There are many reasons we love sports. We get to watch tremendous athletes do amazing things. The nature of sports also leads to intense stakes as teams and athletes vie for victory.
Stacy Peralta is no gatekeeper. Far from it. But we all gripe about crowded lineups now and again. His solution? “I'll tell you something, Owen” he tells me as we go wide on everything from art and education to gardening, and, yes, every boardsport dreamt up by humankind—of which Peralta dabbles in all.
Zen and the art of landscaping may not exactly jive with your image of the Venice Beach surf/skate rat, former Z-Boy, and inveterate film director that is the constant mover and shaker Stacy Peralta.
During a conversation with Gerry Lopez earlier this year, he confided in me that he’d recently taken up foiling, and that it may well be his single worst aquatic endeavor to date.
“I never thought to paint skateboards,” the 67-year-old surfer-cum-skateboard virtuoso-cum-entrepreneur-cum-director and screenwriter (and on, and on…)