It was me, my dad, Jason Jessee, Duane Peters, Lizard King, Tom Remillard and Brandon Perelson. We went on a skate trip for Stance socks a year ago. My dad got me into skating when I was real young. I lived inland in Anaheim so I always skated a lot. You're 21 years old and Christian Fletcher's kid and you never surfed?
Greyson Fletcher 12 o'clock kickstands his dad Christian at the Lake Cunningham skatepark in San Jose, Calif.
I just started getting into surfing a year ago.
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My Aunt Joyce was women's world champion surfer.Īre you trying to pursue both? You trying to be a pro surfer as well as skater? My dad, my uncle, my grandpa are all pro surfers. I'm not really sure exactly what each member has done because they've all done a lot. He was also a big wave surfer and did a bunch of stuff for the ocean. Ha! I don't know about that but he invented Hoffman Fabrics which a lot of surf companies used for their clothes, like aloha prints and stuff like that. Didn't your great grandfather basically invent the ocean? I'm basically the black sheep in my family for skating instead of surfing. Is that your form of rebellion against the family? To skate instead of surf? My uncle is stoked–everybody is pretty stoked and I still go surf with them. Not really, they're stoked that I'm going the skating route. Is your family bummed that you're pursuing skateboarding instead of surfing? Then the Flip guys hit me up and I was like, "Oh, Sick!" They all seem really cool.
Yeah, I was getting flow from them for a little bit but they never really did anything with me. Weren't you getting flow from Anti-Hero before? Greyson Fletcher snaps an ollie one-foot over a hip at West Linn skatepark Bryce Kanights Sounds really fun!" That's when they put me on the team. Right before the Pro-Tec Pool Party Andrew from Flip asked me if I wanted to ride for them and I was like, "Hell yeah, I'm interested. Flip seemed stoked and I started getting some boards from them. After that I started skating with Arto Saari at some backyard pools and stuff and meeting up with him in LA every weekend and skating his pool. I was like, "I know Curren, I'm staying." Jeremy Fox was there from Flip with Lance Mountain and Geoff Rowley and they saw me skating the mini ramp and that's when they got interested a little. Greyson: I was skating at the Vans Skatepark at the Block in Orange County and they started kicking everyone out for a private session with Curren Caples and his friends for his birthday. So how the hell did Greyson Fletcher, heir to a surf empire, become a sponsored skater instead of surfer? He lived inland.ĮSPN: How did you get hooked up with Flip? His grandpa Herbie Fletcher, dad Christian Fletcher and uncle Nathan Fletcher are household names in the surf world. His great grandfather, Walter Hoffman, was a big wave pioneer in the 50s, his aunt Joyce a women's champion surfer in the 60s. Flip Skateboards' newest am, Greyson Fletcher, belongs to such a lineage. When Alex Olson turned pro in 2008, becoming the first son of a pro skater to turn pro, surfing had already had generation after generation of pro lineage. While we're celebrating the Z-Boys of the 70s and the Bones Brigade of the 80s as our pioneers, surfing was already huge in America for three or four decades by that point (I'm not even going to get into how it dates all the way back to the 1700s). Skateboarding is a baby compared to surfing.
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