{"id":70130,"date":"2017-07-15T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T16:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/?p=70130"},"modified":"2018-12-03T09:31:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T17:31:56","slug":"carter-slade-surf-skate-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/carter-slade-surf-skate-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Carter Slade Surf Skate Style"},"content":{"rendered":"
SURF SKATE STYLE WITH CARTER SLADE.<\/a><\/strong>\r\nINTERVIEW BY JUICE MAGAZINE.<\/a><\/strong>\r\nPHOTO BY DENNIS MERRYMAN<\/a>.<\/strong><\/pre>\n
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When did you first hear of SurfSkate style?<\/strong><\/p>\n
It was probably from Jeff Ho in the Zephyr days. He was always big on style. He\u2019d say \u201cIf you can\u2019t do it with style, don\u2019t bother doing it.\u201d There has always been a blurred line between the two sports.\u00a0In the late \u201870s, we would skate Paul Revere and Kenter school banks. They were shaped like big waves, and we would go do our surf moves on the concrete\u00a0in the afternoon when the surf was bad. Good style was something we all worked on and was a result of the many hours we practiced copying our heroes\u2019 styles from the movies and magazines.<\/p>\n
What does SurfSkate style mean to you and who has the best surf skate style?<\/strong><\/p>\n
It\u2019s having a smooth, powerful, eye-pleasing technique. Speed. Power. Flow. There is no hiding it when you step on a board.\u00a0Either you have it or you don\u2019t.\u00a0Jim Muir would yell, \u201cSplit Cockroach!\u201d at MDR skatepark to people with bad style.\u00a0Bertlemann and Buttons were the original SurfSkate style masters in the \u201870s. In the \u201880s, Polar Bear, Shogo Kubo and Jay Adams were my favorites.\u00a0No one did frontside grinds with his fist out or could do a soul arch off the bottom the way that Jay Adams did! And no one did surf style laybacks in a pool like Shogo!\u00a0In the \u201890s, you had Christian Fletcher and Nathan Fletcher who took surf skate style to its zenith!\u00a0Christian Fletcher deserves more credit for bringing airs into surfing.\u00a0I can\u2019t leave\u00a0Martin Potter out.\u00a0He had one of\u00a0the best SurfSkate styles ever!\u00a0It\u2019s funny because guys like Hosoi never really surfed,\u00a0but have great surf style when they skate.\u00a0On the other side, Natas Kaupas was a good surfer, but had a skate style when he surfed.<\/p>\n
How has surfing influenced skateboarding, and skateboarding influenced surfing?<\/strong><\/p>\n
I think surfing definitely influenced skateboarding in the beginning, but as people started pushing the sport into the air,\u00a0the focus came back to the skaters for innovation and inspiration. It really opened the minds of most surfers that the tricks skaters were doing could be done on surfboards as well. It took a while for them to catch on, but now it\u2019s everywhere you look.\u00a0All the big tricks in surfing today were originally created by skateboarders. It\u2019s great that everyone has their own way of standing on a board and that\u2019s what makes their style\u00a0unique. Now you have guys like John John Florence and Kalani David who can boost on a surf or skateboard with equal ease. I think it gives them a big advantage. Chris Miller and Curren Caples are gnarly crossover guys, and Steve Olson is pretty rad too.<\/p>\n
Is SurfSkate style important today?<\/strong><\/p>\n
Style is everything.\u00a0More kids today should work on their\u00a0stance and style before they learn to do a chop hop or an ollie. Then I can stop yelling, \u201cSplit cockroach!\u201d Ha!<\/p>\n
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Carter Slade. Speed. Power. Flow. There is no hiding it when you step on a board. Photo \u00a9 Dennis Merryman<\/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":"
SURF SKATE STYLE WITH CARTER SLADE. INTERVIEW BY JUICE MAGAZINE. PHOTO BY DENNIS MERRYMAN.   When did you first hear of SurfSkate style? It was probably from Jeff Ho in the Zephyr days. He was always big on style. He\u2019d say \u201cIf you can\u2019t do it with style, don\u2019t bother doing it.\u201d There has always […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4027,4028,4042],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-interviews","category-surf-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/9-CarterSlade-DennisMerryman-scaled.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70130"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70352,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70130\/revisions\/70352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}