Editor’s Note: According to 20-year-old skate-activist Justin Marks, skateboarding isn’t really accepted in the streets of San Francisco, and he decided to do something about it. Donny Lumpkins is a contributor to YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia.
Backside flips, smith grind, inward heel flip, nada spin, activism. Which one of these doesn’t belong? If you ask 20-year-old skate activist Justin Marks, he would tell you these things go together as well as metal bolted to wood.
I’m about 10 minutes late meeting Marks in downtown San Francisco, but in the laid back way only a skater can pull off, he tells me not to trip when he picks me up. He is a redhead with freckles and a ginger beard growing around his chin, skinny – like most hardcore skaters. We’re on our way to Treasure Island, where he is going to show me the site of a future skate park… Details