I wish it could be 1984 forever.

Imagine just being there. As soon a McGill dropped in on his second run I knew it was coming. glad the crowd apprenticed it. Wish I could take a time machine back and tell myself to keep all my skateboards. my cab, 2 mcgills, and danforth.

Man! Freakin Losi! Awesome. People forget how great he was I think.

I was at this contest! ...just watching ..awesome!

The cradle of civilization.

THIS is why I need a time machine. There isn't much I'd go back to from when I was growing up, but this is on the list.

Yep-one of those moments that changed skateboarding forever! Bet Tony thought;"I'd better do a Unit at the end of my next run!"

This video has been up forever and still is timeless!! The good ol' days!

The one and only pro contest I got to. I'll never forget trying to skate the halfpipe, no flat bottom, on my Sims Hosoi, when I look up and see Christian waiting for me to get out of his way. He climbed up the chainlink fence and jumped into the pipe and proceeded to shred. RAD!

Grew up skating at the Ranch. Miss that place, such a blast and we'd always see the greats there.

Spettacolare! 🇮🇹👋 my first deck was a Tony Hawk in 1987

Watchin this in 2020 🤘

Grateful to witness this as a little grommet in the crowd

man al losi is super good.

Awesome skating! Seeing some of the originators doing what they did and still do best! Thanks to the uploader!

Just imagine witnessing history like that?

Amazing footage.

RESULTS: Mark Rogowski 1st, Hawk 2nd, Magnusson, 3rd, Neil Blender 4th. Amazing that McGill didn't place higher. Hawk would have won, being the only one with a slew of board twirler tricks, but he couldn't stay on some critical runs. The same must have happened to McGill. Good to find another contest that Blender placed high in. The results are from Thrasher magazine. Hosoi had to drop out due to an injury. This is an epic skateboard contest. think of it. 1984. Orwell couln't have imagined it. hehe.

True pioneers right here wish I could carve my McGill board like mike does good shit

thanks for uploading

the good ol days!

@Randyh9 I saw Tony Hawk trying McTwists at Del Mar over 25 yrs ago. On one attempt, he slammed so hard he just disintegrated on the flat bottom. He could only get them about 2-3 feet out and he spun them flat with his board almost parallel with the ground, weird. He would always bottom out on them. I think either Lester or Phillips were the first to land them after McGill, Christian's?....wow!

hosoi with the bigest airs and the most style

Haha, Tony just a kid, little did anyone know what he would become!

there was a TWS cover with the photo of that at a shop I used to work at... :)

@mwhitten77 Tony's trick was a "Unit"...basically a Miller Flip revert, invented by Billy Ruff. If you watch closely, you'll see his front hand on the coping for a split second/ ie 540 frontside invert. Sometimes Hawk's hand would miss the coping and he'd make it, but he never really got above the coping. McGill did the first 540s out over the lip.

Billy Ruff had a pretty good run. I am sure McGill probably placed high with the McTwist.

Killer video. I remember dem days

I had a Losi pool deck, a heart with a knife into it, Hosoi rockets, independent trucks sweet.......not as good as my natas mini, then Jason Lee blind mini cat in the hat board......miss them boards.

I hope someone replicates del mar somewhere in the world!

It’s crazy how mike had that trick on lock like that considering he invented it in the couple months prior to that contest.

Check out hawk with the varials and finger flips & McGill mctwist, history....fcn awsome

Fuckin' Losi ripped!

staabs footplant at 5:32 is sweet , dont like the way he dropped in so fast neil was not finished doing his trip out

@Docmoofesto Yep, I was just wondering what Tony was thinking when he saw McGill land it.

5:01 robloks sound effect

There's something about the old audience that was different, like @0:48 when they cheer the aleyoop grind, I'm not sure people would realize the subtle difference that makes it much harder nowadays generally speaking

7:22 yeaaahhhhh!!!! McTwist !

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Hello Randy, My name is Borram, and we're making a documentary for Brazilian TV called CALIFORFUN, and I would like to know if we can use the images in this video to illustrate Caballero as a kid, for his episode. Thank you

Chris Miller was once quoted as saying, "I wouldn't even SWIM in Del Mar's pool."

7:22 Here you go ;)

Fuck yeah i hear X on the PA. Righteous Old School Skating Video

0:39 yeah!!

Bill, you rock!

Did McGill win this one? Or was it just a demo? Hawk landed something crazy at the very end of his last run, that was "technically" a 540 deg spin, but not a "Mctwist..." I wonder what that trick is called...

Thanks, feels like aim there 😋

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Yeah, the McTwist was a big trick back in the day.

Wonder what Tony was thinking at 07:26. I bet I know.

skate or die live action wooooh!

7:20

which one of them is hosoi?

can you even imagine if pedro barros, grant taylor, or tnt got in a time machine and skated this bowl that day?????

All I know about egg plants is that you have to push...with your arm.

Lance Mountain once said he cried... history in the making, at any rate... but they should edit this so it happens at 5:40, lol

@lemonite1 You could accuse him of being dull, but contempt? He didn't bother anybody. He did well to establish himself out of Florida. I remember the Upland contest in 85 and the interviews. What every skater had to say spoke volumes. I was impressed with what McGill had to say. Hosoi was high. Lester was insecure. Powell was cornball but they had merits. They team was taken care of. Look at poor old Duane Peters. Santa Cruz abandoned him. Gator? He needed professional help, not Jesus. Hosoi?

What a shame it was to see all these legendery SoCal skateparks busted-up and back-filled, I'm sure they'd still be raking in sufficient revenue today -- I mean, who wouldn't make the pilgramage to the Del Mar Skate Ranch to ride the Key-hole at least ???... let alone Oasis, Big O, Endless Wave, Badlands and so many more --- what the frick happened ???

That Mc Twist must have been 3 times as hard to do on that board !

@streetslasher666 McGill was kinda goody goody and he was very competitive. He also had this All American boy image, he looked like he belonged on a football field, not a skatepark. Add all that up and put him in a very Punk Rock/Hardcore Skater era and you get contempt. BTW, this is the earliest video footage of the 540 that I know of.

7:19 🫡

Variflex banner.... If you had one of those boards in 1984 you didn't have any friends who could skate like this

john gibson lands a little low on that lean 2:52

@willywonkarocks1 yes :)

CHRISTIANS LAY BACK @ 4:33 RIPS!!!!!

at 9:25 tony does a mutt air, tribute to rodney mullen...

What's a song 4:41?

How did Blender do?? Well, at least he gave hope that anyone could be a "professional" skater and have their names etched out on a board. Location and who you know made a world of difference back in those days, and he is proof of that no matter what anyone would say. He took a rare and coveted slot that hundreds of others would have earned and taken seriously, but heaven forbid anyone say anything about Blender. He sucked and did not progress like so many of the others in this video, many of which are still riding to this day. Suck a lemon, Blender