When did skateboarding peak?

[Lou Strux]

2002 was heavy with Sorry, Dying to Live, and PJWHL, but then 2003 hit us with Yeah Right! This is Skateboarding and the DC Video. Shit leveled out after Baker 3 in 2005. Berries opened in 2007 and everything has been downhill since then.

The Berries is a gost.

Maybe we can all get back to peaking now?

[Too Frank To Fred]

There were two peaks. Leading into and out of BPSWs.

[wax poetic]

Tilt Mode era

[Cuban_Lynx]

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2002 was heavy with Sorry, Dying to Live, and PJWHL, but then 2003 hit us with Yeah Right! This is Skateboarding and the DC Video. Shit leveled out after Baker 3 in 2005. Berries opened in 2007 and everything has been downhill since then.

[close]

The Berries is a gost.

Maybe we can all get back to peaking now?

[close]

Wishful thinking, but it's just mutated from berries to braille to boonies

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBcVHF0Jl7q/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

[exlurker]

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What ever year you were 15

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I was going to say 17, but yeah.
Coincidentally when music peaked as well.
Funny how that works.

yep, this poll is just an age check

[JM]

This is so easy: THE Osiris era.

Lots of money. D3’s in fashion with everyone.

A Pacsun on every corner.

THPS ruled.

[Cesar Vialpando]

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What ever year you were 15

[close]

I was going to say 17, but yeah.
Coincidentally when music peaked as well.
Funny how that works.

[close]

yep, this poll is just an age check

[WelcomeToHell]

1996

Welcome to Hell
Eastern Exposure 3
Mouse
Trilogy
Seven Steps to Heaven

...and more that I'm not remembering right now.

Something for everyone! Except vert skaters. Sorry guys.

[skate_or_dingus]

Fred Gall

[Cuban_Lynx]

1996

Welcome to Hell
Eastern Exposure 3
Mouse
Trilogy
Seven Steps to Heaven

...and more that I'm not remembering right now.

Something for everyone! Except vert skaters. Sorry guys.

Don't forget Transworld Uno with the Penny chain to bank session. Josh Stewart's Cigar City was pretty good, too.

[Garfiled L. Asagna LLC]

https://www.skatevideosite.com/videos/yesterdays-future

2007

[Randy Random]

Reynolds, Davis Gap

This is the answer.

1996 -2003 was the true heart of it all. it continued to be sick and get cooler and weirder and spread out more but it was all great. Mindfield/Stay gold (2012) was the last year.

2013 instagram became mainstream, Nike NB# Vans Switched gears into absolutely destroying team rosters and brands and ishod came out. its been this goofy bullshit ever since.

[nekro]

1989

[Unkle Fleak]

911 whl that’s the end till ba and Leo. Now we live in a brand new era.

Was 2011? 2012. Yo sky is the limit. Too bad travel is a bullshit pain and everyone who doesn’t skate is tripping full time in system shit

[Sedition]

It peaks at your next session. Always and forever.

[kookdusoleil]

I lean towards 2001 but I'd be happy living in any period of skating between 1995-2004. The super-tight pants/crailslide on a bank era which started around 2005 was a bit lame to me and things haven't felt the same since. Still love skateboarding, I embrace change and progression and I don't mean to sound like the old man yells at cloud meme.

[JamesFardy]

skateboarding is still the best, you just have to look harder it seems to find something that has that "magic" . I think the "skate video" not being important is what feels like is killing it, but I do feel like certain brands still do this well (Converse). Music selection plays such an important role and too. When there are BIG full lengths and the soundtrack is bad I totally forget about it, but when the soundtrack works I will go back and rewatch from time to time. Just my two cents.

[WelcomeToHell]

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1996

Welcome to Hell
Eastern Exposure 3
Mouse
Trilogy
Seven Steps to Heaven

...and more that I'm not remembering right now.

Something for everyone! Except vert skaters. Sorry guys.

[close]

Don't forget Transworld Uno with the Penny chain to bank session. Josh Stewart's Cigar City was pretty good, too.

Yes! Yes! Yes!

[Too Frank To Fred]

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1996

Welcome to Hell
Eastern Exposure 3
Mouse
Trilogy
Seven Steps to Heaven

...and more that I'm not remembering right now.

Something for everyone! Except vert skaters. Sorry guys.

[close]

Don't forget Transworld Uno with the Penny chain to bank session. Josh Stewart's Cigar City was pretty good, too.

[close]

Yes! Yes! Yes!

There's a decent amount of Vert in EE3. Also Real Non-Fiction came out a year later and had epic Gonz and Schaff Vert parts that were likely filmed in '96. '96 was a good year for my own skateboarding also. I'm backing 1996.

[MtnDoucheBag]

Pretty Sweet made more money than any other skate video in world history and that was 2012.

[Troubadour26]

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1996

Welcome to Hell
Eastern Exposure 3
Mouse
Trilogy
Seven Steps to Heaven

...and more that I'm not remembering right now.

Something for everyone! Except vert skaters. Sorry guys.

[close]

Don't forget Transworld Uno with the Penny chain to bank session. Josh Stewart's Cigar City was pretty good, too.

[close]

Yes! Yes! Yes!

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There's a decent amount of Vert in EE3. Also Real Non-Fiction came out a year later and had epic Gonz and Schaff Vert parts that were likely filmed in '96. '96 was a good year for my own skateboarding also. I'm backing 1996.

I was also born this year. Very good year for skateboarding.

[Lenny the Fatface]

Somewhere between 2000 and 2003. Although it felt like by 2009 so many people were skating that a shitload of cement parks had to be made.

[fur lined sea]

2002 was heavy with Sorry, Dying to Live, and PJWHL, but then 2003 hit us with Yeah Right! This is Skateboarding and the DC Video. Shit leveled out after Baker 3 in 2005. Berries opened in 2007 and everything has been downhill since then.

I'll add onto this:

Bag of Suck was the last full-length to really capture that magic. Group of friends, people absolutely going for it, flawless filming, editing, etc, etc. Basically a culmination of what was going on in San Jose/Tilt Mode Era.

Krooked Kronicles, too.

Inhabitants was '07 which was amazing, too. Mosaic is obviously top tier Habitat, though.

My answer is 2006.

[Paperclip20]

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Reynolds, Davis Gap

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This is the answer.

1996 -2003 was the true heart of it all. it continued to be sick and get cooler and weirder and spread out more but it was all great. Mindfield/Stay gold (2012) was the last year.

2013 instagram became mainstream, Nike NB# Vans Switched gears into absolutely destroying team rosters and brands and ishod came out. its been this goofy bullshit ever since.

old head

[Skating Around]

[TheLurper]

As soon as the avg age of a pro was over 23 it was all downhill. Adults are boring.

We need to get back to an era when the avg pro was 17 and the oldest person on tour was 22. Those days were crazy and made skateboarding fun.

[back smith]

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What ever year you were 15

[close]

I was going to say 17, but yeah.
Coincidentally when music peaked as well.
Funny how that works.

I was a teenager in the mid 90s and it was the worst time in skateboarding, flip trick practice. Stores wouldn't stock a single set of wheels that would roll on any ground here, decks were all under 8".

[Sloppy Krooks]

Never.

Skating is perpetually edging

[Drain Bamage]

As I suspected it would, this has devolved into “what year had the most tech skate video”. Someone did nail the real answer , whatever year you were 16/17. That’s the whole thread right there.

[SatanicPanic]

As I suspected it would, this has devolved into “what year had the most tech skate video”. Someone did nail the real answer , whatever year you were 16/17. That’s the whole thread right there.