Pj Ladd was the reason i practised tirelessly to get FS flips down pat. His ability to effortlessly blast tricks in any stance is a beautiful thing.

Sw flip bs tail bigspin out in a line, reminder this was in 2003. Dude was a pioneer by all means.

@brocksamson9737

3 жыл бұрын

Tell that to sammy baptista

@ivanmiau9280

3 жыл бұрын

@UClwpvmbvZJ6LGpilCdvkayw You guys who always mention someone, ALWAYS ONE IS BETTER for you, you guys look like a fucking idiots

@teflonmusk11B

2 жыл бұрын

Mike mo

@nikokaapa

2 жыл бұрын

PJ, Baptista and - while we're at it - Smolik were all amazing pioneers

@joemackenzie7417

2 жыл бұрын

Pioneers ride rocks; not skateboards

Met him once at Italiano's pizza next to Burbank middle school. He was getting a slice and he was very kind, no asshole energy whatsoever. Dude just loved to skate, it was clear.

You know he's a good skater when you can't tell if he's goofy or regular when watching his part.

@brocksamson9737

3 жыл бұрын

you know your a shitty skater if you cant distinguish a skaters goofy or regular

@steezymarlon1384

3 жыл бұрын

@@brocksamson9737 😂

@joemackenzie7417

3 жыл бұрын

I could tell he was reg right off the bat but that switch flip front nose slide did make me double check lol

@kurohige1403

3 жыл бұрын

@@brocksamson9737 I think he refers to the fact that most of his trick are done switch and nolie.

@jahnj2523

3 жыл бұрын

Your a goof if you can't distinguish you goof

14 years ago, still rivals a lot of pro parts today. Dude was ahead of his time. I remember I used to practice editing to this video since it didn’t have sound so I would put my own songs over it and try to get everything to land on beat. Wild seeing these clips again

this should be on thrasher's classics

He was so ahead of his time. This was one of my all time favorite videos growing up. God the great memories of being a kid. Miss those days.

@skateboston420

Жыл бұрын

Check out his part in the 'Coliseum Video' from 1999? Maybe 2000, you can see how sick he was gna get, it's even before Wonderful Horrible Life. It's to bad Coliseum is now defunct for over 10 years. 'Boston Massacre' was another good video but could never hold a candle to WHL from 2002.

@morgellon7877

Жыл бұрын

@@skateboston420 Damn, I've never seen the Colleseum video. I'll check it out. Wonderful Horrible Life was probably like our generation's Questionable or something. At least that's how it was for my crew.

@mikeobryant3367

Жыл бұрын

remember 411VM?

I could listen to the sounds of skateboarding for hours.

Sweet Accel years.

still one of the sickest parts, i love videos from the early 2000s

Got to skate with PJ maybe 3 times down at this train station in this small town named Holbrook, just south of Boston back in like 97-98... He was sooo much better than all of us it wasn’t fair. I remember how excited everyone got just cuz he got sponsored. One time he called me hamburger helper cuz my head was soo big for my body when I was younger, he prob. Never thought about it again but cuz me and my lil skater crew looked up to him like he was a god cuz he ended up so famous over the next few years It stuck w/all my friends

@HG-bs3en

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry to hear that. Dude's either a bit of a douche or you were so insufferable that he gave you a crappy nickname to smite you.

opening line is so perfect. the no push, the sound, and the casualness

One of, if not THE cleanest part ever filmed.

PJ changed the game with this part. It's common to see skating with no music today, most the time they're raw edits, but back then it was unheard of, well done

@typ044

2 жыл бұрын

It was definitely rare but there were a few, "Listen" is a good example from 5 years before this part with a bunch of legends in it.

God, everything about this man is the absolute pinnacle of excellence. Someone once described a young PJ Ladd, they said he "skates like a young God." A God in the sense of some kind of elemental power, something ethereal and omnipotent. I used to watch PJ WHL all the freakin time with my older sister. She was the one who said it. "He skates like a young God." It's the realest thing I've ever heard. I'm 35 and my sister is 37. We were really into skaters with good style. I still am. We also watched Marc in Modus all the time, too. And Mark in Sorry. Absolute beauties on a board they are. It's hard to understand the impact of PJ on the scene unless you watch other skaters from that era, like, 2002-2005 ish.

@tmoney0212

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jumpingjackflash123 Im 30 and totally agree....loved watching Jamie thomas....as well as prod shecks as a kid.....the whole baker team....wade desarmo....Ronnie Creager.....Eric koston......Bastien salabanzi.......Marc Johnson ...Guy mariano....Loved wathcing those guys skate legends indeed

@HG-bs3en

2 жыл бұрын

If PJ is a young god, what on earth did your sister name Tom Penny?

@HG-bs3en

2 жыл бұрын

@@tmoney0212 Hmm.. 30 huh? I'll be honest with you, you would've been like 5 when Mouse came out, 8 or 9 when Menikmati, Baker2g or Flip Sorry came out.. Just a little confused as your taste doesn't match your era. Your era would've been Yeah Right (if you were lucky.. but more likely Pretty Sweet), Plan B video, and all of that. I'll be honest with you, not many modern day videos catch my attention at all. Everyone's the same nowdays it's gross. I would rather watch Tom Penny push than most skate videos today.

@tmoney0212

2 жыл бұрын

@@HG-bs3en I own yeah right! That was the first skate vid I bought! Another good classic! You said my age doesn’t Match The era of the skaters I named? Go back and reread the names I put then get back to me

@mattallen4154

10 ай бұрын

@@HG-bs3enI’m 32 and can relate to his comment about the pro skaters he listed. Definitely not too young for it. We used to watch appleyard’s part in flip Sorry everyday before we went out skating. P-rods part with ‘get down’ in Yeah Right was huge. This is skateboarding also another classic.

love this video because the tricks are sick and you can play any song over it and you still get the trick sounds with the music. Genius!

@joepaxton470

3 жыл бұрын

Just did that. I was wondering if anyone else does that.

@Orzeszekk

3 жыл бұрын

That's the bad part this part was destroyed by endless songs

That back smith tho~

The sw flip tail 270 in that line and the sound it makes is so perfect 🤤

the switch flip FS tail he does in the line is still my favourite trick - the style on his 270s/360s is unbeatable..like the nollie cab flip he does in winderful horrible life...cant touch that

@HG-bs3en

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I remember making an animated gif of the nollie cab flip. Drew the siloette of PJ frame by frame, sometimes I still see it as people's avatars on forums, pretty cool. Shows how timeless PJ is.

Switch Flip Lincoln 15 is legendary

@debaser9169

9 жыл бұрын

its a 13 and its huge. I've seen it in person

@oz-1037

4 жыл бұрын

A 13 the size of a 16 I'm guessing

@jgrullon32

3 жыл бұрын

A huge stair set. Not a scrub stair set.

@gmanzano89gm

3 жыл бұрын

I love PJ Ladd but the fact that Greco Switch Frontside flipped em 98-99. Damn that impressive cuz even PJ couldn't

@kamikazeExpert

3 жыл бұрын

sw fs flip is actually not that much harder than a sw flip where you have to keep it switch all the way

Briefly met him @ windowsill ledges back in August 2001, he was there with Jereme and Alexis Sablone. I was actually star struck and felt like an idiot, so he broke the ice and asked me if I needed some wax, super nice dude. That was the best summer of my life, stated with me and my friend skating Washington DC, filming lines at Pulaski. That week in August-September 2001 was the best. We were skating old school 'Waterfront' aka Columbus Park. Eli Reed gave me props for having a Vehicle board. Jereme was psyched because we fixed the propped up ledge @ waterfront and he ended up filming a few tricks in Wonderful Horrible Life because of us. Jereme was chill too back then. We ended up in Dave "Happy"Armsden's apartment, rider and shop clerk for Coliseum, super chill guy. We smoked bubble gum weed out of the biggest bong I've ever seen, never been so high lol. Fuck those times were great. It feels fleet because literally 1-2 weeks later 911 happened and the world changed for the worse so the it's memories of a more innocent bygone era. I'll cherish those memories forever. Even got to skate with Donny Barley once. Wish I had stayed off the drugs and skated 2wice as much. I' m 37 now and the world is so depressing. RIP to the pre-911 era.

@666sk8erguy

Жыл бұрын

Damn bro I got chills reading that

@skateboston420

Жыл бұрын

@@666sk8erguy thanks man, that was from the heart 💙

@666sk8erguy

Жыл бұрын

@@skateboston420 I was only 6 when 9/11 happened but I remember everyone being so much less depressed and a much warmer vibe in the world before then. Could also be that I was a little kid, but my brother's your age and I remember him skateboarding with his friends in the late 90s/early 2000s and watching skate videos and smoking hella cigarettes being carefree AF and you just don't see teens like that very often any more. 9/11 and the internet fucked everything.

Still the best 3 flips I've seen

@repitboy1617

10 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah and hardflips/inward heels

@VGf97

10 жыл бұрын

Yeah but Basti Salabanzi's 3Flips are really stylish too :3

@smithjones4705

4 жыл бұрын

Kalis

@Orzeszekk

3 жыл бұрын

Reminds Chris joslin

@Jeremyramone

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed! Tied with Brian Anderson

Those bench lines in the dark are unforgetable for me.. Sw fs nosegring halfcab out,such a wierd one! And Those tres and hardflips.. And he was right Silence is golden!

@mattimaranda9638

2 жыл бұрын

That same unnatural spin/motion is repeated a lot in Mark Suciu's trick selection...

I skated Berrics with PJ 10 years back. Such a sick memory. He put a complete together for me in the parking lot and would’ve given me some #s but they were too small… anyway, he shredded Berrics, it was just us 2, and he literally went a solid 13 minutes straight without missing a trick… hitting every obstacle in the place. Such a solid dude. Thx PJ, much respect. Tim P

I watched this a loong time ago. Probably more than 10 years ago on my fat computer. Time flies.

that very first tre flip is absolute perfection. so casual and stylish

Good stuff!!! I can't believe it's almost 20 years old.

this part leaves me speechless everytime...no speech

Used to watch this back in the day to get pumped up for skating! Love the no music just so satisfying! Lol

Remember watching RS for the first time and thinking who the heck is PJ Ladd but being one of my favorite parts of the whole film. So clean, precise tricks, way ahead of the game

His switch is so good I can barely tell if its switch or regular

@youngboyharless9769

3 жыл бұрын

For real. That switch heel he does in that line looks better than any regular heelflip I can ever recall landing 🤦‍♂️

this part made me fall in love with es shoes!

I love how you can hear the board flipping at 0:55 that is just the best w/ headphones

It was so genius to cut the music. I don't think that had ever been done. The skating speaks for itself, and sound of roll-pop-bearings-land-roll is my favorite song anyways.

I don't think I have ever seen another skater with the balance that he has. He always looks like he is in complete control while doing crazy lines. One of the 🐐 s for aure.

Show casing the eS Accel collection nicely.

One of the best short skate videos I've seen in a long ass time!

@emgee7

9 жыл бұрын

Hi wonderful horrible life is so mich better

Brings me back

dude killin it on the switch! so good!

So much style!

Nineclub experience brought me here. Thanks Steezus! Gonna try and sleep to this.

I used to watch this part religiously. I used to put on different songs to it too.

One of the best sections ever

Damn this upload is almost 15 years old and "Really Sorry" came out in 03!! Making me feel old af. Such a classic vid

CLEAN!

The goof around stuff in his Wonderful Horrible Life part is fun and humanizing, but this part is just banger after banger, like a terminator. Every clip hits hard.

Always a favourite skater with best style

Crazy to watch now. So fucking heavy when this dropped. So much love. Watched on repeat…. Now days there’s 3 clips I would keep for an actual part. Some wouldn’t make Insta

I still remember the feeling I had watching this part 💥💥💥

Timeless as it can be

Legendary.

Well it’s 2024. A lot of phenomenal skating has gone down. But this part….. this part is something special. Enjoy!

beautiful

i freakin love his hardflips BEAST MODE!!!!!!!!

love da noise of da board poppin den landing so sweet lol

The silence gave this part such gravity when I was a kid, made it serious like, “hey, shut up and pay attention to this.”

Switch flip at end still hit me everytime

The Hardflip over the Albertsons dock 👌🏻

fakie sw fs crook.. no push... switch flip sw front tail 270. in 2003. pj and prod we're the first ones to master switch

@danielmc8385

3 жыл бұрын

That would be Penny and Creager

I miss this pj

this part seriously doesnt even need music,every trick is a ender

Best style ever

Alot more switch than I remember. What a legend

So smooth

At the end I was like: "Oh he can laugh? Hm didn't know!"

Epic part, holy sh*t was he ahead of his time.

I always play The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 to this part, perfect

@nikokaapa

5 жыл бұрын

I tried it and liked it

has to be the best skate shoe ever in my opinion...

SICK!

If you close your eyes and listen you hear music throughout the video. And it sounds awesome.

The beginning of the demise of PJs skate parts. He never topped wonderful horrible life but how could you top greatest part of all time.

@js-cv6xj

3 жыл бұрын

no one has

I watch this part everyday

No music just the sound of bangers

There's just something different about these old clips. ♥

haha this is still a gnarly part! crazy

The noise as he rides over the grid after the switch heel 1:05 👌

I met him at Subliminal Skatepark yesterday! :D

Thank you for putting the original part with no music, like it was meant to be viewed! I hate that everyone puts music on it and calls it a "re-edit" fuck that shit

two door cinema what you know perfect song fits so well play the song when pj lands the tre in the beginning and the go to the part of the song when the beats kick in the beginning so perfect enjoy niqqas

david bowie - changes perfect song to play with this vid

love the cameras they film with this.

I forgot why this guy is a legend smoother than butter

@capind

2 жыл бұрын

This guy invented style

the good thing about there not being any music is that you can really hear the smack of the board on his shoes when he catches the trick mid air

2021

i love playing music to this

Master Switch Stance!

the music that goes with this doesnt matter. why does anyone want to even re-edit this? its perfect the way it is.

cleanest tricks ;):):)

soooooooooooooooo goooooooooodddddd

that guy can tear a bench up

Pj is my idol'

Every trick was landed bolts. Amazing part

This was pj Ladd in his prime. Still crazy

so sick

ha badass

one of gnarly skateboarder ever

I feel like the 00's standard isn't being lived up to right now. Pro's need to get over FS crooks and feebles.

Mullen skated so many of thosr spots. Oh the good old days

damn switch madness!!!

SICK! PJ rulez!