Items25The creator’s order
  1. 1Lance MountainLance MountainThe Bones Brigade Video Show, Powell Peralta, 1984 Lance Mountain was not the team's top contest skater, and his appearance here proved that did not matter. His goofy, self-mocking presence made skating on tape feel like hanging out with friends, and that tone became the template for every video…0
  2. 2Ray BarbeeRay BarbeeBorn Oct 5, 1971Public Domain, Powell Peralta, 1988 In a video packed with vert heroes, Ray Barbee rolled through ordinary streets with a relaxed, flowing style and a bag of no complies that looked nothing like the rest of the Bones Brigade. He was one of the first skaters to bring freestyle and flatland tricks…0
  3. 3Matt HensleyMatt HensleyHokus Pokus, H-Street, 1989 H-Street's rough, homemade videos were the opposite of Powell's big productions, and Matt Hensley was their standout. Tre flips, backside flip melons, 50-50s on tall flat bars and even hand drags looked light years ahead of his peers, and skaters copied his hunched,…0
  4. 4Natas KaupasNatas KaupasBorn Mar 23, 1969Streets on Fire, Santa Cruz, 1989 The fire hydrant is the moment everyone remembers: Natas Kaupas ollies onto it and spins a full 720 on top, a move that became known as the Natas spin and later turned up in snowboarding and the Tony Hawk's games. The rest of the part matters just as much, because…0
  5. 5Mark GonzalesMark GonzalesVideo Days, Blind Skateboards, 1991 If you watch only one part from the early street era, make it this one. Spike Jonze filmed Mark Gonzales skating parking lots, ditches, plazas and streets with a playful, unpredictable energy that still feels modern, and the part includes the first ollie of the…0
  6. 6Rodney MullenRodney MullenBorn Aug 17, 1966Questionable, Plan B, 1992 The godfather of flatground flip tricks steps off his freestyle board and into the street. Rodney Mullen opens with classic freestyle on flat ground, then carries that vocabulary across public terrain, debuting the kickflip underflip and the Casper slide along the way.…0
  7. 7Pat DuffyPat DuffyBorn Jan 17, 1975Questionable, Plan B, 1992 A virtual unknown from Northern California made his video debut by taking on some of the burliest handrails anyone had seen filmed. Pat Duffy's part turned rail skating from a novelty into a proving ground, and almost every big-rail part since owes something to it. Where…0
  8. 8Mike Carroll (skateboarder)Mike Carroll (skateboarder)Born Aug 24, 1975Questionable, Plan B, 1992 The third landmark from Questionable, and for many the purest record of what San Francisco's Embarcadero did to skating. Mike Carroll took the plaza's ledges and stairs and made tricks that had seemed impossible only recently look routine, with a quick, clean style that…0
  9. 9Henry SanchezHenry SanchezTim and Henry's Pack of Lies, Blind Skateboards, 1992 This is the Embarcadero era in its purest form. Henry Sanchez powers through San Francisco's most famous plaza, seemingly inventing tricks as he goes, with a mix of pop, speed and ledge control that defined what a plaza skater could be. Blind's…0
  10. 10Tom PennyTom PennyBorn Apr 13, 1977High Five, Etnies, 1995 A teenager who grew up skating in Oxford, England, made the American pros look stiff. Tom Penny was switch flipping over 10-stair rails and going even bigger regular, with a loose, catlike landing style that made enormous tricks look casual. The part dragged technical…0