{"id":82354,"date":"2021-07-23T15:04:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T22:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/?p=82354"},"modified":"2021-08-31T11:56:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T18:56:42","slug":"skateboarding-olympian-bryce-wettstein-talks-to-skateboarding-icon-jeff-ho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/skateboarding-olympian-bryce-wettstein-talks-to-skateboarding-icon-jeff-ho\/","title":{"rendered":"Skateboarding Olympian Bryce Wettstein Talks To Skateboarding Icon Jeff Ho"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For the first time in history, skateboarding is in the Olympics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to commemorate the occasion, before the COVID-19 pandemic delayed the Olympics, Skateboarding Hall of Fame Icon, Jeff Ho, interviewed Skateboarding Olympian, Bryce Wettstein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bryce Wettstein pays tribute to first female professional skateboarder, Patti McGee, in Venice Beach circa 2014. Photo by her dad Max Wettstein<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In her earliest days of skateboarding, Bryce Wettstein<\/strong> started out skating pools with her dad, and soon her family had built a wooden bowl in the backyard for the whole family and friends to skate together. At age seven, she began skateboarding competitively at her first skate contest at the Vans Girls Combi Pool Classic. As both a surfer and a skater, Bryce’s fluid style and creative approach quickly gained attention, taking her around the world to compete with the world’s best, as she amassed points to become one of the top women park skateboarders in the world. With a commitment to keeping skateboarding fun, Bryce has established herself as a positive role model and consistently spends time working with non-profit organizations and encouraging other girls to skate. Now Bryce Wettstein is on her way to the Olympics, as World Skate’s highest ranking Team USA Women’s Park Skateboarder, and breaking ground as one of the first 80 skateboarders in the world to ever compete in the Olympics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jeff Ho Art Print by Shepard Fairey based on photo by Glen E. Friedman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Nearly thirty years before Bryce Wettstein was born, surfskate pioneer, Jeff Ho<\/strong>, was doing his part to get skateboarding rolling from the Zephyr Surfboard Shop in Santa Monica, California. As a surfer, skateboarder, board shaper and Zephyr Surf Shop proprietor, the Zephyr Competition Team was established by adding the hottest skaters from the Dogtown area to the crew. What happened next was a flashpoint in skateboarding that has become a story for the ages, as well as an award-winning documentary [Dogtown and Z-Boys] and a major motion picture [Lords of DogTown]. A literal revolution in skateboarding began when the Z-Boys brought an aggressive and unique approach to the scene at the Bahne\/Cadillac National Skateboard Championships in 1975 in Del Mar, California, disrupting the status quo, and changing the ethos of skateboarding into the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As skateboarding is about to make history again, in a way it never has before, this is a landmark in the lexicon of time. This talk between two surfers and skaters, at opposite ends of the age chart, yet on the same end as far as sharing a passion for skateboarding and surfing, just goes to prove that the multi-generational impact, culture and influence of skateboarding can change the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

JEFF HO: Hey, Bryce, how\u2019s it going? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BRYCE WETTSTEIN:<\/strong> Hi, Jeff. I\u2019m good. How are you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JEFF: Good. I heard you went surfing this morning.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BRYCE: <\/strong>I went to Grandview. It was really fun. You surf too, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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