In 1975 in downtown Sacramento, California, a crew of skateboarders met at a paved embankment under the freeway. They ha | dG1fYklQUTQ1UmIwb2M
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:03 They were actually riding the really hardcore stuff
00:05 that they were finding that was totally illegal.
00:08 The legend thing about the N-Men,
00:09 they would drain pools in disguise
00:12 and skate them and rip them and then split.
00:14 No one even knew what happened.
00:16 And we'd look in the skateboarder magazines
00:18 and go, we've got our own Northern California thing.
00:20 Kind of like a parallel universe of what
00:22 was going on with the Z-Boys in Dogtown,
00:25 same thing was happening in Sacramento.
00:26 They had their own style.
00:28 Those guys were gnarly.
00:29 The N-Men were a bunch of hell's angels of skateboarding.
00:33 Those guys to this day are still those guys.
00:35 1, 2, 3, 4.
00:36 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:41 Back then, we'd skate and we did whatever
00:43 the hell we wanted to do.
00:45 Who they are is what you get.
00:46 Everybody has a lot of respect for that.
00:48 The stories are the annals of skateboarding
00:50 that everyone needs to know.
00:52 And N-Men were a big part of that.
00:54 Skate mags at the time were in Southern California.
00:57 The N-Men were really undocumented.
00:59 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:02 The N-Men just had a different territory that was their zone
01:07 and continued to carry on.
01:09 You went and did a demo in Sacramento.
01:10 It was a hardcore crowd.
01:12 The N-Men have not stopped skateboarding since 1974, ever.
01:17 It's something that I'll do till the day I die.
01:20 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:23 (water bubbling)