GIRLS Skateboarding 1965 Skateboard Championships

[@alskndlaskndal]

Great to see that girls and women were part of the sport from the start.

[@shilohxandxcompany]

it's so crazy how much the style has changed

[@TehWolfBite]

i wish i could go back in time and just ollie and win

[@rickh3714]

On one of those boards? Yeah right!

[@vegasheatx]

these tricks may seem simple by todays standards but if it wasn't for these kids no one today would even know what a skateboard is, it would be right up there with the pogo stick . try doing todays tricks with their steel wheels - apples and oranges- can't compare

[@paulblart8946]

And that is why this video should be taken down so people will not learn this devilism.

[@staubach1979rt]

These are not steel wheels and it wasn't because of these kids that we know what skateboarding is today. It was Craig Stecyk who brought skateboarding back and into the public's mind with his articles and photographs in Skateboarder Magazine. The skaters he focused on and the things they were doing, changed skateboarding forever.

[@JoeLucero-r5l]

@@staubach1979rt Those were "clay" wheels, as were used on rink skates. When one was riding clays and hit the smallest pebble on the sidewalk, the skate stopped moving and the skater went flying. Had it not been for Frank Nasworthy coming out with the "Cadillac" urethane wheel in 1972, the sport would likely no longer exist.

[@Flyingwithoutmings]

Wonder how everyone would react if somebody busted out a tre

[@johndou423]

good chances that person is marty mcfly

[@rickh3714]

I wonder how today's skaters would react if suddenly mid-air their boards turned into a 60's Sidewalk Surfer or Surfer Sam! Crunch go those clay wheels!

[@adamcruz3172]

Like they just witnessed a work from the devil

[@hypermecha223]

I was born in 1968, most of my childhood & early teens were spent barefoot. I would even count the days I was able to go barefoot without ever having to put on shoes. The bottoms of my feet were permanently dirty, and were like the sole of a shoe. LOL As kids we did everything barefoot, riding bikes, playing kickball, skating...

[@michellebeckstrom6110]

Hey I was born same yr and man we really had some cool fun outside didn't we?

[@timothyhyena3106]

Every thing.

[@xeokym223]

@@michellebeckstrom6110 Kids these days have _no idea_ 😃 😄 😁

[@xeokym223]

@@timothyhyena3106 Lots of bloody toes

[@Darkendesire]

⁠​⁠@@xeokym223your an idiot of course kids these days have an idea

[@SURFSTYLEY4]

Back in the '60's there wasn't much of a choice in shoes, Most of us had a pair for everyday shoes and a pair for church (dress up shoes) But most of the time we didn't even want to wear shoes. Summetime up until then meant not wearing shoes or a shirt and what my friends called Short Pants. Plus many things promoted being barefoot. We had stickers that looked like a barefoot print. They made gas pedals for cars that were a barefoot shape etc. Even songs like BAREFOOTIN' ..

[@paulrevere2928]

Hang Ten surf clothing company produced some of those.

[@Psychopathetica]

Patrick Bateman: Very nice, very nice. Now do a kickflip.

[@Exzeluke]

Probably 80% of the worst wipe-outs I've seen in my life I witnessed in the summer of 1965 (grin). Skateboarding with no helmet, no shoes, and those boards - yikes! My brother and his friends were into jumping a broomstick laid across two trash cans. Jumping off the skateboard, over the broom, and (once in a while) landing back on the skateboard, lol. Such great memories - thanks for posting this.

[@Smittyschannel]

Very humble beginnings. Esp. with the clay wheels. Great to see the ladies ripping it up way back then

[@isabellam1936]

Without them we wouldn’t have had their tricks to build on. Same thing with art and music. We owe a lot to the firsts. Those boards were a lot harder to skate on as well.

[@toastnjam7384]

As a kid who skateboarded back then. YES. We made our own boards and tried to make them look like a surfboard, so we mimic surfing moves. They were very rigid, and the wheels were crap. The good boards and wheels didn't come out until the 70's.

[@user-ru6mq5sc5n]

Dude those trucks are ridiculous!!

[@christawinquist3551]

Way to go, Mom! Laurie Turner at the time.

[@nowaverocker]

Dang,thanks a lot for uploading such awesome Girls Skateboarding back in the early days!I let a like for it,thanks!Much appreciate it!

[@daniellansiquot9139]

Best skateboard video ever This is more interesting than modern skateboarding

[@Kalbo..]

better than Tony Hawk's 900? lol

[@lil-dexxy6475]

@@Kalbo.. Actually kinda yeah

[@SURFSTYLEY4]

THese were just solid wood flat with no kicktail boards made by Hobie or Makaha, they had hard clay wheels with loose ball bearings that could easily fall out. Build your own with a solid piece of wood and find some old clay wheeled boot roller skates, take the wheels and trucks off the skates screw them to the wood or look up Makaha Skateboards, they are selling exact replicas of theirs 1960's skateboards

[@SURFSTYLEY4]

@indyfan22k They layed down plastic, poured the concrete and then tore it up after the contest.

[@vaibanez17]

This is freaking awesome. LOL at those judges

[@egarcia2754]

6:43 Judge really just said "A front wheelie most difficult for girls and uh especially for uh being uh large girls like she is" or something like that. This is great watching.

[@Tony-lv8uh]

Birth of a “sport”. Also love the judges hats....

[@amanaemonesiaa]

Thank you so much for posting this!

[@jaquisita]

wow! esto que realmente son ánimos para patinar, para los que decían que la skateboard no es para mujeres ahí les tienen una muestra muy clara de que nosotras también podemos!

[@cherig2276]

Wow this is awesome footage!

[@ABMayweather]

wow if i went back in time and did a kick flip on that thing I'd probably be shot by someone thinking i was a devil worshipper haha

[@music4kx]

thanks! and also thank you for uploading an awesome video, nicely done!

[@graciasweb]

qué mortal son los comentarios del locutor... esto da para estudiarlo sociológicamente ^^ (((seguramente ya lo hayan hecho xD ))) Thax for this doc!

[@stillclouds]

I was born in the wrong year T_T

[@johnpope4023]

Genesis, in the beginning

[@byrd56]

Bill Flemming on ABC's "Wide World of Sports", which didn't mind showing events before they were cool, like skateboarding. And in era when most TV cameras were black-and-white and bulky, the shot at 1:29 must have been from one of the few hand-held minicams of that day, and even those were heavy objects.

[@timothyhyena3106]

It was cool on the streets. Now a days using that term would mean ghetto. But back then kids stayed out side in the streets so everything started there and by the time it reached yuppies living rooms the kids on the street were in pools. So no TV was actually late with the sport.

[@TheGamingIndustry1]

@music4kx they are most likly G&S boards. I have a few and they are really alot of fun. You can find them for sale if you just google vintage G&S skateboards

[@leoalex2344]

Could also be Bane, Hobie or Makaha.

[@hypermecha223]

If you want a new board in the old 60s style, do a search for "longboards" and usually companies that make the big long sidewalk surfers also specialize in old school boards. They won't have clay wheels, but those things were like riding on round rocks anyway. They make new retro-style wheels that look like the old ones, but won't send you into a macadam faceplant from one tiny little pebble.

[@tommccallan8802]

Clay wheels & Chicago trucks Dewey weber board , and called sidewalk surfing, and they had Vans shoes back then

[@Eckoolt]

Not the Vans, it's a different company. Vans opened in 1966

[@thesurfhotrodscene4060]

Very cool. Also check out "The Skateboard Craze Of 1964" for more of the beginnings of SIDEWALK SURFIN !!!

[@indyfan22k]

@SURFSTYLEY4 thanks ! Is there still an Annual USA championship?

[@rickroberts1198]

The one girl was wearing vans shoes. I remember wearing vans about the same time.

[@Eckoolt]

Nah, Vans opened in 1966 and I think they later adopted to skating. There was another company Rudolph or something I can't remember

[@officegossip]

They wore Keds back in the day as well.

[@paulblart8946]

I'm flagging this video as inappropriate due to it influencing a crime.

[@sinmaleficent9453]

shut up. mall cop

[@paulblart8946]

I.will.not. You.shut.up.

[@sinmaleficent9453]

Paul Blart go ride a segway

[@paulblart8946]

Chris Pierce That is hardly an insult when it comes to....PAUL BLART! -FAT- MALL COP!

[@sinmaleficent9453]

Paul Blart lol. don't faint

[@3DEditor]

what do they call that crouching trick again? "Taking a dump"? LOL!

[@howlingmaddmurdock]

I love the judge in the middle's hat...hahahaha. And it's no wonder Rodney won everything.

[@fredsavage4925]

Forget the great skating, i want that pink hippo trophy

[@music4kx]

does anyone know what brand name or style those boards are?? i want something like those but all i see are penny boards that are plastic (which i may eventually settle for). i don't even know what you call this board style is so i don't how to look it up either :/ help please with any info you can give!

[@twenty2082]

6:40 "Pretty good for a Big Girl" OUCH!

[@OdaKa]

Molly killed it, dang

[@GoldAppelEnterprises]

hey, do you own those videos? or do you know who does? We are a band called Jonah Gold & his silver apples, and we'd love to use parts of that in a music video, if we are permitted.... the link to "starrfilms" leads to a for-sale domain unfortunately....

[@hypermecha223]

The 2nd chick is wearing a helmet but no shoes, hehe. Protect your head but it's ok if you rip your toes off :0) I used to sk8 barefoot, I don't know why. I lost a lot of foot-skin, and god forbid if you fall.

[@justanarwhale748]

That looks like so much fucking hard work doesnt it ?

[@rickh3714]

Seriously it probably was! I first stood on a Moonskate? in 1970. Took me about half an hour to learn to travel 15 ft without falling off! The wheels seemed like some sort of rubber clay composite (progress from the ones in the vid) The board was about 4 inches wide! I first did a kickflip in 1977 after seeing Ed Nadalin while streetskating do 3 variations. Rode vert that year on urethane. Nosewheelie 360's anyone? 14 was my record I think. 21+ frontside. Good to see all the skating forms now. Isamu, Sky Brown - incredible!

[@boneless4799]

Hey, that's m grandma

[@cindymananzalamartinez6679]

so the xgames really started in 65?

[@elinoreberkley1643]

lmao after the run they light up a CAMEL cigarette . Smooth flavor and good for kids.

[@rangershot1]

I wonder what it would be like if someone from the future would pop a tre sflip there...

[@HeatherWaggoner]

Shades of the past. I was 14. We would skate on the steep u-shaped drive in front of our HS. Flat wood boards with horrible hard wheels.

[@adamcruz3172]

This is more longboard Competition

[@squeegie-beckenheim]

Interesting how 'Walking the Board" has a completely different meaning then...

[@rickh3714]

Walking the board IS how this video shows. A day one 'trick' nowadays. Along with tic tac. Endovers are rapid consecutive 180's into 'fakie' 180's back into forward 180 etc! Walk the DOG however is the freestyle footwork trick currently back in fashion. The toe pivots on the board while doing consecutive forward 180s in a literal walking fashion. Fills in time between more complicated tricks and maintains good board control. Space walk is the non contact 'tic tac' but somewhat harder. Another good fill in trick and good for balance training for manuals etc. Backward spacewalk- 270 spacewalk- and if you're really good 360 spacewalk! These tricks can look naff if done badly, or too choppily or slow. But if done at right moment between other harder tricks (and smoothly/rapidly) people might start to think you're the next Mullen! Or Isamu!

[@batman4452]

I'll never understand how people say Jay Adams is the "spark who lit the fire", or Peralta/Alva.... or "Rodney Mullen is the godfather of skateboarding"... People we're skateboarding 10-20 years before them.... how are they the ones who inspired everyone? Someone clearly inspired them... Yeah, they were the first stars of the sport.. but they didn't start it.

[@Tizzer169]

While thats true, the people you mentioned are the ones that pioneered alot of the tricks we see today.

[@nofrenz2065]

Adams was overrated as fuck...Plus he sucked as a human🖕

[@johnsmith-ko8vq]

Think they brought the daredevil outlaw style. They were skating pools etc.

[@joemchang]

Question is where are they now. And are they still skateboarding

[@vaibanez17]

All of them are in the Skateboarding Hall of Fame

[@indyfan22k]

how did they get a temporary concrete pad onto and off of the baseball field ?? Too bad ABC doesn't show stuff like this nowadays instead of nascrap. the announcers are creeping me out. lol none of the contestants came from very far away.

[@aloneforeveraloneailin5847]

Tricks funny

[@indyfan22k]

because they pay more money. not because it more challenge or more fun.

[@SimbolicProductions]

this is hilarious

[@jrgs906]

Nascrap coming from an Indy fan. You should respect the sport. There's a reason why Indy is constantly losing drivers to nascar.

[@shashasashas]

ahah this is soooo funny.

[@amplify3735]

big now seen as small today L:ol

[@68Dye]

Please, someone build a Time-Machine so we can send Rodney Mullen to this competition!

[@1dashcamboatsandcars]

Reverse frog lolol

[@KuRt-vo4ud]

If I could time travel, I would go here and pop an ollie

[@jennaavw]

Some random dude good luck trying that on those flat boards😂

[@frikstobal]

Hi guys! one question. Why girls stopped skating over time?

[@rubywaller2073]

frikstobal we still do

[@Danimal77]

They didn't stop skating.

[@candicefrost4561]

We definitely still skate, but the “well-known” skaters that skated more in the modern style (vert ramps, grinding, flips. Etc) came after these skaters. Tony Hawk and his crew built on what you see here as skating became more like what it is today. Street skating also altered skateboarding as we know it, and since Tony, Rodney, and many male skaters were becoming so popular as a crew, it was seen as a more masculine sport, and Jackass really exposed skateboarding to a larger audience/community, mostly of young men. Still, plenty of female skaters kept at it, and today there are some really impressive up and comers like Sky Brown.

[@mac-fo7dt]

Meanwhile in Russia....

[@OGPAPERBOY77]

I cant stand how they act oppressed nowadays like girls havent been a part of skateboarding since the start

[@_Ramen-Vac_]

that stupid Starrfilms com off the screen! who cares?! kinda spoils it, thanks.

[@marcp3788]

Crap lol

[@jamiemoffatt50]

Amazing tricks today???😂😂😂😂😂