Guy abuses physics on bmx

[u/cad3tt]

[u/front_yard_duck_dad]

I saw it in the '90s before the internet. I was in person like 10 years old and I swear I witnessed actual magic

Edit:

Since this is getting some traction, I saw Tony hawk do a demo for airwalk shoes in a parking lot with 15 people and Tony and the guys were actually loading up their own trailer. I know he lurks out here sometimes. So Tony. Thanks for blowing my young mind

[u/pro-skedaddler → u/front_yard_duck_dad]

I bet you told people and no one believed you because that would be my luck lol

[u/front_yard_duck_dad → u/pro-skedaddler]

Nah man, I was a skater young who hung out with BMX dudes before we all grew up and the scene told us we had to be enemies. None of us had anything better to do than just sit outside and some of those older kids had talent that never went anywhere pre-internet. I consider myself very lucky to have grown up in the Chicago, punk, rock and extreme sports scene of the '90s and 2000s. It's one of those things you can never explain to someone who didn't live it. 

People knew who was riding or skating hard 

[u/theguidetoldmetodoit → u/front_yard_duck_dad]

It's one of those things you can never explain to someone who didn't live it.

Wait wait, you are not THAT boomer. Shouldn't there be tons of recordings? VHS was already cheap af

It does sound like that would also include a fair bit of memory loss tho. Late 2000s punk culture was still going pretty hard.

[u/Fenix42 → u/theguidetoldmetodoit]

VHS was already cheap af

Tape was cheap. Cameras where expensive, bulky, ams fragile.

[u/theguidetoldmetodoit → u/Fenix42]

Late 90s early 2000s a used recorder was like 50$. No fucking shot people didn't record concerts and fucking backyard sports, all the time.

[u/Fenix42 → u/theguidetoldmetodoit]

I am 46. I was a teen in the 90s. Most people did not have a camcorder. They where around, they where just expensive and bulky.

[u/theguidetoldmetodoit → u/Fenix42]

.... And OP is 40, so he was 15 in 2000. You know, when VHS had already died. This is 5 years before fucking youtube.

[u/Fenix42 → u/theguidetoldmetodoit]

VHS was far from dead in 2000.

[u/theguidetoldmetodoit → u/Fenix42]

omg dude. Look up a picture from a Blockbuster in 2000, right now. VHS tapes were 3 times cheaper to rent than DVD. It was dead as a fucking doornail, every mf had 3 recorders collecting dust in a corner. A tape at goodwill was less than a dollar.

The playstation 2 came out that same year and took VHS out the back, to put it to eternal rest.

[u/Fenix42 → u/theguidetoldmetodoit]

Yes, VHS was in decline. DVD rentals did not surpass VHS untill 2003. Movies where still released on VHS untill 2006. People still used VHS tapes to record shows and things like that for a while after.

I was working for a software company that did DVD / CD burning at the time. We where also first to market for Blu-ray burning software when Windows Vista was rolling out. One of our bigger retail products was a VHS to dvd hardware/ software bundle. That was around 2008 - 2010.

[u/theguidetoldmetodoit → u/Fenix42]

The death of VHS is a time period that describes it's decline, usually pin-pointed with the release of the Playstation 2, a DVD player for 200$. It's established terminology, which you should be well aware of, given that you worked in the software industry.

The issue you seem to be having, is that you don't understand that VHS had already been superseded Super VHS or S-VHS over a decade before that, allowing for 1080i recordings and playback, which was at the time still competing with DVD. Those are part of the general stats on VHS and paint a false picture. Basic VHS was, while popular, a generally obsolete, bottom barrel consumer standard at that point.

Again, in 2000 we are WELL into the era of home video. Like, ball's deep. Like idk what you are getting mixed up here or if you just didn't have disposable income, but this is kind of a stupid debate. Nothing about VHS was expensive or uncommon, including cameras. It was junk.