How To Skank

[@drumOska]

Hi everyone, I originally made this video as a school project when I was in high school. Crazy how it has become a representation of an older era in KZbin. Hope everyone’s doing well.

[@jedmatza8795]

Mike Matza as your pop I want to let you know how great a man you have become. Here is to the next million likes.

[@jedmatza8795]

Because everyone likes Bob.

[@andrewwalker9960]

I was a junior in high school when this came out. Fuck, time flies. I think it’s about time to dig out my Reel Big Fish and Streetlight Manifesto merch, throw on some ska, and skank like it’s 2009 all over again.

[@rovalin6300]

Good to see you're still skankin', rudeboy.

[@rovalin6300]

P.s. you're almost to a million views, holy shit!

[@Zeldalink15]

I fucking died after I found out that skanking in a circle was called skircle.

[@Rrdsccrr24]

I did that at Riot Fest 2021 during the Bosstones, was so fun.

[@MacaqueStinx]

I believe that's called a circle pit bro.

[@corpses-ik3ov]

@@MacaqueStinx watch the video

[@TheeHoliestCow]

The Skircle Skerk is really where it's at.... all the cool kids are doing it. Usually done after the show, though. 😮

[@shartvandelay717]

I don't care what anyone says this video is pure gold

[@mtndewman1022]

watch it every night before bed

[@jedmatza8795]

thank you my son did it so long ago the boy loves to dance

[@kaylaharkey1076]

Yesss

[@jedmatza8795]

If you watch before bed you will not grow old

[@andrewstrausbaugh4517]

Just found this and i 1000000% agree

[@jeraldjoyce2995]

This video is ahead of it's time.

[@FreshSqueezedLightning]

Just in time for the Ska revolution of 1999

[@saffrongiles9254]

Bro you were right

[@MaxPractical]

On whose body?

[@3_up_moon]

I was thinking the same thing. His YT skills are better than most YTrs nowadays

[@donnybear3080]

SKA IS BACK, THIS IS THE VIDEO WE NEED

[@jedmatza8795]

As we approach a million views and 10 years, I want to say thanks to the overwhelmingly positive responses to my sons school project. Ska lives in your heart and will never die.

[@heckandahalf1634]

This is so cute Thank you both

[@dinorustin572]

Absolutely!! I wanna get a hold of Mike! 😊

[@dalime605]

you raised your boy right

[@bobolambandfam]

And it now lives in mine. This was amazing.

[@vidalpintor4524]

I was showing my friend how I was Saturday cuz the bands were sick and she said that’s skanking 🤯🤯 I was like I feel like those animals that Fuvk but don’t know what sex is 😂 I was just tryna be the D.R.I logo!!

[@ronzie1321]

Ska isn't dead, it lives on in the hearts of skanking rudeboys and rudegirls everywhere.

[@ianharris879]

the maker of this video isn't either

[@Smooth_Brained_Hot_Takes]

werd...

[@jedmatza8795]

great comment

[@kaylaharkey1076]

Still lives 2018 ✊🤘🤙

[@MiracleMadao]

Definitely still alive :)

[@rotcandidate9823]

The tutorial we didn't know we needed, but we needed all along

[@jedmatza691]

+Saint V such a nice thing to say, mike matza

[@onutube6392]

I didn't need it.

[@RiverWilliamson]

According to Google, this is the authority on skanking in 2023. Some day, this will be in the Library of Congress

[@user-by6kx7pv2d]

"we all know life is good, but life isn't that good when you're skanking" new motto

[@caballero3601]

This has remained relevant because you so obviously had your heart and soul in it & weren't afraid of looking silly. That's the real key to successful skanking!

[@kylesilagyi]

Thanks to this I'm going to be the coolest skanker at the Reel Big Fish concert!

[@eldricparkey3947]

Years ago, this video was one of the three major things to kickstart my love of ska. Still one of my favorite things to go back to

[@nonmihiseddeo4181]

I've been dancing the skank since the '80's, but I never realized I could skank OUTSIDE of a club or off a dance floor! Thanks for expanding my awareness (and blowing my mind) of all the skank dancing possibilities. For my next 5k, I will be dancing the skank instead of jogging! Awesome vid.

[@alexc.9468]

Watching this in 2019 and my life is transformed.

[@kendrareed6171]

I can't believe this video is 10 years old! I love it, still! Hope you're still out there skankin, man.

[@marcosmendez8805]

Kendra Reed afraid to say he fell when he was skanking and now he’s dead rip jk lol

[@porcelina108]

This video makes me so happy. It's like I just hopped in a time machine and was thrown into a local VFW, skanking with my friends again.

[@jedmatza8795]

well said time travel is real Mike Matza

[@ThisAlphaWolf]

Showed this video to my teenager. He and my oldest (25) love pretty much anything now considered to be retro. Thanks for the posting this. Good vibes, from good times!

[@reanvdg2174]

Lovely one. My son (18) used your vid to prepare himself to ga tonan Interrupters concert with his dad and his mates. He was skanking thru the house and his practice showed off at the concert Thanks to the younger you and the current you for keeping this video alive. All the best from the Netherlands

[@---gh0st---]

Bro, this was exactly what I was looking for!!! my skankin days were back in the late 80s and 90s but became disabled so can't really skank anymore but was trying to explain it to my kids, they picked up quick thanks to you and had a good laugh Thank you and hope you're doing well

[@Kimberly_Sparkles]

I realized that he didn't cover the mosh skank that popular around my neighborhood back in the early 90s.

[@gunsbeersmemes]

October 21, 2022 at 12:54am, looking back on how much I miss this golden era of KZbin. Glad things like this are still up.

[@Lynnimod]

I was skanking in the 80's to all the two tone sounds, great fun it was too, except we would do a hop and tap the inside of our foot to the person's opposite's inside foot.Then repeat the same movement with the opposite foot. We called that 'Moon Stomp'' . Kept us fit though, lol

[@georgesemar2540]

Yep!

[@2degucitas]

Tap the foot that's on the floor or in the air?

[@ronaldowens5025]

Gotta add the Cherokee two steep with the skanking half steep while in the circle pit. If you know you know. Dancing at full speed collision.

[@edward7589]

2degucitas no your friends foot who’s opposite you

[@lanaechaplin4790]

Ronald Owens dangerous territory loool

[@plaguerats208]

so pure and wholesome

[@jedmatza8795]

raised right

[@mojomartha]

This is beautiful. I had to show my 14-year-old kid how to skank tonight and you were there for me, Mike.

[@jedmatza8795]

mojomartha have your kid do a video. I have been watching my sons comments for 10 years it's been most enjoyable he is 25 now

[@taylorjoshd]

It's the end of 2019 and this is the greatest all-time KZbin video I've ever watched.

[@jedmatza2266]

Thanks Josh I feel the same way.

[@patriciapearl2529]

I’m an 80s girl and I highly approve of your dance moves. Some of my friends in the 80s wore trench coats while skanking but your outfit is fine. Thanks for taking me back.

[@ryancole6981]

Trench coats kinda fell off after the whole columbine situation

[@patriciapearl2529]

@@ryancole6981 I think so but not much was going on at that time anyways. The best era was early 80s.

[@youalreadyknow5039]

Same era…. I wore a trench coat going out and my plaid pants and knitted mod shirts to school. On Fridays I would wear my mod ensamble… black suit, hat and loafers. With mod bands pins on my lapel. I will be attending a big concert in Pomona Ca and there will be some ska bands. Gonna start practicing my dancing steps and hit the thrift shops for my outfit😝

[@StrivedeLaLear]

If skanking doesn't make you happy, you need help.

[@jckdnls9292]

Makes me happy for the first 5 min, then I'm like... Is that the only move there is?? Too repetitive...

[@MasterMalrubius]

@@jckdnls9292 There are different skanking dance steps.

[@roxxram9151]

@@MasterMalrubius Like the skirkle

[@zazaful9582]

It will make you look kinda dumb but it will make the monster go away

[@StrivedeLaLear]

@@zazaful9582 I'm gonna be honest, I completely forgot about this video and I'm so happy someone commented and brought it back into my life.

[@rebekachavez9401]

I saw this video for the first time 4 years ago, and it was very helpful, I learned my first skank here. Always come back to see this whenever I feel bad, remembering that wonderful era makes me feel happy somehow. Thanks, hopes this never dissapear cause is pure GOLD.

[@jakebutkie6097]

Followed the directions and now I’m in prison for manslaughter. Thanks Mike!

[@JamessprinkleRsuknight]

I'm calling it 2019 and 2009 are just the same years

[@DylanKarbo]

haha youre so right

[@theAWPspammer]

haha youre so right

[@NuttyButtuski]

haha youre so right

[@Klazi]

haha youre so right

[@SirShyBoi]

haha youre so right

[@jaretttheberge4279]

I've spent over a decade evangelizing the music of ska and part of that journey for me started with this video. When I teach people how to skank at shows, I have this video to thank.

[@NerudaArts]

thanks Mike for bringing ska music, style and nifty improvisations to a new generation.

[@jedmatza8795]

your welcome

[@allinorfold9998]

Reminds me of my days in a ska band. Nothing better than performing while everyone is skanking on the dance floor, then afterwards skanking with everyone for the next band!

[@yunhyeokchoi2004]

when your cat starts to skircle... 3:00

[@PaulTheSkeptic]

That's the skircat. Catirkle. I dunno. It's somthin.

[@p.trapboyjo]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@madeintheimage]

Skat doing the skatircle?

[@jesusosuna9104]

“We all know life is good, but it is not good when you’re skanking..” (smirk on face) had me dying!!

[@Joltimus22]

I cannot stress enough how legitimately fantastic that was.

[@jedmatza8795]

Joltimus22 it is interesting to get such hi praise 10 years later do you get that through back feeling?

[@Smooth_Brained_Hot_Takes]

Been skankin since the late 80s. Keep it up, rude boy, hope you're still skankin.

[@cj222100]

I remember dancing like this back in the 90s, I was at a Reel Big Fish concert. Lol I love that they called the one move 'picking up change' because we called it the exact same thing

[@danielowen2884]

Quite a big difference between British and American SKA by the looks of things. In Britain you'd be wearing braces, doc martins, a ckecked Ben Sherman shirt with jeans with roll ups and possibly a harrington

[@thatchinaboi1]

Different generation and different wave of Ska.

[@thatchinaboi1]

The authentic British look was revived in NYC and East Coast Ska scene during the 90's. It remains iconic. The Ska Skater punk look came out of American suburbia in the mid to late 90's as Ska went "mainstream".

[@AlienLee]

I come back to this every so often for the nostalgia

[@PD0428]

This is too good man, truly a masterclass on Skanking! A few years ago my best friend's dad told us the story of how he literally tore his ACL while dancing at a bar during his college days and when I asked him what he was dancing to, he said he was marching to some random Ska band that was playing locally that night. I can definitely see how that could happen while doing aggressive leg-kicking moves on a floor that has more beer on it than inside of the kegs they're pouring from at the bar lol.

[@Leo90003]

Damn. Just think. I learned about ska from Scooby-Doo. And now this. THIS saved my life even tho recently I never saw skaboys/girls, but yet thanks m8, u did a lot to me

[@therobbietv]

is this the part where we start kicking?

[@roflmows]

total dorks? no. young people having fun dancing, like young people used to before all this stupid bullshit arrived on the scene. so many people, especially kids, are way too uptight about this sort of thing these days. it's cool seeing young folks kicking back, relaxing and having fun without this weird self-conscious "too cool" attitude....more of them should do it more often, so good job on the vid guys. stay mellow! :)

[@VintageFiendClub]

Too true bro

[@indiemissimi_]

it's true. as soon as i hear ska i start skanking. no matter who's watching, i just want to enjoy myself :)

[@jedmatza8795]

thanks thats my son he is the real thing very proud

[@kindaremix5149]

roflmows yeah this is pure gold

[@QatarVegan]

jed matza And so you should be very proud. Awesome video. Characterful, unaffected young man.

[@DrJustininJapan]

You are the man! I was trying to explain ska to my Japanese girlfriend and your video came up. This is epic thank you so much!!

[@muffnman980]

LOL I had a very similar experince

[@noshua2326]

This aged like fine wine

[@adievalavanis]

this video makes me so happy!! my best friend and i always watch it when we hang out. thank you so much for making it, and great job!!!!!

[@jedmatza691]

+Adie Potatie are you pulling my leg? you have watched it more then once? kudos to you Mike Matza

[@gpd215]

This is amazing.... Found this while trying to explain to my husband and kids how cool life was back in the day. Hahaha

[@thomaschavers]

Dude, that cracked me up. Thanks for the entertainment. I love to skank. The bosstones and reel big fish always get me skanking up a storm. It's pretty cool that you mentioned mustard plug. My favorite skanks on here were the surprise skank, picking up chance skank, and the tom petty skank.

[@Chigger]

A video reminding the audience to stay hydrated before staying hydrated became a meme. What a legend.

[@jackdupp3181]

Thanks for making me laugh and smile. I felt like a teenager again while watching you have so much fun. I'm definitely going to share this. I know it will make some people smile to watch.

[@carl6868]

this was very informative, in a few milliseconds I already understood the basics of Skank If it werent for this video my wife never wouldve came back with the kids thank you Mike Matza ;))

[@BridgettStrychninetrashpunk]

This is the cutest thing I have ever seen.

[@meesalikeu]

sooo many skanks! i had no idea. thank you this was very helpful. and now i will practice before going to see the specials sept 9 at terminal 5. again, tia -- you are the best.

[@ClankykingSumireko]

I don't know why but this feels weirdly wholesome. Just some guy having fun with his friends on doing a dance to ska music

[@rockyh3425]

Thanks for the lessons you literally saved me thousands of dollars

[@zoisz076]

NO, thank YOU for teaching me how to skank! You seem to have an incredible talent, and your cat as well.

[@lespaulw]

Thank you for this video after skankin for 30+ years it was good to show my kids it is a thing. I think though I'm about 80 % on the different types of skankin

[@chubbyjaydraws]

Nothing wrong with wearing a Bob Marley shirt since he and the Wailers started with Ska during their early years

[@dawnkindnesscountsmost5991]

I love to learn. Today, I learned that many forms of Skank are good, and Scissors Skank is BAD, it's DANGEROUS. Thank you, Mike, for these valuable lessons.

[@larrykriegshauser4358]

We did 80% of these back in the 90's. We would skate it, dominate it, then skank it! Kudos on the trampoline skank! I saw you and remembered how dead my legs were after we battled once!

[@quaklepc9852]

Seriously one of the best videos I've ever seen

[@sofiagarza5973]

4:33 out of context always brings me great joy

[@EvansFamilyLegoProject]

As a big time Rude Girl who skanked her way through many a late 90s early 2000s show (toasters, reel big fish, drop kick Murphy's, SGR, drive thru pharmacy...)- hell, I even got knocked out by an elbow skanking at our high school un-talent show! I was very proud to teach my 8 year old to skank around the Christmas tree this year; I think next year I'll show him this tutorial and we'll make skanking around the Christmas tree a real tradition!

[@81peyote]

Bro I’m a 40 year old punk and I love seeing this still alive. I like to karaoke shipping up to Boston and skank it up, the young guys always get it there. We gotta keep the scene alive.

[@Agent_86_]

Loved every second of this! Used to do this in the punk pits in the 80's before it became a meathead slugfest. Thanks for keeping this up, never take it down!

[@julietdiana5878]

This is hilarious and really good. Nice Skanking Dude!

[@kiltedcripple]

This video is deeply fun, thank you. Though I had to stifle a laugh when he said skinny jeans were a mandatory. Oh sweet boy, in my generation we skanked in jeans so big they can have spanned the mighty Mississippi. We hunted these jeans thither and yon 'cross the Plains, using box canyons to force the jeans over a cliff so we could kill them once wounded, for the jeans were so mighty, no man could kill one through strength of arm alone

[@rachelthomas-rayment6398]

Madness, absolute madness... not laughed so much in ages! Keep up the good skankin'

[@Handqun]

2020 and it's my first time watching. Absolutely love the video lol

[@CounterShift15]

This video was ahead of its time and I'm so happy I found it literally 11 years later and not even through recommendations.

[@jedmatza8795]

CounterShift only 10 years but you helped get to a million views.

[@CounterShift15]

jed matza worth it lol

[@bobsbrain_]

Watching those 2009 videos really makes me happy :D

[@Inlinesk8rr]

Your vid is popular because everyone likes to watch kids being kids. Secondly, whether you've know it or not, you've hit a nostalgia vibe with how kids used to be in the early nineties. Your kit in the living room, your chucks, the faded sorta grunge look, an actually being active with your friends instead of actively scrolling on a phone. Makes me wanna be a kid again.

[@karrotkake96]

This video made my day XD I'm going to my first ska concert in two weeks and I'm so excited!

[@elzaguthrie5593]

busted out laughing while riding bus... laughter being the best therapy I am in such a great mood :)

[@shannonmulcahy8302]

thank you for creating this video, i still find it relevant to me in 2021

[@infectedzombieguy]

“We all know life is good, but it’s not that good when you’re skanking” lol

[@canemdoloris2950]

This is the cornerstone upon witch all modern ska is built.

[@jedmatza8795]

Canem Doloris wow I'm the kids father and that comment may have gone to far lol.

[@canemdoloris2950]

@@jedmatza8795 Your son is a national treasure.

[@jedmatza8795]

You can turn a phrase Canem we are eagerly awaiting a million views, he has gone on to bigger things!

[@janisolson1013]

This video = total RADNESS 👌🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺👍

[@jessicamurray9238]

I think it’s pretty awesome!! I appreciate the nostalgia and the skank moves. Thanks for keeping it up!

[@MrKinkysloth]

Look mike, you’re god sent. You’re the hero America needs right now.

[@jedmatza8795]

No Naym. You are a kind person.

[@krystof768]

Lots of positive energy man!!! And good tunes!

[@pragyasingh2297]

Isn't that the same dance that Mickey Mouse does in the "Hot Dog" song?

[@alexacraig2294]

Hahahhaha omg mickey is a skanker.

[@nephaelia]

+Pragya Singh I KNEW I'd seen this dance somewhere before (that wasn't at a show)!

[@niccooper3074]

+Pragya Singh lol i just pulled up a video of Mickey Mouse doing it and played Morning Glory in the background. I was not disappointed.

[@StrivedeLaLear]

+Pragya Singh Now we got ears it's time for cheers!

[@josephharold808]

Micky is a fan of 10th wave ska

[@pameladean-dunlap440]

lol ok I almost gave up on this video during the "how to" but I'm glad I held out for the variations, because those cracked me up :)

[@mymartom]

I absolutely didn’t know what Shanking was until I looked it up today and found this video. That’s amazing.

[@valerie9957]

This was so adorable and pure. Just watched all the way through with a huge grin. POW right in the nostalgia!

[@jeromerodriguez86]

Funhaus brought me here

[@GrievingDeadly]

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[@officialmodsound]

RUDEBOY BRUCCCE

[@ethanjames5165]

"Skank your way to a healthy body, seven minutes everyday"

[@Offensive_Username]

My own mind brought me here.

[@DaBoiWill_]

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[@AlohaAngelique]

The cutest skanker in the WORLD!!!!

[@lauramilagros5472]

LMAO! Youre too funny. Love how ypur cat also loves to skank. Id like to see u do this now ... 8 yrs later in 2017. SKA RULES!

[@jedmatza8795]

still making up his own moves at 23

[@stellaambar9777]

Thank God I found this. Thank you so much mike, I will treasure this iinformation for the rest of my life and will use it daily. God bless.

[@jedmatza8795]

Stella Ambar Stella is the name of one of my cats, you say many kind things.

[@krissipz]

This is possibly the single greatest video ever uploaded to youtube..... effing ever.

[@jedmatza8795]

high praise indeed thx

[@Ceremor]

This is a wonderful thing

[@JaimesDreads]

lol i wish this guy was my friend xD

[@jedmatza8795]

i spoke to mike, he likes you.

[@iznaguen6716]

1:38 Bob's first hit songs were ska songs. "Judge not" and "Simmer down" are some of 'em. He did a lot of ska just like any other artist in Jamaica in the early 60's. So he definitly has something to do with ska.

[@karenbrown4524]

Good job, rude boy! I had the best time in the 80s with this dance. I'm a wee older now and not in the shape I was, so I do a modified Skank!

[@marjoriearment]

This is hilarious!!!! Brings back so many memories! And it is way ahead of its time! 🤘🏼🤘🏼

[@xxLaurenHJOsbornexx]

This is the best thing I’ve accidentally come across

[@fourthgrade2616]

As he started going over the proper wardrobe for skanking i realized i was already wearing it. 1. streetlight manifesto shirt 2. skinny jeans 3. converse 4. checkered socks (not that they were visible but it still counts)

[@HunterMann]

Very fun video! I suggest you submit it to some film festivals. They always need cool short films to fill out a time slot . This video will appeal to a lot of people who attend film fests.

[@caseyspencer4705]

This video has truly just made my day.

[@kathineumann8179]

Just randomly stumbled upon this video and it is the greatest thing 😂😂 Takes me back to high school and the good ol days of KZbin lmao