This is me (Steve Emig) doing a footplant to 180 on my bike, what skateboarders then called a "No comply." I rode with skaters at the Huntington Beach Pier nearly every weekend in the late 1980's and early 1990's, and I would often play "SKATE" against them, on my bike. It's like playing "HORSE" in basketball, so I would have to try to do skate tricks on my bike. This is one of them, from a 2-Hip Meet the Street contest in La Jolla, California in 1989. The video is by Eddie Roman, and I did the sketchy TV stills. This is me, on my way to becoming a mediocre BMX freestyler in the 1980's and 1990's. The sequence continues below the poem.
Become
You must risk
If you're to succeed
For when you grow
Sometimes you bleed
Each must climb
Over the fence
For the only cage
Is ignorance
Each Jedi knight
And Shaolin monk
Evolved from
A lowly punk
Don't get caught
In the world's throws
We must become
Our own heroes
-The White Bear
(written about 1992-93)
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