As I got older riding the popsicle kind of bummed me out. Is there a connection between those two things?ĭefinitely. Surfers will ride different boards for different conditions and I notice you ride a bunch of different setups and retro skateboards. I’m like, “Okay, what’s next? Let’s go skate. Every time I get out of the water I feel good. Skateboarding kinda used to be like that too, Embarcadero was definitely. But, the more you’re at a spot the more you start meeting people. Maybe the only close thing that I can think of is taking turns on a mini ramp. I didn’t know that at the beginning and people would yell at me. You don’t want to drop in on anybody and get run over. How’s surf etiquette different from skate etiquette? Now I know when to pull back, when to take off, and the whole etiquette too. I would get smoked! But I got hooked.”īut you’re not dropping into twelve-foot waves…Įxactly! It took me eight months to kind of build my arms and it took me another year to read the waves. “I would just go there whatever time, not knowing the tide or swell. I used to think, “How hard could it be?” You know, I dropped in on vert ramps and stuff but… To tell you the truth, I never realized how hard it was. I don’t like sucking at nothing! I was out there every single day. A lot of homies that skate were getting into it and then my whole thing was, I need to get on their level and progress. I would just go there whatever time, not knowing the tide or swell. I didn’t understand anything about surfing. The next thing you know I’m going there every day to pick up a board. He would be like “Chico you gotta surf, man!” He’d always tell me, “Come into the NorCal shop and borrow a suit, boards, grab whatever you want.” One day it was like 105 degrees here in the city so I took him up on it. He was one of the first dudes to surf Mavericks back in the day. I was like, “If I can’t touch the bottom I’m not gonna go out there.” Then one of the homies at Potrero Park is a big surfer. I used to only try surfing when I went to Nicaragua around twice a year. Check out what they have to say about learning not to suck on a surfboard and how it helps their skating. But, as I learned from talking with them about their passion for surfing, even our icons kook out and get worked when they’re mixing it up in the ocean.
Watching Chico Brenes, Rob Welsh, Elissa Steamer, and Max Schaaf skate you might think they’re naturals at anything board related. And even some of our favorite ’90s skate legends have taken to the waves. Surfers are doing kickflips and kickflippers are cruising like surfers.
MINI RAMP SKATE TRICKS FULL
Twenty-something years later and things have come full circle. Skateboarding may have originated out of the ocean, but the street skating from that time was urban, and the skating being done then didn’t look much like the stuff that was happening at the beach. If you had told me in 1998 that the same rippers I saw skating hubbas and handrails in Welcome to Hell and Mouse would soon be wearing neoprene leotards and paddling out into the lineup I probably would’ve called you crazy.
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