Author Topic: Where are they now? Frankie Hill (Read 9346 times)

MexicanSpaniard · « **Reply #30 on:** March 19, 2010, 10:08:59 AM »

The 50-50 to kf out on that powell rail was pretty damn clean.

Mr. DNA · « **Reply #31 on:** March 19, 2010, 10:13:52 AM »

I'm glad someone transcribed this so I could read it at work. He had a part in the Powell 8 video, too. I already said this in the other Frankie Hill thread, but he does a crazy boardslide down a kinked brick ledge.

bumpnrun · « **Reply #32 on:** March 19, 2010, 10:27:47 AM »

It's nice to get the whole settlement story cleared up. There's been rumours about what happened for years and years.

His first three PP parts were definitely on my regular video watching rotation back in those days... my early high school years. After Propaganda though, I kinda moved on and didn't really pay much attention to what he was doing. Definitely happy to see him get some respect for what he did back then.

crest · « **Reply #33 on:** March 19, 2010, 10:34:08 AM »

Sick interview. Interesting to read about serious injuries and how skaters deal with them. That's shitty how George Powell didn't even really know he was hurt so bad. Wish him the best of luck skating again.

BriDen · « **Reply #34 on:** March 19, 2010, 10:43:31 AM »

I've got a lot of respect for his bowing out of skateboarding like that and not trying to milk it. Not that going to George would have been milking it by any means, but it seems like that kind of mentality runs few and far between these days.

rlang · « **Reply #35 on:** March 19, 2010, 10:57:52 AM »

As an old guy who's back skating again, it's good to see him back out there and motivated too.

Allen. · « **Reply #36 on:** March 19, 2010, 11:30:56 AM »

Seems like he's super humble, thats insane. All the rail dudes pretty much stemmed from him.

Mein Fuhrer! I can walk! · « **Reply #37 on:** March 19, 2010, 11:55:25 AM »

gotta love his blitzkrieg career

Commercial D · « **Reply #38 on:** March 19, 2010, 12:09:31 PM »

Can't wait to see how his skating is looking today. The year I started skating the guy who got me into it, Dave Young of Winnipeg, had the Frankie Hill bulldog board. That Chaos part was nuts—varial double flip over the Skatezone pyramid? Talk about tech-gnar.

cool spot · « **Reply #39 on:** March 19, 2010, 12:24:58 PM »

that tech part was a lot more tech than I thought it would be, resembles trends in modern skating pretty closely. cool stuff all around.

alienlurkshop · « **Reply #40 on:** March 19, 2010, 12:37:20 PM »

that fool is still ripping!!!

tatertots · « **Reply #41 on:** March 19, 2010, 01:45:10 PM »

fuck yea frankie

plankskate · « **Reply #42 on:** March 19, 2010, 01:51:38 PM »

His part in Powell - Hot Batch got me psyched on skating stairs back when I first started skating. I love the way he charged stuff.

Thanks Slap for letting him tell his story.

plankskate · « **Reply #43 on:** March 19, 2010, 01:59:48 PM »

Quote from: Commercial D on March 19, 2010, 12:09:31 PM

Can't wait to see how his skating is looking today. The year I started skating the guy who got me into it, Dave Young of Winnipeg, had the Frankie Hill bulldog board. That Chaos part was nuts—varial double flip over the Skatezone pyramid? Talk about tech-gnar.

There's some new footage of him in the Krooked catalog:
http://www.dlxsf.com/spring10/kr/#guests

DEDBBIS · « **Reply #44 on:** March 19, 2010, 02:32:01 PM »

He killed every spot in Santa Barbara.

Donkey Lips · « **Reply #45 on:** March 19, 2010, 03:42:28 PM »

i gotta hunt down some sequence he had in the skateboard mag - late shove over a rail into a bank. knee looked like it was handling business at that moment!

plankskate · « **Reply #46 on:** March 19, 2010, 04:45:53 PM »

I couldn't find Frankie's Hot Batch part on youtube so I dug out my vhs copy and digitized it:

StarkyLove · « **Reply #47 on:** March 19, 2010, 06:58:53 PM »

respect, first time i heard of this fool was not too long ago. i sometimes skate with older dudes and they were all about this era of powell and shit. always talked about how gnarly this dude was.

Dark Knight · « **Reply #48 on:** March 19, 2010, 08:33:45 PM »

Thanks for this. He was my first favorite skater.

layzieyez · « **Reply #49 on:** March 19, 2010, 10:14:01 PM »

Frankie Hill was more punk rock than all of the Santa Cruz videos of the late 80's/early 90's and their SST video soundtracks. He just always skated to a completely different beat. Thanks for finally telling his story and setting the record straight. He inspired me when I first started skating, and now that I'm in what many would consider midlife, seeing that photo of him willing himself over that hydrant, I'm inspired yet again.

bandini · « **Reply #50 on:** March 19, 2010, 10:53:21 PM »

Nice work, Slap. Awesome to hear from Frankie.

God, it's funny - I grew up watching those early powell-peralta vids (the era when stacy was still with the company) and it's hilarious how awful they look now. Not the skating, which is still rad, but the video style. Ugh. Thank god H-Street and World Industries came along to save the day...

PhillyMetrospective1995 · « **Reply #51 on:** March 19, 2010, 11:42:37 PM »

Quote from: layzieyez on March 19, 2010, 10:14:01 PM

Frankie Hill was more punk rock than all of the Santa Cruz videos of the late 80's/early 90's and their SST video soundtracks. He just always skated to a completely different beat. Thanks for finally telling his story and setting the record straight. He inspired me when I first started skating, and now that I'm in what many would consider midlife, seeing that photo of him willing himself over that hydrant, I'm inspired yet again.

Dude, I totally agree with you. Frankie was out there killing it -- no aesthetic involved; he was just raw and attacking it. But, fuck, on a somewhat unrelated note: Streets on Fire had the SICKEST soundtrack. Fucking Pailhead killed it.

layzieyez · « **Reply #52 on:** March 20, 2010, 09:46:13 AM »

You don't have to tell me. I love the music from the Santa Cruz vids.

I'm just so glad to see that Frankie Hill is so humble about his impact on skateboarding (effectively deflecting so much of the credit he deserves by deferring it to his own heroes, Natas and Gonz).

Also, when he talks about Gonz doing his graphics for his tribute board, you can feel the kindred gush of fandom and realize that he is a skate rat at heart like so many of us on the messageboard. Gotta love the guys you idolize who continue to have their feet firmly planted on the earth even when you try to insist they stand on some pedestal.

commander jameson · « **Reply #53 on:** March 20, 2010, 12:17:06 PM »

So good. Inspirational stuff for sure.

PhillyMetrospective1995 · « **Reply #54 on:** March 20, 2010, 01:47:33 PM »

Quote from: layzieyez on March 20, 2010, 09:46:13 AM

You don't have to tell me. I love the music from the Santa Cruz vids.

I'm just so glad to see that Frankie Hill is so humble about his impact on skateboarding (effectively deflecting so much of the credit he deserves by deferring it to his own heroes, Natas and Gonz).

Also, when he talks about Gonz doing his graphics for his tribute board, you can feel the kindred gush of fandom and realize that he is a skate rat at heart like so many of us on the messageboard. Gotta love the guys you idolize who continue to have their feet firmly planted on the earth even when you try to insist they stand on some pedestal.

Oh, yeah. Totally. I did this interview. Frankie's definitely sincere as all hell and is 100% skateboarder. Getting to skate with him that day was ill cuz I could tell that his enthusiasm for skating hasn't diminished at all.

mock nugget · « **Reply #55 on:** March 20, 2010, 02:01:02 PM »

His Chaos part seems to prove that if he hadn't hurt his knee, or even if he had gotten a luckier break with surgery earlier on, he would have still progressed and remained a valid and influential pro for a really long time.

PhillyMetrospective1995 · « **Reply #56 on:** March 20, 2010, 02:06:32 PM »

I think that part showed how versatile Frankie was. While that era of skating hasn't aged well (in my opinion), double backside flips over the pyramid at Skate Zone -- well that's just straight up nuts. Frankie fared better than most cuz he coupled that tech stuff with his gnarliness. But Propaganda will always be my favorite part. I really love burly tricks done smoothly. But as I said before, Matt Reason's skating really solidified my views on skating. That run he does in 411 -- switch 180 up the curb, k grind, back tail -- it's totally basic but it's one of my favorite lines of all time. Frankie's Propaganda part had a lot of those qualities. Basic tricks done fucking so well -- gnarly mute grabs, 180s, 50-50s, etc.

plankskate · « **Reply #57 on:** March 20, 2010, 02:15:36 PM »

It's too bad that the guest board didn't come in the normal popsicle shape and an old school shape. I'd love to do some mute grabs on an old school shaped Hill board.

Sidewayslurkzine · « **Reply #58 on:** March 20, 2010, 03:12:04 PM »

some fat guy in his 30's came up to me while i was skating these sets of 5 stairs at a church, he said let me see your board and took it, did this sorta weird grab trick and then left and said that was some frankie hill for ya, totally awesome

Liquid Dirt · « **Reply #59 on:** March 20, 2010, 03:43:20 PM »

Late pop shuv to knuckle drag... crusher.

Author Topic: Where are they now? Frankie Hill (Read 9346 times)

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