I imagine at that time you could just say you’re a pro just because you’re affiliated with someone with some money who’s just seeing it as a business opportunity, like Kalson said. I imagine it was closer to the time when everyone was trying to get in on importing razor scooters some years ago than it remotely resembling the skate industry we know of that came later.
It could be true! but it does sound embellished, rose tinted and at a level that is more akin a modern equivalent to a small town brand that a bunch of mates have done with 10 sample boards they bought online and sprayed up themselves and no-one will ever have heard of it past 30 people in the area and lasted as long as the 10 boards did.
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Wasn’t jay kay of jamiroquai a skater?
Oh no, not this again, please.
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just realised I have been watching this bellend every day for the last 2 years due to my daughter’s obsession with harry potter
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He was on the shop team for Buddies in Ealing, where I’m told he danced in the shop a lot. Also had a photo acid dropping off a bus shelter.
Shame things went so horribly downhill.
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But where is Jason Isaacs pro skateboarding skateboard that he proclaimed to skateboard on?
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I used to live near buddies, i remember when it opened, very exciting for a kid whod never really seen skateboarding before. I was on rollerskates at that point. Age 9 or something. They used to play Future Primitive in the window
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Pro boards weren’t a thing in the 70s like they are today.
Surely if he got bunged a few quid for doing some shit for a skate shop in a rich part of town, that could tenuously be described as pro for the time.
But as someone said earlier, it’s probably a talking point that a publicist has told him to run with and embellish.
I have no idea where I saw this, or if it’s a product of some kind of fever dream, but I can recall a print interview, I’m not sure who with, where it says that JK’s nickname at South Bank was Jason kneepads. Whoever the interview was with goes on to say, at that time JK was about 16 and was crashing out in his uncle’s(?) allotment shed overnight and was getting by knocking out some sketchy hash deals. I have held this ‘fact’ in my memory bank for about 30 years.
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