Jay Adams (February 3, 1961 – August 14, 2014) Adams was the youngest member of the original Zephyr skate team when it first formed in 1975, according to Zephyr Surf Shop owner and co-founder Jeff Ho. I first met Jay in the water when he was a little kid on a borrowed surfboard, even before he was the little kid on a skateboard everybodys seen pictures of, Ho told XGames. You could tell even then that he was something special. Once the first photos of what he was doing on a skateboard came out, he was an instant icon. He was so creative in his skating that he was just so, so far beyond his time. He lived his life the way he wanted to live it, and, you know, he was surfing some mean sick barrels at Puerto and getting great shots with the boys right up until just before he passed away, still doing what he wanted to do. Jim Muir, another member of the original Dogtown Z-Boys skate team, added: Everyone involved in skateboarding needs to thank Jay for who he was and what he made our sport. He was one of a kind, and there will never be anyone else like him. Adams will be remembered as much for his sneer and for flipping off the camera as for his brazen skateboarding prowess. When skateboarding got competitive and corporate and some of his peers became celebrities, he mostly opted out. Wearing uniforms? That wasnt me, he wrote in an essay for My Rules. xgames.espn.go/article/11358968/influential-skateboarder-jay-adams-dies-mexico
Posted on: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 04:54:21 +0000
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