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Grosso's Loveletters to Skateboarding - Fakie

offthewalltv3 skaters recommend it · 4 mentions, 2015 to 2016
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Episode of Jeff Grosso's Loveletters to Skateboarding for Vans Off The Wall TV on fakie riding. Grosso talks with Eddie Elguera, who rode fakie in the 70s, and Salman Agah, who took it to switch in the 90s.

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Gets linked in threads asking what fakie means or where the word came from. Short history of going backwards, from the 70s through switch skating.

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“Eddie Elguera was one of the first guys doing fakie tricks back in 1979/1980 and dude is still ripping today.”

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u/SilverSnurfer2015 · 10 points

Yeah you're right fakie was around long before nollies. Before ollies were invented even! I don't think it's known exactly who named it "fakie" but Eddie Elguera was one of the first guys doing fakie tricks back in 1979/1980 and dude is still ripping today. You see him at all the big masters bowl events each summer. Grosso did a love letter on the origin of riding switch so it gets into fakie a bit too. Don't think i

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