Grosso's Loveletters to Skateboarding - Slams

Arto Saari puts it best... "They call us professional skateboarders but we spend half our time on the ground trying to get up..." Slams are a big part of skating-- if you don't slam you aren't trying hard enough.

[@ethanalblinger3670]

Surprised that David gravette didn't get the scorpion section all to himself

[@FirstPersonSkater]

The slams aren't even that bad. It's that feeling after it when you're injured and can't skate!!

[@Lengsel7]

...or work.

[@Pandorios]

and you are like "fuck man, I just needed to land that trick, I suck at skateboarding".At least I get super pissed off with myself, especially with ankles

[@mouija1450]

That first slam is gnarly. When you get knocked out and your limbs go over your head level, that's bad.

[@eight_hundred_eighteen]

If you could just get up, dust yourself off like in the video game. No biggie. But this ain't no game yo You wanna play you gotta pay

[@llamov]

Lol, wtf are you talking about? If slams didnt hurt like a motherfucker we wouldnt even be watching this

[@ghagzor]

that seizure slam in the beginning was gnar

[@kanescrimes4848]

Bailing back onto the board when skating transition is definitely one my most hated type of slams.

[@Jeremyramone]

That happened to me, did the splits destroyed my poor knee.

[@majorrudy9200]

You probably dont give a shit but does any of you know a way to log back into an Instagram account..? I stupidly forgot the account password. I would love any tricks you can give me

[@leroyaron7854]

@Major Rudy instablaster ;)

[@NoBrakes23]

My ankles are so thrashed that I long ago gave up street skating, but all these other Letters vids make me want to try bowl riding. This one brought me to my senses.

[@MaskedGorilla]

REST IN PEACE LEGEND

[@missionsanhaenger]

haha i love how jerry hsu is like : " skaters get that high from ... " and his hand says acid :D

[@sk8_bort]

Patrick Rist Hahahahahah didn't notice!

[@josepshchavez4337]

@@sk8_bort i want too do that skateboarding ?. .

[@strobolazer4082]

We hurt ourselfs because we lust for life. The pain makes you feel alive. Embrace and appreciate it. Then get back up and do the fucking trick.

[@sess845]

Sounds masochistic, tbh. No judgement.

[@strobolazer4082]

@@sess845 the only thing that rescues me from this digitized consumption zombie life brother.

[@jimmytgoose476]

The best advert ever for helmets and pads....

[@anton_1051]

The worst slam is when you bail and land on your board

[@Heopful]

on one foot

[@micahjacob631]

That's how I broke my arm.... Twice

[@denniszellers6423]

It's called a "wilson"!

[@llamov]

Ask Arto what the worst slam is. My guess itll me bailing a smith, hitting your dome, vomiting to blackout

[@ciscoguerra803]

First thing that game to mind was a tail to the balls

[@BKKgrind]

This stokes me out to go skate and SLAM!

[@nicholasmimbs3942]

I hear ya. Slamming sucks but there's something so endearing about watching this and reminiscing about ones own slams.

[@joshbarth9469]

It's like the emo chicks that cut themselves, but cool.

[@TheWaterboarders]

When you lie there thinking you're not too hurt then your board comes back down at you like a heat seeking missile.

[@jimmytgoose476]

Head seeking missile 💀😃

[@TheXitone]

Landing primo has to have an episode all to itself haha

[@llamov]

Arto is a big boy who takes a big fucking slam. Him and Gonz id say are my all time slam MVPs

[@TNTboyz1997]

🤍 Rest In Peace Grosso 💜

[@neekneek4372]

the harder you fall the more you appreciate being alive after you done being hurt

[@bravehistorytv]

I lived to sk8 but I wish I would have taken it easier looking back...skated smart no hard...i would have been a better skater. 10 years of slams. Bad knees compressed vertebrae arthritis in the neck/back and entire joints when it rains...Can't run after my own kids...haha.Still ride though like it was nothing. Just more cautious at 40+.

[@jesuschil3491]

Nocomply ifeel ya homie. Ive damaged my knees so bad skating and crashing motorcycles i can barely do tricks any more fpr fear of missing work. I can still push so its on

[@erichanhauser3190]

I am 47 & my 5 yr old is running away from me. Knees are shot. I knew this would happen.

[@kilo393]

This is what Im afraid of.Im 21 and I've been skating since I was 16.I've been skating at least an hour a day and I skate pretty hard.Been getting a weird feeling in my knees so Im just going to take it easy right now.I still have good knees, but I don't want bad knees in the future.☹

[@johnzig1386]

@@jesuschil3491 yeah, I'm 42 and skate, but bad knees/back keep me from doing big stupid shit. And that missing work thing is a big fear, too. I def hear ya. So i just kinda cruise around, hitting what i can, keeping it alive in me, cuz without it, i die.

[@marissac870]

I always watch this video after a big one to bring me back to reality. Got sneak attack into a wall smashed my head and shoulder. Little tear in AC. Thank you for this video. Thankful I can still walk. Which means I can still skate once this subsides a little. Hail skaten

[@SKATE87410]

The sound of a head to concrete is so gnar. I’m getting a helmet and kneepads. Mostly because I am going to take my 15 years of experience to the bowl seriously this year and get more familiar with vert and pool coping. Look up Aztec Hash on KZbin that’s my home park

[@birddogfreemann]

"you can't skate what you haven't ate (slam)"

[@neighbor9672]

I broke my ankle this weekend and revisited this video. Skating is the dance with the devil! Can't wait to get back on the board. Probably be ina year tho. Completely broke my ankle, ever bone!!!

[@humanothumqn659]

I had a top to bottom slam today. I do these fakie hang up (fakie lips without sliding.) To tuck knee pull ins. They feel good and are usually pretty easy. I was going for one on a six foot quarter pipe and next thing I knew I was falling to the flat. Hit my knee, hit my elbow, almost hit my head, and I rolled my foot really bad. Hanging up sucks!

[@SKATETOSLAYER]

so glad you left the "real tv" style bone snapping gore out. thank you hahah.

[@bearhughes7009]

Great, awesome as usual thax for not puttin ankle twist though, I've had so many I can't watch em

[@LeoLikesBik3s]

Gotta pay the toll if you wanna rock n roll

[@llamov]

Arto is the shit, man. Always loved his crooks. And his monstrous slams.

[@alfonsofernandezdemiguel8909]

Yes Grosso Greetings for Tom Groholski from Básque Country 💪

[@caseyasman5225]

What's wrong with helmets

[@yaganziirobert21]

thats what im sayin

[@masondench2669]

Fuck you

[@jimmytgoose476]

Personally , i think skateboard helmets mostly suck . Poor fit and too hot .

[@birdbraINCorporated]

slams is a key topic for this show! but, you should do one about dealing with injury specifically... the struggle between mind and body. like some guys even cant skate anymore, ya know...

[@rudyortiz472]

damn i remember when i supermaned to the bottom of a bowl after i hit a rock (pebble) about to go for the roll in

[@jimmytgoose476]

Brutal shit there mate 😳

[@CaptainFantastik1]

I skated 13 years and sometimes I think about getting back to it. But then I see this shit and know for certain that at 41 years old there's no way my body could take the slams anymore. Not to mention the 22 years and counting of ice hockey i've put my body through.

[@draconicvoid3608]

You'd be surprised at how resilient the body is

[@4R1P5R]

I am 46 and skate at potrero del sol in sf, daily. I fucking love it! Injuries Which I sustained skateboarding, snowboarding, playing rugby in college, running ultra marathons in my late 30's, and working in construction for 16 years slow me down if I push too hard. but I dont let it stop me from loving every blessed minute I get to shred the concrete. i suggest you cast aside your fear of limitation buy a new set up and go rip!

[@ghagzor]

seriously bro. I started again and 25 and will never stop. you're not living if you're worried about crap like that if you truly love skating just do it. if it is a passion any injuries or even death are worth it. cliche but you really do only live once.

[@GetHappy25]

This series rocks...love these videos.

[@dip_krizzle]

Dustin dollin was in here many times cause that dude is one fuckin gnarly dude

[@ChrisW777]

+Gabe Farmer One of my favorite skaters, also Boulala, he was in here a little

[@eshukofi7096]

these rule, thanks for making them 💌

[@day22222]

Just started learning in my 30's took a bad slam the first day never experience that much pain in my life(that's how vanilla it's been). Month later my back doesn't hurt I plan to get back on. It's definitely harder when you're older.

[@jimmytgoose476]

Try being 58....😃

[@MikeCookie1973]

I didn't notice if you covered the bails where you end up landing one foot back on the board (usually the board is turned to the side as well), and you know the rest of the story...

[@erichanhauser3190]

First trick learned, how to bail. First real trick, Indy air on vert. Slamming can screw you but sometimes it can wake you up. All Hail Cardiel!!!

[@oxtanzami4608]

the bad injuries is a very bad thing,,but the daily littles slams is a pleasure sensation,,,!!!

[@hardflipson4402]

The noseblunt slide on the huge quarter ive been there its whitefish montana i live 11 miles away from it theres a bowl where instead of vert it dips in like a foot

[@Rufusdos]

Broke the ball joint off my left arm on a rock fakie, 18 inch launch ramp. Had to be taken away in an ambulance. I think that fits into your category.

[@StankPlanks]

God damn that slam at the very start, looked like he was having a fit.

[@MatthewDGorman828]

best show on the tube thanks jeff

[@blackcowboymusic]

haha yeah, I rolled my ankle practicing front 180s (on flatground). had to be off my board for 2 weeks, sooo annoying

[@danpearce4547]

Lance Mountain in Public Domain (I think), the original nutbuster handrail slam!

[@aaroniamescua]

Hsu is perfect for this.. He takes the hardest slams out of anyone.

[@theoldblood3804]

Man this is so crazy cant believe they'd do this *shoots dope* 🤔

[@Preslaaaay]

As long as we're talking memorable slams, let us all remember the beauty that was John Fitzgerald's OIAM hill bomb to brick wall.

[@maverickbYeah]

"you wanna play, you gotta pay". wow...that's deep.

[@uhhhhhhhhh85]

cardiel is just so hyped on life!

[@h3h3l0l]

song at 3:31 is an instrumental version of "ASG - Gallop Song"

[@internetvide0]

heath kirchart and arto take some pretty gnarly slams

[@Agenda21punk]

I am the Mick Foley of skateboarding 47 years old and limp my ass to and from the skate park on a regular basis! GET SOME!

[@Jeremyramone]

Much respect! Cheers from san diego

[@streetbeers6536]

The worst slams come on a hot day at the skatepark or bombing a hill shirtless and you burn all your skin off and are having to listen to the screech

[@StankPlanks]

I reckon the worst are the opposite, when it's freezing cold.

[@streetbeers6536]

***** good point, as if the cold wasn't bad enough. You get that numbing pain in the winter and your feet are fucking frozen

[@StankPlanks]

Yup and you don't feel warmed up and all your bones are all stiff and you know any slam is just going to cain. I feel like when it's colder everything just hurts more, the cement is freezing.

[@moonboots]

That huge lipslide @ 8:04 that heath is trying, what movie is that from? I've been trying to remember for months. Someone help me out!

[@VFL83]

Heath`s lip slide slam is so gnar.

[@erichanhauser3190]

I have had some really bad slams where I couldn't go to work the next day but fortunately never had surgery or been fucked for weeks. A couple where I nearly passed out. For me, I didn't really get into the session until I had blood on my shirt. All part of game. The rush. Adrenaline. GIANT INFECTED SPLINTERS from the vert ramp. Then we all bucked up to reply the ramp. And start over.

[@gacelasheladas]

In the scorpion section when they put gravette, thats not a scorpion thats a penguin slide, all rights reserved to gravette.

[@johnwentzell1427]

Thought it was fitting to watch this today as i sit here waiting for a call from surgery to put my wrist back together with a steel plate.

[@shneckelheimer]

They should've put in Heath's epic slam from the beginning of his This is Skateboarding part. The one where he tried to 50 the hubba but stuck right away and fell the rest of the way to the ground, and bounced.

[@the_laybacks]

I severely pulled 2 ligaments in my ankle. I've re-rolled and re-danked it twice. Going on 4 months no skating. Help.

[@ImBlackIvy]

The Laybacks I rolled my ankles bad many times and I still go hard skating lol

[@bradzillaking4722]

I once landed primo on a psycho stick with my hip. I still have a dent in my thigh.

[@kyledamron]

Grosso for president 2020!

[@jacobprout1078]

Whenever Jeff says turn this shit off go skate I always feel guilty it’s raining man that’s why I’m back here for the 800 time :( rip Jeff

[@Simpsonwannabe]

Delicious, makes me want to skate.

[@mattschlag3r]

Hell Yeh!! arto says it all..

[@tylerp3327]

Matt Schlager Slam Legend!!!

[@atticusfinch6038]

there will always be a special place in my heart for skateboarding but im so glad i dont do it anymore

[@138_paul]

Jerry Hsu is the perfect person to talk about slams

[@Dancrazyman1]

Best slam video ever!!!

[@dixeldxeldixe6084]

you are the best!!

[@xXGreyWolf]

I would have thought they would have got David Gravette in on this one!

[@benpyle7194]

That song that starts up at 00:43 sounds like this band I used to listen to called UsaWaste -Fuckin' Waysted

[@Bravo-Too-Much]

Sometimes the gnar giveth, sometimes the gnar taketh away.

[@Lengsel7]

This episode brought to you by Protec.

[@freddamgaard]

there wasnt enough gravette in the scorpion section

[@ChristianDoyon]

Been there: Tore my Achiles Tendon while pushing this summer. Talk about a dumb injury :-( Worst injury I got in 20 years of skating... and the stupidest too.

[@thermalascension]

It's good for you 🙏🕊️

[@channelrandy-6924]

When I turned 18 the Turf filled the bowls to make way for street skating. That course sucked. All those years watching from the sidelines, waiting to turn 18. Party on Jeff

[@abeccinco4525]

this video is inspiring

[@JimiBerkeley]

why does Gravette look so happy about bailing all the time? xD

[@NateLP02]

what about when the board pops up and hits you in the face?

[@youarewrong321]

Svitak doesn't even get a mention?

[@billywheat1]

Oops I mean whens the noreply God dam episode comming out

[@pmantis7869]

Anyone know the song that starts at :48?

[@VictorYanezIII]

0:37 does anyone know what footage is this

[@saratadesse8048]

"boardslide to face" LMAOO

[@baronsonics]

that first clip, if you were there who the fuck would laugh at that.

[@supernewuser]

Gravette scorpions on purpose. Most saveable falls he dives into scorpion. I feel like Romero also forces falls sometimes. Probably because he wouldn't fall too often on his own.

[@tourhead]

4:55 QMan is skating with you now......Rip In Peace!

[@AnklepantsSkateZine]

My hardest slam in all my years of skateboarding could have been prevented if people would only sweep their sidewalks. I was pushing and hit a rock. Fucked my hip up bad. I never get hurt doing anything cool.

[@hashbrownz1999]

Why is it none of these filmers appear to know what saturation is?

[@alex1020]

+tyler burtcher On old school cameras like the VX increased saturation makes the quality worse.

[@hashbrownz1999]

alex1020 oh, weird. i didn't know that. thanks for informing me

[@thematacristo]

0:55 dario matarollo?

[@mmckissack2379]

That was my favorite letter

[@internetvide0]

Collerbones breakage is the worst. Thankfully I never broke my collerbone but I seen it happen so many times to my friends and acquaintances. Hope I didn't jinx myself.

[@PedroZVPROD]

and where is ali boulala?

[@thrasher9611]

The hipper loves me...

[@jaredlee8371]

Hipper, slipper, dipper, and someone's a tripper. But it takes a ripper to get up quicker.

[@Doomreb]

8:03 'Cause I love You!!!' See if you get what I mean.

[@oldschoolsk8er599]

Shallow end stairs are fun but suck so bad at the same time!

[@BIGBLUETIGER96]

Couple days ago on a 6 or 7 foot did one of those. But sadly when you go frontside and end up back flipping or sliding on ur back down the transition :(

[@skate4yah]

Kyle Hampshire

[@CounterphitSkateTeam]

i like how dustin dollin ends up doing cartwheels

[@adrianjimenez4757]

when i just think about slams its Corey Duffel that comes to mind and Ali Boulala hittin the floor in splits tryin to ollie them stairs!