Prologue: A Shot Across the Bow In 1987, skateboarding was still under the corporate chokehold of the Big Five — Powell-Peralta, Santa Cruz, Vision, Tracker, Independent. The streets were underrepresented, and skate…
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In the late 1970s and early ’80s, skateboarding was on the brink. Skateparks were booming, then crashing; interest waned; the industry teetered between fad and future. Into that void stepped two visionaries:…