{"id":70248,"date":"2017-07-15T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T16:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/?p=70248"},"modified":"2018-12-28T10:06:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:06:36","slug":"jim-fitzpatrick-surf-skate-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/jim-fitzpatrick-surf-skate-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Fitzpatrick Surf Skate Style"},"content":{"rendered":"
SURF SKATE STYLE WITH JIM FITZPATRICK<\/a>.<\/strong>\nINTERVIEW BY JUICE MAGAZINE<\/a>.<\/strong>\nPHOTO BY BRUCE BERNSTEIN.<\/strong><\/pre>\n
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How has surfing influenced skateboarding and skating influenced surfing?<\/strong><\/p>\n
In 1990, Dogtown\u2019s Jim Muir asked me, \u201cTell me something, are you a surfer who skateboards, or are you a skateboarder who surfs?\u201d His attitude was sorta stinky, and seemed to imply that I\u2019d better answer correctly, I explained, \u201cWell, I skateboarded before I surfed, and then, after I began surfing (1959), I still kept skateboarding.\u201d \u201cAll right, good,\u201d declared Red Dog. He cut me off at Rincon a few years ago and I gave him shit all the way to the beach. \u201cI didn\u2019t know it was you!\u201d was his explanation. I sidewalk surfed on my skateboard in 1957, but we didn\u2019t call it that. I called it fun. By the \u201860s, certainly we were going in both directions, but it was separate, we were doing 360s (\u201cspinners\u201d) on land. We weren\u2019t going to do that in the water! There was no crossover. Turns, bottom turns, dropping a shoulder, sure, but tricks were in the future. Personal style, that was an identity that developed. I had a style on my surfboard that translated to my skateboard. It wasn\u2019t any one thing, it was my total \u2018style.\u2019 I was surfing in Santa Barbara in the early \u201880s and came out of the water to run into a guy I hadn\u2019t seen since the \u201860s, \u201cI knew that was you, Fitzpatrick,!\u201d he claimed. \u201cI said to my wife, \u201cThat\u2019s Jim Fitzpatrick!\u201d And she said, \u2018So?\u2019\u201d He went on and on how \u2018I can tell your style any day, I would know it was you.\u2019 Craig Stecyk said the same thing when he and I and Steve Pezman were surfing at Church, \u201cYour style is the same as it was 30 years ago.\u201d That\u2019s OK with me. Historically, I think Christian Fletcher was the pioneer of skate tricks going to surfing. He took the street to the waves. Herbie and I were surfing Rincon together in the \u201880s and, by the \u201890s, Christian was doing ollies on waves. Rad.<\/p>\n
Is SurfSkate style important today?<\/strong><\/p>\n
Style. \u201cGallagher\u201d sat with Miki Vuckovich and Nancy Hawk and I explained how important it was to have \u201cstyle.\u201d \u201cWhatever you do,\u201d he explained, \u201cyou have to have style.\u201d Turns out he was a rink roller skating champion in Florida as a kid, and he developed his style. If you watch his comedy routines, you recognize his style. He had it, even when he was  <\/span>smashing watermelons! Style includes manner, too, right? If you\u2019re around real skaters and real surfers enough, you begin to recognize the respect and the kind demeanor of most skaters and surfers. There\u2019s lots of subtle recognition and greetings and heartfelt handshakes and hugs. Seriously. There is a respectful kindness that spans generations. I was at Jay Adams\u2019 memorial service at Venice Beach, and dozens of people introduced themselves to me. I was with Stacy Peralta before the paddle out and so many people approached us, respectfully and appreciatively. Stacy had a kind word for everyone, so did I. There\u2019s a skate and surf culture that continues to develop every day. It\u2019s a community, a real emotional and physical community, that continues to discover its style and its culture every day. That\u2019s what\u2019s happening. It\u2019s genuine, this developing style, this developing culture, and much of it has to do with pushing back against the mainstream and, as a result, it\u2019s creative. My whole life was predicated on my father\u2019s experiences in WWII. He returned a pacifist. War disgusted him. He was a multi-talented creator. He\u2019d seen such death and such atrocities that he was astounded to be alive. I was raised under the canopy of \u201cWhatever!\u201d If I wanted to do it, then he was all for it. The lesson I took away from his messages to me was, if there\u2019s a way, then there has to be another way, too, especially if that \u2018way\u2019 isn\u2019t the way I\u2019m comfortable with.<\/p>\n
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Jim Fitzpatrick stylin\u2019 on the nose in Topanga, 1962, Photo \u00a9 Bruce Bernstein<\/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 Aaron 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
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SURF SKATE STYLE WITH JIM FITZPATRICK. INTERVIEW BY JUICE MAGAZINE. PHOTO BY BRUCE BERNSTEIN.   How has surfing influenced skateboarding and skating influenced surfing? In 1990, Dogtown\u2019s Jim Muir asked me, \u201cTell me something, are you a surfer who skateboards, or are you a skateboarder who surfs?\u201d His attitude was sorta stinky, and seemed to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70249,"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-70248","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\/50-JimFitzpatrick-bruce-bernstein.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70248","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=70248"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70534,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70248\/revisions\/70534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}