Performing over 2,000 Pepsi Pro Skateboard Team demo's ( -as Captain of the Orange County Pepsi Team ) was definitely one of the GREATEST times of my life ! The other was being a care-giver for my Mother Delia when she had congestive heart failure....until she passed away ! @ 2:06 in this video - is yours truly......@ 2:34 is my brother David Carrasco ! ...Praise God !
@drdpirate
10 жыл бұрын
Mad props
@t100base
6 жыл бұрын
props
@deomeslives
4 жыл бұрын
Awesome!!👊🏽🤟🏽🛹✌🏽
@mchepen
4 жыл бұрын
that pic is rad as fuck!
@liammcooper
25 күн бұрын
legendary
@streetbeers6536
9 жыл бұрын
When Alva was just talkin about how influential the posse was, you could tell grosso was thinking, "really? You're pulling this shit again?"
@jacobjones2766
7 жыл бұрын
chris yap zu yu he seems really narcissistic
@JAWS1376
6 жыл бұрын
I could be wrong but didn't that team spawn Bill Danforth. that team was fucking awesome. First skateboard to have a crazy ass tail.
@jonedsweeps6379
2 жыл бұрын
They were for sure influential, but the 80s was goofy and I feel like the Alva team fits that well
@AtilioEscobar
8 жыл бұрын
i love how all skaters, old and young have a similar sound and look to them..proud to be a skateboarder.
@SpaceCadetLaC
4 жыл бұрын
I dont look like you but I still love you.
@commandZee
4 жыл бұрын
In the mid-80s, as far as attitude, the Hosoi team has got to be up there. They looked like the vampires from The Lost Boys, but instead of taking your life they just gave your girl HPV.
@CaptainFantastik1
4 жыл бұрын
"We wanted to be the opposite of the Powell team". You certainly accomplished that in the contest standings. LOL
@NCAlien910
7 жыл бұрын
That fucking Alien Workshop team in Mindfield is the best team in the modern era of skating. Jake Johnson, Grant Taylor, Dylan Rieder, Arto Saari, Heath Kirchart, and that's not even half of em.
@Bazukosoniko
9 жыл бұрын
This series made me so happy... Grosso you re great old man!!! Sk8 and destroy till death!!
@jarkokoo
7 жыл бұрын
Yes!!! ZORLAC!!! That's what I'm talking about!
@seekah1
6 жыл бұрын
The Pushead Metallica connection back in the day, I think Kirk and James skated, shit that sounds like a lifetime ago now.
@seekah1
6 жыл бұрын
Fuckn' Grosso, bless him and the original skate spirit, I aint never quitting my love for this stuff.
@jbyrdmb
10 жыл бұрын
"Stevie was a fetus" Best fucking line in the whole video
@bennyshambles
4 жыл бұрын
Best team from my era was probably Stereo. They just had such a defined, unified aesthetic that was its own niche within skateboarding. Nobody else skated or dressed like they did. Who didn’t want to wear midcentury vintage gear, have a clean haircut, smoke Camels, read Bukowski, listen to Jazz and then go out and do big, stylish and simple tricks after watching A Visual Sound? Mike Daher, Carl Shipman (best frontside flips ever), Ethan Fowler, Greg Hunt, Matt Rodriguez, Dune and (of course) J. Lee (style god) all had their own thing but totally fit together.
@ohfrickitsphil
10 жыл бұрын
A loveletter to Whittier would be awesome! You could feature Lance, Lucero and other cool dudes in that episode! What do you think?
@ronaldhickman9953
4 жыл бұрын
And a love letter to the Big-O skatepark.....
@feral5404
3 жыл бұрын
this episode could have been 45 minutes longer. seemed like we were just getting started
@sessionclips1219
6 ай бұрын
I love this so much rip grosso
@JimiBerkeley
9 жыл бұрын
its all about the Anti-Hero team really though isn't it?
@mackm3875
7 жыл бұрын
Bones Brigade Animal Chin era & Alva Posse. Alva Posse didn't get the publicity because they were "Bad boys" and PP had squad in movies & shot, like Gleaming the Cube. They went hella commercial, but it worked for them.
@chetrok1
10 жыл бұрын
Fkn gnarly to see Fred Smith ..that was also my first deck I skated that shit till it was twice dead
@evrgreen_69
3 жыл бұрын
Watching this is crazy..my sister was friends with a girl who’s dad worked at Pepsi and at the time (late 70’s) the only boards I had seen were plastic..skate banana ? I think was one of the first shitty boards I had and the bump up from that was a GT? board..Open ball bearings total shit..My sisters friend saw that I skated and she asked me if I wanted her Pepsi board that her dad gave her..I of course said yes and the board was rad! Made outta fiberglass and was the first board I had with real urathane wheels and precision bearings..and grip tape!!..And here is where I trip because my next good board that I ordered from Skateboarder magazine was an 8 inch Alva with the die cut grip tape with ACS-580’s and green Kryptonics..After that board no joke the next board I bought was the red and black striped Duane Peters..Didn’t skate for awhile after that but when I did I bought a Lance Mountain and after that ..The Grosso bat..”The Letters” are an amazing tribute to skateboarding..Thanks so much to Jeff for being Jeff!..Skateboarding rules!
@user-uu5mu1fs6d
10 жыл бұрын
At 1:25 it says Jay Adams Del Mar Nations circa 1967. Off by about 10 years I think.
@dudeseth92
10 жыл бұрын
Flip team 2001 best team ever
@kimrice394
3 жыл бұрын
6:37 Had the page/picture hanging on the wall for years.
@nkmcfrln
8 жыл бұрын
Duane Peters and Eddie Elguera skated together on the Hobie team. Lance, Grosso and Lucero skated for Variflex.
@JustMe-qk1mt
6 жыл бұрын
So much more history. This was cut way too short
@ray.bun11
4 жыл бұрын
I love how it just kinda ends with him and tony Alva arguing, I miss you grosso!!
@jacobjones2766
8 жыл бұрын
You guys should do a love letter to the frontside Grind
@vans
8 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the input! You can check out the rest of Grosso's Loveletters here: bit.ly/2bR4KVm
@ronaldhickman9953
4 жыл бұрын
how about something about Cherry Hill Park I rode there in 78 when it first opened was invited from my skatepark team and I saw all the big boys there and I was a young punk.... Might have been 79 it was something like that
@manmelt4037
5 жыл бұрын
If you’re not sure that Alva is one of the most influential Godfather’s of Venice skateboarding, don’t worry, he’ll tell you.
@homunculusSZN
10 жыл бұрын
Grosso should do a loveletter to speed freaks and Santa Cruz skateboards
@vans
10 жыл бұрын
Oscar Fox haha. not sure even Grosso could manage a 30 sec clip.
@espada9
6 жыл бұрын
Jak's Absolute Music!
@TH3SAMMYG
10 жыл бұрын
do a jay adams love letter
@vans
10 жыл бұрын
TH3SAMMYG for sure. man, we love Jay and miss him so much. I'll pass on the feedback, thanks.
@samkupper
8 жыл бұрын
+Vans i love jay RIP
@ronaldhickman9953
4 жыл бұрын
Do a brad Bowman.... Loved his death box signature deck..... He was a major player in the late 70s....
@cron205
9 жыл бұрын
if grosso had a sk8 team i would wanna be on that team
@markprice2225
Жыл бұрын
This dude Steve who was like 4 or 5 years older than me, had one of those TUNNEL long sleeve jerseys that looks exactly like a Moto-X shirt nowadays 🤔
@jameslatham2027
10 жыл бұрын
chris miller looks about 30
@SnuggelPoos
9 жыл бұрын
loveletters to Grooso!
@hineskittvelvett198
7 жыл бұрын
I feel like either Grosso or someone involved with these videos has some personal beef with Alva. A couple videos have Alva making some comment and then the next clip will be someone saying how lame whatever Alva said was. Maybe its just me.
@robskatesurf9125
9 жыл бұрын
Stevie was a fetus! haha Love the Letters!
@robertriestra8919
8 жыл бұрын
7:16 my man David Z yeah. Nice letter Grosso
@rasquatch
9 жыл бұрын
eddie reatigui and bill danforth didnt have dreads on Alva
@MycoMatty
3 жыл бұрын
Wasn’t Danforth the only Alva Posse member with no dreads or long hair?
@judekraft847
2 жыл бұрын
man i miss Grosso
@voltaire2001
7 жыл бұрын
At 7:15 Is that Mark Rogowski looking on?(Gator)
@Satans_Financial_Advisor
3 жыл бұрын
*Im a disciple of Grosso* Grosso was my North Star in Skateboarding, the living embodiment of how skateboarding made me feel. *Are you a disciple?*
@crazycatman5928
3 жыл бұрын
All time favorite: H-STREET
@rendelarosa6462
8 жыл бұрын
i miss skateboarding😭
@samkupper
8 жыл бұрын
+Ren Dela Rosa miss it, grab a board
@CaliBreeeze
7 жыл бұрын
Ren Dela Rosa life's too short man Just get another board and have fun! Thanks what it's about right? Any age, color, whatever
@cron205
9 жыл бұрын
H-STREET was BIO DUDE
@ronaldhickman9953
4 жыл бұрын
So was Uncle wiggly
@sethc758
6 жыл бұрын
I cant imagine a skateboard deck being made out of balsa wood. Of all the types... they chose balsa. If you pushed down hard enough with a butterknife into balsa it might cut through it's that soft.
@joshuahancock4619
10 жыл бұрын
i wanna ride for tunnel
@cron205
10 жыл бұрын
Bad Company was had a skateboard company also?
@darkstardavros
7 жыл бұрын
Jason Bouskill er, yes it was. 😈
@tunelowplayslow5623
6 жыл бұрын
Tony’s hawks yard furniture
@bart4412
5 жыл бұрын
Was that jim morrison?
@oioiterroristz
10 жыл бұрын
Ollie mollie ! the daggers !
@joshuahancock4619
9 жыл бұрын
baker is sick. anti-hero obviously, girl/chocolate, foudation is rad. best drinking team = the rad one!
@ronaldhickman9953
4 жыл бұрын
Find your boy John grigley and get the old ghost on there....
@DAWIII
10 жыл бұрын
CASTER Team: Chris Strople, Tom Inouye, John Gibson.
@mgypsy122070
10 жыл бұрын
jake moved to the west to get away from kooks like you. john swope
@DAWIII
10 жыл бұрын
Michelle Stafford who the F is jake? (or john swope?),and I'm glad they moved west!
@Steezy_Mx
4 жыл бұрын
Sixteen and City Stars.
@huh2495
4 жыл бұрын
Anyone remember a-1 meats
@bennyshambles
4 жыл бұрын
Greg Madsen Yeah, totally. Dill’s first ad was an A-1 meats add where he’s doing an ill nose blunt on a bench. Hensley was an early rider. I think Markovich and Laban were on that team too?
@deomeslives
5 жыл бұрын
Hook and the daggers lol
@JeremyWint
8 жыл бұрын
They seemed to only focus on early skateboard teams. The original Plan B team is notable
@Mr3andrew3
6 жыл бұрын
I got an Alva fish board for Christmas around '85 and I broke it in a single day. Sorry Alva, love the style but I never got another one.. Best, *A.
@cron205
9 жыл бұрын
ALVA
@cron205
9 жыл бұрын
concrete jungle was rad i wanted to be on that team or toxic
@BIGBLUETIGER96
10 жыл бұрын
First 😄 and wiggled around on the ground xP
@alexdoner3641
7 жыл бұрын
polar an slave teams are really rad in my opinion
@Jblizzybaby
Жыл бұрын
Menace & Shortys
@Garf2O
10 жыл бұрын
daaaaammmmmn, how the fuck does this only have 5,248 views? this is some Illuminati bullshit happening right here.
@vans
10 жыл бұрын
whoa. agreed. clickety click on that share link, man! :)
@MrShaunsanders
9 жыл бұрын
90's Plan B. Flip.
@bennyshambles
4 жыл бұрын
Does that include or exclude the “Secondhand Smoke” Plan B team? I’d go with exclude because while Jeremy Wray was peaking and Mullen continued evolving his darkslides, they couldn’t really carry the entire team/brand, unfortunately. I gotta watch that video again because I don’t remember Pat Duffy having a part that’s on the same level as Questionable and Virtual Reality, but maybe I’m wrong.
@MrShaunsanders
4 жыл бұрын
@@bennyshambles You're right man. Exclude.
@ElEdgardoS
10 жыл бұрын
Blackhart
@bencowling8596
8 жыл бұрын
Late 90s flip team,heroin team,early 90s chocolate team,early 2000s girl team
@bennyshambles
4 жыл бұрын
Ben Cowling FYI, Chocolate Skateboards didn’t exist in the early 90’s. They debuted a couple years after Girl got started, also with a batch of mainly ex-World/Blind/101 riders.
@Unfluencer
3 ай бұрын
7:50. smacks the lip?! thats the difficult on a surfboard.
@jimmytgoose476
2 жыл бұрын
Was never bothered about teams ....
@SouthIslandSurf
10 жыл бұрын
Some of those dates are way off...
@poolcoping
10 жыл бұрын
fill in the details!!- you can't just say they are way off and not help set the record straight... which dates-
@SouthIslandSurf
10 жыл бұрын
At 1:03, that surf footage couldn't be from 1965... Would have been very late 60's or early 70's. Jay Adams at 1:25... it says 1967, but that Del Mar contest was 1975.
@poolcoping
10 жыл бұрын
oh snap! good catch...
@TheMarct707
4 жыл бұрын
"Stevie was a fetus."
@condensermike
8 жыл бұрын
wiggled.
@jewels71280
7 жыл бұрын
can you Grosso do a ray bones rodrigez episode and how powell raped him for all he was and ran with his bones name
@panchowheeler4122
5 жыл бұрын
i still want to know why duane peters gave jeff a snotty rag n he wont speak to grosso anymore ,,,what did you do grosso to piss off duane ,,,i bet its a crazy story,,,,,come to think about it you dont see much of duane these days,,, but thats my loveletter
@ariekanibalie
9 жыл бұрын
Pepsi team? HA HA! Imagine a manufacturer of caffeinated soda looking to cash in on skateboarding's popularity today in order to hook the next generation of diabetics. Oh wait...
@NoNaNaNameeee
7 жыл бұрын
Arno Theadorno fuckin mountain dew, monster, red bull, and rockstar😂😂😂
@danieljames7037
18 күн бұрын
In the 80's we did not talk about Race! Now i see a BLM shirt! With this woke shit! All lives matter! I am done with this BS! Im a old school Punk Rocker California went to Shit!
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