This time on Rad Rat Video, we're talking about skate fashion of the 90s
and we're talking about what video parts you would take back to the 90s to blow
people's minds. Let's get into it.
Hey guys, welcome back to Rad Rat Video, a channel where you can learn all about
skateboarding three times a week, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I have a lot
of different series about skateboard culture, but this one is where I answer
your questions on this series Ask Rad Rat. So I have a few of them for you
today. Let's just get into it. The first one is from One1 who asked, "what
happened to cool skate fashion of the 90s? Back then, skaters weren't afraid to
take chances with their fashion and more bright colors and crazy stripes etc.
skaters today all look like carpenters, lumberjacks or rappers. Do you
think it has to do with skateboarding becoming more trendy, thus leading to
self-consciousness and the need to fit in rather than to the need to express or
find oneself?" So I only answer this because I want to see what you guys say.
I want you to answer him too, because I'm not really sure if I see the same thing.
So yeah, back in the 90s, you would see bright colored pants, you would see the
Charlie Brown stripe that everyone was wearing all the time. You'd see a lot of
different stuff like that, but everyone was doing that. So I think that the 90s
were actually more judgmental as far as, you knowa when you get in the mid 90s
especially. What tricks you were allowed to do, and what you were dressed as. It
was more different from your average person on the street, but it was still
just as judgmental. So I don't know, styles have definitely changed. If you
see one 90s video part out of context, it looks like
that guy is kind of crazy and dresses all weird, but that was just a little bit
normal at the time. So I'm not really sure if it worked out like that. One
thing that I would definitely say has changed, though, is sponsorships. So it
seemed like, back in the day, there were only a few skate shoes. For example, you
might do a whole video part in random basketball sneakers that you bought at
the store. And clothing was definitely the same way.
I don't think clothing sponsors were really as big of a deal as they are
today. So nowadays, it's more about, you know, having your -- the right t-shirt
with the right logo of your brand and all that kind of stuff. So I think that
may have a little bit to do with what you're talking about.
But I want to hear what you guys have to say to him below as well. Second question,
and the big one for this video, is from Drew in West LA who asks, "if you could go
back in time to 1996, what modern day video part would you show them? What
would their reaction be?" So I'm not sure why '96 specifically because it's 21
years ago, but anyway, I posted this question on Twitter just to get some
more answers from you guys to get a little bit more perspective and I
thought that I had some pretty interesting answers to this question. So
here's a few of them from open-source skateboards. They suggested
Takashi Suzuki, and said that 'he gave gave me a whole new perspective.' So I'm
showing some of his footage here. It's freestyle, but not in a way that you
would think. It's sort of like a non-technical freestyle. When I think of
freestyle, the first thing that comes to mind is very technical flip tricks to
rail, or to casper, or stuff on the truck. Maybe some handstands, that kind of thing.
But this is more really casual footwork done with a lot of style. And it's
really interesting. You really don't see anyone else skate like this, and I could
see taking this back to the 90s and showing people. I think it'd be kind of
fun to show them stuff a couple of these that I'm going to talk about - to show
them this stuff and let them think that this is common now, and just kind of see
what kind of reaction you would get. But with this one, I think it is pretty cool.
I don't know what they would think back in the 90s, of this. Freestyle had been
dead for a few years. Not old enough to be, like, retro and cool potentially, but
just old garbage, you know. So I don't know if this one would go over too well,
but it is pretty cool these days. Next one I got was from Fred Dumont, who
suggested Chris Joslin in Plan B "True," or Mark Appleyard in Flip Sorry. Both
very good videos. Flip Sorry, that was not - it's not as modern. Really wouldn't have
been that big of a jump from 96, so I'm not sure. I think that would be pretty
cool. Both of these would be remarkable, you know, the best
video part of all time if they came out in the 90s for sure, and it would blow
everyone's minds. So both of those would be really good choices too. The next one
was from from Alex Starbuck who suggested Brandon Westgate in Made
Chapter 1, and I think this one would have been a great one, because this video
part is so fast and powerful that I think it would really speak to the 90s.
The, you know, '96 especially, kind of mindset in skateboarding. So tech was
dying off. Going slow, crawling around the ground doing a triple flip was not
really thing anymore. It's more about gaps and style and speed and everything,
and this really epitomizes that thought process in skateboarding, but it takes it
a lot further than anyone did at that time. So that would definitely be a
good choice. Chris suggested Dane Burman in the Zero video. Again, a lot better
than what people were doing back then. I think that would go over pretty well, but
also he suggested Richie Jackson, which I didn't even think of. That would be an
awesome one to take back, just to get some reactions out of that, because it
seems to me like skateboarding at the time was more about doing things that
were correct. Like, officially legitimate skateboarding, and the stuff that he does
is really not. You know, jumping off your board and sliding on your feet and
jumping back on. Stuff that's not really technically appropriate for
skateboarding, but he does it so well and it's so good, he does it with style. That
that might actually change how skateboarding went if it came out at the
right time and got into a major video and was released to people. I think that
would have a pretty big effect on skateboarding. So those were all for the
suggestions I got, but I had a couple that I thought of. First was Marc Johnson
in Fully Flared, and I thought that would be an interesting one because people in
the 90s would know Marc Johnson. He had video parts in 94, I think was his first
one. So this would be someone that they are familiar with, someone that they know,
potentially personally, doing this insane stuff that no one had even thought of at
the time. And I would really love to see the reactions of people seeing Marc. You
know, that kid over there who just had his first
video part, doing stuff that no one's ever done before. That would be pretty
cool. And the second one I thought of was, I never know how to say the name, Jeff
Dechasare or Dechesare, you know who I'm talking about.
He had a Krux part, and if I thought it was really really good, and I really
liked it. I really like this stuff that he does, the kind of skating that he does.
But I think it'd be really interesting to take that back and just get people to
think that that was common, because, you know, today's production values with a
computer, it's easy to do something that would have been a crazy high tech
feat back in the day. So you could convince people that this was the
biggest skater in the world. That this guy, you know, he had all the big budget
best sponsors, and this was where skateboarding was right now, and just see
what they thought, because it's kind of the opposite of where skateboarding was
going at the time, you know. Like, I talked about how tech was dying out, and it's
more about simple tricks done well -- well, doing a triple flip down a 10 set. I really
wonder what people would have thought of this. I think it would not have gone over
all that well, and I really wonder what people would have thought. But my real
answer for what people should see would be Shane O'Neill in the new the Nike SB
video that just came out a little bit ago. And it's ridiculous, you know,
everything's perfectly clean but super tech and it's on handrails, all kinds of
stuff that was just unheard of. Unbelievable at the time. No one would
believe a single trick that you see in that video. That would probably blow the
most minds of anything I could think of. So those are my answers for that one. If
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