Tony Hawk, Mike Frazier AIRWALK Skateboard Demo Prahran (1996)

[@jamesphlames7498]

Oh man, the 90's was such an incredible time for Xtreme sports. I was into BMXing at the time and spent all of my free time at the local ramp park. The biking / skating culture was so fresh and exciting. The clothing, the demo videos, magazines, the culture, the video games. Just an incredible time to be alive!

[@jasondelves8758]

Fuck yeah bro, Amazing! I was a teenager in the 90's and it was fun ass exiting time! The vibe was awesome!

[@camonsen]

Thanks man, I remember this. I reckon I can see my younger self sitting by the flat!

[@mhagelst]

Thanks for sharing. BMX riders are Dennis McCoy (the guy with chest protection) and Rick Thorne (full face with no visor).

[@serialbeachcomber]

Thanks. Much appreciated :)

[@PanicThrottle]

I knew that was Mccoy from the second he dropped in. I should have known that was Rick with that footplant tailwhip

[@jamiejiminico]

Wow, that’s about 30 odd years ago! A love/hate for that ramp! ☺️🤕😆

[@user-friendlyhuman]

I believe the Pappas brothers used to frequent that steel object back in the glory days.

[@MikeD-hn9hf]

Sick upload - thanks chief!!

[@Trindal]

I used to build ramps from the trash people would put on the curb. The only bike trick I ever did was a table top I think.. well I did a Superman once but that was more of me crashing when the ramp sort of gave way. I played a bit of hockey and roller hockey which led to doing tricks on rollerblades. I had a good 15 or so tricks down on them thanks to learning how to grind. We used to do a high jump competition in them… that also led to a Superman when I decided to grab onto a truck to get speed. I did a front flip like that but I didn’t ride it out and think I gave myself a concussion when one of the skates (that was still on my foot!!) clocked me in the head. I saved up enough cash from requesting cash as opposed to gifts for my birthday to buy my very first complete skateboard. It was cheap wheels and bearings with a nice set of trucks and a BlackFlag branded deck. I even managed to get to go to my first Skate park, in Norman Okla. that day I learned how to do a lot including dropping in on a 5 ft quarter pipe. They had a huge half pipe and while I did it on blades I couldn’t on a board. I was purple from on both my sides, about nipple high down to my knees. My forearms were pretty tender as well. I would have done that every day from that point on if I could’ve I couldn’t lay on my sides forever after that my outside ankle felt like it was vibrating for the next week. The closest thing I ever did after then that was as much of a rush was riding a bull once as a young adult and racing motorcross. I tried to do the jumping stairs and flat ground stuff because that’s all I had to work with. I think I got to go to the park twice. I got stuck in a backwoods area one a dirt and gravel drive/ road after that. I gave it a try in my early 20’s and paid severely to the point I was forced to stop due to the contract I signed with the government (they refused to let there investment be taken out by an extreme sport of any kind, to the point they made us get permission and could cost us the bonus we got/ if we got one when we enlisted). I miss the 90’s.

[@DrZuum]

Riders name is Radovich or "Rado". I don't remember his first name (from memory) but was always the one bmxer that kept riding when not many others did. I thought I heard someone yell "Yeah Buzza" then I heard they did. Buzza was the most iconic "local" of that place and always came to show pro's up. Anyone that knows Buzza and filmed this era should do a mixtape of Buzz skating in the pros demo. No one will ever destroy this ramp as much as Hosoi did easter 89. Tas, Ben, Ellis, Chris Miller maybe.... Legendary footage mate. Thankyou. Remember this day.

[@DrZuum]

*edit* Oh it was Boz, not Buzz. (Byron McCormack & Jason Burrows)

[@mikehemens9359]

Ben is under rated from what I can tell.

[@DrZuum]

@@mikehemens9359 The way Ben and Tas pushed each other was so dynamic to watch. On any given day either was better. What I would've given to watch one of the Pappas, Way, Sluggo, McKay sessions you'd see bits of on DC or 411. #reddragons

[@eek412]

I remember that demo vividly I got to meet Tony's brother Mike in the parking lot

[@Demion83]

I was there when you met Tony's brother Mike. I introduced you guys.

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

Mike threw up yogurt in the parking lot after taking a beating from a local lad.

[@mattimaranda9638]

Oh man Mike Hawk is great!

[@bennettbennett681]

Tony killing it in the 90's in OZ. Blokes and sheelaz smoking duzzas. Bro.

[@MrFurryface]

The one and only TONY HAWKE! ❤

[@augustvong7057]

Somehow the aerials looked more impressive back in the day, because the ramps were smaller. Hawk could make a world-class display out of anything.

[@nikgenders5022]

I remember this day

[@sonnduro]

Tony makes that ramp look small! this is the biggest ramp i ever dropped into, but its successor was alot bigger, too scared to drop into that one

[@schuey5537]

Wow the birdman at Prahran. I would have been 3 years old.

[@middlesidetopwise]

0:09 In 1996, people didn’t know Tony Hawk well enough to spell his name right. Think about that

[@PanicThrottle]

I miss Airwalk. Anyone remember the "Amateur Gravity Games" Contests they put on??

[@lorenzojoneson]

maybe the sickest footage ever.

[@augustvong7057]

No matter the ramp, Tony always delivered incredible demos back in the day. There are plenty of them on KZbin. This is before the 900, his video-games and the giant home-ramp.

[@Sigmund_Fraud]

there was so many dents and bumps and deformations in the surface of that ramp, felt way sketchy. good times.

[@hellohello8556]

Not sure if it's in the video didn't watch it all but on the last day from memory Tony Hawk climbed onto the roof of that building next to the ramp jumped off dropped in and pulled massive air.

[@mikehemens9359]

Bmx on vert is gnaaarly.

[@joshuamundhenke689]

I can't believe he did a 7 on that ramp with the kid yelling it out...

[@mentalprolapse7165]

he makes that ramp look tiny

[@middlesidetopwise]

1:21 dude looks like he’s the first BMX rider to ever try a vert ramp

[@nedesnikderpherder7529]

So good not to see Tony Hallam not trying to hog the spotlight!

[@wacamac1006]

that vert ramp looks tiny compared to todays

[@Spridium1Jono]

People were bigger back then.

[@TheAxelay]

Great stuff but I don't think that Tony will ever come back to Prahran again....The skatepark is the least of this areas problems sigh...

[@jamescorbett5729]

Tony Hawk could go for hours with an endless bag of tricks.

[@suburbia8831]

Thay spelled his name wrong! 😳

[@serialbeachcomber]

You spelled 'they' the wrong way LOL And yes, that is embarrassing. Back in the day when you typed what the event was directly on your camera when you are filming it. Can't undo that.

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

Was that metal ramp slick to skate on? Sure beats the splintered plywood we had.

[@chrhadden]

he skating that thing like its a mini ramp lol

[@tomvbman]

That’s because it was a mini ramp compared to most vert ramps

[@sidvicious332]

That's because he's so awesome. Rumor has it that he practiced this run ahead of time, like for fun.

[@ErgoCogita]

Video misspells Tony’s last name and the title misspells Mike’s name…😣

[@Mad4400]

11:46 Fuck Yeah.

[@ColeHartman1]

Somebody forgot the JBL

[@tylerwilson8896]

Where were the Pappas bros? Wasn't that their home ramp?

[@bonzaburger5531]

They’re on the roof smoking meth lol

[@marcelurban4120]

Tony shuttin shit down as always

[@28russ]

Wow, the old Prahran ramp. They made a copy of it in my town of Bairnsdale but they screwed the coping up and it stuck out to far and never really got skated much. Not like this anyway lol. The bike riders and rollerbladers ended up using it more. 😕🤷‍♂

[@Mad4400]

If I had a dollar for every local council built skate ramp, bowl, or quarter I rode in my teens that had fucked up coping or impossible transitions, I probably could have bought a new set-up. I remember at one park there was a fibreglass moulded quarterpipe that wasn't even 5 foot high, yet the curve went to vert. It also featured a 4-inch wide platform.

[@arnawitt404]

I skated Bairnsdale every spare second I had early 90s. The coping was a little dodgy on one side but it wasnt as bad as many other council ramps at the time. I learnt airs, grinds, fakie Ollie's etc. when most people had stopped skating vert down here. There was a few core crew that sessioned it' pretty heavily. Those were the days..

[@28russ]

@@arnawitt404 Wow, cool to hear from someone who skated it. Are ya a B'dale boy mate? I prob shoulda tried to skate it some more but I was never much of a transition skater. I was 13 in 91 but I was a bit of a late starter and didn't start skating until I was about 16 or 18 and by the time I got half decent on ramps they'd cut half of it down to a mini and moved it to where the skate park is now. If my back wasn't wrecked it'd be smashing the new skatepark (and myself lol) . It looks sweet asf. Happy new year mate. 👍👍🙂

[@AmarilisDraft]

hay

[@ezedjay]

Nice one cheers 🛹👊

[@RyanGuardalabene-l2x]

JON LADY

[@mentalprolapse7165]

remember they had that crap bowl, and then they put a mini ramp in the middle of it

[@diggindan1498]

TONY HAWKE😂

[@derickdoveglass]

Tony Hawke

[@ST3PH3N89]

Where is tas and Ben Pappas you know tony wouldn't have been there if they were😂

[@RyanGuardalabene-l2x]

DOWNPOINT

[@vanillaice887]

I Think he wasted Tony hawk....with a broken rib ! We all know those brothers laid waste to hawk and them fruit cake x game skaters.

[@GStarGoku3]

7:45 double peg grind, he stands on the top tube and does a can-can. Someone send this to matty cramner.

[@richgilmour5924]

TONY HAWKE.

[@chrishendricks4613]

Hosoi would have been nice.

[@shtfgarage]

Bruhhhhhh that was too much sht for the 80s kids brains about to explode that's hawk pro skater 1 sh early 2001 flip grab warehouse secret box location up top over the half pipe

[@leeentertainmentchannel247]

Good demo but I think at that time Nelson Mandela just died so the South Africans weren’t really feeling it. They must have held these events to try and uplift the community but everyone was sad cause of apartheid and shit 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@stusux]

Wtf are you talking about? This is Australia, not South Africa.

[@Demion83]

@@stusux Maybe the australians were still impacted and feeling morose over the loss of Mandela.

[@jeromemarcini8871]

@@Demion83 It's the mandela effect. They were feeling the effects of it, like stunned kangaroos

[@Tsar22]

Vert skating sucks hard! And attracks weirdos

[@bones666skate]

lmao ok weirdo hahaha

[@Tsar22]

@@bones666skate what's imao 666? Impatient Myanmar aswipee octopus?? Hey yo, yous one of these vert guys? You ride a dwag? You some quantum computer sim porch monkeyy writing programs on auto pilot watching homosexuaality man ride skooters on vert ramps, please explain??? Much love

[@jamiejiminico]

🎣

[@vanillaice887]

Go skate a Dumpster and listen to dindoo beats😅 you'll be black soon. 🤣

[@search895]

Tony Hawke