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What's The FLO: Stephen "Fakie God" Alvarado

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 Next on "What's The FLO", we'll be featuring our boy Stephen Alvarado. He tends to be known as "Fakie God". We're pretty sure it's obvious why, right? Hometown : San Pedro, CA Years Skating : 4 1/2 years Local Park : Don't have one. I used to go to Channel Street a lot. Pedro has no street parks, so i skate a lot of street or Manhattan Skatepark. Current Setup : Krux Trucks Quasi Deck Bones STF 52mm Mob Grip Modus Hardware First things first. Anything we all should know about you as a skateboarder Mr. Fakie God? Me as a skater? I love skating fakie and I'm more comfortable skating fakie than regular. Also shouts out to SoundCloud for bringing so much different kinds of innovative music to the table. Big ups to SoundCloud my dudes. Music is essential in skateboarding. So how do you feel skateboarding has affected your way of thinking as an individual? Skateboarding has created a different persp...

What's The FLO: Bonifacio Rodriguez

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Welcome back to 1FLO Skateboarding. Today we have started our new series of interviews to present skateboarders you may need to lay them eyes on. Of course, with two posts prior, we thought it'd only righteous enough to start this interview series with  #sketchboyz  shredder  Bonifacio Rodriguez . Name :                                                                                                                 Hometown : Bonifacio "Boni" Rodriguez                                                                     ...

Musty Choklate

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Tyrone ¨Musty¨ Smith   is a radical artist and skateboarder from the Boston area and senior at Boston Collegiate Charter School. He´s the weirdest dude you'll ever meet and loves messing around, playing video games, skateboarding and eating chocolate bars. ¨There is no better joy than cracking open a chocolate bar and an Arizona with jazz on repeat for endless hours and just drawing or painting. It´s seriously sick.¨ Tyrone never attended any formal art training but he enjoys sitting at home making clothes. Originally, he started off making clothing for girls that he liked with nothing but a Sharpie in his hand but, as his art evolved so did his clothing. He was influenced by people such as Leon Karssen, Tyler the Creator, Mikey Alfred, Mac Miller, Na-Kel Smith, Louis Armstrong, Leon Bridges, Mark Ryden and many more. "All of those people are seriously amazing. They create something new and adventurous and do what they want whether or not people will even buy their st...

GRANDMA skateboards

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We all love our grandmothers don't we? GRANDMA Skateboards is a Kansas City based company. Strictly vintage. Strictly artistic. Here's a taste of the product they have on their website. Good ol' GRANDMA In the words of mastermind Joshua Bonwell, aka namekbeats... "Grandma is another word for vintage. Basically, a lot of old themed things." Shop online on their website  buygrandma.co

Bonifacio Park Clips

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Park footy that Bonifacio stacked from January 2017 to present day. Follow him on Instagram  @bonitits

Bonifacio Rodriguez

Bonifacio, aka "Bonie", is a skater based in the Long Beach/ Wilmington area. The guy has a style rooted in critical thinking and "finesse". He always approaches his tricks with foresight and a cool, collected mindset. Here's some footy to feast your eyes on. He's quite the ripper. - Jonathan Holliday Check out his Instagram:  @bonitits Be on the lookout for his upcoming interview.