My 50 years of skateboarding documentary 1 day shoot with NHS Fun Factory Crew

I'm honored to be asked to be part of a short YouTube Doc created by the NHS crew since it's their 50 year anniversary and I have been skateboarding for 50 years. I was sponsored by NHS when I was 16, I'm 63 now. OMG!

This year we have had the most rain and storms ever. I live near Seacliff and Rio Del Mar Beach and they got hammered by the storms. So much so, President Biden visited both Aptos and Capitola. I have barely skated slalom since the World Skate Games in Argentina in October. I usually go 4 months without riding slalom and get back on it as the weather warms up. It's not so much it's cold but I like riding parks and doing other forms of skating. 

I was not going to go to the Presidents Day Race because I always question myself before going to race because it's an extra thing I do that takes time and money. Two my dad is under Hospice care and his birthday is the day I drive home he turned 94. 

The only day I rode at any speed is the day NHS or Santa Cruz Skateboards did an all day shoot organized by Alex White the brand manager of Krux Trucks, commentator and world's first Women's and NB Rider Relations Manager over at NHS. She had Pro rider Minna Stess and her mom Moniz come to my house and skate my ramp and tour my she shed of skate herstory. Joe Ruiz the videographer documented it. That evening we met in San Jose his brother Jesse Ruiz a photographer. They both are skaters and documented my skating with my two former Santa Cruz Skateboards Teammates Cliff Coleman and Jamie Hart both in their 70's. They inspire me to keep riding and slalom racing. I invited Michael Smiley Goldman, his skater wife Karen Goldman and John Hutson known for his Hut tuck that was actually started by Goldman.

Met up in the morning to shoot in my backyard with Minna and Alex.

We went to lunch and met up at the NHS museum to shoot an interview. My downhill board I rode in the Capitola Classic is on the wall with me riding in that photo above. Joe the videographer.

Ended the day skating in a 8 story parking garage. Got this awesome
 portrait taken by Jesse Ruiz in the garage after skating with Josh Harvey, Cliff Coleman and Jamie Hart. I wish I would have asked him to take photos of Cliff and Jamie. They are still skating strong into their 70's!

I will post about the Presidents Day Race results and some photos. I am super stoked about an Instagram post that was reposted on Wearageist of the World Skate Games race Instagram video on weareageist IG that is has over 60,000 views in two days. Thank you for posting!

I put the video on YouTube this morning. Here's the Slalom Worlds link: