Eric Koston

And you could only skate there if you had an invite or if you're a professional.

Barra, Eric, Steve Barra, Eric Koston, Barracks.

Yeah.

That's it.

Koston.

Eric Koston's really good.

Okay.

I'm going to take your word for that.

Not the first, but they were the ones that really took skate culture into the golf world.

You know, some of their first photo shoots were, like, with Eric, like, Koston and Malto and Huff, all this stuff.

So, like, they were definitely the, like, trailblazers of, like, skate culture entering golf and just, like, being different.

But thankfully, because of that, there's a ton of really good brands right now.

Imagine back in the day, like 96, 95, when people were doing it like this.

To even imagine it going down on a ledge to Crooked Grind, down Clipper, when Koston and Sheffy just grinded

it back

then at that point.

i was about to say is there anyone that you run into in the california area or anywhere around there where you're a little starstruck

yeah i mean i think like even tony's still like i could imagine a little yeah just a little starstruck um I don't know anyone who who's like of that like our generation like the early 2000s era like Koston or whatever any of those guys and mostly because our worlds don't cross much too and you see me like whoa that's you know Guy Mariano or whatever.

There

was like a 10-year anniversary for Weekend Skateboards.

I was crying and I was very emotional.

How did it feel seeing Koston give you the board? It was

fucked.

That was fucked.

been

wild, yeah.

Koston finally followed you back after all these years.

What a dream come true.

I would say Herman and Penny.

Fuck, it's like hard flips and kickflip shifty, you know? It's like those two are like the fucking, they're the GOATs for me, you know? Of course, then there is Guy Mariano, like Eric Koston and, you know, Kenan Milton and a couple others.

But like top favorite, this is like... it's them.

Love

He doesn't really have a comp.

Like, the closest comp to Willie's skill set, like, legitimately, is, like, Koston.

Yeah.

Where you can skate a mini ramp like an absolute wizard, go to a backyard pool, and, you know, you're not going to destroy it, but you're going to do stuff.

Hm.

Eric Koston.

The boss.

Um, Kobe, like a Kevin Garnett.

All right

... those are the ones.

Back in the day, it was Rick Howard and Eric Koston-

Yeah