That's so cool. Thanks a lot for posting this stuff. Gets me a lot more stoked on nike for sure.

Best commercial ever!!!

more people need to see these... and Nike needs to start running them on TV

@seel5 skating stairs,rails, or flatground is the same thing as skating stairs,gaps, or rails, in a skatepark. Thats why they apear to be golfing in a golf course but, what the cop says is that it wasnt built for them but, obviously they golfed there because it was a perfect place to golf at. it was similar to a golf course.just like skating a spot in the street is the same thing as skating a skatepark. its still skating. i hope you understand .this is what skateboarders go through everyday.

I just took up skating, and I live on a street that's really smoothly paved and great for skating. And I skate on it. I pay attention to cars and get out of the way when they're there. Their's not a good place to skate where I live where someone won't complain. So I just smile and ollie.

you mean the first company that shoes skateboarders were skating in

@yahvoxman this is 2010 no one skates drained pools like they did in 1971 lol

@yahvoxman no see, you literally get told to get off your board and walk. you're not allowed to use it as a mode of transportation even. i've been ripped off my board and held up by the collar of my shirt, spit in my face as a cop swears at me because i was RIDING my board. not doing grinds. (and i do not consider doing grinds a crime. it's a different of public is all)

micheal jackson said he skated at one point

@yahvoxman it's happened to me, on several occasions. and whats worse is our town closes our skatepark in the winter months between november and the middle of march, then gives us tickets when we skate the street spots in town.

i said one of the first of corse vans is the actual first but nikes been down with skating for a while they use to own savior shoes adn i belive airwalks as well

"Cops can stop you from playing football on sidewalks and on private property. Just like skating. Difference is football players don't cry about it like skaters" We cry because there is no where else to go! We can't go to a field and skate we need concrete! Everyone is equal, it's just some places don't have places where it's legal to skate at like a skatepark.... then they are forced to go skate on the street or a park nearby.

@seel5 I've gotten kicked out of a skatepark because people were selling drugs. And sometimes I see somewhere and it's literally like DESIGNED to be skated it's so perfect. Those places usually have the best security too...

these are great

Converse Chuck Taylor All stars. which nike bought out a few years back..

i see people's point that it's different because golf courses are "made to play golf on", but what about sports like skiing, or snowboarding? the mountain wasn't "designed" for that, but its still totally fine to practice those sports there. these adverts arent made to be taken literally, there just making a very valid point on the way that society views skateboarding as a negative sport

good commercial, ginvin good message and information of skateboarding

bam's kickflip at the end?

your totally right dude! he probably doesn't even have a shop!

@davidsk8r94 a campus cop tackled me for skating and took my board, I couldn't get the board back for like a month and I had to pay a hefty ticket. All I was doing was skating to class at SDSU. ridiculous.

nikes not ruining skateboarding its a company that truley down for skaters and was one of the first compaanys to make skate shoes

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skaterandchiller is right. if you dont skate than how could you possibly get it. skating is more than a hobby. its a passion. this advertisement is just to relate to skaters. sure its to try and get some sales and we all know this. its also not very accurate a comparison to skaters being kicked out but still, people dont get mad at people for biking across there sidewalk or a plaza inside a city. if it were private property put a fence around it and put up a sign that says "PRIVATE PROPERTY"

a lot! i got kicked out of a skatepak cause i didn't have a helmet and he almost gave me a ticket. all i know is that im not hurting anything when i go skate at a school on a sunday morning when no ones there.

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But with a major company backing skating, it allows the world to feel better about it, more security gaurds arent being such dicks, theres more parks, and hell you gotta admit technology thats developing for shoes and decks are amazing because its something worthwhile since more and mores people doit! Its one of those things where you gotta take the good and the bad! I love skating but sometimes i turn the other cheek to whats happening just cause enjoy how much more it respected now adays!

if it was tresspassing than why dont they kick people who arent skateboarding who are still on the property. most of them dont work there so why kick the skaters out and not those people who are lounging around. and when i was talking about the cost i was referring to how, like many people, security gaurds dont seem to respect us. sure its their job but they can do it nicer. as i was saying before we put lots of money into skateboarding not to be pushed around but to enjoy it.

Not that i argue that commercialism sucks, but its kinda like getting a sick teddy bear for christmas as a kid, but finding out theres a hidden camera. Its like yeah they arent doing a lot for the spirit of skating and really since when does nike do anything for anyone that doesnt help themselves.

"Being convicted or having charges pressed is a crime?" His statement was not confusing at all. You chose to make it confusing. He is saying trespassing is in fact a crime, but being convicted or having charges pressed for committing that crime is not a fact. It was very clear.

@yahvoxman yeah look on youtube they have...

I know! the whole system is messed up we shouldn't be allowed to sue someone for us hurting ourselves. But still people treat skaters like crap i can go to my school and run on the track or play football or baseball and i won't get in trouble and i could get hurt doing all those things. but the second i step on a skateboard they don't want to get sued? its a lie they just don't like skateboarders.

so when and how are we going to get stuff like this on real telavision? Thats what the general pblic needs to see.

LOL awesome

Everyone watching this should read Thomas Frank's "One Market Under God"-in it, he talks about how Nike marketers in the late 90s had trouble selling products to skateboarders, because they thought of Nike as the "man." So they made these commercials aligning themselves with the skateboarders AGAINST the man (the police,society), and the shoes were a hit. Just another example of how subcultures can be swallowed up by dominant society/corporations.

I think that yahvoxman has a point. I skateboard too but i can see why some people wouldnt want it being done on their property. I think he is wrong about the disrespect and vandalism part but hes not completley wrong when saying that skateboarding is sometimes damaging property

ten years ago i think

WHATTT??!! NOOO vans were the first skate shoe. im kool wit nike though but they weren't the first. Vans are the best shoes( and fallens)

Posted 16 years ago.. dang.

the only reason golfers dont golf in a no-golf area is beacuse they cant for obvious reasons like no holes or tees. if the area is private than why are they allowing random people to just sit at these places. i thot they were private. if you build a sweet skatespot and put up a "no skateboarding" sign, you cant expect peole to not skateboard

that shit is sooo right

@RubMyDud holly shit dude.......me too..never thought id meet another

I like you lol , this is the same message i'm trying to tell people.

i do see how bam gives skateboarding a bad name by all of his stunts, but nike has done nothing wrong, skateboarding is still skateboarding..

@estebanrivas95 foot-eye

every skater knows they're going to get hurt sometime. were not going to sue for building something sick to skate on and we broke our arm. the only rules i have seen at parks are stuff like no skating after ten, no litering etc. you dont seem to awesome to me

@M4nBearFrog Not all of use can go to a skatepark.

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@MaxFlared I would given the chance.

@yahvoxman comments like that show that you are always around your moms

nike aare trying to get into the scene to make things better for skateboarders, hell looks at all the sports they are involved in Look at rafa nadal in tennis, look at david beckham in football, nike and nike they are there to make it an official sport but the only way they are gonna do this is via money and advertising, give em respect

this is hillariose

then you should watch the one w/ running - it's a lot better if ya ask me

yes but if you speed you could kill somebody i dont see anybody dieing from me skating a set of stairs

not true iv been kicked out of my skatepark by police for skating there at night..its bullshit nights the best time to skate

I totally understand you man, but it sucks because everywhere you go you most likely can't skate there. Don't be ignorant though, there are very little places legal to go. Especially if that city doesn't have a skatepark. Unlike others i respect you and understand the argument you are making, but please open your eyes. See how some people really have no where to skate but there front yard. Some places are just not skater friendly! Even just skating down the street could be illegal!

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you dont get it.. skaters dont see the commercial and are like"yeah, that happens to me too! i should by their shoes now!" its simply showin how skaters are discrimanated against. yeah we skate in places without no skateboarding signs.. where the hell else! i cant get to a fuckin park everyday, less everyweek.. if you couldnt get to where-ever your favorite hobby toke place... wouldnt you do it where-ever else you could? plus ive never in my life seen a 'Skateboarding Accepted Here' sign

do you skate? answer that. have you ever been kicked out of somewhere for having fun? ive seen cops do this. we spend over $120 for boards trucks and wheels to skate yet cops and security gaurds treat us like the scum of the universe. sure this particular ad isnt quite accurate but thats not really the point. we spend many hours perfecting our tricks. its hard work. same with golf only they kick skaters out and not golfers etc. this is the point of the ad

"No, trespassing is a crime, " Ah yes, It is indeed a fact that trespassing is a crime. However the construction of your sentence did not actually convey that. It seems that it does, but that would require actually thinking about it. "being convicted or having charges pressed is another. " Being convicted or having charges pressed is a crime? I am deeply confused about the principles by which our legal system operates.

Read the comment i left above as a reply to clayfighter's comment. Nike SB is more BS to me. Don't let Nike dupe you into thinking they care about skateboarding.

thats not what im saying. your putting arranging my sentences in ways to support you instead of what i was actually syaing. all im saying is that no one gets skateboarding except the skaters themselves. you seemed to have ignored my sentence that said that security gaurds dont kick out people just sitting there on there property. i know not to tresspass but if you build a bench for people to use its not tresspassing. were using that bench but just differently.

Doc Shades deserved better than this

These commercial never made any sense, and it' only make skateboaders look dumb

Finally, big wigs are contributing to skateboarding in the little way they know how.

not as good as the running one but oh well

and btw, if you group all skaters as criminals because of a few people who broke some laws who happened to skate, then you might as well group everyone on earth together as criminals because in every group on the planet im sure people are breaking laws all the time. so why pick on skaters?

You are right Yahvoxamn. Skaters think people owe them for something. You earn respect. Going around trespassing is not the way to earn respect.

I basically said that we don't have skateparks at all and you say public skateparks suck. Shiet it's better than nothing and having to be kicked out all the time... chill >.>

how is it factually wrong to trespass? for that matter how can an event be factually wrong? If it didn't happen? so if I its morally wrong to trespass, and factually wrong to trespass... I didn't trespass now did I. I think the whole understanding thing is way beyond you.

i am angered

fuck its worse if you bmx, skateboarders dont suffer shit all compared to us

people are getting used to skateboarding now. Just like we're used to seeing chicks in thongs on regular tv. way back in the day, you wouldnt have seen that shit.

that's not true at all. if you're bmxing, you can just act like you're taking a stroll on your bike around the neighborhood or something, and people will believe you. if you skate, people won't believe that, they'll think that you're trying to skate and destroy shit no matter what.

who gives a shit what ppl think of us? if ppl like it its just like baseball or any other SPORT

i was totally kidding. nike blows.

@fatkidinaskaterstew Who cares though? Just skate to skate. Who gives a shit if little 13 year olds make it a big trend. Never crosses my mind when I take my old Flip deck for a spin.

i fucking hate nike and all that it is ruining for skateboarding sake... but this is a sick commercial!

We'll I guess its been established that you fail at logic. "No, trespassing is a crime, being convicted or having charges pressed is another." I wish you would get over this, trespassing isn't strictly speaking a crime. In absence of posted warnings, and indeed, in spite of them, given proper cause individuals can go wherever they want. ex. Someone is hurt and needing medical attention, trespassing laws are deemed to be less binding.

As if that's how many of us act, go to a skatepark! Tons of people go there to skate and have fun.... it just isn't fair, even you are stereotyping us you don't see that you are. SKATERS ARE JUST NORMAL PEOPLE WITH A HOBBY :). People can be different, same thing with people who skateboard. You need to start respecting skaters as normal people. You just have another bias opinion man, open your eyes....

i wonder what traumatic experience motivated this yahvoxman character to sit on youtube and disprove every comment, he is probably republican, ha entertainment at its best. i kinda want to try to prove him wrong so he can come back and point out some outrageous logic fallacy in my argument. but that killed a good thirty minutes of my life, i wonder if he is taking out his anger from his unjust childhood on the other commercial comments too, lets take a look

rules? haha if skaters followed rules there would be no video parts. Skating at schools is against the "rules"

Are you kidding? They treat black golfers like this for real.

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