How Ron Chatman Redefined Skate Styles in the 90's

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@SteveMiller-qz6yk 2 ай бұрын

Learned so much from Ron and Jeremy Klein a old skateboarder myself

@Nomad_Skateboarding 2 ай бұрын

Ron deserves so much more cred with the originals. Contributed so much to street skating.

@evrgreen_69 2 ай бұрын

Underrated af. That was sick thank you!

@unskilledlabor5229 2 ай бұрын

Awesome type of history lesson.

@marksantosLbC 2 ай бұрын

The O.G. 👊🏼💥

@RealSkateStories 2 ай бұрын

WORD

@squeakcounter 2 ай бұрын

Legend and pillar in my book 👑

@benthomas1885 2 ай бұрын

Ron Chatman and Sal Barbier were pretty much the best styles at the time for me.

@bricemenaugh4828 2 ай бұрын

Awesome skater

@BillMiranda-n8j 2 ай бұрын

100% all round natural skater right here! The Gremlin is man!!! I was fortunate to roll with the LBS crew before Gremlin got sponsored and blew up.LB is on the map because of cats like this guy paving the way for many others! Big ups to the North town Z-boyz,LBS,street stooges and Maine Street Locals skate crews! Know your history🤙

@THANKS4LIFE 2 ай бұрын

Rad, I worked at Zimbabwe Skate shop 88-91 ish. NorCal but went to LB State. Met and skated with Ron and the MSL crew..Vons curb was nice on 7th St. AIDS Bowl too...

@BillMiranda-n8j 2 ай бұрын

Hell yeah bro! I remember Zimbabwe! I went to LB poly (class of 89)with all those MSL guys, never got to skate the AIDs bowl though. I skated mostly wrigley ,bixby knolls and north town area.so many good skaters that got caught up in the politics of streets.

@marksantosLbC 2 ай бұрын

Street Stooges!👊🏼💥 Hood Skater Also Shout out to Y.O.S. in Carson/Long Beach

@pablou8892 2 ай бұрын

Precioso footage❤

@toynazi 2 ай бұрын

He was one of my faves at an early age. Dude ripped. Anybody know what he's up to nowadays?

@squeakcounter 2 ай бұрын

Still shredding

@toynazi 2 ай бұрын

@@squeakcounter That's great to hear. Alot of younger kids might not know who he is. But they need to for sure.

@jessiemartinez3056 2 ай бұрын

Yeah hope he does Ron Allen soon

@RealSkateStories 2 ай бұрын

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@MichaelKörwer 2 ай бұрын

This is great! Thanks!🔥I didn’t know he ripped at vert as well! I think Transworld took some fotos for an interview with him around the same time you filmed him where he‘s wearing the pink shirt.

@chriskimbell5884 2 ай бұрын

Not talked about near enough, dude was an absolute pioneer in street skating, doing all of the modern street tricks 30 plus years ago.

@bassfu2219 2 ай бұрын

Good show😊

@CIWise 2 ай бұрын

Ron Chatman was from that "White Power" era. (If you were there, and you remember the ad, then you get the reference.) Black skaters couldn't just be skaters who were Black: they had to be "Black skaters." Chatman, Alf, Cookie-Head, damn near every Black skater had to have something Black-themed with them: graphics, in their video part, their name, something. It was a way of carving out a lane for yourself, turning your difference into something unique in a field where we were underrepresented. Hence, Chatman's Jimi graphics. (Of course, I ran out and bought one!) It goes all the way back to Steadham and his Powell board. (And not just Blacks: look at Hosoi's graphics or Kien Lieu's nickname.) The only one who escaped it, I think, was Ray Barbee. And then there was Sheffey! He was something else! He was beyond "Black": he was just a force of nature! Every knee had to bow, and every tongue had to confess! And he carried the whole New York, Shut, East Coast style on his back with him when he came West. After that, it was all Harold Hunter and Zoo York, and the whole landscape of skateboarding changed! It was an exciting time to be Black in skateboarding.

@jessiemartinez3056 2 ай бұрын

Why it gotta be about race though..never was like that for me and my homies in San Diego in the 80s skating and being punk rock .black Asian n Hispanic and white.we.all were the same bros

@CIWise 2 ай бұрын

@@jessiemartinez3056 "Why it gotta be about race though?" Who are you asking? Not me, I hope. Because I'm nobody. I was just a kid a lot like you probably, skating with my Black, White, and Mexican bros. And, right now, I'm just reporting on what I saw. But I'd like to know too, though, homey. So, who do we ask? How about Rocco? Since he made that White Power ad. Or Christian, since he put that flag on his board. Or Alf, since he put the theme from Good Times or Sanford and Son or whatever it was in his vid part. Or, you know what? Let's ask whoever chose a spade for Steve Steadham's graphics. Whose idea do you think it was: his or Stacy's?

@jessiemartinez3056 2 ай бұрын

@@CIWise but that wasn't because of white power or pride .. Mexican or Hispanic skaters have put Mexican flag or stuff that is common in Hispanic culture or spoofs of black and brown stuff but we never saw it as racist or trying to cause division..Rocco ads were always controversial..we always saw it as whatever an just tasteless fun

@jessiemartinez3056 2 ай бұрын

@@CIWise and what is wrong with the spade for steadhams graphic? Ray bones Rodriguez had a skull n sword graphic in the late 70s ?

@CIWise 2 ай бұрын

@@jessiemartinez3056 Alright, bro, I see the problem now. You took it someplace I had no intentions on. My original post never mentioned anything at all about racism or division; in fact, everything I posted was about the development and growth of diversity, multi-culturalism, and coming together in the world of skateboarding. It seems you were thrown by the "White Power" reference and perhaps triggered by me mentioning Black people. The latter I can't say anything about, but "White Power" was a reference to an early World ad. Of course, Rocco was fucking around. The World team was extremely diverse for the time, and photos for the ad (I forgot who was in it) were all skaters of color. When they showed Rocco the photos, he said, jokingly, "White Power!" and that's how the ad ran. (He talks about it in his bio-doc.) We all knew what he was saying at the time: it was a changing of the guard; skating was growing beyond bleach-blonde, surf bum White boys. A big part of that was the emergence of the East Coast skaters (NY, in particular), some of the first to come out west were on Rocco's early team. That was the "White Power" reference. That's why I said, if you remembered the ad, then you get it. If not, well, then, here we are. As far as pride, Christian most certainly put that Japanese naval graphic on his board out of pride. However, pride doesn't necessarily equal division or hatred (just like me saying how great it felt to be a Black skater during that time (89-92) was wonderful doesn't negate anyone else's experience). Alf said in interviews how he purposely used the Good Times theme for his part to represent himself as a Black skater and how it knocked down walls in its own way. I'm not promoting division; I'm simply saying that, at that time, that was still something which needed to be done. (That reminds me: what about Alf's deck where he honors Black skaters of the past? Let's ask him why it gotta be about race.) Now, Steadham's spade graphic: "spade," you may know was a racial slur against Black people that has waned in popularity over recent decades but which was serious at one time. I'm not a benighted child, so I won't accept that it being Steadham's graphic was a coincidence. Perhaps Steadham did it himself to strike first against any racism. That's actually more likely--and a more pleasant scenario to imagine--than Stacy suggesting it to him, but it still shows how bad things were and how much things have changed: that graphic would never fly today, just as Alf's graphic honoring Black skaters would've never flown in the mid-80s. And me realizing that and speaking on it is neither racist nor divisive, it's just true. Peace.

@THANKS4LIFE 2 ай бұрын

Rad Vids, Thanks for sharing. Your vids capture the Best of those decades. I'm from NorCal but lived in the LBC from 88 -91. Skated the OG Vans ramps on Ball Rd., Lances, Christians, Todd Congelliers and other vert ramps around at that time. I also skated with Ron a bunch and was stoked when we went to Gonz's house one day. Not sure but, are You the guy living in the Caribbean, Puerto Rico or somewhere...? If so, I've got a few questions about what its like living down there...