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"content": "\u003cp>If you’ve ever walked around a city with a skateboarder, you’ve probably been inundated with comments about a concrete ledge’s history here, or the backstory of a set of stairs there. Through magazines and videos, skaters map the world according to the spots they skate. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skaters are clerks to memorized libraries of not just existing skate spots, but potential spots, across our daily environment. Staircases become new measuring sticks for difficult tricks, and parking lot curbs become ageless playgrounds. As Dischord Records founder Ian MacKaye said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYKYU-Qj_Ro\">a 2013 lecture to the Library of Congress\u003c/a>, skateboarding means “learning how to redefine the world around you.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Viewers can now take a tour of San Francisco with this unique eye to the streets with art historian, writer and skateboarder \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tedbarrow/?hl=en\">Ted Barrow\u003c/a> in \u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em> magazine’s new web series “This Old Ledge.” Barrow offers a new way of seeing things most residents pass by every day, delivering onsite historical lessons on both the architectural and skateboarding history of key skate spots. Barrows’ seemingly freestyle, well-researched presentations are interspersed with archival photos from the San Francisco Public Library’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfpl.org/locations/main-library/sf-history-center/digital-collections\">Digital Archive\u003c/a> and \u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em>’s \u003ca href=\"https://m.thrashermagazine.com/magazine/covers-archive/\">own\u003c/a>, telling the city’s history through those who have skated its streets. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXrdZ5kWRqs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barrow is the professor who can skate and dress better than his students. With a bemused grin and sharp tongue, his commentaries are part snark, part self-deprecation. In one episode, dedicated to the \u003ca href=\"https://artandarchitecture-sf.com/embarcadero-ribbon.html\">Embarcadero Art Ribbon project\u003c/a> that became the skate spot Bay Blocks, Barrow details the “massive compromises” made to the project before construction, including gaps added between the concrete ledges for pedestrian accessibility — and opportunity. “It’s the gaps that activate this as a [skate] spot,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of a sudden these ideas crystallize around you,” Barrow tells me. “You can see the actual history of a built environment in a city and how people’s stories impacted the city through the juxtaposition of buildings and different spaces.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1268\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931481\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-800x396.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-1020x505.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-160x79.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-768x381.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-1536x761.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-2048x1015.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-1920x951.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R): Karl Watson, nollie 180 switch crooked grind at Pier 7, 1996; Chico Brenes, backside kickflip at Bay Blocks, 1997; Fred Gall, switch crooked grind at Hubba Hideout, 1995. \u003ccite>(Watson and Brenes: Luke Ogden; Gall: Gabe Morford; Courtesy Thrasher magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Barrow returned to the Bay Area a few years ago after many years in New York, teaching art history at such universities as Baruch and City College, while pursuing his PhD (he successfully defended his dissertation this year) and appearing in skate videos. He also gave walking tours, sneaking in skate references when describing the First Customs House where George Washington signed the Declaration of Independence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It always seemed like there was this very rich history that videos and interviews with skateboarders didn’t always fully address,” he says, particularly around “how we think about space and how we think about place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931484\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Henry-Sanchez-left-and-John-Cardiel-right-at-Embarcadero_1992_Photo-by-Tobin-Yelland.jpg\" alt=\"Two teenage boys in baggy shirts on a concrete ledge\" width=\"1200\" height=\"786\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931484\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Henry-Sanchez-left-and-John-Cardiel-right-at-Embarcadero_1992_Photo-by-Tobin-Yelland.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Henry-Sanchez-left-and-John-Cardiel-right-at-Embarcadero_1992_Photo-by-Tobin-Yelland-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Henry-Sanchez-left-and-John-Cardiel-right-at-Embarcadero_1992_Photo-by-Tobin-Yelland-1020x668.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Henry-Sanchez-left-and-John-Cardiel-right-at-Embarcadero_1992_Photo-by-Tobin-Yelland-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Henry-Sanchez-left-and-John-Cardiel-right-at-Embarcadero_1992_Photo-by-Tobin-Yelland-768x503.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R) Henry Sanchez and John Cardiel at Embarcadero, 1992. \u003ccite>(Tobin Yelland; Courtesy Thrasher magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Revisiting landmarks of modern street skating\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“This Old Ledge” begins at Justin Herman Plaza, simply known to skaters as Embarcadero or Embarco. Designed in 1971 by modernist architect \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11316687/halprins-experiments-in-environment-still-radical-50-years-later\">Lawrence Halprin\u003c/a>, it’s one of several civic-minded projects designed by Halprin in response to a generation of failed urban renewal projects, describing it as a “total environment in which all the elements working together create a place for participation.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the plaza’s skateable features have changed over the years. But the silhouettes of former plaza obstacles are still visible along the bricks, Barrow shows, as are thousands of axle marks from skateboarders turning the plaza, from 1991 to 1994, into street skating’s modern laboratory of innovation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13916267']Reading these visual histories is “part of the intimidation of these skate spots,” Barrow explains. “They’re palimpsests: they’ve changed, things have been removed, but you can still read the history of skateboarding etched into those places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researching the series, Barrow discovered how “the actual ledges and obstacles that people skated in the late ‘80s, early ‘90s weren’t there. And I always presumed that they were there.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931482\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Hubba-Hideout-destruction.jpg\" alt=\"A backhoe demolishes a large concrete walkway\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931482\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Hubba-Hideout-destruction.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Hubba-Hideout-destruction-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Hubba-Hideout-destruction-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Hubba-Hideout-destruction-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Hubba-Hideout-destruction-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After years as a formative skate spot, as detailed in ‘This Old Ledge,’ Hubba Hideout was eventually demolished. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Thrasher magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a different episode, we follow Barrow to another skate spot Halprin unintentionally designed, Hubba Hideout. In 1976, Halprin joined a team to connect the Alcoa Building with the waterfront through a pedestrian bridge extending from the building, over Davis Street, and into a newly landscaped plaza. The X-braised Alcoa Building would eventually mark the spot for skaters to find the bridge’s “harsh, brutalist concrete” handrails going down some stairs into a plaza with Halprin’s signature red bricks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, many would “hide out and smoke crack in the middle of one of the most profitable commercial districts in the world in broad daylight” explains Barrow. Hubba, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pArkWvlAebg\">Bay Area slang for crack cocaine\u003c/a>, became skate lingo for any concrete ledge acting as a handrail downstairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em> magazine’s President, Tony Vitello, describes the now-defunct spot as “a proving ground,” with the nickname representative of San Francisco’s influence on skateboarding. “You could be at a [skatepark] planning meeting with some local government, and they’re talking about a hubba ledge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Jack-Curtin_Switch-Nosegrind-at-Bay-Blocks_Photo-by-Dan-Zaslavsky.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a flannel shirt rides a skateboard high atop a concrete block\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931483\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Jack-Curtin_Switch-Nosegrind-at-Bay-Blocks_Photo-by-Dan-Zaslavsky.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Jack-Curtin_Switch-Nosegrind-at-Bay-Blocks_Photo-by-Dan-Zaslavsky-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Jack-Curtin_Switch-Nosegrind-at-Bay-Blocks_Photo-by-Dan-Zaslavsky-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Jack-Curtin_Switch-Nosegrind-at-Bay-Blocks_Photo-by-Dan-Zaslavsky-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Jack-Curtin_Switch-Nosegrind-at-Bay-Blocks_Photo-by-Dan-Zaslavsky-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack Curtin, switch nosegrind at Bay Blocks. \u003ccite>(Dan Zaslavsky; Courtesy Thrasher magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A historian’s eye for design and context\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Part of Vitello’s inspiration for “This Old Ledge” came at jury duty. On the wall of the courthouse was a framed photo of an abandoned San Francisco mansion, the Old Koshland House on Washington Street, whose curved exterior hubba ledge was \u003ca href=\"https://64.media.tumblr.com/b52e8b45d1554d98e9978416f510d2a1/tumblr_nqglutAUZJ1sgg3dvo1_500.gifv\">briefly a popular skate spot\u003c/a>. The photo was “dated the day after the 1906 earthquake,” with notable damage to buildings nearby. Vitello then considered the popular St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, and found drawings from when the Cathedral was built. “The out ledge that \u003ca href=\"https://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/videos/atlantic-drift-episode-2-st-paul-s/\">everyone has skated\u003c/a> is sitting there in the 1600s, from a period before skateboarding was even invented – that trips me out.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through original videos, \u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em>’s “been pushing to expand further into personality and cultural stuff,” Vitello says, “beyond just ‘Here’s a [skate] video with music in the background.’” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This push isn’t only palpable across their nearly seven million Instagram followers, but in the magazine’s hiring a full-time archivist to help log \u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em>’s entire photo and video history. Between these archives and the number of San Francisco skate spots replicated in skateparks worldwide, “San Francisco has had such an outsized influence on skateboarding,” Vitello says, “and therefore everything connected to our culture.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1118px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Skaters-at-Embarcadero_January-1992_photo-by-Kevin-Thatcher_419.jpg\" alt=\"Young boys sit on their skateboards amidst a concrete and brick plaza\" width=\"1118\" height=\"739\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931485\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Skaters-at-Embarcadero_January-1992_photo-by-Kevin-Thatcher_419.jpg 1118w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Skaters-at-Embarcadero_January-1992_photo-by-Kevin-Thatcher_419-800x529.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Skaters-at-Embarcadero_January-1992_photo-by-Kevin-Thatcher_419-1020x674.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Skaters-at-Embarcadero_January-1992_photo-by-Kevin-Thatcher_419-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Skaters-at-Embarcadero_January-1992_photo-by-Kevin-Thatcher_419-768x508.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1118px) 100vw, 1118px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skaters at Embarcadero, 1992. \u003ccite>(Kevin Thatcher; courtesy Thrasher magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Betsy Gordon, Project Manager at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, struck up a friendship with Barrow at the academic skate conference Pushing Boarders, where they both presented. She attests to his style of teaching: “I appreciate the fact that he has advanced skills and is very well-educated,” she says, “but never makes you feel stupid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barrow recently contributed to \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smithsonianstore.com/four-wheels-and-a-board-11042/\">Four Wheels and a Board: The Smithsonian History of Skateboarding\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, co-edited by Gordon. She looped in Barrow to write and contribute several pieces, including an introductory chapter to the 1990s section. “Not everybody can have that historian’s eye of seeing that context and say, ‘Oh, that trick for the ‘90s was really progressive’ with a sense of what was possible,” she says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13891248']Still, a skateboarder’s relationship with space evolves over time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Skateboarding is aging,” Gordon explains. “It was always very future-focused; now there’s more appreciation for history and what came before.” This ongoing relationship with space grounds Barrow’s deep historical knowledge into the present, making his onsite testimonies resonate that much deeper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vitello places that impact, and the project’s, into his everyday life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes you just forget to look up,” he explains. “I’ve found myself, even in a city I grew up in, looking up and looking at things a bit different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘This Old Ledge’ is on \u003ca href=\"https://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/videos/\">Thrasher magazine’s website\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/@ThrasherMag/videos\">YouTube channel\u003c/a> now. New episodes drop each Wednesday. Ted Barrow also runs a Patreon, \u003ca href=\"https://www.patreon.com/beratethebirds\">Berate the Birds\u003c/a>, centered around art history and skateboarding. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of a sudden these ideas crystallize around you,” Barrow tells me. “You can see the actual history of a built environment in a city and how people’s stories impacted the city through the juxtaposition of buildings and different spaces.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1268\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931481\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-800x396.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-1020x505.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-160x79.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-768x381.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-1536x761.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-2048x1015.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-1920x951.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R): Karl Watson, nollie 180 switch crooked grind at Pier 7, 1996; Chico Brenes, backside kickflip at Bay Blocks, 1997; Fred Gall, switch crooked grind at Hubba Hideout, 1995. \u003ccite>(Watson and Brenes: Luke Ogden; Gall: Gabe Morford; Courtesy Thrasher magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Barrow returned to the Bay Area a few years ago after many years in New York, teaching art history at such universities as Baruch and City College, while pursuing his PhD (he successfully defended his dissertation this year) and appearing in skate videos. He also gave walking tours, sneaking in skate references when describing the First Customs House where George Washington signed the Declaration of Independence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It always seemed like there was this very rich history that videos and interviews with skateboarders didn’t always fully address,” he says, particularly around “how we think about space and how we think about place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931484\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Henry-Sanchez-left-and-John-Cardiel-right-at-Embarcadero_1992_Photo-by-Tobin-Yelland.jpg\" alt=\"Two teenage boys in baggy shirts on a concrete ledge\" width=\"1200\" height=\"786\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931484\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Henry-Sanchez-left-and-John-Cardiel-right-at-Embarcadero_1992_Photo-by-Tobin-Yelland.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Henry-Sanchez-left-and-John-Cardiel-right-at-Embarcadero_1992_Photo-by-Tobin-Yelland-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Henry-Sanchez-left-and-John-Cardiel-right-at-Embarcadero_1992_Photo-by-Tobin-Yelland-1020x668.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Henry-Sanchez-left-and-John-Cardiel-right-at-Embarcadero_1992_Photo-by-Tobin-Yelland-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Henry-Sanchez-left-and-John-Cardiel-right-at-Embarcadero_1992_Photo-by-Tobin-Yelland-768x503.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R) Henry Sanchez and John Cardiel at Embarcadero, 1992. \u003ccite>(Tobin Yelland; Courtesy Thrasher magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Revisiting landmarks of modern street skating\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“This Old Ledge” begins at Justin Herman Plaza, simply known to skaters as Embarcadero or Embarco. Designed in 1971 by modernist architect \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11316687/halprins-experiments-in-environment-still-radical-50-years-later\">Lawrence Halprin\u003c/a>, it’s one of several civic-minded projects designed by Halprin in response to a generation of failed urban renewal projects, describing it as a “total environment in which all the elements working together create a place for participation.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the plaza’s skateable features have changed over the years. But the silhouettes of former plaza obstacles are still visible along the bricks, Barrow shows, as are thousands of axle marks from skateboarders turning the plaza, from 1991 to 1994, into street skating’s modern laboratory of innovation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Reading these visual histories is “part of the intimidation of these skate spots,” Barrow explains. “They’re palimpsests: they’ve changed, things have been removed, but you can still read the history of skateboarding etched into those places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researching the series, Barrow discovered how “the actual ledges and obstacles that people skated in the late ‘80s, early ‘90s weren’t there. And I always presumed that they were there.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931482\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Hubba-Hideout-destruction.jpg\" alt=\"A backhoe demolishes a large concrete walkway\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931482\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Hubba-Hideout-destruction.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Hubba-Hideout-destruction-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Hubba-Hideout-destruction-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Hubba-Hideout-destruction-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Hubba-Hideout-destruction-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After years as a formative skate spot, as detailed in ‘This Old Ledge,’ Hubba Hideout was eventually demolished. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Thrasher magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a different episode, we follow Barrow to another skate spot Halprin unintentionally designed, Hubba Hideout. In 1976, Halprin joined a team to connect the Alcoa Building with the waterfront through a pedestrian bridge extending from the building, over Davis Street, and into a newly landscaped plaza. The X-braised Alcoa Building would eventually mark the spot for skaters to find the bridge’s “harsh, brutalist concrete” handrails going down some stairs into a plaza with Halprin’s signature red bricks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, many would “hide out and smoke crack in the middle of one of the most profitable commercial districts in the world in broad daylight” explains Barrow. Hubba, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pArkWvlAebg\">Bay Area slang for crack cocaine\u003c/a>, became skate lingo for any concrete ledge acting as a handrail downstairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em> magazine’s President, Tony Vitello, describes the now-defunct spot as “a proving ground,” with the nickname representative of San Francisco’s influence on skateboarding. “You could be at a [skatepark] planning meeting with some local government, and they’re talking about a hubba ledge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Jack-Curtin_Switch-Nosegrind-at-Bay-Blocks_Photo-by-Dan-Zaslavsky.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a flannel shirt rides a skateboard high atop a concrete block\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931483\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Jack-Curtin_Switch-Nosegrind-at-Bay-Blocks_Photo-by-Dan-Zaslavsky.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Jack-Curtin_Switch-Nosegrind-at-Bay-Blocks_Photo-by-Dan-Zaslavsky-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Jack-Curtin_Switch-Nosegrind-at-Bay-Blocks_Photo-by-Dan-Zaslavsky-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Jack-Curtin_Switch-Nosegrind-at-Bay-Blocks_Photo-by-Dan-Zaslavsky-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Jack-Curtin_Switch-Nosegrind-at-Bay-Blocks_Photo-by-Dan-Zaslavsky-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack Curtin, switch nosegrind at Bay Blocks. \u003ccite>(Dan Zaslavsky; Courtesy Thrasher magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A historian’s eye for design and context\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Part of Vitello’s inspiration for “This Old Ledge” came at jury duty. On the wall of the courthouse was a framed photo of an abandoned San Francisco mansion, the Old Koshland House on Washington Street, whose curved exterior hubba ledge was \u003ca href=\"https://64.media.tumblr.com/b52e8b45d1554d98e9978416f510d2a1/tumblr_nqglutAUZJ1sgg3dvo1_500.gifv\">briefly a popular skate spot\u003c/a>. The photo was “dated the day after the 1906 earthquake,” with notable damage to buildings nearby. Vitello then considered the popular St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, and found drawings from when the Cathedral was built. “The out ledge that \u003ca href=\"https://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/videos/atlantic-drift-episode-2-st-paul-s/\">everyone has skated\u003c/a> is sitting there in the 1600s, from a period before skateboarding was even invented – that trips me out.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through original videos, \u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em>’s “been pushing to expand further into personality and cultural stuff,” Vitello says, “beyond just ‘Here’s a [skate] video with music in the background.’” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This push isn’t only palpable across their nearly seven million Instagram followers, but in the magazine’s hiring a full-time archivist to help log \u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em>’s entire photo and video history. Between these archives and the number of San Francisco skate spots replicated in skateparks worldwide, “San Francisco has had such an outsized influence on skateboarding,” Vitello says, “and therefore everything connected to our culture.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1118px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Skaters-at-Embarcadero_January-1992_photo-by-Kevin-Thatcher_419.jpg\" alt=\"Young boys sit on their skateboards amidst a concrete and brick plaza\" width=\"1118\" height=\"739\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931485\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Skaters-at-Embarcadero_January-1992_photo-by-Kevin-Thatcher_419.jpg 1118w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Skaters-at-Embarcadero_January-1992_photo-by-Kevin-Thatcher_419-800x529.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Skaters-at-Embarcadero_January-1992_photo-by-Kevin-Thatcher_419-1020x674.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Skaters-at-Embarcadero_January-1992_photo-by-Kevin-Thatcher_419-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Skaters-at-Embarcadero_January-1992_photo-by-Kevin-Thatcher_419-768x508.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1118px) 100vw, 1118px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skaters at Embarcadero, 1992. \u003ccite>(Kevin Thatcher; courtesy Thrasher magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Betsy Gordon, Project Manager at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, struck up a friendship with Barrow at the academic skate conference Pushing Boarders, where they both presented. She attests to his style of teaching: “I appreciate the fact that he has advanced skills and is very well-educated,” she says, “but never makes you feel stupid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barrow recently contributed to \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smithsonianstore.com/four-wheels-and-a-board-11042/\">Four Wheels and a Board: The Smithsonian History of Skateboarding\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, co-edited by Gordon. She looped in Barrow to write and contribute several pieces, including an introductory chapter to the 1990s section. “Not everybody can have that historian’s eye of seeing that context and say, ‘Oh, that trick for the ‘90s was really progressive’ with a sense of what was possible,” she says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Still, a skateboarder’s relationship with space evolves over time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Skateboarding is aging,” Gordon explains. “It was always very future-focused; now there’s more appreciation for history and what came before.” This ongoing relationship with space grounds Barrow’s deep historical knowledge into the present, making his onsite testimonies resonate that much deeper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vitello places that impact, and the project’s, into his everyday life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes you just forget to look up,” he explains. “I’ve found myself, even in a city I grew up in, looking up and looking at things a bit different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"title": "How a Punk Rock–Inspired Pizza Shop Helped Me Feel at Home in Sacramento",
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"content": "\u003cp>Two summers ago, when I told a fellow skater and frequent local of the Rockridge BART parking lot — a popular Oakland skate spot — that I was moving to Sacramento, he immediately recommended \u003ca href=\"https://www.pizzasupremebeing.com/\">Pizza Supreme Being\u003c/a>. The downtown pizzeria was, in his opinion, one of the city’s best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food recommendations are an everyday occurrence, but a referral from a skater — a member of a subculture rich with niche tastes and preferences measured to the millimeter, plus a ground level relationship with cities — is something I take to heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Located steps from the California State Capitol Park on the corner of 14th and O Streets, Pizza Supreme Being is what I frequently describe as a spotless, well-organized merch table at a hardcore show that just happens to sell amazing sourdough slices and pies. According to co-owner Ben Roberts, I’m not far off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I legitimately run this brand like I would a hardcore band or like a skateboard company,” Roberts explains. He approaches speciality pizza pies “as like a single for a band.” Limited, one-and-done merch drops create the type of cultural FOMO Roberts himself has fallen victim to, growing up skateboarding, playing in bands and going to underground shows. “I love seeing things out in the wild that I did happen to miss,” he explains. “It brings me back to those moments and things in my life that I was always so drawn to. I gotta make sure that I don’t lose touch with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928215\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13928215\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/pizza-supreme-being-crew-color-correct.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Roberts in a black punk rock T-shirt poses along with his pizza shop's employees, all dressed in white.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/pizza-supreme-being-crew-color-correct.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/pizza-supreme-being-crew-color-correct-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/pizza-supreme-being-crew-color-correct-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/pizza-supreme-being-crew-color-correct-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/pizza-supreme-being-crew-color-correct-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/pizza-supreme-being-crew-color-correct-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roberts (left) and his crew run the shop like it’s a skateboard brand or like they’re selling merch at a hardcore punk show. \u003ccite>(José Vadi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After years in fine dining, Roberts started Pizza Supreme Being as a pop-up around 2015 after building a transportable wood-fire oven. He spent four years serving slices at bars and wineries on weekends, building a local following serving pies with a more standard yeasted dough before transitioning to naturally leavened sourdough per the recommendation of wife and business partner, Pembe Sonmez-Roberts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to feed the [sourdough] starter twice a day,” Roberts says, explaining that this wasn’t practical in the business’s early years. Once they made the switch, however, the end result tasted “worlds better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They got keys to the restaurant in March 2019, opened by April, and celebrated their one-year anniversary by transitioning to shelter in place during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Three years later, “I feel like this is what’s normal,” Roberts explains. Even now the restaurant only offers outdoor dining and to-go orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the original restaurant dream was fork and knives with wood-fired pies, the reality-driven plan is affordable slices and pies “with superior ingredients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I put all of our focus on our dough and our cheese blend,” Roberts says, detailing the organic tomatoes and never-bromated U.S. milled flour he uses daily. He also makes a signature homemade ranch dressing that when purchased online includes a YouTube tutorial link from Roberts himself. But lest you think everything on the menu has artisanal ambitions, Roberts says, “I also put Spam on pizza.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Spam is a trademark of the restaurant’s take on Hawaiian pizza, along with jalapeño and pineapple. The Heatwave Pizza combines hot coppa with jalapeño and Mike’s Hot Honey. And regulars know to come early (and hungry) enough to snag a square pepperoni slice, topped to the Detroit-style corners with pepperoni cups, before they sell out — and make no mistake, Pizza Supreme Being’s whole lineup of pizza always winds up selling out. Lining up to the kiosk window to place an order feels less like an exclusive foodie experience and more akin to buying tickets to a show. Slices are served to your seats outside, where government professionals, cross-city bike crews, pre-gaming hardcore show kids, skaters, families and beyond intersect in allegiance to a supreme being of a sourdough crust perfected to the last bite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928222\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1080px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13928222\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/332794941_174738161951148_860703287127675705_n.jpg\" alt=\"Overhead view of a pizza topped with hot coppa and jalapeños. \" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/332794941_174738161951148_860703287127675705_n.jpg 1080w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/332794941_174738161951148_860703287127675705_n-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/332794941_174738161951148_860703287127675705_n-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/332794941_174738161951148_860703287127675705_n-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/332794941_174738161951148_860703287127675705_n-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Heatwave pizza combines hot coppa, jalapeños and Mike’s Hot Honey. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Pizza Supreme Being/Instagram)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What’s also impressive for such a small restaurant is that it hosts a whole network of local, multicultural food industry upstarts. Eddie Torres, who works full-time at Pizza Supreme Being, recently debuted a pizza featuring achiote marinated pork sausage and mojo verde as part of his own pop-up, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/lacocina_de_carmen/\">La Cocina de Carmen\u003c/a> — his “vision of a California cuisine restaurant with Puerto Rican influence.” The restaurant has also hosted \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/congeecult/\">Congee Cult\u003c/a>, a two-person pop-up serving new takes on Chinese rice porridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13919707,arts_13915581,news_11815327']\u003c/span>Part of this community-driven mindset is a direct product of the music scenes Roberts grew up with. Now, with limited free time as a business owner and new parent, Roberts stays connected to those scenes by offering a good meal to visiting hardcore acts like Candy, Extinguish, Big Boy and the Los Angeles powerviolence band Zulu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I try my best to look at tour dates of bands that I really enjoy, or even ones I haven’t listened to that much, and just say ‘Pull up and I’ll feed you,’” Robert explains. “I know that they’re hungry, on the road, eating fast food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes Roberts lets these touring bands, like San Jose’s Sunami, set up a little merch pop-up — and, like any proper skate shop or hardcore band, the restaurant offers its own line of cheeky merch as well. One of my personal favorites is a T-shirt featuring a hand-drawn character inspired by Youth of Today lead singer Ray Cappo leaping mid-air, mid-song. The restaurant sells \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CpBhzYzvJpm/?hl=en\">bumper stickers\u003c/a> that advocate for pepperoni cups and playfully trolls corporate ranch dressing manufacturers with the simple question, “Where the Heck is Hidden Valley?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928223\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1080px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13928223\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/332557431_949086672784735_8808409291648642488_n.jpg\" alt='Bumper stickers arranged on a white pizza box: \"Gas...Brake...Dip...Your Pizza in Ranch,\" \"I Went to Pizza Supreme Being and All I Got Was This Lousy Bumper Sticker,\" \"Welcome to Sacramento, We Dip Our Pizza in Ranch,\" \"I Brake for Pepperoni Cups,\" and \"Where the Heck Is Hidden Valley?\"' width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/332557431_949086672784735_8808409291648642488_n.jpg 1080w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/332557431_949086672784735_8808409291648642488_n-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/332557431_949086672784735_8808409291648642488_n-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/332557431_949086672784735_8808409291648642488_n-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/332557431_949086672784735_8808409291648642488_n-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The pizza brand’s merch lineup includes a selection of cheeky pepperoni- and ranch dressing-themed bumper stickers. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Pizza Supreme Being/Instagram)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While a small, punk-inspired pizza shop might seem like an unlikely avatar for Sacramento’s acclaimed food scene, a sense of local pride is palpable in everything that Pizza Supreme Being produces. The restaurant’s Instagram Stories often feature selfies of Roberts posing in front of the beam lit above the Golden 1 Center after every Kings win, and the chef is effusive about how much cool stuff is happening in the capital city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the best parts of skateboarding, hardcore and similar subcultures are the communities they engender, why wouldn’t that also be true for a pizza restaurant? For me, Pizza Supreme Being has been a welcome portal into a Sacramento scene I’m still slowly getting to know — one whose hard-working ethos speaks for itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get really tired of being compared to other cities — the rising this or the next that,” Roberts says. “Just let us be us and see what we got.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pizzasupremebeing.com/\">\u003ci>Pizza Supreme Being\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> is located at 1425 14th St., Ste. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Two summers ago, when I told a fellow skater and frequent local of the Rockridge BART parking lot — a popular Oakland skate spot — that I was moving to Sacramento, he immediately recommended \u003ca href=\"https://www.pizzasupremebeing.com/\">Pizza Supreme Being\u003c/a>. The downtown pizzeria was, in his opinion, one of the city’s best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food recommendations are an everyday occurrence, but a referral from a skater — a member of a subculture rich with niche tastes and preferences measured to the millimeter, plus a ground level relationship with cities — is something I take to heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Located steps from the California State Capitol Park on the corner of 14th and O Streets, Pizza Supreme Being is what I frequently describe as a spotless, well-organized merch table at a hardcore show that just happens to sell amazing sourdough slices and pies. According to co-owner Ben Roberts, I’m not far off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I legitimately run this brand like I would a hardcore band or like a skateboard company,” Roberts explains. He approaches speciality pizza pies “as like a single for a band.” Limited, one-and-done merch drops create the type of cultural FOMO Roberts himself has fallen victim to, growing up skateboarding, playing in bands and going to underground shows. “I love seeing things out in the wild that I did happen to miss,” he explains. “It brings me back to those moments and things in my life that I was always so drawn to. I gotta make sure that I don’t lose touch with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928215\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13928215\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/pizza-supreme-being-crew-color-correct.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Roberts in a black punk rock T-shirt poses along with his pizza shop's employees, all dressed in white.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/pizza-supreme-being-crew-color-correct.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/pizza-supreme-being-crew-color-correct-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/pizza-supreme-being-crew-color-correct-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/pizza-supreme-being-crew-color-correct-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/pizza-supreme-being-crew-color-correct-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/pizza-supreme-being-crew-color-correct-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roberts (left) and his crew run the shop like it’s a skateboard brand or like they’re selling merch at a hardcore punk show. \u003ccite>(José Vadi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After years in fine dining, Roberts started Pizza Supreme Being as a pop-up around 2015 after building a transportable wood-fire oven. He spent four years serving slices at bars and wineries on weekends, building a local following serving pies with a more standard yeasted dough before transitioning to naturally leavened sourdough per the recommendation of wife and business partner, Pembe Sonmez-Roberts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to feed the [sourdough] starter twice a day,” Roberts says, explaining that this wasn’t practical in the business’s early years. Once they made the switch, however, the end result tasted “worlds better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They got keys to the restaurant in March 2019, opened by April, and celebrated their one-year anniversary by transitioning to shelter in place during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Three years later, “I feel like this is what’s normal,” Roberts explains. Even now the restaurant only offers outdoor dining and to-go orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the original restaurant dream was fork and knives with wood-fired pies, the reality-driven plan is affordable slices and pies “with superior ingredients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I put all of our focus on our dough and our cheese blend,” Roberts says, detailing the organic tomatoes and never-bromated U.S. milled flour he uses daily. He also makes a signature homemade ranch dressing that when purchased online includes a YouTube tutorial link from Roberts himself. But lest you think everything on the menu has artisanal ambitions, Roberts says, “I also put Spam on pizza.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Spam is a trademark of the restaurant’s take on Hawaiian pizza, along with jalapeño and pineapple. The Heatwave Pizza combines hot coppa with jalapeño and Mike’s Hot Honey. And regulars know to come early (and hungry) enough to snag a square pepperoni slice, topped to the Detroit-style corners with pepperoni cups, before they sell out — and make no mistake, Pizza Supreme Being’s whole lineup of pizza always winds up selling out. Lining up to the kiosk window to place an order feels less like an exclusive foodie experience and more akin to buying tickets to a show. Slices are served to your seats outside, where government professionals, cross-city bike crews, pre-gaming hardcore show kids, skaters, families and beyond intersect in allegiance to a supreme being of a sourdough crust perfected to the last bite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928222\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1080px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13928222\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/332794941_174738161951148_860703287127675705_n.jpg\" alt=\"Overhead view of a pizza topped with hot coppa and jalapeños. \" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/332794941_174738161951148_860703287127675705_n.jpg 1080w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/332794941_174738161951148_860703287127675705_n-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/332794941_174738161951148_860703287127675705_n-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/332794941_174738161951148_860703287127675705_n-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/332794941_174738161951148_860703287127675705_n-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Heatwave pizza combines hot coppa, jalapeños and Mike’s Hot Honey. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Pizza Supreme Being/Instagram)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What’s also impressive for such a small restaurant is that it hosts a whole network of local, multicultural food industry upstarts. Eddie Torres, who works full-time at Pizza Supreme Being, recently debuted a pizza featuring achiote marinated pork sausage and mojo verde as part of his own pop-up, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/lacocina_de_carmen/\">La Cocina de Carmen\u003c/a> — his “vision of a California cuisine restaurant with Puerto Rican influence.” The restaurant has also hosted \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/congeecult/\">Congee Cult\u003c/a>, a two-person pop-up serving new takes on Chinese rice porridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On Friday morning, I got word that my favorite San Francisco photographer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/daveschubertsf/\">Dave Schubert\u003c/a> had died suddenly. The long-time Mission District resident was discovered on Thursday, Jan. 5 by concerned friends at the 26th Street home Schubert lived in for two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schubert’s work had been a minor obsession of mine ever since 2005, when I first saw one of his photographs at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936275/111-minna-30th-anniversary-show-review-jeremy-fish-alec-huxley-sam-flores-interview\">111 Minna\u003c/a> show. The photo in question — a chaotic 16th Street brawl involving seven people and a bicycle — has hung in my home ever since. It offers a perfect snapshot of Mission District nightlife as I knew it back then: a grimy, hedonistic community of bartenders, graffiti writers, skaters, punks and bike messengers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923401\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.57.33-AM-800x1226.png\" alt=\"A cluster of seven people push and pull each other in a street fight. A woman lies on the ground underneath it all, a bicycle laying on the ground in front of her.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1226\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.57.33-AM-800x1226.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.57.33-AM-160x245.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.57.33-AM-768x1177.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.57.33-AM.png 860w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave Schubert captured this fight outside Delirium on 16th Street in 2003. \u003ccite>(Dave Schubert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This underworld of smart-ass scrappers, non-stop taggers and street-fighting drunkards was a large part of why I fell in love with San Francisco in the first place. And Schubert documented all of it. Back then, in the late ’90s and early 2000s, it felt like there were no consequences for any amount of ill-advised behavior. If there \u003ci>was\u003c/i> trouble? Well, the story you told the next day was just that much better. In the 18 years since I first found Schubert’s work, no one has captured that chaos better than he did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schubert and I lived only a few blocks from each other in the Mission, so back in September 2022, I invited him out to lunch to talk about his work. He met me in the back of Old Jerusalem on Mission Street. In person, Schubert was sweet, polite, humble, and just a little wild-eyed. He told me right off the bat that he’d hit his head a lot over the years and showed me \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CLDyx_BsECr/\">photos of him swollen and bleeding\u003c/a> to prove it. “Bloody head shots,” he called them. He had a whole collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923473\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.17.47-AM-800x979.png\" alt=\"A young man with blood on his forehead and cheek, with a large lump forming on the side of his face, looks blankly at the camera. \" width=\"800\" height=\"979\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.17.47-AM-800x979.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.17.47-AM-1020x1248.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.17.47-AM-160x196.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.17.47-AM-768x940.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.17.47-AM.png 1056w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of Schubert’s self-portraits, this one documenting the aftermath of a bicycle accident. \u003ccite>(Dave Schubert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Schubert was also incredibly smart; a scholar about the history of photography and an easy conversationalist. We talked for longer than I expected that day about a wide array of topics. We talked about Schubert’s earliest photography inspirations: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Richardson_(photographer)\">Bob Richardson\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Avedon\">Richard Avedon\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frank\">Robert Frank\u003c/a>. We talked about the history of the Mission. We talked about dead friends, in particular \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf0ZVR9u0DI/\">his best friend Dash Snow\u003c/a>, who Schubert memorialized with \u003ca href=\"https://panopticonpress.bigcartel.com/product/dash-i-miss-you-ap-edition\">a fanzine of photos\u003c/a> after Snow’s death in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schubert moved to the city in 1995 after being awarded a scholarship to study photography at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/sfai\">San Francisco Art Institute\u003c/a>. Once he arrived, Schubert immersed himself in the Bay’s thriving skateboarding and graffiti scene. Back on the East Coast, he’d been a prolific skate videographer, primarily in Washington, D.C. On that September day, we talked about his more recent work for \u003ca href=\"https://www.skatedeluxe.com/en/gx1000-shop\">GX1000\u003c/a>, his friend’s skate company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923413\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923413\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-4.10.30-PM-800x956.png\" alt=\"A man wearing blue jeans, flannel shirt and a chicken head mask perches on top of a graffitied bathroom stall, money falling from his hands.\" width=\"800\" height=\"956\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-4.10.30-PM-800x956.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-4.10.30-PM-160x191.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-4.10.30-PM-768x918.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-4.10.30-PM.png 1014w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo taken at The Cock, a New York City gay bar. \u003ccite>(Dave Schubert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Best of all, we talked about the trouble he’d found himself in while taking photos of strangers doing illegal things — a habit Schubert had that reflected his audacious approach to his craft. He told me of one incident when a group of sex workers attacked him for taking a photo of them smoking crack in the Tenderloin. Mid-attack, Schubert told me, one of them began biting his finger. Hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had just watched a nature film with sharks that week though,” Schubert casually told me. “And it said if you’re attacked by a reef shark, don’t pull your hand out of its mouth because your flesh will tear. Instead, hit it in the throat so it will release you. So that’s what I did. That’s how I got the prostitute off my finger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talking to Schubert, these kinds of stories weren’t unusual. They were simply how he lived his life: on the edge, always adjacent to trouble, illuminating the darkest sides of city living with his camera, so that the rest of the world might see it too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923404\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM-800x517.png\" alt=\"A man stands casually wearing black clothing and an San Francisco 49ers baseball cap, while a woman casually tags a Muni bus in San Francisco. The bus doors are still open.\" width=\"800\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM-800x517.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM-1020x659.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM-160x103.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM-768x496.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM-1536x993.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM.png 1550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Every day acts of vandalism in SF, as captured by Dave Schubert. \u003ccite>(Dave Schubert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He had a drive and passion for his work that is hard to find these days,” says Lindsay Mape, who first befriended Schubert in 1995. “I was studying painting at SFAI and he would sneak in with me and use the dark rooms all day long to print his film, while I painted in the studios downstairs. Then we would leave and go hang in the Mission or the TL all night, finding trouble, hanging with friends, laughing and chilling with my dog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He didn’t have a nasty bone in his body,” she remembers. “Genuinely the sweetest soul.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noah Lang of the San Francisco gallery \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CnFgYPMS43k/\">Electric Works\u003c/a>, who first befriended Schubert in 1999, has similar memories of the photographer. “Even in his darkest times, he never had any anger,” Lang says. “He was an unstoppable force of positivity. He was very generous. He was interested in sharing everything that he had. He would have 17-year-old skaters email him saying they liked his work and he would just send them [a print]. He was not looking for fame or fortune ever. He just wanted enough money to live and make his books and that was pretty much it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like street photographers are born noticers,” Lang continues. “They notice all the things that we see but don’t find remarkable, and then they synthesize it. Dave was a really great noticer and synthesizer of the coral reef around him. He knew everything about it. He could see it all and he would make a photo of it and turn normalcy into poetry in 1/60 of a second.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923472\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM-800x512.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM-800x512.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM-1020x653.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM-160x102.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM-768x491.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM-1536x983.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM.png 1910w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A very young Stevie Williams (skateboarder) poses between friends at Pulaski Park in Washington, D.C., 1993. \u003ccite>(Dave Schubert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tributes poured in for Schubert over the weekend as news of his untimely death spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/steveespopowers/\">Steve Powers wrote on Instagram\u003c/a>: “I don’t know a better photographer that shot both skateboarding and graffiti as well as Dave did, but, as he would say about bragging, ‘Don’t tell it, show it’ … Dave Schubert didn’t take pictures, he took the time to love and to show the love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/the-chaos-he-memorialized-rip-san-francisco-photography-legend-dave-schubert/\">Evan Pricco of \u003cem>Juxtapoz\u003c/em> wrote\u003c/a>: “It feels as if an era of San Francisco has passed with the news of the death of photographer, Dave Schubert. Many of my earliest memories of art, of underground culture, of life being fucking lived, was through the lens and eye of Dave Schubert. He was telling me the story of my home city without me even being conscious of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Noah Lang and friends have set up a fundraising campaign to save and preserve Dave Schubert’s photographic archive. \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/dave-schuberts-photographic-legacy?qid=93785caa04562f1ed1bf1235d03c5de5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Details can be found on their GoFundMe page\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>An exhibit of Schubert’s photography will be on display at San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://etaletc.com/\">Et Al. Etc. Gallery\u003c/a> (2831 Mission Street) between July 29 and Aug. 18, 2023.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On Friday morning, I got word that my favorite San Francisco photographer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/daveschubertsf/\">Dave Schubert\u003c/a> had died suddenly. The long-time Mission District resident was discovered on Thursday, Jan. 5 by concerned friends at the 26th Street home Schubert lived in for two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schubert’s work had been a minor obsession of mine ever since 2005, when I first saw one of his photographs at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936275/111-minna-30th-anniversary-show-review-jeremy-fish-alec-huxley-sam-flores-interview\">111 Minna\u003c/a> show. The photo in question — a chaotic 16th Street brawl involving seven people and a bicycle — has hung in my home ever since. It offers a perfect snapshot of Mission District nightlife as I knew it back then: a grimy, hedonistic community of bartenders, graffiti writers, skaters, punks and bike messengers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923401\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.57.33-AM-800x1226.png\" alt=\"A cluster of seven people push and pull each other in a street fight. A woman lies on the ground underneath it all, a bicycle laying on the ground in front of her.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1226\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.57.33-AM-800x1226.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.57.33-AM-160x245.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.57.33-AM-768x1177.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.57.33-AM.png 860w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave Schubert captured this fight outside Delirium on 16th Street in 2003. \u003ccite>(Dave Schubert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This underworld of smart-ass scrappers, non-stop taggers and street-fighting drunkards was a large part of why I fell in love with San Francisco in the first place. And Schubert documented all of it. Back then, in the late ’90s and early 2000s, it felt like there were no consequences for any amount of ill-advised behavior. If there \u003ci>was\u003c/i> trouble? Well, the story you told the next day was just that much better. In the 18 years since I first found Schubert’s work, no one has captured that chaos better than he did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schubert and I lived only a few blocks from each other in the Mission, so back in September 2022, I invited him out to lunch to talk about his work. He met me in the back of Old Jerusalem on Mission Street. In person, Schubert was sweet, polite, humble, and just a little wild-eyed. He told me right off the bat that he’d hit his head a lot over the years and showed me \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CLDyx_BsECr/\">photos of him swollen and bleeding\u003c/a> to prove it. “Bloody head shots,” he called them. He had a whole collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923473\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.17.47-AM-800x979.png\" alt=\"A young man with blood on his forehead and cheek, with a large lump forming on the side of his face, looks blankly at the camera. \" width=\"800\" height=\"979\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.17.47-AM-800x979.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.17.47-AM-1020x1248.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.17.47-AM-160x196.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.17.47-AM-768x940.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.17.47-AM.png 1056w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of Schubert’s self-portraits, this one documenting the aftermath of a bicycle accident. \u003ccite>(Dave Schubert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Schubert was also incredibly smart; a scholar about the history of photography and an easy conversationalist. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schubert moved to the city in 1995 after being awarded a scholarship to study photography at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/sfai\">San Francisco Art Institute\u003c/a>. Once he arrived, Schubert immersed himself in the Bay’s thriving skateboarding and graffiti scene. Back on the East Coast, he’d been a prolific skate videographer, primarily in Washington, D.C. On that September day, we talked about his more recent work for \u003ca href=\"https://www.skatedeluxe.com/en/gx1000-shop\">GX1000\u003c/a>, his friend’s skate company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923413\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923413\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-4.10.30-PM-800x956.png\" alt=\"A man wearing blue jeans, flannel shirt and a chicken head mask perches on top of a graffitied bathroom stall, money falling from his hands.\" width=\"800\" height=\"956\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-4.10.30-PM-800x956.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-4.10.30-PM-160x191.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-4.10.30-PM-768x918.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-4.10.30-PM.png 1014w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo taken at The Cock, a New York City gay bar. \u003ccite>(Dave Schubert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Best of all, we talked about the trouble he’d found himself in while taking photos of strangers doing illegal things — a habit Schubert had that reflected his audacious approach to his craft. He told me of one incident when a group of sex workers attacked him for taking a photo of them smoking crack in the Tenderloin. Mid-attack, Schubert told me, one of them began biting his finger. Hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had just watched a nature film with sharks that week though,” Schubert casually told me. “And it said if you’re attacked by a reef shark, don’t pull your hand out of its mouth because your flesh will tear. Instead, hit it in the throat so it will release you. So that’s what I did. That’s how I got the prostitute off my finger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talking to Schubert, these kinds of stories weren’t unusual. They were simply how he lived his life: on the edge, always adjacent to trouble, illuminating the darkest sides of city living with his camera, so that the rest of the world might see it too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923404\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM-800x517.png\" alt=\"A man stands casually wearing black clothing and an San Francisco 49ers baseball cap, while a woman casually tags a Muni bus in San Francisco. The bus doors are still open.\" width=\"800\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM-800x517.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM-1020x659.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM-160x103.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM-768x496.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM-1536x993.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM.png 1550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Every day acts of vandalism in SF, as captured by Dave Schubert. \u003ccite>(Dave Schubert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He had a drive and passion for his work that is hard to find these days,” says Lindsay Mape, who first befriended Schubert in 1995. “I was studying painting at SFAI and he would sneak in with me and use the dark rooms all day long to print his film, while I painted in the studios downstairs. Then we would leave and go hang in the Mission or the TL all night, finding trouble, hanging with friends, laughing and chilling with my dog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He didn’t have a nasty bone in his body,” she remembers. “Genuinely the sweetest soul.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noah Lang of the San Francisco gallery \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CnFgYPMS43k/\">Electric Works\u003c/a>, who first befriended Schubert in 1999, has similar memories of the photographer. “Even in his darkest times, he never had any anger,” Lang says. “He was an unstoppable force of positivity. He was very generous. He was interested in sharing everything that he had. He would have 17-year-old skaters email him saying they liked his work and he would just send them [a print]. He was not looking for fame or fortune ever. He just wanted enough money to live and make his books and that was pretty much it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like street photographers are born noticers,” Lang continues. “They notice all the things that we see but don’t find remarkable, and then they synthesize it. Dave was a really great noticer and synthesizer of the coral reef around him. He knew everything about it. He could see it all and he would make a photo of it and turn normalcy into poetry in 1/60 of a second.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923472\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM-800x512.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM-800x512.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM-1020x653.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM-160x102.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM-768x491.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM-1536x983.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM.png 1910w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A very young Stevie Williams (skateboarder) poses between friends at Pulaski Park in Washington, D.C., 1993. \u003ccite>(Dave Schubert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tributes poured in for Schubert over the weekend as news of his untimely death spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/steveespopowers/\">Steve Powers wrote on Instagram\u003c/a>: “I don’t know a better photographer that shot both skateboarding and graffiti as well as Dave did, but, as he would say about bragging, ‘Don’t tell it, show it’ … Dave Schubert didn’t take pictures, he took the time to love and to show the love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/the-chaos-he-memorialized-rip-san-francisco-photography-legend-dave-schubert/\">Evan Pricco of \u003cem>Juxtapoz\u003c/em> wrote\u003c/a>: “It feels as if an era of San Francisco has passed with the news of the death of photographer, Dave Schubert. Many of my earliest memories of art, of underground culture, of life being fucking lived, was through the lens and eye of Dave Schubert. He was telling me the story of my home city without me even being conscious of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Noah Lang and friends have set up a fundraising campaign to save and preserve Dave Schubert’s photographic archive. \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/dave-schuberts-photographic-legacy?qid=93785caa04562f1ed1bf1235d03c5de5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Details can be found on their GoFundMe page\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Josh “JB” Balogh’s YouTube channel is impressive: there’s footage of him grinding on stair rails and doing 360-degree flips in the air, as if a thin piece of wood and four wheels give him gravity-defying powers. But when I meet him at Sunnyvale’s Fair Oaks Skate Park, the 36-year-old South Bay skateboarder is coaching a 6-year-old girl in a skirt, pink helmet and matching elbow and knee pads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That 6-year-old is \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/cutemuffing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grace Zheng\u003c/a>, a student of Balogh’s. The Zheng family discovered Balogh through his YouTube channel, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/skateparklessons\">S\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/skateparklessons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">kate Park Lessons\u003c/a>. His videos are all about skating—tutorials on the basics, explanations on complex tricks and more. Although Balogh has competed nationally, he’s gained most of his popularity through teaching. He started Skate Park Lessons in 2020 and, in the two years since, he’s amassed 66,000 YouTube subscribers. Balogh has also been holding in-person lessons—under the name Pro Skate Lessons—at Fair Oaks Park for nearly 20 years, making him a beloved figure in the Bay Area skate scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11653010,news_11698821\"]Balogh started skating at 9 years old in his Pennsylvania hometown and became a pro skater at 23 in the Bay Area. In 2008, he competed in the local division of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.timbrauch.com/contest.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10th Annual Tim Brauch Memorial Contest\u003c/a> and went on to place fifth in the professional category.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His experience with teaching started years before he began competing. In his teens, Balogh frequented the now-closed Vans Park at Milpitas’ Great Mall. At the age of 14, he caught the attention of the park’s seasoned skaters, performing tricks that were uncommon to see someone do at his age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People would come up to me and say, ‘You skate really well, how’d you learn so fast and so young? Can you help me?’” says Balogh. “They kept coming back and asking for more. Sometimes people would tip me, and eventually, it turned into a job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13919538\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Skatepark-Lesson-08.26.22-3-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13919538\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Skatepark-Lesson-08.26.22-3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Skatepark-Lesson-08.26.22-3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Skatepark-Lesson-08.26.22-3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Skatepark-Lesson-08.26.22-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Skatepark-Lesson-08.26.22-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Skatepark-Lesson-08.26.22-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Skatepark-Lesson-08.26.22-3-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Skatepark-Lesson-08.26.22-3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josh ‘JB’ Balogh has earned a cult following for both his online and in-person coaching. \u003ccite>(Joy Zheng)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It only seemed natural that Balogh would pursue teaching full time. In 2008, he took a job at California’s largest skate park, San Jose’s Lake Cunningham Action Sports Park, where he ran lessons, camps and contests for kids and adults of all skill levels. Balogh has also taught for the YMCA and worked as a professional mentor through nonprofits in East San Jose. Throughout these different roles, Balogh continued to run Pro Skate Lessons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s awesome to watch people grow and go through life,” Balogh says. “A lot of guys that come here have troubles and they’re struggling. They spend a lot of time skating, and then they kinda find something else that they love, and then they start investing time into that. Hopefully, it builds good habits that allow them to succeed and do better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M1XywlWink\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the South Bay, skaters of all demographics, both experienced and new, can be seen dropping into bowls at local skate parks. Veteran pro skaters such as Circle-A Skateboards owner Bob Schmelzer and the world-renowned Steve “Cab” Caballero—once named “skater of the century” by \u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em> magazine—helped shape the culture in San Jose and surrounding towns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, new skaters are livening up the scene and forming female-, queer- and trans-friendly organizations, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.skatelikeagirl.com/\">Skate Like a Girl SF Bay Area\u003c/a>. Meetups are happening at suburban skate parks, schools, parking lots and just about any place with smooth asphalt. The skating scene is more alive than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Skating’s kinda changing and it’s starting to include a lot more people,” Balogh says. “It’s cool to see more people trying it here. A lot more people are falling in love with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The clients that Balogh takes on reflect the diversity of the community. He teaches everybody ages 5 and up. A memorable recent student was a 70-year-old retired P.E. teacher: “He told his wife, ‘I need to learn how to [ride a] motorcycle or skateboard,’ and she was immediately like, ‘skateboard,’” recalls Balogh. “So he showed up for a lesson, I taught him how to skate, and he kind of ‘X’d’ it off his bucket list.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her pink skating ensemble, 6-year-old Grace defies the stereotypes of a female skater. “With skateboarding, you can also be pretty,” says Joy Zheng, Grace’s mom. “The ‘pretty’ and the sport are not opposite to each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13919542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Skatepark-Lesson-08.26.22-5-1-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13919542\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Skatepark-Lesson-08.26.22-5-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a young girl and a man do a trick in a skate park\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Skatepark-Lesson-08.26.22-5-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Skatepark-Lesson-08.26.22-5-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Skatepark-Lesson-08.26.22-5-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Skatepark-Lesson-08.26.22-5-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Skatepark-Lesson-08.26.22-5-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Skatepark-Lesson-08.26.22-5-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Skatepark-Lesson-08.26.22-5-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Zheng skating with Josh ‘JB’ Balogh. \u003ccite>(Joy Zheng)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Watching Balogh’s lesson with Grace reminded me of my own experience with skating. Growing up, I had tried skateboarding a number of times, but hadn’t truly gotten into it until the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Even now, in my twenties, the skating scene can seem just as intimidating as it was when I was a kid. I’d always felt that I had to know what I was doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily for me, that changed when I came across Balogh’s YouTube channel. It was a one-stop shop for all skaters, including a beginner such as myself. Balogh and Skate Park Lessons’ teachings made skating, as well as skate parks, feel welcoming and accessible to all. That ethos is apparent in his teachings—both in his videos and even more so after I witnessed his in-person lesson with Grace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Balogh has a unique, step-by-step way of teaching that any student can understand. “There are many skateboarding tutorials online—how to do this, how to do that,” Joy says. “But it seems like many of them are missing the key point. Why am I following your steps but can’t do your tricks? But [Balogh], he knows the key points, and he points them out. Like, ‘Oh! This is the part that I missed.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most importantly, Balogh is driven by a higher purpose to help others, teaching the habits that have helped him in his life in addition to skating fundamentals. His purpose, combined with his talent and patience, ensure a new generation of skaters can take off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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In 2008, he took a job at California’s largest skate park, San Jose’s Lake Cunningham Action Sports Park, where he ran lessons, camps and contests for kids and adults of all skill levels. Balogh has also taught for the YMCA and worked as a professional mentor through nonprofits in East San Jose. Throughout these different roles, Balogh continued to run Pro Skate Lessons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s awesome to watch people grow and go through life,” Balogh says. “A lot of guys that come here have troubles and they’re struggling. They spend a lot of time skating, and then they kinda find something else that they love, and then they start investing time into that. 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Veteran pro skaters such as Circle-A Skateboards owner Bob Schmelzer and the world-renowned Steve “Cab” Caballero—once named “skater of the century” by \u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em> magazine—helped shape the culture in San Jose and surrounding towns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, new skaters are livening up the scene and forming female-, queer- and trans-friendly organizations, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.skatelikeagirl.com/\">Skate Like a Girl SF Bay Area\u003c/a>. Meetups are happening at suburban skate parks, schools, parking lots and just about any place with smooth asphalt. The skating scene is more alive than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Skating’s kinda changing and it’s starting to include a lot more people,” Balogh says. “It’s cool to see more people trying it here. A lot more people are falling in love with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The clients that Balogh takes on reflect the diversity of the community. He teaches everybody ages 5 and up. A memorable recent student was a 70-year-old retired P.E. teacher: “He told his wife, ‘I need to learn how to [ride a] motorcycle or skateboard,’ and she was immediately like, ‘skateboard,’” recalls Balogh. “So he showed up for a lesson, I taught him how to skate, and he kind of ‘X’d’ it off his bucket list.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her pink skating ensemble, 6-year-old Grace defies the stereotypes of a female skater. “With skateboarding, you can also be pretty,” says Joy Zheng, Grace’s mom. “The ‘pretty’ and the sport are not opposite to each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13919542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Skatepark-Lesson-08.26.22-5-1-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13919542\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Skatepark-Lesson-08.26.22-5-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a young girl and a man do a trick in a skate park\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Skatepark-Lesson-08.26.22-5-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Skatepark-Lesson-08.26.22-5-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Skatepark-Lesson-08.26.22-5-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Skatepark-Lesson-08.26.22-5-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Skatepark-Lesson-08.26.22-5-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Skatepark-Lesson-08.26.22-5-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Skatepark-Lesson-08.26.22-5-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Zheng skating with Josh ‘JB’ Balogh. \u003ccite>(Joy Zheng)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Watching Balogh’s lesson with Grace reminded me of my own experience with skating. 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During Spanish colonial rule, land in Bolivia was taken from Indigenous people, leaving them \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=27620&LangID=E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">impoverished and marginalized\u003c/a>. Over the years, many women in these groups \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0306422016685969\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">abandoned their cultural costumes\u003c/a> to avoid discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By skating in \u003cem>polleras\u003c/em>, we want to show that girls and women can do anything, no matter how you look or how people see you,” says Daniela Santiváñez, who founded \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/imillaskate/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ImillaSkate\u003c/a> with two friends in 2019. “The message is to be yourself and be proud of who you are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skateboarding is a big part of that. “It teaches you confidence, self-love, to get up from falls—and to be authentic, too,” she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912371\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912371\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_012_custom-5e892166f726316085c060815dcc027a246d7a60-1-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"An older woman wearing a sun hat and feminine skirt and top looks down at her feet as she stands on a skateboard. At her side is a younger woman wearing a backwards baseball cap, baggy athletic jacket and blue sneakers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skater Huara Medina Montaño, 24, teaches a fellow skater’s mother how to ride a skateboard.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Award-winning Brazilian photographer \u003ca href=\"https://luisadorr.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luisa Dörr\u003c/a>, who discovered the young women on Instagram, captured their vibe in a series of intimate portraits taken over two weeks in September and October 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13898794']“I was fascinated by their passion for their culture and the need to preserve it,” says Dörr. “Skating was just the excuse to bring up other issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nine crew members, most in their 20s, meet regularly to practice. It’s especially important to them to wear traditional dress at public events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At first, I used to feel a little awkward” about wearing the \u003cem>pollera\u003c/em> while skating, says ImillaSkate member Susan Meza. But now, she adds, she understands “the object of doing it and I feel more comfortable and free.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a selection from Dörr’s photo series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912405\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912405\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_021_custom-42f3ee609e2388b990d784de9d458e108210791f-2-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Six girls practice skateboarding on a ramp. Mountains and the city serve as a dramatic backdrop.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_021_custom-42f3ee609e2388b990d784de9d458e108210791f-2-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_021_custom-42f3ee609e2388b990d784de9d458e108210791f-2-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_021_custom-42f3ee609e2388b990d784de9d458e108210791f-2-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_021_custom-42f3ee609e2388b990d784de9d458e108210791f-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_021_custom-42f3ee609e2388b990d784de9d458e108210791f-2-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_021_custom-42f3ee609e2388b990d784de9d458e108210791f-2-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_021_custom-42f3ee609e2388b990d784de9d458e108210791f-2-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This skate park is a favorite place to practice. The athletes say the view is amazing, and the park is calm because it’s far from the city.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912373\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912373\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_05_custom-c97d0b0b70f21ff8070836a838ebb35f4d631ce9-1-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Girls in traditional Bolivian attire, wearing their hair in long braids, skateboard together in a park, trees in the distance.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crew members skate in Pairumani Park on the outskirts of Cochabamba—one of their favorite spots because of its beauty.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912375\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912375\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_10_custom-2c796f5aca60a2772cd28457ea7a1a3eb49d0b00-1-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"A young, determined looking woman sits elegantly at the feet of an older woman resting in a wheelchair.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skater Luisa Zurita, 32, wears her grandmother’s traditional pollera skirt while her grandmother styles her hair. “We dress like this to promote the acceptance of our [Indigenous] culture within Bolivian society,” says fellow ImillaSkate member Huara Medina Montaño. “Dressing [this way] symbolizes strength, security, elegance.”\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912377\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_custom-d2b677963231b390f891c1c00008e7c3e7fbc1d9-1-800x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_custom-d2b677963231b390f891c1c00008e7c3e7fbc1d9-1-800x400.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_custom-d2b677963231b390f891c1c00008e7c3e7fbc1d9-1-1020x510.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_custom-d2b677963231b390f891c1c00008e7c3e7fbc1d9-1-160x80.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_custom-d2b677963231b390f891c1c00008e7c3e7fbc1d9-1-768x384.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_custom-d2b677963231b390f891c1c00008e7c3e7fbc1d9-1-1536x768.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_custom-d2b677963231b390f891c1c00008e7c3e7fbc1d9-1-2048x1024.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_custom-d2b677963231b390f891c1c00008e7c3e7fbc1d9-1-1920x960.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Deysi Tacuri Lopez, 27, gets her hair styled by Joselin Brenda Mamani Tinta. Traditionally, Indigenous women in Bolivia wear their hair in two long plaits. Right: A detail of the hairstyle. “Pollera women give extra importance to their hair,” says Tinta. Her grandmother told her that brushing hair gets rid of bad energy.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912395\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_014_custom-940ff80a9320380a8fd68aea50f6ae52ee8ee884-2-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman in traditional Bolivian hat, skirt and braids sits on a dusty car, skateboard resting between her legs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_014_custom-940ff80a9320380a8fd68aea50f6ae52ee8ee884-2-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_014_custom-940ff80a9320380a8fd68aea50f6ae52ee8ee884-2-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_014_custom-940ff80a9320380a8fd68aea50f6ae52ee8ee884-2-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_014_custom-940ff80a9320380a8fd68aea50f6ae52ee8ee884-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_014_custom-940ff80a9320380a8fd68aea50f6ae52ee8ee884-2-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_014_custom-940ff80a9320380a8fd68aea50f6ae52ee8ee884-2-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_014_custom-940ff80a9320380a8fd68aea50f6ae52ee8ee884-2-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luisa Zurita started skateboarding in 2016. At first, her family didn’t approve of her engaging in the sport. But they changed their minds after her grandmother saw Luisa skating on a TV program. When she realized it was her granddaughter’s passion, her grandmother gave her the blessing to keep skating.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912381\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912381\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_06_custom-f3a254ecb8dbe64afb0cf195f402a7d331ca966a-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman with closed eyes rests her right arm and head on a skateboard deck, as she lies on the ground, a serene expression on her face.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_06_custom-f3a254ecb8dbe64afb0cf195f402a7d331ca966a-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_06_custom-f3a254ecb8dbe64afb0cf195f402a7d331ca966a-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_06_custom-f3a254ecb8dbe64afb0cf195f402a7d331ca966a-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_06_custom-f3a254ecb8dbe64afb0cf195f402a7d331ca966a-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_06_custom-f3a254ecb8dbe64afb0cf195f402a7d331ca966a-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_06_custom-f3a254ecb8dbe64afb0cf195f402a7d331ca966a-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_06_custom-f3a254ecb8dbe64afb0cf195f402a7d331ca966a-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniela Santiváñez, 25, is the co-founder of ImillaSkate. She says the group’s aim is to “grow” the sport in Bolivia and advocate for “more spaces to practice so we can participate in sports tournaments around the world as other athletes do.”\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912384\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912384\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-2_custom-29a26e7fb03d7de9b6c05ba118c799bb83b52cc2-800x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-2_custom-29a26e7fb03d7de9b6c05ba118c799bb83b52cc2-800x400.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-2_custom-29a26e7fb03d7de9b6c05ba118c799bb83b52cc2-1020x510.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-2_custom-29a26e7fb03d7de9b6c05ba118c799bb83b52cc2-160x80.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-2_custom-29a26e7fb03d7de9b6c05ba118c799bb83b52cc2-768x384.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-2_custom-29a26e7fb03d7de9b6c05ba118c799bb83b52cc2-1536x768.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-2_custom-29a26e7fb03d7de9b6c05ba118c799bb83b52cc2-2048x1024.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-2_custom-29a26e7fb03d7de9b6c05ba118c799bb83b52cc2-1920x960.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Skater Miriam Estefanny Morales, 23, at La Cancha market in the city of Cochabamba. In addition to the pollera skirt, she wears a traditional hat as part of the Indigenous women’s attire. Right: Members of the crew look at braided hair extensions at La Cancha market.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912396\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-3_custom-3e4634e757344600e5990d0b55f46ea6693bc342-1-800x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-3_custom-3e4634e757344600e5990d0b55f46ea6693bc342-1-800x400.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-3_custom-3e4634e757344600e5990d0b55f46ea6693bc342-1-1020x510.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-3_custom-3e4634e757344600e5990d0b55f46ea6693bc342-1-160x80.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-3_custom-3e4634e757344600e5990d0b55f46ea6693bc342-1-768x384.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-3_custom-3e4634e757344600e5990d0b55f46ea6693bc342-1-1536x768.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-3_custom-3e4634e757344600e5990d0b55f46ea6693bc342-1-2048x1024.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-3_custom-3e4634e757344600e5990d0b55f46ea6693bc342-1-1920x960.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: ImillaSkate athletes show off their matching high-top Vans. Right: Deysi Tacuri Lopez wears the medals she won from skate competitions in Chile and Bolivia. She started skating 7 years ago.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912409 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_011_custom-71b7d37f44bc8cd502773d60857fff2c12bd1042-2-800x802.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in traditional Bolivian dress and hat stands beneath a tree, skateboard resting behind her head, on her shoulders.\" width=\"800\" height=\"802\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_011_custom-71b7d37f44bc8cd502773d60857fff2c12bd1042-2-800x802.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_011_custom-71b7d37f44bc8cd502773d60857fff2c12bd1042-2-1020x1022.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_011_custom-71b7d37f44bc8cd502773d60857fff2c12bd1042-2-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_011_custom-71b7d37f44bc8cd502773d60857fff2c12bd1042-2-768x770.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_011_custom-71b7d37f44bc8cd502773d60857fff2c12bd1042-2-1533x1536.jpg 1533w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_011_custom-71b7d37f44bc8cd502773d60857fff2c12bd1042-2-2044x2048.jpg 2044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_011_custom-71b7d37f44bc8cd502773d60857fff2c12bd1042-2-1920x1924.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912410\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912410\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_002a_custom-19a1a56065cd09eb3177567cde26171dc4b00863-2-800x803.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman floats on her back in green water, her dress and braids floating around her.\" width=\"800\" height=\"803\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_002a_custom-19a1a56065cd09eb3177567cde26171dc4b00863-2-800x803.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_002a_custom-19a1a56065cd09eb3177567cde26171dc4b00863-2-1020x1024.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_002a_custom-19a1a56065cd09eb3177567cde26171dc4b00863-2-160x161.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_002a_custom-19a1a56065cd09eb3177567cde26171dc4b00863-2-768x771.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_002a_custom-19a1a56065cd09eb3177567cde26171dc4b00863-2-1530x1536.jpg 1530w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_002a_custom-19a1a56065cd09eb3177567cde26171dc4b00863-2-2040x2048.jpg 2040w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_002a_custom-19a1a56065cd09eb3177567cde26171dc4b00863-2-1920x1928.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ellinor Buitrago Méndez, 25, says that wearing the pollera while skateboarding sends the message to women that they can do whatever they like while preserving who they are.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912407\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912407\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_015_custom-ea1e2ef2bbcb62f53988b3fe15c4927ec3a8d791-1-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman in traditional Bolivian dress and hat sits elegantly on a green lawn, surrounded by trees.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_015_custom-ea1e2ef2bbcb62f53988b3fe15c4927ec3a8d791-1-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_015_custom-ea1e2ef2bbcb62f53988b3fe15c4927ec3a8d791-1-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_015_custom-ea1e2ef2bbcb62f53988b3fe15c4927ec3a8d791-1-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_015_custom-ea1e2ef2bbcb62f53988b3fe15c4927ec3a8d791-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_015_custom-ea1e2ef2bbcb62f53988b3fe15c4927ec3a8d791-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_015_custom-ea1e2ef2bbcb62f53988b3fe15c4927ec3a8d791-1-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_015_custom-ea1e2ef2bbcb62f53988b3fe15c4927ec3a8d791-1-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ellinor Buitrago Méndez wears a pollera and a traditional hat with her red Vans. Fellow skater Medina says “some of the girls inherited their polleras from their mothers and grandmothers,” but each girl styles them differently according to their own personal taste.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912411\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912411\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_11_custom-b070c9cf356bb3dd3a6af03da8d2799dd46fff6d-1-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Five girls dance enthusiastically, their skirts swaying. Tree branches shield them from the sun.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_11_custom-b070c9cf356bb3dd3a6af03da8d2799dd46fff6d-1-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_11_custom-b070c9cf356bb3dd3a6af03da8d2799dd46fff6d-1-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_11_custom-b070c9cf356bb3dd3a6af03da8d2799dd46fff6d-1-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_11_custom-b070c9cf356bb3dd3a6af03da8d2799dd46fff6d-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_11_custom-b070c9cf356bb3dd3a6af03da8d2799dd46fff6d-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_11_custom-b070c9cf356bb3dd3a6af03da8d2799dd46fff6d-1-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_11_custom-b070c9cf356bb3dd3a6af03da8d2799dd46fff6d-1-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The girls dance at Pairumani Park on the outskirts of Cochabamba. “We are all unique and our differences make the world such a rich place,” says Daniela Santiváñez. “We should respect everyone for who they are. We want to show how beautiful Bolivia’s culture is.”\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Grace Widyatmadja and Ben de la Cruz photo edited this piece.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=PHOTOS%3A+How+this+Bolivian+all-female+skate+crew+is+celebrating+their+Indigenous+roots&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>And they’re not just doing it for the fashion. The crew—called ImillaSkate (\u003cem>imilla\u003c/em> means “young girl” in the Aymara and Quechua languages)—want to pay homage to their heritage and call out the persecution that the Aymara and Quechua people, majority ethnic groups in Bolivia, have long faced. During Spanish colonial rule, land in Bolivia was taken from Indigenous people, leaving them \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=27620&LangID=E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">impoverished and marginalized\u003c/a>. Over the years, many women in these groups \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0306422016685969\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">abandoned their cultural costumes\u003c/a> to avoid discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By skating in \u003cem>polleras\u003c/em>, we want to show that girls and women can do anything, no matter how you look or how people see you,” says Daniela Santiváñez, who founded \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/imillaskate/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ImillaSkate\u003c/a> with two friends in 2019. “The message is to be yourself and be proud of who you are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skateboarding is a big part of that. “It teaches you confidence, self-love, to get up from falls—and to be authentic, too,” she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912371\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912371\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_012_custom-5e892166f726316085c060815dcc027a246d7a60-1-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"An older woman wearing a sun hat and feminine skirt and top looks down at her feet as she stands on a skateboard. At her side is a younger woman wearing a backwards baseball cap, baggy athletic jacket and blue sneakers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skater Huara Medina Montaño, 24, teaches a fellow skater’s mother how to ride a skateboard.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Award-winning Brazilian photographer \u003ca href=\"https://luisadorr.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luisa Dörr\u003c/a>, who discovered the young women on Instagram, captured their vibe in a series of intimate portraits taken over two weeks in September and October 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I was fascinated by their passion for their culture and the need to preserve it,” says Dörr. “Skating was just the excuse to bring up other issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nine crew members, most in their 20s, meet regularly to practice. It’s especially important to them to wear traditional dress at public events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At first, I used to feel a little awkward” about wearing the \u003cem>pollera\u003c/em> while skating, says ImillaSkate member Susan Meza. But now, she adds, she understands “the object of doing it and I feel more comfortable and free.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a selection from Dörr’s photo series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912405\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912405\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_021_custom-42f3ee609e2388b990d784de9d458e108210791f-2-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Six girls practice skateboarding on a ramp. Mountains and the city serve as a dramatic backdrop.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_021_custom-42f3ee609e2388b990d784de9d458e108210791f-2-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_021_custom-42f3ee609e2388b990d784de9d458e108210791f-2-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_021_custom-42f3ee609e2388b990d784de9d458e108210791f-2-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_021_custom-42f3ee609e2388b990d784de9d458e108210791f-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_021_custom-42f3ee609e2388b990d784de9d458e108210791f-2-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_021_custom-42f3ee609e2388b990d784de9d458e108210791f-2-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_021_custom-42f3ee609e2388b990d784de9d458e108210791f-2-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This skate park is a favorite place to practice. The athletes say the view is amazing, and the park is calm because it’s far from the city.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912373\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912373\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_05_custom-c97d0b0b70f21ff8070836a838ebb35f4d631ce9-1-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Girls in traditional Bolivian attire, wearing their hair in long braids, skateboard together in a park, trees in the distance.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crew members skate in Pairumani Park on the outskirts of Cochabamba—one of their favorite spots because of its beauty.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912375\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912375\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_10_custom-2c796f5aca60a2772cd28457ea7a1a3eb49d0b00-1-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"A young, determined looking woman sits elegantly at the feet of an older woman resting in a wheelchair.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skater Luisa Zurita, 32, wears her grandmother’s traditional pollera skirt while her grandmother styles her hair. “We dress like this to promote the acceptance of our [Indigenous] culture within Bolivian society,” says fellow ImillaSkate member Huara Medina Montaño. “Dressing [this way] symbolizes strength, security, elegance.”\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912377\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_custom-d2b677963231b390f891c1c00008e7c3e7fbc1d9-1-800x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_custom-d2b677963231b390f891c1c00008e7c3e7fbc1d9-1-800x400.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_custom-d2b677963231b390f891c1c00008e7c3e7fbc1d9-1-1020x510.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_custom-d2b677963231b390f891c1c00008e7c3e7fbc1d9-1-160x80.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_custom-d2b677963231b390f891c1c00008e7c3e7fbc1d9-1-768x384.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_custom-d2b677963231b390f891c1c00008e7c3e7fbc1d9-1-1536x768.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_custom-d2b677963231b390f891c1c00008e7c3e7fbc1d9-1-2048x1024.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_custom-d2b677963231b390f891c1c00008e7c3e7fbc1d9-1-1920x960.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Deysi Tacuri Lopez, 27, gets her hair styled by Joselin Brenda Mamani Tinta. Traditionally, Indigenous women in Bolivia wear their hair in two long plaits. Right: A detail of the hairstyle. “Pollera women give extra importance to their hair,” says Tinta. Her grandmother told her that brushing hair gets rid of bad energy.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912395\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_014_custom-940ff80a9320380a8fd68aea50f6ae52ee8ee884-2-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman in traditional Bolivian hat, skirt and braids sits on a dusty car, skateboard resting between her legs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_014_custom-940ff80a9320380a8fd68aea50f6ae52ee8ee884-2-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_014_custom-940ff80a9320380a8fd68aea50f6ae52ee8ee884-2-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_014_custom-940ff80a9320380a8fd68aea50f6ae52ee8ee884-2-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_014_custom-940ff80a9320380a8fd68aea50f6ae52ee8ee884-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_014_custom-940ff80a9320380a8fd68aea50f6ae52ee8ee884-2-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_014_custom-940ff80a9320380a8fd68aea50f6ae52ee8ee884-2-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_014_custom-940ff80a9320380a8fd68aea50f6ae52ee8ee884-2-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luisa Zurita started skateboarding in 2016. At first, her family didn’t approve of her engaging in the sport. But they changed their minds after her grandmother saw Luisa skating on a TV program. When she realized it was her granddaughter’s passion, her grandmother gave her the blessing to keep skating.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912381\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912381\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_06_custom-f3a254ecb8dbe64afb0cf195f402a7d331ca966a-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman with closed eyes rests her right arm and head on a skateboard deck, as she lies on the ground, a serene expression on her face.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_06_custom-f3a254ecb8dbe64afb0cf195f402a7d331ca966a-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_06_custom-f3a254ecb8dbe64afb0cf195f402a7d331ca966a-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_06_custom-f3a254ecb8dbe64afb0cf195f402a7d331ca966a-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_06_custom-f3a254ecb8dbe64afb0cf195f402a7d331ca966a-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_06_custom-f3a254ecb8dbe64afb0cf195f402a7d331ca966a-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_06_custom-f3a254ecb8dbe64afb0cf195f402a7d331ca966a-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_06_custom-f3a254ecb8dbe64afb0cf195f402a7d331ca966a-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniela Santiváñez, 25, is the co-founder of ImillaSkate. She says the group’s aim is to “grow” the sport in Bolivia and advocate for “more spaces to practice so we can participate in sports tournaments around the world as other athletes do.”\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912384\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912384\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-2_custom-29a26e7fb03d7de9b6c05ba118c799bb83b52cc2-800x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-2_custom-29a26e7fb03d7de9b6c05ba118c799bb83b52cc2-800x400.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-2_custom-29a26e7fb03d7de9b6c05ba118c799bb83b52cc2-1020x510.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-2_custom-29a26e7fb03d7de9b6c05ba118c799bb83b52cc2-160x80.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-2_custom-29a26e7fb03d7de9b6c05ba118c799bb83b52cc2-768x384.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-2_custom-29a26e7fb03d7de9b6c05ba118c799bb83b52cc2-1536x768.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-2_custom-29a26e7fb03d7de9b6c05ba118c799bb83b52cc2-2048x1024.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-2_custom-29a26e7fb03d7de9b6c05ba118c799bb83b52cc2-1920x960.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Skater Miriam Estefanny Morales, 23, at La Cancha market in the city of Cochabamba. In addition to the pollera skirt, she wears a traditional hat as part of the Indigenous women’s attire. Right: Members of the crew look at braided hair extensions at La Cancha market.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912396\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-3_custom-3e4634e757344600e5990d0b55f46ea6693bc342-1-800x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-3_custom-3e4634e757344600e5990d0b55f46ea6693bc342-1-800x400.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-3_custom-3e4634e757344600e5990d0b55f46ea6693bc342-1-1020x510.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-3_custom-3e4634e757344600e5990d0b55f46ea6693bc342-1-160x80.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-3_custom-3e4634e757344600e5990d0b55f46ea6693bc342-1-768x384.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-3_custom-3e4634e757344600e5990d0b55f46ea6693bc342-1-1536x768.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-3_custom-3e4634e757344600e5990d0b55f46ea6693bc342-1-2048x1024.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld-3_custom-3e4634e757344600e5990d0b55f46ea6693bc342-1-1920x960.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: ImillaSkate athletes show off their matching high-top Vans. Right: Deysi Tacuri Lopez wears the medals she won from skate competitions in Chile and Bolivia. She started skating 7 years ago.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912409 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_011_custom-71b7d37f44bc8cd502773d60857fff2c12bd1042-2-800x802.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in traditional Bolivian dress and hat stands beneath a tree, skateboard resting behind her head, on her shoulders.\" width=\"800\" height=\"802\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_011_custom-71b7d37f44bc8cd502773d60857fff2c12bd1042-2-800x802.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_011_custom-71b7d37f44bc8cd502773d60857fff2c12bd1042-2-1020x1022.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_011_custom-71b7d37f44bc8cd502773d60857fff2c12bd1042-2-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_011_custom-71b7d37f44bc8cd502773d60857fff2c12bd1042-2-768x770.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_011_custom-71b7d37f44bc8cd502773d60857fff2c12bd1042-2-1533x1536.jpg 1533w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_011_custom-71b7d37f44bc8cd502773d60857fff2c12bd1042-2-2044x2048.jpg 2044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_011_custom-71b7d37f44bc8cd502773d60857fff2c12bd1042-2-1920x1924.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912410\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912410\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_002a_custom-19a1a56065cd09eb3177567cde26171dc4b00863-2-800x803.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman floats on her back in green water, her dress and braids floating around her.\" width=\"800\" height=\"803\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_002a_custom-19a1a56065cd09eb3177567cde26171dc4b00863-2-800x803.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_002a_custom-19a1a56065cd09eb3177567cde26171dc4b00863-2-1020x1024.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_002a_custom-19a1a56065cd09eb3177567cde26171dc4b00863-2-160x161.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_002a_custom-19a1a56065cd09eb3177567cde26171dc4b00863-2-768x771.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_002a_custom-19a1a56065cd09eb3177567cde26171dc4b00863-2-1530x1536.jpg 1530w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_002a_custom-19a1a56065cd09eb3177567cde26171dc4b00863-2-2040x2048.jpg 2040w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_002a_custom-19a1a56065cd09eb3177567cde26171dc4b00863-2-1920x1928.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ellinor Buitrago Méndez, 25, says that wearing the pollera while skateboarding sends the message to women that they can do whatever they like while preserving who they are.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912407\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912407\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_015_custom-ea1e2ef2bbcb62f53988b3fe15c4927ec3a8d791-1-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman in traditional Bolivian dress and hat sits elegantly on a green lawn, surrounded by trees.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_015_custom-ea1e2ef2bbcb62f53988b3fe15c4927ec3a8d791-1-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_015_custom-ea1e2ef2bbcb62f53988b3fe15c4927ec3a8d791-1-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_015_custom-ea1e2ef2bbcb62f53988b3fe15c4927ec3a8d791-1-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_015_custom-ea1e2ef2bbcb62f53988b3fe15c4927ec3a8d791-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_015_custom-ea1e2ef2bbcb62f53988b3fe15c4927ec3a8d791-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_015_custom-ea1e2ef2bbcb62f53988b3fe15c4927ec3a8d791-1-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imillaskate_015_custom-ea1e2ef2bbcb62f53988b3fe15c4927ec3a8d791-1-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ellinor Buitrago Méndez wears a pollera and a traditional hat with her red Vans. Fellow skater Medina says “some of the girls inherited their polleras from their mothers and grandmothers,” but each girl styles them differently according to their own personal taste.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912411\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912411\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_11_custom-b070c9cf356bb3dd3a6af03da8d2799dd46fff6d-1-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Five girls dance enthusiastically, their skirts swaying. Tree branches shield them from the sun.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_11_custom-b070c9cf356bb3dd3a6af03da8d2799dd46fff6d-1-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_11_custom-b070c9cf356bb3dd3a6af03da8d2799dd46fff6d-1-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_11_custom-b070c9cf356bb3dd3a6af03da8d2799dd46fff6d-1-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_11_custom-b070c9cf356bb3dd3a6af03da8d2799dd46fff6d-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_11_custom-b070c9cf356bb3dd3a6af03da8d2799dd46fff6d-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_11_custom-b070c9cf356bb3dd3a6af03da8d2799dd46fff6d-1-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/ld_imilla_11_custom-b070c9cf356bb3dd3a6af03da8d2799dd46fff6d-1-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The girls dance at Pairumani Park on the outskirts of Cochabamba. “We are all unique and our differences make the world such a rich place,” says Daniela Santiváñez. “We should respect everyone for who they are. We want to show how beautiful Bolivia’s culture is.”\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Grace Widyatmadja and Ben de la Cruz photo edited this piece.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=PHOTOS%3A+How+this+Bolivian+all-female+skate+crew+is+celebrating+their+Indigenous+roots&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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What was your first skateboarding experience like?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsha: I wanted a bike really bad, I was like 13 or 14. I grew up in the city. My mom was a single mother. So we really didn’t have, like, money at all. We lived in shelters sometimes, we were very, very low on the socioeconomic scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsha: There used to be this thing where St. Anthony’s in San Francisco would have a bunch of toys that they would give to the kids at Christmas time and families could come wait in this super long line and get toys to re-gift to their kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsha: One of the things my mom got was a skateboard from that line. And I was like, I didn’t want a skateboard, I wanted a bike. But it was free. And my mom was like, ‘you gonna get what I give you.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsha: I just started riding the skateboard around. At first I was just knee boarding it, on my knees, just pushing around, not looking cool at all. And then I made some friends at school. I was already into punk music, so I was already kind of associated with a lot of the white kids in my middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsha: So when they saw I had a skateboard they’re like, ‘oh, you skateboard, cool, let’s do it, like you’re part of the crew.’ So I just started hanging out with a bunch of little white dudes at school. They were super nice. They would take me to the skate park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: So tell me, what was it like being one of the only girls around on a skateboard?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsha: The only space for a woman in skateboarding back in my day was modeling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsha: These were different times… exploiting women was, like, OK or acceptable back then. And I didn’t even realize I was being exploited because I was loving it. So it was fun for me, but I was the sexy model girl who would be at skate contests passing out stickers and swag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsha: So I had a very small fan base within skateboarding, but it was mostly just horny boys that thought I was hot, it wasn’t anything like, “this girl rips!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: When you found other women to skate with… How did that experience differ from skating with boys?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsha: I think the biggest difference was just like the vibe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsha: When I started getting better around the boys, it was a little bit more competitive. And I could feel that vibe of, ‘OK, you’re, you’re mad that I’m getting this trick, so let me stop.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsha: I felt like if I’m ripping too hard, they’re not going to want to hit me up to skate anymore, because it was like, ‘no, she’s showing me up and she’s a girl. Let’s not even hit her up.’ So sometimes I did feel like I should just chill and I would hang out and smoke weed or whatever because I didn’t want to make it weird or have anybody questioning their manhood. But ugh [laughs] with the girls, it’s like a whole different vibe. Nobody gives a shit if you’re skating good, if you’re skating bad… There is no skating good, skating bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsha: There’s a lot of collaboration. Everybody’s teaching each other, there’s a lot of learning from each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsha: So ever since I made my little group of friends – which isn’t really that little – it’s like a big group of like 30 women. [laughs] I am very adamant about not skating with boys to the point where my friends are annoyed at me for it. Like, I’ll ask them, ‘is there going to be a dude there? Is it a girl sesh?’ And if it’s not, I’m just not interested. Just because I went so long without having any girls and having to skate with all these boys and having them come kill my vibe sometimes, I’m just like, I don’t have to do that. I have 30 other girls that I can hit up if you’re skating with dudes today. It’s cool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsha: Ladies only! [laughs] because I’ve been deprived!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: Given what you had to go through to get there it makes sense.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsha: I didn’t even mention all of the different ways that I’ve been like talked down to racially. There’s so many different things that have happened to me throughout my skateboarding career that just has caused me to move further and further away from the boys club and more towards ‘we need to empower more women to be excited about this sport,’ because there are a lot of girls that like it. They’re just scared because it’s not a very welcoming community in that sense when it comes to women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Rightnowish is an arts and culture podcast produced at KQED. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or click the play button at the top of this page and subscribe to the show on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/721590300/rightnowish\">NPR One\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/7kEJuafTzTVan7B78ttz1I\">Spotify\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rightnowish/id1482187648\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://tunein.com/podcasts/Arts--Culture-Podcasts/Rightnowish-p1258245/\">TuneIn\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/rightnowish\">Stitcher\u003c/a> or wherever you get your podcasts. \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Asha Gond first started skateboarding, neighbors in her village of Janwar in central India were aghast. They urged the teenager’s parents to keep her busy with housework or get her married. When she walked through the village, skateboard in hand, they would sneer at her and make disparaging comments. Skateboarding is for boys, Gond, now 21, recalls the villagers saying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skateboarding isn’t common in Indian cities, let alone remote rural areas like where Gond lives. The skatepark in her village was built by a German social activist. It ignited in her a life-altering passion for skateboarding—a passion Gond has pursued despite the rigid patriarchal norms in her village and one that has taken her to championships overseas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an incredible story of how one skatepark can change a girl’s—and really an entire community’s—life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also happens to be the plot of a new Netflix movie called \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5Fn99wmFCQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Skater Girl\u003c/em>\u003c/a> releasing June 11. The movie chronicles the journey of a rural Indian teenage girl who discovers a life-changing passion for skateboarding after a Westerner builds a skatepark in her village but faces obstacles when she tries to chase her dream of competing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The filmmakers say it’s a fictionalized account of stories of skateboarding girls in India. But Gond says it’s her story and that the filmmakers never got her permission—even though they met her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The things that they’ve shown in the trailer have actually happened to me,” she told NPR in a phone interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5Fn99wmFCQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why A Rural Village Got A Skatepark\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janwar is a tiny village of about 1,200 located at the edge of a tiger reserve in the state of Madhya Pradesh. Tribal communities called Adivasis make up about \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/2309_PART_B_DCHB_PANNA.pdf__;!!Iwwt!H9Zt-H4FSAPu868Vthr_4VOFMUM6NAcTjzf_khY0Ocwc-GBvGkc-U-4EhXZs%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">half\u003c/a> of its population. India’s ancient caste system relegates Adivasis to the bottom of the social hierarchy and they typically live segregated from the rest of the community. When Gond was growing up, Adivasi children like her weren’t allowed to mix or play with their higher caste peers. Girls tended to marry early and the literacy rate was extremely low—especially among women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came the skatepark, built by \u003ca href=\"https://www.ulrikereinhard.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ulrike Reinhard\u003c/a>, a German business consultant and activist. Reinhard has been mostly living in India since 2012 and much of her work focuses on empowering youth in rural areas. She had been toying with the idea of building a school in rural India. But inspired by \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.skateistan.org/__;!!Iwwt!H9Zt-H4FSAPu868Vthr_4VOFMUM6NAcTjzf_khY0Ocwc-GBvGkc-U0HWm-GM%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Skateistan\u003c/a>, an international nonprofit organization that promotes education and gender equality through skateboarding, Reinhard decided to build a skatepark in Janwar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was an experiment,” Reinhard says. “I thought, can a skatepark trigger change in such a stiff and old-traditioned community?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To raise money for the project, Reinhard reached out to artists across the world to convert skateboards into artboards which she then auctioned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='news_11733418']When she had the funding, she encouraged skating enthusiasts from around the world to come to Janwar to help build the park. About a dozen came and constructed the skatepark with assistance from laborers in the village. The skatepark opened in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The end result was something most of the people in the village had never seen—or even heard of. Gond said her initial reaction was that it “looked very weird.” Some people thought it was a swimming pool, Reinhard says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kids came around quickly and thought the skatepark was cool, says Reinhard. But some adults were skeptical of Reinhard’s intentions and started spreading rumors that she was involved in human trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gond’s mother was scared for her. “People would say [Reinhard] is going to sell your daughter and you won’t be able to see her again ever,” says Kamala Gond, who has since come around to support the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The German nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.skate-aid.org/en/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Skate-aid\u003c/a> provided the first batch of 20 skateboards. Reinhard doesn’t know how to skateboard so she showed the kids YouTube videos on a tablet to get them started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the beginning, it was difficult to maintain balance, Gond says.”The skateboard would go ahead when I stepped on it. I thought I would fall over and smash my face.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But once she got the hang of it, it was all Gond could think of. “I would lie in bed at night and think about how to maneuver the skateboard to do a particular trick,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Girls Get Priority. And Leave Your Caste At the Door\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The skatepark is free and open to all the children in the village, irrespective of caste. Encouraging Adivasi children and Yadav kids (a higher caste) to skate together is blurring caste divisions in the community, Gond says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While members of higher castes don’t get special treatment, girls do. One of the skatepark’s rules is “Girls first”—meaning if there are no skateboards free, a girl can ask a skateboarding boy to give his skateboard to her and he has to agree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_85006']“The girls’ destiny is sealed the day they are born,” says Reinhard, adding that they are typically put to work at a young age and married off early. “So this was a way to tackle the gender [inequality] issue without naming it explicitly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone was happy to see girls skateboarding, much less Adivasi girls like Gond. Villagers would gossip that Gond would be better off learning to cook instead of skateboarding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They used to say to my parents, ‘What is she going to do after she goes to her husband’s home?'” says Gond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some mornings, Gond recalls, she arrived at the skatepark to threatening messages written on the concrete. “They said they would burn me if I did skateboarding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898796\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898796\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/vicky_roy_2016_mptourism_tour_custom-719f5eb5f4daeb7d4746d960d7e2ac0038389a6d-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Asha Gond (center right) rides her skateboard. When she first began skating, neighbors would shout that skateboarding is for boys and urge her parents to marry her off.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/vicky_roy_2016_mptourism_tour_custom-719f5eb5f4daeb7d4746d960d7e2ac0038389a6d-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/vicky_roy_2016_mptourism_tour_custom-719f5eb5f4daeb7d4746d960d7e2ac0038389a6d-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/vicky_roy_2016_mptourism_tour_custom-719f5eb5f4daeb7d4746d960d7e2ac0038389a6d-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/vicky_roy_2016_mptourism_tour_custom-719f5eb5f4daeb7d4746d960d7e2ac0038389a6d-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/vicky_roy_2016_mptourism_tour_custom-719f5eb5f4daeb7d4746d960d7e2ac0038389a6d.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asha Gond (center right) rides her skateboard. When she first began skating, neighbors would shout that skateboarding is for boys and urge her parents to marry her off. \u003ccite>(Vicky Roy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Gond continued to skate and quickly became a rising star in Janwar. Over the years, she’s traveled across India to participate in skateboarding contests. In 2018, she represented India in the World Skateboarding Championship in Nanjing, China. She came in nearly last, but she was the only Indian in the women’s games, competing against many who came from countries with long traditions of skateboarding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gond is also co-founder and director of the nonprofit organization Barefoot Skateboarders, which focuses on the education and development of the children in Janwar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her mother says she’s proud of her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel wonderful, I had never imagined that my daughter could do this or achieve what she has achieved,” says Kamala Gond, who says she regrets that she never had the opportunity to go to school and was married when she was a young teen. “What I couldn’t do, my daughter is doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘No School. No Skateboarding’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second rule at the skatepark is, “No school. No skateboarding.” When the kids skip school or are kept home by their parents, they aren’t allowed to skateboard. And to make school a better experience, Reinhard partnered with \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/prakriti.edu.in/__;!!Iwwt!H9Zt-H4FSAPu868Vthr_4VOFMUM6NAcTjzf_khY0Ocwc-GBvGkc-U-jK3Wug%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prakriti School\u003c/a>, an organization that focuses on innovative learning, to organize workshops for teachers in Janwar to improve their teaching skills. As a result, school attendance has gone up considerably, Reinhard says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13891248']“We really have created an eagerness to learn,” Reinhard says, adding that they’ve built a second skatepark and a community center that Gond manages where kids can take part in a variety of activities, including painting and karate. “We have a computer lab and the kids are sitting in front of computer screens learning Hindi poems or math.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhard says skateboarding is the oil that keeps the whole machine running. It’s a model that’s been successful in many countries. The nonprofit Skateistan now runs programs in Afghanistan, Cambodia and South Africa. Skate After School, an \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.skateafterschool.org/__;!!Iwwt!H9Zt-H4FSAPu868Vthr_4VOFMUM6NAcTjzf_khY0Ocwc-GBvGkc-U8BlZH3T%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arizona-based nonprofit\u003c/a>, teaches skateboarding to nurture children from underserved communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How does it work? Sports as a means of social change is powerful, says \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/malala.org/champions/jyotsna-jha__;!!Iwwt!H9Zt-H4FSAPu868Vthr_4VOFMUM6NAcTjzf_khY0Ocwc-GBvGkc-UzBEPwlp%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jyotsna Jha\u003c/a>, director of the Indian think tank Center for Budget and Policy Studies. “Especially something like skating, which is novel and thrilling, can really create a sense of achievement among children that they had perhaps never experienced otherwise,” she said via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sports has always been a gendered act, she says. “But when a sport is introduced for girls that is not traditionally associated with girls, it helps in breaking many stereotypes and also generating new ways of thinking,” Jha says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898797\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898797\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/aslam_saiyad_03_20191_custom-debc61ed55d4bcd408e274b6ef182e9c0ee6aab8-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Asha Gond rides over an obstacle known as a volcano at the Janwar Castle skatepark in her village.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/aslam_saiyad_03_20191_custom-debc61ed55d4bcd408e274b6ef182e9c0ee6aab8-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/aslam_saiyad_03_20191_custom-debc61ed55d4bcd408e274b6ef182e9c0ee6aab8-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/aslam_saiyad_03_20191_custom-debc61ed55d4bcd408e274b6ef182e9c0ee6aab8-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/aslam_saiyad_03_20191_custom-debc61ed55d4bcd408e274b6ef182e9c0ee6aab8-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/aslam_saiyad_03_20191_custom-debc61ed55d4bcd408e274b6ef182e9c0ee6aab8-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/aslam_saiyad_03_20191_custom-debc61ed55d4bcd408e274b6ef182e9c0ee6aab8-2048x1364.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/aslam_saiyad_03_20191_custom-debc61ed55d4bcd408e274b6ef182e9c0ee6aab8-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asha Gond rides over an obstacle known as a volcano at the Janwar Castle skatepark in her village. \u003ccite>(Aslam Saiyad/Barefoot Skateboarders Organization)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Inspiring Movie And A Controversy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact that skateboarding is creating in different communities is what director Manjari Makijany says inspired her movie \u003cem>Skater Girl\u003c/em>. But after watching the trailer, some people on social media familiar with Reinhard’s work and Gond’s story assumed the movie was about Gond and the skatepark in Janwar. But Gond says the filmmakers never got permission to tell her story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why don’t you ask me that you are going to tell my story?” Gond \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.facebook.com/NetflixFamily/posts/1182671495505173?comment_id=163450362388313__;!!Iwwt!H9Zt-H4FSAPu868Vthr_4VOFMUM6NAcTjzf_khY0Ocwc-GBvGkc-U2jrrCCu%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote\u003c/a> in a comment to a Netflix post sharing the trailer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to NPR, Makijany denied that the movie was about Gond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cem>Skater Girl\u003c/em> is not a biopic based on anyone’s life story nor is it a documentary,” Makijany says. “It is not [Gond or Reinhard’s] story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the movie, as in Janwar, the rule is “No school, No skateboarding” and it’s a Westerner—like Reinhard—who introduces the village to skateboarding and builds a skatepark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gond says the filmmakers met with her in Janwar and spoke to her about how skateboarding had changed her life and transformed her village. The director says Gond was just one of many girls they met during the making of the movie. The movie was also not shot in Janwar but in a village in Rajasthan state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhard had a contract to be a research consultant on the movie but says she quit early because of differences over the storytelling approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It turned out to be this kitschy, cheesy kind of thing,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhard also says from an ethical point of view, the filmmakers should have made a contract with Gond and the other children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13898211']Reinhard’s name and the Janwar skatepark appear in the end credits of the movie, along with the names of other skateboarders in India and around the world. The director says Gond and the other Janwar children were given a chance to be a part of the movie’s climax scene, but they declined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We said if this is our story we want to be seen and tell our story. We don’t want to be only in the background of the last scene,” Gond says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite her misgivings, Reinhard says overall, the movie will benefit Janwar and raise awareness about their work and about skateboarding. A new \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.desertdolphinskatepark.com/about__;!!Iwwt!H9Zt-H4FSAPu868Vthr_4VOFMUM6NAcTjzf_khY0Ocwc-GBvGkc-UysxWPbE%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">skatepark\u003c/a> was built in Khempur village where the movie was shot and is now being used by the community there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Gond, she says she is curious to see the full movie. All she has to do now is get a Netflix account, a luxury most people in her village do not have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Skateboarding+Gives+Freedom+To+Rural+Indian+Teen+In+Netflix+Film+%E2%80%94+And+In+Real+Life&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The things that they’ve shown in the trailer have actually happened to me,” she told NPR in a phone interview.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/k5Fn99wmFCQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/k5Fn99wmFCQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why A Rural Village Got A Skatepark\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janwar is a tiny village of about 1,200 located at the edge of a tiger reserve in the state of Madhya Pradesh. Tribal communities called Adivasis make up about \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/2309_PART_B_DCHB_PANNA.pdf__;!!Iwwt!H9Zt-H4FSAPu868Vthr_4VOFMUM6NAcTjzf_khY0Ocwc-GBvGkc-U-4EhXZs%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">half\u003c/a> of its population. India’s ancient caste system relegates Adivasis to the bottom of the social hierarchy and they typically live segregated from the rest of the community. When Gond was growing up, Adivasi children like her weren’t allowed to mix or play with their higher caste peers. Girls tended to marry early and the literacy rate was extremely low—especially among women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came the skatepark, built by \u003ca href=\"https://www.ulrikereinhard.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ulrike Reinhard\u003c/a>, a German business consultant and activist. Reinhard has been mostly living in India since 2012 and much of her work focuses on empowering youth in rural areas. She had been toying with the idea of building a school in rural India. But inspired by \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.skateistan.org/__;!!Iwwt!H9Zt-H4FSAPu868Vthr_4VOFMUM6NAcTjzf_khY0Ocwc-GBvGkc-U0HWm-GM%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Skateistan\u003c/a>, an international nonprofit organization that promotes education and gender equality through skateboarding, Reinhard decided to build a skatepark in Janwar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was an experiment,” Reinhard says. “I thought, can a skatepark trigger change in such a stiff and old-traditioned community?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To raise money for the project, Reinhard reached out to artists across the world to convert skateboards into artboards which she then auctioned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When she had the funding, she encouraged skating enthusiasts from around the world to come to Janwar to help build the park. About a dozen came and constructed the skatepark with assistance from laborers in the village. The skatepark opened in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The end result was something most of the people in the village had never seen—or even heard of. Gond said her initial reaction was that it “looked very weird.” Some people thought it was a swimming pool, Reinhard says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kids came around quickly and thought the skatepark was cool, says Reinhard. But some adults were skeptical of Reinhard’s intentions and started spreading rumors that she was involved in human trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gond’s mother was scared for her. “People would say [Reinhard] is going to sell your daughter and you won’t be able to see her again ever,” says Kamala Gond, who has since come around to support the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The German nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.skate-aid.org/en/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Skate-aid\u003c/a> provided the first batch of 20 skateboards. Reinhard doesn’t know how to skateboard so she showed the kids YouTube videos on a tablet to get them started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the beginning, it was difficult to maintain balance, Gond says.”The skateboard would go ahead when I stepped on it. I thought I would fall over and smash my face.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But once she got the hang of it, it was all Gond could think of. “I would lie in bed at night and think about how to maneuver the skateboard to do a particular trick,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Girls Get Priority. And Leave Your Caste At the Door\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The skatepark is free and open to all the children in the village, irrespective of caste. Encouraging Adivasi children and Yadav kids (a higher caste) to skate together is blurring caste divisions in the community, Gond says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While members of higher castes don’t get special treatment, girls do. One of the skatepark’s rules is “Girls first”—meaning if there are no skateboards free, a girl can ask a skateboarding boy to give his skateboard to her and he has to agree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The girls’ destiny is sealed the day they are born,” says Reinhard, adding that they are typically put to work at a young age and married off early. “So this was a way to tackle the gender [inequality] issue without naming it explicitly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone was happy to see girls skateboarding, much less Adivasi girls like Gond. Villagers would gossip that Gond would be better off learning to cook instead of skateboarding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They used to say to my parents, ‘What is she going to do after she goes to her husband’s home?'” says Gond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some mornings, Gond recalls, she arrived at the skatepark to threatening messages written on the concrete. “They said they would burn me if I did skateboarding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898796\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898796\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/vicky_roy_2016_mptourism_tour_custom-719f5eb5f4daeb7d4746d960d7e2ac0038389a6d-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Asha Gond (center right) rides her skateboard. When she first began skating, neighbors would shout that skateboarding is for boys and urge her parents to marry her off.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/vicky_roy_2016_mptourism_tour_custom-719f5eb5f4daeb7d4746d960d7e2ac0038389a6d-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/vicky_roy_2016_mptourism_tour_custom-719f5eb5f4daeb7d4746d960d7e2ac0038389a6d-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/vicky_roy_2016_mptourism_tour_custom-719f5eb5f4daeb7d4746d960d7e2ac0038389a6d-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/vicky_roy_2016_mptourism_tour_custom-719f5eb5f4daeb7d4746d960d7e2ac0038389a6d-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/vicky_roy_2016_mptourism_tour_custom-719f5eb5f4daeb7d4746d960d7e2ac0038389a6d.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asha Gond (center right) rides her skateboard. When she first began skating, neighbors would shout that skateboarding is for boys and urge her parents to marry her off. \u003ccite>(Vicky Roy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Gond continued to skate and quickly became a rising star in Janwar. Over the years, she’s traveled across India to participate in skateboarding contests. In 2018, she represented India in the World Skateboarding Championship in Nanjing, China. She came in nearly last, but she was the only Indian in the women’s games, competing against many who came from countries with long traditions of skateboarding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gond is also co-founder and director of the nonprofit organization Barefoot Skateboarders, which focuses on the education and development of the children in Janwar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her mother says she’s proud of her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel wonderful, I had never imagined that my daughter could do this or achieve what she has achieved,” says Kamala Gond, who says she regrets that she never had the opportunity to go to school and was married when she was a young teen. “What I couldn’t do, my daughter is doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘No School. No Skateboarding’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second rule at the skatepark is, “No school. No skateboarding.” When the kids skip school or are kept home by their parents, they aren’t allowed to skateboard. And to make school a better experience, Reinhard partnered with \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/prakriti.edu.in/__;!!Iwwt!H9Zt-H4FSAPu868Vthr_4VOFMUM6NAcTjzf_khY0Ocwc-GBvGkc-U-jK3Wug%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prakriti School\u003c/a>, an organization that focuses on innovative learning, to organize workshops for teachers in Janwar to improve their teaching skills. As a result, school attendance has gone up considerably, Reinhard says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Sports as a means of social change is powerful, says \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/malala.org/champions/jyotsna-jha__;!!Iwwt!H9Zt-H4FSAPu868Vthr_4VOFMUM6NAcTjzf_khY0Ocwc-GBvGkc-UzBEPwlp%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jyotsna Jha\u003c/a>, director of the Indian think tank Center for Budget and Policy Studies. “Especially something like skating, which is novel and thrilling, can really create a sense of achievement among children that they had perhaps never experienced otherwise,” she said via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sports has always been a gendered act, she says. “But when a sport is introduced for girls that is not traditionally associated with girls, it helps in breaking many stereotypes and also generating new ways of thinking,” Jha says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898797\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898797\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/aslam_saiyad_03_20191_custom-debc61ed55d4bcd408e274b6ef182e9c0ee6aab8-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Asha Gond rides over an obstacle known as a volcano at the Janwar Castle skatepark in her village.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/aslam_saiyad_03_20191_custom-debc61ed55d4bcd408e274b6ef182e9c0ee6aab8-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/aslam_saiyad_03_20191_custom-debc61ed55d4bcd408e274b6ef182e9c0ee6aab8-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/aslam_saiyad_03_20191_custom-debc61ed55d4bcd408e274b6ef182e9c0ee6aab8-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/aslam_saiyad_03_20191_custom-debc61ed55d4bcd408e274b6ef182e9c0ee6aab8-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/aslam_saiyad_03_20191_custom-debc61ed55d4bcd408e274b6ef182e9c0ee6aab8-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/aslam_saiyad_03_20191_custom-debc61ed55d4bcd408e274b6ef182e9c0ee6aab8-2048x1364.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/aslam_saiyad_03_20191_custom-debc61ed55d4bcd408e274b6ef182e9c0ee6aab8-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asha Gond rides over an obstacle known as a volcano at the Janwar Castle skatepark in her village. \u003ccite>(Aslam Saiyad/Barefoot Skateboarders Organization)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Inspiring Movie And A Controversy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact that skateboarding is creating in different communities is what director Manjari Makijany says inspired her movie \u003cem>Skater Girl\u003c/em>. But after watching the trailer, some people on social media familiar with Reinhard’s work and Gond’s story assumed the movie was about Gond and the skatepark in Janwar. But Gond says the filmmakers never got permission to tell her story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why don’t you ask me that you are going to tell my story?” Gond \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.facebook.com/NetflixFamily/posts/1182671495505173?comment_id=163450362388313__;!!Iwwt!H9Zt-H4FSAPu868Vthr_4VOFMUM6NAcTjzf_khY0Ocwc-GBvGkc-U2jrrCCu%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote\u003c/a> in a comment to a Netflix post sharing the trailer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to NPR, Makijany denied that the movie was about Gond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cem>Skater Girl\u003c/em> is not a biopic based on anyone’s life story nor is it a documentary,” Makijany says. “It is not [Gond or Reinhard’s] story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the movie, as in Janwar, the rule is “No school, No skateboarding” and it’s a Westerner—like Reinhard—who introduces the village to skateboarding and builds a skatepark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gond says the filmmakers met with her in Janwar and spoke to her about how skateboarding had changed her life and transformed her village. The director says Gond was just one of many girls they met during the making of the movie. The movie was also not shot in Janwar but in a village in Rajasthan state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhard had a contract to be a research consultant on the movie but says she quit early because of differences over the storytelling approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It turned out to be this kitschy, cheesy kind of thing,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhard also says from an ethical point of view, the filmmakers should have made a contract with Gond and the other children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Playboy.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Glamour.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>O.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Teen Vogue.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All these magazines have something in common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re no longer in print.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While these—and many other—publications have shifted to digital only in recent years, there’s a print magazine bucking the trends and still going strong: \u003cem>Thrasher \u003c/em>magazine. Created by skateboarders for skateboarders, \u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em> celebrates its 40th anniversary this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Founded in 1981 by Eric Swenson and Fausto Vitello, the San Francisco-based publication has been busting out new issues every month for decades. \u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em> captures the gnarly antics of skaters as they shred pools, bomb hills and hurl themselves down rails and staircases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Back then there weren’t that many videos, so that was our source of skateboarding,” Mike Carroll, a professional skateboarder, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carroll started reading \u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em> as a kid in the 80’s. In 1994, he was given the coveted title of \u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em> Skater of the Year and he’s been on numerous covers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13891250\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13891250\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/carroll_sftownsend93_dolinsky_dz_custom-13215bbc8b3547103f39baad32dc80e5052de2e7.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Carroll in action. The skateboarder started reading 'Thrasher' as a kid and was Skater of the Year in 1994.\" width=\"200\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/carroll_sftownsend93_dolinsky_dz_custom-13215bbc8b3547103f39baad32dc80e5052de2e7.jpg 200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/carroll_sftownsend93_dolinsky_dz_custom-13215bbc8b3547103f39baad32dc80e5052de2e7-160x232.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Carroll started reading ‘Thrasher’ as a kid; he was Skater of the Year in 1994. \u003ccite>(Sean Dolinsky /Thrasher Magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Skateboarding is so infinite in so many different ways of your love for skateboarding,” he said. “If you’re looking at \u003cem>Thrasher,\u003c/em> reading \u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em>, there’s so many different things that you can learn from the magazine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s where skaters learn what shoes are in, what their favorite skaters are up to and what bands are worth checking out. Punk rockers like Black Flag and rappers like Tyler the Creator have graced its pages. But most importantly, \u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em> is a source of inspiring, cutting edge skateboarding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some readers rip out the magazine pages and posters and tape them to their bedroom walls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember the pictures that I had on my wall as a kid,” Michael Burnett said. Today he’s the Editor in Chief of \u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em>. He’s the successor of the late, iconic editor \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Skateboarder-Thrasher-editor-Jake-Phelps-dies-at-13690396.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jake Phelps\u003c/a>. “You would stare at this thing. It was like the Led Zeppelin album cover. You’d get this magazine and you would look at it over and over again. You’re like, how did they get in the air?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the epic skateboarding moments captured in the magazine’s covers include Milton Martinez doing a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAqNOneGRiM&t=557s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">kickflip off the roof of a car wash\u003c/a> in Los Angeles and Andrew Reynolds doing a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meepxVVGvYk&t=86s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">backside flip down a staircase\u003c/a> at Wallenberg High School. But perhaps the crown jewel of \u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em> covers is a photo of \u003ca href=\"https://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/magazine/november-1997/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jeremy Wray in the sky\u003c/a> as he ollies from one water tower to another. [aside postid='pop_85006']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pro skater Alexis Sablone remembers seeing the Wray cover when she was young. “He’s just suspended in midair. I mean, if he didn’t make it, he would die,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sablone is also \u003ca href=\"https://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/videos/cons-seize-the-seconds-video/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">featured in the magazine\u003c/a>. In addition to putting out a skate video in \u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em>, she landed a spot on Team USA before skateboarding’s Olympic debut was postponed last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sablone says that when most people see a simple bench or planter, skaters like her see an obstacle to conquer. “You’re constantly looking for skate spots in just your everyday environment,” she said. “It could be a street you’ve gone down a million times, but you always have one eye out for something architecturally strange or something where you’re like ‘That’s skatable.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are so many ways to skate, after all. There are no rules in skateboarding. But what every skater has in common is an intimate knowledge of what it’s like to slam into the ground. Sablone says landing tricks can be highly demanding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13891251\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13891251\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/alexissablone_backside180_mehring1-3ce2c2c02a5c7fdac8c9692d3395ad6e49af9640-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Alexis Sablone in action. The skateboarder says she's constantly looking for skate spots.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/alexissablone_backside180_mehring1-3ce2c2c02a5c7fdac8c9692d3395ad6e49af9640-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/alexissablone_backside180_mehring1-3ce2c2c02a5c7fdac8c9692d3395ad6e49af9640-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/alexissablone_backside180_mehring1-3ce2c2c02a5c7fdac8c9692d3395ad6e49af9640-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/alexissablone_backside180_mehring1-3ce2c2c02a5c7fdac8c9692d3395ad6e49af9640.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexis Sablone says she’s constantly looking for skate spots. \u003ccite>(Jonathan Mehring)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It becomes like this personal battle,” Sablone said. “It can be the most frustrating thing ever when it’s not going well—and that happens a lot—or it can be the thing that feels the best.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Editor Burnett says there’s no cheating in skateboarding. It’s just you, the board and the concrete. It’s not like you can fake breaking boards or bones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite their commitment to all things skateboarding, \u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em> doesn’t cover competitions like the X Games and they don’t plan to cover the Olympics either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I look at skateboarding more as art than sport,” Atiba Jefferson, \u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em> staff photographer, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A legend in his own right, Jefferson has been on many adventures with skateboarding’s biggest stars. Some skaters, like Jefferson, say that skateboarding is about more than doing a bunch of tricks for points. [aside postid='news_11733418']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could put guitar playing in the Olympics if you really wanted to. It’s a physical thing, right?” he said. Instead, \u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em> creators focus more on the skating that happens in the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Burnett knows there’s room to grow the skate community. He’s expressed interest in getting everyone who loves skateboarding involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are 488 \u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em> issues. But look at the covers, you’ll quickly see that most of them are photos of men. The number of women featured on the covers can be counted with one hand: three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The magazine has featured more women pro skaters in recent years, but men still dominate the pages and covers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em> is one of the biggest, most influential publications in skateboarding. They really lack diversity,” Leo Baker said. Baker is a pro skater who has been featured in the magazine and also earned a spot on Team USA. Last year, they helped create \u003ca href=\"https://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/on-glue-article/\">Glue Skateboards\u003c/a> with fellow skaters Cher Strauberry and Stephen Ostrowski. [aside postid='arts_13886143']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When Stephen, Cher and I decided to start Glue, a huge part of that was just being able to skate with and be on a team with people that are queer,” Baker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glue Skateboards, There Skateboards and The Skate Witches are among the many groups led by queer and women skaters that are helping expand the skate community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s what I love about skateboarding,” Burnett said. “Different groups around the world latch onto skating and make it their own. People get a little taste of it and then they customize it for their scene and their friends and what they’re doing. And that’s really exciting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his editor’s note for the anniversary issue, Burnett writes that the magazine relies on, “the rippers, ragers, videographers, builders, artists, weirdos, hellriders and homies who keep on creating, keep on making skateboarding the beautiful, [f*****-up] thing that it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s because of them that \u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em> continues to bring skateboarding to people’s fingertips, month after month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Nina Gregory edited this story for broadcast. Petra Mayer and Milton Guevara adapted it for the Web. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. 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