Anyone Anything

Lance Mountain wrote this in Trans World around 1989. He was giving tribute to Tony Alva and it was right around Tony’s 32nd birthday. Lance wrote,  ”I want to skate like him when I’m thirty two years old.” Here we are twenty five years later. Both are beyond legendary and still rip to this very day. Lance is almost fifty and TA is fifty seven this coming September. There have never really been fifty year old skateboarders before. It has always been a young man’s game. No more.  These guys were not just one in a million…  they are more than this. At forty and fifty, there are many amazingly gifted skaters and yet some of their bodies can no longer handle the strain of their extraordinary abilities. It is something they are confronted with daily… Something is happening and it is glorious. Skateboarders are aging. Grace and dignity. I am sure they will continue doing what they do. There can be no other way. Skate- Ozzie