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Loveletters Season 10: China | Jeff Grosso’s Loveletters to Skateboarding | VANS

Skateboarding is freedom. In 1989 when George Powell, the owner of Powell Peralta Skateboards, flew to Beijing China was transforming from a closed market Communist society to an open global super power. George had one goal: to bring skateboarding to the biggest country in the world. The only problem: there were no skaters or skateboards anywhere in China.

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Loveletters Season 10: Five Great DIYs | Jeff Grosso’s Loveletters to Skateboarding | VANS

The DIY concrete skatepark building revolution altered the course of skateboarding forever. Anything is possible when skaters unite and take over. In this episode of The Letters Jeff picked his 5 favorites and talked to the main players about how they got them going and what it takes to keep them standing.

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