Tom Penny: Master of Effortless Style

Join us on an exhilarating journey through the legendary career of Tom Penny, the enigmatic skateboarder who redefined the art of riding on four wheels. From the cobbled streets of Oxford to the sun-soaked spots of Southern California, Penny's distinctive style and jaw-dropping technical prowess have left an indelible mark on the world of skateboarding.
In this captivating video, we delve into the life of the British skateboarding icon, exploring his early roots, groundbreaking video parts, and the profound influence he's had on the global skate scene. With an unrivaled ability to make even the most complex tricks look effortless, Penny's approach to skateboarding is nothing short of mesmerizing.
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[@Demion83]

I wanna give a shout out to the OG's at my local skatepark. In the mid 90s they ranged from like 27 to 35, I knew them when I was 14-18 and they honestly were so much like Tom Penny in their chill authentic demeanour, many in style as well, a couple even had DEEP bags of tricks but others just had their small bag of signature moves. And they weren't copying him, because he was just a kid in England at the time. But they were never filming or anything, cruising around doing the sickest tricks at various spots and parks and moving on like ghosts. When they'd briefly breeze through the park everyone would stop and watch and then they'd just disappear and you never knew if you'd see them again or where they would go. They were always super chill and kind and encouraging, would slap the deck with their board and whistle when you had some little trick breakthrough they could do in their sleep. Usually high as fuck and/or deep in tall boy beers, maybe sleeping with borderline legal girls, usually filthy ... idk, but they were sick man. Really just lived the lifestyle and lived in the moment. My generation were kind of more stressed and focussed on trying to get good, though nothing compared to today and still we didn't film shit. Those OGs just skated without a care, full zen mode, very Penny-esque.

[@secularspectator]

Got to skate with him a few times between 92 to 94. Style!!!!

[@alexhouser5279]

I was a mid 90s kid and friends and I loved kicking back and watching Tom videos. He just had a smooth I don't care style that was appealing.

[@MmaLegend420]

Him and Kerry Getz were my favorite, and the guys I tried to mimic the most.

[@aftannerstan]

The best to do it 🍄🔥

[@2ndPrize]

Thanks Snoop.

[@luckymanham302]

Thank you for sharing this! I could watch Penny skate all day, especially all this footage I’ve never seen before

[@Zodiacalesotericmatrix]

Right! ❤ Came here to say the same thing. I was surprised a lot of his newer video parts were missing but I was stoked to see so much never before seen footage.

[@tomf4087]

The times at Northampton were great. I could smell it when footage came on. The early comps where the American pros were over, were so good. The look on their faces, when many of them had never heard of him, and he would annihilate the street course like nobody else, making look easy. Classic. 94 was epic. He was at munster championship in Germany in 92, and he annihilate the large mini ramp outside the hall. Like the footage on the wooden mini ramp near the start that looks like it was 92. He did skate minis a lot back then. Endless runs of the hardest tricks.

[@612TheMarshal]

Yes!!!!!

[@Fran-or3lt]

Yes mate! was there an remember the epicness that went down at Radlands.

[@Stoney192]

90s uk street skater where Technical Wizards. Especially Penny and of course Alex Moul.

[@Demion83]

Then the "gnar" side was covered by Rowley.

[@superunknown2812]

Tom Penny-Gangstarr-Ya know my SteeZ.

[@christophreuter9572]

Saw him live in Essen, Germany in the mid 90s. Absolutely Mindblowing. He comes over to us for selling new Puma Shoes.

[@Xanrax]

It would have been sweet if Tom Penny came out with a shoe called Penny loafers. I will always remember his flip board with the 🍄 mushroom.

[@Demion83]

I had that one, the purple one... had a couple of "iconic" boards actually, also had the muska sillhouette with the red rail.

[@jrholisticcoach]

Huge thank you for this amazing video. Tom is my favourite skater of all time, a true GOAT. There’s a lot of footage here I’ve never seen before! 😊

[@sassymate5684]

tom is just the best of all time, funny thing was when he conquered the world back in the old days he hardly ever did a tre flip, he does em as he gets older

[@BlackTop105]

I couldn't tre flip for shit when I was younger everyone had that trick so I started doing inward heels my status shot up after that And the tre flip came later now I can't inward heel to save my life

[@geirkarlsen7329]

Todays top pros could not handle some of these tricks. Especially the way he did them. This skater is lacking nothing. Beautiful style and flow.

[@CrossyToadStudios]

Great job, I didn't see his 1995(or so) Etnies High-5 footage, with chain to bank, etc. Fantastic. Also Europe 1995 and 96 had some of my favorite footage as well.

[@a.s.konttinen]

4:47 One of my all-time favorite lines from Mr. Penny. 🤔

[@gratefulhank]

His mini ramp flow was always mesmerizing to me. Skate God 😎

[@michaelstuschka1915]

I allways loved watch tom skate penny forever he has the best style

[@paulanonymous3889]

I saw him do two heel flips!! My life is now complete 🐐

[@KOL630]

Bowl skating at 17:00 is lovely.

[@petopeti8670]

I love to watch Penny even if his magic has unfortunately gone which was his youth.but still cool,still pushing still authentic...LEGEND

[@godswittness69]

They really don't tell us much about Tom.here at all, his approach, attitude, philosophy, personality, background, upbringing, experiences.. absolutely nothing.

[@theshamanarchist5441]

@@godswittness69 Yeah. No mention of him being a smack head.

[@princequestly2218]

@@theshamanarchist5441 yeah, so, everyone got demons. Some darker than others, still doest take away what he’s done on a board.

[@darrentinonzii340]

​@@theshamanarchist5441 Iv heard that rumor once or twice, do u know anything concrete man?

[@darrentinonzii340]

​@@theshamanarchist5441...Or you have him mixed up with Tom Petty?😅

[@jamesstahl1908]

Vert is what helped make Tom Penny the awesome skater that he is, doing all those tricks constantly on vert and on small rainy waterlogged verts in England helped to make him such a stronger skater

[@eleven_roses]

Facts. You need to hold that sh till you're out again

[@magicwood2360]

One of my favorites❤

[@tinyoudroidtyd2312]

Life is a dream come true 🍄TP

[@Demion83]

20:18 ...bro... so sick... I love seeing pros do park/bowl transition, too many look past it.

[@nolliefliphacksforgoodpeac5148]

Nice steez's

[@bobkornbrust7138]

its scary how he hasnt changed at all! scince the 90s .same clothes and tricks,even though there bad ass tricks.

[@JulesInfinite888]

Love it ty 24-7 endless reel please ♾💕

[@NevilleBamshu23]

I dressed just like that back in the early 90's...ha ha ha..

[@violent_world]

Radlands 🏁🏁 Forever

[@JakeNelson-sc9mo]

What year lad....mint username love misfits

[@northerndelights3113]

Fun fact..around 6 mins he had a broken hand swollen like Mickey Mouses...and was still ripping! I feel soo lucky to have been there!

[@Thaya-s4q]

Tom Penny in his shark years, the best, fo sho.

[@paulrush4545]

bro the is sick

[@theroomtheroomtheroom]

I think he was a bit of a mini ramp pioneer. It feels like he took a lot of what he saw from bowl skating and made it this new “stylish” brand.

[@dugrafiti]

respect

[@SlebAstienSln]

Hey Tommy next indoor park in Bergerac!!!Je vous appelle bientôt avec Viéru!!!La bise mon pote,ils t’ont fait une belle vidéo ce zine!!!

[@kite7838]

Penny’s style has evolved like an old kung fu master

[@Xanrax]

He has insane pop

[@Restinpeacetompenny]

These vids are great, the only thing that could make them way better is lowkey using a different text to voice. Thanks for creating!

[@spmd2012]

Watching this in super slow mo.... POETRY!!!!

[@esco7183]

I love how he lives in mystery. He pops up when he wants 2 ..skate god

[@matthewwalker5430]

I don't know if it is just me, but I can see quite a lot of Tom Penny in Yuto Horigome. Maybe not all of Yuto's designer kit, Penny was never really one for designer clobber, but just the way he rides on a board, catches tricks and lands - the precision and the floaty, fluent style. They both skate street but also skate transition, both skating Vert without pads, lol. They're also both fairly quiet, chilled out characters.

[@nolliefliphacksforgoodpeac5148]

I agree

[@GuitarWithBrett]

As a skater during late 90s when penny was in his prime , like 96.. I think you’re onto something . Penny was more in his own world though vs doing ads and caring much, but the shit he was doing was so far beyond his peers , very much like what I see Yuto doing. The entire vibe in 90s was different than now though, much more about being an individual and non conformist overall and I think Penny somehow fit that ideal too .. like really not giving a shit what others think of you, which is hard to imagine in todays society with nonstop social media. They both seem super chill when rotating tricks too, like I can imagine penny doing some of the 360 to feebles or smiths I see yuto doing if he were skating today

[@makeit-se2eq]

think yuto more calculated has worked for his skills more but yh deffo has similar style energy there, tom penny seems more flowly natural like one those dudes thats just designed to be on a board. regardless of what style it is they have theres just some dudes that look like born to ride a board, naturally talented. yuto looks like hes worked hard for what hes got where theres a energy of tom merely just falling into it if that makes sense. like there skater friends from back day 1 was average or even below average when started not a natural another was a natural seemed like could skate tranny park street hills and just looked at home on a board and everything he did looked good out these two dudes cause the one that werent a natural actually has a bigger bag tricks now and also shreds looks damn good doing it, the natural however has less tricks still shreds looks good but has less passion overall for progressing maybe cause hasnt needed to work for it as much or just cause gets what want the feel out of skating with what does, he does some gnarly stuff just he no longer cares for super tech stuff or fluff, i actually can ask him to do a tech trick and even if he dont know it hell bash it out in a few runs or tries but he wont necessarily care for it he says he only does tricks he likes feel good. he also into bmx too so has other sport passions. other dude super passionate and does try to learn new tricks and solidify them also he skates real good but unlike the other dude i wouldnt be able to ask him bash out some unknown trick and him get it within few tries or whatever, whereas the other dude stuff on a board just seems to click in his head brain and boom hes ripping seen him hop on other boards skate in goofy shoes all sorts he still manages to just skate and look good

[@marckappen7925]

Unbelievable good . Yes Tom .

[@Skriptz187]

His swith f/s flip is identical to regular

[@FlentyOfPish]

I never skated the same after Europe 98'...

[@alistaircrackett4507]

Newcastle at 6:47! Keemon

[@aakkoin]

6:43 wowza

[@Jaberwoccky]

Man why they do Snoops voice like that 😂

[@godswittness69]

I prefer it like this, haha

[@Bryanpeacock33]

Its so AI doesn't copyright strike the channel

[@Time-Shepherd.]

😁👍👍👍👍👍

[@thosethatcan]

There's a clone of sorts at Tampa comp I caught on yt...*😮 Same style, uncanny 😂❤

[@gabaghoul23]

MONKADLELIC is the tome penny of skater XL- please believe

[@pablou8892]

T😮M! ❤

[@KobyJordan]

Put this on my playlist just to come back a week later to hear homie talk through a pillow

[@SteezySkateboardingclips]

talkin through a bucket

[@JasonMeads]

What's with the WEIRD picture of Tom at the end?!?!? LMAO

[@anthonyryan6716]

Chad muska homie don't forget yall

[@tinyoudroidtyd2312]

🍄🍄🍄

[@PuscH311]

15:30 song name ?

[@ryanrowe1975]

🍄

[@Steamerbeen]

Under/Rated ramp skater

[@joshforest304]

And then Curren Caples came along and makes everything look like he's using 10% of his power. ❤

[@mariodiaz1493]

This type of skating gives me a headache lol

[@onedos23]

What's all this then?

[@scheinwiderstandz3888]

bist du in frühen 90ern geskatet ?

[@612TheMarshal]

When skateboarding still had passion…..only thing close now is Joslin and Foy, they skate with intent and as for the rest of the new school there ain’t a legend in the making between them coz they all skate the same boring steez style like robots

[@Marty_Wojahn]

The chat GPT narrator was kind of annoying. Didn’t seem human and made me mute the video. Other than that a nice compilation

[@oracle-0018]

I think you miss that tom penny is larger than life he is not shy! Your commentary shows a egghead type of view. You are a toy mate stop talking trash about tom penny. Peace be with you for making the documentary.

[@robertcarpenter3020]

I think the weed started to effect Tom a little bit later in life

[@theshamanarchist5441]

Nah. It was the heroin that fooked him up.

[@mrchrisadams43]

The thing is...his style is pretty average for today...but back when he was skating...people were doing pathetic shit and calling themselves pro...like skating just wasnt athletic in the early 90s

[@KOL630]

I think you mean his technical ability rather than his style. TP in his heyday had arguably better style than anyone, ever. This is why he is so highly revered. Also his tricks back then were still highly technical even by todays standards. Name a trick he could do it regular, switch, nollie etc. a true master. Only the OG’s get this.

[@morgellon7877]

Athletic? If you want athletic, watch Nyjah or Sean White. Tom Penny is just skateboarding, not trying to be an athlete; in that way, he is not too dissimilar from many pros. People stopped trying so hard in the mid-90's because there was a tech explosion in the early 90's; it wasn't cool to try anymore. The "pathetic shit" you're talking about was probably done by pros who could annihilate a mini or ledge but were just over it.

[@makeit-se2eq]

the equipment wasnt he same had lotta shoddy cheap wheels, lotta crappy truck brands.... heavier too, and deck companies popping up tryna just make a quick buck throwing out poor quality wood boards eh... concaves and shapes, add in experimentation in shoes. the stuff people did on that gear... wasnt pathetic at all they were products of their time and equipment had also imagine expensive and damn niche time too to be skating in UK. skatebaorders nowadays have better boards both wood and shapes concaves too choose from and sizes... you get pick more a wider variety, wheels have improved the formulas, and truck companies have made improvements too as have skate shoes. skating is art there were people that approached it athletically or technically but crappy equipment will limit the ceiling can reach with it. skatings skating also people have come made new tricks help each other out and yh progression happens as people see stuff and open peoples mind to what can even be done on a plank with some wheels on and griptape. his style is not average he has pretty unique style even for a shredder, how technical he skates with that style is rare even by todays standards hes very flowy calm whether skating gnarly hench big things or chilling skating small stuff messing about. also more people have gotten in to sport so talent more likely enter skating rather than miss it now..., modern day example ive noticed as been out of skating for 5-6 years cause injury still out of it..., is female skaters ive watched them recently on youtube and there is now genuine rippers in that now and not just a meagre few... or a 'good for a girl' thing but actual shredders with style and tech tricks, that werent about really even few years back when i was still in skating there were odd few sponsored chicks and good yh but not on par with male equivalent pros on same team even now though theres some truly amazing female skaters popping up (cause skateboarding become more accessible to chicks more them engaging in the culture sport and real outlier type talent is coming through (population boom in general has influeced the progression of skating as people feed off each other too)

[@Collin-ic9ct]

Lmfao

[@VestigialHead]

Meh. He is okay. I certainly do not agree with the unmatched ability claims of the voice over though. I grew up through the same years and Tom was middle of the road at best.

[@newyardleysinclair9960]

He was alright. I get that he was one of the original skaters known for his style but compared to the talent today Penny is average

[@estebanlucas240]

Siempre las generaciones van mejorando y llevando más al extremo una disciplina pero para eso la generación anterior hizo el primer avance y así sucesivamente. Tom Penny fue una pieza clave en esa transición, trucos difíciles tanto en switch como nollie, estilo relajado que dio paso a que la moda también entrara en el cuento.

[@syndicateplayaz8084]

Amazing he got Snoop Dogg to narate!😂

[@zdeneksalcak5039]

Rap 14.20 ?