Stacey Peralta 76 Skateboarder interview

**sk8norcal** · 01-03-2008 11:38 AM

being meaning to post this,
Stacey, one of my favorite skaters....

76 interview in Skateboarder
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The people in your area have a different style from those of other areas; in fact, it even differs from the older skaters in your own region. How did the low, pivotal, ground contact style originate?
It came from riding banks more than anything. How better to ride a wave of cement than to surf-skate it? Besides, the style we have is related to short-board surfing, while I think the older guys have more of a long-board skate style.

It's just different attitudes. In the old days you moved on the board, while now you move with the board and the board moves with you. It's much more integrated. Bertleman's surfing was a real influence on it. People came on it individually at first. Nathan Pratt and I were skating Ocean View one night a couple of years ago, and we just started doing S-turn cutbacks, using our arms as pivots. Down at the beach, Tony and Jay Adams were doing the same things. Different approaches, same conclusions. People all over the area were skating more or less similarly. It really jelled, as far as everyone else was concerned, with the Zephyr team

How so?
The Zephyr team showed a lot of people what sort of skating we were into up here. At the Del Mar Contest we blew a lot of minds. The way we skated was really advanced. It was a total surf-skate with no tricks. People, in general, didn't understand it because they had never seen anything like it before. The surfers in the audience got off on it, while everyone was into handstands. We were so far ahead of what was going on in that zone it was amazing. I never realized we were different before that contest; the way we skated was the only way we knew how.

What is your favorite form of skating-slalom, freestyle, downhill, pools, or banks?
I prefer banks and pools 'cause you can put something into it. You use your whole body and your whole mind, and you get so far into it you can't help but flow. Radical things come easily.

It's like pulling off things surfing; you rollercoaster on a surfboard and you rollercoaster on a bank. Riding the right pool feels just like being weightless in the tube. Employing a bank properly, you can just push off and work your whole body for the rest of the ride. Using the bank for speed, hitting the top, hitting the bottom, gaining speed with every move.

What sort of equipment do you use?
I'm into one board, an original Zephyr Flex, built by Jeff Ho with different truck and wheel combinations for different situations. In this way I can use the same board for everything just by changing the setups. For example: Sure Grip mounts with medium-sized Sims Competition wheels. For straight slalom: Bennett trucks with Road Rider 4 wheels. For giant slalom: Tracker Trucks with Sims Pure Juice wheels. For pools: Bennett's with Sims Pure Juice. For banks: Sure Grip trucks with Sims Bowl Rider wheels. For downhill and speed runs: Tracker Trucks with whichever wheel has the correct composition for the running surface of the course.

How do your surf and skate styles relate?
They work well together. I usually surf in the morning and skate during the afternoon. Skating keeps my muscles toned during the flat spells. Also, I've gained leg control and power for surfing. I really work my board a lot more now through the soup, picking up the speed. I surf goofy-foot, but skate regular foot, so skating helps me to surf better switch-foot. Between the two, I'm much more into surfing because I like dealing with moving and changing forms. I guess the lack of availability of surf also makes it more attractive.

(that's weird, surf goofy, skate regular...)

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**Slim** · 01-03-2008 12:02 PM

surf goofy, skate regular? I can't imagine! That's wild and something I never knew about Peralta. Thanks for posting that HC. Wish I still had all my old skate magazines!

**sk8norcal** · 01-03-2008 09:20 PM

I have a copy of freewheelin', stacey have a short surf clip in there, I will check to see if he is riding regular or goofy.

Slim, check out the 2nd interview in 77

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Do you think surfing relates to skateboarding?
Only if you make it relate. If you want to make it, it can. If you don’t, it doesn’t have to. I like to because I can almost sometimes fantasize riding a wave when I’m in a pool. I can do certain things that I would do on a surfboard. Where as a guy from inland, he doesn’t surf, so he doesn’t know what it’s about. So, I can put two trips into skating instead of just one.

**msk** · 01-04-2008 12:48 AM

The people in your area have a different style from those of other areas; in fact, it even differs from the older skaters in your own region. How did the low, pivotal, ground contact style originate?
It came from riding banks more than anything. How better to ride a wave of cement than to surf-skate it? Besides, the style we have is related to short-board surfing, while I think the older guys have more of a long-board skate style.

It's just different attitudes. In the old days you moved on the board, while now you move with the board and the board moves with you. It's much more integrated. Bertleman's surfing was a real influence on it. People came on it individually at first. Nathan Pratt and I were skating Ocean View one night a couple of years ago, and we just started doing S-turn cutbacks, using our arms as pivots. Down at the beach, Tony and Jay Adams were doing the same things. Different approaches, same conclusions. People all over the area were skating more or less similarly. It really jelled, as far as everyone else was concerned, with the Zephyr team

How so?
The Zephyr team showed a lot of people what sort of skating we were into up here. At the Del Mar Contest we blew a lot of minds. The way we skated was really advanced. It was a total surf-skate with no tricks. People, in general, didn't understand it because they had never seen anything like it before. The surfers in the audience got off on it, while everyone was into handstands. We were so far ahead of what was going on in that zone it was amazing. I never realized we were different before that contest; the way we skated was the only way we knew how.

That's one thing that was really noticeable back then, which has largely disappeared nowadays: regional styles. You used to be able to tell where someone was from just by watching them skate. The DT guys had a different style from the Badlanders', which was different than the Down Southers' (San Diego), which was different from the Vals'. Since the only people you really saw skate, especially in the early days, were the people you regularly skated with, everyone in an area tended to influence each other. With the advent of videos in the 80s, that's changed, since anyone can now see how almost anyone else skates, and can be influenced by people from all over the world...

**sk8norcal** · 01-04-2008 02:01 AM

Originally Posted by msk

That's one thing that was really noticeable back then, which has largely disappeared nowadays: regional styles. You used to be able to tell where someone was from just by watching them skate. The DT guys had a different style from the Badlanders', which was different than the Down Southers' (San Diego), which was different from the Vals'. Since the only people you really saw skate, especially in the early days, were the people you regularly skated with, everyone in an area tended to influence each other. With the advent of videos in the 80s, that's changed, since anyone can now see how almost anyone else skates, and can be influenced by people from all over the world...

yea, that's funny how that works. We learn by copying others.
I used to play a sport, footbag net (talk about real small time), regional style was very very obvious. I learn new techniques (style), by watching tournament tapes (that I filmed myself) of visiting Montreal players who had the best style !

**sk8norcal** · 01-04-2008 02:44 AM

http://www.angelfire.com/ca2/dtown/p...symposium.html

POOL RIDING SYMPOSIUM
SkateBoarder Magazine
Vol. 3, #1
October 1976

Pool riding is the state-of-the-art skating style of the 70's. No other type of riding offers such radical departure from the past. And no other form progresses so swiftly towards the future. Pool riding has the juice. No artices in SKATEBOARDER have generated reader interest as greatly as those dealing with riding the cement basins.

At present, Southern California is the vanguard of the poolriding movement, due to its proliferation of extant swimming holes. However, as skate parks expand, they will undoubtedly offer pool-like situations tailormade for skating in all regions.

In view of the proceeding, we offer the following comments by skaters who have been picked by their peers as being hot in the pool. This is not a "best of" list. These guys are from different places and spaces, with each employing different approaches and equipment. A lot of them don't even know each other. Each of them has friends who are probably just as good. Dig it for the information.

How long have you been riding pools?

Tony Alva: Three or Four years.
Arthur Lake: One Year.
Stacy Peralta: Nine months.
Jim Muir: Nine months.
Bob Biniak: A year and a half.

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