1. What made it so potent back then was all small cliques of people innovating on their own turf and then premiering that to the world.
2. The bottom line in skateboarding is that there was a message, whether we admitted it in the first few generations of skaters or not, that came from a bunch of rebellious young kids being creative and ambitious, trying to show an unfiltered perspective on a trife society that was holding us back from being creative and ambitious.
3. On a daily basis, you’re trying to out-do yourself with things you at one point never would have thought you were capable of…… …..That’s valuable for any aspect of your life, for any challenge. You know that you have the capability to achieve things that you’re afraid of in reality, whether it be starting to pay your bills and taxes or starting a small business.
4. It’s really empowering to be in control of a machine that allows you to achieve something that evolution would not.
5. That’s kind of a patent of our generation, we network very well, and I think there needs to be more of that. Using the internet to get yourself somewhere, not considering the internet a place itself.
6. Someone once told me, “If you’re good enough, there’s room for you in any industry.” That’s what’s good about our generation, for the most part we know we can rise to the top with hard work, even if its outside of a standard educational structure.
