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Ben Stewart
Dead River Rope Swing
Marquette, MI
I don’t fucking get it. My parents forgot me. On Christmas. For the fifth year in a row. Mom and Dad wanted that real apres-ski deal so they decided that Whistler was the place to go inebriate and copulate and forget about their bastard-child. Somehow my name got swapped with another kid’s on my passport and he knew not only about the name-change but my parents Whis trip as well, and wouldn’t ya know, he had some Tinder fling from Whis and was trying to get there for some freaky-deaky HoHoHoliday affair and he wasn’t going to pass up the opportunity to see this skeezoid-plan come to fruition. I was held captive in my own damn house while this jokester impersonated me to my own blind family and the goddamn border patrol. The parents didn’t notice they were toting some blazing-hormoned psycho-kid impostor until they got to the hotel, at which point he was already naked and elated, at which point I had broken my captivation.
The parents couldn’t believe they forgot me.
The hoaxer couldn’t believe it worked.
I couldn’t believe they left me.
So I did what any sensible kid would do;
Went snowboarding with my friends.
A couple years ago Dane Reynolds tucked his left knee while doing an air in Mexico. We’d never seen a surfer do it like that. And I remember Curren Caples — who was probably 15 at the time — was one of the first people to say that it was one of the first airs in a long time that a skater would appreciate. Since then, surfing and skating have begun to intertwine here and there, with at least a layer of appreciation exposed. Curren Caples is one of this generations most stylish hybrids to emerge from this old romance.
More professionally known as a skateboarder, Curren has a distinctly poetic and tweaked style in transition and has developed his street skating in recent years as seen in his Flip 3 part. He surfs extremely well and it’s fascinating to watch the different approaches he brings to each. An ode to Nathan Fletcher’s ability in surfing and skating, using them to influence the other.
We went to surf, skate and hang in Ventura with Curren while he finishes up filming for a new Vans video coming out soon in this all new Fairly Normal.