THE GREATEST OVERALL SKATER OF ALL TIME?

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  • čas přidán 24. 02. 2024
  • When asking the question: Who Is The Greatest Overall Skater Of All Time?
    one must go back to the 70's, when to be a great skateboarder, a variety of disciplines was required including street, pool, park, slalom, freestyle, fullpipe, high jump, downhill, barrel jumping, and it has to be done at speed, with fluidity and style.
    One name that must be mentioned in this conversation is the great Richy Carrasco of the Flying Carrasco Brothers. Not only was he a champion in the 70's, he has excelled throughout all the decades and still shreds currently, and continued breaking World Records including most 360s (142) and fastest 100 cone slalom speed...witness this and more in this inspirational video that will motivate you to skate for life, and cements the important legacy of Richy, Rene and David Carrasco.
    Go to sk8kings.com
    Video: @tonyrobertsphoto
    music:
    Birtha
    Avant Garde
    DJ Tuaniz
    Eddy Rebel
    Good Riddance
    Audionautix.com
    creativecommons.org/licenses/...
    Addl' Sources:
    Sk8 Kings
    Samsung
    Glenn Miyoda
    Maria Carrasco
    National Skate Review
    Wild World of Skateboarding
    Skateboarder Magazine
    Union Wheels
    Andy Anderson
    KCal9
    Hal Jepsen
    #skatehistory #realskatestories #flyingcarrascobrothers

Komentáře • 106

  • @insanogeddon
    @insanogeddon Před 4 měsíci +6

    Niche skills not overall greats. Still amazing

    • @RealSkateStories
      @RealSkateStories  Před 4 měsíci +7

      These guys were good all around, but in the 70's freestyle and slalom were two of the main disciplines. For some context thats like Nyjah Huston, besides being great at vert (which he's not) and street, wins Street League in 2065.

    • @armandofernandez7397
      @armandofernandez7397 Před 4 měsíci +3

      @@RealSkateStories Gonz, Caballero, Cardiel, Alfonso Rawls, Danny Way, Grant Taylor, Zion Wright, Jake Wooten etc. I’d say are truly the most well rounded overall greats in what the majority of the history of what skateboarding has been. That would really make for an awesome deep dive

    • @markprice2225
      @markprice2225 Před měsícem +1

      Guy by the name of Phil Shao! Could do anything & everything on a 🛹 early90s streetskater who we lost way too soon!!! I remember his Pop was just different

  • @dwayneandrews2059
    @dwayneandrews2059 Před 4 měsíci +9

    Slalom, 1 footed 360's on those tiny boards is sick. Man, I love that damn 4 wheeled wooden toy. Born in 71, still skate when I can. Love when kids at the park ask "How old are you"? I say 52 and the kid replies in disbelief, "Your older than my Dad". Hilarious.

  • @3DEditor
    @3DEditor Před 4 měsíci +11

    Although no one filmed Russ Howell spin 163 360s at the Anaheim Family Fun Center in 1987 during a Freestyle contest, there were several witnesses, including I. The few of us still alive, have confirmed that over the past decade or so through social media. Unfortunately, Guinness only recognizes video proof when it comes to action stunts. Those who witnessed it, was something special and will never be forgotten.

    • @randycarrasco4995
      @randycarrasco4995 Před 4 měsíci +2

      Richy’s still the champ! 🙏🏽💯🏆

    • @3DEditor
      @3DEditor Před 4 měsíci +2

      ​@randycarrasco4995 nope! Before video cameras, everyone relied on multiple eyewitnesses during events. Although home vhs cameras were around since the 1950s, very few had handheld video cameras all the way into the 1990s. Filmed or not, those who witnessed Russ Howell's 163 consecutive 360s know he's the all-time record holder, official or not.

    • @randycarrasco4995
      @randycarrasco4995 Před 4 měsíci +2

      Repeating fish tales for so many years doesn’t make it true. Have a nice evening and best of luck in your life! 🏆💯

    • @3DEditor
      @3DEditor Před 4 měsíci +5

      Being an eyewitness among several others who counted the same, is all we need for FACTS. you weren't there to see it. Calling me and others liars, who I know are honest and accurate in our recollection, doesn't make you look cool or an expert. After all these years, you still can't take others' experiences graciously and just be happy for them, too competitive.

    • @morgellon7877
      @morgellon7877 Před měsícem

      Can't believe some kook is calling you a liar. Who would lie about something like that? PiCs oR iT DiDNT HaPpeN, DURRR!!

  • @Absorbvids
    @Absorbvids Před 4 měsíci +10

    Epic, this rules! I can't get enough of these.

  • @brendencerney8432
    @brendencerney8432 Před 4 měsíci +4

    Great skater still rippin to this day. Also a great friend. Love the brown bomber.

  • @fredericsalvan7481
    @fredericsalvan7481 Před 4 měsíci +5

    Slalom and freestyle are the essence of skateboarding! Carrasco brothers are GOATS!

  • @roba2764
    @roba2764 Před 4 měsíci +5

    Wow, so good!! Massive respect for Richy Carrasco, and the Carrasco brothers!

  • @billyruben116
    @billyruben116 Před 4 měsíci +7

    Back in the 1970s Tony Alva was the best at nearly every type of skateboarding (pools, freestyle, barrel jumping, high jump, ramp riding, full pipes, all of it). Alva also had the style and attitude that captured and inspired so many other skaters. In modern times, I would say Danny Way was the best overall. Danny won Tampa pro for street and vert and was Thrasher SOTY. Danny created the mega ramp and has done some if the gnarliest tricks and gnarliest slams.

  • @karlfonner7589
    @karlfonner7589 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Anybody who goes out and rides for fun are the best skateboarders in my eyes

  • @tomhenning2809
    @tomhenning2809 Před měsícem +1

    i never heard of the Carrasco family before! A family that lives, eats and breaths skateboarding? Not only were they pioneers of their time, these dudes are still setting world records! Let that soak in for a minute.

  • @PaulApanowicz
    @PaulApanowicz Před 4 měsíci +3

    Totally AWESOME!!!!!

  • @MichaelB-gi4lt
    @MichaelB-gi4lt Před 3 měsíci +2

    Nice to see that the idea of SKATE EVERYTHING still resonates…almost 50 years after I first embraced it! Awesome that you featured the Carrasco’s - they represent the true soul of skateboarding. They are awesome ambassadors and truly humble people. Keep up the great work with this channel.

  • @no-zo5wh
    @no-zo5wh Před 4 měsíci +5

    Thanks for this great video

  • @AndreMaca
    @AndreMaca Před 4 měsíci +7

    Nice content, I never heard about these guys before. However, for me, Christian Hosoi is the most complete skater of all time. All tricks he done as most powerfull, tecnical and stylish than any other skater in the history.

    • @johnsambo9379
      @johnsambo9379 Před měsícem

      No he's not. He wasn't good in freestyle or street.

    • @atharris8
      @atharris8 Před 17 dny

      Eric Koston G.O.A.T. (until Nyjah & Yuto)

  • @rogeriolopesdesousa9357
    @rogeriolopesdesousa9357 Před 4 měsíci +5

    Incrível história desta lenda Rick Carrasco, que com certeza pouca gente conhece!! Parabéns por este vídeo! Forte abraço!👍👍💯

  • @GreybeardSkates
    @GreybeardSkates Před 4 měsíci +3

    Wow what a great discovery! Thanks

  • @the_laybacks
    @the_laybacks Před 4 měsíci +3

    Never heard of these dudes. Great post.

    • @pauljohnmorales1840
      @pauljohnmorales1840 Před 4 měsíci

      Same here, must have been under the radar down in SoCal? I'm from the NorCal crew ..

  • @skater_scott
    @skater_scott Před 4 měsíci +3

    Rad little Doc!

  • @morgellon7877
    @morgellon7877 Před měsícem

    Those slalom runs are GNARLY. Bombing hills is my shit and I was born in '85, but that dude would smoke me to hell and back if I tried that. I need to get into this slalom thing.

  • @ryanrowe1975
    @ryanrowe1975 Před 4 měsíci +3

    Awesome

  • @mackash
    @mackash Před 4 měsíci +4

    It was horrible in the 90s with the pigeon holed era. I used to luv going to the local park and doing big airs, laybacks and inverts in front of the baggy pant small wheel crew.
    Blender and Phillips for vert 80s, Gonz for 90s. They are my top.
    Cheers for posting.

    • @RealSkateStories
      @RealSkateStories  Před 4 měsíci +3

      Word. What puts the 70's dudes in another class in the "overall" conversation is the amount of categories they mastered. And decades they have endured.

    • @ron8935
      @ron8935 Před 4 měsíci +4

      Yeah no one's actually saying what happened to skate in the 90s and how the industry did it to itself to stay relevant they brought in non-sk8rs by chumping skateboarding down.... Skateboarding went from rad , fast and vert to standing still or skating slower than I walk.... Gimmicks that had completely failed and been laughed away just 15 years before had become the norm..... Real skaters new it non skaters fell for it....😮😮.... I am working on a book called harsh reality that will explain all of the gimmicks and stupidity of the sk8 industry 😮

    • @RealSkateStories
      @RealSkateStories  Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@ron8935 Good observations. Perhaps a major factor was that style of slow flippy skating was very "little kid new to skateboarding" friendly and the "industry" leaned into that. A lot of skateboarding's current podcast hosts and gatekeepers learned to do kickflips on their living room carpet before they learned to roll- and never learned to carve...and don't know anything about skateboarding pre 1992.

    • @mackash
      @mackash Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@RealSkateStories I was born in the 70s but missed that super cool era due to being a bit young. I do remember it though, watching surfers and skaters was an obsession. I did chop up rollerskates to make my first downhill deck as we were pretty poor.
      Cheers brother.

    • @mackash
      @mackash Před 4 měsíci +2

      @@ron8935 Yeah it was all Rodney Mullen gimmick to me. I never understood it. Mullen and Welender freestyle was cool to watch, i even made a popsicle deck to muck around on, but it was always just a gimmick. We were doing kickflips years before they ran with it. But we were also doing proper inverts and big air.
      I did my first handrail down 5 stairs in 88 i think. We used to set up benches down stairs. We were street just as much as park/vert. There was no line in the sand. Thats why i luv Gonz, he can STILL bust the best backside invert ever seen. Even in his 50s.
      Its gotten so much better now. The old school decks are back. It never should have gone away. Grossos love letters snapped em out of it i reckon.
      Cheers bro.

  • @user-zx8de8op9l
    @user-zx8de8op9l Před 4 měsíci +2

    Well done, never heard of him or his brothers

  • @markprice2225
    @markprice2225 Před měsícem

    Real Skate Stories is definitely a real💯👌 for this... I always wanted to not only cover this topic myself but watch any&all videos related. I know the comments would go ham!

  • @lewisgrimes7171
    @lewisgrimes7171 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Cab all around is the best I’ve seen, Cab street skating doesn’t get enough respect, Natas on half pipe and transition and being the goat on street… Jake Wooten and Andy Anderson today are both great all around

  • @anadraham2995
    @anadraham2995 Před měsícem

    Thank you for introducing me to the Carrasco brothers. Never heard of em till now and they are fuckin AwEsOmE 💯💯💯

  • @-RoMo-90291-
    @-RoMo-90291- Před 2 měsíci

    Well done. Thanks, TR!

  • @JBG949
    @JBG949 Před 4 měsíci +4

    Richie and Rene Carassco McRad ! Hobie Team in my top 10 but my #1 is Allen Losi the GOAT..! ❤

    • @AndreMaca
      @AndreMaca Před 4 měsíci

      I pic hosoi for the first one. Why losi?

    • @JBG949
      @JBG949 Před 4 měsíci +2

      @@AndreMaca
      Ironically Hosoi and go to the same church The Sanctuary -Costa Mesa, CA. I picked Losi because he came out of the late 70's he skated every Skatepark on earth and was established 7 years before the world knew of Hosoi...check Losi 1985 Del Mar he annihilated the keyhole
      1.Losi
      2. Phillips
      3. Gator
      4. Hosoi
      5.Hawk

    • @AndreMaca
      @AndreMaca Před 4 měsíci

      @@JBG949 great top five man!

    • @JBG949
      @JBG949 Před 4 měsíci

      Thanks Bro.🤙🏿
      I skated with all of these guys so I should know..! Elguera would be my 5.5 guy. Best Always 🌊🤙🏿

  • @kennyharrison2211
    @kennyharrison2211 Před 4 měsíci +2

    Coach!!!!!

  • @therealandrecorbin4050
    @therealandrecorbin4050 Před 4 měsíci

    Nice walk down memory lane, great stuff

  • @pablou8892
    @pablou8892 Před 4 měsíci +2

    Excelente !🎉❤

  • @chrisdeering1120
    @chrisdeering1120 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Why have i never heard of the Carrascos? My life was skating from 75-80.

  • @user-qj5yb3rc1g
    @user-qj5yb3rc1g Před 3 měsíci

    Met him at Paul rever it was good to see a fellow Chicano skater

  • @ezrhino100
    @ezrhino100 Před 4 měsíci +1

    I know people don't care anymore but freestyle skating needs way more recognition. People are still hippie jumping and doing caspers in street parts.... also, the level of freestyle skating today is off the scale.

  • @doublestrokeroll
    @doublestrokeroll Před měsícem +2

    I suspect, just like in music, there is really no such thing as "greatest" of all time in terms of all around. Just a lot of guys who are/were amazing. It's far too subjective. (but I'm sure that won't stop childish arguments in the comments section..lol)
    Having said that, glad you showed Andy at the beginning of the vid. I'm no expert and don't follow skateboarders that deeply, but Andy's been so unique and creative that his skateboarding plowed right through the algorithm into my youtube feed. That's gotta mean something. I can't imagine there are many around right now who are as good all around as he is. He's certainly made me pay attention to him and it seems like he's a modern skater who maybe crossing over into the world of non skaters. At least a little anyway.

    • @RealSkateStories
      @RealSkateStories  Před měsícem +1

      Agree 100%. there is no "best". Also agree having that word in the title provokes engagement.

  • @EsotericOccultist
    @EsotericOccultist Před 4 měsíci +2

    I say Rodney Mullen on account of tricks invented, technical ability and versatility.

  • @Unoriginal3
    @Unoriginal3 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Nice vid

  • @stuartzoo
    @stuartzoo Před 4 měsíci +6

    Richard Dawson knows: Russ Howell-he’s not as smooth as Richy.

    • @RealSkateStories
      @RealSkateStories  Před 4 měsíci

      😂💯

    • @randycarrasco4995
      @randycarrasco4995 Před 4 měsíci +3

      Verifiable fun fact, Russ never beat Richy in any contest. Also, Richy was a mid-teen in the Guinness clip which makes that it even more rad! 👊🏽😂

  • @jeffchandler6394
    @jeffchandler6394 Před 4 měsíci

    I never saw them at the big O but they all lòk like great skaters and the big O was great

  • @rnkmode1876
    @rnkmode1876 Před 3 měsíci

    Ahh man, so many Skaters had their specialty and prime. 70's it was all about Tony Alva & Jay Adams, excellent Skateboarders and innovators. The 80's, which imo was the Golden Age of Skateboarding. So many awesome Skaters. I mean shit, it was hard to beat the Powell Peralta team. You had, Lance Mountain, Steve Caballero, Mike McGill, Tommy Guerrero Per Weilinder and a young Tony Hawk... other then that there's too many to name but I'll throw a few out there, Christian Hosoi of course, Mark Gonzales, Lester Kasai, Steve Steadham, Rob Roskopp, Rodney Mullan, etc.. my favorite decade for alot. Of course fast-forward Bucky Lasek, Bob Burnquist. So many.

  • @kilianmartinsk8
    @kilianmartinsk8 Před 3 měsíci

    Richy Carrasco is the best!

  • @hanskloss1331
    @hanskloss1331 Před 4 měsíci

    Duane , Jay , Gonz , Olsen , Hosoi , Mountain , Greco , Reynolds 😊

  • @GeFarr
    @GeFarr Před 4 měsíci +2

    Easy one D Way

  • @andrewnewton5221
    @andrewnewton5221 Před 4 měsíci +2

    Danny Way

  • @SteveDolhon
    @SteveDolhon Před 2 měsíci

    Skate? Anywhere anytime 😖🤙

  • @bobocruiser8037
    @bobocruiser8037 Před 3 měsíci

    👍👍👍👍😁

  • @markprice2225
    @markprice2225 Před měsícem

    I mean Salba and Malba we all loved them, but used to hate everything Santa Cruz growing up because of Dwayne Peters(thought he sucked,and he used to F w/Hawk) Olsen didn't get no love either. Bones Brigade was everything back then. Except Tracker, nobody skated em

  • @user-oz5my5or3y
    @user-oz5my5or3y Před 4 měsíci

    Stepping of the skateboard after the 360 is not a land after seeing Rodney mullen dd it

  • @jasonmolinaro4520
    @jasonmolinaro4520 Před 3 měsíci

    I wondered who some of the Pepsi skaters were

  • @marttiala-jaaski6876
    @marttiala-jaaski6876 Před 4 měsíci

    All Hail…

  • @toddt.
    @toddt. Před 4 měsíci

    I like duane peters , jeff grosso, geoff rowley
    Different eras different stylesn such

  • @benjistorment1655
    @benjistorment1655 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Uhhhh…. Mark Gonzales

  • @bear458ziif-s
    @bear458ziif-s Před 3 měsíci

    not of all time, but in the current times andy anderson is probably the most well rounded. there are better street skaters, bowl skaters, and even freestyle skaters, but he still skates at a very high level in all disciplines. that said, a lot of the top pro's could learn freestyle and be great at it. i think there is though some level of unique expression that matters. they could learn, but they don't because they think it's lame or whatever the case may be. there's some level of purity to doing your own thing.

  • @Collin-ic9ct
    @Collin-ic9ct Před 4 měsíci +1

    Tom Penny

  • @hellowellallen
    @hellowellallen Před 4 měsíci +1

    Hosoi

  • @hermanmelville3871
    @hermanmelville3871 Před 15 dny

    Curren Caples is not talked about enough.

  • @user-gm1bu4ph6b
    @user-gm1bu4ph6b Před 4 měsíci

    Is my friend in Facebook

  • @lowlyfesocks
    @lowlyfesocks Před měsícem

    Matt Hensley

  • @taddricketts6282
    @taddricketts6282 Před 2 měsíci

    Duane Peters

  • @sle_epytight
    @sle_epytight Před měsícem

    No roll away on those 360s is a make huh...

  • @johnsambo9379
    @johnsambo9379 Před měsícem

    Mullen.

  • @Shroomdiffnuclear
    @Shroomdiffnuclear Před 4 měsíci +2

    Best overall? It's clearly Danny Way

  • @Jordans__Adventures
    @Jordans__Adventures Před 4 měsíci

    Rodney Mullen is the GOAT.

  • @mikehemens9359
    @mikehemens9359 Před 4 měsíci

    I have to put my 2 cents in regarding Tom Penny. Even the Japanese super dudes of today aren't doing the nollie stuff he could do on or out of transition. Frontside flips on the hip at Kelly's pool? -Reynolds said that he went there and couldn't do a kickturn on that hip. Also Billy Ruff and Hosoi as 2nd and 3rd.

  • @johnmartin2079
    @johnmartin2079 Před 4 měsíci

    Never heard of them

    • @RealSkateStories
      @RealSkateStories  Před 4 měsíci +4

      We are changing that and cementing legacies over here.

    • @johnmartin2079
      @johnmartin2079 Před 4 měsíci +2

      Realskatestories, right on brothers it was interesting having 3 scoops of history in one video. Keep it up peace ✌

  • @Matt-zx6zn
    @Matt-zx6zn Před 4 měsíci

    Not an ollie to be seen.

    • @mikehemens9359
      @mikehemens9359 Před 4 měsíci +2

      Are you complaining? Holy shit its not hard to find a skateboarder doing an ollie in any random skate clip. There is a total saturation of that already.

  • @tyhggb
    @tyhggb Před 4 měsíci +2

    It’s Eric koston. Yes he had a lot people influence it, but the shit I want to see is stylish street skating. Wert is its own thing. I’ll take sick lines on benches and some good rail shit. Maybe one of my favorites is Carlos ribiero, kickflip frontside crook, to frontside 180 out, then did a giant backside lipslider down a rail.

  • @thepeterchannel3230
    @thepeterchannel3230 Před 4 měsíci

    The greatest skateboarder of all time is Mark "Gator" Rogowski ........