26 years ago this meant the world to me. I watched this part with my friends over and over and over again. Then we'd go out skate all day and night. Not worrying about anything but skateboarding. Good times.

Man, start this video at 4:03-the killer music, the totally raw old-school tricks, the smiles on these young heroes’ faces, the concrete. This epitomizes why the mid to late eighties were the best. I’m out the door to skate right now!!

thanx for the weakness respect mang....i wrote that song in my mom's living room in west philly..1985......Treece

Im 30 and didnt see this until i started skating when i rented it and it instantly became my favorite skate movie and still is to this day

Ray Barbee had some crazy skilled footwork

Let's be honest. We all watch the part with M.c. Rad, weakness. Such an awesome song for such a wonderful time. It'll never happen again! Skaters unite!

back in the days when skateboarding meaned FREEDOM.

I miss these days. Everything is about flip tricks nowadays. That air walk off the wall is still fire today. 😊

This video always brings back so many good memories. No complys, shove-its and not too many tech tricks but just the sheer joy of a kickass all day session with your crew. What I wouldn't give to experience this again.

one of the most influential parts in a skate video ever, ray barbee is the truth

Why do I love skating... Freedom. God, loved it.

4:00 in is the best skate video part ever! i'll never forget it or the music. i was in highschool and watched this everday

I about wore my vhs tape out replaying this segment over and over. Fuckin awesome!

goosebumps watching this after all these years!!!

Loved this back in the day. My favorite part of "Public Domain".

great track, i used to search for this track a long time. In the early 90 it was hard for a little german skater to get american music. Thanks to Hitsville records in D`dorf for having almost all!!Thanks to farm skates for supporting young skaters with their great skate area and a great variety of stuff.We all had a great time...! timewarp...

ya, these bring back some kick ass memories. still can't believe we ollied so high with those giant decks??

I used to have a Powell/Peralta Ray Barbee Poker Face Deck with the Skeleton on the front wearing the trademark Ray Barbee Hat!!! Tracker Trucks and Rat Bones Wheels, man do I wish I still had that!!! This vid brings back so many memories! Time to look for old SK8 Tv Nickelodeon videos!!!

To go back to these days.. I would give anything!

Ray Barbeeeeeeeeeeeeeee - thank you for sharing!!

At that time, we used to watch this part just before going to ride.. I don't know why but that part is fire !

Wow. I love this. Rag Barbee was my idol. I had all his boards. The shovits and no complys blew my mind back then.. Bout to hit 34 next month...

Man me and my mates watched this over and over then went out and skated non stop too. Loved the music too!! Good times still skating today but with bad knees and ankles!!lol

Memories man...These dude were our idols! Never mastered the ollie impossible.

drumr from los Angeles...wow how this video and all the Powell bones brigade videos bring back memories, from the glory days of how skateboarding was at it's golden prime !! I remember having Ray Barbees card deck with independent trucks and rat bone wheels... back in 87 .... I m 38 now....and I still have dreams of those days back then!! thank you for the good memories!! if I had a chance to time warp...1986' 87' would be the year!! thank you StAcy and all the whole Powell Peralta team for ripping it best of all ...knarliest team of all!!!

Old school forever...

was 14 when this came out and omg was the best thing too watch before a hard core skate session Mc rad and barbie were my life in 88 miss the good ol days so much !

i just watched this has been so long. and yea eat sleep skate. im 38 now. and fixn to go buy a new board!! fakin badass👍

Watched this daily for at least a year!

same for me dude! Started in tucson az in 88! Now I'm almost friggin 38 years old, wtf! But when I watch this vid, it makes me feel like nothings changed. Still it makes me sadly nostalgic, thinking of my old friends who've passed on, etc...

This still gives me the same feeling of wanting to go and skate as it did when it came out, but now im od and ache more lol

Que tiempos aquellos

Takes me back to my highschool days. I practiced hard all night to make no conply with my friends. and I really like this rock music. Good time.

Ray Barbee, right there!

So cool, i love it!

Reminds me of skateboarding and drinking cider as a schoolboy! great days

And I am thankful everyday for you doing that.

7:24 Saiz... trending 20+ years before it became one 👏🤘

6:40 is right down from Natas’s house off Frasier ave. Sweet spot.

So long since I've seen this ...Public Domain best sk8 vid ever.

This shhhh go hard!!

Demais !!! O antes e o depois do street mundial !!

@rockymarco you 100% correct i was the same skated ever day it was my life 80s skating was the best ever just wish i could go back and do it all over again dream dream dream !!

wow! para esos tiempos recuerdo q los eskeiters veiamos pd antes d salir a correr para pompiarnos con los trucos. esa parte le pertenece a ray barbee. mi set up era una natas sma, con indy's, germany bearings, schmit stix rails y gomas oj's II, jjjj good old times yeah!

at about 5:19, love how barbee strings together about 5 or 6 differnet no-comply shove-it variations with absolute ease and so smooooth...

I love this video now as much as I did back in the day. Always wondered why they misspelt Ray's surname in the opening though. Guess it doesn't matter though, they rocked it!

love this shit!!!! so many memories!! I was 10 when public domain was released. I had animal chin thru Powell video 8 and I worn them all the fuck out!!!

This video makes me SO freaking happy!

Hell yessss

There's a couple versions including the original on iTunes now. I listen to it all the time.

uta q recuerdos yo vi ese video como 400 veces cuando tenia 13 años ,asta q descompuse la super beta max q dias aquellos

memories...memories... Thanks Badger816 !

I started skating in in 88. this was the first video i saw. It was like so many others here have said. I skated before school. to school. during school sometimes. and after. at night with a homemade light setup in the backyard. thought about skating constantly. Did not want to do anything else but skate. i still skate, it's still fun, but doesn't feel the same

Anyone watch this in Charing Cross road theatre In 1988 ???

Steeve saiz, Errrric Anderson, raaaaaay barbie, and Cheeet thomas !

@TheBenben76 Hey Ben ! in fact I bought myself a new board since I left my comment - so tired to watch and dream on those fantastic old Powell or Santa Cruz videos... I had to adapt myself to those new double-deck and concave boards without spacers or rails, I'm quite rusty and my body aches everywhere, I must be the oldest and slowest skateboarder of my town, but the feelings remain intact : pure joy and freedom !!!!!! I wonder how I was able to live twenty years without THAT... see you !

Stacy Peralta was 31 when this was filmed.

Chuck Treece? Great song man. Well used in this video.

i fucking love this video

ray barbee rules

😍😎

4:00 HELL YES HAHAHAH

Mini ramp champ

hell yeah!

@emtpah83 It's McRad/Chuck Treece and the songs are "My Weakness" and "McShred".

ah Public Domain. Do you know your the best skate video of all time?

this is real skating....so sick

wonder how much skin he lost learning those hand sliding sess moves

@thongslapper barbee is like the epitome of smoothness

Eric Sanderson wasn't good enough for sponsorship, but he rode for Powell for many years anyway.

OG shit

I have been looking for a skate scene that was on a video (between '88 and '90, I think) that had a song that said (something along the lines of) "bomb the bass, and I get deeper", "like a human, not a computer", "? is ? not a destroyer" yada yada.. That's all I remember but I can't find it anywhere!! I can't remember if it was on a Powell & Peralta video, an H-Street one, Santa Cruz etc - all I remember are these lyrics from the track (it's been 30 years so they're not really fresh in my memory lol)... Does ANOYONE know what I'm talking about and which video and/or track that was?? :P :P

Chet thomas looks about 7 bless im

Who was this song by and what was it called ??? Been trying to remember for like the past 20 years

bags under the eyes Saiz

@benlukkie same here!

Can someone please tell me the band and the name of the song?

anyone know name of the song that starts when barbie's run starts?

Sorry they spelled him like the plastic doll though. Good one Powell. Your best street skater and you compare him to a little girl's dress up dolly, haha.

whats the song at the start

some people dont like his style because its "easy" or "its not real skateboarding." same people are like "i like skating cause you can do whatever you want." wtf!? i dont get it

What's that trick that Ray Barbee does at 5:26? Is it a half cab no comply? It looks fun. I'm going to try them.

i always hated steve saiz, the first time i met him he was the most annoying and rude guy i ever met

7:10

@lynus111 just a lame guy Sanderson was pretty cool

Who sings this?

Whos that Plz say it to me

Sanderson wasn't very good compared.