Category: Just The Facts
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Just The Facts: Jason Maki
Jason is a Marysville local who has made a name for himself in fingerboards and fingerboard parks. Don’t get it twisted though, dude is a ripper on the life size action as well. When he isn’t at home applying heat transfers to handmade micro decks or crafting concrete parks and obstacles with his tea spoon…
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Just the Facts-Me
We fell off. Keeping up with the internet is hard. Here’s a goddamn interview with myself to kick off a new season of productivity. Maybe. Anyway, here. Name and location: Me-The Shop Years on board: Just about 28 years Top 5 Tricks 1. Nose manual 2. Nose manual 360 shuv 3. Nose manual big spin 4. Nose…
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Just The Facts: Jeff DeChesare
A beautiful thing about skateboarding is its near infinite varieties. You can just go down a hill if you want. You can skate ledges with increasing complexity. You can link together manuals like you’re going for the high score in THPS. Bowls and handrails, curbs and staircases. Do whatever you want! Most of us pick…
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Just The Facts: Jefferson Elliott
I already told you about Jeff. He’s one of my favorite humans, not to mention my favorite skateboarder. Here’s a Just The Facts from your distinguished elder. Name and location: Jefferson Elliott / Earth planet Years on board: 36 Top 5 Tricks 1.fs 180 kf 2.nose slide 3.shoot the duck 4. nollie 180 5.big spin Top…
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Just The Facts: FOS
The relationship between skateboarding and art is one more thing that sets us apart from the rest of the world. There is no real relationship between art and the ball sports, or track, or whatever else. Skateboarding, however, is inseparable from artwork. Our boards and our wheels are always adorned with the creative contributions of…
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Just The Facts: David Gravette
For a long time, there just wasn’t a lot of people from the Pacific Northwest making it to professional status. We have always had some of the best skateboarders on the planet, they just never seemed to catch that lucky break necessary to get their name on a board. One notable exception was a young…
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Just The Facts: Taylor Clark
I grew up in Marysville. I remember when the Walter E. Hall skatepark, Casino, was built. It was a big deal, before that all I knew about was a park in White Rock, some ramps in Mt. Vernon, and the Kent skatepark. No idea why it was those three, but this was before the internet…
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Just The Facts: Skoops
You know that dude that always know what’s going on? The guy who always has the inside, ahem, scoop? That’s Skoops all day. Beyond being the guy in the know, he’s also one of my favorite people to skate with and kills it behind the lens as well. You can catch Skoops in the upcoming…
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Just The Facts: Zac Garza
The Garzfather. Unknown started out in the Ville, but Zac pulled up stakes and moved it to Bellingham. He’s been running the scene ever since. The dude looks out for everybody without exception. When Pops was getting off the ground he was quick with advice and resources, visibly stoked for us all along the way.…
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Just The Facts: Justin Duong
Justin won a Don Grant Jam a few years back. He came out of nowhere, started hucking huge impossibles, doing all these other tricks that I didn’t know the name of. It was great. Kid is down to talk about life too, he has a perspective worth considering, and I say that as a certifiable…