Stalefish

Description

How is being a pro skater different from being, say, a professional golfer? Veteran skate journalist and former pro skater Sean Mortimer has interviewed the top skaters of all time to answer that question in different and hilarious ways. Tony Hawk, Stacey Peralta, Rodney Mullen, Daewon Song, and Chris Haslam are handful of the skaters who opine on ollies, demos, mass riots, near arrests, and the various ways in which skating is bad for your love life. With over 50,000 words straight from the skaters themselves and graphic black and white photographs, "Stale Fish" functions as a gritty oral history of professional skating.

SEAN MORTIMER rode for Powell Peralta, the most famous skateboard company of the 1980s. He was the editor of SkateBoarder Magazine and has had articles published in Transworld Skateboarding, The Skateboard Mag, The LA Times, Sport Illustrated for Kids, and Skateboarding Business. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller HAWK Occupation: Skateboarding with Tony Hawk and How to Skateboard and Not Kill Yourself. He lives, skates, and slams in southern California.

"A classic collection of skateboarding lore and legend straight from the heart of the icons that created it." Juice Magazine "Skateboarding's formative years and milestones eroded before they were documented. Stalefish captures those stories in a way skateboarders old and new can relate to. A necessary book." Transworld Skateboarding "So, if you are a skater, or have ever been one, you need to read Stalefish. Honestly. Read it. Stalefish would also be a great read for anyone interested in the history of skateboarding, or skate culture. And really, I can't imagine a better way to represent skateboarding than with a book like this. Stalefish captures the personal and individual aspects of skateboarding perfectly. And that's really what skateboarding is. Read this book. You'll love it. Steve Cave, About.com Skateboarding Guide "This ain't no run of the mill history lesson. It's more like sitting down at a bar to hear Mike Vallely tell his story about how he didn't want to be the face of change for skating or hear how Tony Hawk had his first kiss at Del Mar or how Daewon Song thought that he sucked at one point. No boring "Skateboarding adapted from surfing..." commentaries, only the juicy details from the pros that made the scene what it is today. Highly recommended." --Turntablelab.com Sean Mortimer tackles the culture of skateboarding after taking us into the lives of Tony Hawk and Rodney Mullen. Stalefish covers skateboarding from the vantage point of those who were there making it a cultural phenomenon from the beginning until modern day. With historic heavyweights Stacy Peralta, Steve Alba and Lance Mountain to modern-day culture makers Daewon Song, Jamie Thomas and Chris Haslam, this isn't a book that will tell you what happened; it's a book about the people who made it happen telling you how it went down. SBC Magazine