POWELL PERALTA PRESENTS: THE SEARCH FOR ANIMAL CHIN

[@jdmcnugent6808]

Man kids are so lucky nowadays with KZbin. Videos like this were hard to come by for someone like me back in the 80s. Coming from a small town and a family without much money, I only dreamed of getting all the new and upcoming skateboarding vidoes. Luckily I had a rich friend who's parents brought him some of the videos and I would watch them at his house. Thank you for uploading these.

[@margaretwelsh8125]

I hunted for it for months in the early 2000s

[@theshamanarchist5441]

Ha ha. Exactly the same for me. And the rich kids could afford the overpriced PP boards which in the UK were always 30% dearer than all the other brands. So I always thought the kids who rode PP where all wankers ha ha. I still liked Chin though as a video and Tommy Guerro was a nice regular guy. Couldn't give a sh1t about Tony and the rest of them. Santa Cruz all the way holmes.

[@niksmith7105]

@@margaretwelsh8125 as someone who grew up skating after this generation I still find these to be the best

[@michaelstringly4138]

VHS was pretty lame back then.

[@jefmccurdy4810]

Back in '89 I finally got my hands on a copy of a Bones Brigade VHS. I was so stoked that I ran home from school to watch it. My VCR ate the tape and the friend who lent it to me never spoke to me again.

[@morizenfoche]

I had fun shooting still of this at the PINK MOTEL, in LA and at WALLOS in Hawaii. Lance was funny AF at the PINK MOTEL. One of the memorable times of my life. Love these guys. Have enjoyed watching them grow old, and become the successful humans they are today.

[@RedSiegfried]

I never knew these guys personally, but I feel like I grew up with them in a way. Minus the injuries, as much. :)

[@danefuentes3877]

MoFo!! 🔥

[@RoseanneSeason7]

That's awesome man. Growing up in vista Ca, a kid at my apartment complex had a Lance Mountain board. I was so jealous

[@rkline65]

Of the 100 memorable lines in this movie, I don’t know why, but I always crack up when they are looking at the milk carton and McGill is going “that’s him, that’s the guy”……..

[@sarahconnor2072]

I live in Canada. In ‘86 I was 13, got $50 for my bday, got a money order at the local post office in U.S. funds, mailed that off…when the VHS movie finally arrived was so excited.

[@polypetalous]

47 years old today and watch this once a year… still love it now as much as I did as a 10-year old. My thanks to all involved for this.

[@slashtrio]

49 here....me too👍

[@epatacio]

​@@slashtrio50 and it reminds me of freshman year

[@truss6282]

49 and still watching it and still ride my board although i can't do the things i used to. I wish we could all jump in a Time Machine and go rip it up together. SK8 hard fellas!!!

[@RoseanneSeason7]

👍💯

[@nyemartin5737]

The best skate video of all time.

[@jamesmuller1481]

Too bad Stacy doesn't think so.

[@KingofCrusher]

@@jamesmuller1481 dude you commented this multiple times. why you gotta try and bring people down who just love this vid?

[@JAWS1376]

I miss being young. 10 years old watching this every day for months. trying to emulate them in the front yard! I know one thing though. I wish I would've bought all the decks my local athletic store had back in the day. I remember my parents buying me my first Caballero deck like it was yesterday. (33 years ago)

[@dirtlos3497]

Dude, you can find all the old school decks reissued!! They are out there. Check SoCal skate shop or even direct from Powell. Enjoy!!

[@emilioesquivel6883]

What was street skating like in 1980's

[@ShaunSilk-ew7cy]

@emilioesquivel6883 On street I did kick flips, late flip or back foot flips, heel flips, handrails etc and I was a vert skater.

[@epatacio]

I had a Cab too...the one with a dragon

[@DrTzeus]

WOW......flashing me back to neon sweaters, cut off sleeves, and yin/yang checkered edges on everything..... and skating all over Riverside California trying to find a rich kid who had this movie on VCR! Dem BONES! Powell Peralta is LEGEND!!! What a Halloween treat for me! (53 years young....still pulling myself around with the front leg... in Wing Tzun Kung fu how ironic! )

[@sunilsolanki]

Greatest skate movie ever made. Full of soul and style. And man I loved those jokes soooooo much. Thank you so much Bones Brigade for all the happy memories and inspiration... 45 years young and still skating.

[@jeremypetro1084]

I loved this, it makes me happy today just like it did in the 80's

[@hawkwind769]

You should get a onewheel... Same feel for us old dudes. Freedom

[@jeremypetro1084]

@@hawkwind769 im 47 and suck at awesomeness but I tore myself to pieces trying but after 20 rotator cuffs blown out i struggle not being able to play! It hurts worse to be just watching when you can really rock it!

[@deshenhwang2704]

Best SK8-flick in history of skateboarding. That's def my all time favorite video right here. Thanks for uploading, guys.

[@michaelstringly4138]

I think Doggtown and Z-boys is way better. This one is kinda boring.

[@jamesmuller1481]

Too bad Stacy doesn't think so.

[@denziljoe]

This and Streets on Fire

[@angelpatton3851]

Love the lady walking at 12:56 .... she hears like 5 or 6 skateboards crashing up behind her and doesn't even look over her shoulder or move over.. she's hard core!😆😆😆🛹🛹🛹🛹👍👍👍

[@foglebr]

That nightmare scene was a great way to incorporate the bloopers and outtakes. Definitely going to remember that story trick for inspiration.

[@BASE5NYC]

As a kid growing up in the 80s on the east coast there was nothing more important than watching these Powell videos

[@Satans_Financial_Advisor]

I think I spotted him for a minute in the 80s but I found him in the 90s. Life has a way of making him vanish over and over. I've found him a few times over the decades since. Always looking, never giving up. Even when he's gone, you know he's out there waiting for you to start the journey again.

[@truss6282]

Well said

[@timdurkee1029]

Indeed ​@@truss6282

[@gebsvideos6856]

This goofy movie got me into skating. Thanks!!!!! I’m still searching 30 plus years later.

[@paulmarlow849]

Since the eighties and for ever more the soul and very spirit of skating. Just magic.

[@funkyk]

Although growing up skating in the mid 90's my local skate shop pulled this out of the dusty attic and let me borrow a piece of skateboarding history. Such a classic amazing video! Woke up early on summer days watching this, eating cereal and then go skate all day.

[@master_illitrix]

What a time to be alive

[@miguel360kmc]

2000s for me had a uncle that was a early 90s skater I was like 13 he gave me 2 joints and this vhs tape said have fun 😊 mind blown away

[@timdurkee1029]

​@mastegot that right r_illitrix

[@BeachBumsk8]

When skating was fun. Now, it’s about jumping down 50 stairs and flip tricks. Well, at least Andy Anderson keeps some of the 80s tricks alive.

[@youseeus]

So rad. I remember skating a spot around this time called Townhouses by my house in Glendale Ca. It was basically concrete drainage for the hills. Out of nowhere Lance Mountain shows up and starts skating with us. He was obviously so fuggin good and super cool. Like almost all skate spots it was later destroyed but I’ll never forget that day.

[@michaelmoses4901]

Thats awesome

[@sliimetown5387]

Came from Dan's channel, his new video has the clear grip with the QR code on it 😂

[@Arstine]

This is the video that really pushed me to progress in the 80s. I got my first board in 85 and this pushed me to learn vert riding. We had a skate shop here that rented videos and this one was always at one of my friend's places. We would watch this then go out and skate all night after. Truly an iconic video right here.

[@whatever4561]

I wish they would add to the animal chin mythos. It really deserves another film. maybe a throwback style one. it could be like all the original guys finally found him after all these years and they got old while looking

[@oneskinnyhonky]

I'd like a meta-sequel where younger skaters are influenced by the film to go find the original spots & some new ones along the way, culminating at the permanent Chin ramp that was built.

[@yeaitsmemikec.2018]

the first video I ever saw was this when I started skating...@ 1988 ....this movies the best ,,when you wanna get down to the meaning of skateboaring

[@jasoncarter2355]

Finally: I can do my METHOD air and ONE FOOT air and JUDO air and COMB YOUR hair workout again.

[@arranpattison5809]

Jason Carter I used to do 'airs' with my board lay down on my bed when I was a kid too in the late eighties early nineties... Funny thing is that I didn't see this until a younger skater mate showed me around 2011! Must have been 'searching for animal chin' back then without realising it... 🤔

[@tlgskateboards4957]

Dang dude I wish I could Method air they look so sick especially when Natas does it

[@SandlapperSam]

I like watching old skate videos to get me pumped to go skate more than todays videos where people are doing crazy stuff way out of my reach.

[@martinbarrera7193]

Omg. The memories, San Diego Ca. 1980's! ( for me )

[@aetherflow]

Went through 4 VHS copies of this. Thanks for posting it

[@kevingriffith3801]

I was there man. P&P board and Indie trucks. It was a way of life. Simple. Then came P&P videos and then Gleaming the Cube. Interacial harmony and all sorts of great adolescent experiences all around sidewalk surfing. It was about finding that buddy's hidden skateboard ramp or that perfect curb to thrash. Differences didn't matter and everyone was accepted unilaterally. Life was good then and those experiences led to life now. That's the $h!t.

[@thechicken7092]

Thanks for uploading all the old Powell Peralta vids!!

[@mmad-sd4wc]

After “ until the wheels fall off “ in 2022 I looked up all the old Bones videos …. I truly loved with all my heart when skating was a predominately Californian thing , it was so ubiquitous in s.d/Southern California….being a kid at that time was awesome , checking out a friends sweet new deck or being lucky enough to find a new killer shirt … Air Jordans … plus I loved my BIG10 relatives not knowing wtf a mctwist , Ollie or tracker truck was ……. the backyard ramp scene is so reminiscent of a ramp we would skate to get to in Claremont … Rad as F

[@suburbia8831]

So rad 🛹 one of the time best skate videos ever made & RAY UNDERHILL RIP

[@techhead8873]

Thank you for bringing this to KZbin! This movie had some of the best skating back then! As a kid watching this back in the day, it made me excited! Loved watching the Bones Brigade perform. Still gives me that feeling watching this movie now.

[@jockeltje]

Haha, it's the first time in my life after more than 30 years I see this video without this VHS tape grain and stripes and crancy sound... being a kid with my first Ray Barbee deck, best time of my life

[@ianpark6722]

The sound of those swiss bearings!!!

[@EricCarroll27]

Thanks for sharing this 🛹 💎 with us

[@adriantardy205]

Favorite skate video of all time.

[@EverymanJWL]

Yes!!!! My favorite sk8 movie EVER. Sweet sweet memories.

[@bernardwallace435]

Just as amazing today as when it came out!!!

[@hendo337]

I really enjoy this, even if Stacy Peralta is embarrassed by it, I think it has heart.

[@drtydawg73]

this is and always will be my favourite skate video. :-)

[@emuziek]

We hung up "Have You Seen Him?" posters all over our High School... I never knew it was inspired from this movie.

[@baymtl]

I can’t believe I’m just seeing this for the first time in 2024. What a classic amazing movie. Gonna go skate, bye.

[@Carl2112]

One of the best skate vids! Wow, brings back a lot of memories being a kid in the 80's when this came out. Good times!

[@thangs]

This was right around the beginning for me. I watched this tape until it finally broke. Such good memories. Thanks for putting this up.

[@davidnee]

I have this on VHS - I bought it used from the Fairfax Skate Shop (was a rental). Pretty tattered box/sleeve. I wonder if it's collectible!!!

[@robweissman5952]

No man rocked pink like Tony Hawk in the 80s.

[@sirgigglez]

Bret hit man hart

[@robweissman5952]

@@sirgigglez Noted, contemplated, and denied.... Hot Pink Hawk rules the 80s for sure.

[@americangothic1313]

he was a wannabe Kevin Staab

[@ibookboyuk]

I have always loved this film. It is one of the best skate videos ever made.

[@mojave001]

I remember when this came out! I love these guys

[@scottieskatan4219]

Gotta love Johnny Rad,one of the great skating movies of my gen...

[@michaelgilpin6180]

Johnny is the best.

[@briansims813]

Wow this took me back ....Great memories!

[@JeffBisCamp]

I Grew Up on This !! Great Then & Now !! Truly Timeless !! 🤘😎👍🌴☀️🛹🛹🛹🛹🛹

[@hawkwind769]

I've been onewheeeling these past two years and man... Really brings back this vibe. Just cruising around and killing it. I highly recommend for any one born prior to 85

[@davemaestas5014]

Best skate video ever! Remember watching this as a kid

[@jaykoons]

Famous,, Pink Motel, Sun Valley California, Been there a few good time's, even met and seen Tony Hawk, Stacey Peralta, Caballero, and Garrero, Those was the great awesome day's of true Sk8ting, not like there is of the new Sk8er 's out now. .

[@undeadmach1ne]

im 44 and im still searching for chin to this day 🖤

[@billnyetheskateboardguy4800]

Who dislikes this masterpiece

[@telemachia]

Stacy Peralta

[@1unisol1]

There a few things that stand out in this compared to modern Videos: 1. Not that much Fisheye 2. Not individuals but a whole team shredding together 3. The feeling of moving from A to B

[@wecanwatersports4151]

First SK8 video I watched! Chee! Hu! Love seeing the O'ahu footage. Looking foward to seeing custom SK8 boards with custom graphic's! 🫵😊

[@jensbeatty5934]

Thank you for this!

[@aaronregan5061]

This is amazing

[@stanfordhiga2135]

I remember skating down to the local skate shop to rent this VHS!!!! I have the shirt “have you seen him”

[@chokediscos]

I Saw in 1986 in Brasil ! Change my life !!!!! Powell peralta The best team ever (Sorry plan b)

[@pierredupont1096]

First time I've seen this since the 80s and it still wrecks shop. What a time capsule, thanks you two and the BB!

[@Macnuggetz]

generation of the sick board shapes

[@laurentquintana262]

pure gem from the past, love it so much

[@Romafood]

Gentlemen, here is our adolescence. For me it is a time machine. A hug from Rome Italy

[@strayferal]

It is December 2020, Covid times, I am in Toronto, we got snow, my longboard is on the balcony and I am finally having the chance to see "The Search for Animal Chin"! And with amazing quality! I have to say, from cinematic point of view, as a cameraman and KZbinr, the movie is truly amazing. I love how all the shots were done, especially the action shots. Editing is amazing, the videos are in great sync with the music and often cool sound effects were added. Thanks for the upload guys! Wish it is 1987 again!

[@solnya]

Watching this for the first time today 2021, amazing good vibes !

[@hectormartinhurtadofalcon4505]

Gracias ❤ por tan nostálgico video 🚷🛹✌️ bendiciones

[@edradil3438]

Chin ramp was epic. Something about the mini half up on the top made it the greatest feature for me. Set the tone for a lot of indoor parks across the country to do as much as you could with limited space.

[@MrQwiksix21]

This was like riding in a time machine......

[@lustforlow-end6022]

“Method air & 1 foot air & judo air & comb your hair!” 😂😂😂

[@josh4106]

I love these old videos ... these guys look like they're having so much fucking fun it makes you jealous.

[@PoweredByAudio]

Seeing the “Have you seen him?” stickers led me down a path to enlightenment

[@Si74l0rd]

Inspirational intro Stacey. Any way you ride your board is best, is the truth for sure. Any age, any skill level, all skaters are cool. Also thanks for putting this one up on KZbin, my VHS tape of it went the way of the dinosaurs! Also interesting to note that it was before the age of hyper aggressive dentistry for kids in the USA. Ah man, I'd forgotten about the Animal Chin rap. Good times! And that is still probably the greatest ramp ever at the end of the movie. I'd love to have a go on that beast, something for everyone! The still shots at the absolute apex of the hang time on that ramp are still to this day absolutely stunning. You can feel the exhilaration as they push themselves to the fullest on something so far beyond the bounds of what had previously been available to skate. Incredible video that more than stands the test of time. It was also my first glimpse of Rodney Mullen doing his unique freestyle stuff. Took me a while back then to find out who the kid pogoing at the party was! Easily one of,if not the, most influential skate videos ever. There's a lot to be proud of to all involved. Thanks guys, all of you!

[@homeboyjon4885]

I used to have all of the dialog memorized and me and my crew would quote whole scenes to each other when we’d take skate breaks.

[@michaelaguayo3167]

Thank you. Thank you all skateboarders

[@snapduke]

Vert is coming to the Olympics. I can see the next generation of bones riders in the making. Was only a matter of time.

[@sk8-brd-bus124]

My all time favorite!

[@AllenSentinery]

Great movie! Excellent skating!

[@runawayuniverse]

The best skate video ever

[@LukeDodge916]

@ 34:40 did Lance actually say "later, dawg" to that fin??? Man I never heard anyone saying dawg in the 80s! I really thought that came around in the late 90s!! Nice!

[@fukcensorship9395]

No blacks were saying dawg in the 80s and them being from California they probably heard that word a lot

[@japanaircarrier1394]

Thank you!!! This was my favorite video tape ever!!!

[@davepc2u]

Won ton animal chin 62 when he disappeared, I'm thinking damn that's a hard 62 in the picture.

[@tinusstrydom4477]

Dude when i was a skater dude in the late nineties and early 2000s when I found this footage.. I was like.. Ive been blessed by the Gods

[@tanneredge9774]

Legend has it, Animal Chin still has never been found.

[@danarrington2224]

43:10 The world's first hard flip. I know he flipped the board with his hand but still. This was like 35 years ago!!!

[@starzkream]

I have been searching for Chin for almost 45 years now.

[@artistpoet5253]

First sk8 I had was this plastic banana board called the sidewalk surfer. I was like 8 or 9? Rode that thing into the ground. Put skating on hold for a few years until I saw Powell Peralta at the local one-man sports store. My current stick is this really simple street board, PP, no d'uh, that my wife bought me for an anniversary. Good to see the old videos still getting out there. Thanks for some awesome times.

[@SeanLewisMedia]

Your QR codes got me..

[@TuriyanGold]

Saw part of this at a friends house, when Bony Cock did that wallride and came down on his elbow pads, I literally walked out of the house and went to skate on his driveway.

[@stella-vu8vh]

Finally. Been waiting for this

[@FREEINGTHEMIND]

🔥ULTIMATE SUPREME CLASSIC 🎞 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@ryanhingorani4019]

Here after watching 'Seen Him". I love skateboarding so much.

[@MichaelGreenKites]

28:41 This made me and my girl laugh out loud as first time watchers. Lance was a funny kid 😂

[@michaelgilpin6180]

Yeah, Lance is hilarious.

[@KnightOnBaldMountain]

I had the good fortune of renting and watching this video while living in San Diego in the 80s. I also had the pleasure of skating at Del Mar. And, I agree that Tony’s Ollie at Del Mar was, indeed, sick.

[@holoceph3916]

This looks so fun and pure skateboarding. Love the Crash Bandicoot type music too in the tube bowl scene

[@DB742]

I still have this VHS I got when it came out, went thru my whole middle school (as bros lent out their skate vids like blockbuster then except for free lol) came back w/ Tony Hawk having a mustache & more drawn on him on the cover as a lot of guys thought Tony was a unproven cocky teen puto at the time lol.

[@CarterXXXL]

No one liked Tony hahah

[@MaynardOwns]

Was that Mike v doing footplants I the blue tile lounge?

[@meticulousdetail5140]

MaynardOwns yes !