this is valuable footage. His FS flips are fucking legendary, his style is effortless. One of a kind!

@ianturnbow7011

6 жыл бұрын

That's how Reynolds based his fs flips on - Penny. Tom Penny's influence is well beyond what Tom even realizes.

Tom penny will always be my favorite skater. Kids now days just don't get it man and penny is the most pure skateborder there ever was or will be.

@calstonjew

4 жыл бұрын

Hosoi

@ronniecreager2585

3 жыл бұрын

@@JohnnyBonesaw hah no

@sk8academy241

Жыл бұрын

@@calstonjew HOSOI is tremendos on vert, Best style . Penny is the Best overall , style and tech on vert, street,.bowl, stairs, rails, bowls on regular and switch.

@calstonjew

Жыл бұрын

@@sk8academy241 Hosoi smashed the pu$$y all over the world. Like Elvis.

@ICTTRADERMASTER

Жыл бұрын

Get off his nuts 🤣

Gotta love how Penny would step up to the vert with no pads or helmet, bustin' out the tech tricks as if it were a mini ramp

@juvedoo99

4 жыл бұрын

Only other skater I can think of that did that and ironically around the same time was John Cardiel. Both Penny And Cardiel just have it like that.

@jeffhagel3970

3 жыл бұрын

@@juvedoo99 agree... would add Gonz to that group too..... all monsters.

i can't think of a skater in recent years that can compare to penny. he was so ahead of everyone else style-wise and trick wise during his golden years.

@WhatisReal11

5 жыл бұрын

Miles Silvas

Wow man thank you so much for uploading this this is some of the best stuff for Tom I’ve ever seen

That shifty flip man, that shifty flip... it's the archetype itself, defined by the master. It's so cool seeing this footage. Thanks for sharing this footy, much appreciated. It's like Tom Penny has always been good, exactly the same since day one, blessed with the gift of kickflip, frontside flip, switch flip, and switch frontside flip, any day, any time. The legend of Penny lives on.

Switch back lips in 1996 were extremely rare. Ones with that much style even more rare. Damn.

People didn't start switch backlipping rails till like 10 years after this. Dude was amazing!

@andrewsmyth1652

Жыл бұрын

Ronnie Bertino in Plan B second hand smoke video. Did it on a street handrail. 1994 i believe.

@dannysargent1909

Ай бұрын

IIS amazing

I watch this almost everyday, and I just noticed in the beginning that the announcer says that Tom is skating with a broken hand. His hand IS swollen it's crazy. Mad respect.

@ArcadeStudioPodcast

Жыл бұрын

"swollen like a tomato"

I was there that day in Tampa. It was probably the best demo I have ever seen. Rune Glifberg, Jeff Grosso, and Peter Hewitt were there as well. I can't even describe how amazing Penny was. I took so many good pics of Rune skating the very ramp. Just plain sick. That demo has became legendary now and I am so glad I was there for it. I believe Donny Barley was also present. There are so many things that went down after the demo was over. Penny had the "elephant paw". He had broken his hand a few days before at a demo in Texas but you couldn't tell by the way he skated....

@wagonswest1

5 жыл бұрын

That's insane. I noticed the paw. He's skating at 80 pct but 100 pct on a higher level than everyone else.

@luciusmirkwood1634

4 жыл бұрын

Yep I was there that day too! We skipped school and drove almost 4 hours. All the guys were great and watching Tom in the floor and Rune on the Vert will always be memorable!! Thank you Theories of Atlantis for posting this!!

@scotttyo6011

3 жыл бұрын

I was there also that day it was a sick demo his hand was huge and he had to of been wasted every time I looked at Tom on the roll in he was downing a beer and still tearing up the whole spot.

@Collin-ic9ct

22 күн бұрын

You guys are so lucky. Rifling those Nollie flips was the signal that no one skates better.

I dont think there was anyone up until this point who could catch there tricks like this. The board control he has after he catches it is amazing, you dont even see kids nowadays even doing tricks that way. Im pretty sure he was the first to start flicking it in a certain way, and im pretty sure also was the first to start catching kickflips backfoot first. The way he pops certain tricks seems effortless to. He was the smoothest ever imo.

Loved watching him as a kid, I’m 36 now. Still one of the best fs flips and switch fs flips in the game

Thank you so much for sharing this! Absolute Penny gold!

It's crazy how excited I get when I see Tom penny footage for the fort time whether its new or old

Most gifted skateboarder that ever lived.

@c-doryc.5097

7 жыл бұрын

hell no

@niklasjonssson

7 жыл бұрын

yepp penny is the best ever to do it, that style is to kill for!

@cd8788

5 жыл бұрын

you're all brain dead rodney mullen most gifted.. godfather of the first actual ollie, kickflip, heel flip.. and many many many more tricks.

@mathdavies9546

3 жыл бұрын

🤣

@diggindan1498

3 жыл бұрын

@@c-doryc.5097 Hell YEAHHHHH!

Wow. That frontside halfcab flip on the ramp at the end was crazy.

@fgDAB

9 жыл бұрын

Nollie bro

@TheVDN

8 жыл бұрын

+fabian gonzalez NO BRO HIS REGULAR SOO ITS FAKIE THOUGH

@supernewuser

8 жыл бұрын

***** nah the one at 4:27 that he didn't land. He's regular so it's definitely fakie.

@ianturnbow7011

6 жыл бұрын

Yessir. Aka a fakie fs flip. Shit is crazy.

@seanfallo592

5 жыл бұрын

Had to watch in slo mo. He flicked it with the foot he popped with.

This is Miles Davis level, the birth of cool.

Still skating when most have gone home. Legend

@saxenas

3 жыл бұрын

looks like he had crazy stamina

@oopsydaizi3s824

Жыл бұрын

@@saxenas he definitely did some speed or something before he went skating

thank for posting this man

Holy shit. I was at this contest... Crazy you have footage of this

I can watch old Tom Penny clips all day.

Hey Mikael. I actually filmed all of this stuff myself. Thanks for the compliment.

@nickvarley8256

4 жыл бұрын

Theories Of Atlantis the spot brings nothing but amazing memories, an to think Tom jus killed damn near every obstacle in the first or second year of the spots opening

@thegoldenagetvshow

3 жыл бұрын

I seent it!

@binalith4898

3 жыл бұрын

hell yeah. thanks for this. miss this dude's influence. he was my hero back in the day.

I love how he nollie flips pyramids like he's just cruising off a ledge it's freakin ridiculous.

All I have to say is wow!!!! This is some awesome footage of Penny.

Love the description. You're rad!

I think this has to be the only video on KZread with 0 dislikes. So awesome!

I was glad to be there that day at the skateparkoftampa! !!

what a talent and style... So much fun to watch Great post!

Decent footage, man! Video gold! Tom is so casual...

Man this is so buttery, I love this too much. So good. Big up Tom on being welcomed in to the skateboarding hall of fame - so well deserved.

Really one of the greatest styles ever. His kick flips = moving works of art

i love how he just looks like he doesn’t care and it’s nothing

Watching this reminds me of how amazing effortless his style is. Looks like he isn't even trying...

95-96: PEAK Penny. Seeing him doing a sw BS lipslide down a rail melted my brain in those days.

"I dont mean to sound ignorant but who's tom penny?" "uhh, this guy right here" *kickflip*

Thank you so much! Do you have any more footage of Penny that you could post on youtube? Would be sooo grateful!

man thanks for this upload,where'd you get this from,illmatic

Just amazing footage. Any stories from that day of Penny!?

old time essentials.. without so much sponsors and crap

Theories of Atlantis, were you a Tampa local? I had been staying there with friends and was able to see the demo. My friend Johnny Randolph is seen all through that footage. Kenny Belov was working at the front desk that day. I think Freddy from Bolivia was working in the parking lot. I hung with Scotty and a few others after the demo.

So weird to stumble across this video. I was actually there for that demo where Penny's hand was broken. It was pretty damn rad!

@davemetcalf8382

8 жыл бұрын

I was there as well! His hand looked like it had been inflated to three times it's normal size!

I could watch his kick flips and frontside flips on loop all day

Was that a pre-shorty's explosion Muska off to the left edge of the fisheye during all the pyramid footage?

thank you

this footage is epic

That was the smoothest full cab i've ever seen on vert.

Tom was under filmed. So was Mcrank. SO gnar and so rare when a skaters style is totally 100% unique and original.

Tom was is and will always be the best. This is pure art

stoke to hear some old less than jake in the background

The whole skating is art sounds cliche or w/e but watching this is like looking at a beautiful painting or sculpture by a great artist

I personally saw this guy skate in person on a mini ramp. I will tell you this, he was freakishly consistant. He landed everything with style and grace like it was nothing. He became my favorite skater instantly! I later met him on another occasion leaving the XYZ skate premier. He let my Friend take a swig of his 40oz. What a cool memory to have. Then went to an after party that night and he was there. At that point he was truly faded..lol..skate genius though no doubt!

@Rufusdos

8 жыл бұрын

+john doe I saw him do a miniramp demo/contest when he was about 13 and he was just so extreme, when he did a one-foot the foot just shot out, when he tweaked his indys or melons it was always to the max, at face level out of the ramp. A fiendish skater from day one.

Whats that trick called where he kickflips 90 degrees in the air but lands straight when he comes back down?

Backside 180 nollie mellon is such a unique trick to have in your bag that you could pull out. So rare

unreal how good this dude is

At 2:30 I am filming Tom from the bottom of the rail. Have white hat on.

@ronniecreager2585

3 жыл бұрын

At the end of the video I’m here, commenting

@OldSchoolVibes1978

Жыл бұрын

Fuck yeah

Is he wearing a Magenta sweatshirt? I didn't know Magenta went that far back.

@Suburb_hell

9 жыл бұрын

Holy shit that's exactly what I thought too

@deadkennedys5

9 жыл бұрын

Bolin Cartest it's actually a Metropolitain shirt, but it does really look like the Magenta typo

@AlexGordonMusic

6 жыл бұрын

Metropolitan is even weirder Isn’t that like an older dude euro brand today? I thought they were recent too...

@dudeevil8548

5 жыл бұрын

@@AlexGordonMusic It was a short lived wheel brand from the mid-nineties, I believe.

this is the look ever penny fan or even most uk skaters were rocking in 96

@leebeer

10 жыл бұрын

including me and mat boulton had it to a t

@LazerViking81

10 жыл бұрын

agree till the baker Bootleg vhs was releasd ALI ´s new style is hip still today. Ps: i still have my tsa visor beanie :-)

@nalveyna

6 жыл бұрын

lee parquet yup that's what i thought....wow his clothes would pass 4 cool even today & this glorious raw clip of Tom🌙Penny✨is from '96 that's how far ahead of his time he was dude is definitely sk8 hall of famer 4 STYLE

Tom is and always will be the greatest

I came here for Tom Penny, and got also LESS THAN JAKE in the background! OMG!

he isnt even trying. so effortless

That style of fashion is coming back This is the penny I remember watching !

He a cold piece that nollie flip an all that tweeek on them kick flips

Originator of the Hands Down-movement right here!

It's a Metropolitan wheel sweatshirt. An old east coast company.

pure gold

Amazing

Still blows my mind how he brought this style to the table back when everyone was still mobbing nollieflips/switch and still waving their arms. before style became an actual thing.

bons tempos, destrói tudo até hoje muito louco hehhe

This is how skaters should be filmed so u can acgually c if they r n e good, vid parts r misleading and all that dare devil non sense is stupid, this is Tom Penny skating just like n e kid would skate, he just happens to b really good, great video.

@yeaitsmemikec.2018

5 жыл бұрын

its evolution....skating is crazy now days..but oh well....that sh#s amazing...

so cool

this guy right here

One of the best to ever do it

Toms front side flips are a happy medium between Reynolds and Muska.

tom turned the skateboard world on its head from 94-96 then dipped out and left us all scratching our heads

Timeless

i only had a few things switch back in the day..i never got how many had switch back side tails and much more..it was so uncomfortable I didn't get into many switch and nollie tricks..i just couldn't pop..only switch trick I popped good was switch FS flips....props to the switch skaters

near the end of the video hardly anyone was skating near Penny, that's how good he was :D

4:12 that caballerial was so smooth

Damn I never realized how insane his nollie flips were

hes has the best style of all time

dude is/was amazing

Unmatched a historic figure

Style and grace

Damn he’s wearing a metropolitan hoodie. That was an old wheel company from the 90s

noo way, were you homies with him back then or now

What the fuck is going on in those last seconds of this video haha. skating a full vert ramp like a mini ramp with no pads. goat!

hi hand is completely fucked, and he is destroying so hard and making it look so easy! O.G.

4:12 amazing!

Special talent

It's called a kick-flip shifty joemchang

I just hope those baggy pants return

I've always wondered what drugs he was on this day. It's like those days on psychedelics were it all clicks and makes sense.

@timboslice45

3 жыл бұрын

Dude was known to have lived off weed and alcohol around this time, but was obviously a psychonaut too, so yeah good point. Maybe a shroom hangover and a morning doober, who knows.

Nice one.

holy shit at 0'43 : boned ollie to late fs 180 ?! I've never seen anyone do that.....and I'm old.

I used to watch him shred Radlands. Original board wizardry. 😂😂

Was always kick flipping the fun box at RL 👊🏼

me & a friend were waiting for penny footage from96 when he stayed on in europe,after his footage from 411 europe 96,cz miniramp.anyway skating(all the magz & videos)were so boring without seing penny footage,we said there must be so much footage that people have filmed,hidden away, nearly twenty years later some of the best footage ever seen is only now comming out,crazy,penny switch backlip slides are amazing,last of the three from 411#16,its better to see penny dialing them up,penny steez

great shifty flips!!

you have been extremely lucky to have seen Tom destroy Tampa.

Best style ever.