Blade culture (like skateboard culture) has problems with substance abuse. We end sessions and celebrate events with beer and blunts, which normalizes it. As a collective, there is a tendency of seeing younger skaters as more mature, erroneously equating a person's talent on skates to mean experienced at life. In part because older skaters with more life experience have a tendency of indoctrinating younger skaters to things they might not experience otherwise...
INTERVIEW: EDITOR-IN-CHIEF KEVIN LITTLE, @kevinmlittle PHOTOGRAPHY: GINO GOTELLI, @ginogotelli There aren’t many skaters that have had the longevity...