Got close to making the final rail slide, I hope Powell releases the bails someday, they were crazy,

Came here after Andy Anderson giving the shoutout. Insane that the madlad smithed that ender rail that Frankie tries to boardslide. 29 friggin stairs!

People always bring up Gonz, Natas, and Pat Duffy. Frankie Hills name is rarely brought up. He was doing way gnarlier stuff at the time. I think he isn't getting the recognition he deserves for his innovation in street skating.

Touching the ground can look sick no one can change my mind after seeing this.

Remember watching this on the VHS and being absolutely blown away and massively inspired.

Thank you Frankie for sacrificing your body for skating, you took the hits and set the standards. Well done, giving back to skateboarding.

I got to skate with Frankie in the early 90s, at UCSB and IslaVista, next to the ocean. Beautiful place. I've seen comments about him wearing the same clothes all the time. He actually did wear the same shit all the time. We all did. It wasn't on the radar. Skateboarding was all that mattered. He did do all of this in a couple of days probably. He's a focused and genuinely nice person. Always is and was. Its messed up to see skaters laughing at small wheels and baggy pants. It was part of the evolution of skating. But who am I to talk. We used to make fun of bananna boards. To each his own I guess .....

Definitely not fucking around with the gaps here. All of Ban This is classic, but Frankie Hill's part quite might be the most influential in setting the bar for modern street skating. Many of these gaps and rails to this day would help separate men from sissies.

I wish we could see his face more clearly so we can see how young he is and that expression and focus!!!!

Franky Hill was such a cool skater back in the day .. he was way ahead with the stuff he was doing , one of my favourite skaters by far !

This part is legendary. Saw it in 1989 when I was a Freshman. We were trippin'. This came out not long after Shackle Me Not which was '88 I think. Big up to all my old homies from back then. Bullhead City,Arizona.

The boards were so wide and heavy back then , imagine trying to kickflip. It was like kick flipping a surfboard.

Frankie Hill was a fkn warrior. Never gets the respect he deserves .

I remember when this came out. Guy just blew every other street skater out of the water in terms of going big. One of the best in his time. I can't believe this is '89... where does the time go?

The first BIG street part! So much respect for this short clip. Frankie was a game chager!

How did I miss this guy? He's freaking sick!

Goleta represent! Frankie hill is a straight up legend around these parts so much respect for this guy

Gonz gets more credit because his skating was more clean and tech but he did big stuff too. Frankie was pretty rad and the ollies he did was ahead of the times.

ahhh.... frankie hill was one of my favorites growing up, he was part of what shape skating into what it is today. I'm 41 now and still think about skateboarding all the time, but having a family and to many responsibilities has made me stop. I'm more of a collector of decks now cause the art work back in the days were sick.

Reminded me so much of The Birdhouse, The End video. With the stock sound effects and shooting on film. was actually cool for back then.

I’ve been skating since I was 13 In 1986/87 And this era was hands down my fav and most fun for sure. -I mighta been way better in the 90’s and could do pretty much everything except the gnarly handrails or heelflips but it still could t touch the fun factor of the late 80’a and very early 90’s....the board shapes were awesome from small noses -to-popsicle... FrankieHill was a huge inspiration to us at the time.. I liked his style a lot. The way George Powell treated him was tragic. Borderline criminal.. 1 million plus old school skaters know Frankie hill got dicked over with his broken knee.. Twice I think....His legacy makes him immortal for sure!! Thanks Frankie :)

80s and 90s skating is always the most fun to watch!

BEST INTRO EVER !!!

That was probably the busiest day of his entire life.

someone who truly brought out the childs play in skateboarding. nothing to serious never too technical. my childhood idol frankie hill.

If you don't know, now you know. One of my all-time favorites right here. 👍👍

First there was Gonz, Natas, Tomy Guerrero, Jess Martinez, and Jim Thibaud. Then there was Mike Vallely. After him it was Frankie Hill. Nobody during that time period was better than Frankie Hill. WHen those Powell videos would come out we would just watch Frankies parts over and over again to figure out just what the hell he was doing. Frankie was the sickest.

What an awesome time in skating. That would have been an awesome time to be alive and skating.

i would like to return to the classic too !

Stacey would have all the skaters wear the same outfit so it would appear that these were filmed the same day.

So good! Love this part

Awee man I'm lovin every second of this! Awesome classic!

Damn, this is insane! I'm 15 and I'm getting my mind blown, imagine this in '89?

Watch the Frankie Hill documentary!

that style!!!!

Amazing part.

Frankie inspired me to be a street skater... un capo!!!

That no comply was sick! followed by that kickflip at 1:20, epic for back in the day!

The huge ollie to method grab over that gap is so sick and stylish. Looks amazing even by today's standards. Looks like you're floating through the air doing a method just like Bart Simpson.

Damnnn, this is still good in today's standards

"BUT CAN YOU DO A HANDSTAND?!?"

how can someone dislike this

This was my first favorit part from when i was a kid...

so stoked they put this part up

There are a bunch of tricks in here that were the first ever to be captured, like the ollie over the double set and the kickflip off the high wall, come to mind.

What a legend! You are thanks 🙏 for inspire me a lot and lot people!! No doubt

I have to say Ed Templeton was my favourite skateboarder in the 90's but have to admit Frankie Hill was the first guy who started to make crazy and big things on video in a time when street skateboard wasn't fashionable first, and 2 years after Ban This it wasn't cool to ride for Powell if you were on street skateboard, the era of big pants small wheels changed a lot of perceptions.Had he joined a Plan B, New Deal or Blind type of company I guess he would have been seen as a more cool type of guy during the 90's.

thanks for the memories....

Man, still one of my fave video parts ever! I got this on VHS like a week after it came out...was blown away, but I always asked myself, "Did Frankie Hill carry a kicker ramp on his back to all his spots?". What ever happened to him anyway? I heard something about him being a pizza delivery guy or something and his knees were blown out.

Classic for sure

Craziest thing i always thought was jump ramp to the pull up bars.. so rad

So good!

Skateboarding + rock = epic win

Frankie Hill's part here and in Propaganda is why I started riding handrails and doing huge gaps. It's also probably the reason why my ankles and wrists can only take a couple few slams before I'm sidelined and heckling with a beer. Gravity always wins in the end.

i ride 8.5 ... great vid.... i have all powell old cideos.... its nice ;)

i remember my lil crew were so influenced by him.. like when clearing big gaps was emerging.

This guy is badass

real classics

i like the way he lands

holy shit, great style!

There’s a reason why his part starts the video. So gnarly🤔

I LOVE THIS VIDEO.LOVEEEEEEEEEEEE

Anyone else notice the striking similarity in this guitar riff and Van Halen's Sinners Swing off of Fair Warning????

filmed in exactly 2 days, this street skating part is one of the best ever, if you come back in 89, more than half of new skool skateboarders were not on earth at this period, the other half didn't even known what skateboarding was! fat gaping, massive boardsliding, mute grabin as hell, that's what frankie was known for, and trust me, i was skating this lance mountain board he use in this part, and i can tell yall this man was a monster! he put all the street skaters from back in the days on the knees, ask around, yall know what i am talking about! peace.

That was pretty fuckin rad for '89

this kid is nuts!

O street skate que existe nos dias atuais passou pelas mãos (e pés) desse cara. O cara mandando manobra de street no skate tubarão. Prozasso!!!

I watched this part so much that I wore out the tape.

try doing ANY of that with his board. Besides, its got the essence of skating and that's all that matters.

The man!!!

this was some of the best skating at that time, period. if you go back and watch the rest of the street skating in Ban This, it's uncomparable.

It was a lot harder to kickflip a 10" board than it is a 7.5" today!

legend part

just watched Friday the 13th part 4 and realized Frankie was in it...rad...

Sick!

Frankie had style. And I don't care what anyone thinks, caveman board slides are cool.

Dude, I still have that 100th issue of Thrasher behind Peter! AND it has Duane Peters Autograph on the pic of him doing an Indy air.

I can watch this over and over and never get bored 🛹🛹🛹👍💯

if he had landed it, they would show it from like 5 different angles plus boardcam and slomo... i mean, powell had their skaters wearing the some clothes every day to fool people, so what do you expect? still an amazing part tho, even for today... pretty much sums up what skateboarding was back then and only one word comes to my mind: RAD!!!

those gaps are pretty fucking impressive for a board without concave

Gotta love the old Powell magic

One of my fucking favs

ahh the late 80s, early 90s :)

Everyone wore shit like this back then. It was 1989. lets see how cool your clothes look in 25 years.

this is very true.

imagine doing a part now days with only ollie grabs.

legend

If they compiled all of Frankie's clean landings, the part would be less than a minute. And it would be one of the top five parts of all time. :)

woooo ese vato rifa ^^

dude! I can't believe that they didn't show the full rail!

gnarly.

I cant beleive this is where Bart Simpson bit his style from 🤙

Legend

I love that the part isn’t all teched up. Just powerful slides and huge Ollie’s. Not that flips ain’t cool! But Frankie showed the power of skating with pure speed

Haha 0:38 I bet that angle was so tight back in the day

this is like some EXTREME SKATEBOARDING type shit

cool!!!

daamn that speed :O

filed in a day ....... check the clothes on that shit ! ... 1988 flip indy's allday long boooooom !! legend

I could definitely see Adam Sandler doing an impression of the guy at the beginning. Or, him doing an impression of Adam Sandler.