Meet The Cuban-American Skateboarder Making Waves In The Food World

[Fro Doggy Dog]

Vans flow rider Sam Narvaez is a total skater’s skater: always down to go out, pushing as fast as possible and skating anything in front of her. Whether she’s on the board or in the kitchen, Sam operates with a level of drive that only a select few are born with. And you need that determination when you grow up skating in Key Largo; a tiny island off of Florida’s southern coast about an hour’s drive south of Miami.

Key Largo—to put it mildly—has limited spot options. But what the island lacks in spots or skateparks, Sam made up for with raw creativity and the DIY spirit that has permeated skate culture since the beginning.

In Sam’s view, a downed telephone pole or displaced chunk of sidewalk after a hurricane becomes an ideal spot. No ledges? Build your own in an abandoned tennis court. Sam carries that outlook with her off the board, and into the culinary world, where she’s fast becoming an accomplished young chef.

https://youtu.be/ly1WQ0WOMQc

[Cool Ceith]

I just can't look at the Vice logo without feeling angry.

[Candle opera]

no thanks vice

[fucking, joy]

she’s got that eerie obsessive way of talking about skatings/cooking.  reynolds and greco, mason silva, donovan piscopo, rodney, those guys all have it.  I love this energy.

[Fro Doggy Dog]

I just can't look at the Vice logo without feeling angry.

yeah i’m not sure why they ran this through their vice youtube channel. this is the second installment of that “broadly” series. they should have just ran it through that to remove any vice stigma. the first was that breana geering/una farrar video, which i recall you enjoyed.

[Cool Ceith]

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I just can't look at the Vice logo without feeling angry.

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yeah i’m not sure why they ran this through their vice youtube channel. this is the second installment of that “broadly” series. they should have just ran it through that to remove any vice stigma. the first was that breana geering/una farrar video, which i recall you enjoyed.

I don't even recall what I had for breakfast this morning.

[tkp]

That was a fun watch. I've only had one post hurricane skate session in my life in North Carolina. Hoping trees that were falling down didn't hit my house all night and then waking up and hippie jumping the ones that fell on the street.

[FROTHY]

Hey let's just form stories out of nothing and point a shaky camera at some boring shit like "ooo real life". -Vice

[olympic sk8r]

fuck vice

[bad joke]

fuck vice

u a christian or something

[PABLOS SWANPOWERS LOBSTER]

She has a cool push/ceviche.

[jakeumms]

She skates fast and has a good style. I'm into it.