This Schoolyard Bank Changed Skateboarding Forever
The influence of Dogtown and the Z-Boys crew will live on eternally in skateboarding. Who’d have thought his nondescript schoolyard bank would change the course of skateboard history? Imagine a shirtless Jay Adams aggressively laying one back to the hoots of his Z-boy crews. Skateboarding has such a rich history it’s important not to forget it.
Jamie Brisick was there and remembers it with a poetic clarity that only he could.
Here’s a sample
“They did not know it at the time, they preferred not to intellectualize, it went against the id of their ravages, but they were projecting, imagining, reappropriating. These were not the blacktop banks of Paul Revere Middle School in Brentwood, California; these were waves, epic waves, waves they’d seen in surf mags and movies—Jeffreys Bay in South Africa, Burleigh Heads in Australia, Uluwatu in Indonesia. Concrete is inanimate, dead, but in their vibrant, often Thai Stick-enhanced minds it was heaving and curling and coiling over. There were tubes on those banks. There was spit and there was whitewater and when you ran your hand along the face you touched the ocean.”
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