My buddy Todd (owner of TwoEaglesArt, Ollie’s skate shop, and Native Skates) is putting together a skateboard “demo” in Albuquerque, New Mexico on April 29. The idea behind it was to highlight the plethora of skateboard talent in Indian Country. The event will take place the day after The Gathering of Nations Pow Wow, which bills itself as “the world’s largest pow wow.”
Todd has several co-sponsors for the event—American Nomad, Wound Knee Skateboards and Apache Skateboards.
American Nomad is co-owned and operated by skateboard legend Bill Danforth and Wound Knee is Jim Murphy’s company. Both those guys skated with Tony Alva’s legendary skate team in the late 80’s. Murph is also Lakota, from what I have been told. Concrete Wave magazine has agreed to do an article on the event and Bill and Todd met with legendary skateboard photographer, MOFO, in Albuquerque yesterday.
I am hoping to go make the trip down to Albuquerque in April for the skate jam, but I am going to have to rely on a ride from someone. It’ll be cool to check out the action—meet other Native skaters, Native celebrities and Native musicians as well. Of course, being able to skate the park and the famous Albuquerque ditches would be icing on the cake. In addition, I have wanted to meet Michael Brooke, publisher of Concrete Wave. He did a book on original Dog Town skater Jay Adams last year and has published several skate-related books as well, including Concrete Wave.
Meeting MOFO would be cool as well—he was Thrasher’s main photography during their golden period in the eighties . . .
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