Steve Caballero

Steve Caballero muses on early days of NorCal skating, Bones Brigade success (and failures), inventing iconic tricks and kneesliding out of the Stone Age.
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Tony Hawk @tonyhawk
Steve Caballero @stevecaballero
Jason Ellis @wolfmate

[@mmkjck]

I love that you guys get all the old school skaters. Someone who would be a great episode would be Stacy Peralta if it is possible. Steve Caballero is who I looked up to when I was younger. Love that you all still skating.

[@zdotspade]

I would like to see mike carroll on here hes cool af

[@mendaciousreality8459]

Stacy Peralta and Tony still haven’t made up from that incident at that powell demo in 96’. Not sure who was more at fault in that situation, slap forums all blame Tony as just being a drunken bleeping idiot but Stacy can be very hard to trust. But yeah until Tony or Stacy apologise I don’t think you’ll get your humble request James.

[@JarretBerry]

do tell...i never heard of this. 🧐🙏😱

[@jahknow6429]

Hey yo they made up already. In 2002 they did an interview together. Bring in Stacey and Tony! Foundation

[@RadGnarRad]

Yah Stacy Peralta would he a good one… Stacy is full of himself tho. He sees himself as the ambassador of skateboarding wheras Tony is ACTUALLY the ambassador of skateboarding

[@adamimberti6948]

Skateboarding is pretty incredible because all of these mythical beings who invented it are still alive and kicking. There's not many other culturally significant or lasting things that have that.... most of those people and their stories were lost to time before anyone could really appreciate what they had created.

[@safetypatrol]

Amen.

[@graxjpg]

It’ll still be incredible after they die, and not JUST because of them. They are all disciples of skateboarding, the church will live on

[@JarretBerry]

AMEN. 🙏💪🔥

[@cyberpunkholiday]

Cab is a legend! Always will be! So glad we get these on the record while everyone is still here.

[@chrisshaw2754]

Cab skating the spine in Ban This with white suspenders hanging down will forever be burned in my brain. Must have watched it 1000 times.

[@marcelboogaard3809]

Met Cab in Mūnster in ‘87. Such a humble and nice guy.

[@djdef5521]

We need a part 2 with Cab! Love hearing all the old stories at the skate parks,etc.

[@warwicklilley4160]

Thankyou Steve, Tony and Jason I was at that 89' New Zealand Bones Tour watching with awe as a 12 year old My friend Angus Coney (older) skated with the crew of young NZ Rippers Warming up the crowd for your Master session Think it was 93' bones brigade Returned to blow our minds once more! Watched Tony Skate at X-Air , Hamilton , NZ in my early 20's The 50@50 was so epic I'm 47 in a couple of months....You are still my Heroes , I never stopped skating and it still brings me so much joy Jason thanks for bringing it to us, As a kiwi , Aussies, I felt had a focus and we're way ahead of the Game in Skate culture but that Gave me the kick n drive needed To leave our traditional sports behind and dedicate myself to the wooden toy forever ☺

[@marciongibson]

I had an 1987 Cabalero shape model in Brazil. I started to skateboard after watch The Search for Animal Chin Tape that a neighbour had show to us in our street. Everybody was wishing to fly like you guys, thank you very much. In the 90's i saw Cabalero skateboarding in Ibirapuera Parc in São Paulo Brasil.

[@chrisknightphysicsclub]

Radness personified. Powerfully nostalgic. I've witnessed these dudes grow and grow into the skaters and legends they are today. Having been a diminutive human myself trying to blast on my board in the 1980s, I have always had nothing but respect and admiration for Cab and Hawk. Seeing this feels like watching people you grew up with who somehow became famous. I almost don't feel worthy of a podcast this good. I cannot smash the Like button hard enough on this beauty.

[@fademusic1980]

"YOU'RE CHEATING BECAUSE YOU'RE TONY HAWK" -Jason Ellis, 2022 Thank you for my local skatepark tony hawk, you are the best! I am going to sticker slap the wall with a token of appreciation when it is completed

[@Carl.65]

Glove caught in the front bolts was terrifying. Need another hour or 2 with Cab 🔥🔥🔥

[@AbeVicious]

Met him at the Social Distortion show two years ago in LA. Bought some art from him he was selling before the band he is in played. Awesome time.

[@xIIxGOBLINxIIx]

Thank you for bringing on all these fucking legend icon skaters. made my night!

[@douglewis6924]

We lived thru these old cats in awe and inspiration..im 53 so i can relate to the old jabs. Had to buy a Sims board as the Caballero and Hawk boards were double price but i gave my board away to a kid who always asked to ride it when i moved out of the hood. Thank you Jason, Steve and Tony

[@douglewis6924]

Speedy recovery to Tony Hawk who broke his femur on Monday...I'm 53 also but i cant imagine the pain id go thru with my left hip dysplasia if i skated today let alone tricks on a Ramp. I was just a street thrasher using a board to get to a Rehearsal Studio or work NO Tricks..i think you need 12 months of sun to skate and progress that fast like the American skaters. The snow is from Dec-March but who the fuck wants to skate at -30C im way too skinny not to dress in layers it would be like skating with a costume on...Skate is still in my life but in fashion it makes me feel like i was as a grom.

[@thepancakemann]

@@douglewis6924 Sounds like my uncle. He always told me the greatest trick was "staying on the board". I grew up in the valley in Toronto Canada and took that to heart. Hill bombing became my whole life as a teenager. I used to push myself to skate the steepest hills on the smallest boards. By the end of my highschool years I was bombing hills on a Penny plastic board and flipping off the local street skaters who told me I was shit because I had no tricks. I've now been skating for 24 years. All the people who gave me shit can't even step on the board anymore, let alone ride them competently. I've dealt with shoulder surgery and nasty slams. I've considered hanging up my trucks. But fk it. Here we are in 2022, I spent the pandemic skating parking garages at -10 and picked up almost 20 tricks in a year. Until the wheels fall off. Stay ripping.

[@douglewis6924]

@@thepancakemann I appreciate that. I was told the best advice for BMX/Skate is rubber side down..lol In the Valley referring to The Don Valley or Don Mills? Cheers fellow Torontonian. I wished us canucks could skate&ride 12 months of the year :/

[@JoeMama-tl4tr]

I love the stories about the 1980’s skating days. The next Tony Hawk game should have a career mode that starts in 1980. It can include the different skater crews like vision, chrome dome, and Hosoi’s crew and you can choose which crew you skate for and the final boss is a freestyle competition against Rodney Mullen

[@jimgarrett1581]

You could do 10 parts with Cab and it still wouldn't be enough.

[@maxbrazil3712]

Cab is one of the coolest humans to have walked Planet Earth. He's lived his entire life doing what he loves.

[@theramplocal]

Humble and down to earth. Just seems like a great human being. Shotout to him

[@danielsaeger7303]

Amazing interview! Looking forward to Pt.2! Requests: Stacy Peralta Steve Steadham El Gato Mike McGill Grant Brittan Lance TA

[@theramplocal]

Great list, wld also love to see Bob gnar, Lester, Neil blender, Chris Miller, Danny way

[@theramplocal]

Also lucero

[@TigWeldBeast]

Hawk vs Wolf always delivers a fantastic show. Thank you Tony and Jason for coming together And allowing the world to join you guys on mondays to hear the best stories. Love you guys

[@traitortotheliving]

Love these guests Cab is the best! Would be awesome to see a Chris Miller episode. Keep up the great work!

[@chriskunce3331]

Here’s to Tony having a speedy and full recovery. Hopefully you guys can keep putting out the podcast during the downtime. 🤘😎🤘

[@alexandermunoz8202]

Still one of my favorite podcasts. One of my favorite shows ever. Most other shows fall off my radar but you guys are so awesome. Listening to you guys overcome adversity and still engage with what you love after all this time inspires me to continue doing what I love as well.

[@dwayneandrews2059]

Took me a long time to land cabs on vert. He is so smooth and best style hands down. Thanks for the decades of inspiration.

[@lcrilley93]

Steve has been one of the only pro skaters to interact with my skating when I learned truck stands I heard his new song put it to the reel on insta and tbh probably because he was promoting it and Id told him I'd put it to it but he went and liked/left a little comment it was pretty awesome I almost cried on the bus when I saw it

[@kjb1336]

Stevie Caballero was my first PRO skateboard. Absolutely a True Legend and will go down as one of the Best to ever ride the wooden plank 👍🔥👍🔥👍❤👍

[@UrbanOutlawsSk8Co]

I got Tony's trick tips video when I was a kid and Cab was teaching front boardslides. Great times

[@BeowolfProductions1994]

Great interview with Steve Caballero. He was back in the 80's & still is now my favorite skater. I had all his boards back in the 80's. Love hearing his stories from his early days. Please have him back on to talk more about the Bones Brigade days. Please have the rest of the guys, Mike, Lance, Tommy, etc from Bones Brigade on. Love the show & all the great skateboard stories. Keep up the great work Tony & Jason!!!

[@ericsharp5079]

Best episode yet! The conversation is so easy! So perfect! There absolutely has to be another episode with CAB!! The absolute greatest!

[@therealseals]

Love this pod so much, makes Mondays awesome

[@tylerwilson8896]

I love how Ellis called out skiers and how they bite our style. If it wasn’t for snowboarding (ultimately skateboarding first) skiers would still be doing pirouettes on the flat ground!! He’s right. Skiers should never call anything switchstance. It’s either foreward or backward.

[@dbut8563]

Hey guys thanks for the old school interviews, ..not sure if you've had them on already but would love to hear stories from some of those guys we knew but never got the publicity so we never really " knew" them....Steve stedham ( classic logo ),.stabb, chris miller ( what that famous slam was like in the corner, 87' I think)... Billy ruff,.. roskop,...lester,.. Anyway, thanks for the intreviews keep it up!...✌🤘🤙

[@Brent.larson]

Love it. Can u get Tony Alva next

[@BobWeaver3000]

yes!!! instant click! love Cab, thanks fellas!

[@Ol_Durty_Badger]

The man, The Icon! Cab has been my hero since i was 7-8 years old. I loved his board graphics at first (because i was a kid and they had badass looking dragons on them lol) He has always seemed like such a chill and genuine person, who has heaps of talent no matter what he puts his mind to. I bought both of my sons their first skateboards a few years back, and both got Cab completes.

[@KitTheMisfitToys]

I have been watching these podcasts during my own recovery. Cab and Hawk together is really taking me back mentally to the early 90s. I miss the old days so much. Stay safe everyone

[@ParappatheRapper]

48:27 Can see Andy MacDonald on the ramp in the corner, lol. We need more footage of that.

[@robgeorge6503]

No complaints. Thanks for my local park.

[@andywebbzzz9999]

Just seen the news about Tony's leg. Heal up soon. Can't wait to hear the story on how that happened

[@jspaulding4106]

Such a sweet conversation. It puts me back into those magazine (and catalog) pages hearing all the stories about back in the day.

[@jspaulding4106]

#likeAndDescribe

[@mg19cal]

Cab is a few years older than me but we grew up in the same neighborhood in East San Jose, I wish I knew I was growing up around a legend👍👍

[@mikaellofgren7]

This is awesome meet Steve for the first time 1982 at Eurocana Summer Camp in Rättvik, Sweden! It was good days back then!!

[@doctorspockARTS]

Hey it’s Steve! His was the first board that I owned!!

[@ThePiedra777]

I had a Steve Caballero board when I was 11 years old, am now 44. It’s still cool to watch you guys.

[@mikemalsam5216]

What I love is the memories of good times, but it’s more than that. Steve, tony, and Jason’s memories of good times are inductions of skateboarding history.

[@LOZUPONEJ]

I grew up watching and reading about these guys when I started skating in 1983. Love them

[@NulJern]

Still watching all the episodes to check if Rune Glifberg is on one or get mentioned.. Wish this spisode was longer tho, what a LEGEND!

[@passenger-rider]

Amazing podcast to hear the legend’s talk about Skateboarding. Big love from Spain! 🙏

[@mikehalfmoonmullins404]

Speedy recovery BIRDMAN , love ya buddy

[@NiftyDimensions]

What a legend! I was lucky enough to meet Steve at the first Warped Tour, about 2 hours after I saw Sublime play (Yes, with Bradley). Steve was such a nice dude, signed stuff for everyone after his demo.

[@yankees29]

I was at Warped Tour that year too! Sublime was so good. My buddy convinced me to go and they were the selling point even though they were kind of small.😂

[@ronnenvallejo7444]

Yeah we need a part 2. Left us wanting more.

[@MB-vk8cv]

Backward invert and frontside board slide story is so cool.

[@daddyphatsax304]

Cab is such a badass. Great pod. Thanks guys

[@standerr]

Holy shit. These guests are bangers every single time. Never thought I'd look forward to Mondays, but here we are. Keep killing it boys! #TilTheWheelsFallOff

[@TheGreatKrystoff]

Caballero is an absolute legend in multiple dimensions! 80's vert legend! 90's street legend! Shoe Legend! Musician! Excellent story teller! He's like the EGOT winner but for skating. We love you Steve. I bought a flight deck with your faction graphic on it just recently. Nobody is cooler. :)

[@jakeryanmt]

Classic! So awesome to hear stories from the OG's

[@Ireland831]

I skated Winchester, but never Campbell. Funny that Tony knows what it was like to have any money back then. I remember helping an older kid (Eric L.) build a giant ramp in his backyard, (stolen wood from construction sites). Steve skated that ramp and had some other pro/friends skate it and it was crazy to see the talent up close and in person.

[@Gnarly_Bard]

always look forward to Monday mornings for this show

[@MarkFunJones]

Steve is one of my favorite skaters of that generation and he seems like Tony or Rodney just seems like a genuinely humble good dude and if you’ve never paid attention to his Instagram cooking that man can make some food maybe that’s why it’s hard to reach and stretch all that good eating great podcast keep on shredding fellas Inspiring as hell

[@tkalbfeld1]

This is the best show hands down! How about getting Doug Saladino, Dave Andrecht, Brad Bowman, Chris Strople and John Gibson

[@BiiaatchProper]

Man this is incredible. This right here is what technology is for. You guys are amazing.

[@blueagle3000]

Cab. Living Legend and one of the best humans ever made. Fenders Ball Room LB.

[@solidrock6524]

Cab did soooo good on this!!!! You can tell how comfortable he is with Tony. You can tell in other interviews he's not a big talker but he's loose with his buddy. Seems like I've literally grown up and old with with those two guys

[@scm021374]

That was so awesome to hear. Growing up in Southern California, I went to Upland quite a bit. Got to meet Lester Kasai there and he signed my board.

[@kryptichands968]

Revisiting this, i have no clue how i can relate more to vert skaters even though I grew up skating street, i was skating quarter pipes on and off, half pipes were at indoor park where I grew up, guess it was the whole 80s punk/hardcore thing, still feel the same way

[@connor_hates_pebbles7812]

I have a signed bag from Steve it is my prized possession

[@jwm2352]

this was a totally rad episode...just talking about skate history and telling stories. continue putting guests on like this and doing this type of format, it rules!

[@jarrodneville7715]

Thank you for uploading at the time you do

[@vladimirgreene1516]

Oxnard, baby!!! Cool to hear them mention the town. We're like Carlsbad, but with more gangbangers. 😆 Shouts out to the old Skatestreet in Ventura too!

[@clevermissfox]

This is amazing, jealous of the contest winners getting to watch this live

[@danielwestereng155]

ANOTHER GREAT CONVERSATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ajg0505]

the pod always makes me smile the whole time

[@pronjoffitt9141]

i fucking love it when Ellis says "yeah....yeah" in excitement for a story

[@doublediamond1234]

Just loving these conversations!! 🙂

[@darude]

Part 2! Part 2! Part 2! Part!

[@radsk8rbigollies594]

Cab really is arguably the best skater ever. One of the few vert dogs that could also skate street well too. He RIPPED on vert though!!! He plays music, draws good and is just an all around great dude. He works hard at it all too and it pays off. Love cabby!

[@davidharris4030]

I could listen to these podcasts all day especially when you have other legends speaking about OUR history! I have flew like Jason always says ! Back in the day myself with a land on major vert! Please I can’t get enough! This podcast rules!!!!

[@kempersnowboards]

Love the backwards vs switch skier comments Ellis!!!!🔥

[@gimme3steps933]

Bringing back so many memories. I miss growing up in Campbell.

[@TheDjt1992]

I think your contest idea could quarterly, for donators to come sit in on the show, but block out some time for the winners to ask questions if they have any.

[@CosmicTacoWA]

Appreciate your podcast so much. These chats with such great legends as Cabellero brought back such great memories, made me cry tears of joy. Keep up the great work, till the wheels fall off. Tony & Jason you blokes are bloody legends mate, take care 🌟🛹🌟

[@retro_jojo3159]

In like '03 or '04 I went on vacation to Playa Del Carmen Mexico, when our plane landed I remember staring at a dude on the runway who looked so familiar, but I couldn't figure out who it was. And then when I got to the hotel I was like "damn dude that was Steve Caballero!"

[@williamclinton2289]

I've only watched nothing for a hour plus, but these incredible pods with these legends of my time of skating. Have I missed mountain?

[@morgellon7877]

I started skating in 00, but I watched Animal Chin around that time a lot because a local comic book store had a bootleg VHS library, like in that old Simpsons episode. Cab really stood out to me in that; I thought he had the coolest style ever. I was hoping they'd get into his street skating on this, because he was definitely one of those dudes doing gnarly street stuff early on, and he absolutely killed it on street in the 90's.

[@edminister]

Get well soon Tony! You got this.

[@killersushi99]

*I had a Caballero deck in my teens. Black with the red dragon on it. So Sweet. I loved his style.*

[@SEANSK8SKELDING]

OMG THIS IS AMAZING

[@brucewilliams1776]

Cabbage always has some great stories!

[@tanner2x439]

Dang I was hoping to be the one to win the drawing and drive my broke ass across the country for a chance to skate a full sized vert ramp with the legends. Seriously we don't have those here and I'm dying to try it!

[@couchfighter]

My deck in 1986 "hawk full size" I still have it.. Just the deck at Berts surf shop in N.C. was 45.00

[@KevinDgaf420]

Y’all better make part 2 sooner then later.

[@Gixsir]

This show is AMAZING!!!!!

[@goatbloat8233]

I had multiple Caballero decks. Loved this.

[@doctorspockARTS]

I miss the top of the deck graphics. We would cut our grip tap around them to show it off. It’s a lost art nowadays. But the 2013 golden dragon came with the top graphic with the grip tape cut around it. Infinity cooler than modern skateboard companies.

[@aprildoshier1973]

To listen to these Legends omg. How I've idolized these guys since I was a kid in the late 80s ❤ I love these guys for these podcasts

[@buddhistpriest1357]

I skated Winchester. It was gnarly. Upland was nuts and I was on a bike.

[@sandyhoy8936]

Brra! Koston and I are fully dropping of foam boards to go horizontal, i got over a heal break from a 14ft to flat....ill stick to the water...this is a skaters world even as a surfeeer. i walked on it for two weeks and it worked

[@sandyhoy8936]

if yo neck brock lift heavy shit

[@MrSk8mobb]

Was a gitty school girl this whole episode thank you truly from the bottom of my heart! ❤

[@NORFOLKIAN]

I remember TMag getting huge airs at the 2nd trashmore contest. But never really saw him get that high anywhere else.

[@delanoarts3703]

Tony is the humble dude ever the guy won everything you can win icon of the sport easy the most famous skater ever yet he is always telling everyone how great other skaters are he never rubs his ego it's crazy because he us fucking tony hawk really love watching this stuff thanks for these videos the history of skateboarding is fascinating and these are the guys that created the vocabulary of skateboarding it's really awesome

[@condor5150]

Gr8 work! Please have all the original Bones brigade on. 80's vert skating is the subject that I like to hear you guys speak on. Give them beers too.