THE ERIC DRESSEN HILL BOMB STORY

[@RaulMeatFactory1975]

With his sticker bombed deck - those green Razors look so good on the purple stg 5's. Thank you for this, always a pleasure watching your archive footage.

[@mackash]

Man i luv this channel. Its an 80s dream come true. Im in my 50s but still feel like 30s because of skating and surfing

[@RealSkateStories]

Thats what UP!!

[@AxlRose-ug5db]

I love this channel i skated from 85 to 91 all my heroes are on this channel 💯

[@24-7flounderproblem]

Amen 🙏🙌

[@crazycatman5928]

Hey I skated those same year too. Natas and Hensley were my childhood hero’s. In 91 the last trick I learned was the 360 kick flip. Not easy to do on the decks back them. I’m still a skater at heart.

[@ChrisOfTheRiff]

Thank you SO much for doing these videos!! This is a diamond of a channel. It means so much to so many of us to see all this footage and your insights into their creations as well. I had Speed Freaks when it came out, and watched it all the time. Again, you've truly given alot of us such a rad gem of a channel, ... thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!

[@RealSkateStories]

Thank you Chris 🙏

[@bobsacamanno5123]

Love all this old footage thx for these dude 🤙

[@rayknives6716]

When I was 12/13 I used to watch his part when I got home from school & then skate down the little hill by my house pretending I was skating like him 😄 Thanks for all these videos from the archive.

[@RealSkateStories]

Rad! Thanks Ray!

[@joshfletcher5231]

I love these videos and just the history of it all. Thank you for putting them out there.

[@sarayudas]

Doesn't get any better than this.... Speed Freaks video: forever etched in my memory 🏴‍☠

[@roberttaylor8952]

Love these videos!! Please keep them coming and all the best bro!!!

[@RealSkateStories]

Ok will do!! Thank you!

[@QuietCornersPhotography]

My friends and I as kids always loved this Dressen part and this hill section really inspired us. We could do powerslides at the time on our local hills but had never seen anyone really lock in and sustain one until the one at 8:41, when we saw that we all wanted to slide locked in for as long as possible and see what it felt like to skate like Dressen in a small way.

[@BurninatorTheTrogdor]

Dude was that GR song really in the video? Now I really feel old.

[@RealSkateStories]

💯

[@diplenski]

i watched speed freaks again recently straight through. this part was always a standout, i love the long powerslides. still ripping. i have some 60 x 46mm 97a oj2s from the '80s i still ride but they're closer to 57mm now

[@chrischacon3146]

N pop

[@_Ramen-Vac_]

So few newer kids know the joys of a hill sessh

[@mackash]

So true. My first experience on a proper skate deck was a huge hill and i got the defwobbles, came off hard, and had road rash all over. It was awesome. I was hooked.

[@ryanrowe1975]

Great footage

[@Thaya-s4q]

Half way through watching, this is simply why Eric Dressen is a legend. Word

[@SloFi75]

Gracias Tony!

[@RealSkateStories]

Con gusto!!

[@john316jamesjude]

I had a variflex that looked like his board. Sure didn't know it could do those. Love Eric's style.

[@ivanleon835]

Muy bueno!mi gente!!👏

[@RealSkateStories]

🆙🆙

[@howardb.6205]

fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@patricktheriault4123]

I like how he started walking away, like h3 had nothing to do with it

[@robertblackmore703]

Love this cat. Legend

[@kiwi_comanche]

I fucking love skating. Edit: Thank you for this.

[@mackash]

Same. Its awesome

[@larrybecker9565]

Old school 🎉 skateboarding 🛹 I like the 97 As

[@RealSkateStories]

The 97s are epic

[@ron8935]

I have always ridden 97's I've never fallen for any of that 101 or 102 durometer stuff.... It was considered a complete gimmick in the '80s..... But I have a set of Z-0:09 grooves from 1978 that are 100 durometer and those things are death riders😂.

[@namesurname8423]

Sick slides !

[@charliehobbies]

Powerslide Eric D ❤

[@lootbaglarry8.2]

Street razors!!! 95a

[@vorpalblades]

Still available.

[@floydreidesign8956]

Does no one even know that this hill is infamous in LA, you can see it from the 405 freeway no one skated it because it was Sooo steep and a bust then this part came out we knew exactly how sick and almost unskateable..Natas burned thru complete sets of wheels down to the bearings when we went

[@willnecker3828]

Gnarly.

[@CIWise]

Looking at this old video and recalling watching it when it came out, I'm reminded of one of Grosso's comments on the modern skate video: "trick porn." Though, admittedly, Speed Freaks was a part of the early inception of "trick porn" video, it still had long, drawn-out parts like this one which weren't about showcasing tricks as much as communicating a feeling. Stacy Peralta once said that, with the early PP videos, he wanted to present a culture to his audience. Obviously, you couldn't make a video like that nowadays: lots of parts with just rolling. But I remember we never fast forwarded those parts, we studied them just as hard and copied their style, just the way they rolled down the street. Maybe that's why kids' style is the way it is today. I'm from NY, and I remember skating from the Monument to the Banks. On more than one occasion. And I had money for the train. A few years back, I was heading to an indoor park you had to take a bus to. The bus stop was about half a mile from the park so, obviously, I put my board down and headed for the park. About halfway there, I saw a 13-14 year old grommet carrying his board. I made him put it down and ride to the park. Later, at the park, I said, "I love skating. The feeling of being on my board and rolling is like being in p***y: I want to stay in there as long as humanly possibly." Mullen--universally hailed as the godfather of modern street skating (a dubious honor IMO, irrespective of whether it's true or not)--like freestylers generally, didn't spend much time rolling anywhere. (See my comment above: maybe that's why we felt they were less than manly!) In the Daewon (another "godfather") doc, I remember Gonz saying about the first time he saw Daewon that he could tell he had spent a lot of time just rolling around on his board. He's probably one of the last of the generation that did so. I'm 50. When my daughter was 12, I took her with me to the skatepark. Her first day out--she can't kickturn, she can't tic-tac, she can't carve: she asked me how to ollie. I screamed at her, "Just roll around first!" She never skated again. I still feel I did the right thing.

[@RealSkateStories]

Great obersavtions. Although I edited Speed Freaks in a very b80s, fast cut style. Even this hill scene was all chopped up as I had to put so many riders in the vid there were time constraints and we all thought the 80s fast cut style was cool. So stoked now to do these re-edits and show entire runs, pushing, roll outs, and the subtle nuances we now find so much more value in than when we were kids.

[@larrybecker9565]

Fast skater 😎

[@larrybecker9565]

That trick was crazy whatever he did how he did that backside of front side no comply tell slide 😎😎

[@RealSkateStories]

I love that one too.

[@Cyborgmarsupial]

Oj2 Team Riders- pure propaganda Dressen don't fall.

[@RealSkateStories]

Street Razors!

[@simonserra9330]

#dressenisthelaw

[@snakefinger]

Fuckkkin Olympic rail ! That car didn’t fade that board one bit ! Oj 2’s ! You heard that Nano Bot Andy !

[@dfworks2239]

Seems kinda easy to be pro hack then….compared to now.

[@RealSkateStories]

Not at all.

[@seanmorris]

'Standing on the shoulders of giants!'