The Moment Skateboarding Changed Forever | Pat Duffy 'First In Flight'

Pat duy's video part in questionable it split everyone down the middle half of the people that watched it were like I'll never be able to do that I'm going to go do something else skateboarding is not for me and the other half were like all right it's time to step it up that's so funny man Ben schroer one time told me he was like yeah when your par came out we all knew we were that was my favorite type of skating it was like a Do or Die situation I loved the rush when you survived you kind of want more all the time what I enjoyed the most was rolling away from something that was gnarly so that's where my skating was at the point I don't even remember the question [Music] honestly Pat Duffy questionable the video part that ushered in a completely new era of skateboarding after his Premiere in 1992 Street scanning would never be the same let's go back I am now fulfilled whenever you're ready I didn't like that one Bri it's my job to film it how many backs of Li slides you doing the rain today two should have done three whed out pretty much a [ __ ] only for the video for the viewing audience no dude I did it for me my own just for so I could had the satisfaction of doing it pat Duffy is a Pioneer the true sense of the word like what he was doing no other human being on the earth had experienced he was the test dummy what happens if you try something like this will you live will you die the most important part for me was Pat Duffy questionable I couldn't even understand it that's the only time that's ever happened to me in my life where I didn't understand what I was watching you can't even like really relate it to anything in current times because it just didn't exist before this guy was somehow doing something that didn't make sense to anybody else on the planet I don't know if he knew whether it would work or not being First in Flight and not sure if it's going to work that part specifically to me was the biggest leap ever taken in progression in one part he just flipped skating on its head like everything we thought we knew we no longer knew to be true Pat was like no no you guys know nothing this is what it is literally it was as if there was a color that you never saw before there's like before you saw that color and then after you saw that color and then after that you would look at a spot and go well maybe someone could do that Pat Duffy's part is the Line in the Sand about what modern Street skating can be it was just [ __ ] mind melting people got to remember that was his sponsoring tape most of that footage was his sponsoring [Applause] tape let's go to the big one let me give you the theory of Pat dude Pat is actually a Terminator see Pat's a Terminator he was supposed to kill someone and he came from the future but then his program malfunction and so now he's Invincible dude and he can fall in his face and it won't hurt him P's crazy dude that's all they [Music] say seen one take one my name is Patrick Martin Duffy they call me Pat Duffy or Duff man or [ __ ] yod YY it's like so weird to me I was just having fun and doing what I love to do and skateboarding was my life my day to day was just like keep trying to grind stuff longer and bigger and like let's just go skate see what we got and you know put it together I had not a clue that we'd be talking about it 30 years later early '90s were a very Tech era the ledge moves from Hocus Pocus that they were doing stationary were now being done like grinding you know crooked grinds were new thing maybe the impact of my part was because I was kind of going in a different direction I was kind of doing something that was a little bit different I do remember being at the premiere and freaking out pouring sweat and being so nervous like oh God just get me out of here it was a relief that the rim was screaming and it wasn't crickets it was [ __ ] up at the premiere and that eruption you like literally heard heard everything change it was absolute utter Mayhem wall shaking ground quaking people losing it because everything they thought they knew about skateboarding had just changed right in front of their [Music] eyes re I sent my foot Jamie Thomas over he promised me I'd be the next street skating hero it started like a whole new uh genre I guess of skating all of a sudden you know the giant rail at Subway is now like a skate spot or something like nobody even thought of that before you know leading up to now where you can't even find a king Trail big enough I was born in 96 so question B came out before I was born watching it back now like I've seen it and just been like dude no way this was happening before like I said like before I was born four years prior he broke the barrier for us to like be like wow that's possible I think you really paved the way for skaters to be hidden stuff like that and then after him you had guys like Muska and rowy Jamie Thomas and everyone else kind of following the path if I had a little part in that I'm stoked that you know maybe the musaad and was like [ __ ] yeah I want to take it to something bigger and Jamie Thomas was like well let's go bigger you know what I mean if I had a little hand in that I'm [ __ ] super stoked Pat Duffy was a Pioneer and his entire questionable video part was nothing short of revolutionary but today we're going to focus on three tricks in particular that blew mindes and flipped the entire skateboarding World on its head my name is Jacob Rosenberg and I'm a filmmaker in very simple terms I was a full-time filmer for questionable you know the stories at San Pasqual are are crazy like cheffy Hensley and Duffy and no one's ever skated with [Music] Pat first so there's two details here the first detail is look how [ __ ] cool he looks when he lands this that's the other [ __ ] best detail right there is Mike's cell phone just sitting on his [Music] foot [Music] I was actually trying to get the whole thing but I ended up coming off early and being like whatever that was [Music] like but the scariest one we were looking at that one in the front the 20 in the front of San Pasqual and uh I remember I kept telling him that I usually don't want to do a rail unless I can all the stairs but I'm I'm not going to H those stairs you know it had an ad by itself and Pat wasn't even in the ad and you looked at it and you went somebody must have done that that's how gnarly that 50/50 was it's like vertical down 20 25 stairs that was a game changer 10 years ahead 15 years ahead of everything when that happened like Matt Hensley was there I was like my alltime childhood Idol Hensley was there and I'm like you know what let's just do this [ __ ] all right bro that going to go in the [Music] slam oh my God I'm scared to walk though yes [ __ ] dude you are so gnarly I've always wanted to ask Matt about this detail Matt's like shaking his head like this is [ __ ] crazy I mean if we're talking 50/50s on a rail the one that he did at the end of his questionable video part and he had three in there that were Monumental in the same part but the one that stands out the most is the one down the double King cuz it was a round Rail and the way that hallway goes you have to come in like 90° so you have to do like a front side 90 all onto it everything about that just seemed impossible at the time it came out cuzz no one else could do that Pat Duffy's 50-50 in questionable was like it blew my mind I was just like that's not real there's got to be plywood behind the rail that we can't see because I'd never seen a long grind like that much less a double Kink it could have been a straight rail and it would have been like a world record in my mind and again something that you didn't think was real that you could balance on a rail like that at that time it just didn't make any sense there nobody was doing it people didn't really step to what he was doing for like years and years after it took a while for anybody else to really conceive of the idea that they could maybe stay on a rail like that as well we had this flat bar growing up because we were skating the school when we were real young about 14 or 15 my friend Darius that I had grown up with was like in the sand and he's like hey this thing comes out of the sand look and it was a metal balance beam and we were like what the [ __ ] we will be back at 2: a.m. tonight to get this piece of art right here we're going to take this so I learned every single thing on that flat bar well the 50/50 on the Kink that was just random I was out with Oscar Jordan and Jordan RoR and Dave sosok was driving us around that was at the end of the day cuz we were all like we're hungry and slbo was like I just want to show you this thing I said you just look just looked and we just stopped there at the end of the day I was just trying just to see if it was possible that I okay I can I can get on okay we're getting a little further and then it wasn't till the hour and a half in that I was like I'm not leaving until this is done because now I know I was going to go until it was dark or like you know I was [ __ ] hurt or I couldn't go [Applause] anymore it seems like people want like this incredible story that you have in your head and you're like it just wasn't it's like it was just just happened that to me like change skateboarding you know those tricks that literally flip the sport on their on its head when they happened um that's one of them for sure I was screaming at the top of my lungs when I was watching that like oh my God no he's not going to do that he did he's he's doing it he's on it it's happening oh my God yeah I was screaming oh my God if we had just decided to call it a day that 50/50 never would have happened or I don't know what if it what if it didn't start raining up and Marin that day who knows [ __ ] it dude this is the end this is the last thing we're going to film this is the ratus yes smart get a little breath on there that'll make it wet oh don't worry about it dude I'm telling you that rail slide is the radest thing you did for your whole part already those people are just going to go oh my God it was raining it was fully pouring when you did the rail slide too oh you feel see yeah I fil that Mike chaski was the founder of Plan B skateboards The Mastermind behind it you know he um had a really incredible ability of being hard on you but but you still retained the the fact that he loved you he held you to a really high standard of what you were capable of there was a level of accountability with him and he was mentoring Pat in the same way he saw the potential of Pat for me personally it's a really beautiful clip because you're seeing Mike with the skater you're seeing Mike with Pat you can see the rain coming down it's not like it's going to be all is it raining it's going to be like in the rain me and Tobin went there and shot a sequence of it Mike wanted that on film for the video part so we were just warming up on board slides and it started raining he was like well what do you think man I get out of here but I I in my head I'm like this dude just drove all the way from SD stayed at my house it was just important to me at the time because Mike had done a lot for me my father had passed away like pretty early and Mike was like like a father figure a friend also a mentor I'm like why don't I just try it you know Pat's like [ __ ] it Mike T's up here he lives in San Diego we got the rail I told him I wanted to do it that's that beautiful accountability that the mic would bring out of you you don't even know this makes us so much gnarlier about this rain it's like adding another 10 stairs [Music] on and then I took a super heavy slam and Mike just called it he was like done we got it good work I mean it's pretty crazy like people just still come up to me to this day like the backli in the rain I remember where I was and the [ __ ] what you know what I was doing it was crazy wow this came out amazing it looks almost like a painting kind of dude we got a little bit of NorCal and some SoCal in here I'm hyped man it came out awesome let me try to get you one what an honor yeah please I need one signed personalized fing hyped so there you have it pat Duffy questionable perhaps the biggest leap in skateboarding progression that we have ever seen or we'll ever see again in an alternate reality out in the Multiverse wasn't reading people are standing like N St right I'll be SK the rain he did it all he didn't give a [ __ ] and he's still going he's like 50 anytime you skate in the rain in Florida we're just like Duffy Clips dude Duffy

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Length: 15min 24sec (924 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 06 2024