{"id":82476,"date":"2021-07-30T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/?p=82476"},"modified":"2021-08-31T11:53:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T18:53:54","slug":"skateboarding-olympian-heimana-reynolds-talks-to-skateboarding-icon-jeff-ho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/skateboarding-olympian-heimana-reynolds-talks-to-skateboarding-icon-jeff-ho\/","title":{"rendered":"Skateboarding Olympian Heimana Reynolds 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, Heimana Reynolds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Heimana Reynolds with a Madonna at 2019 Vans Park Series in Brazil.
Photo by Anthony Acosta courtesy of Vans Park Series<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Born in Hawaii, Heimana Reynolds<\/strong> grew up skating and surfing and he quickly became a local skating at Hawaii Kai Skatepark in Honolulu. Heimana loves skating contests and started skating competitively at age eight at the Blue Hawaii Team Challenge at Kapolei on the West side of Oahu. He has also dedicated much of his time teaching skateboarding at his family\u2019s skatepark\/skate shop\/skate school, Proper Rideshop, which is the only indoor skatepark in Hawaii owned and operated by a local skater family. As a surfer and a skater, Heimana\u2019s flowing style and spontaneous approach has taken him around the globe over the years to compete with the world\u2019s best, as he stacked points to become one of the top men park skateboarders in the world. Now Heimana Reynolds is World Skate\u2019s highest ranking Team USA Men\u2019s Park Skateboarder, breaking ground as one of the first 80 skateboarders in the world to 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

More than two decades before Heimana Reynolds 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 making history again, this talk between two surfers and skaters just goes to prove that the multi-generational impact, culture and influence of skateboarding can change the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Heimana Reynolds with a Frontside Invert at the 2019 Vans Park Series in Brazil.
Photo by Anthony Acosta courtesy Vans Park Series. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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

HEIMANA REYNOLDS: <\/strong>Hey, how are you, Jeff?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JEFF: I\u2019m good. I know that you\u2019re from Hawaii and I know your dad and it\u2019s so cool that you are on the USA National Team for skateboarding in the Olympics. I\u2019m so proud of you.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HEIMANA<\/strong>: Thank you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JEFF: Do you want to talk about what it was like growing up in Hawaii as a kid?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HEIMANA<\/strong>: Growing up in Hawaii, it was the best playground for me. The beach is right there and the skatepark is just five minutes away. Pretty much all day, I\u2019d just be with my dad and we\u2019d go to the skatepark until we\u2019d get hot and then we\u2019d go jump in the water and go surf and cool down and then go back to the skatepark. It was skate and surf and skate and surf all day. It\u2019s what built me into being the person that I am today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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