Professional skateboarder and Red Bull top-seeder Madars Apse hit the streets with the only badass skateboarding legend and Hall OF Famer Mike Vallely to learn about Street Plant, punk rock, and the journey of a street scoundrel from New Jersey.
There are worse places to start charting his cultural ascent within skateboarding than his breakout section from Powell Peralta's game-changing 1988 video release Public Domain.
Vallely's east coast aesthetic and floppy-wristed silhouette caught the attention of an entire skateboarding world that realized there was more to this culture than hero-worshipping the MTV- generation of sleeveless T-shirted Californian vert professionals.
Despite being tangent to what the skateboarding mainstream was doing, he still enticed prospects to sponsors precisely because he has always had his own constituency within skateboarding: 120,000 Mexicans turned out to watch him put on a one-person skate demo in 2008.
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