In the 80's my friend would go into the meat section of our local grocery store and peel off "boneless" stickers and attach them to his board. Since they were peeled and re-stuck and we skated everywhere we went (even in the rain) he constantly needed to gather new ones. He got caught one day and the lady asked him why he had been constantly stealing them. After hearing his story she tore a long string of stickers off her roll and gave them to him. Christmas came early for him that day.

@Rad Rat Video- Jeff Phillips created (The Boneless One) **Boosters**, alongside the Texas Zorlac Rippers, Craig Johnson and John "Tex" Gibson. Boosters are frontside airs, but letting go of the trailing foot and pushing the coping down with it to enhance the air.

I love to Boneless

After a Hard day of skating and learning nollie front shuvs this pops into my KZread and I could not be happier. one of my fave tricks the boneless one. Keep it up man your channel is pretty RAD you could say

Well you do have square eyes

Have to admit that boneless is pretty cool name for a trick.

One of my favourite channels. Thanks for making great videos man!

@RadRatVideo

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

im an olodschool kid born in 96 but live in 86. when i started skating there was a few younger guys and we would go skate together all the time but when they were watching chris cole tommy gunz andrew reynolds etc, i was watching mike v and learned bonelesses when they were learning ollies. now its my go to for hammers. i can do em 180 n to fakie on qp and banks, i got em down shit up shit onto shit alleyoop 360 on hips. i even do em to tailslides on ledges. but my point is theyre such a good trick and easy to learn but you gotta do em right. in your footage u stopped to grab your board and jump like at 8:17,just gotta try learn it a little faster like how u did with the flip variations.plus rails help cos u can get a super good hold

Wait a minute! So it was actually Mark Mounts that did it first/invented it and not GSD! I can think up all kinds of tricks in my head, but that doesn’t make me the inventor of them. The first person to actually do the trick is the inventor of it!

I remember my friend always pulling bonelesses in games of skate. Everyone hated that lol

Another great video! I actually read that Garry Scott Davis article the other day. My favorite skate photo is a black and white photo of GSD dressed in a skeleton costume floating through the air on his board at night. I'm going to re-create that one someday. Also, there's a video where a pro visits and talks about the spot where the first boneless happened. It's part two of the James Kelch "Epicly Later'd" video.

@RadRatVideo

7 жыл бұрын

Oh cool! I wish I knew about that

hey Aron, this is a random question. what is the proper name for that trick where you're rolling fakie and sort of do a 90 degree bs pivot and then a nosehook impossible to complete the 180? is it a halfcab nosehook impossible?

@RadRatVideo

7 жыл бұрын

+VLSkate Yeah I think that's fine. A lot of people would say half cab impossible, but then that means you have to say "ollie" for the non nosehooked way.

Really digging your channel man. I still have a few issues of Skate fate. Most of the ones you happened to show.

Another great video! I want to know what you would call a sorta "double" trick, you pop the first trick and when you land, land on just one truck and immediately pop the second trick. Mike V does a variant in BATB 2 against Chris Cole at 3:34.

boneless came from the boneless chicken sticker on the puppet

hahahha i had all the mags that are mentioned in this series. i love it. that old thrasher dictionary tho hahahahahaaa

Rad rat your videos are so addicting

Could you do an episode on lay-back grinds? Both frontside and backside. Did Duane Peters create them? Also is there a difference between whether you go to tail-slide or not? what about grabbing your nose vs not?

@RadRatVideo

7 жыл бұрын

I'll see what I can do! I don't know much about it off the top of my head.

@Seldomonyc

6 жыл бұрын

when you grab your nose its a "crail" variation of whatever grind it is. i always assumed it had some connection with crailtap but i don't know which came first, the company or the trick.

@WilliamSodja

6 жыл бұрын

grayslide is w a nosegrab or mute. invented by jim gray

@ejb7555

6 жыл бұрын

Duane Peters invented the layback roll-out, not sure who invented the regular layback, it came from surfing though.

@ejb7555

6 жыл бұрын

Seldomo it's only a crail when you grab with your trailing hand. If you grab with your lead hand it's just a nose grab

I remember learning this trick pretty early (got my first deck in ‘88, so maybe ‘89 - already kinda becoming late for that trick now looking back). I learnt it 180 on flatground and could get some real great height out of it, but distinctly remember just dropping it entirely soon(ish) after as it started to seem really dorky and old. Such a shame looking back - wish I could still pull them off like that!

I'm not even a skateboarder because I'm too tall and heavy to do it but I enjoy these videos! keep it up. Can't wait until the next game review!

@RadRatVideo

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! You won't have to wait too long

@MIKE2111ful

2 жыл бұрын

@@Peter-ff1tp yeah unless he's like 7 feet and weights 400 pounds which I highly doubt

Wait what?! A bean plant is grabbed on the heel-side? I always thought a bean plant was like a boneless just with the front hand grabbing the board. As this seems not to be the case, how do you call the trick I believed to be a bean plant? (Doing a boneless while grabbing with the front hand instead)

Just remember, kids, always pop those bonelesses.. never early-grab em.

@0shitferbrains0

3 жыл бұрын

Early grabs are how they started it back in the day man. I know what you're saying. People always tell kids at the park not to but lukas miller is a great example and even erick winkowski of why not do early grabs and skate how we've you want. It ll lead to you having a better center of gravity and take shit higher with style. Helps inverts. Yeah. Saying no early grabs is just lame at this point. It's like dont do five stairs just jump to 15

ASK RAD RAT QUESTION: will nose guards, rails, tail bones, or any other deck accessories popular in the 80s ever make a real big comeback? Why did these seem to fade out? Any new iterations of these accessories you'd like to see in the future? Thanks for making such great videos! :D

@RobTheColone

7 жыл бұрын

Owen Zahm I asked that months ago and he answered in a video!

@RadRatVideo

7 жыл бұрын

Yep, I've talked about it before, but I have a feature on pointless skate inventions coming out this month that you might like

@seanissomething

7 жыл бұрын

I'm getting rails for my new board, but it's funny, I was watching and interview with Natas and he said "we put these fancy rails on to slide better - which kept getting caught in cracks or hanging up - but then we took the rails off and we could slide like anything!" which I found quite funny, that they actually kinda did the opposite of what they were designed for.

@35deedub

6 жыл бұрын

because decks lasted too long! they weren't selling enough boards!

@grillagabe1

5 жыл бұрын

All that crap made our boards super heavy and expensive.

Your videos are amazing.

@RadRatVideo

7 жыл бұрын

+JonnyBeoulve thanks!

Cong"rats" on 5k subscribers

@RadRatVideo

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks dude!

@rileysuperfriend9889

5 жыл бұрын

@@RadRatVideo dude you've grown so much in 1 year!

GSD called it the Boneless One, Jeff Phillips and the Texans independently came up with the same trick at the same time but called it a "Booster". Texans (and a lot of other people) still call it a booster for that reason. Tricks could take a long time to filter out to a wider audience back then - you couldn't just log onto instagram and see what was going down! The simple difference between a footplant and a fastplant is that a footplant was stalled on the foot on the coping and a fastplant was boosted into an aerial (so it was "faster"). Remember almost all of these tricks were created on vert, so it helps to think of them as transition tricks which migrated to street later. The street indy fastplants you show are good examples of that - I think Lance Mountain came up with that trick initially.

I really want to see this guy skate

@RadRatVideo

7 жыл бұрын

Check the Shred School or my Flatland: Fifteen. In physical therapy for a knee injury now but I'm hoping to film more soon.

I'd say they've gotten very big in park skating comps. Bigger than no-complys got in their resurgence.

Boneless' are my all time favorite trick, I love to do Boneless bs bigspins

It's sad that most people don't use their arms at all in skating. The kids now are clones.

How about an episode on the Ollie North

GSD invented the Boneless One. Jeff Phillips invented the Booster. Same trick different applications.(Banks / Vert)

Now I know the origin of the name. And it makes less sense than I originally supposed.

lol i fs flipped that second spot from the nick carbon clips

the key to a good boneless or no comply is to just step on the ground and launch right off of it as fast as you can. when your foot stays on the ground for a long time thats what makes it ugly and super easy

Could you do an episode on the history of the inward heelflip?

@RadRatVideo

7 жыл бұрын

I've thought about it, but it's really hard to find a lot of clear information on it. It seems like a lot of people started doing them around the same time.

@zackakin4382

7 жыл бұрын

Makes sense that it would have happened that way. After varial kickflips and varial heelflips, hardflips and inward heels would have been the next logical step; wouldn't have required much creative ingenuity.

Not exactly sure the year but, Santa Cruz had a deck the word street along with road stripes on it before 85. In middle school I would do footplants on flat ground grabbing every possible way with both feet including board variable. I think had is full of himself. People without exposure were trying to figure out how to do things on skateboards without credit.

Why does everyone hate mall grabs?

@RadRatVideo

7 жыл бұрын

I have a video about that already in the #AskRadRat series

5,000 subs nice!

I've heard them called "boosters" because how high you launch from the coping

@pigdog237

6 жыл бұрын

Benjamin Cox that's the Texan name for them. I think Jeff Phillips (or another Texan) invented them independently, and that's what they called them.

Rad rat rules!

what? people call the boneless cheating? so i've been cheating for the last 20 years??...dude! that would mean i never won a game of s.k.a.t.e! ;)

@davidbass3178

4 жыл бұрын

That means youve never won a game of skate

I'd like to see more on the bs boneless

Boneless take way too much energy to do. Lol that’s the only reason I don’t do them. Im lazy 🤙🏼

trick named after a hand puppet? sounds pretty typical for skateboard culture.

uh can i please get a boneless pizza?

you said fast plants where when you got air then planted your foot. just watching footage of early iOS and stuff on flat and ramps and it seems they planted the foot and boosted originally. I'm not meaning to criticize keep it up man

Best trick na

Thread the needle or Russian boneless

uhh yeah lemme get uhhhh

you kinda look like the weak version of Keenan Cornelius lol