Sk8 Dad » Mark Gonzales http://sk8dad.com For Dads that Skate Sun, 10 Oct 2010 03:03:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Fridays Favorite Skater – Mark Gonzales http://sk8dad.com/fridays-favorite-skater-mark-gonzales/ http://sk8dad.com/fridays-favorite-skater-mark-gonzales/#comments Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:46:56 +0000 http://www.sk8dad.com/?p=29 Continue reading →]]> Every Friday I feature one of my favorite skaters. Today it is Mark Gonzales, one of the pioneers of street skating. Mark is the person that decided we could all slide down handrails on our skateboards as well as do darkslides, sliding on your grip tape instead of the bottom of your board. What a mad man. Watch this footage from 1991′s Video Days and you will see just how far ahead of his time he was. You could drop this footage into a video today and it would be considered a great video, but this is from 18(!!!!!) years ago!! Just look at that board he is riding, it must be at least 9 inches wide. The other thing that a lot of people don’t know about The Gonz is he ripped vert as well as you can see towards the end of this clip.

I was lucky enough to skate with Gonz once at the Vans skatepark in Milpitas a few years ago. Not only does he rip but he is a pretty cool dude. Enjoy the video.

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