Christian Hosoi video stills from 1990

Back in 1990, vert skating legend Christian Hosoi teamed with Vision Skateboards on a company called Tuff Skts.  I got the job of following Christian and his crew around with a camera for three days hooting video and then editing a promo video.  The original promo I edited was about seven minutes long.  The women in the Vision promotions department didn't like all of it, so I cut the "official" version down to about 4 1\2 minutes, with background music from Muddy Waters and Bad Brains.  I lost my copies of the promo, so the sole version left I have access to is this super short version with lame music that appeared on Sk8-TV on Nickleodeon in 1990.

 And here's a few stills of video I shot of skater Christian Hosoi in 1990.

 Frontside tail grab at height at his ramp in Echo Park.

 Frontside grind with hands behind his back in a big rectangle pool off the 14 freeway.

 Hosoi was not known for lip tricks, but he'd been working on a few before this photo/video shoot.  Alley-oop nosegrind.

 Frontside 5-0 in a pool next to a crack house in Van Nuys.

 Blunt on the 9 foot section of his ramp.

 Watching his boys ride, rectangle pool off the 14 freeway.  That's John Swope on the right.  We met him at the Van Nuy's pool the day before, where he was doing some of the best Smith grinds I've ever seen.  In 1990, Christian Hosoi partnered with Vision Skateboards in a new company called Tuff Skts.  It didn't last long, but I spent three full days shooting footage with Christian and his guys Block, Joey Tran, and Little Man, and we met John Swope along the way.  On the first day at Christian's house, high on a hill in Echo Park (outside downtown L.A.) surfer Christian Fletcher was hanging out and skating and his dad, surf filmaking legend Herbie Fletcher, was shooting film.  Pretty epic day.