always a fucking RIPPER. I'm sure he still is. Killer.

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

4 years later but he's still killing it.

[@scaryperryx1050]

Now that's Skateboarding!!!

[@mitchstetron]

I’m guessing this was a sort of promo video for surf/skate/sports stores to promote product? Or was this a vid that could be bought for home viewing? I have to admit I really don’t know much about skateboarding films in the first half of the 80s. I assumed the Bones Brigade Video Show was the only tape that was sold for home viewing around that time.

[@wm45]

I saw a retail style VHS of it years ago but never found one for sale yet.

[@jameshem]

Yes!

[@lemonite1]

What ever happened to Billy Ruff? Talk about someone who just all of a sudden up and left the skateboard world.........

[@excelerater]

in 84 I was riding a Kryptonics

[@tulumize]

1:54 ooooo yha ! .....jim grey keep your dam hands off my Aquabots

[@perhansson1252]

I Wonder what band is playing on the video?

[@vegatarianzombie]

We will never know :/

[@davidjohnhall]

Oh Man -- this is saweeet! I went to Del Mar sometime around '86 -- in my friend's uncle's RV. haha Best time EVER!

[@1StinkyFinger]

Chris Miller's bside air - classic

[@AntonBippe-kl8rx]

Sorry - Todd and the mysterions

[@Robebabu]

song?

[@JohnSmith-rk6jy]

What in the Tarn Blazers was that Move?!?!?!?!?

[@MarginWalker]

Scott has the best uploads. Scott these are all Florida boys, where did you film this? I saw Billy is getting into Sk8 Hall of Fame this year.

[@ejb7555]

Florida boys? What video were you e watching?

[@rnfr]

Neil!

[@DonkeyWalloper]

Is the song THE GUN CLUB?

[@vegatarianzombie]

We will never know what the song is :/

[@robertpuleo]

Eric Nash.

[@spencerwhitley]

i thts a creture board the first guy was using?

[@darkstardavros]

No mate. That was Eric Nash's pro model on G@S. Creature wasn't around then although Santa Cruz was. 😈

[@beany118118]

LOOK AT THIS!!!!!! 480P AND SOME PEOPLE STILL PUT 240P VIDS ON!!!! THIS WAS FILMED 1984 PEOPLE!

[@kellienicolebrooksschettin6598]

I'm not being to pompous by say that if you get out of the bowl 3 feet or more,right its just don't move me,it's amped up cool,but those hand plants make me raff,u make me raff,great ducking music that's olds school riding music,riding music meets jammin music sweet,but every time someone does a hand plant,especially when they put that nice long stall in there that lets the world know this mother fuckers got some serious balance skills I trip the stall is an extra 15 points,its just where the stall is,that makes it so unique.I was busting four airs when I was ten years old in 1975 to 1977,I just got back into skating vert at 53 years old,and I'm having fun because we were blessed with I nice pool locally and I couldn't handle the temptation of not ever riding a good size bowl see onces u riding a 14 foot giant half pipe your kinda spoiled for life,especially at age ten...so 37 years later needing a new hip I got my old ass back up on vert,bowls are awsum but falling on wood is so much more forgiving,but I did good I hung around for a week waiting for the place to empty out,but that never happened,so I came by at ten in the morning and had the whole pool to myself,ten foot deep shallow was like 6foot boys at Payne parks did a killer job and they even came by once and skated the pool so they can't be all that bad.Well I worked on my board to get it up to speed,because it didn't even roll,so I put thousand dollar type s wheels on a 5 cent Wal-Mart board( free promo don't get a Wal-Mart board,and things started to move I was hell bent on doing some airs because I only skated vert for a year and was just doing airs all the time once I learned them,but the old hip on my front foot(regular) is real sketchy and needs to be replaced so I was only able to blast right up to the tile because in 1977 our half pipe didn't have coping so I not to good at coping specially big pool coping so it took me a couple weeks but my 53 year old ass got up ten feet on the pool in the deep end ,but the thing that really surprised me more then anything was these young kids doing two things first thing that happened was I wear all my pads when I skate vert,which most skater don't wear pads,except when there going to try a new trick I didn't know,the kids did,I laughed so their flocking around me hey watch me do this watch me do that,can u do this can u do that,second thing and dis was really amazing I main do front side kick and air preferably,and these kids were having a heart attacks because they never seen front side kick turns,front to front to front,I can't move my hip good enough to do front side airs and that kills me I'm still trying to get over it,I'm hoping I can get in better shape so I can at least do some tail stands and some board slides,like da bad ass one youse guys are busting here,thanks,I got off to a pretty good start,for letting it lay for 37 years and never been in a bowl or pool,but bowls are kick ass,and I just found out that there's a 12 foot bowl recently made not to far away....killer video I've heard about Chris Miller and Neil Blender but never seen any early footage,dose is da god fathers clean shit,poetry,and those tricks are still what I'm seeing today,and this is 1984 crazy man crazy,piece out my neighbor just gave a baker so I starting a new build ,never seen front side kick turns before what da f man...come on kids live a little....chow.

[@jimmytgoose476]

That would have been so readable in English 🤣

[@kopingkiller]

@phantomblue97 Yeah, tricks are cool but if there's no style there is nothing. I get some weird looks sometimes too. Then i do an air or a handplant and the kids are like "woah"!

[@Kkidzz]

When 120p was the shittttttttttt

[@Wooargh]

Video ruined by an obnoxious link.

[@erichanhauser3190]

Stall your inverts children.

[@ezrhino100]

I would take this team over Powell anyday. Eric Nash, blender, Chris miller? Easy choice. Chris Miller is the ultimate 'what if' skater....

[@JB-rt4mx]

😴😴😴😴

[@jimmytgoose476]

Jim Gray's stinkbug air ...🤢🤢🤣