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father of jackass skateboard video

Originally, the habit of filming professional and amateur skateboarding was deeply rooted in the skateboarding community, and ordinary skaters often filmed themselves. They would gather late at night to skate freely around the city, and while filming in busy areas where there were no people, they would end up completely naked, playing nasty pranks, and even picking fights with delinquents hanging out in front of convenience stores... They recorded such scenes on video.

Skaters probably started filming videos in response to the hit video "The Search for Animal Chin" released by skateboard manufacturer Powell Peralta in 1987.

The video captures the "Bones Brigade," a team of now-legendary professional skaters led by Tony Hawk, a national star who frequently appears in Jackass, along with Steve Caballero and Tommy Guerrero, skating through the city performing amazing tricks.

"The Search for Animal Chin"

Until then, skateboarding had been enjoyed in places like skate parks, but the Bones Brigade's use of staircase handrails, slopes, curbs, and other obstacles to perform tricks inspired the development of "street style" skateboarding.

Also, skaters at that time adopted the slogan "Skate or Die!", considered helmets and other protective gear to be "uncool," and competed with each other to see who could skate the most aggressively down steep slopes and along roads.

In the 90s, with the advent of the small Hi-8 camera, skateboard manufacturers rushed to produce videos. The works of new skateboard manufacturers in particular tended to be radical, with videos of naked skaters on blazing skateboards performing difficult tricks or of upperclassmen being provoked and ragingly filmed over and over again.

It was with this background that Johnny Knoxville first brought his own stunt videos to skateboarding magazines, proving that skateboarding videos are the roots of "Jackass."