Happy Birthday @peraltastacy ❤ 📸 @crstecykiii @juicemagazine “You’ll never amount to anything” ??? ‘Wait a minute, I’m just a kid’… Surfers and skaters from the early ‘70s, That’s what most heard, except a few… One, which didn’t listen so closely… is this guy, Stacy, Peralta that is… from one talent to the next, it all depends on your focus, and commitment… Peralta has played a lot different roles… from Skater to Director, as they say… the guy has got talent, that’s obvious… Do I say more? That’d be a bore… Read on, it’s all in Black & White… (Words by Steve Olson) “I remember skating one day in front of the drug store. I was zooming around and I could feel the rumble of the sidewalk and the hard clay wheels coming up through my feet. I could feel the vibrations in my legs and the wind at my face and the whole time I was trying to find balance. I was leaning this way and that way, forward then a bit backward, and left then right. I kept shifting my weight to compensate for the changes in speed and the rock hard terrain and rock hard wheels. The entire time I was looking for equilibrium and trying to balance all of these forces. I was this seven-year-old kid in the middle of all this chaos. I was going down the sidewalk on this little board very fast with all this activity swirling around me. There were cars and people. There was the rumble of the sidewalk coming up through my feet and the terror of falling face first onto concrete and, all of a sudden, in the midst of all of this, I started to relax. Suddenly, I was feeling this sense of stillness within me. I found my equilibrium and I was totally at peace. I was totally still inside and I was flying down this sidewalk. Every time I get on a skateboard, I relax and I’m at peace within myself. That’s what attracted me to it. It was the search for that perfect glide when suddenly everything becomes quiet and everything becomes still…” - Stacy Peralta from Juice Magazine interview by Steve Olson @mrolson @bonesbrigade @powellperalta #happybirthday #stacyperalta (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVDq2JbJwL5/?utm_medium=tumblr
