Quiksilver : Javier-Mendizabal
The Basque Country can be seen as a wonderland. To Javier it is, anyway. Wonderland? It's actually the name of one of the first videos his nonchalance got witnessed in, ever. What year was that, 1994? Exactly. And already, as the skateboarding world was still trying to heal from the pressure flip years, Javier was different, mixing in this Gijon-filmed part the old and the new, the tech and the gnarly. Back in these segregated days, not many people would see the same beauty in a kickflip f-side nose slide than in a huge indy air on a 7-feet quarter pipe that counted 4 feet of vert. Javier, and many a Basque skater, did. No way to do otherwise: from Gijon then to Algorta later, the skateparks' transitions in this very particular part of the world, the one that speaks a language linked to no other eutropean one, have always reflected one of its people's main characteristics : bow down to nobody. Might sound rough, but the brutality of the spots, this display of Basqu...