Oliver Barton’s Top 5 YouTube Picks Of The Week
bartok
- October 26 2009
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- 48 comments
This week I’m keeping it strictly biz for the skate rats out there. YouTube is generally looked upon my many filmers as their worst enemy and it’s true for the most part: YouTube kills video sales, which kills the companies trying to make the videos who support the pros and ams that we all love to watch. Basically, if you kill the skate companies and all the people they support, there’ll be no more pros and skating will be like tennis where you just buy random tennis bats and only the top 5 guys winning the comps on the TV get any love. So make the right choice and buy some DVDs. That being said, people are starting to come up on YouTube alone, our first tape is a compilation is a perfect example of that, NorCal prodigy Mister Mark Suciu:
Last week we featured one of history’s most pinnacle, Tom Penny, and this week we continue the vibe with another gift from the skate gods, Mister Van Wastell. His bag of tricks were as varied and random as his array of random tattoos, Van’s influence spread wide and deep, look no further than Mike Anderson and Bobby Worrest to see some of Van’s legacy. The following footage tape is edited by one of Van’s friends and a great guy himself, Mike Fox.
Bill Strobeck has been my favorite filmer for a long time; as Benny Maglinao put it, “He’s the most pinnacle filmer, who films the most pinnacle dudes, in the most pinnacle locations”. This video is some seen and unseen footage of one of street skating’s greatest dynamic duos, Josh Kalis and Stevie Williams. You should check out his web site for more of these videos featuring heads like Alex Olsen, Pops, Danny Brady and Gonz: williamstrobeck.com
The greatest skateboarder of all time, still making it look how it should. Fun. Watch and learn.
If the Gonz is the greatest, this bloke is the gnarliest by light years, after watching this clip, I’m not even sure if he is part of the human species.
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October 26th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
To Lemonz
Gonz started street skating before you were probably born if it weren’t for people like him and Rodney Mullen those kickflips you like doing on flatground at the local school wouldn’t exist and you still wouldn’t kickturn properly on Vert because you wouldn’t have the skill like everyone else who avoids transition!
October 27th, 2009 at 12:56 am
первый
October 27th, 2009 at 12:59 am
danny way is just a gladiator that happens to skate ha
October 27th, 2009 at 2:34 am
i still fail to see how mark gonzales is the "greatest" skateboarder ever. Yeah he makes it fun not knocking it and its refreshing seeing him skate since its not your every day 10 stair handrail shit but he deff does not deserve the title of "greatest skateboarder ever" . Its embarrassing that people think he is good.
October 27th, 2009 at 3:04 am
you need to hit the history books. that's ignorance dude
October 27th, 2009 at 3:10 am
tha first kid is legit
October 27th, 2009 at 3:11 am
that first stevie williams line is sooo dope
October 27th, 2009 at 3:18 am
lemonz is an idiot Gonz IS / will always be the greatest
October 27th, 2009 at 3:58 am
not ur every day 10 stair handrail guy huh? he was the 1st to 50 50 a handrail pal. like the guy before me. hit the books
October 27th, 2009 at 4:06 am
Lemonz is a dumb ass!! go to church or something your just straight retarded if you think the GONZ! the master of all skateboarding and art is gay.
Dumb asses like you that dont respect skateboarding like it should be really grind my gears
October 27th, 2009 at 5:40 am
lets make this a slap forum and turn it into a LEMONZ IS GAY thread
October 27th, 2009 at 6:38 am
gonz got his skateboarding matched with the music perfect.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:01 am
gonz is your favorite skaters favorite skater. guaranteed… i hope you quit skateboarding because we dont want or need you…
October 27th, 2009 at 8:06 am
he is one of the greatest but not the greatest, think about the z-boys, rodney mullen, tony, lance,…
they are many and gonz is also one of them
October 27th, 2009 at 8:25 am
i aggree with that guy talkin some fucked up language
October 27th, 2009 at 8:27 am
gonz is a revolutionary skateboarder and he helped and changed alot of things for us but he is of low level skill compared to the high risk competitive shit goin down these days. everyone get ur shit straight and say it right the first time
October 27th, 2009 at 11:06 am
not talkin any shit but i mean some one would have invented kickflips eventually
October 27th, 2009 at 11:35 am
With the Gonz, he thing is this: besides tricks and skills, the Gonz brings us a visionary look to the streets of every city in the world. A crack here, a bump there is a infinite playground for guys like the Gonz.
October 27th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Mark Suciu is a little ripper for sure, its crazy to see a little kid kick bs noseblunt a handrail
October 27th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
you're a moron
October 27th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
he was like thirteen!
October 27th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
"not your every day 10 stair handrail shit but he deff does not deserve the title of "greatest skateboarder ever" .
First of all, You put your period inside the parentheses. Second, the Gonz is 40. Of course he's not going to be doing "10 stair handrails." Get on youtube and watch some of his early video's. Eat your words. He was doing that shit before any of these new aged skaters. Let's just go back in time, stop the Gonz from skating and see where skating would be today. Nowhere. What a dumbfuck…
October 27th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
DANNY WAY IS FUCKING GOD
October 27th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
Jamie Thomas, Ray Barbie, Christian Hossoi, Brian Sumner and many many others go to church regularly!!! are they also retarded? Nino you are an idiot!!!
October 27th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Gonz is cool but you guys dont need to jump all over anyone who doesnt like something about him, its like you're all trying to prove you "know" skateboarding by the way you say hit the books pal or check yourself and take a history lesson. I dont care that much about 80s and early 90s skating it doesnt appeal to me.
and Tamadoa you're a faggot, every comment i ever see by you is about how vert skating is the only way to skate and that we are less of a person if we cant 540 on a halfpipe.
October 27th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
stfu go watch Ryan Sheckler or some shit. Youre a lame.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
to hell with vert
October 27th, 2009 at 11:29 pm
All skateboard companies need to jump through the right hoops to put their videos on iTunes. 99% of the skateboard videos I watch, I watch on my ipod…and every computer I own has a dvd writer.
October 27th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
danny way is on drugs
October 27th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
gonz did the first handrail.. and look now in every skate mag there is a picture of some one doing a handrail.. almost every skate park their is a hand rail.. thats just a minor part of why he is the greatest..
October 27th, 2009 at 11:41 pm
the gonz is amazing. he was an all terrain and style master long before you ever thought to skate in the first place. he invented tricks, has gotten gnarly (like, REALLY gnarly, watch cardiel's epicly later'd and see his huge drop in for proof, he doesnt land it but its still insane. if cards thinks he's the gnarliest then he probably is) and is still capable of ripping up all terrians
just understand that he's in his goddamn 40's. he's done everything he wants, has paved the way for most all your favorite pros, now he just wants to get down and have fun.
October 28th, 2009 at 12:49 am
The gonz doesnt give a shit about the skill level of the tricks hes doing, listen to him explain himself at the end of the video, hes taking skateboarding and looking at it in a different way, in pretty much all skate videos they choose the song after the filming is done, but gonz explains that he was trying to match the style of the song through the tricks he was doing and the way he was skating, gonz "MOST ORIGONAL SKATER EVER"
October 28th, 2009 at 1:02 am
i need you dead lemonz! I NEED!
October 28th, 2009 at 2:17 am
i never ever had a comment make me so upset that i commented in a way like this. I think the internet has enough of that already. Lemonz, you sir are an ignorant fool.
October 28th, 2009 at 10:00 am
dude you need a smack in the face , everyone started skating in ther carage cus mama and papa couldnt aford a big ass vert mofo , and by the way are you kiding me about the kickturns? hope you are !
October 28th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
I used to feel the same way. Just youtube his old stuff. The dude was way ahead of his time.
October 28th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Your comment is offensive to skateboarding itself. Mark Gonzales is the godfather of street skateboarding. I can say without a doubt that skateboarding would not be the same today without Mark Gonzales. He is absolutely the greatest innovator that street skateboarding has ever know or will know. Go to your room and don't come out until you admit what you said was wrong, little kid.
October 28th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Gonz sucks
October 28th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Gonz was an innovator and looks like the coolest dude ever. Just because he made up some sick stuff doesn't me he's the best skill wise he may have been then, but not now. I don't think its embarrassing to say he is the greatest because he is basically a spitting image of skateboarding in its realest form. But when it comes down to it who gives a fuck who is the best? Skateboarding is about having fun, so in that sense Mark Gonzales is the "greatest" skateboarder ever.
October 29th, 2009 at 12:05 am
Lemonz, what you need to is watch the video again and watch, REALLY watch how fluidly he interacts with every little thing on the street. even the curb drop into that gutter puddle was done intentionally. what he's doing in this video takes DECADES of experience on a skateboard and if you can't see that, i someday hope you will. i mean, could you do perfect frontside shove-its in the rain?
October 29th, 2009 at 4:47 am
there really ought to be more commentary on that little guy in the first video, that little bastard can rip something fierce.
October 29th, 2009 at 6:29 am
you're all fools.
if there's any hope for you morons it's in heduntcurr's words. listen.
October 29th, 2009 at 6:34 am
because my opinion of GONZ is different than what everyone else thinks I'm some how ignorant? Yeah everyone here claims to know what "real" skateboarding is, when actually skateboarding is what you make it to be. Looks like you fools skipped that chapter in "the books". The GONZ does his own thing but I just don't like his skating or think he is the "greatest", period. However he has a mean kick flip hippie jump.
October 29th, 2009 at 11:30 am
wow u truly know nothing of skating or how gonz played a big part of it
October 29th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
People who say that Gonz isn't great and doesn't "appeal" to them obviously don't know the meaning of history. It's all about what he did before everyone else and everything you see what skateboarding is today comes from that. The first street skater to skate a handrail etc doesn't appeal to you? Then nothing does. You just don't respect the roots of skateboarding, thats cool… I guess. If I'd be 40 and still skateboarding I would be skating excactly like he did in this video, having fun and just cruising around. No need to prove anything when you're 40 and basically the guy who invented skateboarding as it is today.
November 1st, 2009 at 9:45 pm
wasnt it natas?
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November 13th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
ure a fuckn idiot lemonz, go watch a gonz part from the early days than ull know how stupid u are, and how rad he is! u university twaat