Stalefish: skateboard culture from the rejects who made it by Sean Mortimer,Tony Hawk (Foreword)
How is being a professional skateboarder different from being, say, a professional golfer? More scabs, for one. Veteran skate journalist Sean Mortimer has interviewed the top skaters of all time to answer that question in meaningful and often humorous ways. Tony Hawk, Stacy Peralta, Lance Mountain, and Rodney Mullen are a handful of the skaters who opine on sacking yourself, skate-induced ulcers, and the various ways in which skating ruins your love life. Including compelling photographs, Stalefish documents the gritty oral history of professional skating like no other book. Editorial Reviews Review A classic collection of skateboarding lore and legend straight from the heart of the icons that created it. Juice Magazine Skateboarding's formative years and milestones eroded before they were documented. Stalefish captures those stories in a way skateboarders old and new can relate to. A necessary book. Transworld Skateboarding So, if you are a skater, or have ever been one, you need to read Stalefish. Honestly. Read it. Stalefish would also be a great read for anyone interested in the history of skateboarding, or skate culture. And really, I can't imagine a better way to represent skateboarding than with a book like this. Stalefish captures the personal and individual aspects of skateboarding perfectly. And that's really what skateboarding is. Read this book. You'll love it. Steve Cave, About Skateboarding Guide This ain't no run of the mill history lesson. It's more like sitting down at a bar to hear Mike Vallely tell his story about how he didn't want to be the face of change for skating or hear how Tony Hawk had his first kiss at Del Mar or how Daewon Song thought that he sucked at one point. No boring Skateboarding adapted from surfing... commentaries, only the juicy details from the pros that made the scene what it is today. Highly recommended. Sean Mortimer tackles the culture of skateboarding after taking us into the lives of Tony Hawk and Rodney Mullen. Stalefish covers skateboarding from the vantage point of those who were there making it a cultural phenomenon from the beginning until modern day. With historic heavyweights Stacy Peralta, Steve Alba and Lance Mountain to modern-day culture makers Daewon Song, Jamie Thomas and Chris Haslam, this isn't a book that will tell you what happened; it's a book about the people who made it happen telling you how it went down. SBC Magazine About the Author Sean Mortimer is the former editor of SkateBoarder magazine and the author of HAWK: Occupation: Skateboarder with Tony Hawk. He lives in Southern California. Tony Hawk was ranked the best skateboarder in the world by age 16. He lives in Southern California.
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Binding: Paperback
Published by: Chronicle Books: , 2008
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ISBN: 9780811860420 | 0811860426
192 pages.
Book Condition: Very Good
Ex-library. Cover creased.
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