JTMR = Guest Editor new issue of Focus Skateboard Magazine.
The X- games, ah the X-games...I believe that I was at the first ever x-games because it was walking distance from my house. I believe that it was in 1997 and at it was held at Mariner's Point, which is the original home of the ESPN X-Games and the Bahia hotel in Mission Beach, San Diego, California. Somehow I wasn't in the contest but I have a vague recollection of my friend Willy Santos being in it and doing quite well. I think that they only had three disciplines back then, skateboarding, bmx, and roller blading. The latter discipline may be why the almighty X-games earned the moniker ," THE X-GAYMES." HA! Anyway, I only went one day of the three-day weekend because the contests didn't seem like such a big deal. But after that weekend, somehow I knew that the skateboard industry would never be the same. Videos! Oh videos. Videos have made and killed many skateboard careers. I remember the days of the huge skateboard video premiers when nobody except the tea...
