JENKEM - Meet the Brooklyn Skate Historian & his Collection

[@aaronpedain432]

Eric moved to my local town on Vancouver Island, one of the rowdiest skaters to skate with. Literally a beacon of stoke and energy.

[@patricksalish]

Aaron Pedain this guy lives on the island ?

[@dunkydog1676]

I used skate on island in that era brings back memories

[@non_brewed_condiment]

That's so awesome man, thanks for sharing that

[@otisagain6225]

That dog!!

[@samloewen9148]

Living in horseshoe bay, west Vancouver !

[@SkateLion4]

Dayyyyymmmm, thats sooooo rad!! Shame the video wasn't a little bit longer, Would have been neat to see more stuff.

[@manishapatil4450]

Fuck you

[@CAndVProductions1998]

We need another video update

[@chllen]

Yup true that!

[@nollieheel]

What a fucking rad collection

[@nollieheel]

Tasmin Begin Really? I swear all the time. And never gonna happen, to me Amskater is to skate for the love and that is always what I am doing so I will keep promoting that.

[@nollieheel]

Tasmin Begin Thanks man, and ill be skating for as long as I can

[@FORANWFS]

+amskater copy & paste

[@chllen]

Oath!!

[@Adam-yh9xt]

Awesome collection! Nice video. We are on the same page, but I am in Australia. Happy New year mate!

[@armin38822]

Damn. I would definetly pay money to see this.

[@copray3883]

yes. oldschool is my favourate

[@s.a.l.1974]

@@copray3883 me too

[@thomasdragovich1093]

You would blow him given the opportunity

[@Painless1992]

So rad. Thank god there are still people out there who evaluate all of this.

[@arlingtonanariba7359]

Painless1992 I see you everywhere

[@marcoceccarelli6415]

man I remember having a lot of those boards back in the eighties what a fucking good time to live

[@simonvance8054]

So glad I was a kid in the 80's when all the awesome old school pros were at their best... Cab, Hawk, Hosoi, Miller etc!

[@winnemuccamangler7657]

Totally! ...I used to have same red JFA board he's got above his door, heaviest deck ever!!!

[@justinkline1294]

Yep, I had that '87 Mike McGill but hot pink. Just a tiny kid watching Search for Animal Chin and wanting to be like the pros. Good times for sure.

[@conceptheroes7879]

@@justinkline1294 Animal Chin! That was a great movie... Loved it. Wheels on Fire and Streets on Fire where cool too.

[@wagfinpis]

@@conceptheroes7879 are you kidding. I drive Uber in San Francisco 5 days a week, and I always keep an eye out for Animal Chin! Lol! I so serious, lol!

[@joerodriguez1797]

I grew up and skated in the mid 80's in Southern Cali...best time of my life!!! Great collection 👌

[@Lonepatriot69]

80’s east coast here 👍

[@tattooseverywhere1]

Man this video brought back some great memories. What an amazing collection you have! 🙏 You should write and publish a photo heavy book about the historical significance of your collection. I'd buy it! Nice work bro!

[@shelby3822]

*within reason* Entire apt is plastered with decks

[@dadasha]

You could do ths same with you lame profile picture!

[@FredZepplin]

I couldnt contain myself if i had that many boards, i would be riding them all!

[@tracyeaster9934]

You sir are a true legend!!! Thank you for sharing your passion!

[@ZeroBoii321]

Go to skatopia owned by skate legend brewce Martin in Rutland Ohio and check out his skate museum more boards from the beginning to today than you can even imagine. I've skated with brewce quite a few times he comes to my hometown skate park all the time and he's still a rad skater.

[@JWFdocumentaries]

I respect that collection. Majorly

[@Lonepatriot69]

And completes at that👍

[@endosurgnet]

My first board was Vision Psycho!!! Saw some visions on your collection!!! 🤟🏼🤟🏼🤟🏼

[@wagfinpis]

That is an insane amazing collection! OMG!!! I just saw decks that I forgot I ever even had! I saw like at least 8 of my old decks. I used to hang the broken ones on my wall when I was 13...

[@angelokefalas3750]

I'm such a fan of skateboard collection videos. I've watched this one at least 10-15 times in the past 5 years. Never gets old! Keep the Heat coming! 👊🔥🤘

[@oigaaaaaa]

that blender art thooo

[@bobolson5086]

Hell yeah bro I've skated probably so many of those boards hanging on the wall dude you have a killer collection my friend I skated back in the early 80s and I've kept all my stuff as well man I've got a vision shirt with Eddie radecki Tony Hawk Mike McGill Lance Mountain Tony Alva basically The Duel at Diablo in Arizona I still have all their autographs how's the best days of my life man

[@SECRETCINEMALOSANGELES]

sick i was a buyer for a skate shop 87 to 93 and i remember selling shit loads of them boards wow what a collection good post dope memories !!

[@PatrickHenryLibertyorDeath]

That is a crazy collection. My youth just hangs on his wall. Amazing.

[@didianderson2023]

No talk on the progression of trucks n wheels. Which have transformed a lot over the years.

[@chrismonahan9988]

Love all of this! Something else to me. So glad you have all of this

[@dencissful]

great collection! I still have my Jeff Phillips skateboard from the 80's.

[@Heyadb]

+Denise Cissen yes

[@TomClifford]

Keep it up, hope to visit the museum one day !

[@Jeremy-th5pt]

I had the blue Caballero. This vid is flooding my mind with nostalgia. I'm 47 and grew up in Louisville, Ky. We used to go to a skate shop on Bardstown road just to look at all the boards we couldn't afford.

[@charlesclements4350]

I remember when the skate board just came out. My brother had one that was solid red, about a foot long and 3 to 4 inches wide. It had steel wheels and no brakes. The only way to stop was to jump off the thing. The police were standing by waiting for orders from city council to band the skate boards so they could start making arrests but it did not happen. I saw one guy wipe out on a skate board. He was bloody all over. I thought, "No thank you." Oh, Jenken, have you heard about the 9 year old girl named Sky Brown? She was playing with skate boards when she was 2 years old.

[@marlowkaplan3584]

Ravenous pace.... I know the feeling. I went 0 to 100 and now have 15 complete vintage boards . its a passion

[@ErgoCogita]

I lived through just about 99% of the boards he has... fuck I'm old!

[@simonvance8054]

We should be grateful we were around in the 80's - kids today have no idea of what they missed out on!...I feel sorry for them!..

[@guapodallas]

Having started the Texas Skateboarding Museum I have a special appreciation for the time, money, and passion required to assemble your amazing collection. Kudos and hat's off super cool. @texasskateboardingmuseum

[@funkworthrollin4959]

In Dallas? Rollin over there soon. Bro.

[@Johnny7051MC]

Fucking awesome collection man!! Since I was a kid, I have always loved & preferred Powell-Peralta's over all the other SB manufacturers. I bought my first board back in 1986 when I was 13, which was a Lance Mountain Future Primitive II w/Indy's & Powell Wheels, love that board. You have a fantastic collection, wow!!

[@justinkline1294]

Love how they are set-up as completes. Personally, I can't have just a deck on the wall, I've gotta make it skateable.

[@richardolson5880]

Too cool! Love that you've ridden most of em. A museum would be great, I'd pay to see it for sure!

[@Blissbomb2]

You missed an era, wheres all the fibreglass boards from the mid 70's? All boards went fibreglass with the first lot of polyurethane wheels. I had a purple fibreglass board, the flex in them was incredible.

[@ryanstevenson6473]

What an amazing collection you have to do a longer video and get into everything you have, thanks.

[@MrKnifeart]

Nice!!! I had the 84 McGill with Tacker and Bones 3.

[@gmazz0913]

Awesome collection. Got any Pool Tools from the 80s. I grew up in the badlands during the early 80s with Tay Hunt and the Baldy pipeline and the Pipeline skate park. Great memories.

[@marsmuseum2312]

Wow what a cool collection of boards. I especially like to hear you talk about the history of the older ones. Most excellent !!!

[@tim1309]

What a beautiful collection.🤓

[@dylaz13]

Dude this is so sick! I got my first 80's style setup with a powell-peralta reissue deck and got some rails to go with it. Love carving bowls on it.

[@zooyawk4526]

I hope you've got some decks from NYC legands. Papo, puppet head, Mousie MouseBerg, ect ect. Believe it or not there were kids in the mid 70's to 80"s who skated. There were homemade ramps all over BK. We skated with the second incarnation of the Zoo York crew. The park in Queens, and plexiglass Park in Staten Island. There was the barn in NJ. Not to mention Cherry Hill. Me and my friend Mike showed up at the Cherry Hill Park when we read in one of the skeet mags that Tony Alva would be skating there. We were surprised to see that we were the only ones from the NYC area to show up. There were a couple of kids from that pipeline Park on Long Island that also showed up. Papo was the smoothest NYC skater ever back in the day, and he could have stood tall with any of the West Coast skaters. It is what it is. I wish people knew how many kids were actually skating vert in Brooklyn. You got an incredible collection. I'm glad it's located in Brooklyn. Makes me feel good. Peace out.

[@edo-j1784]

LOVE the collection!! You need to turn that apartment into a Museum for skate fans that grew up in the same era as we did!

[@needscreen]

Love to see this guy do some pop up museums or something of that sort. If some came near me I'd definitely go.

[@prodigaljess]

Wow! Fantastic collection. Thank you for preserving skate history. My first "real" skateboard was the Santa Cruz Bullet model shown at the beginning. Loved that shape. I miss when boards had such a variety of shapes. Keep up the great work, man. God bless.

[@jeffburnett4067]

I sold the Julien Stranger board on Ebay!! listed it as SMA board but did not know it actually belonged to him. Bummer for me lol

[@extraniceness]

No way! You mind telling me how much for?

[@simonvance8054]

What an awesome collection...and I love what you've done with setting the boards up as the pros had them back in the day!..

[@ron8935]

Very cool video..... I rode a Jim Muir triplane in the late 70s , Powell Peralta decks were still flat.

[@itisjustacomment]

Farmyard deck :) My first 'double kick ' in my youth.. Great to see it again.

[@christianjackson9360]

OBSESSED, couldn't anyone say? Some of those could be priceless!!

[@STEVEHEROLD]

cool. would love to see his stash of Gators. My favorite deck back in 80s. Mine got stolen out of car in 1989 and was so bummed. Would love to still have that board now. Bought a reissue few years ago but it's not the same....

[@cabgarcia9414]

My man what a collection thank you for putting your video up on here this U2. Brings back so many memories I'm 48 and I was skating in the 80s. I actually got to meet the Bones Brigade here in Arlington Texas at a ramp demo that was awesome I'm at Craig Johnson Bachman Lake the clown ramp Jeff Phillips skating was so influential in my life thank you for sharing your collection man the guns I saw your vision deck thanks man

[@larryfinklestein4480]

I had a Ron Chatman and I sold it on Craigslist for cheap. I did not know I had a board that was kinda rare because skating was kinda slow in the early 90's, I was just cleaning out stuff. I later saw someone in Florida on Ebay selling my board for like $275. It was a good board to skate.

[@conceptheroes7879]

Wow whhaa wheee! Just seen this vid and the memories came flooding back! I see some of the boards I used to skate. Loved my days skating.. Tempted to get into it again at a lesser, slower pace. Had some of the best times skating! ahh.. memories. :) Great Vid!

[@chrisarmstrong8210]

I say do it. I'm 45 now and still skate from time to time. I just stick to easy tricks like ollies, nollies, curb tricks, and only tricks I still feel confident landing. I say go buy a setup you like and go skate. Do it for the fun of it, and nevermind what people might say or think about you.

[@conceptheroes7879]

@@chrisarmstrong8210 You are right! I am actually looking to get a set up in the next few days. As far as what people think... I could not care less, I am 45 now too and reckon anyone who has the balls to get out and skate when their a bit older should be respected. :) Keep on, keeping on and having fun! :)

[@NateBrahh]

I truly am jealous... 80’s style skateboards are my dream 😍, I’ve been skating tha style since 7 years old, and still skate it to this day ., it truly changed the game ..

[@ominous-omnipresent-they]

My first skateboard was an old, very old, RC Cola plastic board shaped like that one from the 60s. That is what I learned to ride on. Then it was a Variflex fishtale board. Amazing board. Keep in I received these things in the early 90s, so the double kicktail had already been a thing for a long time. Then my parents bought me my first modern board at 14. It was an Alien Workshop "Believe" complete ordered from CCS. You would not believe how receiving that board after all those weeks in the mail made me feel.

[@mrbrmb23]

Thank you for doing this.

[@suelove1442]

Dame,.all those deck is mind blowing,.

[@jollyjacksplendid1545]

Those Chris Cook graphics are totally on point!

[@yandman26]

Way to go dude , I fucking love this and would love to look around it.

[@roberthartmann782]

I have mixer of old vintage and few reissue decks. And very proud of the skateboard I got from tony hawk.

[@horacioverduzco1800]

That collection is so rad

[@lethalinjection5550]

That’s awesome, brings back my young days!

[@lowbow9028]

Vallely's deck at 0:24 was first kind of double tail. I remember day it came. Had to get one. Later I got Natas'es 101 6ply. Those were the days!

[@jacobsakcat9189]

+Low Bow wasnt it advertised as the "double dip" or something?

[@lowbow9028]

+jacobs akcat I remember it as "double tail" I'm not 100% sure. Must be 25 yrs ago or something..

[@jacobsakcat9189]

That's awesome...good time to be in that scene. I remember the last of the craziness of that time. I remember right before world changed its image to that devil stick figure.

[@lowbow9028]

+jacobs akcat In Finland it was pretty hard to get good decks or pro models. Good times, absolutely. Now spots and parks are so sick. I still love to watch skating. Now and then I grab my board with me.

[@g3attack]

This video is AMAZING!!! ❤❤❤

[@sacul7694]

Yeah, awesome collection man! Great memories from the 80's. Everyone in Cedarburg Wisconsin had a board. My first "real" deck was black JFA with paisley. Then Caballero blood red. I also had the Vision Psycho stick, KASAI, and several naked decks I bought from friends selling bare decks. Wish I could do it again! :)

[@gorillaump5869]

Awesome collection amazing history and these were the pinnacle of skateboard from when I was 10 and wanted to be a skater till I was 19 and hung up skate boarding for good..I was hoping to see the old H- street "street key" that's the one that got away.

[@endlessweekend5041]

that shorty's muska

[@isaacjundt2058]

endless weekend I found one of those in a dumpster when I was a kid, i still have it at my parents house somewhere

[@thatsmyrail]

endless weekend Got on a real nostalgic melancholy trip when I saw that one. That deck is probably about 13 years old, released at the time when I started skateboarding.

[@holmesd5003]

That Tommy Guerrero white board with the flames was my first board as a kid, i still remember going into the skate shop and picking out my trucks and wheels for it

[@calvincandie5344]

That is awesome im so glad there are cats like this guy who keep the past alive like that 👍

[@MrBrooxy]

Easily one of the best collections in the world

[@crazyadventuresandreviews]

Nice collection, do you have any Chris cook boards or douglas

[@seancannon9459]

Love the collection, I was trying to find some information on the first addition Tom Groholski Jersey Devil model. Like how many were made and how much are they worth today.

[@JJRW2010]

such a cool collection wanna visit here!!!!

[@ramvanbobby3889]

wow dude I skated on a lot of these boards growing up

[@cornpop1363]

omg he has the first board I ever had, that blue Steve Caballero deck! obviously not the same one I had, but yeah. my step brother gave it to me used and all beat up back in 88ish? been skating ever since.

[@ollief1658]

Incredible collection !!!!

[@jdportwerks6795]

Be cool to meet this guy! I’m from Brooklyn and skated in the 90’s in bay ridge with the locals including my cousin Steven Cales. Wonder where this is taken place?

[@Etienne_Diecast]

You better not walk through that hallway while intoxicated haha. Beautiful decor!

[@jameycollins725]

Damn! Just saw a few of the decks that I had back in the 80's. Wish I had kept them!

[@Surfmus]

Amazing!

[@mc540flip]

Very cool! I saw a Chris Cook on the wall at the end- dig those 80's Alva's. Oh and didn't Felix ride for Shut too?

[@NitroModelsAndComics]

Super nice collection, just a bit after my era.

[@DevylsAdvocut]

My first was a Powell peralta Steve Steadham, gorilla ribs, tracker trucks, German bearings and rat bones 85a wheels. Good times in the mid 80s. Actually first had the red Caballero deck alone but sold it to put together the Steadham.

[@cecello79]

minute 5:10 up on the right dude! Mark Gonzales deck, with the 8th everslick base layer... just like mine!

[@jasonelwoodphoto]

It’s hard to believe any of this stuff is still around. I would have kept all of my boards from the mid 80s if I’d known. Ugh. I had a Gonz board that he wrote on and signed. He snapped it in half and gave me the front piece. I wish I still had that for sentimental reasons. Anyway, great video. Love to see that stuff.

[@nono2059]

Hello what is tour tips to clean the weels im very interest by this Thanks

[@Bizarreparade]

Man. That is next level nerding out. Im not hating either👏👏👏

[@ParaiusPau]

Tingles at seeing those Vision decks, and the Rob Roskopp decks around 3:00

[@dorettecereceres1604]

I wish I had all those boards

[@chllen]

doesn't everyone!

[@tedkukla4178]

The artwork is killer!

[@DanyBizzyD]

that Muska deck is sick :)

[@jeffbarnes19fg76]

BRo that Ron Chatman, i would love to hear more about how you got that. He is my all time favorite skater and i got that board Christmas of 1990 and to this day is still my favorite board i ever owned

[@glenwalters8333]

Hi Nick. Do you happen to have a purple Ray bones snub nose with a cracked and poorly repaired rear wheel well in the collection? My friend growing up, Jimmy (CS) had it as a wall hanger in his dad's skate shop, CS skates in the late 80's. I loaned it to them but after the shop closed Jimmy sold it at some point. Of course I would love to have a piece of my actual childhood back. Also looking for my yellow Ray bones wide tail with white skull and red sword. Thanks for your time

[@Andyooohhh]

Heavenly collection. Freakin awesome 👌

[@matth268]

Is there a place where every major deck has been compiled. Been looking for my childhood bored to no avail. Thought it was an hstreet but yet to find it.

[@puggzdeathmarch8967]

where in the hell are you finding stage 5 indy's????

[@Suburb_hell]

That Sheffey board is insane!

[@hawerddolbee1278]

I remember the old caballeros were like a harder hardwood. Also they were pretty small board

[@jeffl7852]

Soooo cooool when your wife said " - - - within reason - - - - " oh man, beautiful life. Rock (skate) on!

[@DinovanderMerwe]

I have 2 skateboards. What the hell is wrong with me. I should’ve kept all my old boards since the 80’s too. So awesome dude!

[@shatterking215]

Amazing collection