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	Eric Dressen

The early icons of Dogtown, like Tony Alva, Jay Adams, Dennis "Polarbear" Agnew, Moses Padilla, Steve Olsen, Marty Grimes, Jim "Reddog" Muir, George Wilson, Stacey Peralta, Wes Humston, Jimmy "Grandpa" Plummer, Dave Hackett, Shogo Kubo, Billy Yuran, and Arthur Lake (whose parents owned the original Dogbowl), paved the road for the next generation.

The torch was passed to such names as Jesse Martinez, Natas Kaupas, Strider Wasilewski, Rick Massie, John and Dan McClure, Aaron Murray, Julian Stranger, Tim and Kelly Jackson, Eric Britton, Scott Oster, Pat Ngoho, Pat Barreis, Christian Hosoi, two-time world-champion Eric "Ponyboy" Dressen, and others, myself included.




		Aaron Murray, Eric Dressen Steve Shelp, Ray Flores (Venice, CA)

hese are the names that repeatedly filled the magazines with reports from Dogtown. As the rest of the skate/surf world looked on, the Dogtown boys just lived their lives, enjoying the fruit of their labor. Dogtown never really showed anyone how to market their lifestyles, the boys just knew how to skate hard. These guys weren't formally schooled.

This post-Dogtown generation learned how to articulate skate/surf skills in the street, whether it was Jesse Martinez, whose skateboarding influenced Steve Rocco to create another division of Santa Monica Airlines with him, or Christian Hosoi, who pushed his own company and received endorsements from Jimmy'z clothing company, Converse shoes, Swatch Watches, and many other companies, some from Japan, Brazil, and Europe. He was a skateboard superstar. Christian has become a legend, along with Natas Kaupus, the master of innovative street skating.

Eric Dressen, who has a heart and guts the size of King Kong's, put it down for the history books when—representing Dogtown—he was crowned world champion two years in a row, becoming a skateboard immortal in the process.




			Julian Stranger, Clover City fullpipe session, '87

	As for the rest of the Dogtown team, Scott Oster's fluid surf style in pools earned him a spot in the lime light, and Aaron Murray, a rare breed himself, was a ricocheting bullet in the pool and on the street, bouncing off everything in sight. He secured his nickname "Fingers" when he ripped off his pinkie during a session. Julian Stranger also proved ahead of his time; even by today's standards he's considered cutting edge. The youngest of the Dogtown pups was Eric Britton, whose skateboarding quickly made him a standout on the Dogtown team. Now surfers like Strider Wasilewski, whose image Quiksilver seems to bank on and believe in, displays big-wave riding skills which have earned him a Surfer cover shot and plenty of world travel. His Dogtown colleague Rick Massie, another pro surfer, has done plenty of traveling himself, from France to Mexico, East Coast to the West Coast. Rick Massie has proven to be a dominant force, as well as a positive role model in Venice. It's my conclusion that as long as Dogtown's alumni are still here, the spirit will live on. Enough said. — Cesario "Block" Montano

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