Hosoi was an absolute Rock Star.

@carlmenger4964

Ай бұрын

He is beautiful. I like his haircut

Saw this on espn in the 80s and couldn’t believe it was on tv. Was like Christmas

@agentorangechicago

9 күн бұрын

Ditto. I was looking for that moment where the announcer goes, "And HE KNOWs folks. HE knows!" he won the competition. Still looking for that ESPN video I taped myself!

The 80s were the best for everything. Fun childhood/teen years for sure!

I was there 30 years ago that labor day weekend! At that point I was 14 and I had never seen anyone skate vert without a helmet and christian was busting 540's and lean methods. "shadow air" It's borderline painful for me to watch this, because I want to return to 1986! Now, it's 2016, 30 years later and both myself and christian live in HB. Life was more simple and Better back then!

@liquidgold40oz

6 жыл бұрын

condor5150 I feel you ,on returning back to 1986 ( I was 15 at the time) . Those times were really cool back then. I miss them .. I guess ,I'm stuck in the 80's. Just got through listening to New order (Blue Monday)

@FiatLumix

5 жыл бұрын

condor5150 i was Born in 1987 but it looks like it was a wild era and hosoi Acts so cool in the clip,. I kinda wished i could have been there too.

@pablo-aed

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@clintcoop5717

2 жыл бұрын

I was there as well and the riot year haha...might of been this year maybe the next it was crazy

This is true. He's clean and sober now and he's still taking 1st place at competitions with his team. What a legend.

Almost 40 years ago & nobody could ever beat the ROCKET MAN Hosoi!!

Dude prob slayed so much tang after that run

@rocknrolla2426

2 жыл бұрын

Dude....for real.

no more drugs now and he still is a legend! Saw him at venice beach the otherday

Steve Steadham slapping five at the end.

In 1986 I was impressed with myself doing tic tacs in the driveway

wow, this looks like it was recorded yesterday.

@GUNTHECRF450R

Жыл бұрын

Still looks like it was recorded yesterday! 10 years after your comment hahaha

Remember it well. I was 15 and my friend picked me up and on the way to the beach we were sitting at a light and saw a huge plume of smoke and we agreed that something gnarly happened but we didn't care enough to go check it out. Screw that we're going surfing so we continued on to the beach. It was finals day and Mark "Occy" Occhilupo won the OP Pro and then a riot soon erupted. People lit up a couple atc's and flipped a cop car. I was out at Beach blvd when I saw the smoke and then not long after that H.B.P.D come out in full riot gear on the beach and swept it from south to north beating on people who were just laying out a quarter mile away from the pier. I followed about 50 yards behind the cops and grabbed a couple cool towels and a sweet beach chair that people left behind. Came home later that day and found out that plume of smoke was the Aeromexico plane crash over Cerritos. That was a bad day I will never forget it.

@clintcoop5717

2 жыл бұрын

I was in that riot 🤣🤣🤣

Skaters can only wish they could skate like this... Just a deeper level of skating all around.. Today skating is like the Pogo stick or hula hoop.. It was a lifestyle back then in this awesome nearly perfect time called the 80's So proud of Christian! He is A REAL MAN!! RESPECT

@timothyhyena3106

2 жыл бұрын

Nah, today's skaters are still nar. You just have to watch for the good ones. Powell Paralta still knows what's what. But yeah, there will never be another( 80's,) Hosoi no way.

@fernandomaron87

Жыл бұрын

Watch Ben Raybourn, Pedro Barros, Cory Juneau, Shaun Ross or Greyson Fletcher and tell me if you still believe there's no rad modern pros tearing it up.

@JohnSmith-rk6jy

8 ай бұрын

Yup. That's what I've been saying for years now. It's like circus 🎪 tricks now. It's just stupid. Like gymnastics at the Olympics.

@JohnSmith-rk6jy

8 ай бұрын

@fernandomaron87 OOo yea Greyson was born too late. He's definitely a product of the Fletcher tribe.

He's Soo Smooth. He Makes it Look So Easy.

McTwist was still a new trick and as Hawk says, Hosoi did them the proper way. The skate crowds also love the Rocket Air. I remember seeing Hosoi in a street contest in San Francisco and everyone was yelling for the Rocket Air.

@christianjackson9360

Жыл бұрын

Nobody's ever going to beat his records as he's the ROCKET MAN!!

@808v1

Жыл бұрын

yeah we would blast those off of launch ramps back then.

Wow clear video even though it was from the 80s, this guy is smooth, he looks good and talented, what more can u ask for, awesome OP back then

La bestia.. the one and only.... Master Jedi Hosoi

Late 80's HB was an amazing place and time. OP Pro good shit man

Roofio, Roofio, Roofi-ooooooH!

@paulespino6462

7 жыл бұрын

that's what I thought when I clicked on the thumbnail. LOL

@hansonlife9465

3 жыл бұрын

"that's so dangerous"

@tysondowning1175

3 жыл бұрын

I had to look up hook cast then saw this comment

What a legend!

Style master..

1986???? Amazing!!!!

He doesn't skate like he used to, but he still tears it up!

Style!

Slapping Steve Stedham five at the end was the best part.

@marcushaupt1564

Жыл бұрын

Bones Brigade all the way, baby!

Awesome video saw him on main st in hb about 8 yrs ago

So Bio! Holmes at his finest! Go Christian! - Lynn

This dude is so cool

20 years later he still skating on HB beach.

@GUNTHECRF450R

Жыл бұрын

30 years later he still skating on HB beach.

Hosoi and Cab were literally all around skateboarders. They were street and vert, top skateboarders in both styles. Now is either street or vert, but not really both...of course some might do, but not top on either style. Hawk was great at vert, but not really street., He would do good in street competition, but when some vert elements were added to the skate park....

Man he ripped the shit outta that pipe. Gnarly.

The best

Would love to see the shots from the big camera up top the ramp.,Hosoi what a legend.

The kids cheering at the start looks like it could have been filmed at the Xgames last week

@britishsmoke i bet a lot of youtube videos today cant beat this quality, good job to the camera of 1986 ^_^

NOBODY could beat Hosoi's skating record!!

I met hosoi today in seattle :D

It was either 85 or 86 at an OP skate comp there in HB I got knocked in the head by someones board, the barricades were moved and I just cruised on up to the front of the vert ramp. I was only like 6 or 7 so I couldnt see shit but the crowd scattered I had no idea what was going on andBLAM I saw a flash and look up at this girl and she screaming and crying and i had no idea why. Come to find out Im covered in my own blood and have a grapefruit sized knot on my head. I think my mom sued won and blew it all on coke, THANKS MOM

@FormulatedButterCoping

5 жыл бұрын

I was at a contest back in 85 and I saw a board fly off the side of a ramp and straight into some kids mouth and take out his front teeth. Big mouth gash and Blood everywhere. When I saw it I turned away. Thank God there were people there next to him with stronger stomachs to help him.

Fucking Mint.✨✨✨👌🏼

WHAT!!! I dident know Hosoi could do mctwists!!! HE IS AWESOME!!!!

@DrinkLords12XU

7 жыл бұрын

shit he did them 6or7 foot high!!! INSANE!!

@nobodysreview6137

3 жыл бұрын

A lot of guys landed them but didnt always do them, i think its one of those tricks that you slam really hard on.

This guy inspired a lot of ripping!

Was that Steve Steadham on the ramp at the end?

@theinsaneshecklador6598

3 жыл бұрын

It sure looked like him.

Best Indy Airs Ever!

RUFIO!!!!

Woooooo!

woaahh!!

my goodness this was another world.. more real, less artificial.

it´crazy how everyone is styled like our generation now

at the begining of this vid i thought it was 2009 xD

I was there and got hosoi's autograph, never got another since receiving his signature and tony's too

@rareskateboardvideos - check out the dvd - "rising son: christian hosoi". i'm not a skate fan but i'm always amazed at how high hosoi could go and enjoy watching his old skate footage.

That's proper radical

Real Life Rufio right there

all glory to God

"Hosoi with a backside air... another backside air... backside air... oh!! A frontside air!... backside air... *Mctwist!* ... backside air... backside air..." Lol

@cornpop1363

3 жыл бұрын

@@Slappi2 everything I said is literally what he did. Not just here but in every contest. Hosoi was always only good for 1 540 per run and the rest of his runs were always some variation of frontside/backside airs. And what's funny is Hosoi knows it. He wasn't a technical skater. He had a very limited bag of tricks. People (including myself) didn't/don't watch him skate because of his tricks. It was his style and power that people love. He's even said, "I knew I had to go higher because Tony would have 3 new tricks I couldn't do." And whether I'm a good skater or not has absolutely nothing to do with Christian Hosoi, but nice try anyway lol.

i was 13 and thought i was the coolest back then.

👍🔥🔥👍👍

i rember OP lol old school

🤙

ohh fuck thats cool haha ;) i love venice beach man! ..wish i had the same appreciation for skateboarding when i was there :/ lol i didnt know what dogtown was then either :/ ohh well haha i love it that all those old school guys still go back to venice though.. allways keen for a trip home ;)

@clintcoop5717

2 жыл бұрын

That's Huntington Beach 😜

lol its seems like a 2011 joke :D that video is sooo good ! ! !

That frontside at 00:22 is ridiculous, almost an ollie.

This is the best quality video from 1986 EVER..Im shocked. Christians a beast. Thumbs up if you know who Jesus is. I mean, thumbs up if Jesus knows YOU.

@karatearmchairhistorian9825

11 ай бұрын

Yes, Jesus Montoya knows me

Reminds me of rufio!

Power finesse

Rad.

ROB -O ramps !

skaters these days can't do that!!!!! air one after the other!!

@neuvocastezero1838

2 жыл бұрын

You're right, I don't think even I could do this!

Its funny how skinny the ramps where in the 80s

OP is now at Wal Mart:p LOL

@jerkyboy8897

3 жыл бұрын

Not any of the real cool stuff tho

Cut it off right before mark gonzales?!

before the drugs hit him too bad hahaha hes such a legend :P

good ole pvc coping....

Ru fio, ru fio, ru fi OOOOH

No helmet, what? Going off!

Just think there are 7 year olds today that can do everything he just did in that video

@rocknrolla2426

2 жыл бұрын

Not with that much air though. You need strength for that.

@montanaplease

2 жыл бұрын

Okay a 9 year old

@clintcoop5717

2 жыл бұрын

No way dude

@montanaplease

2 жыл бұрын

I’m afraid so

Rufioooooo

Gator was just as good but Hasoi was a beast

@kaiserwilhelm dude i was gonna say that

This Is the chinese boy from the old Peter pan movie

It was all good...b4 the tweak!..hosoi should have been what tony hawk is....

They were impressed by very little