The 90s; A Decade in Review

[@ShredzShop]

What's your favorite brand from the 90s ?! Also, who's your favorite 90s skater?

[@memorysometimers3067]

The Chief. Toy machine --> ZERO. Welcome to Hell and Thrill of It All were my favourite movies all around. And Forest Gump. ☺️

[@brauliogranados3043]

I love Adio, they have nice pro´s and shoes models

[@Christopher-yx5xr]

I miss Adio shoes. And definitely Rodney Mullen

[@usernameonutube]

First real deck was a Ronnie Creager Blind

[@sirdabzmcgee]

Birdhouse

[@noahdyedotcom]

1990's skateboarding was the best era and I'm so grateful to grow up in it. No cell phones, you just skated with who was there when you showed up... just raw love for skateboarding. There was cool guying people hierarchy bs, but not nearly as much as today. I show up to a park in LA and people act like I just picked up my board yesterday when in reality I've been skating longer than they've been alive.. there's zero skateboarding community vibes in LA if you are older than 30.

[@therealjd1503]

I agree, such a great decade and I’m glad that I grew up in that decade.

[@alancarter1626]

Love see a 2000s I started in 2002 so many board companies love to come back like rasa Libre and popwar

[@jDDignity]

Born in 1990 as well. Feels grateful of growing up in the golden era

[@verynaughty6563]

That was pretty much like my late 90's- early 2000's in the UK. All sk8ers mostly knew everybody, we had 2 skate shops owned and run by sponsored sk8ers. Great energy and vibes. 🙂

[@ngph23]

smaller towns are wayyy better for skating now

[@345Taco]

I skated everyday during the mid-late 90's. ''Girl'' was the my favourite brand during that time, but when ''Fulfill The Dream'' came out all I wanted was a Muska deck

[@vtownjester]

I felt that skateboarding in the mid to late 90's was in a good place. Not a lot of big corporate brands flooded the market and skater owned companies were doing good. I feel priveleged to have experienced it. Thanks Shredz Shop for reminding us what made the 90's the last of the great decades overall.

[@iamnotanumber100]

Loved loved loved this decade video… the 90’s were superb, I loved small wheels era, it’s was so much fun.

[@ShredzShop]

💥🙏 glad you enjoyed the stroll down memory lane!

[@edwarddelacruz3923]

Long live the Rocco Empire! The 90s were certainly the times to be alive. World, Hook-Ups among others were at their primes. I would've loved to have gone pro for either World or New Deal. I couldn't help but notice some mistakes, that Mike V deck was called the 'Barnyard' deck and Blind released 'Video Days' in 1991.

[@DTC1138]

This is great. I'd love to see a video like this for every decade. Best channel for skateboarding history.

[@Skatewolf-81]

Another great video guys and yes I want a video review for each decade keep up the good work

[@ShredzShop]

Stoked you enjoyed!!

[@paulpalavecino3360]

2000s part, go for it Shredz. Great episodes 👌

[@julienbaut5784]

Great video ! Mid 80’s to mid 90’s was the best period in skateboarding.

[@ShredzShop]

Glad you enjoyed! 👊

[@zimjalali]

Damn good format, but 10 min not a enough for video like this, will wait for 2000-2010 video

[@BrandonHanson]

Honorable mention for iconic spots in the 90s. Love Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It put the east cost on the map when a lot of footage is released in 411VM thanks to Dan Wolfe. Plus, the number of videos it was in was unmatched.

[@Kyle4OH8]

Dam im old just turned 34 yesterday the 90s and 2000s where a great time

[@bluespy8130]

yes absolutely do the 2000s that is my all time favorite decade!!

[@NotHereForGold]

Back in the 90's you could send $2 and a S.A.S.E. to all the skate brands and they would send you a sticker pack. Aesthetics send the biggest packs so they take the cake for my fav brand back then.

[@sirKonradical]

These are my years. It really was a different time.

[@sonnyrico]

Ohhhh yessss, the good ole days😊 i rember when all of those ads and video clips happened. Hope that dont age myself

[@ca9968]

I started skating in 1990 in Johannesburg, South Africa...due to it`s location and the political situation at the time we were always behind on what was happening in the skate industry...we had 2, maybe 3, importers of gear and only one decent skate shop and park to skate at back then, Boogaloos skate shop at Bruma Lake and then later at the East Rand Mall...I still very fondly remember being taken there by my dad at Christmas to pick out a "Pro set up" after riding and wearing down to a nub a Variflex board I got for my birthday earlier in the year and then another trip to Boogaloos shop to shell out a lot of money for a decent pair of skate shoes because he was finally pi*sed off enough at replacing my broken footwear every 2 weeks due to me ripping them to shredz (see what I did there...?😉) out on my board at every chance I got. I got a pair of Vision Street Wear boots with the lace saver (Oh...the HORROR!!!) those lasted me ages!!! I didn`t even know that Tony Hawk had left Powell-Peralta until around 1994... One guy in our group of friends would always somehow manage to get his hands on a skate video and we`d all get together with 2 VHS machines and make copies for everyone...Powell-Peralta`s "Celebrity Tropical Fish" is still one of my favorites to this day!

[@NathanSkates707]

90s on top

[@mokchuanwei1]

Hey NSS man....nice skate shoes

[@daxthevaultdweller9308]

My freind is obsessed with the chunky shoes of the decade

[@Capitan_Chaos]

Is that a young Kim K there wearing the real shirt?

[@ShredzShop]

It is!

[@DogWhoFilms]

Transworld’s FEEDBACK, one of the skate videos ever made

[@HubCityMan]

Big balls small wheels

[@michaeluporsky3314]

The 90's were a great time for skating especially running from the police!!!

[@fogpumas]

3:08 Video Days came out in 1991, and while that may seem like hair splitting, you have to understand what a vastly different world of skating it was, one year to the next, back then.

[@marshalljohn1175]

You talked about the 90's but I missed the part where you talk about Tom Penny. I saw a picture when referring to a book about the 90's but no actual recognition of the Penny. It's not mandatory that Penny's mentioned, it's just surprising that he's not.

[@ShredzShop]

Definitely coulda had a section on Penny in the second half

[@marshalljohn1175]

@@ShredzShop It was still a great video. I hope you guys do a 2000's video next.

[@rajs4719]

Juat wanted to say i have a man crush on Levi

[@leviswitzer]

Kewt

[@unifiedyouth2938]

Zero Skatebords Ruled

[@Absorbvids]

Gonz doesn't leave Blind for Real, a lot happens between those companies.

[@Joelontugs]

What yal know about that family affair

[@zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz11.11]

Blind Video Days was released in 91 not 92.

[@DuctTape078]

The 90s were such a pivotal decade for skateboarding and pop culture in general

[@zdravkostankov255]

Airwalk 1 is a the best skate shoes for me❤I was wear DVS and DC , Circa but Airwalk is my favourite for all the time😊

[@christophersawyer253]

Airwalk NTS and Airwalk Beyond

[@carlosrivera4915]

Finally someone gets it right with Vision's Double Vision deck being the first street skateboard.

[@finnmcginn9931]

the first with a double tail but not the first marketed as a street deck. I have a Blockhead deck from 85 called the Streetstyle but it's just a smaller version of their other decks basically. Either way, you guys are correct.

[@brendonallen490]

​@@finnmcginn9931haha a blockhead deck... nobody's mentioned that company in min.. gd looks lol

[@jrickets5309]

What? You mean Andy Anderson didn't invent that lol.

[@albertassociate]

Have you guys done a video about "Sk8"? The NBC TV series from the early 2000s?

[@ShredzShop]

We haven't, I'll have to check it out tho!

[@gregdauria6882]

I got my first board in 89. The nineties were awesome. I got flow shoes from Sheep back in 97. Life was simple and fun. Kick flip down down 8 stairs good. I got a Nollie tre down long 4 and it was big. So much progression in the last 28 yrs. Keep skating cause you love it not for money.

[@ShredzShop]

Sheep sponsorship is epic!! That’s sick dude! I love when etnies does little sheep re-issues.

[@museick706]

I’m 46 and I’m bummed in all these 90 nostalgia videos no one ever mentions my favourite skateboard company. THINK! They get no retro love :( think deck, venture trucks and pig wheels! Sk8 or die !!! Good video though. Ps my favourite skater was heath kirchart !!

[@thedevilskind]

In Gonz's TWS 30th Ann'y issue, he named it Blind because it was a line in a Talking Heads song he kept singing. Rocco told him to call it Square One. In the same interview though, he also thinks Gator isnt guilty. Bummer you didnt mention Shorty's/Muska or Flip/Tom Penny dominance.

[@katosimon8603]

Please give a shout out to JODI ARIAS for saying that skateboarders flipped her license plate upside down for kicks and not her trying to thwart traffic cams.

[@Retro-2-now]

I turned 12 in 1990, such a fun and sometimes crazy decade to grow up in

[@mariocristobalcolladoavile448]

Girl/Chocolate and Zero are my 90s favorite brand. Chico Brenes is my favorite 90s skater.

[@ShredzShop]

💥💥💥

[@jayempreem]

I skated Grade 6 to Grade 8 I stop skate coz my parents don't support it and were poor as fudge. I miss the Era. No social media, No Drama, No helmets coz we be believe if you wearing helmets you're gay. Play Tony Hawk Pro Skater, Reading Magazines and Online websites just for fun Nokia 3310. Also I miss Big Ass shoes like D3 etc. Today I am 34 years old, What a time to be alive. Please Do a 2000's Skateboard Era.

[@johnfritz4096]

It wasn’t my favorite but FUCT was a great company. I loved all their parody graphics. My favorite 90’s skaters were Rick Howard, Mike Carrol, Keith Hufnagel, Chico Brenes, Rick McCrank, Jim Theibault, Ed Templeton. Man there’s so many. A great time to skate, lots of static in the air when we would skate late at night in the Loop business district in Chicago. Loads of fun at all those spots back in the day, shoot…

[@Retro-2-now]

Maybe someone can help me out. Back in probably 1993/ 1994 my parking got me a new complete. I’m trying to possibly find the deck again, but I can’t figure out if I’m remembering it right or if I’m just completely remembering it wrong all the way across the board (no pun intended) It was a Matt Beach deck and I’m 99% sure the graphics had a rose and like stained glass in the background? Or maybe the rose was stained glass?! If anyone remembers this deck or is able to tell me that my memory is shot, I would appreciate it because I’ve been trying to find that deck to hang on my wall. I’m just not sure if I am remembering it right 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@Ollielateflip]

1995) my First Board was a world Industries Hellraiser,with Gullwing Shadow 2 Trucks,and Speed Demon wheels ❤ thanks joki/RIP

[@Botmatrix]

man, I never left the 90s. I still rock the baggiest skinny jeans I can get and the fatest Etnies I can find ;) Favorite 90s brand: ACME

[@sk8fm448]

I enjoyed the 2000’s good music and clean fashion. Oh! And Guy Mariano come back skater of the year; the Laki video. 👍

[@GodLovesYou828]

90's is the best era. If your new to sk8'n or been sk8'n and u do fucks with 90's vids. You are tripping. And they had some much cool hats tees and shoes. I would love to buy the old stuff I had again.

[@myname5425]

Girl, Venture, Eś, Koston. Still ride Girl boards and rock Eś to this day. Switched the trucks to Royal.

[@jensenacklese3049]

0:04 wolfenstein 3d?

[@gasNmudtv]

Partly why in 2020 you can't get your own pro shoe is because of brands like nike who have zero history in sk8ing and don't really care about the sk8ers

[@benoitdeclercq9722]

I had those freaking 'new deal" baggy pants.. skated till the mid 90's.. funny 2 be remembered on those days

[@chrisxshock]

Man this ruled. It feels like yesterday.

[@Agapelovestudio]

Bro I was so lucky to grow up skating and really living in this Era it's Def a ti.e gone by that like the 60s n 70 u just had to be there

[@rustino660]

Had no idea Adidas had 2 signature models with Gonz and Lance Mountain. I thought Adidas didn’t get into skateboarding until the mid 2000s

[@ezgezg8618]

🍻 from Edmonton

[@ShredzShop]

🇨🇦 👊

[@christophersawyer253]

Started in 92 (like really started)….and I get worse each year. Still love it….even thought it hates me more each year.

[@Goodyearbri]

Jason Lee was an icon. It’s a shame he cut his career so short. On a side note…you folks need to do a video on Strangelove!

[@ShredzShop]

Love strange love, that would definitely be a rad idea! We get the boards whenever they drop new stuff!

[@josiahamaze]

6:19 Dude facts wtf I’ve been confused about pro shoes lately. Sb is trash

[@garyvoigt321]

Great video! All the memories of my 90's skate life are flooding back. It was epic to be a teenager in the most creative and progressive decade for 3 of my passions... Skateboarding, music, and art. Baggy pants, small wheels, fat grafitti markers, hip hip cassettes... Man, I feel old now. 😜

[@TheZerosophisto]

New Deal! 🔥 Tom Penny! 💎 We need the 2000s review!!!

[@nickmaatjes5611]

fantastic video, thank you!!!! please do 2000's

[@shaquonstewart3736]

These days inspired me! I started skating in 2007 n loved it since !

[@mikehemens9359]

The pros and skaters used to dictate what skateboarding was, now both tow the corporate line!

[@RealLifeSkater]

Thank you so much for this! Amazing video. I've been trying to figure out the DC's I had in 96/97 and I spotted the Moses Itkonen DC ad and it all came rushing back! I gotta say though, from my experience at least, we were still super heavily into the baggy pants in 1997-2000.

[@ShredzShop]

Stoked you enjoyed!! 🙏🤝

[@brennhannon609]

i started skating in 96', so this hits home; my early years were some of the best!

[@brauliogranados3043]

Review the 2000´s, nice video fam

[@anadraham2995]

👏 This was really great Levi 💯🔥💯

[@fakiewilly]

I had the bleach white hair and even the bangs with a shaved head. Lol looked so dumb.

[@BobEllis79]

I stopped skating the first time around in the 90s. I grew up a (lame) vert skater but my YMCA tore down their halfpipe in the mid 90s. It was really the only spot around and you had to pay to use it anyhow. I never got into street and couldn't stand narrow popsicles so I hung it up. Fast forward to now and I'm an old head rocking a niner and can drive to any number of public parks with small bowls and miniramps to scoot around on.

[@JonasPolsky]

4:08 worth noting; because they were smaller, Real Small Wheels came in a 6-pack, so if you bought two packs you had 3 sets of wheels

[@ShredzShop]

Solid addition!

[@dogtown1ewok]

Yes please do 2000s because that is when I skated.

[@theJACK__]

Natas & Dressen had pro shoes on etnies... and Cab on vans.

[@christophersawyer253]

I’m from the big pants small wheels era. It was awesome and really sucked at the same time. Fuct pants. If ya know, ya know

[@ShredzShop]

I see fuct is back, not sure who owns it theses days.

[@StartYourSkateBusiness]

Miss the 90s and skating as a kid with no rules and definitely no responsibilities haha. Love the videos you guys create!

[@ShredzShop]

It was an amazing time in skating for sure! 💞

[@vandolmatzis8146]

love your content.Antithesis would be a cool brand very mid 2020s

[@ShredzShop]

🙏🙏

[@joedent3323]

Cheers guys. Much Love from England 👊

[@gerogarciajr]

Should make 00's and 10's next

[@nateperaccini8912]

I always learn something from these videos.

[@ShredzShop]

Stoked you enjoy!

[@fresh-er8427]

ES SLB 97 DOPE SHOES!! SHEEP T-shirt

[@jacobmeyers3446]

You guys did a great job with this video. So much to unpack. Everything changed so fast every couple of years.

[@rahmanpermana4741]

yesss please make the 2000's video!

[@dubmusik304]

As a 41 year old skater, it would be cool if you start at the beginning. You could probably fit the first 3 decades into one, then 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s, now.

[@ShredzShop]

We didn't play one doing more than one, but the 90s one was popular and its our fav decade of skateboarding! I feel like we could have broken the 90s into multiple episode, feels like we just scratched the surface!

[@dubmusik304]

@@ShredzShop can't argue with that! The 90s were my intro, I don't think anyone would be upset about highlighting more of that era.

[@turtleboy4111]

Definitely do a 2000 review

[@johnnymac3826]

Airwalk was legit good back in the 90's both skate and snow

[@ShredzShop]

It was amazing!

[@futurevintage1597]

blind jeans and XXL t shirts .

[@cromag_jetlag9079]

Favorite 90's brand was scarecrow. That misfits deck was what's up. I had 3 of em back to back.

[@ShredzShop]

Scarecrow was great! They're gone now hey?

[@cromag_jetlag9079]

@@ShredzShopYeah, I think the main guy had gone to Black Label and is now doing something for CCS last I looked into it. Definitely miss that brand.

[@justinbishop7142]

Do the 2000’s please

[@bavarianhero]

Indoor skateparks at the mall, I remember my mom telling me that was for rich people. Those Vans fences with everyone entering with a skateboard and helmets looked like the equivalence of helping Optimus Prime save the world. Something about seeing that growing up, I knew I’d be in four wheels before I’m on four wheels sitting down lol

[@DJOrangeman]

My favourite memory from the 90s was having this big ass old school board I would practice ollies on off my back porch until I bailed pretty hard a week before a Taekwondo tournament I was suppose compete in. I never ollied that thing again since.

[@MFNDman]

Late 90s/early 2000s for me. Shit, just in general.. 95-2005 were and still the best times for anything!! Literally, everything between those times will be considered the best. Cartoons, anime, sports, wrestling, gaming, extreme sports, movies, tv shows, internet, cell phones, the start of social media, online dating, online shopping.. list goes on.. anything after 2005 in my generation went to shit. Side note... internet didnt really bloom until 1995 and after. Definitely bloomed in 96-98. For low income folks who couldn't afford a PC or a Macintosh.. WebTV was your next best purchase

[@possiblylame]

Absolutely do the 2000s!

[@adammitchell5229]

Vision street wear was huge early 90s.. think they may have had one of the first chunky shoes as well, the high cut ones, nachi bearings, sketchy and Stussy baggy ass pants, rector pads, pro-tec helmets, gullwings, cool shapes and graphics, Santa Cruz, Powell, and Alva decks, SMP, Big Day Out, Xgames...gathering plywood from where-ever it layed, being too scared to rewind your fav video part and replay a trick in case the VHS got eaten, trackers sliding axles and spinning kingpins . the 90s was kick ass. I was 14 in 1990 in Sydney.

[@adamschulte6248]

Dude the 90s were one of the biggest times for music, art, skating et al. If you were a younger kid and saw say Green day or the offspring on mtv and did the whole “read all the bands in the thank you list” thing like I did you got to discover thrasher, big brother and so on Thrasher (and later big brother) was a big big deal for me since I was living in the middle of nowhere mostly rural NC. I got exposed to hardcore, mail order for anything cool and sequence photos which were basically how to’s for people learning how to skate. As far as brands I got exposed to foundation, hook ups, acme (they did all of those image and top cow comics decks, my first being a Youngblood SLICK…imagine telling people about wood vs slick and the advantages and disadvantages now, you’d almost seem like a crazy person) birdhouse, and alien workshop. Pretty sure I knew more kids with the Dork rip board than anything else though. Shoes, clothes, graphics, videos and even hardware became every skaters’ individual aesthetic to me. It was a magical time. My stuff back then varied from mostly foundation, birdhouse and the hook ups decks that weren’t the girl focused graphics. The 3 face devilman 13 graphic is still my top graphic of all time. Clothes were a mix of Droors, DC, menace, shortys, hook ups and whatever was on clearance in the catalogs. Shoes it went from airwalk to DC to hook ups (underrated shoes) to eS to Emerica who still hold my heart for the heretic shoes, which were the most durable and comfortable shoes for kids who didn’t have a ton of money. As far as skaters it was Heath Kirchart, Andrew Reynolds and Jeremy Klein because those were the ones I felt I could most emulate. I wasn’t tech enough for Mullen or Song and vert terrified me back then.

[@Retro-2-now]

August 2000 I broke my ankle and had to have a plate and 10 screws put in. I lived in a townhouse and it was a pain to go up and down the stairs, so I had my roommate and my little brother being my mattress down to the living room where I slept for the next month. They got so tired of changing out the VHS for me that they made me a 12 hour long 411 VM tape. They would just put it in, set it, and forget it 😂

[@ShredzShop]

hahah thats so epic!! Solid roommate and bro!

[@MorgEllon-ye9pi]

That's cool they let you sleep on them like that.

[@Retro-2-now]

@@MorgEllon-ye9pi who let me sleep on what? It was my townhouse. My name was the only one on the lease and they didn’t pay to live there 😂

[@MorgEllon-ye9pi]

@@Retro-2-now You said you had your roommate and little brother being your mattress. I was just being an idiot, pay no mind.

[@Retro-2-now]

@@MorgEllon-ye9pi trust me, it’s all good. Yeah, it was actually my best friend’s little brother and my little brother who lived with me. Me and my best friend met the first day of 4th grade and our little brothers met on that same day in their kindergarten class. We’ve all been friends since like 1988 or 89. I can’t remember how old you are in 4th grade 😂

[@cedricjoshuapayne]

I was a big fan of Element and Zero in the late 90s. In the early 90s I was into Powell, Santa Cruz and H-Street. I had a lot of Powell stuff because they were only an hour and 1/2 away. We'd all skate their indoor park "Skatezone". We were the groms skating with lots of rippers. You'd see pros there all the time. It was arguably the best park at the time. They had a store and where they were always having killer sales. So much cheaper than say CCS or other local shops. They would even sell one of a kind tees where they would test the silk screening, so you have tons of logos all over the tee. I'm pretty sure that's the only place you could buy those.

[@jochenschnelle1124]

I worked in a skate shop over here in Germany in the late 80s until the mid 90s. Access to videos was limited to the ones available from the two large German distributors. I would say the biggest impact video-wise was the H-Street Hokus Pokus video, because it focused heavily on street skating plus it had for its time the gnarliest tricks.

[@johnmcduggle4032]

Favorite brands, Duffs(Gambler!!) , Droors Clothing, and Zero Clothing.....

[@justinklajbor1036]

Growing up in SoCal in the mid to late 90s Shorty's was the coolest company ever. Everyone wanted their gear. Favorite skater was Willie Santos for sure, he was ahead of his time.