Jeff Phillips: The greatest skateboarder of all time!

A loving musical tribute to our fallen hero Jeff Phillips whose spirit lives on in every skateboarder. Philpod loved every skateboarder and for that we forever say "Philpod Lives!"
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Music Credits"
"Phillips 66"
Written By Billy Somerville
Music by Violet Ray
2020 All rights reserved.

[@keithhampton9700]

Jeff was a friend to all of us young skaters in Dallas. Treated us all like Bro's. If your deck was wasted, he would give you one of his old ones. Turned me on to Anime before it was popular. We would go to his house and watch Vampire Hunter D and Gundam vids. A true Bro. He is truly missed. R.I.P!!

[@violetray5655]

Philpod loved all skateboarders. We all loved him. Thats what makes him great.

[@TheMorganMonroeShow]

Jeff was the real deal.

[@slypeppa]

When I was a kid I loved skateboardin, i still do. We was poor I skated a nash thr best I could and wanted to go to jeffs park, my first day there the other kids talk shit about clothes and skateboard, I didn't care I was there to skate, jeff and that dude that had a english accent gave me my first real skateboard.

[@keithhampton9700]

@@slypeppa That English dude was Billy Smith. A really cool dude and Jeff's best friend.

[@stephenenglefield2110]

The definition of radical🙏

[@davidbarrus6542]

Make the world a better place, hug a skateboarder ♥️. Have cancer now, gonna kick its ass, and sk8 for the ones that can't sk8.

[@marcelboogaard3809]

All the best brother. I’m rooting for you 👊🏻

[@davidbarrus6542]

@@marcelboogaard3809 thanks for your support.

[@violetray5655]

Thanks for sharing dude. We hope you get well soon. You're a true ripper. LTS/SOD.

[@pallemedel]

❤️

[@violetray5655]

@@pallemedel Philpod Lives!

[@captianawesome9240]

I was so blessed to be in the right place at the right time in skateboarding history. From 1987-1989 I rode for Tracker trucks and a small board company called Dread. I am so humbled that I was able to witness and at times skate with many of the legendary Texas pros. Anybody who was lucky enough to see Jeff skate back then will agree: when you look up the word "style" in the dictionary, there should just be a picture of Jeff Phillips.

[@violetray5655]

Thanks dude. Skate Army Never Dies. Check Out more Violet Ray videos on KZbin.

[@TheArts19]

Phillips ruled. Straight up. Swimming pools, pipes and ramps....so badass. As big as Texas.

[@violetray5655]

Philpod lives! Thanks for watching dude.

[@stevefink6000]

Those were the days. Pure style, RIP Jeff

[@phillippitts6294]

He’s still my favorite, plus Monty Nolder

[@brendangeraghty8865]

This needed doing, thanks for putting this together. Every skateboarder needs to know about Phillips.

[@violetray5655]

Thanks homie. Skate Army Never Dies. Check Out more Violet Ray videos on KZbin.

[@jasonmolinaro4520]

Just the best style ever no big deal

[@loganry7407]

Ok this was fucking great! Just picked a Bad Boys Club Phillips devil man with trackers and slimeballs thing is almost mint.

[@violetray5655]

Thanks dude. Philpod Lives! Make sure to check out all our great Skate rock tribute videos.

[@gertmzazi7701]

Jeff did as he said, kept to what he said no matter how much he is still missed. Ride in Peace pls and thnx for all 🍾💚

[@violetray5655]

Philpod Lives! Thanks for watching homie. Make sure to check out our other skateboard videos.

[@j-mac7401]

Wtf!!!! Can't believe there is only one comment here... Jeff Phillips easily top 10 vert skater in the mid 80s to 91-92 .... Tragic story to a true icon in skateboarding... Team Sims was right there with the Bones Brigade and the Alva team..... RIP.....

[@marcelboogaard3809]

Lance called him a vert machine. He’s top 3 in my book.

[@violetray5655]

@@marcelboogaard3809 So did Tom Groholski. A vert machine. He made the ramp shake.

[@violetray5655]

Thanks for watching dude! Philpod lives. He'll always be the best.

[@reidellis1988]

I remember getting that January issue of Thrasher magazine. RIP Jeff. One of skateboardings best.

[@futurevintage1597]

skated his boards in the late eighties. still think about him today

[@SKEC212]

RIP Jeff Phillips. Cool dude.

[@violetray5655]

Thanks dude. Skate Army Never Dies. Check Out more Violet Ray videos on KZbin.

[@Inconceivable-Montoya]

One of the greatest. Style power and tech. RIP Jeff.

[@violetray5655]

Thanks homie. Skate Army Never Dies. Check Out more Violet Ray videos on KZbin.

[@jonnytlong]

I took a bunch of pictures at that contest at trashmore. He was the first one to win a contest without doing a mctwist since that trick was invented.

[@marcelboogaard3809]

Stick your pictures on KZbin. I would love to see them.

[@violetray5655]

"You don't need to spin to win." You just gotta believe. Philpod taught us that.

[@thermalascension]

Miss Jeff ⚡

[@violetray5655]

Philpod lives!

[@pallemedel]

1:22 Frontside rock with a nice twist 😍

[@violetray5655]

Philpod Lives!

[@emptysetowl9715]

Tony said that he was the third person to land the McTwist.

[@crazyralph6386]

Yep, why Jeff was always in the top 3 for a long while, when all the ramp skaters were still building up the nerve to attempt a 540. Took a lot of skill and balls to pull it off, especially on those old heavy planks they skated on?

[@condor5150]

I saw Jeff win the Holiday Havoc in Anaheim back in 86! Not many skaters today can boneless into vert from the deck!

[@violetray5655]

Philpod had the best boneless. It was standard issue.

[@condor5150]

Imagine rolling out frontside onto the deck then launching a frontside boneless over the channel into vert? I've only seen one other skater do something similar. Which was Texas Dan on a 8 foot square bowl at the boulder co skatepark about 20 years ago "no channel though". He obviously is a disciple of Jeff's!

[@Happy4774]

Had his BBC Deck back in the day awesome board n bad ass skater.RIP BRO..

[@violetray5655]

Thanks for watching dude. Philpods lives!

[@billdavis6900]

I love the footage of Virginia Beach Mt. Trashmore ‘86 Eastern Assault contest. Phillips won that contest and beat both Hawk & Hosoi. That was significant because most contests back then were won by either Hawk or Hosoi and by then Hawk was doing both 540’s & 720’s.

[@ForgeAheadwithMike]

Wow, I was there in Houston for those Shut Up And Skate contests… Jeff was such a ripper. RIP homie….

[@kateyziegler4275]

Dude was a beast! RIP🙏🏻

[@troydhansen4990]

Jeff was always missed when he left us.

[@violetray5655]

We feel the same way. Thank you so much for watching. Feel free to check out our other tribute videos at Violet Ray.

[@morgellon7877]

It's so cool to be able to see this stuff. I started skating in 2000, so this kind of footage was inaccessible; they wrote about him in the magazines, printed the occasional photo, but this really shows how gnarly he was. There was a lot of mystique about him, the dude who beat Tony Hawk on acid (actually mushrooms, according to what I've read since then, but same difference pretty much).

[@toddpisano352]

This was my very first Pro Model Skateboard I ever owned ! A SIMS Jeff Phillips ! Such a bad ass skateboard and skateboarder !

[@violetray5655]

Thanks for watching dude. Philpod Lives!

[@MannyDer]

There is an online auction right now with one of his boards in it. It's in a lot with some other junk, they didn't know what they had, till the price started to go up like crazy. It's only at about $410 right now

[@MrScott-go6]

ONE OF THE BEST EVER PERIOD!!! PHILLIPS 66 Concrete Soldier forever!!

[@justinmuir9163]

My first board was a Jeff Phillips. Went to skatecamp in San Louis Obispo knocked on his dorm door and he broke out some stickers for us. Did not say much but was a cool experience when you were twelve.

[@violetray5655]

Thanks homie. Skate Army Never Dies. Check Out more Violet Ray videos on KZbin.

[@RegularFootisChris]

I wear My Jeff Phillips T Shirt in Most of my Videos!!

[@violetray5655]

Gotta rep the set. Thanks for watching dude.

[@EYEH8MOSTOFYOU]

Man that alley-oop boneless he had in his bag of tricks is fucking rad.RIP PHILPOD

[@violetray5655]

Philpods Lives. Thanks for watching dude

[@JJE18210]

Gets me so hyped i roar and scream

[@1963palaceboy]

Truly great…landed so underside of the coping every time! A lovely man as well…I f I had been a pro…that’s the one I’d have tried to be! Only sad although we met he was injured and I never saw him skate.

[@violetray5655]

Philpod lives!

[@himebaughchris4026]

That Mount Trashmore shot was Crazy.

[@mackash]

Agreed. Jeff was the best ever.

[@bobumbel]

love your edit! Thanks for Sharing. RIP Jeff you ruled!!

[@violetray5655]

Thanks dude. Philpod Lives

[@CIWise]

"Greatest who ever lived"? I don't know if I would say that (I'm a Hosoi man, myself.) That being said, I fully support YOU saying it; because Jeff Phillips' name definitely does not come up enough in conversations on the greatest. (Frontside elguerial?! Who does that?!) My first deck was that Sims speckled, devil graphic Phillips in purple with dark blue and green. I got it at the end of '86 or early '87, which was the same time I got my first mag: the Transworld where Phillips won Holiday Havoc. (Hosoi won highest air, by the way.) So, thank you for this! I had forgotten. Thank you, and thanks to Jeff.

[@violetray5655]

Thanks homie. Skate Army Never Dies. Check Out more Violet Ray videos on KZbin.

[@keithhampton9700]

Don't Mess With Texas was my favorite shirt. It had all of the Texas greats .I think Jeff Newton made them.🤔

[@peacetree5000]

I think it was Hosoi who said when Jeff philips the ramp,it was like thunder..

[@skateboardingvideos1678]

So rad ❤

[@miked6523]

Had the best boneless ever

[@violetray5655]

Philpod Lives! Thanks for watching dude!

[@scathezombiestu3156]

That egg at 2:06 is INSANE!

[@violetray5655]

Thanks dude. Skate Army Never Dies. Check Out more Violet Ray videos on KZbin.

[@ionutsfetcu4550]

The best skate video and also the best video.

[@jamesharris6773]

🙂

[@starzkream]

0:47 - How is this even physically possible?

[@violetray5655]

Lay back air roll around. "Hes on a shortlist of those who can make a lay back air look good" - Jeff Grosso

[@starzkream]

@@violetray5655 Phillips made EVERYTHING look good.

[@violetray5655]

@@starzkream Philpod is the greatest hands down. "If Jeff stayed on his board, he was a tough guy to beat" - Tony Hawk

[@viehlee]

Fronsite boneless into vert is heavy

[@comesect]

I watched billy get pulled out a bowl with a rope, r.i.p

[@tkalbfeld1]

Skate Tough or Go Home

[@violetray5655]

Thanks dude. Skate Army Never Dies. Check Out more Violet Ray videos on KZbin.

[@indiglo1971]

1:24 Vocals sound like G.G.Allin. 😂😂😅😅

[@thepeterchannel3230]

Tony Alva

[@mikeschmidt4800]

Young ones, listen to this song and then tell me with a straight face that Blink 182 is a punk band. You can't do it.

[@jonnybgood9376]

Was Rob Roskopp ever good ?

[@marcelboogaard3809]

He was 100 times better than me 😂

[@pennyhemens478]

You know, he had some good street ollies for the time. He's had some great photos too. Theres footy of him at Raging waters doing judo airs.

[@butterblood]

I think his decks were more popular than him haha. When I came up skating in the later 80s, so many people had his decks n shirts but nobody ever really brought up his name.

[@jonnybgood9376]

@@butterblood starting to realize this also cool ass Deck

[@violetray5655]

Yes He was the top Vert skater on Santa Cruz along with Christian Hosoi. "Wheels of Fire" Check it. Thanks for watching.

[@ProWrestlingFiend]

*Tony Hawk is GOAT

[@violetray5655]

"If Jeff Phillips stayed on his board, he was a tough guy to beat" - Tony Hawk