{"id":70124,"date":"2017-07-15T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/?p=70124"},"modified":"2018-12-03T09:30:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T17:30:31","slug":"art-brewer-surf-skate-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/art-brewer-surf-skate-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Brewer Surf Skate Style"},"content":{"rendered":"
SURF SKATE STYLE WITH ART BREWER.<\/a><\/strong>\r\nINTERVIEW BY JUICE MAGAZINE.<\/a><\/strong>\r\nPHOTO COURTESY OF ART BREWER.<\/strong><\/pre>\n
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When did you first hear of SurfSkate style?<\/strong><\/p>\n
It had to be 1959 in Laguna Beach after seeing older\u00a0local surfers skateboarding. They were making smooth turns\u00a0and cutbacks emulating surf moves that were normally done in\u00a0the water. It was surfing without waves.<\/p>\n
What does SurfSkate style mean to you and who has the best surf skate style?<\/strong><\/p>\n
It\u2019s like a high speed dance that originated from\u00a0surfing with a style that was a smooth, clean, controlled movement\u00a0performed on waves. It made the surfer more pleasing to watch, instead\u00a0of the awkward jerky body movements of a surfer without control. As skating progressed, with new equipment and urethane wheels,\u00a0it started giving back to the style of surfing. From streets to pools, bowl skaters\u00a0making vertical moves on their front and back sides, combining aerials to push the edge deeper, skaters started to influence young surfers\u00a0like Larry Bertlemann, Mark Liddell and Buttons Kaluhiokalani.\u00a0Surfers started to incorporate skaters\u2019 movements expanding the hard vertical edge. Bottom\u00a0turns and cutbacks became harder, more extreme and quicker; then\u00a0the birth of aerials on waves started emulating the style of modern skaters.<\/p>\n
How has surfing influenced skateboarding, and skateboarding influenced surfing?<\/strong><\/p>\n
When skateboarding started out, I think the style of surfers\u00a0influenced skate style. Surf skate style came from surfers like Mickey Dora,\u00a0Phil Edwards, Bill Hamilton, Skip Frye, and the hard-edged\u00a0Hawaiian style of Barry Kanaiaupuni along with style masters\u00a0like Joey Cabell, Jackie Baxter, Terry Fitzgerald, Michael\u00a0Peterson, Gerry Lopez, Wayne Lynch, Shaun Tomson, Tom\u00a0Curren, Tom Carroll, Rob Machado and Kelly Slater. It was the power style and extreme moves of skaters like Tony\u00a0Alva, Jay Adams, Stacy\u00a0 <\/span>Peralta, Bob Biniak and Mike Weed\u00a0that helped change the way surfers surfed waves finding new\u00a0ways for a wave to be ridden.<\/p>\n
Is SurfSkate style important today?<\/strong><\/p>\n
I feel that bowl and ramp skating style is really more important\u00a0to snowboarding these days because they seem to mirror\u00a0each other\u00a0so closely in style and power.\u00a0Where surfing has changed\u00a0by becoming faster and more vertical than what it initially\u00a0started out as, the aerial evolution of surfing has progressed to\u00a0a daily act in both competition and everyday surfing.<\/p>\n
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Art Brewer surfs a downhill asphalt wave circa 1975. Photo: Courtesy of Art Brewer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
JUICE MAGAZINE SURF SKATE STYLE STORY:<\/b><\/p>\n
The influence of surfing on skateboarding has been discussed since the beginning of both, yet we have now entered a new era, where skateboarding has returned the favor with its own unique influence on the surfing world. In order to get to the core of this cross over and to try to define the origins and current state and status of surf skate style, we\u2019ve interviewed some of the most innovative skateboarders, surfers, artists, documentarians, photographers, filmmakers and musicians on the planet. In honor of the great, Shogo Kubo, who once said, \u201cTo me, style is everything…\u201d welcome to our exploration of Surf Skate Style featuring interviews with\u00a0Aaron Murray, Aaron Astorga, Abraham Paskowitz, Art Brewer, Bennett Harada, Brad Bowman, Brandon Cruz, Brian Brannon, Carter Slade, Chris Miller, Chris Strople, Christian Fletcher, Christian Hosoi, Craig Stecyk III, Darren Ho, Dave Tourje, David Hackett, Dennis Martinez, Dibi Fletcher, Don Redondo, Eric Britton, Garrett McNamara, Gerry Lopez, Glen E. Friedman, Greg Falk, Greg Galbraith, Greyson Fletcher, Herbie Fletcher, James O\u2019Mahoney, Jef Hartsel, Jeff Ament, Jeff Divine, Jeff Ho, Jim Fitzpatrick, Jim Gray, John Van Hamersveld, Jonathan Paskowitz, Josh \u201cBagel\u201d Klassman, Kalani David, Keith Morris, Kirra Kehoe, Larry Bertlemann, Laura Thornhill, Lizzie Armanto, Marc Emond, Michael Denicola, Michael Early, Nano Nobrega, Nathan Fletcher, Nathan Florence, Neil Stratton, Norton Wisdom, Pat Bareis, Randy Katen, Ray Flores, Rob Nelson, Robert Trujillo, Scott Oster, Shane Allen, Shaun Tomson, Shota Kubo, Solo Scott, Stacy Peralta, Steve Alba, Steve Olson, Takuji Masuda, Terry Nails, Tim Curran, Tim Hendricks, Tim Kerr, Tom Groholski, Tony Alva, Wes Humpston and Zach Miller.<\/p>\n
FOR THE REST OF THE STORY, ORDER ISSUE #75 AT THE JUICE SHOP\u2026<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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