***UPDATE 04/12/2007*** All the download links have expired because they were off third party hosting sites. So if you missed, it sorry. There goes history. Some of them are probably on You Tube or floating around over AIM transfers

There was once a time in New York skateboarding where the scene had a heart. Yet it wasn’t in the heyday of when you could do front shoves off the curb at Astor and have it be considered legit. Nor was it that wonderful period where local heroes like Kyle James would steal your board at the Banks and proceed to do switch 360flips in Timbs. With all due respect the former eras of New York and what they brought to the table, earlier on in this millennium, the little kids ran thangs.

You could not pass Beer Bar without having felt our wrath. We were destined to get a new angle of somebody frontside flipping the green car pressed up against the platform. Nor could you pass Battery Park without someone doing a sketchy line on the foot-high ledges with some doofus following him with a bubble lens without any actual knowledge of how to use it. The city was ours. Even though we never went above 52nd Street unless it was to go to Flushing in order to film a trick over the grate that 15 other people had done before us, or to City College, to film a noseslide down the hubba.

After expending all my available resources, I have brought you the most comprehensive archive of New York Little Kid Skate Site clips available. Filled with everything from the heartwarming to the heartbreaking, there is plenty of entertainment here to keep your pants wet for the next couple hours.

The 5050Skateboarding (YouTube) Archive
I lost the CD-R I had with all the old 5050 Clips, so I cannot give you them in a Quicktime .zip file. 5050 was the forerunner and pioneer to many of the standards employed by all the little kid skate sites that proceeded it, although in reality it started one step down from being a watered-down copy of Metrospective.

The Flipmode Archive [11 Clips, 187.6MB]
Flipmode was second in line of the Little Kid Movement. Except they didn’t leave Queens for their first ten years of being around. Old Flipmode clips are a goldmine for Little Kevin sighting before he became the annoying motherfucker that he is today.

The Big Apple Skate Archive [6 Clips, 83.4MB]
Before Big Apple Skate started giving every Skate Perception message board member nightly wet dreams, they were employing effects from the “Rosa Parks” video (see ‘backinbusiness.mov’) instead of providing picture quality to provide endless erections (no ayo) on Skate Perception.

Pure New York Skateboarding Archive [9 Clips, 118.6MB]
Even though Mike Yedin is studying to be a lawyer or something and Brian Appleman is currently geling his hair, we still have their immense body of masterpieces to attest to their contributions for the little kid skate site movement. Some of the filming in these clips actually makes my filming look legitimate. Yes, it’s that amazing.

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