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UX Cambridge - What 'Bones Brigade' taught me about awesome teams

spencer
September 10, 2015

UX Cambridge - What 'Bones Brigade' taught me about awesome teams

spencer

September 10, 2015
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  1. @spencerturner It was my dream as a kid to get

    on the Zephyr team 
 – I got on 
 the team Stacy Peralta
  2. @spencerturner Nobody held a team as long as Stacy has,


    I mean phhhff, no one even half the time 
 he was the glue that held us all together. MIKE MCGILL
  3. @spencerturner I wanted this to be no name guys 


    that no one had ever seen, 
 and so I started picking up young amateurs that I knew I could develop Stacy Peralta
  4. @spencerturner Here I am 
 10 years old 
 and

    I’m like this big and these guys are like 2ft higher than me. Steve Caballero
  5. @spencerturner Don’t let anything poison your individuality, 
 be away,

    breakaway, look inward, not outward. RODNEY MULLEN
  6. @spencerturner Tony & Rodney were both outsiders 
 from the

    beginning, and for a long time what they were doing was considered odd. CRAIG STEYCK
  7. @spencerturner Ultimately what I was looking for 
 was a

    kid who had fire in him. Stacy Peralta
  8. @spencerturner It was really like hard to believe, 
 here

    were these little soft kids,
 but all their integrity and heart
 was in skateboarding. Glen .E Friedman - Photographer
  9. @spencerturner 
 I couldn’t believe that I was seen in

    any sort of similar light to Steve Caballero. TONY HAWK
  10. @spencerturner Coming in from Florida and flying in and seeing

    the guys, and seeing what they would do, I would just look at ‘em go, and just be there kinda feelin’ so privileged cruisin’ around in the volvo RODNEY MULLEN
  11. @spencerturner I liked that feeling of being with a group

    of guys, competing against each other, but at the end of the competition, 
 we’re leaving as friends, as a team. STEVE CABALLERO
  12. @spencerturner Nah, you’re partying and having a good time ‘cos

    you can’t compete with Caballero. 
 Phhfff. Man up, man up and beat us!
 Not me personally, they always beat me. Hehehe. But man up and beat my boys! LANCE MOUNTAIN
  13. @spencerturner There’s a part of it that most guys will

    attest to - we want to make Stacy happy TOMMY GUERRERO
  14. @spencerturner I saw him skate and I felt it in

    my heart, just a bolt hit me and I went “oh my god that kid is unbelievable” Stacy Peralta
  15. @spencerturner You need to have someone that believes in you.

    No other team, no other company had that guy. LANCE MOUNTAIN
  16. @spencerturner Alan Gelfand invented the ollie, 
 when he was

    an amateur. 
 He invents the trick of the century, 
 when he was an amateur. STACY PERALTA
  17. @spencerturner Caballero at 16 years of age, 
 invents the

    Cabalariel. He takes what Alan Gelfand’s done with the ollie, and now he does it in the air 360 ollie. STACY PERALTA
  18. @spencerturner For me Cabalariels were a game changer because it

    made you realise you can do difficult spinning manoeuvres or technical manoeuvres without grabbing your board. TONY HAWK
  19. @spencerturner Seeing guys like my heros Alan Gelfand, invent the

    ollie, I mean that was ppffwow - that’s a legacy for him. And then Caballero doing the cabalarial, I’m like, wow that’s great, you know. What am I gonna do? Mike Mcgill
  20. @spencerturner Tony took the McTwist and all of a sudden

    he’s doing one foot McTwists, then he’s doing board varial McTwists, and then he does the absolute unthinkable, which is the Ollie McTwist, he does a McTwist not even grabbing his board! STACY PERALTA
  21. @spencerturner When we got into skating, you did not become

    rich or famous if you were good at skateboarding. No one did, no matter how good you were. TONY HAWK
  22. @spencerturner When George and I first started talking, 
 I

    just liked him, I trusted him. He wasn’t doing this to make a million Dollars, and I wasn’t either. STACY PERALTA
  23. @spencerturner I was so young that all I knew was

    that my friends had quit skating, all the parks were closing, but I wasn’t going to quit. 
 I still had a skateboard, that’s all I needed. TONY HAWK
  24. @spencerturner It was such an intoxicating place to be that

    these backyard events started to grow the sport again. STACY PERALTA
  25. @spencerturner Where we made the first video, thinking we might

    sell 300, we sold 30,000. 
 It was unbelievable. 
 They became manifestos. STACY PERALTA
  26. @spencerturner The videos added a human element, 
 we weren’t

    just this untouchable elite crew of skaters, they showed that we were silly, we fall. TONY HAWK
  27. @spencerturner If it’d just been Rodney Mullen, 
 Steve Caballero

    and Tony Hawk in the video, I mighta gone damn, skating is tough, it’s hard, I’ll never be that good, 
 but Lance Mountain presented skating 
 as something accessible. Mike ValleLy - Pro Skateboarder
  28. @spencerturner Lance let you say it’s OK to be a

    crappy skater, and I’m not saying Lance was a crappy skater, but you can love skating and that’s enough. SEAN MORTIMER - SKATEBOARDING WRITER
  29. @spencerturner Mike McGill Owns a skateboard shop and makes products

    under the McTwist Label. Tommy Guerrero Co-Founded Real Skateboards & Deluxe Distribution.
  30. @spencerturner Lance Mountain Formed and ran Firm Skateboards for 15

    years and is still 
 a pro-skateboarder. Steve Caballero is still a pro, still skating for George Powell 33 years on.
  31. @spencerturner Tony Hawk Went on to win 10 X-Games titles,

    Co-Founded Birdhouse Skateboards & Created The Tony Hawk Pro Skater Game. Rodney Mullen Co-Founded World Industries, the most successful skateboard company in the 1990s which he sold in ’98 for $20m. Co-owner of Almost.
  32. @spencerturner Stacy Peralta Makes documentaries, surfs and skateboards. He and

    George reunited in 2006 at the request of Lance Mountain and fellow Bones Brigade members and began patching up their relationship.