POWELL PERALTA PRESENTS: FUTURE PRIMITIVE

[@benr.gerrits9297]

i grew up on this video. I got to choose a vhs at the local video store every few weeks. There was maybe 2 skate videos in the whole store. I probably rented this video, no joke, over 100 times. I watched it over and over again until we had to return it. Thanks for sharing this with the world. This video changed my life. I'm pushing 40 years old and I still skate.

[@7pines77]

That’s Awesome man,I’m 45 and wish I would have never stopped

[@joshuamcdonnell122]

So you were the guy that always had the video!!

[@DMARGETV]

You're not alone there

[@startedskating86]

@@7pines77 I'm 48 and never stopped. In my mind I can still do everything but the body says no. It sucks.

[@ironmaniatiko]

@@7pines77 same with me. I am 45 and this was my skateboarding basics when i was 10

[@kerryogrady3637]

The guy at 9:04 fuckin rules "Lance Moutain,tearin it up maaan,whooop!!!",loved that guy since I was 13 in 87 and he still makes me smile to this day,legend.

[@iamrgenius]

Yes! Finally. I wish we could bring this era back. Powell-Peralta, Bones Brigade 4EVER

[@calivaughn6913]

As someone born in '89, I missed the action, but I definitely respect all you guys for loving the sport way back when there wasnt hella coverage & propaganda (and video games). Nothing but raw love of the sport, the vibes, the peeps, & the killer music

[@calivaughn6913]

Burritos. I heard there were a ton of street-truck burritos to be had also lol

[@stephenloflin9984]

Tommy G's opening was pure magic when I first watched it. Loved the way he used his heel to slow down. And the ollies were like "wtf"? I bought his board shortly afterwards. It had INDY's and bones freestyle 95As. Great street set-up.

[@idmhead0160]

You are watching one of the greatest skate videos ever created. Pure unadulterated greatness.

[@curtanderson4145]

Watched this 1000 times growing up..

[@quadrupleheart]

46:38 makes me miss being able to just go out and cruise around having fun with my friends..... and having friends...

[@jasondashney]

Yeah I miss those days so much. Thankfully I have all the music in my pocket which helps with skating alone all the time. Getting together to roam the streets just isn't a thing when you're middle aged and people have families etc. It's quite isolating.

[@chortleboy]

Street skates Philly 80’s early 90’s….so much smooth blacktop pavement

[@robweissman5952]

No man has ever rocked pink better than Tony Hawk.

[@ryankeogh6611]

Camron has come close lol 💪💪🔥🔥🏄🏄

[@l.A.0]

bret hart too

[@kagetupa701]

Not even the breast cancer organization can do that. But close

[@kassimparekh1639]

Him and cam’ron the rapper

[@Tokeokarma123]

only Tony anyone else was a poser

[@doodahman2995]

Loved Guerrero's style. I skated his board when I was a kid. We'd rent this movie from the CT Skate shop, watch it, then go out and try and copy the tricks. Great memories.

[@vincent6670]

What memories..... Came home after school threw this in VHS, got stoked, then off skating. What a life😊

[@KneeJerk]

Amazing, i was born in the 80s, started skateboarding around 87, grew up on the 90s skate vids, built many ramps, now building a skate park in Vietnam but never saw this until 2020!

[@TonyPerez816]

Literally burned a hole in my VHS copy as a kid. Grateful to you guys for all of the memories and for putting this on KZbin for all to enjoy and to pass on the future generations!

[@pallemedel]

😍 I like this era of skating. The street ollie has just been invented, skate has a sleepy feel to it under the California sun. Everything has turned very underground again but a different future is lurking under the surface, the OLLIE tricks are just about to crack the street skate creativity wide open!! I don’t know how many times I watched, trying to learn, Guerrerros streetpart back then. Must have seen it over 100 times? 😄🙏🏻

[@disko.kommando]

Happy to have seen the Mt. Trashmore ramp in the flesh around this time period. Unfortunately not on this day.

[@lurker-mq4fp]

I first saw this in a skate shop in 1986 and I was 12. How They Fly blew my mind forever. A 720??? How do you do it etc etc. Lost count of the times I saw this. A golden era.

[@richardgiudice7528]

I can honestly say I viewed the first 2 p/p videos daily ,when I got out of school watched 1 and then went out to skate...

[@musik_non_stop]

This was an incredible time to be 15 years old. This video completely captures how it felt to be a skater then. We completely worshiped these guys and all the tricks. HOW THEY FLY was always my fav. I eventually would start vert skating 85-91. I was pretty decent. I was able learn invert on copying. I felt very accomplished! Thanks to videos like this for inspiring me to be punk rock and different and to skate tough!! Dallas was my hometown. Zorlac. Thanks for the video post! 80s best decade to be alive!!! especially as a teen

[@jasondashney]

If I ever skated vert I'd want to do an invert. I'd trade my switch tre's and all sorts of fancypants stuff I can still do if I could do an invert. Coolest looking trick ever. I tried skating vert once in the 90's and it did NOT go well, haha.

[@SlickRick4EVER]

Thank you, Stacey and George!! You guys really made my day, today! :)

[@BASE5NYC]

Still my favorite classic Powell skate video. This was the one we wore out in the 80s for my crew of east coast friends.

[@famous4noreason1]

Thats a fact!! Us out in Connecticut ran through our VCR tape😊🫡

[@japhyvansan]

Such a great video - still makes me smile / totally entertaining despite Stacy’s self criticism. He’s nailed the essence and defined a generation of beautiful reckless youth.

[@Poorboyjoseph]

So rad this is on YT in its entirety...can’t even count how many times I watched this and all the other videos. Wish I still had my VHS tapes!

[@Twongo]

I remember watching this over and over. Pick a scene in the morning. Spend the day trying to get the moves. My friends and I did a fair job of emulating these skateboarding greats. Between the 20 or so skaters I regularly hung out with, we were able to represent pretty much the whole catalog of moves you see here. Except for one skater. The nut that was impossible for any of us to crack. Of the people I talked to about it, all of us wanted to ride like that. None of us ever could. And we revered Stacy Peralta for his ability to float and flow. Those closing scenes of him in the long sleeve shirt were our Mecca.

[@adventurebikepacking]

What an amazing year . That was my car at the Capitola Classic . SP gave me a 12 pack of beer do he could add more spray paint on it . Then I drove to the party at a derby park for the “ cars , jumping off cars “

[@jeremydean7510]

Hope you know how many times you were quoted by me and like every group of skaters at that time!

[@adventurebikepacking]

@@jeremydean7510 I keep adding minutes to my seconds of fame .

[@neubergermj]

​@@jeremydean7510So YOUR the one who does the Bones Brigade Audio Show podcast 👍

[@jeremydean7510]

@@neubergermj I was on it! But it’s two friends that do it.

[@tkyusko]

Thanks guys I got hit with the nostalgia brick seeing the Brooklyn banks again.

[@RodClark]

Best stake video ever. Probably watched it several hundred times as a kid.

[@jassab8012]

Racoon guy is a childhood legend

[@chortleboy]

Keep the dam raccoon out of truck mom

[@scottieskatan4219]

Was a 9yr old when this came out and the stoke is still there watching now,cheers legends....

[@williambo5989]

young when i skated this time didnt want to watch this old stuff back then but now am enjoying the old school tricks. i think they were very healthy for the body

[@carlosspeicywiener7018]

I had this on VHS. I actually wore the tape out.

[@jt6685]

Future Primitive really captures the fun of skateboarding. This is one of the videos I saw as a kid that got me into skating. After seeing Tommy's sequence in the beginning, I was hooked. Good to see other skaters in his vid like Grosso (RIP), Steadham, Hosoi...even Natas showing an early version of his wall ride, which he perfected by the time Wheels of Fire came out a couple years later. Mullen and Hawk were really ahead of their time. Mullen was doing ollie impossibles in 85, but that didn't blow up until Ed Templeton was doing impossibles up the ying-yang in 1990. Hawk...everyone knows Hawk. Every skater old and new should watch Future Primitive!

[@anzaeria]

@Figgy Newton Mullen has invented so many significant tricks like the flat land ollie. He also influenced modern street skating.

[@danieljohnson6370]

@Figgy Newton disagree. Father of 21st century skating. I totally forgot he was doing impossibles in 85

[@miked6523]

Launch ramps, fat boards, shredding, street plants, boneless and backyard halfpipes with pvc pipes and channels...those were the days

[@backsmithfakie]

yes!! my friend rented this from blockbuster when we were in 6th grade and he never returned it. That New York section still gets me so hyped!!!

[@richardgiudice7528]

And Hackett is on that part

[@idmhead0160]

@@richardgiudice7528 I want to say he is the one that did the acid drop off of the box truck? At least that's who I always thought it was.

[@backsmithfakie]

@@idmhead0160 yup! Hackett rules

[@nunolopes6204]

When you realized you know what's the nex track/video. This is one the best videos I ever seen in the 80's. Thank you everybody! Powell Peralta The bones brigade forever!

[@Dubya-]

So many youthful memories with watching this, I must have watched the VHS hundreds of times. Still raises smiles even now.

[@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777]

Looks so beautiful thanks for offering such a crisp version online. All time classic. Timeless..looks great in 2022 the skating is out of this world.

[@pearldan]

this is my youth right there! :) thanks guys for uploading!

[@arcmaintenance7993]

I love Neil Blender at Lance's ramp. Hey.....Hey.........Heeeeeeyyy

[@BillVincent]

Guys, thank you so much for posting this - it is a true time capsule!! The music cracks me up. So 80's! Love the synth stuff.... hehe!

[@warrencurrie6454]

Thank you! (and the Pinto with the Starsky & Hutch stripe at 4:50 is awesome!)

[@dccar1]

Wow ,awesome ,thanks George and Stacy for everything ...Powell Peralta is the greatest company ever

[@doodahman2995]

These guys were my heros. All the kids in the neighborhood had their favorite. Loved the haircuts too.

[@f_9.8lateral59]

Lance Mountain is an absolute unit.

[@slashtrio]

This is such a significant part of my childhood. I’m in my mid 40s and was hardcore into skating all late elementary school throughout middle school, had a half pipe in my yard, and we built launch ramps and skated all the time. I watched these videos over and over and copied the tricks and got really good as a kid. I wish I had more footage to show my kids now but that was well before anyone had any great way of getting good footage. I have a few pics of me wall riding and doing a big method air off a launch ramp. Me and all my friends had the Tony hawk hair (mcsqueeb) and really lived the 80s skate punk scene. I picked up a classic lance mountain reissue back in 2014 and still cruise around.

[@toclivju]

Thank you Bone's you've made Skateboarding a real world famous great sport !!

[@mfmonthefmf]

So grateful for the OG's of this sport. whats crazy is that now we can skate at free parks that are designed by skaters, paid for by the city, and approved by the voters! This sport has come a long way

[@justinbolivar8103]

"how they fly" is the most badass part of any skate video on earth

[@XSProgression]

One of my favorite VHS’s to watch as a kid in the 90s. (Born 1992)

[@idmhead0160]

You are a young but smart kid with good taste.

[@XSProgression]

@@idmhead0160 thanks! 🤙

[@followtheboat]

This is marvelous! So iconic, so many memories. Thank you.

[@JustMe-qk1mt]

Never enough Johnny Rad!👍👍👍👍

[@cudavrage]

Video South in Savannah Ga. I wore these Powell Peralta videos out. Thanks for the inspiration!

[@GunPoor]

"It's about having fun. That's it. Nothing else."

[@leehazlewoodism]

What about pulling Japan airs?

[@alfrontsidefernandes5472]

IT WAS...

[@danieljohnson6370]

Totally the cliff-hanger before Animal Chin came to save the world

[@saratadesse8048]

thankyou for uploading this! being a part of this looked like so much fun ahaha

[@courtneyfidler2562]

I got this and the search for animal chin on vhs also baker 2, speedfreaks, 1985 and 1988 vision contests recorded from tv w skate commercials 😈

[@danieljohnson6370]

Wow. I am *jealous*

[@NicolasRialLaif]

finally in decent quality! thank you so much this is my n°1 video to watch before hitting the streets!

[@TommyWrenn]

I watched this to every morning bowl of cereal for years as a kid, now my kids watch it with me 🤣

[@mmad-sd4wc]

This is so killer 🛹👏🏻 killer skating 🛹 killer tunes 👏🏻 killer vibe … even growing up in pacific beach these were extremely hard to find at video stores … you had to be lucky enough to have an awesome friend who owned these to watch straight from school 🛹🛹🛹🦴🦴🛹🦴

[@amind1317]

I think is my second time ever see this video; thanks fir posting. Grew up watching the hell out of Video Show and Search for Animal Chin though.

[@babaganoosh1969]

Yep rented this and blast from the past every week from the local video store...80s were great

[@goatwaterman4740]

Powell Peralta changed my entire childhood! Finding this video at the local video store was a eye opener! Stacey you need to do a 2022 bones brigade video andbring back the antics. BTW Craig Steyck might be a genius! Skate to create and destroy!

[@arcmaintenance7993]

Oh dude, the summer of 1986 I would wake up, watch this video, and then spend the rest of the day riding my shitty quarter pipe I built at the end of our driveway. - I Miss The 80's.

[@musik_non_stop]

I know the feeling. We still loved our dumpy little QP. It was all we had.

[@jasondashney]

You enjoyed it at the time, but you had no idea how much you would cherish those memories as you got older.

[@liltrixie2281]

Brilliant! thanx so much, I always liked the Tommy Guerrero board..

[@novareviewer4456]

This brings back so many sweet memories. I found this official video looking for what I thought would be a grainy bootleg to send to some of my son's friends who skate. Thanks for posting it - the quality is fantastic. I couldn't stand school (high school class of '89) but skateboarding kept me sane, and I remember it's all I ever wanted to do. I'm so grateful to have belonged to this historic and unique era of the sport. I thought we had it rough, but I look at all my kids have to deal with now and wish I could take them back in time - and I am so grateful to you because with this - I can. Much love to everyone who worked at, works at, and skated for Powell Peralta. George Powell & Stacy Peralta = Visionaries.

[@danieljohnson6370]

Well said. Class of '89, too. It was genuine love of the sport for self-discovery and support of my friends

[@DerptekofGoochland]

Growing up in the 2000s playing THPS3 and THUG, Tony was my favorite skater cause he was the face of it. About a year ago when I got sucked down the rabbit hole of the skateboarding world, Rodney became my favorite cause he was the GOAT. Now, having watched the documentary, and watching these videos, Lance is my favorite because he just like me fr

[@Capitan_Chaos]

This made me want to go skate but it’s midnight.

[@Jacam781]

I first saw this in 1922. I was 6 days old and it's my first memory. I liked all the skaters except the bones brigade. They were reserved for fancying, or as we say in Scotland, 'funcying'.

[@RichardBousquet]

Interesting if true

[@ragnarsilverboard6803]

Damn, I just realized I've been a fan of Grosso most of my life and most of his. I saw this video when it was brand new and I saw the last episode of Love Letters. I skated before I ever saw this, I skated the day Jeff died and I skated today.

[@the1andonlyphokz]

i love my almost 30 years old BONES patch :D

[@TRKTKO]

Thank you so much for putting these on KZbin! I grew up hearing about these videos and I must say they do not disappoint!

[@andrewdomonic6603]

This was my favorite Bones Brigade video.

[@anjucastle9462]

makes me happy!

[@leeprosper335]

Not only the best ever for being bones brigade but also the music is absolutely legendary, I managed to get the cd soundtrack of this but it didn't have every track. All the quotes, all the wish i could do that, the fashion, I was only 11 and my brother got the video on import cause wasn't easy to get in England. Can watch it a 100 times and never get bored.

[@marccarter1350]

The first early encounter with a street style of skating. I never did get the hang of street other than riding my board on them to the local park. The old style has been forgotten by the young kids today. 60mm wheels, boards with rails. Olly was a boys name, pop was a drink :-)

[@leehazlewoodism]

Some kids are using rails again. I was glad to get rid of mine 30 years ago - stupid rattly things

[@leehazlewoodism]

@JezBollah 667 Never had loose sex bolts? Self tapping screws were better but even they would come loose after a few weeks.

[@yuca6202]

I live next to Mt.Trashmore ! Go to know there was history on that ramp

[@TheMregee]

Factz! VA Represent! 😁

[@yuca6202]

@@TheMregee respect🙌

[@dzaxys4643]

This reminds me of growing up in the 80s we used to skate sometimes we play where we all sit on our board at the top of the hill all go at same time and try knock each other off see who could survive to the bottom of the hill and other times just skate I remember my friend being the first to learn Oli it seemed like majik classic video anyway peace

[@HanginInSF]

This video really defined a subsection of a generation of youth

[@cammezzatesta425]

So classic love this

[@paulvee1177]

I didn't know anything about skating until my friend showed me this video, after i thought it was the dopest thing i ever watched

[@mybigdogesontiktok2348]

Came for the fingerboarding stayed for the skateboarding

[@danieljohnson6370]

I started skating right before that Sacto contest, and I got to go. I had NO idea what I was in for. Lance being crazy. Neil spray-painting art for his run. Gonz showing the world who he was. And it was hot as balls. First time I heard skate punk... Forever changed. It's hilarious that the only shot with Jeff Hedges is him beating the car with his board

[@TheJagjr4450]

I still have my original Steve Steadham from 1984. Red and white ripped stripes - Purple Spade - dreadlocked skull.

[@wilhelmquenzert4250]

Insane what a perfect movie😃👍

[@fvlan0]

sublime la parte de NY !!

[@xavierrivera9130]

Corona making me dig into my skater history

[@chortleboy]

The first time i Ollied over one of those little driveway grass dividers was the best feeling

[@siskothekid4620]

No one can do a sad plant like Mountain.

[@idmhead0160]

True

[@AUSTORMCHASERS]

I'd love to see a new Powell Peralta film, new and old skaters ;)

[@lazesq]

Haha, old memories the song skate and destroy when that came on i knew the song wow, thanks

[@intelvision6052]

That japan air is my favourite air of all time. He soars there 32:05

[@idmhead0160]

That was a good one. I kind of like Caballero's better though. Especially the one foot ones.

[@jasondashney]

37:48 They're skating past a theatre showing Back To The Future, a movie that had an impact on the popularity of skateboarding.

[@Artemis0798]

That slow motion pool session that’s starts at 5:30 with that click in the background the entire time…no words it’s so entrancing

[@brownmetal]

I still have this VHS. No VCR.

[@51OAKLANDER510]

Me too and my vhs just got threw watching it. Dude working the skate deck factory with blonde hair makes me laugh u know he doesn't want to be there.

[@eancurtis9333]

Legends !!!

[@charlesgregson8273]

one of those few videos where one minute I cringe and then nek minnut get amazed by how good the production value is

[@itachi_han]

7:35 As a fingerboarder im impress that this was the very first fingerboarding video before tech deck & blackriver exist.

[@RickKosick]

A classic skate movie..

[@jeffe4297]

Who knew that Matthew McConaughey liked to hang out at Mt. Trashmore back in the 80s?

[@Agent_OB]

When do they go to mount trashmore in the video ? Time code ?

[@jeffe4297]

@@Agent_OB 8:28

[@Evoldog]

Well there you have it, skateboarding is all about pulling japan airs!

[@xavierrivera9130]

Per welinder was filthy in his part. The wall ride and transfer of the fence was wild. Mullen just always with the insanity. Ramp jam Lance's style was great Tony's one foot handplant was a cool one to see from him. McGill 540s are stylish as heck. The freestyle section, not sure who is there but they are all great even the chick not just to be PC like in 2020. My dudes really wearing those chef hats to skate. Wish those would make a comeback Lucero,Guererro, cool to see some people who's names I only know from classic decks

[@danieljohnson6370]

Neil Blender's fakie 50-50 caught me totally off guard

[@renemartinschneider361]

46:17 Cars !....what ?.....Jumping on Cars 🤣

[@JazzHandzLMT]

great soundtrack