This man can do no wrong for me.
I've had the pleasure to meet him on my birthday a few years ago. I literally cried when I was talking to him... It was just too emotional for me. And he probably thought I was a roided up weirdo (I don't do roids, but I was in the gym constantly back then to gain back some muscle mass)
A few years before I was very ill and on the verge of going blind. I couldn't skate due to tons of operations etc and I watched skatevideos whenever I had the ability to see, especially a lot of Lance Mountain footage... why? because he made skating look fun, and he made it ok to be a dorky dude on a board and it was dawning on me that I would never get good at skating again anyway. So why not just have fun with it like I should?
He signed my 'Powell Peralta family man board' gave me peptalk and he asked to hang back stage at a demo.
Dude was incredibly friendly, calm and down to earth.
"Don't meet your heroes" they say, but sometimes you should meet them...
I believe this rings true for anyone in the bones brigade. I’ve met a handful or more dudes who rode for them then. Stacy and George really took those kids under their wings and made them successful, and created the first ever legit skate company. They picked riders who were mostly selfless, stand up guys, and they made an image out of the fact hey we have the best guys, and they are good boys too. If any of you find an old brigade member in the wild, I can promise you that they will have a convo with u, genuinely listen to whatever u have to say, and are good respectable men. The brigade also had the the two greatest skateboarders ever in Rodney and Tony, George made and still makes extremely high quality product with lots of R&D, they invented street skating in a board room with the other big 5 in the 80s, they had the first black super pros , the first black well known pros in Steve steadham and Ray Barbee(now I know some of y’all might get nit picky and say Marty Grimes, but I’m sticking by this statement). Powell peralta has legacy and is still relevant today through their side ventures which used to be a part of Powell, they just made it into a separate company/image smartly to sell a shitload of product(bones wheels, bones Swiss). They also sponsor Andy Anderson, who is the truth to modern day skateboarding. He will skate for Canada in the olympics for Park because he’s that good at bowl skating. He gets gnarly on the rails with technicality like no has ever seen minus maybe Nyjah or Cole Wilson. He can freestyle well too, which is what’s the most interesting thing about him. Like he can skate all 3 disciplines, the true ATV. He also makes skating look fun like Lance. That dude could single handedly revive that company, they just need someone to fucking film him a legit ass part. If that kid dropped a legit ass part with a legit ass filmer nobody would deny him. He’s that fucking good. I would say Kyle Nicholson is the other dude in this boat too. If he filmed a legit ass part. Like a true part that he was capable of, no person on earth would deny that dude. That’s how insane both of those motherfuckers are.