In skateboarding, credibility is crucial, so allow me to establish mine. In the bad old days of clay wheels, about 1970, I started skating when I was ten years old in sunny California. Around that same period, I also began surfing, spending hours learning the ins and outs of the sport and walking my purple Haut longboard every day from Seventh Avenue in Santa Cruz to Cowells. In the 1970s, skateboarding and surfing were synonymous in…
Ben Marcus, circa 1975, styling on a Hobie Super Surf with composition wheels in good old Santa Cruz, California. In school they would sometimes show […]
