Is there any relevant videos before Bones Brigade / H Street / Santa Cruz?

[fernando the skater]

Rubbish Heap should be in the first section with the H-street videos. Came out in 1989.

[GardenSkater77]

Rubbish Heap should be in the first section with the H-street videos. Came out in 1989.

I have to disagree here, respectfully.

Edit: I misread what you wrote and thought you meant Rubbish Heap was from the first wave of videos. I didn’t realize Hocus Pokus was in the original OP grouping and that the grouping was loose to begin with. The rest can stand on its own.

For me, Hocus Pokus and Rubbish Heap were the first real street skating videos. They were trick oriented and filmed with camcorders.

Powell and Santa Cruz videos were filmed like action sports videos of the day. They did not have a raw edge.

I have watched Hocus Pokus and Rubbish Heap more than any other videos period and, for me, the attitude of both videos is the core of street skating to this day. Both videos basically killed the vert gods of one year prior.

[rawbertson.]

i REALLY like the H Street videos they seemed to age so much better than the powell and santacruz videos to me. theres just like certain sections of those videos i really like. Natas has always been one of my favorite skaters of all time, i mostly really just go back and watch his stuff.

 where the H Street videos + rubbish heap i could watch start to finish and they still held up pretty good when  iwatched them for the first time ~2000 (lol seems funny that back then the vids were not even actually that old if yo uthink about it). i was actually more stoked on rubbish heap than video days tbh i relaly liked jeremy klein sectiion with the NES music (i think its from ducktales capcom game)

i love the section in the H STreet video where they go to the skate camp lol that always seemed like a dream come true to me. we have some skate camp in Ontario called Muskoka Woods but its heavily Christian which im not really into, and its quite expensive and my mom wanted to send me when i was ~15 or 16 but she couldnt afford it / didnt want to spend it

[TelethonJohn]

Rubbish Heap definitely deserves to be on the list, but I don't even really know how to compare it with anything else. To this day, it is a supremely weird video, and as GardenSkater77 astutely pointed out, was unapologetically low budget compared to videos from the bloated Goliaths of the industry. If you'd said in 1989 that within a few short years, this was the company that would come to dominate the industry and bury the titans, you'd have been committed.

[stephop]

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Rubbish Heap should be in the first section with the H-street videos. Came out in 1989.

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I have to disagree here, respectfully.

For me, Hocus Pokus and Rubbish Heap were the first real street skating videos. They were trick oriented and filmed with camcorders.

Powell and Santa Cruz videos were filmed like action sports videos of the day. They did not have a raw edge.

I have watched Hocus Pokus and Rubbish Heap more than any other videos period and, for me, the attitude of both videos is the core of street skating to this day. Both videos basically killed the vert gods of one year prior.

rubbish heap is not the video days Era and far closer to hokus pokus. Maybe the world promo with the barn yard deck and Mullen on a street deck. After rubbish heap you had Life Video New Deal  videos Now N Later and Next..then came Video Days etc..

[jakeumms]

i REALLY like the H Street videos they seemed to age so much better than the powell and santacruz videos to me. theres just like certain sections of those videos i really like. Natas has always been one of my favorite skaters of all time, i mostly really just go back and watch his stuff.

 where the H Street videos + rubbish heap i could watch start to finish and they still held up pretty good when  iwatched them for the first time ~2000 (lol seems funny that back then the vids were not even actually that old if yo uthink about it). i was actually more stoked on rubbish heap than video days tbh i relaly liked jeremy klein sectiion with the NES music (i think its from ducktales capcom game)

i love the section in the H STreet video where they go to the skate camp lol that always seemed like a dream come true to me. we have some skate camp in Ontario called Muskoka Woods but its heavily Christian which im not really into, and its quite expensive and my mom wanted to send me when i was ~15 or 16 but she couldnt afford it / didnt want to spend it

Streetstyle in Tempe was in the VCR pretty regularly. It has that Neil Blender street skating moment.

Don't forget Hokus Pokus was the second video and was iterating on what they had already done in Shackle Me Not.

[j....soy.....]

I'd throw 'sick boys' in there too....

[GardenSkater77]

@Hyliannightmare

Put together a pretty good list last year in a different thread:

https://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=110314.0

Powell Peralta- Bones Brigade Video Show (1984)
Vision- Skatevisions (1984)
G&S- team video (1984)
Powell Peralta-Future Primitive (1985)
Radical Moves( 1986)
PP-The Search for Animal Chin (1987)
Santa Cruz-Wheels of Fire (1987)
Curb Dogs (1987)
Gullwing- Molecules in Motion (1987)
Schmidt Stick - Skateboarding! (1987)
PP-Public Domain (1988)
PP- Axe Rated (1988)
Gullwing Trucks- Inside Out (1988)
Alva skateboards- Backyard Annihilation (1988)
Alva- Street Survival (1988)
Blazer Skates -  Shop Promo (1988)
Hosoi skateboards- Sk8 Hard (1988)
Vision- Psycho Skate (1988)
H. PROL- Skate Total (1988)
H Street- Shackle Me Not (1988)
Animation Skate - Expo 60 (1989)
Sick Boys (1988)
Blockhead Skateboards- Splendid Eye Torture(1989)
Alva Skateboards- Alva Boyz -1989
H Street-Hokus Pokus (1989)
G&S - Skateboard Gang (1989)
Santa Cruz - Speed Freaks (1989)
Vision - Mondo Vision (1989)
Walker Skateboards- Liscence to Skate (1989)
World Industries- Rubbish Heap(1989)
Better Board company -BBC (1990)
Toxic - Oddly Enough
Powell - Propaganda

Well done.

[sid vicious]

@Hyliannightmare

Put together a pretty good list last year in a different thread:

https://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=110314.0

Powell Peralta- Bones Brigade Video Show (1984)
Vision- Skatevisions (1984)
G&S- team video (1984)
Sure Grip International - Summer Sessions (1985)
Powell Peralta-Future Primitive (1985)
Radical Moves( 1986)
Savannah Slamma (1987)
PP-The Search for Animal Chin (1987)
Santa Cruz-Wheels of Fire (1987)
Curb Dogs (1987)
Gullwing- Molecules in Motion (1987)
Schmidt Stick - Skateboarding! (1987)
Ohio Skate Out (1988)
PP-Public Domain (1988)
PP- Axe Rated (1988)
Gullwing Trucks- Inside Out (1988)
Alva skateboards- Backyard Annihilation (1988)
Alva- Street Survival (1988)
Blazer Skates -  Shop Promo (1988)
Hosoi skateboards- Sk8 Hard (1988)
Vision- Psycho Skate (1988)
H. PROL- Skate Total (1988)
H Street- Shackle Me Not (1988)
Animation Skate - Expo 60 (1989)
Sick Boys (1988)
Blockhead Skateboards- Splendid Eye Torture(1989)
Alva Skateboards- Alva Boyz -1989
H Street-Hokus Pokus (1989)
G&S - Skateboard Gang (1989)
Santa Cruz - Speed Freaks (1989)
Vision - Mondo Vision (1989)
Walker Skateboards- Liscence to Skate (1989)
World Industries- Rubbish Heap(1989)
Better Board company -BBC (1990)
Toxic - Oddly Enough
Powell - Propaganda

Well done.

[GardenSkater77]

@sid vicious

Well, would you look at that...

[Tuff Lover]

Before bones brigade......BEFORE

[Gray Imp Sausage Metal]

You’re tripping if you don’t include this!

[HugeBodBoyle]

1986 bro.

[Deputy Wendell]

It’s a little before my time but Sick Boys had a pretty heavy line up

oi! i started a thread on this too, Sick Boys was definitely important

https://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=110446.0

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@Hyliannightmare

Put together a pretty good list last year in a different thread:

https://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=110314.0

Powell Peralta- Bones Brigade Video Show (1984)
Vision- Skatevisions (1984)
G&S- team video (1984)
Sure Grip International - Summer Sessions (1985)
Powell Peralta-Future Primitive (1985)
Radical Moves( 1986)
Savannah Slamma (1987)
PP-The Search for Animal Chin (1987)
Santa Cruz-Wheels of Fire (1987)
Curb Dogs (1987)
Gullwing- Molecules in Motion (1987)
Schmidt Stick - Skateboarding! (1987)
Ohio Skate Out (1988)
PP-Public Domain (1988)
PP- Axe Rated (1988)
Gullwing Trucks- Inside Out (1988)
Alva skateboards- Backyard Annihilation (1988)
Alva- Street Survival (1988)
Blazer Skates -  Shop Promo (1988)
Hosoi skateboards- Sk8 Hard (1988)
Vision- Psycho Skate (1988)
H. PROL- Skate Total (1988)
H Street- Shackle Me Not (1988)
Animation Skate - Expo 60 (1989)
Sick Boys (1988)
Blockhead Skateboards- Splendid Eye Torture(1989)
Alva Skateboards- Alva Boyz -1989
H Street-Hokus Pokus (1989)
G&S - Skateboard Gang (1989)
Santa Cruz - Speed Freaks (1989)
Vision - Mondo Vision (1989)
Walker Skateboards- Liscence to Skate (1989)
World Industries- Rubbish Heap(1989)
Better Board company -BBC (1990)
Toxic - Oddly Enough
Powell - Propaganda

Well done.

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yep, those three highlighted videos were super important. if you were part of the first generation of street-skaters--you know, who considered the ollie central to everything--early contest videos were important, like those NSA Oceanside videos that Vision put out. i know this probably seems weird to younger heads, but they really were all there was at points, and really, it was mainly just Mark Gonzales's runs and eventually a few others pioneering this modern ollie-centered street-skating.





and then of course, Gonz's section of the original Skate Rock video:

[fernando the skater]

Before bones brigade......BEFORE

Sticking to the original question the answer is no. Home video players only came in when the Bones Brigade Video Show came out.

During the 1970s skate boom there were a few shorts that were shown in cinemas, alongside surf films, mainly in California. Limited market. Magic Rolling Board, 5 Summer Stories, Go For It etc.
Other than that footage would've been shot for inclusion in television shows, the main one seems to be the UK's Skateboard Kings linked earlier in the thread.

[Skateboard Shuffle]

I'm glad to see the NSA videos (Unreel Productions) getting some mentions here. Skating in the 80's, we were starved for any tidbit of skate footage we could find. While not as mainstream, those old contest videos were just as important to "core" skaters as the Bones Brigade videos in the mid-80's. We would dub them and watch on repeat. Here's a list of most of them.

Del Mar (1985)
Rage in the Badlands - Upland (1985)
Beach Style in Oceanside (1985)
Terror in Tahoe (1985)
Mt. Trashmore - King of the Mountain (1985)
Trashmore - East Coast Assault (1986)
Showdown at the Ranch (1986)
Oceanside Street Attack (1986)
Duel at Diablo (1986)
Houston - Kahuna Ramp (1986)
Streetstyle in Tempe (1986)
Chicago Blowout (1986)
Ramp n Rage (1987)
Savannah Slamma (1987)

Ohio Skateout was 1988. It's a little outside of that contest video sweet spot as skate videos were becoming more prevalent.

[GardenSkater77]

1986 bro.

I was told that Gershon Mosley is on the bus at the end of the scene. Can anyone confirm or deny?

[coneklr]

Holy shit this takes me back!   Curb Dogs!!!  Used to watch contests too like Savanah Slamma or something like that

[rawbertson.]

Updated the OP to include some more vids ... will clean it up more as i get time  and possibly links as well
I think Skate Movies / Skate Videos / Documentaries / Video Magazines should all deserve their own categories - trying to stick to just purely skate videos in this list!

[The real veganshawn]

[Youoverthere]

Holy shit this takes me back!   Curb Dogs!!!  Used to watch contests too like Savanah Slamma or something like that

I used to hang in a punk house that had a vhs/tv and I remember we found curb dogs on vhs in a thrift store. We had no idea how bad it was lol. It’s the same song for the whole video. It’s crazy how it takes you back to the 80s but for me it goes back to 2017.