40 Spooky, Strange & Useless Skateboarding Facts
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In this episode, we talk about some spooky skateboarding facts... weird skateboard shapes, strange industry stories and some truly useless pieces of knowledge.
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What's the spookiest skate fact you know or heard in this video?!
@alone4116
Жыл бұрын
@ShredzShop i know the location of alien workshop hq and what is in the video is not true I went to the location viewed on the video and it's a roofing business
@francoismartineau2519
Жыл бұрын
That Marty McFly invented skateboarding
@forton615
Жыл бұрын
That Conan O'Brien mounts trucks on the top of a skateboard.
@thecollectorsinged113
Жыл бұрын
not really spooky BUT it is something connected to the Natas Devil Worship Deck, Eazy E used to own one and he has a picture with it posing with the deck with the griptape sliced in multiple pieces and the pentagram on top of the deck still fully visible
@tenchskate6066
Жыл бұрын
The red top ply since i got two decks with a red top ply for Christmas
I remember when I first started skating if you fell from hitting a rock you eat the rock and you get better
@gnarlywagner8171
Жыл бұрын
Bro, tf?
@stephaniejean2426
Жыл бұрын
Based
@emperortrevornorton3119
Жыл бұрын
You gain the rocks power by doing this... You might lose a tooth or crack your jaw
@eyepodwalkman6247
Жыл бұрын
That'd make for a rough spring if your municipality uses gravel for snow and ice during winter.
@_Maxten
Жыл бұрын
same
FUN FACT 1: Pro Skater Steve Nesser is Green Day lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong's brother-in-law. FUN FACT 2: Billie Joe Armstrong has A partial ownership stake in Real Skateboards.
@melm4251
Жыл бұрын
interesting bit about Billie Joe, Jim Thiebaud (main guy at Deluxe) was a cofounder of Adeline Records with him in the late 90s as well!
This channel never disappoints.
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for hangin' at the premiere Sebastian!! 🙏 🙌
must be so much fun making these episodes 🤩
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
This was a fun one to make! 🙏 🙌
I remember having a skate mag subscription, best time of my life
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
I used to spend my allowance every week on buying a mag! 4 mags a month haha I read every mag front to back, my lil connection with California
The video of skaters swinging their boards in a fight reminds me of when I first started skating in the 90s. There we other kids who like to fight and jump people, who'd confront us, but almost always just walk away. Sometimes if there were enough of them they'd start fighting, but who attacks people holding skateboards. Especially when we held our boards with a mall-grab. We know what parts of the board hurt the most, because we've been hit by them many many times. When they did attack we'd stand far apart back to back and throw a few nose/tail jabs to the ribs, strikes with the truck or truck axel, or hits with the the thin side of the board, and they'd back off. What did they expect to happen? We made sure to not hit heads, but they still sometimes got broken bones, and since they started it and had more people they wound up with charges from the police after their truly shitty parents tried to get us in trouble.
@joelglanton6531
11 ай бұрын
When I was 11 or so I started skating and I didn't know yet which groups of kids were cool to hang out with and which weren't (yes, skating was that popular in 1998). I was kicking it with these really bad kids one day and we ate at McDonald's and then we hung out by the back of the restaurant while a couple of the kids threw pebbles at cars. One pickup truck that got hit busted a u turn and drove straight through a vacant, desert lot to pull up on us and a guy who was about 30 got out to square up with the kid who threw the rock that hit his car. Said kid was about 14 or so. The kid immediately swings his board a couple of times at the man. I remember to this day that it was a green, 8 inch, Girl Skateboards deck with a big, pink, Girl logo and matching, green Grind King trucks- I'd ridden it a couple of times to ollie my first gap and I still recall how utterly gigantic it felt compared to my 7.75, Zero deck with the three skulls and Destructo trucks. The man had managed to dodge the first couple of swings and on the next one, a big, arcing, overhead chop, he grabbed the board with both hands, yanked it out of the kid's, and cracked his skull open with one swing of his own. It happened all in one motion- him grabbing the board, using its momentum to reel it back and swing it overhead like it was a bucket full of water, and bringing it down square on top of the kid's forehead to crack it like an egg.
@ShogunateDaimyo
4 ай бұрын
@@joelglanton6531lol sometimes people get hurt. Glad it was the a-hole kid.
@PatchesOHoulihan-hi2tb
Ай бұрын
@@joelglanton6531Sounds like the kid got the prize for the game he was playing.
@joelglanton6531
Ай бұрын
@@PatchesOHoulihan-hi2tb He dropped out of high school to move to New York City and die of a heroin overdose
Xenomorph with the monster hat had me rolling 🤣
@joelgodrimedia
Жыл бұрын
Some of my best work 🤣
@theJACK__
7 ай бұрын
was that PLG?
This channel is like the holy grail of skate info
I think we all had a crush on Marissa at 1 point in time... maybe even now still..
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
Whatching her interviews, I agree. She seems so cool!
You guys still working the FA video? The new Tyshawn part was craaazy..... can't wait for part two
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
FA vid before the end of the year! 👀 🤫
I remember doing film photography 📸 and putting them in sequence cause it's how we did things back when 😅. Also, I still use film today for photography cause for myself it's the whole anticipation of waiting for the film to be developed that was and still is today my biggest holy sh*t I shot that inspires me I started photography back in the early 90s. Digital I love also and as always fams great content 🔥🤙🏽
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
I agree! I still shoot 35mm often and Im really bad at it, but when it turns out, its the most exciting and rewarding feeling. Glad you enjoy the vids!! 🙏
I'm commenting as requested. I like focused bladers. Good episode here. Very spooky. I know spooky and dumb. Im from Salem
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
Damn! Give us a spooky Salem story!!
@oghash4912
Жыл бұрын
Ya I wanna hear one too
@LiterallyCensoredDaily
Жыл бұрын
The tourists there are like a hoarde of zombies sometimes. Is that spooky enough? Lol
I got a real spook... my dude back in the 90s did a gap and his whole wheel + bearings came off but the wheel nut didn't, it still makes no sense
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
Now that is stranger than fiction 👻 👻 👻
@bubbadagger
Жыл бұрын
@@ShredzShop true Charlottetown stories
@LiterallyCensoredDaily
Жыл бұрын
Nah bro, that wheel phased right through the nut. Dude's board was possessed by demons and/or aliens.
@bubbadagger
Жыл бұрын
@@LiterallyCensoredDaily thank u 🙏
Spooky skateboard fact: I just got a wicked sick Darkthrone Transylvanian Hunger skate deck in the mail today, also have one of the Samhain coffin decks in my collection. The originals were hand screened by danzig himself and sell for thousands of dollars
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
damn! That's so sick!! 🔥 👻 🦇
I still havn't found animal chin which is kinda spooky!
You guys are moving up my list of favorite Canadians. I put you right below a Decenzo. Not Ryan but Scott. They both rip and super nice guys. Anyway keep up the great content.
I haven’t thought of that Natas graphic in probably 15-20 years. Holy blast from the past.
Love the video, cool stuff!
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Jon!! Glad you enjoyed! This was a fun one!
I was gunna say something about Levi but he gives us so much awesome stuff!
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
Haha you’re a good guy Benjamin 🤝
Dude u guys are the best skate channel outta all the skate channels on yt
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
🙏🙏🙏glad you enjoy!!
Dang. Just learned about Red top ply and knew exactly what was lurking under my grip couldn't be trusted. Awesome video shredz!
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed!! 🙏🙌
@theJACK__
7 ай бұрын
I'll skate a red top. one of my favorite boards was a Danny Way Giger alien plan b with a red top!
Yeah I gotta fight off Cougars with my board all the time...
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
😆
Still can’t get over the the clown shoes lol
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
Hahah one of my fav weird facts ever
The part about the Eames chair was really fascinating. I worked at a skateboard factory and never knew that. Do you know where I could find more info about it? Thanks
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
Originally found it on a skateboarding history book called “a day with no waves”
@fullertron
Жыл бұрын
@@ShredzShop thanks 👊🏼
@coulson
Жыл бұрын
I spent a week training at the Herman Miller Greenhouse in Michigan a few years back. Hearing boards brought up in the initial tour re: ply moulding techniques, was pretty rad. The irony of the process being developed for leg splints didn’t fall flat (pun unintended). Fun fact: a few of the guys in the design dept. at the time actually skate.
When that alien came out of the stomach with a monster hat on I lost it.
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
😝 😝
Love this channel Frl
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
Stoked you enjoy!! 🙏
Love this channel
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoy! Hope you enjoy this vid!! We put a bunch of work into it and I'm hyped how it turned out!
This was GREAT. ❤
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed! 🙌🙏
this episode was so scary, happy halloween levi
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
Happy Halloween 🎃 👻
Awesome! BTW that's some great American Traditional tattoo designs on that shirt you're wearing!
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
🙌🙏 Glad you enjoyed the vid! The tee is from a Canadian tattoo shop on the east coast, forget what they’re called. I’ll ask Levi
I'm a sneaker head and this video melted my brain. FSR step your game up. Do a sneaker episode Porta or, or many, like nike SB and definitely Airwalk. Thanks for this, this is dope.
Great video man. You referenced so much of my childhood. I love the Zorlac shout out! They’re kind of overlooked I think ✌🏼👍🏼
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
I'd love to do a vid on Zorlac! Always been a brand I've been such a fan of.
@4152008085
Жыл бұрын
@@ShredzShop pushead graphics!
@ragnarsilverboard6803
Жыл бұрын
@@ShredzShop if you do one find out what happened, surely those crazy shapes would sell. Would they be open to just selling off the brand so someone else could put out reissues. Why didn't Embassy cut a deal with Jeff Newton (or whoever owns the brand now)? Enquiring minds want to know.
@ragnarsilverboard6803
Жыл бұрын
@@ShredzShop also 5 min before you do the video buy a ton of old zorlac stuff and sell it 5 min after you put out the video $$$$
Simon Woodstock also had a boxing bout with Mike Muir of Suicidal Tendencies after pro snowboarder Shaun Palmer withdrew in mysterious circumstances
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
hahah damn, Im gonna have to look into this! Ive always been so fascinated with Simon Woodstock!
@duncanmcewan839
Жыл бұрын
@@ShredzShop it was a trade show in around mid to late nineties and covered in Blunt magazine if that helps
Hopefully a part 2 for Halloween :P
Levi: the most cult followed skateboarding youtuber
That slip into a deep Canadian accent at the end of the cougar story 🤣🤣🤣
I got surprised to hear my country at 16:46 in a video from quite far overseas
So glad you didn’t get fired 😂
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
Didn’t get fired YET…
Do you think the skateboard covered in pennies that Louie Barletta has in that one skatepark clip from bag of suck was a callback to that Simon Woodstock guy? I instantly thought of that clip when you brought it up haha
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
Haha yea it probably was. Never even thought of that!
Dude, you're back. Nice.
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
He survived the layoffs at Shredz shop...
I remember that ad for the Harley Davidson shoes.. didn't even realize they were for skateboarding, they were so ugly I just ignored them.
@ShredzShop
7 ай бұрын
Haha
good to know levi didn’t get fired 😌
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
...Didn't get fired YET
Man I love this channel
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
❤️❤️❤️
The only scary thing bout dis is the spooky faces that are randomly shown, and if your actually coming for me ill like to get your autograph.
what a freaky spooky 40 steps hey! excellent though lads
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!!
Can we do fallen footwear facts next
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
That'd be a cool one!
@MarkPuke13
Жыл бұрын
@@ShredzShop permission to rip??!!!
Well done!
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed!! We were hyped on this episode!
This is amazing
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
haha glad you enjoyed! Hyped on how this one turned out!
I at one point made a crate scooter out of a old fruit crate and a shelf dolly replaced the dolly wheels with roller skate ones I used it as a movable shelf because I was way to tall for it
Lol the Marrisa board has the trucks on upsidedown on the Conan show
@brandonrobbins2274
Жыл бұрын
Now that's spooky
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
Haha good eye
Wow those girls skateboarders in Afghanistan are amazing, that is like the coolest thing for these young oppressed. These poor women in these Middle eastern countries are so oppressed it’s disgusting. Woman are beautiful and are the mothers of the earth. Woman should celebrated.
Vans still makes clown shoes. I wear them everyday 🤡
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
😝 😝 😝
To be honest i would buy the devil worship board, that graphic is amazing
8:45, he's got some drip.
The intro was sick. ❤ It
That roller blader was Ian Brown from Australia I went to school with him in Woonona near Wollongong and used to skate inline with him back in the 90s and early 2000s what a spin out seeing that old footage on a present day KZread video 🤯
oh shit, natas' name backwards is satan! never noticed fitting for the graphic tho
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
Spooooooky 👻
Levi your my favorite anchor
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
You like him more than Ron Burgundy?!
12:49 missed opportunity to make a deck out of the cease and desist letter
I did nearly pee my pants.. But not out of fear. I just really had to pee and didn't want to pause the video😂
The spookiest thing that every skater will ever go through is the first time you land a kickflip because in reality you have no clue how you did it yet lol
The alien with the Monster hat lol
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
Hahaha
I still have that Guy TW mag.😂😂 I kept all my mags since the mid 90s. I need to donate them to some shop with a library or something.
Wow it was so spooky, I 💩while on the toilet
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
Probably the most fitting place to watch our videos...
omg this is sclary oh mer gawd i shat, poopt and coomed when u made the scary face.
@boofingenthusiast
Жыл бұрын
i peepeed too. out my peeper
An eames lounge chair is one of the best quality chairs you can buy in the mid entry modern style furniture! My dad owns an antique business and he says he’s had a few of them before and they are good quality and bring good money! If you ever spot one and can get it for a good price I would take it immediately!
Jumping the great wall was a circus trick but I'm glad everyone got the day off work for it.
wheels in the freezer? sounds like a shredz shop video to me...
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
Haha we’ve never tried, and I don’t have my hopes up. But thought it was an interesting claim from Mr. Mullen
9:08 As if we needed any more proof that Otto is friggin' AWESOME!
Jokes on you I already pissed myself
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
hahaha got us!
I didn't have PTSD until you mentioned it and reminded me of my ex who has NPD. And I hadn't thought about her for at least 79 minutes.
Fact 41.......Mark "Gator" Ragowski got paroled......love it or hate it,it's a part of skateboarding n I felt I should share
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
Its interesting, he's been trying for years and this is the year he makes it out. Kind of creepy feeling
This intro is the sjiznit. 🤘💀
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
😝 😝
thank indestructible shirt is fire!!!
5:13 is my favorite part lmao 😂
I've been a fan of Marisa Tomei since My Cousin Vinnie and that Alltimers deck is my holy grail, and I'd put it up with another wall board of mine, my original, Marisa Dal Santo guest board for Zero. It would be Marisa and Marisa, get it?
I was subscribed to big brother... I got a magazine called Taboo and it had a girl named Chloe on the cover holding an African American guys fore arm, his fist infront of her face as she stared at it... It said Chloe's Five Finger Fandango... I'll obviously never forget it. There was some sick isht in that mag. I remember a snake inserted head first , you know where. Tied up women, beaten... Wild. Thanks Larry.
gosh. weird, that's true!!! i broke my left arm with shortys red top on it.
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
crazy!
Todd falcon is sick
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
skateboard royalty 👑
Koston is time traveler?!
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
👽⏰ 🚀
Harley Davidson actually has a new skate shoe out now. It’s the Harley Davidson Wrenford skate shoe.
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
Damn, gonna have to check that out haha
Harley will make anything but a good motorcycle that isn’t the same thing from 30 years ago
6:34 I was pretty sure you were talking about Aaron Kyro
the harley davidson shoe kinda looks like one of the jerry hsu shoes from osiris.....🤔
The best homies. Now I’m always gonna check the top layer of my boards. Great now I’m gonna be all spooked ofmy red boards. Hopefully I don’t have any or you all are buying them off me. 😂 Levi hit me up if you ever come to Sandy Eggo. Peace my dude.
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
😅🙌🙏
I liked the monster hat monster lol
Sick intro😂😂😂
Im going to go buy a white lighter and a red baker deck rn
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
you crazy
@CaptainOOMAOOMA
Жыл бұрын
@@ShredzShop nah im 27🥶🥶🥶
@oghash4912
Жыл бұрын
@@CaptainOOMAOOMA 🤣
Idk how many "kids" had subscriptions to Big Brother. They were always placed in the mature magazine area covered in plastic. I still have all of mine in a box. I loved that magazine, but I doubt parents bought their kids a subscription.
very spooky! 👻
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
🔥 🔥 🔥
Most skate shit on KZread is really gay but I gotta admit, your channel is really interesting. I love the skateboarding history lessons.
good video!
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Daniel!
Love Eames chairs….
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
agreed! Always thought that was such an interesting fact, but never worked in any of our other videos.
@jefferymiller3588
Жыл бұрын
@@ShredzShop never knew it!! Actually really cool fact
Original skater beverage is Schafer Beer!! Schafer Squad Rules!!!
its funny cause in the harley davidson scene vans are the go to now
i'm so scared and i'm going to pee myself so hard like never before.
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
Enjoy the video and let it happen... you can always clean up after 👊
Brand concept:Red Top Skateboards - who's in?! All the graphics can be "bad luck" items.
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
spoopy
@ShredzShop
Жыл бұрын
Not sure what that means, but I like it...
I didn’t even think about it but I sprained my ankle on a red top ply