Society always says “we gotta find a way to keep kids off drugs and out of crime” but when kids find anything they love like skateboarding, video games, BMX, etc it’s always a problem.

I remember those dark days. Couldn't move for skateboards just randomly crashing through windows and hitting you in the head. Lost most of my family to flying skateboard head injuries that fateful summer😔😔

Those guys weren't really hurting anything. It's amazing what trivial issues they had to worry about back then compared to now in 2021.

"It'll NEVER be a olympic sport" my old gym teacher

Dude at 0:45 was like "Wait, what year is this?" and went back to the 80s lol

“$100k a year in damage.” Someone was pocketing $99.5k to repair $500 in rail paint.

Anybody ever actually seen somebody miss a trick where the board comes flying out and hits somebody else in the head? I sure haven’t lol

If they were really causing $100,000 a year in damage then why not use that money to build them a skatepark?? I highly doubt that's true anyway. I've skated for over 20 years and skaters are respectful for the most part.

I started skating in 95 and I remember the look and feel of those days. The brands, the logos, the attitude, the small wheels and baggy clothes. I loved it.

LMAOOO "they're going so fast their boards will slip from under their feet and hit someone in the head and smash through a window." This lady is completely making things up.

Was 14 back in 94 and always loved the transit trips from Delta into downtown. Now I’m 42 and was skating at Robson square last weekend. Skating keeps me young and I’ll do it as long as I can.

Hilarious this was an issue. This is what happens when things are going really good. I literally skated in Vancouver in 94 too. Now in 2022, people would laugh at this compared to the shit going on now.

I always wore my helmet when I was in Vancouver. Not because I skated, but because I wanted to protect my head from all those deadly flying skateboards that were injuring hundreds of people a per day.

You can see them a mile away cuz they are like nerds

Perhaps if councils, police and people in general had spent more time worrying about crime, drugs, homelessness and other real issues, instead of getting their knickers in such a bind over skateboarding, we wouldn't see the kinds of situations in major cities that we now see today.

The video quality is amazing.

those kids are probably in their 40s by now

Ahhh good ol' Vancouver, the city of fining everything they can possibly fine, and preventing most fun events from taking place. They've never changed.

As a 90s kid, I miss the days when THIS was considered a big problem.

I haven’t seen one kid land a trick in this video.

the things id do for that hook ups snapback

I just want to take a moment to honor the guy who struts in at the 48 second mark... Perfecting the 80s aerobics video aesthetic

I’ve never heard someone call a cop a stupid nerd lmao that kid is awesome.

When it was illegal to skateboard in Vancouver good thing that they lifted this law

I watched my friend beat a cops ass for trying take our boards back in 96 down there. He's still in jail I think

Imagine being so old that kids spending their time working out and practicing their art would be criminalized... Boomers be booming. XD

The person who was concerned about the boards shooting out, was saying that it could hit someone in the head. I have never seen board shoot up that high on flat with that accuracy.

These dudes were cool and they weren't flexing for the gram or Twitter. Back when freedom still existed and people weren't on cell phones. How do I know? I was skating like this in the 2000s the same way before the world became what it is now.

Damn, that 90’s drip though. Bruh. Bring it back.

hilarious I was down there all the time never got hit or potentially hit by a skateboard

Impound fees for skating brings back some memories. A smaller town in Georgia I lived in tried that. They made the fee more expensive than buying a new complete. Needless to say, I ended up skating a lot more fresh decks than ever and if not that I would piece together setups from the homies lol and this was only a little more than a decade ago 😂

crazy how skaters are dressing like this in 2022, this vid almost looks current

Moses Itkonen used to destroy that spot! Thank you for the upload

I feel so bad man if only they knew what skateboarding meant to those guys

Look at them tiny wheels

Now it’s an Olympic sport! I’ve always said it would be and people thought I was crazy. 😂

Goddamn kids and their wheelyboards!

Those tiny wheels really take me back

Yea often times when you're out and about you have to watch your head for skateboards flying, especially if you're near a window, they love to fly in and break them.

I love how the news wouldn't show them land one trick...

During this Time in Houston there was one skatepark Called (Houston skatepark) before Southside opened... Now in 2022 there is four skateboarding parks with in 10 miles from where I live! Skateboarding is a Feeling, an outlet, and a form of expression!! 💯

"they're nerds, they're like so stupid" - words from a wise man

skateboarding is a popular youth activity

100,000 dollars in damage. A year. Haha

100,000$ a year in damages?? My skatepark has never been renovated and it’s 20years old

Some times when riding fast the boards will slip up underneath their feet and hit people in the head 🤣

0:46 YO this guy is straight DRIPPIN

It’s crazy seeing so many random skaters in this video. Barely any kids skate now. I remember back when I was in HS, skating was so popular that the school had its own room to store students skateboards in while they were in school.

Who’s getting hit in the head by skateboard “flying out from under their feet”?

Sam Devlin sighting!

Skateboarding was bigger in 89 than 94 in Vancouver.

$100k a year, even back then, is so trivial within the scope of a city's operating budget lol.

Impoundment Fee? Wtf. Plus 100,000 in damages plus 75$ ticket.

That cop is such a liar, I skated in all my teens and am looking to get back into it at 26. In all my time I have never seen someone go so fast their board "flies" into the air and hits people in the head or break car windows. The only thing that is semi-correct is the injury claim but that's no different than the risk of getting hurt playing football, or hockey. As for cost build skatepark which eventually they do but still these kind of lies are shit you still hear today.

There’s a video almost exactly the same as this where they went to some ski resort in the early 80s when snowboarding was becoming popular. Y’all should look it up

Big pants, small wheels. They even had a nice closeup of some of those bearing covers. Those were the days.

Their nerds so we just run the other way. Thrash it!

During my earlier teen years back in the late 90s, skateboarding had its pros and cons skating on business properties. The business properties had the ideal skating environment due to smoother pavement, relenting gaps and easy to reach ledges. Good ol grandmas church candle wax was used on these ledges and you needed a lot tailslides and truck grinding to smooth out the edges. Businesses only cared pushing skaters away because we were loitering and we were not business professionals so the sight of teenage and grungy filthy looking skates did not mix well with folks who worked in the nearby buildings wearing suits and ties. But we do not see eye to eye with what was right or wrong skating on properties back then - nobody cared and we just cared about being with friends and skateboarding and spot was our home. The pros about skateboarding on business property was that at the time, security guards are the only ones that can approach you but they cannot do anything so disobey. Then the cops roll in, we leave and come back again eventually. The law back then could not state private property as many businesses and org had certain regulations what can constitute private business property. So cops would tell you to leave and you leave and do it all again. The police could not give you a ticket (or make an arrest) unless it was evident there was destruction of private propert. Or worse, vandalism. Which all lines up to young skater minds at the time. Especially prone to that were skaters who belong to low income families. On the upside, the police benefited from this due to tickets being handed out, hospitals benefited from skateboarding accidents and security companies were hired to install prefectures and security cameras for legal purposes. I recall back in 1999, I was in high school, got older somewhat and our friends decided to put girls aside and go skateboarding with your old skater crew. We found the law fought back more against skateboarding and businesses and properties decided to install skateboarding deterrents. These were literally those little concrete, iron bolted metallic knobs to prevent skateboarders (and the razor and roller crew) from doing their cool tricks. Skateparks were built but you had to pay. Many were free but it was always crowded and you had to abide the pads and helmet law and you get a ticket if you dont follow those. The scene changed, you get older, priorities change, your mind changes.. your teenage years is now just a tale of your own book. Good times it was skateboarding. I now run my own business and share a plaza with other businesses and once in a while I see some kids skating at our plaza but I don't yell at them. In fact, I just give them some gatorade packs and snacks (they are low income folks, trust me) and I tell them they can skate all they want just dont do it during peak business hours and not to vandalize the place. Other business owners frown on that discussion. But I tell them soon enough, these kids will grow up to know that at least some other adults they have seen in their life actually gave to sh!ts about them.

0:46 that's how you can really tell this was shot in the 90s

Name another beloved pastime that can get you thrown in jail and your property confiscated just for doing it. Skateboarding is a sport and art combined, so imagine getting arrested for playing basketball, or playing a guitar. Skateboarding is a two billion dollar industry. Backed by institutions like Nike or Adidas, Redbull or Gatorade, and there are still places where you can go to jail for doing it. Then guess what, doing stuff like that only makes it appear cooler and rebellious, and that makes even more appealing and draws in even more people.

And now it's an Olympic sport. Truly amazing.

Yo mad props to the legends in the video

I love that they only show bails

All the kids of today should be thanking these guys for making skateboarding what it is today . IN IN THE OLYMPICS .

Love the 90s man! Bring back underground hip hop

how the fuck does a skateboard just hit someone in the head

Man that static noise in the background. Just a normal news with no dramatic music in the background, with the normal zoom in into the faces of people talking.

Man, did you see the size of those wheels? They may as well be skating on bearings.

amazing vedio! these kids are in their 40s now

Oh the good old days when skateboarding wasn't Little League

I worked in lawn care both residential and municipal and I’ve seen more cars and homes windows getting blasted out from pebbles flying from weed whackers than I’ve seen from skateboards lol

In that period inline skating became massive. Still remember taking over the skatepark. Skaters watching from the sidelines. Pitty that didn´t last.

Tony ferguson in plan b vid.

That cop lied hard af ive never had my board go through a window or someone's head lol at cops

$100,000 in damages? All I saw were a few pebbles going over a wall.

Other then an unlucky cameraman, I have literally never once in almost 20 years of watching skate vids and having previously skated, ever seen a board go flying and smoke someone in the face or break a window. Not saying it hasn't happened, but saying it like it's a problem and it's a common thing cracked me up.

Quick these people are having too much fun!!! 20 years later: People arent even wearing masks outside, fine them too.

Sweet video!

Problem is: it’s illegal to ride a piece wood with 4 wheels in Vancouver

Kids go so fast their board slips out from under their feet lol

JFC look at that SJW hair cut. Commies everywhere.

get a 10 speed

Those bearing casings look so sick

00:41 is that a red miata on the right?

I was in grade 10 then and skateboarding was life. I enjoyed watching this

"the boards fly out from under them... and they hit people in the head and go through windows" 😭

Why did they show so many bails and why am I seeing this in 2022?

look at the wheels at 00:34 is he riding 32's?

brings me back 19 years old. Original Supreme box tees and my Sony Walkman. No family or life, time to skate!

y were the wheels so small-

A skateboard could shoot out and hit somebody in the head? I'm no physics major but your editor showed mostly flat ground. How's the head boarding supposed to occurre precisely?

What did the awesome mullet sunglasses guy at 0.46 think? No one asked him his opinion.

Let's not mention the homelessness and drug epidemic, or all the missing indigenous women... Let's focus on something that won't take too much effort, kids having fun.

That plaza looks like a great skate spot

If a board slips out and hits someone in the head, exactly how short is that person? Were they sleeping on the sidewalk? I bet Hongcouver wishes they had the skateboarding kids back.

Quilchena Skateboard Park in Vancouver looks pretty good, Ben Degros shows it sometimes on his KZfaq skate videos

Did anyone land?

Imagine being one of these old farts, and seeing yourself on the tube years later. I'd be stoked.

I have skated busy downtown spots but I didn't try and do my tricks right into to people like some skaters did and still do, not that it would have stopped them from shutting down the spot just doesn't help the situation or peoples view on skating

The guy with the pink tank and mustache convinced me that it is 94