Epicly Later'd: Elissa Steamer (Part 1/4)

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11 жыл бұрын

We're psyched to finally have a female pro skater on the show, and who better than Elissa Steamer, the first female pro skater ever. In part 1, we hang out at Elissa's house and then hear about her Toy Machine years from Jamie Thomas, Mike Maldonado, Brian Anderson, and the Muska himself. Featuring footage from Welcome to Hell, here's the beginning of a truly historic Epicly episode.
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@neville2308 3 жыл бұрын

She doesn’t get enough props when people talk about girls who walked so others could run. She’s one of those amazing women who broke down so many barriers for women. Truly someone who should be in history books. 👊🏼💜

@chrisg1476 Жыл бұрын

Yes, she did she's the woman's skateboder legend ..

@Akutsuuu 10 жыл бұрын

I remember playing her on the Tony Hawk games back in the days.

@MrBear231 7 жыл бұрын

EMPTYHERO im a dude and that game was life back in the day....i always played with her. finished career mode over and over always found myself playing as steamer

@jrod3029 6 жыл бұрын

me too =)

@mouseandelephant 6 жыл бұрын

Same

@Mitchell.LeBeau 6 жыл бұрын

EMPTYHERO same dude

@187mrsmith 6 жыл бұрын

EMPTYHERO I'm playing Tony hawk right now she's pretty cool ... Is she still skating?!?

@Kari2025 Жыл бұрын

Love Elissa! As a girl skater, I was so stoked to have her in the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater games. I always played as her.

@JimCorrigan777 11 жыл бұрын

She's definitely paid the price physically for being ahead of the pack. Dedication. You don't have to like skating to admire that.

@deddjester4155 3 жыл бұрын

Late ass reply so ya probably won't see this but anyway tho damn right and well said, totally agree with ya dude

@Zeal808 10 ай бұрын

I think she paid mentally too..

@jaydenrock 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, Muska pushed for Steamer. He moved skateboarding forward by decades by giving Steamer a chance. She was always better than a lot of the guy skaters. She deserves all the success she got but is still so underrated.

@amadousy7543 2 жыл бұрын

Esp in bootleg 3000

@TJGAMINGSCOTLAND Жыл бұрын

She is a legend ❤️🤟🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@sterlingcampbell2116 Жыл бұрын

Not sure about her being better, but she is good... and dedicated

@greysonG10 Жыл бұрын

She was not better than the guy skaters, stop.

@jaydenrock Жыл бұрын

@@greysonG10 damn bro, chill

@coolwierdo 10 жыл бұрын

I don't even skate, this is just interesting. People are so cool.

@de132 6 жыл бұрын

Aida You should consider skating, never too late to start :)

@laughingwolf330 7 жыл бұрын

Damn, her saying she had no idea what she was even capable of until during the filming of her first part just really hit me for some reason. I feel like that attitude is what subconsciously keeps a lot of girl skaters from pushing to be better than they are. Thankfully people like Elissa exist, as well as new generation skaters like Lizzie Armanto.

@k-m___ 7 жыл бұрын

big ups to you for being so respectful, I really relate to this comment and not just with skating, best comment here

@laughingwolf330 7 жыл бұрын

Krishtie Mofazzal hey, thank you! I'm actually a noob female skater, so this whole episode was just super inspiring and incredibly relatable. It made me think a lot about how sometimes we can be surrounded by awesome and supportive people, and yet still be 'held back' by our own attitude, and by negative feelings that are so deeply ingrained that we don't even understand them or where they come from. Something I need to work on with my own skating & in general!

@k-m___ 7 жыл бұрын

A Clark that's so awesome, I'm the same!! I feel like female skaters are sometimes lumped together too often or are always called a "female" skater rather than just a skater, also they're always compared to male skaters and people always say "she's just as good as the boys", but never that she's better. Idk I have so many things to say, even though there's more diversity now the attitudes towards female skaters needs to change, they need to be normalised

@laughingwolf330 7 жыл бұрын

Krishtie Mofazzal Right on! *highfive* lol yeah I definitely do agree, rather than "damn she's a good skater" it's always "damn she's as good as the guys." Truthfully I do think sometimes it comes from within us as female skaters, at least I know I'm guilty of it. Hell, the first thing I do when I go to a park is scan quickly to see if there are any girls there, just to see if I'm not the only one, and it shouldn't be like that, I shouldn't ever care who's around when I'm skating, yet subconsciously I do. Skating is so beautiful because it's about overcoming your ego and accepting failure again and again until you get it, not caring what others think...I think maybe that's not something that girls are taught how to do, or that it's okay to do that even. IDK, I'm rambling but that's the sort of feeling I got from hearing Elyssa talk - like, despite having awesome and supportive parents, she was still doing something that was SO completely unheard of for a girl that it was like, "Can you do it? Well sure, I don't see why not!" rather than "Fuck yeah you can do it, go blow them away!" I feel like that attitude of "I think I can" still hasn't shifted fully to "I KNOW I can" for female skating, and I'm hoping that will be the pivotal moment when the sport is pushed to another level. Lizzie Armanto (who competes with dudes instead of in female comps) is another huge inspiration to me for that reason. If we want to be more than 'just as good as', then we have to change our whole perceptions of what we're capable of, too...Everyone elses' perceptions will follow. /end laregly self-directed motivational rant

@Lootroq 7 жыл бұрын

Well said

@mshak7148 8 жыл бұрын

This girl is a legend

@marcosrodriguez5382 4 жыл бұрын

Mshak714 la primera skater mujer mundo famosa patrocinada etnies y otra marca una legenda

@trxnch5114 8 жыл бұрын

Elissa was honestly one of the most humble people I knew growin up. She used to baby sit me in San Diego when I was 4 cause we all lived in the same house pretty much an she gave me my first board lol Shits crazy to remember haha Her an her friends used to set up ramps on the big ass hill outside of our house an they'd just fuckin mob down that shit an hit the ramps. Miss those days damn

@godSPARDA1995 7 жыл бұрын

Grime Mixtape Rec. are you serious??:o You lucky prick!!! xD wow must be an honour!

@marilynrichards3551 5 жыл бұрын

Fucking blessed life

@cominooculto 4 жыл бұрын

What an honor man

@Sadboy61904 4 жыл бұрын

Hey San Diego bro, my dad met Riley Hawk in Carlsbad 2 weeks ago and my grandpa was a local pro sister in the 1970's

@versnellingspookie 4 жыл бұрын

@@Sadboy61904 what is his name? Are there any photos out there of him?

@katybaby7755 6 жыл бұрын

I grew up next door to her in fort Myers FL. Watching her skate in front of the house. Soo Proud of who she became 💓

@bradmurray1736 5 жыл бұрын

I honestly don't think I could have convinced my sister to skate with me if not for her. Thank you! A life of childhood memories thanks to her influence on the sport.

@Billo1281 8 жыл бұрын

Use to watch Welcome to Hell religiously, before skating! That spot where she jumps the gap onto that triangle is in Miami, I look at everyday at work, pretty cool.

@ClovissenpaiDotR 10 жыл бұрын

You think you're good, cousin? Try beating this high score

@cdc71792 10 жыл бұрын

LMAO just was playin thps 4

@TD5X 8 жыл бұрын

+cdc71792 playing as elissa run :)

@KM-hl9ou 4 жыл бұрын

Looking up all the skaters from the first Tony hawk Game. Remake 2020!

@denistuohy2535 4 жыл бұрын

I can’t wait!

@SolidBrianH 10 жыл бұрын

After watching this I've gained even more respect for Steamer

@gyuziburcsany 10 жыл бұрын

Oh man, it's just so weird to see Jamie Thomas, Chad Muska, Templeton and Steamer in their late thirties-early forties. I'm in my early twenties, but this makes me feel a little old... ps. you guys should stop bashing her...she is an amazing, down to earth person who accomplished a lot in the past decades.

@portraitphenomenon 10 жыл бұрын

JEALOUSY IS A BITCH HUH.. I CANT BELIEVE THESE OPEN MINDED, SKATERS ARE SUCH HATERS..

@aptand 7 жыл бұрын

This is on Vice. The majority of viewers and commenters have never touched a skateboard.

@ivangotyokes 6 жыл бұрын

Try being in your mid 30's and seeing them. You realize you're old AF.

@GasGotti 6 жыл бұрын

gyuziburcsany exactly how I feel. I’ll be 29 in a few days and I just can’t believe how old I feel. A couple years ago all these guys were ripping at my age. I still have a the OG fingerboard decks of all the sickest graphics. Even those shorty boards they came out with.

@187mrsmith 6 жыл бұрын

gyuziburcsany I feel you bro same here I'm playing Tony hawk 2 on N64 & decided to look her up pretty dope man although it does makee feel old & I'm in my mid 20s

@z0mbiezak 9 жыл бұрын

This was the best one I've watched. Loved seeing all the Florida spots mentioned :D

@patjones6553 8 жыл бұрын

she's my aunt ; )

@krazyhatter6479 7 жыл бұрын

Delaney Jones *She looks like*

@bryanwilson4325 7 жыл бұрын

Delaney Jones cool

@nicholasramos7343 6 жыл бұрын

she's your aunt

@de132 6 жыл бұрын

nicholas Ramos She's that person's aunt

@JulesD92 6 жыл бұрын

Delaney Jones Shes my mothers sister.

@amnezija 11 жыл бұрын

Maybe its not all about being pretty and marketable. Maybe its about being yourself, doing what you love and enjoying the process. Just maybe

@toejam6941 6 жыл бұрын

amnezija I love you..

@blazedlangermann4530 6 жыл бұрын

Real talk.

@whiteshedevil6809 6 жыл бұрын

amnezija :)

@williammoore7861 4 жыл бұрын

Back then maybe..... NOT NOW

@Hayyden 6 жыл бұрын

Nostalgia when hearing her name and seeing her film. Good times being a kid. Crazy how fast time rolls on by.

@Richie086 10 жыл бұрын

great doc. I remember seeing her skate in the late 1990's quite a lot. good to know she is doing well.

@Spliffvision 10 жыл бұрын

Her and me are from the same town, it's awesome to look at the spots she skates and then to skate them myself

@gagebraatz700 Жыл бұрын

23 years of life and I’m moving from my hometown Fort Myers, Florida to North Carolina with the family I have made. Gonna miss this place more than I thought. Elissa thank you for first inspiring me when I was just a little tiny kid. You’re fuckin gnar.

@ephraimdrakeful 10 жыл бұрын

Streamer ruled my skate world, when I was 13. There where very few girls in Seattle that actually skated. We always referred to girl skaters as Betties. No disrespect intended its just what we all called skater chicks. Any way Elissa Steamer you are so rad.

@HowlingMad86 4 жыл бұрын

Streamer? 😳

@versnellingspookie 4 жыл бұрын

@@HowlingMad86 she's probably on Twitch

@ianm1481 3 жыл бұрын

I thought betties were essentially skate groupies? Not girls that skate per say 🤔

@bradwoods7321 10 ай бұрын

Hands down the coolest chick to ever step on a skateboard, all these years and she has stayed true to herself, and stayed hardcore

@Psymon1471 6 жыл бұрын

Legend in Girl Skating.. Skating as a whole really. Jamie Thomas is the man too and having JT as a filmer/wingman would blow my tiny little mind

@xrichiexg Жыл бұрын

Lolol I love her!! I live in englewood Florida for a while and we used to do the same thing, wait for the new skatepark to close and then go after and skate til dark! 😂😂😂

@dotsona07 11 ай бұрын

Wish this was longer, Elissa is awesome

@lukeking7371 3 жыл бұрын

This is very old I'm glad I found this again!! I adore her all over again Toy Machine Awesome ! But she was and is my Idol Awesome at 42 woohoo!!!

@drivenbyfate 11 жыл бұрын

Yea! I've been waiting for this one

@mrjmperez777 4 жыл бұрын

Man. That took me back to middle school. Welcome to hell was the first skate video I watched with my friends when we got into skating.

@youwish1135 8 жыл бұрын

wow great camerawork. I love how you managed to shoot Muska's interview completely soft!

@user-gp9mz4yt8k 5 ай бұрын

Still here checking on the O.G. Gnar Shredder video's 🎥 !

@johnwu4358 3 ай бұрын

Met Elissa once in front of a coffeeshop in the Outer Sunset in SF. She was incredibly nice and shook my hand. Awesome skater.

@glennh3937 4 жыл бұрын

Elissa you are sick. Stoked on this.

@goldentornado90 11 жыл бұрын

I'm form Ft, Myers and it was so cool seeing a pro from my hometown as a kid.

@rljgzr069 6 жыл бұрын

I met Hawk when I was 5. Outside of a shopping center in The Bay, and that had me hooked on skating. But, this generation was the generation that got me completely sold

@Anxietyoffline Жыл бұрын

She’s by far one of the coolest and talented person to ever touch a skateboard

@RemotoFilm 10 жыл бұрын

She is so RAD!

@bendyer1465 Күн бұрын

Patrick Odell absolutely rules and these epically later’d videos are absolutely among my favorite skate videos. I wish they would do an episode on Rodney

@realmackle 4 ай бұрын

I think that its important to remember how much she innovated in the earlier days of street skating regardless of gender. In Welcome to Hell she was one of the best parts going up against some of the best dudes in skateboarding in the 90s. I think she deserves far more credit than just "great girl skater".

@zucre6270 5 жыл бұрын

I remember meeting her at the farmers market she's awesome

@chrishendricks1160 2 жыл бұрын

I moved to Fort Myers literally a month after she moved to Cali..I ended up at a party with all her friends..she is a big deal in Fort Myers..They are very proud of her there, as they should be..RESPECT.

@antihero105 5 жыл бұрын

I remember her from the 411 / Shorty's / Toy Machine vids, love Elissa Stramer!

@eddyafritz 9 жыл бұрын

Dear vice stop doing pop up annotations that are nearly impossible to close

@looshkin66 9 жыл бұрын

damn, are you really that lazy?

@looshkin66 9 жыл бұрын

oh, im sorry.....i watch on a laptop and had not considered that. I'm sorry My bad.

@bryanwilson4325 7 жыл бұрын

at 8:43 what brand shoes is Brian Anderson wearing, I want some

@SupremeCommanderSil 11 жыл бұрын

When I was a kid she was my biggest role model.We have the same first name and I wanted to be and still want to be an epic girl skater because of her :3. I have a classic Toy Machine board like hers in THPS. She really broke the mould. Had she not, someone else would have but the fact remains that she really brought about a change. Even so, a lot of skating videos are aimed at guys - "go out and impress that girl". I'm not going to do it to impress anyone. Just be myself. Dress/skate how I want.

@thisttj 11 жыл бұрын

Good old classic! Vice as always

@fergferguson4399 10 жыл бұрын

One question. Why is Rodney Mullen telling this story?

@rOCKAHOLIK187 11 жыл бұрын

Thanks VICE! Elissa is awesome

@lovelytrumpet3367 5 жыл бұрын

Very Good 👏👏👏👏👏

@jayes460 5 жыл бұрын

Those fisheye lenses man takes me back to watchin the videos on thps i liked the bails haha

@michaelk2039 Жыл бұрын

Legendary!!!

@chrismobiliophotography5743 3 жыл бұрын

she is defiantly one inspiring person. she defiantly is legend as well

@lynneaneweer7962 10 жыл бұрын

Elissa Steamer is AWESOME!!

@codycameron241 11 жыл бұрын

6:07 button up and books in the background haha so sk8r

@SamSlugg456 Жыл бұрын

She is one of the actual greats

@rogelioybarra4068 3 жыл бұрын

Goat female skater 🛹 I remember in the old toy machine videos when i was like 10yrs old im 32yrs old now .. love you steamer!!!!

@vadamiller9851 4 жыл бұрын

I met her in Fort Collins colorado during a skate demo for toy machine in the nineties

@sk8anddestroy792 4 жыл бұрын

Katie?

@Americansikkunt 6 жыл бұрын

"I rode down a hill one day, and I wasn't like, 'Ok, I'll move down here'".

@benskinner8580 4 жыл бұрын

Big up Elissa! Massive influence on me starting skating from a young age in the 90s, fond memories of watching her pro vid on Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2 (I think? Maybe Pro Skater 1). It's crazy to think there was hardly any female skaters in the 90s - guess it's just the way society is before people go against it.

@Free_com122 7 жыл бұрын

I never knew her name was pronounced like Alyssa. How cool.

@benconnor3206 4 жыл бұрын

Legend!

@adamjessicamccary9011 6 жыл бұрын

FORT TOWN!! I used to skate at the same skate park behind Sonny's BBQ with Elissa! Good Stuff!

@WrestlingNZHazardis 6 жыл бұрын

I was 12 when I 1st saw steamer & Jamie thomas, chad muska, good ole days I'm 33 now ,still smoking...

@youforget1000thingsaday 6 ай бұрын

I used to pick her in the Pro Skater games. I LOVED Elissa Steamer!

@minilogoguy18 10 жыл бұрын

hell yeah, from FL

@nimboss 5 жыл бұрын

I used to play her on Tony Hawk Proskater. Judo Madonna and Primo Grind ftw! 🤙

@rvillal57 11 жыл бұрын

ELISSA!! Finally we get to learn more about her!

@isdatbochi 2 жыл бұрын

Legend 💕

@NoNoDigUpStupid 8 жыл бұрын

whos that guy who ate ed templeton?

@pxndxholic 5 жыл бұрын

NoNoDigUpStupid i know right lol

@ryansmith9104 4 жыл бұрын

C'mon bro, all of us skaters from the 90's have gotten fat. Lol.

@Buffalosabskis 4 жыл бұрын

I remember skating vert with no helmet. Just thinking about it now makes me nervous

@239riders 11 жыл бұрын

fort myers!!! the cute pet video thing this week was from here too... i met allisssa at fort myers skate park a couple times when i was real young

@garretthaysbrook865 10 жыл бұрын

Mark Gonzales book in the background when Templetons talking

@hairbearbunchTV 5 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't learn who she was for a number of years but I'm pretty positive I saw her skating at Skatepark of Tampa in 1994 or so.

@DoggoWillink 10 жыл бұрын

Welcome to Hell... sums up my childhood in three words. Toy Machine was the fuckin shit, hands down.

@davek5749 5 жыл бұрын

I used to skate with her back in the day when on toy machine

@RochesterSportRifles 11 жыл бұрын

"Elissa Steamers a superstar" I watched Welcome to Hell so much the VHS wore out. Love Elissa.

@keltar4071 3 жыл бұрын

Im from fort myers. Fort myers is a small place especially back then. There werent many skaters and i knew them all. Everyone that was any good skated for Tim Mott renegade skates. There wasnt a skate park in fort myers in the 80s or 90s. there was only a 13 foot halfpipe called whiskey ramp. I was very active back then and i never seen or heard of this chick. She may of been born in ft myers but she didnt skate there. Unless shes talking about the 2000s because i moved to saint petersburg then.

@PickedFirst4Kickball 11 жыл бұрын

mad chill

@swagfordaaays 10 жыл бұрын

cool documentary

@howiecrisp6642 5 жыл бұрын

She is great love her rom the time I saw in the video...

@paddypub63 8 жыл бұрын

I wish there was a segment for bmx.

@rebd00mer93 Жыл бұрын

I always had a huge crush on elissa back in 2001 when skating was my life

@emmanueljames1845 4 жыл бұрын

"Pharmacy rideshop" bag @ 2:20??

@BGraves 11 жыл бұрын

She's so rad.

@jons9239 4 жыл бұрын

Muska was my favorite in THPS because he rocked the backwards hat and backpack.

@brothaNblue 2 жыл бұрын

Radical

@deddjester4155 3 жыл бұрын

I thought she had wicked buttery talent ever since I saw her part in Welcome To Hell and been a fan of hers since

@MithradatesVIEupator 5 жыл бұрын

THPS.... Rowley, Burnquist, and Steamer were my favorites...

@TheSmescarzaga 7 жыл бұрын

little known fact about Muska: he's literally just a blurry dude

@satori-in-life 6 жыл бұрын

Elissa has always been a rad chick and skater. Proud to say I came up skating around the same area as her in Florida.

@TJGAMINGSCOTLAND 3 жыл бұрын

Such an inspiring person, I wish someone would teach me how to skate. I'm autistic and I feel I could achieve a lot.

@bumbaclot77782 11 жыл бұрын

One of the first pros I heard of when I was young

@MrGriffin1956 4 жыл бұрын

Thought this was a new upload until I checked the comments

@theasulit9991 10 жыл бұрын

She looks like Gotye.

@poundcake868 5 жыл бұрын

Tbh now she's just somebody that I used to know. Somebodyyyy eeeee.

@Tonttarainen 8 жыл бұрын

She's definitely awesome!

@ryanguardalabene7849 5 жыл бұрын

Bombed cityview so fun

@letsgetiton91 11 жыл бұрын

nice watched this 10 years ago, seeing that florida thunder truck again was well worth it though

@cron205 6 жыл бұрын

I didn't know elissa skateboarded in the 80's that's so sick 😎

@jamesdunn96 11 жыл бұрын

Elissa is so rad