POWELL PERALTA PRESENTS: PUBLIC DOMAIN

[@TheFusion336]

Ray Barbee owned this whole video.

[@AdamYoung76]

Grew up watching this scene over and over on VHS.. wore the tape out.. trying to learn the impossible and copy the tricks. 46yrs old now and this just makes me feel fuzzy all over watching it again. The music, the skaters.. everything about this time as a kid and skating every day I could. What a great time to be a kid and into skating.

[@stu1wyatt]

I'm back out skating at the same age and loving it , these videos give me all the inspiration I need

[@the_cafe_racer_project]

Superb, awesome quality. This was my inspiration as an early teenager and again now as a 46 year old returning to skating after a 30 year gap.

[@the_cafe_racer_project]

Peter McConnochie absolutely...you should get skating again

[@herbertbossaerts8068]

Me too man. Me too.

[@cheradeninezakalwe.]

I'd love to start skating again but my knees aren't up to it, same age as you as well, good luck man 😁

[@the_cafe_racer_project]

Cheradenine Zakalwe do it man. I’m finding mini ramps kill but flat ground rocks...

[@cheradeninezakalwe.]

@@the_cafe_racer_project yeah I might just get a deck and go carving and grinding, always preferred street to ramp anyway, what land are you in?

[@RaulMeatFactory1975]

We were so lucky, what a time to be young and a skater. 🤠

[@hektorlinko]

Hell yeah I'm now 50 years old in 2024 born in 74 and these years were the best and funnest for me at that time skating. Damn the best teen years of my life. You are correct my friend. Good times! Thumbs!

[@daflump6358]

​@@hektorlinko WORD. Loved this on vhs !! This vid, streets on fire and its ilk was how we learned tricks. VHS freeze frame for the win !!

[@Romafood]

so true! also here in italy it was great! (i am 49)

[@soylentbob6725]

I just learned to play "Weakness" by McRad on my guitar. Song has stuck with me forever. This whole video, really, has stuck with me.

[@jasondashney]

That's one of the all time guitar intros. It's up there with "Ain't talkin bout love".

[@emmanuela.mendoza2988]

Me too. 💯

[@BASE5NYC]

Grew up watching these in the 80s like everyone else in the comments…such a rad time…and still skating. Watching this now with a busted up wrist from skating Union Square in Manhattan last night. Can’t keep up with the 20 year olds blasting hand rails but can slappy curbs all night and I’m still surrounded by the scene. Can’t see ever stopping.

[@rocker8692]

Was this the golden age of skateboarding, I was there,best time in my life

[@JaredGenesis444]

[@hektorlinko]

Yes it was! It was so much fun. I was there and lived it. These were the years that had Powell, H-Street, Santa Cruz had the market and Thrasher Magazine was the shit, Punk Rock and early Thrash was at it's fined tune, Vision Street Wear was bad ass and mom and pop shops like Skate City and other stores were banking. Teens finding any place in the city to skate were tagged nicknames in areas we weren't supposed to be in and the term "Skateboarding is not a Crime" was a big sticker logo and life was fun and of course after skating we'd play Nintendo and then watching these videos that were dubbed by all our skater friends with 2 VCR's lol Yes it was the golden age. Thanks bro for bringing this up. WooHOO! Thumbs Up and shared.

[@Ymmij1976]

YESSSS🤙🤙🤙🤙

[@secularspectator]

Born 76 skating was my life. Skated pro for a short time in the 90's now wanting to get back after 20 years. Thanks for all the good times PP!

[@jamalydude]

What is your name mind asking

[@HGVMe]

54 years old. Truck driver living in the UK. THIS was my inspiration as a kid. Seen in the mags when we could get hold of them. Loved the bones brigade and still do in 2020.

[@PanzerChicken69]

50 years old, still skating, same storie. We are being blessed. Truck on skater!

[@JRA73]

Born in 73', skated from 85 till 91 and they were the best happiest days of my life by far!! Brilliant times!! Britain.

[@eucalovthisbalm7828]

26:02 That's me!

[@johnhardwick3002]

Rodney Mullen brings tears to my eyes. And chills. This guy is a true skateboarding legend 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@AdamYoung76]

Same after watching the Bones Brigade autobiography, I had the same feeling and the chills hearing him talk about his experinces.

[@PanzerChicken69]

I have been skating since 1983 and just want to say that Ray Barbie is my favourite underrated skater. When this movie came out all I did was learn every single trick he made and his no comply's are to this day part of my trickbook. That style, that smoothness.. just absolutely stunning

[@thomaschristopher6566]

I watched this video because the memory is etched into my brain 🧠… what a street skater should aspire to be… Ray Barbee!

[@isaactorres5908]

If you lived in the 80s and in Southern California and skateboarded..you were blessed. There was nothing better!

[@ryangann5037]

It was pretty good in Canada too

[@kitty2band]

The first SK8 video I ever saw....I was hooked strait away. To be fair this one is so well put together by Stacy it could be showed in cinemas across the world. Even today!

[@JasonBunting]

One of the best skate videos of all time - obviously. :)

[@the-keep]

Got my first board in 1988 for my 11th birthday; recently clocked 47 and I'm still rolling. Skateboarding is the best. Greetings from Ireland. 🇮🇪

[@heyitMeMcFlyunfortunately]

ray barbee's backside no comply is art

[@Aeronaut1975]

I saw this for the first time in '89 and it's inspired me ever since (I also love the soundtrack). Last week, I got the Ray Barbee Ragdoll deck, the deck I've wanted since I was 14, and now I have it! :D

[@ShawnjHiggins]

Had it and broke it lol Where did you find that board?

[@burtman9649]

@@ShawnjHiggins Skate1.com has it in blue and its on sale on Amazon

[@doodahman2995]

I skated a Tommy Guerrero, and then a Lance Mountain. And also the Powell Board with the skeleton ripping out of the wings. Loved it. This was my early teens. Mid to late 80s rocked.

[@Aeronaut1975]

@@ShawnjHiggins I can't remember, but you can still get them if you live in Europe, a few places still have them in stock.

[@gttpete]

My teenage years right there in that video, so many memories flooding back, great times, thanks for posting this.

[@danielbaugher826]

Amen 🙏

[@LannyC]

I remember learning Ray barbee's entire line from 7:00 when i was younger, i was obsessed with that part, had it perfect too :)

[@yannc1975]

I loooooooooooove Powell peralta vidéos especially Public Domain. I didn't really experience that period, but I still had a skateboard with only one tail. it was towards the end. I loved skateboarding but I spent more time on the ground or sitting on the skateboard than standing. Then it came slowly. I wish I was 12 and discovering all those amazing videos! Thank you Stacy and Bones Brigade team !!!!!!!

[@yandman26]

This video was my childhood, my teenage years and my life now. Everyday I would watch it and then go skate. It's so iconic from start to finish.

[@zachgormley1952]

I don't even remember watching this 100 times! I'm watching this now, and for some reason can recall every second of it!

[@MarcoGrandia]

yeah right.?!. Every sound effect, things they were saying, wow… blast form the past

[@RAISEONER]

I was a total skater kid in the 80s .. I remember my dad driving me to pick up the vhs from a skate shop .. and I love this video so much .. the sk80s where awesome .. great memories!!

[@simonvance8054]

Ironically life was more fun when you had to drive an hour to rent a VHS from a skate shop!...it was like a mission...

[@mikenoface]

This video has: The world's introduction to Ray Barbee, Frankie Hill, Danny Way, and Mike V. The first time seeing people do handrail slides on video. Rodney doing a triple kickflip and probably the first flat ground tre flip on video? Insane how great this video was.

[@Krisboul]

…aaand also: McRad!

[@rebusd]

Don't forget Colin McKay and Chet Thomas :)

[@jamesradskijr.9745]

I appreciate this Public Domain so much more all these yrs later. Thank you Powell Peralta

[@crashstitches79]

This is my favorite old skate flick. Used to rent it at an old video store in Vegas that had a yellow submarine built as one of the rooms for videos, and the skate vids were in the submarine room. The adult section had swinging saloon doors so I couldn't sneak in LOL.

[@TECsta76]

Skate movie classic of our/my time.. over 20 skater teen gang in the suburbs of London city, PD Everytime!! The Bones Brigades lockdown of Romford skatepark (where i now live) was legendary!!!

[@turokk1]

By far my favourite Powell Peralta video, I remember watching this with my brother and all the kids who skated in the neighbourhood. We'd watch this and then go skate the streets and school parking lots. Man best time of my life. Oh and the music Mcrad - Weakness made the that opening scene.

[@OldSchoolVibes1978]

Probably the best video of the era, along with Hokus Pokus

[@nocturnalron69]

Wow! Totally agree 100 percent.

[@bennyshambles]

I’d say Ban This is better, although this one is a lot of fun and was the first “new” Powell video I saw as a kid in 1988. Ray Barbee completely destroys the other three Rubber Boys. It’s crazy how much better he was than them. Then the LA Boys blow that out of the water the following year.

[@bert_gimspon]

I always idolized Jay Adams and Tony Alva growing up, but the more I learn and mature, the more I grow to respect Stacey. I was always that kid trying to be cool and idolizing the wrong people. And look where being cool got all of us trouble makers... Stacey and this team is truly one of the greatest things ever to happen to skateboarding. God bless Stacey.

[@icantollie]

Compare what became of Alva Posse with where the alumni of Bones Brigade are today and you realize that what Stacy Peralta and Bones Brigade demonstrated is that it's not that nice guys finish last, it's that the good guys .. _last_

[@stusux]

I used to hire this every weekend pretty much from the video store as a kid. So nostalgic for me.

[@karljokkerlukkas_974]

Powell et Peralta crew Good old Days

[@SleepyAlice895]

I would kill for this on DVD with a full commentary by some of the brigade.

[@Gouki4130]

This was the one for my crew as a kid, each of us knew the skating, script and music off by heart. I’m still skating (Powell Peralta) many years later, just slower ;p Thanks for the official upload

[@ibookboyuk]

Literally one of the best skate films ever. Genius work of editing, the music is great, the skateboarding is great too and it keeps your interest all the way through.

[@kellyward5820]

High Ollie zone! That's it I'm dusting off my boards at 45yrs!

[@ianpark9404]

Ray barbee was soooooo ahead of his time crazy

[@JAWS_164]

Mike V Skating is the reason why I am skating

[@backtotheboard837]

Kind of funny that something titled Public Domain took so long to land on KZbin. Not complaining though. Just glad to have it here.

[@Djwannabe68.1]

Favorite skate vid of all time

[@kravitz1999]

7:00 Ray's sequence here still holds up, joy to watch

[@BrothersByBud]

Incredible Rubber Boys entire part was way ahead of it's time.

[@DavidDay-y2f]

The Ray Barbee highlight in this segment is so smooth, balletic and awesome. Performance art of the highest order. I never tire of watching it and remember trying to learn it in 1989

[@kravitz1999]

@@DavidDay-y2f absolutely

[@rebusd]

The best Powell vid bar none, even though I love individual sections in the others... like Guy/Rudy/Paulo/Gabriel and Pat Brennan. This one had everything

[@smokeynewport1591]

I watched this one a thousand times on VHS back in the day! Thanks for posting it here.

[@rudekid82]

This shit is just hilarious watching so many years later

[@johnorosz7477]

Awesome! This video was my inspiration each morning in North Dakota as an early teenager and again now as a 46 year old returning to skating after a 30 year gap.

[@simonvance8054]

I'm 48 this year and just decided to start skating again...it's going to be interesting...now I can buy all the cool crap I could never afford years ago!..

[@Thor-]

​@@simonvance8054I'm 49 now and I've decided to start skating again. I picked up a Caballero street reissue the other day. It should be interesting. I know I'm gonna feel the bails a lot more now lol

[@randyeastwood7620]

From the kinky walls of Paramount CA skate park to SK8 Charleston, I'm still carving walls - from 16 to 60, sk8 on and keep a pure heart for your brothers and sisters everywhere!

[@Monitored2]

Didn't have parks back then in our town.This was the first time seeing Frankie Hill. Inspiration to our street skating.Thanks

[@benjaminlarroque7155]

huge thank to you, masterpiece of my child time, i love this movie more than any other skateboard movie. What a gift.

[@marokokisetter]

Amazing, timeless, skateboarding is California and Southern California’s legacy and loving gift to the world and our amazing state.. enjoy

[@ShawnjHiggins]

HAHA I STILL HAVE THIS ON VHS!!!!!!! I remember buying this out of the skate shop when it came out... I think i was 16 years old in Daytona beach... brings me back :D

[@Jeremyvest]

The best skate video of all time. The reason I started skating in the 80's

[@gzgustavo94]

A Real Masterpiece!

[@RodrigoOrlov-om2ql]

Totally amazing !

[@BeachBumsk8]

Classic, we need more

[@1290Hooligan]

Arrived in the post in 88, took it in to high school and hijacked the giant tv/vhs combo, called all the skaters and watched and watched and watched. Paused rewind watched and watched again. This was a regular every weekend prior to heading out to skate.

[@edgill5930]

Had this on lock all through my GCSE's. HAd a VCR and a TV next to my bed and used to watch it late into thr night. Kinda flunked my GCSE's but still love this!

[@glenncampbell1176]

Powell's ' Public Domain' n Ray Barbies part 1st time I ever saw a no-comply to revert was soooo sick back in da day

[@hosoiarchives4858]

16:32 McGill 22:08 Mullen 27:00 Way Lasek Underhill 31:28 Gezmer gliding 49:29 Steve Caballero 55:34 T Hawk

[@SiGhast]

Thank you guys so much for uploading these. This is an era I missed out on personally but have always been super interested in as an '80s pop culture fanatic. I have watched a bunch of old school skate videos the past few years, but never got a hold of most of these until now. You've convinced me to get back on the board after about 15 years. I just purchased an old school deck, green Slime Balls, cyan rails, and purple trucks. Let's hopefully not break bones!

[@funkmasterfishdatdamnfish7442]

I was 14 after we watch this we was so hyped to go skate . The music the style was a great growing up to this!!!! Animal Chin will always be the best thou

[@arneottosson4535]

Why aren’t skate movies INTELLIGENT any more? This is just so much more dynamic and interesting to watch, so much more is going on intellectually. I mean, I didn’t pick up all the irony and the intellectual fun going on as a kid, but now, I can enjoy a whole new layer of this video. The Powell Peralta skate videos are yet to be beaten by some future generation, It hasn’t happened yet. ❤

[@Ajnananda]

I bought this and future primitive on vhs in the early 2000's... I loved it then and absolutely love it now. The original spirit of skateboarding seeps through every second of these films. Thank you for uploading this!!

[@PaulMerritt2]

This is one of the best videos I've ever seen.

[@timgstar3585]

Best days of my life 🤘

[@ZYSKOMADRID]

Awesome! I'm back to my 12!

[@garrytrinh3062]

A Powell Peralta masterpiece.

[@micha_ncl]

Memories

[@chronictech215]

Use to watch this as a kid. Just as good now. Till the wheels fall off

[@kamandalu]

thx stacy,bringing good memories back,those movies inspired me to go sk8,back in the days when i was 15,now 45 and a few years on regular base back on the board,still skating my Danny Way from the 90 's belgian greetings!

[@Giostrasse03]

A million brilliant memories watching this. Epic times.

[@michaelvigil1417]

YESSS!! This sure takes me back. Me and my boys used to get pumped to skate by watching these movies by PP! Who remembers the Legend of Chan? I dont know if that is what its called but had the old crew of Hawk, Guerrero, Caballero, McGill and Lance Mountain brought the humor...Awww memories!

[@noblestsavage1742]

The search for animal chin?

[@thomaschristopher6566]

@@noblestsavage1742he was close …

[@simonvance8054]

Great video...great memories of watching this as a kid...

[@ojscustoms9251]

I remember watching this as a kid and seeing hawks home ramp and thought he was the luckiest person alive!......

[@danielbaugher826]

After I first seen this as a kid the song weakness stayed in my head lol I would try and hear it in my brain while I was skating 😂 great stuff

[@sbeutler]

Thank you sooooo much for not putting commercials in this!!!!

[@TheLineCrusherPVC]

Used to watch this almost everyday. I went to a local Smiths grocery store whose video store was going out of business and got this along with wheels on fire, ban this and streets on fire all for $2 each...

[@ReaghNetwork]

Super cool guys excellent job we love you

[@pobelfilm]

The best skateboard videos ever made. This is a masterpiece pushed to the limits of creativity.

[@pper79]

Want my money Powell Peralta? Make a soundtrack of this! $$$

[@esk8jaimes]

Yesss!

[@pinthetailproductions4859]

The fact that this isn't on spotify makes no sense. Especially that Rodney Mullen Dead Can Dance Cover.

[@danielbaugher826]

@@pinthetailproductions4859 I had no idea dead can dance was around back then lol wow

[@Thor-]

1000% Put the soundtrack to this out on vinyl and I guarantee I'm buying 2 copies!

[@cinemar]

I remember when the Bones Brigade came to Sydney, Australia and premiered Public Domain at Burwood. Watching the Bones Brigade with the Bones Brigade was insane! We couldn't believe what Ray Barbie was doing. Unfortunately Lance wasn't with them but I'll never forget that day. Still searching for him, if you know what I mean.

[@michaelmoses4901]

Ray Barbee....so fluid and dope.

[@thomaschristopher6566]

My favorite street skater of all time!

[@TheStrattonman]

God I used to love this film. I still do ! Two bits that stand out , every bit of the Vallely scenes and that sequence at 7.00 with Ray Barbie.

[@KingCorduroyPresents]

This is killer production on top of the badass skating! Love the vibe! 🔥🔥🔥

[@Thor-]

Way back in the 1988, I traded a kid at school an old army helmet for an XT Tony Hawk Skull board. I only did it so I could ride it to school and back, and that's what I did for about 6 to 8 months. Just rode it. Then I was spending the night with a friend and his brother was watching Public Domain. All I had ever seen was vert and pool skating in movies, I'd never seen street skating. When I saw the Steve Saiz, and Ray Barbee part, and the Mike Valley part I was blown away. I thought I could learn to do this. It was a life changing moment. This remains my favorite skate video to this day.

[@tygerkittylim1348]

Kinda cool to see how fashion and style hasn't changed much from generation back then to mine now this is 🔥

[@jasonweber5464]

When I watch old vids from my childhood I can smell the pad stench. Skateboarding, my true love

[@MrEdit74]

Thanks for uploading

[@LynxSocial]

Ok.... THIS is the best video of all time...

[@rikkifulton5055]

OMG I remember loving this video so much me and m8's would watch and watch trying to learn the tricks. The sound track bring it all back!

[@lzzzo]

would watch this over most of the new parts coming out

[@smallfaucet]

Sk8ing is different but damn......they're doing amazing things these days that I never thought possible when I was 14 haha! This vid is gold!

[@ryanhie2829]

I grew up trying to skate and was never exposed to Powell Peralta vids. This is an awesome retrospective look at the sport/art of skateboarding and, as expected, the soundtrack is fantastic. Thanks for sharing! Skateboard Or Die Bored!

[@lotwizzard1748]

thanks for the intro Stacy

[@HikeMoab]

No one shaped my youth and teenage years more than Stacy, 42 years skating now! So ahead of the times, but right on time for Gen X!

[@wendaltvedt4673]

The 80s Powell videos were so polar opposite from the H-Street videos. Very high budget with all sorts of editing tricks and cheesie humor skits. That style of video quickly became generic and outdated by the 90s but even so, the 80 Powell videos were our bible for a whole year until the next video was released and they not only got us pumped to go skate but they were also humorously entertaining.

[@mikemcginnis1288]

What an inspiration this was to see when it came out. Skate or die.

[@Sonneilon6]

When McRad was king of skate rock! Great video all around.

[@simonvance8054]

Just found their song Ship on iTunes yesterday...instrumental only though no lyrics...

[@jasonweber5464]

Harris had on my first actual skate shoe. Air walks with the Ollie guard. I would skate them shoes right now

[@james-coble]

I remember years ago when I was a kid I was cleaning out a house with my dad and I found this public domain VHS tape in brand new condition… it’s still had plastic on over it.. I picked it up and took it home unwrapped it didn’t think much about it… but I popped it in my VHS player… MAN! 🤯 I was blown away! Dude, I had no clue what it was lol but it hooked me onto skateboarding. Crazy fun fact story 👍🏻 I wish I could find a original copy of this again lol I would totally buy it