{"id":81431,"date":"2021-05-13T07:40:35","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T14:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/?p=81431"},"modified":"2021-05-29T20:48:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T03:48:49","slug":"help-allen-losi-skate-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/help-allen-losi-skate-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Allen Losi Skate Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When skateboarding nearly disappeared in the early 1980s, Allen Losi was one of the young pros who stuck with it. He pushed the technical limits and helped reinvent skateboarding for a new generation. The Friends Of Losi have now come together to help Al. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was on a foundation of technical vert skating pioneered by Al, his Variflex teammate Eddie Elguera, Tony Hawk, and others that skateboarding re-emerged and was re-invented in the \u201980s. Throughout the decade, Al was at the forefront of the scene, continuing to push skateboarding\u2019s limits and promote it around the world. Al\u2019s on-board exploits were well documented in the pages and on the covers of Thrasher <\/em>and TransWorld Skateboarding, and, in 2018, earned him an induction to the Skateboarding Hall Of Fame<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Allen Losi. Photo by J. Grant Brittain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This pioneer, who was once among the best skaters in the world, has been debilitated by CRPS (<\/a>Complex Regional Pain Syndrome<\/a>)<\/a>, a progressive disease of the Autonomic Nervous System that has him fighting to manage intense chronic pain. While CRPS is usually limited to one\u2019s limbs, Al has full body Type-2 CRPS, so every cell in his body is affected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After being accepted for a new experimental treatment, Al’s doctors believe that he is on the verge of a technological and medical breakthrough. A new treatment has shown extreme promise in cases just like Al\u2019s. With this highly specialized therapy, and his complete commitment, he may be able to find a better quality of life, but maintaining his insurance and facing thousands of dollars in costs for these therapies and other uncovered medications have proven too much for Al to do alone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2012, Al\u2019s so far spent over $350,000 on just medical bills, liquidating everything he owned, including his life insurance policy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the specter of gaining control of his condition, he is determined to improve to a degree that allows him to resume regular work and even get back on his skateboard, to relish the sensation of rolling and flowing\u2014perhaps not as he once did, but enough to experience the stoke once again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The skateboarding we love and enjoy today has its roots in the innovations that Al and his generation contributed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A GoFundMe campaign has been set up to accept donations for Al<\/a> and show gratitude for Al\u2019s contributions to skateboarding and help him return to a thriving and sustained quality of life. Please donate and share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Allen Losi. Photo by MoFo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Join the Friends Of Losi in supporting Al by doing one or more of the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n