This just seriously made him one of my favorite pros it's awesome to see someone so gnarly still be a great dad and be so humble

@SantaCruzSkateboards

2 жыл бұрын

Mad love for Tom and the family! 💜

@briancannon3987

Жыл бұрын

the opposite of bam

@svnbit8408

Жыл бұрын

@@SantaCruzSkateboards that quilt is awesome.

@jodywest9044

Жыл бұрын

@@svnbit8408 seriously such a awesome quilt

@limehawk4989

Жыл бұрын

Big egos are never attractive!

Tom's a freaking LEGEND!!!

@SantaCruzSkateboards

2 жыл бұрын

Got that right!!

I bought my first skateboard at g-spot skate shop in langhorne pa, in 2002. I have been skating ever since. that purple shack on the side of the road was iconic! I was 8 years old asking my dad to take me to the g-spot. he thought it was a strip club lol.

@erictherelapser

11 ай бұрын

😂😂😂 your dad knew the dirty stuff

The thing I admire most about Tom is his pants selection. Its low key his greatest strength imo

@vi0l3nc35

2 жыл бұрын

No pansy ass rolled up capris, straight sauce!

@MKB927

2 жыл бұрын

The cargos hold Tom's super powers.

@benfredrickson5212

2 жыл бұрын

Ahahaha I couldn’t agree more

@williamnepinak5490

2 жыл бұрын

fr fr

@littlebear2477

2 жыл бұрын

I think it’s more his swag and the way he skates , his style makes his appearance better imo

We need more dads like Papa Asta (and moms like Mama Asta) - support and encouragement is invaluable. Awesome documentary, thanks SC and keep pushing forward.

During the hot wax days, I ran into him at Radnor park. Literally ran into him. We collided into each other skating flat. He immediately apologized and went right back to skating. That’s all I needed to hear to know he was a chill kid.

@limehawk4989

Жыл бұрын

People with big egos are always fighting for their own self-image. Stay humble!

Tom is such a g.

He's still slept on today . Tom's a GOAT!

Can’t wait Legendary

@SantaCruzSkateboards

2 жыл бұрын

See you Tuesday!!

Tom is not only talented skater but also humble and down to earth dude. Wish him and his family all the best.

that color theory part made me a huge fan of tom. and that WAWA mystery board was HEAT

tom is definitely the king of nollie flip/heels

Tom is amazing, makes me like him even more knowing how down to earth and humble he is

DBC.. Daily Blessings Coming! Thank You ALL for Everything, Everyday!! I wish I had support growing up like this but I didn’t…. FML!!!

tom asta is goat'd, dude has so much style and hella tricks. he always reminded me of tom penny lol, so much STYLE.

@masonmcconnell9375

2 жыл бұрын

i never thought about it but he does have that tom penny vibe in his own way like a new school tom pretty sick and he does skate on the same team as tom with ES

@nocturnalme3549

2 жыл бұрын

I grew up around all these guys in the area. I was a little older than them. Tom asta was always a solid dude from day one. He earned all this from the ground up. I never knew his parents owned that bar restaurant til now. My ex girlfriend used to live around the corner from there and we would go in all the time. It Was Erie for me to see that place again, she passed away tradegicly years later. Hot wax was kinda a bogus idea, Cole was always legit but most of those guys were homie style and all of a sudden wanted to be full metal rocker style because they saw zero videos. But they still ripped. That whole town bred some serious heavy hitters. It was crazy to see these local guys go so far in the game. Other kids that came up right there was Kyle Fredrick, ishod, and Pete Eldridge. They all knew each other and of course Cole. Kyle was a heavy skater he was Chris coles boy and was in the same level til Chris took off to the west, same with Pete. They all at some point started to scatter going on tour and filming. We were all their til the last days of love. After they knocked down the plaza kind of took the hype and heart out of the town. It's coming back but will never be the same as it was, it was legendary. We used to skate with oyola and sub zero guys back then also. These guys carried the torch forward along with bam and Maldonado for that time period. They were slightly hyping up that xpark place. It sucked ,but it was the only place indoor for along time, the ground was so slick that you could smash your face if you didn't land perfect. That's why Ishod and asta got so good there skating together, you had to be on point. Finally, Shane colville bringing up that fact that people thought Tom was arrogant or cocky is obviously false, Tom was always cool. Shane on the other back then was really cocky and arrogant, he was doing some projecting there lol. But all in all glad these guys made it and are still here, hope to see more to come.

So solid, been wanting to here Tom’s story forever. Everyone killed this

@thetinman5297

2 жыл бұрын

*hear ... sorry I had to

@mashmartmusic

2 жыл бұрын

Amazing story congrats

@YourBeastRoy

2 жыл бұрын

Tom's my half cousin so known the story, but been waiting for it to be told like this haha so dope

He is as consistent as anyone in skateboarding. He could win BATB, Slides and Grinds, Sweet frontside heel Love Park, and nollie heel back nideblunt a f’in handrail! He is an absolute jackknife. He can skate anything

This answered so many questions! I always wondered why he was this underrated and slept on because he's been killing it for over a decade now. On his insta stories you could see how he drops bangers casually on a random skate sess. True inspiration

Tom's back arm looks funny when he does his tracks, noticed it's a habit he's had since he was young

Langhorn tap water hit different

Unique style from a polite and humble person, refreshing is an understatement.

My favorite skaters in the mid late 90’s Peter smolik, Jamie thomas, eric koston.

Koston, Muska, Rowley, Reynolds, Thomas, Guy, Carroll...........Asta IMAO

@tomf4087

Ай бұрын

Probably should have Penny on that list?

lesgooo 🍿

@SantaCruzSkateboards

2 жыл бұрын

Orville Redenbacher on deck 🍿

I met young Tom Asta when he turned 18 in Macau China! it was a fallen trip.

when he did those tricks down love park fountain it completely blew my mind. knew he was going to be legendary from there.

Omg finally! I‘ve been waiting for years for this😀

@SantaCruzSkateboards

2 жыл бұрын

The time has come!!!

@SantaCruzSkateboards

2 жыл бұрын

We knew you would be hyped on this one, CFC!

Tom definitely has an awesome style, one of my favorites to watch. He is actually the reason I became interested in checking out the Santa Cruz team.

@Leebull3

2 жыл бұрын

same. i never bought a santa cruz until tom rode for them.

@artomarto679

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

@BretCahill

2 жыл бұрын

@@artomarto679 lul

@Leebull3

2 жыл бұрын

@@BretCahill whats funny?

@BretCahill

2 жыл бұрын

@@Leebull3 I was wondering the same thing

CANT WAIT!!! 🔥🔥

@SantaCruzSkateboards

2 жыл бұрын

See you Tuesday!!

I love how Tom Asta opens his hand up wide when he’s doing a lot of tech tricks❤️🔥

Love this dude! My favorite skater. I tell him all the time and he likes my comments. What a humble skater! Keep shredding!

Great content here!

Super solid peice on Tom Asta..love the fact Chris Cole & tom are from the same small town & are both super tech street skaters..just the whole vibe being put on a local team and just putting it down for the camera! Always good to see an insight into some of these pro,s..gives a different perspective!❤️💛💚💯👊

what a legend! his colour theory is an OG SKATE part 😎

Yo he’s a nice person in real life I met him randomly with the zero team In st.Paul years ago I was driving home with the homies and we look to the left and the zero team is just skating some spot haha, we talked with him he was super chill and calm about everything it was so random but he was mellow

His demeanor matching his skating is like how great musicians personalities match their playing, a truly refined artist🤌🙌🔥

Kostons and cargos when just chillin. This guys a legend

Man loved his fallen & mystery days! He’s ah legend!!

everybody gangster till tom asta documentary drops💀

I’ve been saying this foos under rated for yeaaarrrrsss

Asta is a Pennsylvania champion

@SantaCruzSkateboards

2 жыл бұрын

PA STAND UP!!!

all the best for a Santa Cruz squad

@SantaCruzSkateboards

2 жыл бұрын

Much love 💜

Such a humble cool dude! Hopefully we get an Eman episode!

Dude is legendary🔥💯💚

What a nice and down to earth guy! Loved to hear his story.

Love this guy.

20 yrs ago I skated Santa Cruz. Now coming back to skating and seeing what a great job you guys do on KZread with your content, I am going to support you guys even more. Keep doing what you are doing and big shout out to the film team and managers on this company!

Santa Cruz is unbelievably lucky to have him on the squad. Tom is of Primitive caliber.

Tom is such a great dude

This was literally the most genuine thing. Like everything that was described about the days in your youth and falling in love with skateboarding are so spot on. I love seeing that Life has truly blessed these people who showed so much heart and stayed on a good path. When I was young, going into those older days it was easy to get too caught up, and be too wild and it's seriously awesome to see his infectious positive energy coming from his children and loved one's and Tom has grown into himself and yet genuinely still has these (is this real? I gotta be dreaming right?) Moment's. AND That is a beautiful freaking thing. Keep spreading & shredding positivity dude. For real. This was such a heart felt story that just unfolded organically, because Tom had a good heart and equally a killer drive, and everything just went well around that. That must be a Mind F*ck... But in the best way possible.

@clstile

Жыл бұрын

@Ben McReynolds I love this comment .. I’m 38 now but this vid reminded me so much of my child hood through the mid 90s to early 2000s .. I grew up in a small desert town near JT California .. we had some dinky skate spots around the local grocery stores .. a small roller rink turned “skate park” by some old men who didn’t know a thing about skateboarding , and the local high school where I got several citations for skating .. it was before cell phones took over , internet was AOL when your parents weren’t on the phone , and we’d still watch our favorite skaters on VHS tapes .. I had such a loving relationship with skateboarding because not only was it insanely fun to push around with my friends , but it was a total escape from problems at school , home , young love etc.. when I was on my board I was completely free .. I skated everyday rain or shine , snow and wind .. as long as I got at least a couple hours in everyday, I felt like myself .. I can’t remember what made me lose that relationship with skating .. maybe when I became a young father at 20 years old , pursuing my career , losing my mother .. maybe a combo of all those things .. now I push around occasionally , collect decks I couldn’t afford as a kid , and watch videos like this on KZread lol! I’ll always have that love for skateboarding , and fond memories of being on my board in my youth .. it truly was the happiest years of my life, and I’m always stoked to see these guys that kept with it and became successful doing what they love! These videos bring me joy Much peace and love from Southern California ✌🏼🖤🤙🏻

15:55 is why Tom is a pro. That bs flip looked SO G00D on camera.

I grew up skating in NE Philly and man this video brought back so many memories. I watched Tom grow and progress so much. He would be at xpark everyday, I remember going to his Color theory video showing at reign. Dudes always been real chill. Congrats tom

@flexinthesehoes2155

2 жыл бұрын

I bet we skated together at one time I'm from Tacony

What a master, switch flip in and out..whoa!

Waited a few days for this to premiere. Damn good watch, Santa Cruz. Thanks !

Es seriously needs to make a new shoe and put the Asta name on it, I'd buy it in a heartbeat the dude has been killing it for so long, he deserves all the support

Favorite skater

Shout-out Santa Cruz & much love to tom ASTA & his Family 🤟🏾

Quite a purist in a way ya know, loves skating, honed his skills to level up but didn't try to force things to happen for him it just came naturally. In a scene flooded with a lot of loud brash young skaters coming up almost competing for a spot in the limelight its refreshing to see that the chill, respectful approach can get rewarded. Tom let's his skating do the talking and that's a plus on top of just being a nice guy! Great vid!

Commenting to say I support you, Tom! Been following you since your Fallen/ Zero days.

REAL NICE

Toms the best sweetest dude

Tom is so insanely humble and genuine I’m glad humans like him still exists they are truly a dying a breed ❤️ oh and his skateboarding tricks are pretty rad too

I always think of how fun it must be to skate like Tom Asta. He's so consistent and steezy. And I like how he mirrors his tricks. He also seems like a really humble dude Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed this. Santa Cruz continues to put out the best content.👏👏🍻

@mashmartmusic

2 жыл бұрын

Definitly one of the best episode so far congrats guys.!!

God Bless Tom, man… fucking love that dude. Humble as can be and wildly inspirational. Keep killing it.

Tom rips, and has ripped. I’m confident he will continue to rip for many years to come!

I first saw Tom at a Nocturnal demo in Philly in like 05-06 and knew right away he was something else. Went home and Googled him immediately and found some of his footage. Been a fan ever since.

@SantaCruzSkateboards

2 жыл бұрын

Watching Tom skate in person is unreal! 🤯

@tylerriggs95

2 жыл бұрын

@@SantaCruzSkateboards Makes our day when we pull to a park in PA and he's there! Still quiet and humble!

Tom Asta is a stud skater to improving his flip tricks to a another level of landing basic maneuvers tricks to tricks

So good and loved the Toronto footy.

yeowww hell yea boss

@SantaCruzSkateboards

2 жыл бұрын

See you next week 👊

Damm what a legend, so humble,

I bought my first board and skate video at our local shop called stomping grounds, it was sweet the shop, the people, and the video I wanted to buy was hot wax. I still love that video and never realized tom Asta himself was apart of my childhood video I grew up on. The video was as good as my other two videos Ed at the shop told me to watch. It was almost round 3 and girl yeah right. I never will forget these three videos with the kid in hot wax when he did those tricks I was like damn who is that kid! He knows Chris Cole and these other rad dudes! Then I was like this video was filmed in PA we gotta go! Ever since then I looked up to these guys and just have so much fun. Skating is life and brings life. You can make a spot out of nothing sometimes just reclaimed wood.. it gave me hope and made me realize it is a form of Art, like music to my ears. The vibrations and paths we carve with our board is like a "moving muscle memory 3D art sculpture" with our own individual stage.. I started skating whatever after that and felt more alive. It also has a way with bringing life to people and giving and giving. It's the gift that keeps giving. I love my friends and how many awesome memories we had, this is crazy it's been so many years since hot wax came out and now I thank you guys for being the realest shredders alive and showing us how to have fun in a dull place like youngstown ohio.

Tom is the best man! Gotta love that guy!

Fawesome! Tom rules, so stoked he was able to stick it out in PA with his family and made it 🤙🏽

Young legend 🙏🏾💯

My favorite pro skater since the day I first saw him skate.

Love Asta. He’s one of my favorites

I live in p.a. and skate so many local parks and the times I show up Tom Asta is there. I've talk to him briefly and he is such a chill humble person.

i enjoy tom skateboarding

such a boss. Just like Reynolds. Is a dad, yet still kills under the radar. How? So sick

Solid dude. Thanks SC and Tom!

Growing up skating around Tom and the g-spot/reign crew at falls park, x park and around Langhorne, I fucking idolized him dude. Tried to mold my style like his. To see him where he is now, is mind blowing👏🏻

It’s refreshing to here he was quite and let his skating speak for itself. You don’t always need to talk , sometimes you can say more by saying nothing at all

One of my fav skaters! 🤘🏽

This looks sick! Notifications on, ready for this✌️

@SantaCruzSkateboards

2 жыл бұрын

See you soon!

@matthewwilson8897

2 жыл бұрын

Great vid, wish it was 30 mins longer though☺️✌️ was a great story!

When i was living in NJ I went out to middletown for a day after they had just finished building the park and tom was there. he was so casual, so nice..i was so nervous and at the time dealing with back issues so all i could do was ride and some ollies so i ended up just stopping halfway through and watching tom sesh the ledge. It was amazing. It was a pleasure to see and meet him again orlando, he carried the same cool calm collected energy.

look at Tom man so inspirational

Bucks represent.. Glad to see everyone still out there doing it big. This area bred some of the gnarliest guys in the game. Cole, asta, ishod, Eldridge, Fredrick's, just too name a few. There will never be a era like that again, mid 90s to mid 2000s. Classic Philly will never be the same. Last of the mohicans. 💯

Yesss he’s the best congrats man

In 2006 or so, I won a local eS Game of Skate and got to go compete in the amateur one at ASR (Alex Mizurov won both am and pro that day). In the first round, I had to play a kid named Tom Asta. He was amazing. He went first and completely wiped the floor with me; I didn't even get a chance to set the trick. Stoked to look back and see the career he had ahead of him.

Dudes style n trick selection always had him in my top 5 hes been a stud forever glad hes gettin this spotlight showing him veing a loving father, dudes a pro foreal.

Seasonal depression is real in the snow season. He’s right on that one

Love Tom and loved this vid!! 🙌❤

@SantaCruzSkateboards

2 жыл бұрын

Much love Shredz! 💜

How can you not like Tom skating and the style that comes with it. Everybody dreams of skating like him!

I live about 20 min away from X park, still can’t believe that closed it, miss it every damn day😭

Being around sober and the right people help you stay away from toxic people

Super cool dude sick skater really nice guy lovely family absolutely stoked for them all 😁

Tom's a legend no doubt. One of the best styles out there

@ dew tour long beach 2018 i saw him basically rip the practice course compared to many pros he stood out always his nollie 360s over bank catching massive air cmon everyone else keeping it safe and mellow Tom has proven to be a force like no other just raw steezy beast mode skateboarding

these kids should pay attention to tom

The quilt his mom made of all of his sponsors shirts is so dope