Awesome! I hope to see him on The Nine Club some day.

Frankie is the nicest guy. I met his dad at a local thrift shop in Wilmington N.C. and he was also as nice as he could be. We talked about Frankie and he was a proud poppa

Frankie hill = Good guy and a legend skater , I love u

Thanks for your initial and follow-up videos on Frankie! I was skating in the late 80's and early 90's and he was a big influence. His spotlight in both Public Domain and Propoganda was epic. Also, I'm really enjoying your own channel. I only discovered it a few days ago and can't stop watching.

Great job man!I hope more of these guys reach out to you.Your a historian and its cool to see someone who really cares about skateboarding and takes the time to archive this stuff.

Loved seeing Frankie on his board every day in High School. Back in the day when a lot of us had really skinny decks a little wider than a 2 x 4 board and made of molded plastic. I would be waiting for the bus and he would be ripping it up and down the street. I would always look up to him as another short skinny kid who was trying to do something with his life.

im 41, i skated a FH b-dog powell 1st week out in 90s... he ripped!- still does

Frankie's skating inspired me so much during the early 90s. His style along with the music of the time was straight up fuel! You would get up, get out, and try killing everything in sight. Frankie Hill is definately an icon. Much respect.

hi Frankie I remember you from around 93 I was the guy who gave you a free cheeseburger at McDonald's after you kickflipped a koi carp pond for me I'll never forget it.

Much love for Frankie and Rad Rat

Good job filling us in on Frankie. He's awesome and will not be forgotten any time soon.

Frankie was one of the very first skaters I saw who was incredible & became burned into my mind. Propaganda was “my” video as a kid... rented it every week from the local video store. It’s possible he was my first favorite skater.

Awesome videos man! I remember seeing that Ollie over the gap and Flipping Out! Very, very, underrated skater. Glad he's doing well. Keep up the good work.✌

Great video again. Hope RR considers a retro rippers for Henry Sanchez one day.

Awesome that he replied.... Always loved the guy and the Era. Good work rr

Awesome ! Thank you for posting it’s fantastic. You have a real talent in front of the camera I wish you every success and happiness life has to offer.

Frankie Hill was one of the nicest guys I ever knew. Really cool and chill. Hope you’re doing well.

House of Hill !!! Frankie is a total Legend. He's also one hell of a human being. Much Love and Respect 💥

I know this video is old, but if Frankie happens to see this, I hope he realizes how much of an influence he has had on skating, and street skating in general. I remember first seeing Ban This and my jaw was on the floor. I couldn’t even comprehend what tricks he was doing. Frankie was the king of going big at the time. It sucks he had such a hard time. I know all about it as well. I had some really hard times and quit skating. I’m 45 year old, former shop sponsored skater. And really miss the old days. I have been thinking about coming back to skating, but I have some health issues. Been watching a lot of videos about Frankie Hill and his journey. I wish him all the best, and he should know, he’s one of the best that ever did it. Dude needs an award and more recognition for his contributions to skateboarding. Do your home work kids, go watch Ban This!

Keep this stuff coming man, I love watching your channel all of it is great info you really bring a cool factor to skating. and I love the retro ripper section. A question I want to see asked "Is freestyle skateboarding going to surpass street skating again or is it still just off in the background?" What are your thoughts Rad Rat

This is awesome stuff. One of my favorite skaters

Bottom Line is Frankie Hill was a great skateboarder and a legend! I’m gonna grab his reissue as soon as it drops.

Back then, there were only a handful of skate companies. So being pro was very rare. We all wondered why he wasn't pro earlier. He definitely had the skills. He was actually innovating the sport years before he finally did go pro. I think he had alot of haters because he was so good.

I love the Retro Ripper Series :) Great to see that Frankie actually noticed the video and contacted you!

Thank you Frankie. You are awesome dude. I always wondered what happened to you when i would watch videos from that time. I'm just slightly too young to have followed you as a kid.

Wow! It's great to get news from him!

really chill guy, often overlooked in skateboard history

Frankie Hill 🙌🏻🥇🏆

Dude, Sal Barbier and Chris Hall would be great episodes for Retro Rippers. Keep up the good work!

Every video is awesome! Good work dude!!

Great update. It would be nice in the future if you could maybe do a skype interview so we can hear it from the skaters mouths themselves. Love the content either way.

Hook is an awsome movie! Nice to get some news from Franky hill.

Thanks for the update RadRat and Frankie Hill

Such a great work!!!

I know what that whole movie thing was like actually. I was a nerdy punk, metal, alternative long haired weirdo in school. Stephen King shot a movie in the city I was living in at the time (Sometimes They Come Back) and visited my school. He picked some interesting looking kids from my school to be background and extras in the film. Myself for being alt and different. I went from oddball weirdo to popular over night and instead of being an outcast I was loved and excepted for the first time in my lifetime.

You're channel has grown a lot. You have some of the best skateboarding content on KZfaq.

My friends and I used to rewind his part in propaganda and watch it over and over. We were always so amazed with the drop he ollies off at the end of that part. We just couldn't belleive it.

Awesome guy! Legend!!

Love Frankie Hill

I got me his deck, 'bout a month ago. It is awesome

Got the bulldog board in teal back in 1990!! this guy blew up my mind back then

I remember going to the Powell Peralta park up in Santa Barbara in '89 or so. Dude would take crazy, crazy slams and then just get up and go again at speed. That left a hell of an impression of him.

Legend!

Still no Willy Santos Retro Rippers?

I have an idea for a video “where is Forrest Edwards” I honestly wonder where this guy is

Everybody loves Frankie Hill

Do a nate sherwood retro ripper

Frankie Hill was action-packed, and Ban This was a moment in skating for sure. I was gonna suggest Ocean Howell for Retro Rippers but I just found out he's Googleable..

Frankie Hill was my inspiration. My board was ''Clint Eastwood :) and when i was skateboarding i never been beaten . by the way nice work and videos

Frankie Hill is awesome!

Love your channel. You deserve very nice backdrop wall space

Some real hard hitting journalism

i have that pic of Gonz bank kickflip, in my TWS 2002 issue

Do retro rippers Alex Chalmers

adam mcnatt was the other skater in hook...maybe you cover him....another skater seriously overlooked.

Hey RadRat! I got a great video idea for you! It’s pretty easy to reach out to Keelan Dadd on instagram. He answers DMs. You could maybe do a little episode on his career and what he’s up to these days. He could maybe also clarify some things regarding the Steven Fernandez incident. I know it’s kind of different, and maybe controversial, but it would be great to see as he is an incredible skateboarder and has been very low key since that shit happened. Thanks!! I really enjoy your videos! Regards: Marcell from Hungary

Great. As usual

can you do a retro rippers on Henry Sanchez? and how he basically influenced an entire era

i have that Spider Man comic too i miss those days

I can’t believe you did these “retro rippers” and yet never did one on the guy I always felt had almost as big an influence on late 80’s street skating as Naz & Gonz & certainly more than Frankie Hill ... Matt Hensley. Pretty sure Hensley was kickflipping gaps back in the 80’s, certainly by 1990. He did 1 of the 1st frontside flips ever caught on film even, in Hokus Pokus if I recall. As a kid in the 80s Hensley and that H-Street team were THE guys who influenced me to skate street. My mates & I all 1st saw Natas & Gonz & they inspired us to ride street but it wasn’t really until we saw Shackle Me Not that we really got excited. I mean, you talk about big gaps but Jeff Pettit & Ray Simmonds, Ron Allen, Hensley were all doing that shit back in ‘87-‘88 & the street sections of Shackle Me Not cack all over those snippets in Public Domain, which came out about the same time.

I was bullied efffectively out of high school in 1995 because I was a skater more or less. Aka a f*gg** according to 90% of my peers. It was crazy. I had to drop out and homeschool myself. Oh well. More time to skate and less bullshit to deal with. I think skating was at a really low ebb in terms of popularity when I started. I guess I take a bit of pride in that.

Hey man. Your so knowledgeable!!! Like your channel !!!

I used to skate with him in 1990 and we used to write to each others i remember when he wrote me to tell that he would be in Speilberg movie" Hook"

Good work can u do a lavar mcbride one

we got spit on in high school during the end of the 80's/early 90's

awesome

I wonder is the gonz kickflip on a bank the one from psycho skate?

you deserve way more subs:(((((( keep making videos plssss

Great video . You should do one of your videos about Duane Peters

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I started in the 80's and got chased/threatened/beat up everyday until about 92.

But can he do a handstand?

Retro rippers on Austin seaholm and scott Johnston or even Shiloh greathouse

Sweet vid Rad Rat

Frankie hill in propaganda is the reason I skate and still do to this day and yes I had the bulldog board

Nice

Do a episode about fuel tv it was a tv channel about skating and extreme sports before it closed down

of course u got the lotr trilogy on deck

Sucks that Frankie injured his knee like that. It's too bad that it took so long for him to be able to get the surgery. Every other developed country has universal health care except the US. We need Medicare for All, and we need it now. Seems like Powell didn't support him very much and basically just threw him under the bus. I guess it was fine when he was helping them make money, but, a different story when he got hurt.

Who doesn’t like Frankie hill from the early 90s. Look at his reissued bulldog deck... always sold out every year.

At some point, we all naively think the world will roll over for us. Life’s a bitch.

Big fat ollie one foot....... Propaganda video part is a classic

You don't even see F.H. in the movie Hook. The skate scene is literally only 2 seconds. It's not even worth mentioning.

John Rattray

Your backdrop is str8 weeeeeb.

Bruh do you even skate? I just looked through your channel and found nothing showing you skate.

Heyyy

An education. Not a education.

They beat u up for ur pocket protector

Ol Kicky Rat 🍕

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here's the bank kickflip in the Gonz's Vision Psycho Skate part: around 1::14 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pdFhddCJq9y5hmQ.html

Your drip makes this video unwatchable; please sort it out.

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Punching u when you're down.. skatings middle name.. join the club kids.. look up nate Sherwood s channel.. great frankie doc.