PJ Ladd in Really Sorry

[@TravisJNorth]

14 years ago, still rivals a lot of pro parts today. Dude was ahead of his time. I remember I used to practice editing to this video since it didn’t have sound so I would put my own songs over it and try to get everything to land on beat. Wild seeing these clips again

[@JonathanNelsonOfficial]

Met him once at Italiano's pizza next to Burbank middle school. He was getting a slice and he was very kind, no asshole energy whatsoever. Dude just loved to skate, it was clear.

[@youngfeezy7969]

He was so ahead of his time. This was one of my all time favorite videos growing up. God the great memories of being a kid. Miss those days.

[@skateboston420]

Check out his part in the 'Coliseum Video' from 1999? Maybe 2000, you can see how sick he was gna get, it's even before Wonderful Horrible Life. It's to bad Coliseum is now defunct for over 10 years. 'Boston Massacre' was another good video but could never hold a candle to WHL from 2002.

[@morgellon7877]

@@skateboston420 Damn, I've never seen the Colleseum video. I'll check it out. Wonderful Horrible Life was probably like our generation's Questionable or something. At least that's how it was for my crew.

[@mikeobryant3367]

remember 411VM?

[@kylethomasries]

Sw flip bs tail bigspin out in a line, reminder this was in 2003. Dude was a pioneer by all means.

[@brocksamson9737]

Tell that to sammy baptista

[@ivanmiau9280]

@UClwpvmbvZJ6LGpilCdvkayw You guys who always mention someone, ALWAYS ONE IS BETTER for you, you guys look like a fucking idiots

[@teflonmusk11B]

Mike mo

[@nikokaapa]

PJ, Baptista and - while we're at it - Smolik were all amazing pioneers

[@joemackenzie7417]

Pioneers ride rocks; not skateboards

[@napalmwedding]

I could listen to the sounds of skateboarding for hours.

[@HazeEntertainment100]

Sorry, but this is not a true!

[@paulwyremaski4578]

still one of the sickest parts, i love videos from the early 2000s

[@vaaleri]

Sweet Accel years.

[@Juwce_86]

Pj Ladd was the reason i practised tirelessly to get FS flips down pat. His ability to effortlessly blast tricks in any stance is a beautiful thing.

[@kodfish]

this should be on thrasher's classics

[@adamyee577]

opening line is so perfect. the no push, the sound, and the casualness

[@moriordan85]

Got to skate with PJ maybe 3 times down at this train station in this small town named Holbrook, just south of Boston back in like 97-98... He was sooo much better than all of us it wasn’t fair. I remember how excited everyone got just cuz he got sponsored. One time he called me hamburger helper cuz my head was soo big for my body when I was younger, he prob. Never thought about it again but cuz me and my lil skater crew looked up to him like he was a god cuz he ended up so famous over the next few years It stuck w/all my friends

[@HG-bs3en]

Sorry to hear that. Dude's either a bit of a douche or you were so insufferable that he gave you a crappy nickname to smite you.

[@Remmy0930]

One of, if not THE cleanest part ever filmed.

[@AllOneVoice]

Such an incredible skater. In a part like this you really can't tell what stance he is. Classic. Sheer perfection

[@DmgNeville]

Anyone else use to put different songs to this and lose their mind over how well it matched sometimes? The good days.

[@patrickhanlon932]

God, everything about this man is the absolute pinnacle of excellence. Someone once described a young PJ Ladd, they said he "skates like a young God." A God in the sense of some kind of elemental power, something ethereal and omnipotent. I used to watch PJ WHL all the freakin time with my older sister. She was the one who said it. "He skates like a young God." It's the realest thing I've ever heard. I'm 35 and my sister is 37. We were really into skaters with good style. I still am. We also watched Marc in Modus all the time, too. And Mark in Sorry. Absolute beauties on a board they are. It's hard to understand the impact of PJ on the scene unless you watch other skaters from that era, like, 2002-2005 ish.

[@tmoney0212]

@NostradamusJr. Im 30 and totally agree....loved watching Jamie thomas....as well as prod shecks as a kid.....the whole baker team....wade desarmo....Ronnie Creager.....Eric koston......Bastien salabanzi.......Marc Johnson ...Guy mariano....Loved wathcing those guys skate legends indeed

[@HG-bs3en]

If PJ is a young god, what on earth did your sister name Tom Penny?

[@HG-bs3en]

@@tmoney0212 Hmm.. 30 huh? I'll be honest with you, you would've been like 5 when Mouse came out, 8 or 9 when Menikmati, Baker2g or Flip Sorry came out.. Just a little confused as your taste doesn't match your era. Your era would've been Yeah Right (if you were lucky.. but more likely Pretty Sweet), Plan B video, and all of that. I'll be honest with you, not many modern day videos catch my attention at all. Everyone's the same nowdays it's gross. I would rather watch Tom Penny push than most skate videos today.

[@tmoney0212]

@@HG-bs3en I own yeah right! That was the first skate vid I bought! Another good classic! You said my age doesn’t Match The era of the skaters I named? Go back and reread the names I put then get back to me

[@mattallen4154]

@@HG-bs3enI’m 32 and can relate to his comment about the pro skaters he listed. Definitely not too young for it. We used to watch appleyard’s part in flip Sorry everyday before we went out skating. P-rods part with ‘get down’ in Yeah Right was huge. This is skateboarding also another classic.

[@brandonritchie106]

PJ changed the game with this part. It's common to see skating with no music today, most the time they're raw edits, but back then it was unheard of, well done

[@typ044]

It was definitely rare but there were a few, "Listen" is a good example from 5 years before this part with a bunch of legends in it.

[@Ben3350]

love this video because the tricks are sick and you can play any song over it and you still get the trick sounds with the music. Genius!

[@joepaxton470]

Just did that. I was wondering if anyone else does that.

[@Orzeszekk]

That's the bad part this part was destroyed by endless songs

[@benicenow5851]

You know he's a good skater when you can't tell if he's goofy or regular when watching his part.

[@brocksamson9737]

you know your a shitty skater if you cant distinguish a skaters goofy or regular

[@steezymarlon1384]

@@brocksamson9737 😂

[@joemackenzie7417]

I could tell he was reg right off the bat but that switch flip front nose slide did make me double check lol

[@kurohige1403]

@@brocksamson9737 I think he refers to the fact that most of his trick are done switch and nolie.

[@jahnj2523]

Your a goof if you can't distinguish you goof

[@Hyponotizemindz91]

Still the best 3 flips I've seen

[@repitboy1617]

Hell yeah and hardflips/inward heels

[@VGf97]

Yeah but Basti Salabanzi's 3Flips are really stylish too :3

[@smithjones4705]

Kalis

[@Orzeszekk]

Reminds Chris joslin

[@Jeremyramone]

Agreed! Tied with Brian Anderson

[@jw81687]

2:28 literally how I learned to fakie big flip. I watched him do that dozens of times and I went out and it became my go to trick

[@dewmontain123]

I watched this a loong time ago. Probably more than 10 years ago on my fat computer. Time flies.

[@skateboston420]

Briefly met him @ windowsill ledges back in August 2001, he was there with Jereme and Alexis Sablone. I was actually star struck and felt like an idiot, so he broke the ice and asked me if I needed some wax, super nice dude. That was the best summer of my life, stated with me and my friend skating Washington DC, filming lines at Pulaski. That week in August-September 2001 was the best. We were skating old school 'Waterfront' aka Columbus Park. Eli Reed gave me props for having a Vehicle board. Jereme was psyched because we fixed the propped up ledge @ waterfront and he ended up filming a few tricks in Wonderful Horrible Life because of us. Jereme was chill too back then. We ended up in Dave "Happy"Armsden's apartment, rider and shop clerk for Coliseum, super chill guy. We smoked bubble gum weed out of the biggest bong I've ever seen, never been so high lol. Fuck those times were great. It feels fleet because literally 1-2 weeks later 911 happened and the world changed for the worse so the it's memories of a more innocent bygone era. I'll cherish those memories forever. Even got to skate with Donny Barley once. Wish I had stayed off the drugs and skated 2wice as much. I' m 37 now and the world is so depressing. RIP to the pre-911 era.

[@666sk8erguy]

Damn bro I got chills reading that

[@skateboston420]

@@666sk8erguy thanks man, that was from the heart 💙

[@666sk8erguy]

@@skateboston420 I was only 6 when 9/11 happened but I remember everyone being so much less depressed and a much warmer vibe in the world before then. Could also be that I was a little kid, but my brother's your age and I remember him skateboarding with his friends in the late 90s/early 2000s and watching skate videos and smoking hella cigarettes being carefree AF and you just don't see teens like that very often any more. 9/11 and the internet fucked everything.

[@wendyslittleprogram3984]

that very first tre flip is absolute perfection. so casual and stylish

[@TheBlooDream]

That back smith tho~

[@watitdoteppei]

this part made me fall in love with es shoes!

[@TruthSpeaker3]

I skated Berrics with PJ 10 years back. Such a sick memory. He put a complete together for me in the parking lot and would’ve given me some #s but they were too small… anyway, he shredded Berrics, it was just us 2, and he literally went a solid 13 minutes straight without missing a trick… hitting every obstacle in the place. Such a solid dude. Thx PJ, much respect. Tim P

[@dondiwhite1]

the switch flip FS tail he does in the line is still my favourite trick - the style on his 270s/360s is unbeatable..like the nollie cab flip he does in winderful horrible life...cant touch that

[@HG-bs3en]

Yeah, I remember making an animated gif of the nollie cab flip. Drew the siloette of PJ frame by frame, sometimes I still see it as people's avatars on forums, pretty cool. Shows how timeless PJ is.

[@J.F.-yy8ji]

All those lines he did at those benches were absolutely killer.

[@raensaeck]

His switch is so good I can barely tell if its switch or regular

[@youngboyharless9769]

For real. That switch heel he does in that line looks better than any regular heelflip I can ever recall landing 🤦‍♂️

[@calvindunbar9763]

Switch Flip Lincoln 15 is legendary

[@debaser9169]

its a 13 and its huge. I've seen it in person

[@oz-1037]

A 13 the size of a 16 I'm guessing

[@jgrullon32]

A huge stair set. Not a scrub stair set.

[@gmanzano89gm]

I love PJ Ladd but the fact that Greco Switch Frontside flipped em 98-99. Damn that impressive cuz even PJ couldn't

[@kamikazeExpert]

sw fs flip is actually not that much harder than a sw flip where you have to keep it switch all the way

[@mrspools9880]

The Hardflip over the Albertsons dock 👌🏻

[@thebigcheese5114]

The sw flip tail 270 in that line and the sound it makes is so perfect 🤤

[@helorumtheknightsofmambrin2155]

Good stuff!!! I can't believe it's almost 20 years old.

[@samueldare9355]

Show casing the eS Accel collection nicely.

[@kurvavoltanyad1994]

Those bench lines in the dark are unforgetable for me.. Sw fs nosegring halfcab out,such a wierd one! And Those tres and hardflips.. And he was right Silence is golden!

[@mattimaranda9638]

That same unnatural spin/motion is repeated a lot in Mark Suciu's trick selection...

[@Shaz7514]

Bought the dlc and its quickly become my favourite

[@JHall86]

Used to watch this back in the day to get pumped up for skating! Love the no music just so satisfying! Lol

[@JamesStiling1985]

I don't think I have ever seen another skater with the balance that he has. He always looks like he is in complete control while doing crazy lines. One of the 🐐 s for aure.

[@skateinpeace69]

this part leaves me speechless everytime...no speech

[@Crcmvnt]

Well it’s 2024. A lot of phenomenal skating has gone down. But this part….. this part is something special. Enjoy!

[@stringsgb8833]

One of the best sections ever

[@Max__B]

Love it! No Supreme anywhere 🙂

[@thedonofthsht76-58]

Damn this upload is almost 15 years old and "Really Sorry" came out in 03!! Making me feel old af. Such a classic vid

[@coolguy0421]

Remember watching RS for the first time and thinking who the heck is PJ Ladd but being one of my favorite parts of the whole film. So clean, precise tricks, way ahead of the game

[@capind]

I forgot why this guy is a legend smoother than butter

[@capind]

This guy invented style

[@corrym.8029]

Brings me back

[@skahler]

I love how you can hear the board flipping at 0:55 that is just the best w/ headphones

[@johnpark3079]

So much style!

[@jaygracewood3459]

One of the best short skate videos I've seen in a long ass time!

[@emgee7]

Hi wonderful horrible life is so mich better

[@FtheLaw29]

No music just the sound of bangers

[@desepairnei]

Raw skateboarding 🔥

[@jasonask1]

This part is a fucking classic.

[@PabloCruise91]

I used to watch this part religiously. I used to put on different songs to it too.

[@TonyNguyenFR]

Nineclub experience brought me here. Thanks Steezus! Gonna try and sleep to this.

[@joshbracken2944]

I feel like the 00's standard isn't being lived up to right now. Pro's need to get over FS crooks and feebles.

[@abcjc1]

so since we are on the subject margarine or buttery, what do you prefer to use in mac and cheese, i prefer margarine

[@bobkilla430]

Alot more switch than I remember. What a legend

[@LeonardSkinnard]

has to be the best skate shoe ever in my opinion...

[@plankton239]

love the cameras they film with this.

[@ejmilacek]

love da noise of da board poppin den landing so sweet lol

[@IanMercier]

beautiful

[@orfeas-konstantinossotirio1253]

I still remember the feeling I had watching this part 💥💥💥

[@markjamison6286]

still better than 90% of whats released today. people talk about innovation in skateboarding.... where? i see it quite the opposite. no skill and no sytle in todays skateboarding world.

[@EClavel]

Crazy to watch now. So fucking heavy when this dropped. So much love. Watched on repeat…. Now days there’s 3 clips I would keep for an actual part. Some wouldn’t make Insta

[@abyssesgrind]

dude killin it on the switch! so good!

[@milohollandsworth4577]

The goof around stuff in his Wonderful Horrible Life part is fun and humanizing, but this part is just banger after banger, like a terminator. Every clip hits hard.

[@hosssboy]

fakie sw fs crook.. no push... switch flip sw front tail 270. in 2003. pj and prod we're the first ones to master switch

[@danielmc8385]

That would be Penny and Creager

[@vladimirmelnik6669]

Best style ever

[@looseygoosey23]

Timeless as it can be

[@rothamolsom]

Always a favourite skater with best style

[@evansyliboy]

Switch flip at end still hit me everytime

[@FaridHusein]

one of gnarly skateboarder ever

[@Napfig]

At the end I was like: "Oh he can laugh? Hm didn't know!"

[@dannymarrero2462]

I miss this pj

[@liquidmercury433]

Legendary.

[@Bleh67420]

People: “the listing of tricks you are trying for is exceptional, you can’t do much better than that” PJ Ladd: “ I don’t know maybe I just do like way too many of the switch???”

[@TheAlibabatree]

check out his new "cruising in nyc". The old Pj is coming back, but better than ever!

[@TSMskaterz]

two door cinema what you know perfect song fits so well play the song when pj lands the tre in the beginning and the go to the part of the song when the beats kick in the beginning so perfect enjoy niqqas

[@jkwalzo]

The silence gave this part such gravity when I was a kid, made it serious like, “hey, shut up and pay attention to this.”

[@hello12345kk]

the good thing about there not being any music is that you can really hear the smack of the board on his shoes when he catches the trick mid air

[@EClavel]

Really thinking about… it really wasn’t tech that did it alone…. He was skating really fast for most of his lines…makes a huge difference …..advice if you ever think your going to fast…. Take another push!

[@bakerboylife]

i freakin love his hardflips BEAST MODE!!!!!!!!

[@dylannicholls2356]

play the original version of forever young by alphaville and it's pretty much perfection.

[@MattyGerber]

Had to give it a shot. Hearing the chorus with the line at Royal high nearly brought a tear to my eye lmfao.

[@nuendo2020]

I always play The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 to this part, perfect

[@nikokaapa]

I tried it and liked it

[@moeterbank]

@3Brockk it is somewhere in the usa

[@Calphurnious]

If you close your eyes and listen you hear music throughout the video. And it sounds awesome.

[@AtomicBl453]

There's just something different about these old clips. ♥

[@DJandWilley]

@napalmwedding Hubba isn't going anywhere, it's a name not a description.

[@llenrad84]

the music that goes with this doesnt matter. why does anyone want to even re-edit this? its perfect the way it is.

[@BradT_Herping]

haha this is still a gnarly part! crazy

[@Balt9mm]

Epic part, holy sh*t was he ahead of his time.

[@menasouvlaki3595]

Every trick was landed bolts. Amazing part

[@JasonJebezSam]

Thank you for putting the original part with no music, like it was meant to be viewed! I hate that everyone puts music on it and calls it a "re-edit" fuck that shit

[@hemmojito]

CLEAN!

[@milksteak74]

@lowrider649 That's a really awesome way to describe PJ's skating haha.

[@kmartshopper729]

this part seriously doesnt even need music,every trick is a ender

[@milksteak74]

@cemceviker What gives you that idea?

[@TETATITO]

thats cool man i just skate for fun i don't compare goodness. have fun skating man hope to see you in the streets skatin some time. have fun, film some clips! like your attitude towards skatin! Peace.

[@zackt3622]

Mullen skated so many of thosr spots. Oh the good old days

[@KBguys]

I just spent like 5mins reading through your conversation

[@CharlieSheps]

So smooth