Skate And Create

When I moved to Santa Cruz in the mid-'60s it was a skateboarder's utopia. It was a destination that any discerning skater had to make a trip to. No cops. No hassles. Just skating and rad vibes, the way it was supposed to be. Not to mention the most righteous terrain on the planet. It seemed like it would last forever, but like any society built on a single premise, Santa Cruz started to decay, and what was once a skateboarder's paradise became a filthy beach ghetto. It's still all about the skating and not much else. That's probably why the city fell apart in the first place...—Terkin Von Knobske

America was going through a major change in mind state in the '50s and '60s; people were going through a change in the way that they looked at society and the way that they thought about things. Humans are inventors, we can create something out of nothing, and that is exactly how skateboarding was born.—Chad Muska

Basically, we ended up building jump ramps and taking them to various things when our original idea was to do some stunt-like mega obstacles. But of course the police and security of the world made those big ideas impossible, and now we have this. WHOOPS!—Ed Templeton