NHS Appreciation

[NewRocCity]

I made a Powell appreciation post a few months ago, and think we are missing a NHS appreciation post. 

Please post your current or past NHS memories and how they changed your life:

Indys:
- Have to ride them

SC:
- The Pokemon thing-- didn't even have to get one and got my son interested in skateboarding
- Upcoming Godzilla drop-- anyone have any clothes or deck orders in or just me?
- Videos being made fun of by Ninja Review for many years
- Simultanously thinking Winkowski is both extremely annoying, but also rewatching his parts endlessly, and enjoying Ninja Review's commentary on it, while also basically trying to skate like Winkoski at all times (in my dreams)

Creature:
- Never owned anything from this brand, but love the videos
- Chris Russell
- Gangreen and many other classic, but recent, full lengths
- Hesh
- Kids thing the graphics are cool-- since I am a nerd, the graphics are what keep me from buying probably because I can't "pull it off"-- though the shopkeep tells me no one cares?

OJs/Bronsons:
- Thats a no for me, but the video content is great.

Krux and bullet- not sure about this really.  Not sure I've seen bullet in the wild or an adult on krux.  I appreciate that kids seem to like the krux trucks and they have made many good videos.

Any other brands we may not know about?

We love you, NHS!

[back smith]

Bullet trucks actually turn good.

[Too Frank To Fred]

Was Corey O'Brien a street skater? I know he was a proto-influencer as far as I was concerned.

Did Cell Block IIIs really disperse the impact away from the the vulnerable part of the deck. Peak launch ramp cushioning?

Speaking of cushioning. Were Clouds and Snap bushings NHS? My Stage 2s have red Snaps.

[fernando the skater]

Was Corey O'Brien a street skater? I know he was a proto-influencer as far as I was concerned.

Did Cell Block IIIs really disperse the impact away from the the vulnerable part of the deck. Peak launch ramp cushioning?

Speaking of cushioning. Were Clouds and Snap bushings NHS? My Stage 2s have red Snaps.

Clouds were Variflex. Don't know about Snap.

[Candied cigarettes]

I made a Powell appreciation post a few months ago, and think we are missing a NHS appreciation post. 

Please post your current or past NHS memories and how they changed your life:

Indys:
- Have to ride them

SC:
- The Pokemon thing-- didn't even have to get one and got my son interested in skateboarding
- Upcoming Godzilla drop-- anyone have any clothes or deck orders in or just me?
- Videos being made fun of by Ninja Review for many years
- Simultanously thinking Winkowski is both extremely annoying, but also rewatching his parts endlessly, and enjoying Ninja Review's commentary on it, while also basically trying to skate like Winkoski at all times (in my dreams)

Creature:
- Never owned anything from this brand, but love the videos
- Chris Russell
- Gangreen and many other classic, but recent, full lengths
- Hesh
- Kids thing the graphics are cool-- since I am a nerd, the graphics are what keep me from buying probably because I can't "pull it off"-- though the shopkeep tells me no one cares?

OJs/Bronsons:
- Thats a no for me, but the video content is great.

Krux and bullet- not sure about this really.  Not sure I've seen bullet in the wild or an adult on krux.  I appreciate that kids seem to like the krux trucks and they have made many good videos.

Any other brands we may not know about?

We love you, NHS!

Wtf, why?

[HyperBeam]

love the old strangenotes dvds, kooky and endearing norcal vibes, the city of santa cruz

[Troubadour26]

love the old strangenotes dvds, kooky and endearing norcal vibes, the city of santa cruz

Sid Melvin!

[benboardbreaker]

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love the old strangenotes dvds, kooky and endearing norcal vibes, the city of santa cruz

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Sid Melvin!

That's a name I haven't heard for a minute. He was among the least known pros when he was around. I believe I have watched all the parts he came out with back then.

[back smith]

I like how they do all kinds of deck shapes

[Too Frank To Fred]

Street Razors.
Keith Meek.

[fernando the skater]

NHS were kind of the purveyors of the idea of smaller companies under a big company, pre Rocco. In the 80s their big riders were Natas and Hosoi who were on Santa Monica Airlines and Hosoi Skateboards respectively.

[GumOnMyGrip]

Was Corey O'Brien a street skater? I know he was a proto-influencer as far as I was concerned.

Did Cell Block IIIs really disperse the impact away from the the vulnerable part of the deck. Peak launch ramp cushioning?

Speaking of cushioning. Were Clouds and Snap bushings NHS? My Stage 2s have red Snaps.

Cell blocks helped with rockered Cruz Missle concave. Trucks never sat flush unless you had them.
Corey and Gavin O’Brien skated everything. Tony Roberts has some unreleased footage on his YouTube channel somewhere…NorCal legends.

Eric Bork
Stacey Lowery
Strangenotes for sure.
Mike Youseffpour was gnarlier than anybody. Try to find the interview where it talks about his broken bone that he let go for days and then refused pain treatment. Didn’t believe in it…
Basically brought slicks to the world.
Rip Grip
Slimline rails
Real enough that Rocco was scared of them.


Here it is.  http://grantbrittainphotography.blogspot.com/2008/10/rest-of-yousefpour-story.html

[theloniousmonk]

Toured nhs in 2004. I think the reps name who got us in was Holly Anderson, she was rad to work with. I remember the print shop being huge with decks Ont he wall. She gave me a T-shirt out of the misprint box, and it had rica, bootleg, and independent logos on it printed all over. Got to shake Novak’s hand, who was involved with independent and got to see a stash if Tim brauch decks. Overall it was a great please to tour and bootleg was underrated

[Eddy Mitchel]

NHS and especially Santa Cruz were the shit back then when I started.This brand kinda hooked me up with skateboarding.period.
The graphics the vids and the way it related skateboarding to the punk rock attitude definitely got me in.

[Slappykrook]

I grew up on those free strange notes dvds, they were really sick because nhs had so many riders ridding for something you’d get like a lizard king day in the life next to a Chris haslam trick tip next to a Alex caralino mini part next to the creature team bbqing while drunk driving a creature coffin.
I miss the days of watching hard copy skate videos on my ps2 before and after a session

[Big Brother]

NHS has survived it all. Amazing business model decade after decade. Props to them.

[Sloppy Krooks]

Jim Phillips’ graphics.

Maybe the most talented skate graphic artist ever, his sense of balance, proportion, colors, fitting a concept within the confines of a wheel, unique deck shape, or magazine page.

[dj_brilliant]

the shop i used to work for used NHS.  they gave my son free ninja turtle krux and a set of rictas one summer without me asking for the hookup.  gotten a couple free sets of G3's, dont hate them probably wouldnt pay for them.  they would always send us big rolls of free grip with our orders which was nice but once it was clear grip which we couldnt give away. 

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

Their first three vids are arguably as influential as Powell’s….namely because of Natas.  By the time we really got a Gonz part it was the 90’s….