what a great time to be alive, wish I could go back.

I wasn’t a local by far but I lived in Escondido at the time and skated their whenever I could. ‘85-‘88. Thanks for the memories.

Lester was one of the best pool skaters of all time.

@itsnachotube

4 жыл бұрын

so good! I know it's controversial to say that he landed the first 540 stateside (and in a pool), but hand-to-God it is true! :P

@senortop

3 жыл бұрын

So good!

@BongDonky

4 ай бұрын

Salute from Fallbrook!@@itsnachotube

This is freaking treasure. Seeing all of these freaking ( my opinion) legends seshing and they are so young.. thanks for posting this incredible footy....

Summer of 84 between June 6 and the end of the track season, as you can see by the lines laid out in the fairgrounds parking lot, which would only have been done for the Fair or Track. Living in paradise and not really aware of it. Some of us had it better than others, but it was still paradise, weather was always perfect for skating, 1/4 mile to the ocean, wind would blow right down the riverbed into the park, always a steady stream of cars on the I-5 even in 84, Cory Federman.... always wondered what he ended up doing. The Reservoir was a lot of fun to warm up in and every guy on the deck would warm up in the res for a few runs, the parking block was a good addition and late night fun session on that block were always a good time. I see hermies honda in the parking lot also. Thanks for the upload.

Mike came back to Florida first after being in Sweden, where his family was. He skated in the Tampa Bay area and did the 540 there at Warren Dunn's ramp. Chuck Hults talks about it on his channel. Not that any of this means that much, we all know the big coming out party was at Del Mar and Mike should have won the contest! :) Love seeing the practice video - a day in the life of skating back then. PRICELESS.

skater at 10:20-ish with the green helmet I believe is Dan Wilkes. Really great clips. Thank you for posting this!!

Amazing footage. Thankyou to your Dad ✨ RIP

For those who don't know the players without a scorecard: - Lester Kasai in black shirt and white helmet at 1:32 and 2:30 - Kevin Staab in purple helmet at 1:42 - Christian Hosoi chillin' in the pink shirt at 2:30 - Dan Wilkes in the green helmet and huge knee pads at 10:17 - Bill Danforth at 12:09 and 16:10 - Luis Espinoza from Fogtown at 19:23 - Jeff Grosso in orange helmet at 21:14 - Neil Blender in sleeveless white T-shirt at 21:30 - Eric Grisham in yellow shirt and blue helmet at 22:45 Anyone know who the Variflex guy in the yellow helmet was (14:02, 19:40)?

@OldSchoolChinny

2 жыл бұрын

Thought the guy might've been Adrian Demain?🤔

@senortop

Жыл бұрын

"Pinky"

@itsnachotube

11 күн бұрын

I just know they called him "Pinky" :P.

Thanks , for the raw footage Delmar crew were the original gladiators.

What a great classic video!

Fantastic footage! Thank you for uploading this relic!

I was probably racing off-road RC cars right next door while you all were skating, but man this is so much fun to watch!! Eric Grisham was a pretty darned good RC car racer as well.

@senortop

3 жыл бұрын

I loved taking a break and watching the r.c.s; did not know that Eric had that hidden talent as well. Very interesting! I just saw a radical pic of him in my Instagram feed last night in fact.

Grosso slammed hard.. RIP jeff

great footage ! cheers for the upload, really enjoyed watching :)

That's so rad! It's really cool to see the beginning stages of him trying to perfect the trick he invented. You can tell that the trick is still in it's infancy because he's not even getting inverted on these attempts, he's just doing them as a flat spin 540. Getting upside down on a 540 is what makes it a Mctwist, changing it from a trick to a work of art. Nobody ever made this trick look cooler than McGill. Absolute legend! Thanks for posting this.

@pauljensen4535

2 жыл бұрын

Perfectly said. Spot on. Pretty much all pro skaters these days (and endless non-pro) can rip a 540. Endless grabs etc. Olliy 540's etc. But they just spin.. Like snowboarders on a super pipe. Mcgill WAS absolutely inverted and in blind flight when he perfected it. You're so right. The Mctwist. Very different than a 540. He was my favorite skater growing up.

super cool footage thanks for posting!

Thank you for posting this 😃

I got to ride it a handful of times 79 to 81. Oasis was my Mt go to. Carlsbad was sick

Now we know that the first McTwist was filmed at the Swedish summer camp where it was invented. This is awesome footage though. Thanks so much for sharing it with us

@itsnachotube

11 күн бұрын

Thanks for being kind and cognitive enough to acknowledge I had (none of us did) at the time of uploading that this other footage existed. If I had some small part of it coming forth, I still give all kudos to Mr. McGill and his mental coach Stacey Peralta

Thanks for uploading this video

This is awesome!

This is rad

Greetings from Mexico City 🇲🇽 ✌🏻

I want to get back into skating. Haven’t been the same since my BMX accident. Did a front flip a little too fast off a small ramp and I knocked myself cold. Was in the hospital for a while

@RomarioTBM

3 жыл бұрын

You can do it

Absolutely amazing footage! Only got to skate Del Mar twice and had to sneak in both times! The 540 changed skateboarding!

@itsnachotube

11 күн бұрын

That's actually "very skateboard-y" of you to sneak in like that! 💀

LMAO at Ken "Loose Nut" Park. Kept waiting for his wheel to fall off.

@senortop

Жыл бұрын

Except it was because he wore boxers with them old short 80's style corded shorts and his nut was popping out in a Gullwing ad! 😂🤙

Stellar stuff man 😎 ... good on your Dad 🤠

Love seeing these old videos. The ramp at the Swedish summer camp was clearly easier to skate than DelMar but still not as perfect as todays vert ramps. In this video kzread.info/dash/bejne/lGR13M-qc5W9lNY.html @ about 2:40 in is one of the first 540ies that Mike McGill actually made. We were all blown away.

Although this "may" be the first time Mcgills' 540 was filmed / videotaped. This is not the first time Mcgill ever landed / pulled off the 540 at Del Mar. But... Like You and I have stated.... It "may" be the first time it was filmed / videotaped. I say this because I was there the day he attempted and pulled off the very first 540 at Del Mar and it was slightly before this rad footage was shot. There was not a lot of people there the day he first did it at Del Mar. (Sidenote: I use to be a Del Mar Skate Ranch Employee and Del Mar Skate Ranch Local Skater. I worked in the Pro Shop and literally lived in the pro shop as well.... I was the nighttime security guard for the pro shop for a while and I slept on the pool table) But, that was before the 540 was invented. I was working and skating for Uncle Wiggley Skateboards around the time Mcgill introduced the 540. I recall that I was at Del Mar one day and there was a "Buzz" going around the park, that Mcgill was going to show up and perform a brand new trick that he had developed over seas at the Sweedish Skate Camp. (Like you state in the description of your video) Sure enough.... McGill showed up and did it and Grant Brittain (who was "in my opinion" obviously "tipped off" that it was going to happen)... (McGill rode for Tracker Trucks at the time... Tracker Trucks / Larry Balma / Peggy Cozins were the main financial funding behind Transworld Skateboard Magazine and Grant Brittain shot pics for Transworld Magazine) Connect the Dots..... and one can see how Grant was the one to take the first still pics of it. I think one of the pictures from that epic day eventually became the cover shot on Transworld Skateboard Magazine. Like I said.... I know about all these little details because I personally witnessed it occur. Unless Alzheimers or Dementia eventually overtake my 57 year old brain... I will never forget that day. It was truly an amazing sight to have witnessed. When McGill first did it on the east wall and pulled it off.... I knew my competitive days were over. There was no way in hell I was even going to try it, much less try to pull it off. It reminded me of a gymnastic dismount from the uneven parallel bars. Great footage in this video. Grossos' backside air slam is way gnarly. AWESOME~ SK-8 FOR LIFE~ DB~

@shawnkarvonen

2 жыл бұрын

Cool story pretty epic that u saw all that. Would like to no who is in this video. Is cab in there? I don't recognize anyone.

@davidhurst6982

2 жыл бұрын

I know this is actually factual

@craigmactak1839

Жыл бұрын

Although this is the first footage of the mctwist done stateside. This is not the actual first footage of it ever. As over the last few months (end of 22, start of 23) super eight footage shot by a German photography of the mctwist done at the Swedish summer camp (84) has been released. It can be see on an interview Mike did on the Nine Club.

@davebedore6886

Жыл бұрын

@@craigmactak1839 "I recall that I was at Del Mar one day and there was a "Buzz" going around the park, that Mcgill was going to show up and perform a brand new trick that he had developed over seas at the Sweedish Skate Camp."

@craigmactak1839

Жыл бұрын

@@davebedore6886 "Although this may be the first time McGill's 540 was filmed" You should probably read your own comment. Did I question anything else you wrote? No. The actual first time footage is out there now. Look it up.

This is gold

what a vibe this must have been

As an ex vert skater I can say that bowl at Delmar especially for a man Mike McGill's size of really hard to 5, it would be much easier for a smaller person to 5 it but even then it's trannies are so small and the concrete is unforgiving for bailing a lot.

Yeah Dude 🎉

Epic,,, way #OfTheEpic

Watching this video reminds me of playing Sk8 or Die on the Nintendo.

@itsnachotube

11 күн бұрын

How stoked were you on life when that finally came out? LOL!

Lester Sakai has a KZread channel. He has some good old videos.

Who is the red helmet. Stevie? Don't think so but just a QUESS. .incredible stuff man thanks for this

@davidhurst6982

2 жыл бұрын

I believe Luis espanosa northern California

@itsnachotube

11 күн бұрын

@@davidhurst6982 @williamhanley7031 depends on the time stamp, but the first kid is Rex Kay, Luis is 100% in there - riding a board with the cut up grip tape doing "ice plants" (foot plants); 13:00 is Eric Jueden, 14:45 ish is my dear estranged friend - Chris Black ... both are ripping with power - speed - and style. Chris was besties with Kevin Staab. I think he moved to Colorado or something.

540 at 24:15 not perfect landing but great.

@walterpoitevin149

3 жыл бұрын

Ty I was searching for a long time

@dgenerated

2 жыл бұрын

Thank u!

@alexv1190

2 жыл бұрын

Horrible landing really lol idk if that even counts

@scottedwards6344

2 жыл бұрын

You can complain about the landing but show me an earlier video of a 540. He kept his feet on, kept trying, and mastered it quickly.

I always thought it was way more corked originally.

who's the little guy at the end in the red helmet?

@finnmcginn9931

2 ай бұрын

Steve Caballero I think.

@kevvymetal666

2 ай бұрын

@@finnmcginn9931 hmm..possible. if you look up his run from the comp right after this he's got a blue helmet / red board and looks a bit different. sounds like someone says 'yeah matt' after the beanplant

@itsnachotube

11 күн бұрын

@kevvymetal666 @finnmcginn9931 ... it's Luis Espinoza