Jay Adams

earlier on in the week, but Tony Alva, Christian Assoy, they were all surfers.

They were Jay Adams.

They were surfers.

There was no waves that season.

So he was skating in Hilo before he started surfing.

that's true there would have been some skateboards available but to skateboard in the way that he was skateboarding because he he got really into that too to skateboard in a way where it was going to affect the way you were going to surf on a on a short surfboard you needed to have urethane wheels so you couldn't do too much really that's not true i take that back um i don't That whole thing, so you know in Dogtown and Z-Boys, the best part of that movie was where Stacy cut Larry cutting back and then Jay Adams do it.

It's Larry, Jay Adams, Larry, Tony Alba, and they're all just copying each other.

You don't even know it.

After a while, you don't even know who's copying who.

I think because of the, because of the the group of people you know the skate culture thing especially you know i skated you know a bit with friends all my friends did they surfed they skated you know we were from gardena so we were the beach wasn't that far from us you know so um but the culture obviously punk rock and skating and all that kind of stuff was all hand in hand you know um It was, you know, Skateboarder Magazine was a big thing for me as a kid growing up.

And I remember seeing certain skaters, you know, at that point getting a Jay Adams, you know, Dwayne Peters, Steve Old, like all these guys, Tony Alva, getting into punk rock and stuff.

And that was a big introduction to me as well.

You know, like, oh, wow, these guys are, you know, they're listening to this, they're listening to that, you know, and yeah.

I knew some of the people that were in it.

Like Jay Adams? Did you know Jay Adams?

Yeah.

I met him at ASR.

Yeah, because, like, Dogtown and Z-Boys, those guys, it, it wasn't...

Like, Jay Adams was severe.

He was the only guy who was severe.

Jay Adams, can you help me out, Nick, a little bit?

Yeah, there you go.

Hit that picture.

Amen, bro.

He was a real one.

Yeah, as compared to, like, today's, like, advanced age of trolling, but the evil reinvents itself, as they say.

But those guys, like, you know, like, you know, because I knew my dad used to hang out with Jay Adams, you know, so, like, I kind of already, like, knew these kind of guys, you know, before I met, like, Them actually, you know, I was kind of already like, you know, as a kid skating and stuff, I was kind of already around similar guys.

But their names, you know, like if people like, you know, like Mike Mirror, Rick Clayton, Jay Adams, those guys on the way, you know, their names on the West Side, like, you know.

They're like urban legends, you know?

Yeah.