Rowley Week Day 1: Blasts From The Past

Posted Jan. 14, 2013, 4:59 a.m. /

Welcome back to the latest installment of Vans Rider Week. This week we focus on the man who saved us all from looking like a bunch of dorks in moon-boots, the guy who changed the tide of skate shoes back to a beautiful and rad vulcanized way of life when he 50-50'd Staple Center in a pair of Eras; we present to you none other than the brash, unapologetic, unrelenting, trailblazer of gnar, Geoff Rowley. At the time when Geoff hit Staples no one was skating low-cut, thin vulc shoes. No one had felt their board in nearly half a decade. Shoes at the time were so disgusting and bulky we try not to think about them. But when Geoff shot that ad, doing the gnarliest trick on the biggest hubba, showing people it wasn't about creating a bulletproof space shoe for the year 3000 that would last for six months but rather the priority is and always should be about board-feel everyone took a long, hard look at their feet and wondered, 'What the f@#k are we wearing?' HIstory was rewritten that day, by this man. To celebrate his rich history in skateboarding and the re-release of The Rowley Pro we begin Rowley Week with a blast from the past, where we gathered together all of Geoff's key interviews. Enjoy the walk down memory lane.
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