Loveletters Season 8: Dogtown 2.0 Part 1 | Jeff Grosso’s Loveletters to Skateboarding | VANS

[@vans]

Grosso discusses the history of the real lords of Dogtown!

[@nicparker3809]

I remember some dude in Venice screaming he broke his ankle. He was doing a sweet wall ride and ate shit. I was with my parents around 83 and no one even helped him. He had to drag himself. TRUE STORY.

[@lennixd8151]

Vans tomorrow ill get my first vans shoes :o

[@ALBRONSON]

Best show on tv since Three's Company. Keep crankin them out!

[@jonathanhull8678]

Best thing on the internet

[@JAWS1376]

Some of my favorite videos are the old school Dogtown documentary and Hosoi's Rising son. But it's just one video. So cool watching these lover letters. It's like a mini doc every month. But please! The special ones (like this) need to be longer.

[@eight_hundred_eighteen]

Great way to wake up and start the morning with!

[@jcd7443]

This topic needs a full documentary. The Made in Venice film was cool, but this group of DTS would be insane.

[@ERICF66]

I'll second that! A full documentary!

[@daxkenny3744]

What a incredible history lesson...thank you so much for the mental stoke...Canada Loves the Letters!

[@alanladdseinekatze859]

As stated, DT "2.0"(being the years from 1987 onwards) never got the recognition it deserved. They just didn't do those high gloss videos or had your mom's favourite son in law on their team, like Powell Peralta. The didn't board the new wave super star train like Vision. They didn't have Jim Phillips on graphics, having Santa Cruz products sell twice or more units, than possible without him. They were, are, and will always be remembered for purest skateboarding. They brought us street skating, giving Natas the initial opportunities for his art, supporting skaters that wouldn't participate in main stream "skateparking", providing Eric Dressen a rebirth. And they are still with us and will hopefully be there for many years from now on.

[@Banjolution]

Damn that shoulda been like 2 hours long!!

[@Monkstar1]

I appreciate Grosso's shoes. You know he's a skater.

[@TheAktveOne]

This is my favorite series.

[@rudedogg9133]

Yeah they to put the uncut version up Miss you bud!

[@djmykenyce]

Loved the few seconds of footage from the "Curb Dogs" video!!! Anyone else catch that????

[@louderthangod]

Wow...that should have at least an hour.

[@panictryouts]

"kelly was a streetplant champ", grosso: "rad"....grosso being nice.

[@skrapsesh7394]

streetplants aren't inverts - grosso, loveletters to handplants, 2014

[@danaminyip]

dog town is always the sickest, big up

[@dirtydonnyart]

Love the Letters and great episode!

[@arildrossebo]

Great stuff! Hope there is more Karma footage comming. Guy was so ahead it was wierd.

[@SkateLion4]

Thank you for this! Cant wait for part 2

[@couchslouch3540]

This season is pretty fuckin sick so far!!! nice work dudes.

[@Skulclaimr]

Love it!

[@marissac870]

Skate rock!!!!!!! MothaFugs

[@ERICF66]

That was great but too short!!

[@thecoolones666]

ERIC F now you're sounding a lot like my girlfriend

[@joshbarrett2212]

Love!

[@amysifuentes55]

Dogtown Hell yeah man!!

[@Breeder333]

I'm gonna go sk8 Aumsville before it gets hot. Rad DT vid Grosso.

[@J4v3XpH4C3]

Damn ... there was some old Curb Dogs footy in there if I am not mistaken

[@big3ye378]

This vid put me in the zone dude

[@im_building_a_bomb3383]

7 stair at 4:27 is still there i skate by it everyday

[@johnfodo4129]

im old i remember all this Grosso new anti hero vid was sick

[@kimrice394]

Wow! History! Timeline! Wow! So... Suicidal Tendencies name and song Possessed to Skate are inspired by this deck? I literally just bought new grip with that Suicidal/Possedessed to Skate on it!

[@fintanoclery2698]

Kim Rice Jim Muir's little brother Mike Muir is founder/lead singer of Suicidal Tendencies.

[@NebulaLobaPlaza]

2:21 what’s up with the swazi

[@thelankgod8073]

tryna see if anyone else noticed that lol

[@Capitan_Chaos]

How can he remember all those names?

[@mitchisms]

It’d be great to see all of the footage shot for this episode. A longer doco would be enthralling.... sorry, daggy word.... but it would!

[@bigbrenis4582]

Why do you talk like this

[@mattletch6704]

Who does the ollie impossible over that gap in the team intro bit?

[@JeremyWint]

wow that fingers story at the end is fuckin gnarly ]

[@groundcontrol-x8701]

Remember i had a DogTown-Cap,many years ago,in a bubble-Galaxy,far far,back in my Head...)...It Very Nice was,to Finally go there Again...)... Kind Regards,... X ...)....

[@MauroSkt]

nice topic grosso!

[@DaveyGa]

Wow, never new the connection between Dogtown and MM/ST :o

[@marcelboogaard5449]

Jessie Martinez is the best jump ramp skater ever. He oozes style.

[@dortoka4577]

Who lost their pinky in the story at the end?

[@sk8librarian]

Aaron "Fingers" Murray

[@dortoka4577]

TY

[@benskatesforgirl101]

A lance mountain and jason jessee lobe letter should be in the works ❤

[@geoffhang10]

Jesse never really rode for Dogtown yet he is Dogtown. They did make him a board a few years back though.

[@danielearrigo6904]

why the dude at 2.20 has a swastika on his deck?

[@skrapsesh7394]

the acid was good in the 70s

[@SkateLion4]

"skate nazi" look it up. Jay Adams had a couple decks released with that on the graphic.

[@LedgeWax]

Goes way back. Hardcore rebellious type surfers in the late 50s/60s were known for being violent and anti-social they had a punk rock attitude way before there was even music genre that fit their crazy mentality. They were like outlaw bikers at the time. They called themselves "surf nazis" and wore iron crosses to shock everyone and keep people away but it was never a political/racial thing. In the mid 60s Ed Roth sold iron crosses that depicted a surfer in the middle. Even goes back to early skating because he marketed them as "sidewalk surfer service medals" had ads with kids holding skateboards wearing rat fink german helmets and giving salutes. It was very apart of dogtowns "bad boy" image since the beginning. Watch the dog town documentary and notice the pictures of the surfboards that Jeff ho designed covered in swastikas with all sorts of old school 70s flare. Look up the old dog town articles from the 70s there's that one with the cholo looking dude holding a skateboard and on the ground you see the infamous dog town cross surrounded by swastikas. Look closely at the "locals only go home" and you can see swastikas on the wall. Look the hand drawn wes humpston dog town boards with sun wheel swastikas on them. He said they were meant to be seen as a sun worshiping symbol. Jay Adams coined the term skate nazi in an interview during the 70s when they asked what's up with him and other dogtown guys putting swastikas on their boards/equipment. He said it was a traditional ode to the original surf nazis a decade earlier and not meant to be seen as a political/racial trip. There was an old suicidal tendencies sharpie shirt at skate lab that read "suicidal skate nazi". Salba has a board that reads "SS-Skate Nazi" from the early 80s. In the mid 80s there was a dogtown ad in thrasher that depicted the cross surrounded by totenkopfs. Watch salbas speed freaks part and notice he's wearing a swastika tshirt at the beginning. Look at photos/videos of the famous Venice wall and notice the swastika behind it. When they made that movie "surf nazis must die" about a surfer gang of neo nazis that kill a black guy they got it all fucked up. Jay Adams has a swastika tattoo in the the form of two skateboards and under it it reads "100 percent skateboarder" he even unapologetically released a bunch of limited edition skate nazi decks in the early 2000s.

[@MasterGuero]

Daniele Arrigo why not you racist?

[@danielearrigo6904]

thanx didn't know! always thought surf nazis were actually neo nazi surfers lol

[@fintanoclery2698]

Dressen!

[@saymstuff]

🤘🏻!

[@MauroSkt]

THE HAWK RODE FOR DTS?

[@johnpark888]

Yeah but eric dressen was better

[@chillbeach7322]

The finger...DAMN!

[@kopingkiller]

Dogtown Webb was my first "good" deck!

[@calvinbaII]

wait.. WAIT.. wait... Mike Muir (Suicidal Tendencies) is Jim Muir's brother??? How did I never make that connection. Wtf.

[@gueroloco510]

All that footage of the skaters doing airs off that beat up car, San Leandro Marina parking lot, in San Leandro, Ca. The sickest shit ever, R.I.P. Joe Lopes, and all the fallen old school curb dogs

[@BirdiePierce]

the best! 'CORE EVERMORE! #curbdogs

[@marcusmcknight1515]

Damn, this shows fuckin awesome!!

[@CARNIFEX420]

Injuries would be a cool topic for a love letter Worst ones Longest lasting Recovery Others you have witnessed

[@thebluefus]

Is that shoenice?

[@matiuhensley6657]

mean im luven the letters fucken grosso you've been my spirit animal since I was 14 man lol

[@speedhead]

knew the decks had some sort of resemblance, but i didnt realize Mike Muir (singer of Suicidal Tendencies) was actually brothers with Jim Muir the dogtown dude. tight!

[@nouseforaname4100]

RIP grosso😔😔

[@Jarrodpimental]

New best

[@greenfiend26]

grosso had a mini stroke there lol

[@iffiore2356]

Justin Girard?!?!?!

[@nuffaction5464]

How do you always know when I'm not wearing my pants? Creepy.

[@sailboats3482]

Take a shot every time he says fuck

[@marcoreactionary]

Dude...

[@matthewgutierrez8817]

I am confused and alone just like Grosso says and it sucks.