Nike SB | Contest Legends
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- Lance Mountain, Elissa Steamer, Paul Rodriguez, and Eric Koston aren’t just skateboarding’s elite; they’ve excelled at the highest level of competition. Along with the checks, the trophies, and the accolades, and what that means for skateboarding supersedes it all. It’s about power, it’s about potential, and every showdown champions those who rise to the occasion and skateboarding as a whole.
In between the heats, contests are about community-everyone coming together in one place to level up and take skateboarding’s temperature. As much as we remember the NBDs, the flawless runs, and epic battles, lasting memories and friendships are made off the course. New places, new faces, new tricks, new styles. Even when the pressure’s on, every competition celebrates skateboarding’s spirit. It’s a time for everyone to be laser-focused on the moment and celebrate the soul of skating as much as its talent.
Unlike any other sport, skateboarding elevates the victors and the entire community with every competition. As we approach history in Tokyo, some of skateboarding’s biggest contest legends break down how competition exists as a personal battle and platform for the culture. In the end, there can only be one winner for each event but with the world watching, there’s a singular goal: spreading the stoke.
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Resellers and Hypebeasts not gon know anything about this. This is everything to me, I’m learning a lot from these legends💯
completely surprised me when prod mentioned dylan rieder at 1:36. rip dylan 🌹
Me too
I was surprised by Herm, then he mentioned Dylan i was like WHAT FOREAL!!??
Community misses you to Dylan!
People hate on contest skaters but if you have ever been to a Tampa pro the hype and energy in that building is insane! Watching Luans 2015 run was surreal
Maann, PRod is literally the Michael Jordan of skateboarding. His mentality for this is genuinely driven by his love for skateboarding and his pursuit to be the best. GOAT
That’s sick that prod met Dylan at castles
CASL
@@JonasPolsky k
Contest in the 90’s were so fun!
Props to Laura, Trent, Ed, Cowtown for Phoenix Am🤘🤘
Totally agree with P Rod that skaters are underpaid compared to other pro athletes. I have sunk countless three-pointers and I’m sure if I was 6’ 5” I could dunk all day but I will never in my life land one banger that P Rod does in any of his videos. I mean seriously, how can you even compare someone flipping a board under his feet while flying over a set of stairs and landing on it perfectly- with a 7 foot tall man putting a ball in a hoop that’s 10 feet off the ground. Don’t get me wrong all pro athletes are talented but skaters are on another level
This comment is underrated
because there's another 7ft man whos job is to stop the that 7ft man from putting the ball in the hoop, as well as the four other players on the other team looking to stop him. You can make the argument that athletes are overpaid but guys like prod, nyjah, ishod are more than well off because of their insane amount of high-end sponsors. It really does come down to each persons viewpoint of skating, whether you see it as a real sport or not, which people do and don't even though it quickly is becoming more and more mainstream to the point where the line is blurring. I don't. Prod is the goat and I'm not trying to shit on you with this comment but I feel like if ur a pro skater u shouldn't be in it for the money. Even if u were good enough and got to the amount of success that someone like prod has I think you should be happy with the money you'd be making already. Like how lucky are you you got to make a real career out of of skateboarding? skateboarding?? if I was pro I'd be happy everyday knowing my name was just on a board. forever. not to say that I wouldn't want to get paid, good money too, but I wouldn't need millions of dollars, it just sounds silly and doesn't make much sense. skaters aren't athletes. IMO
@@smokingzaza you bring up some interesting points for sure, but I think maybe you misunderstood what I was getting at. I wasn’t talking about wether skateboarding should be viewed as a sport, wether skateboarders are athletes or how appreciative they should be for the money they make or any of that stuff. I’m just saying the action of skateboarding in itself is way more difficult, dangerous and skilled than traditional sports like basketball so it’s a bummer they don’t get paid like other athletes. I know why they don’t: the traditional sports have a wider audience therefore more money in the sport. But if wages were based on difficulty level, skaters would be paid way more than traditional sports. I mean you mention the challenges a 7” basketball player has putting the ball in the net, but if a guy like PRod loses focus for one second performing a banger it’s a trip to the hospital.
Fuck yeah Prod’s Dylan Rieder shoutout
I feel like sk8ting today is more of a competition rather than chillin with the homies and having fun, people in the community nowadays talk shit about people who arent as good as them, its sad
I feel like it's about the location, and the local community.
i feel a feeling man let me tell you about it
Skating is whatever you make it. There have always been cliquey dudes in skating who tried to gatekeep and hate on anyone who didn't fit their expectations. Just gotta stay away from those people.
They play games with gravity!
That board Elissa had at the end was fucking sick!
Competition was created by the industry to spread the stoke. - Lance Mountain. Kinda like The Olympics!
P Rod with the AZ shout out 🙏🏽
I remember the Transworld Magazine section where Lance show up a lot of wonderfull memorabilia things like patches, cards, stikers, fingerboards... what a era!!!
Nike's like: "we gotta monetize our Olympic skateboarders, better get these OGs on the camera to convince people that it's cool"
@@nycsymphony “survive capitalism” 😂
@TaketheK I N G D O M Yeah, but when the big brands don't want to deal with you because the scene in your country is too small, you wonder if they really care about skateboarding in the first place. I opened up the first skate shop in The Bahamas in 2019 and couldn't stock any skate shoes because Nike (including Converse) didn't see The Bahamas as part of their "market development strategy", Adidas doesn't distribute skate shoes in the Caribbean, Vans and New Balance have ridiculous order minimums and Lakai, DC, Emerica, etc. never even got back to us. Thank God for Pontus Alv and Last Resort so we can finally have proper skate shoes over here!
Appreciate this deeply
Vancouver 1999 was a amazing contest.
Thanks for my childhood guys!
Elissa's such a G
It’s dope to hear the legends talk about the early era of skateboarding.
Paul is such a dope dude..
i love all skateboarders. even all the new weird kids. there is room for all spectrums.
Hahah Prod is to real 👌🏻
Eric got that bad ass rollie
Goat
p rod's switch tre !
Duuuude. I need that complete '04 footage!
i remember hearing all this about getting sponsored and noticed from CASL contests so I entered them when I was a kid. clearly, it did not work out the same for me haha
Y'all do a piece on contest skaters but dropped Zion right before the olympics??!?!?! Come on SON!
Makes me appreciate my sbs even more
PR 👍
p rod said it best
Shout out Tempe, AZ skating from Hudson park 📍
the years when everyone didnt like nike
이게 프로지
와! 한국인!
Tampa 2000 a 2004
👍👍👍👍👍👍
That's great, I agree with everything they're saying. Now let's get fully stocked on dunk highs so I can quit buying fakes to skate in.
Must be nice to live in places where you can skate.
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Alissa Streamer in Tony Hawks Pro skater like the first one
her name is Elissa Steamer, but yeah she was in a couple of the games not just the first one
@@olicool476 steamer lol my phone may have auto corrected it, but either way I remember her vaguely lol
@@olicool476 She definitely was in the first one.
Does anyone know what koston’s hat is? And where I can get one?
Miles grip tape. It should be on any warehouse website
CAN WE PLEASE GET PAUL ON A WHEATIES CEREAL BOX 🙏🏻
Skateboarding
Can we get a DNA test on Elissa Steamer? I'm pretty sure she's Rodney's mom.
She kinda looks and talks like him too
There's allways that male feminist who can't help but simp.
Rentability Steamer, You got win the same? Skate on a Mix contest
💡🐯💚👐💛👍😁
Koston has a library room ? ... this needs discussion
Just a library
#P-rodonwheatiesbox
Literally the chances of being good at skating are a million times slimmer than any other sport. I've been playing basketball, soccer, boxing, skating literally my whole life and each sport has literally got equal amount of playing time since I can remember. I'm literally really good at all those sports, except skating. I suck at skating lol. But I love it to death
If you want to know why that is, next time try bare knuckle boxing. Let us know how that went and if you still consider yourself a "good" boxer after that.
Poderiam colocar legendas para nós estrangeiros.
Poderia você aprender inglês igual eu aprendi português para te responder né minha filha? "A vida é desafio" diz o filósofo contemporâneo Brown
@@n01kn0wzsim, isso é obvio, porém quem está buscando audiência são eles não eu, tá bom minha "filha". Ps: Não sou do gênero feminino e sim masculino, logo, não é "filha" e sim "FILHO". Faça uma nova reciclagem no seu cursinho de português, ou digite certo no google tradutor dá próxima vez. Thank's ;)
@@djalmapinheiro Dear Mr. Pinheiro...embora a gente fale línguas diferentes e você tenha profundas dificuldades discursivas, preciso de tradutor não pra enxergar suas carências. Procura algum terapeuta na ONG da sua comunidade. Paz, saúde, tranquilidade.
@@n01kn0wz Valeu brother, forte abraço.
Remember when Big Brother went to the Nike campus to skate in like 1997-98 and got kicked out!!! Nike sucks!!!
What a coinsidense Nike to make this clip good speaking about contest just when olímpics are coming out....
I get frustrated when girls want to talk about "pay inequality" in skateboarding because it just does not seem real to me. Equal pay for equal tricks only makes sense. If girls were "paid equally" for doing lesser quality tricks would that be equality?
It's frustrating how they think if they spit enough lies it would make it a truth
I think, in Elissa's particular case, she's referring to the fact that she had been competing at the men's level for quite a while, and holding her own, then was suddenly forced to compete in a women's division that paid significantly less.
ohalistair nah it's didn't sound like that 😑
@@ohalistair At no point has any women ever been on a men's level in any professional sport. Womens skateboarding is 10x the level it has ever been and they're still out there doing tre flips, front 180s and 50-50s as their banger ender. And that's if they make it to the end of a 40 second run. Not shitting on women but it's just not even comparable.
Fuk equality, there is no such thing. It's all gynocentrics.
First
So basically this is pro Olympic propaganda, nice.
If Prod and Frosty backs it, it’s cool
ey yo where's ma bo nijah
“Contest legends.”
“Contest Legends.”
The Olympics sucks!
Why?
110% agree! Wack as fuck!
P rod is a buster
Well the buster kept me outta hand cuffs
@@andresmartines1394 yeah... the buster brought me back!! 💯💯
Terrible video , started great , then they just talk about money and material shit.
Of course Nike would promote the olympics lol this was never about skating it’s about money
Only Legends !!