Steve Rocco - Freestyle Contest Oceanside 1985

[@sebastianlopez270]

wish there was more roco footy.

[@jadond.3913]

Major inspiration. Freestyle is great cause all you need is a proper freestyle setup, some Eras and flatland and youre good for days!!

[@gnuPirate]

Geez, this is absolutely amazing. 0___0

[@suelove1442]

This guy is one of the people put skateboard to another level,.

[@crazycatman5928]

You people need to watch “the man who sold the world”. Steve Rocco changed the industry and Rodney skated for him.

[@KidKewl]

Holy Quadzilla! Look at those legs!

[@ItisMeMike]

He got that gym teacher bod 😅

[@SquidgyTTV]

Legend

[@mikesrcgarage]

The who Souled the World throwing it down! Nice...

[@Lunchb0xSupremeSH]

@torgosmenke ?? he co started plan B, 101, and Blind...Him and Rod Mullen started World Industries...ruin skateboarding, more like made street skating what it is now

[@DoSomething-]

We’re going to ruin it one more time lol😂

[@TheRobertnuns]

He created one of the best skate companies ever

[@ItisMeMike]

He created his own industry

[@pressureflipin1992]

He created the whole industry if you think about it cause the 78 through 86 era was rocky as fuck and Rocco came along and changed everything from 87 till now, we are still living in the Rocco era. ​@@ItisMeMike

[@Coleman_H]

1:50 540 shuvit

[@55tranquility]

Those shorts sure are the shiz

[@Coleman_H]

1:21 nice combo 🤙

[@DS-jf2be]

Nice!

[@joaquimcraveiro7991]

I keep looking this trick at 0:56, and still, can't understand what kind of this kick flip was that !

[@theciancaseyfanclub]

fakie oldschool bigflip revert. no idea what its trendy name is though

[@joaquimcraveiro7991]

@@theciancaseyfanclub Thanks. I will try that, on my next freestyle session ! I already can do the old school kick flip 180

[@theciancaseyfanclub]

Sweet best of luck dude 🤙

[@joaquimcraveiro7991]

@@theciancaseyfanclub I will start it on the grass, until I feel safe to do it in a smooth floor

[@theautisticowl7153]

Watching it in slow mo, I see he basically does a old school kickflip but with a sex change/hippie jump 180. The board never rotates, just flips. He lands on the tail in a bit of a pivot to give it the illusion of a big flip. At that point he’s riding the board “backwards” from how he started

[@schwinnbike18]

Very peculiar shorts.

[@jcsk8]

How old is he in that time?

[@80sFreestyle]

25

[@_Maxten]

he did a frontside 180 and he pushes mongo, intersting

[@pressureflipin1992]

The great thing about that is i really don't think freestylers had any concept of front side 180 or backside, people skating pools and transition did but on flat ground it was a new thing

[@Coleman_H]

@@pressureflipin1992 I think they just used it as a way to get into fakie without taking a foot off the board

[@AlejandroRodriguez-ur6md]

ITS COOL

[@goosekhangaming1716]

So cool to watch the OG legends...

[@torgosmenke]

@mrcoolawesomewow Um, I am Steve Rocco. Welcome to your first aneurysm.

[@TheBlackShadowHawk]

Those were the days. This used to be a great country , when we were always under the threat of communist Russia.

[@hdaviator9181]

Perhaps. But the lack of cellphones and computers also played a part. People had to actually go out and socialize.

[@neue01]

We still are ;)

[@torgosmenke]

The Hobbit who ruined skateboarding.

[@sn1000k]

maybe the business. skateboarding is invincible.

[@pressureflipin1992]

Yeah right! He's the reason why your favorite pro skateboarder is able to make real money now a days! He's the reason why we skate the boards we do, the shoes, the clothes, music. Everything. He invented street skating. Don't believe me? Do some research

[@morgellon7877]

@@pressureflipin1992 Dude, street skating has always existed. This old drifter dude who was the Pied Piper of my little desert town was hopping on benches in the 1960's; he would do basically like a little ollie and level it out with a nose wheelie. He didn't try to take credit, he just explained a trick he used to do; he won some championship in like 1964, slalom and freestyle. Jeff Duerr invented what we know as the ollie (originally called the Due-air) and was ollieing up curbs in the laye 70's, along with some other guys; it wasn't a big deal like vert, so nobody really cared. Lance Mountain was acid dropping off over head-high roofs in 1983, helped invent slappies around 1980 or 1981. Rocco and Allen Gelfand invented fs pop shoves and were doing it over stuff in 1979. Rocco deserves some credit, but Gonz, Natas and Guerrero deserve the most, in my opinion.

[@emmerfarro]

@@pressureflipin1992 Who claimed they don't believe you?? Do some research? LOL!!! It is Steve Rocco, not Jim Jones! We are skateboarders, not the Manson family!

[@JONNYCABANI]

The only person who gave a shit about Freestyle was Rodney Mullen! That is a fact!

[@80sFreestyle]

If that was a FACT, there would never have been freestyle contests, freestyle skateboards, freestyle ads in magazines or other freestylers. Rodney would have been the only person doing it. Freestyle was a big part of the contest circuits in the 70's and 80's. Know the roots of skateboarding.

[@JONNYCABANI]

I do.

[@samrose3205]

JONNYCABANI You really don't

[@mikesrcgarage]

Obviously he doesn't know...

[@510tuber]

@@JONNYCABANI4 years later and you still don't

[@igorsantana2661]

Legend

[@bradpnw1897]

Truly. Deserves more credit.