Editor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Note: According to 20-year-old skate-activist Justin Marks, skateboarding isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t 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.<\/p>\n
Backside flips, smith grind, inward heel flip, nada spin, activism. Which one of these doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t 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.<\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m 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 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c like most hardcore skaters. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re on our way to Treasure Island, where he is going to show me the site of a future skate park…\u00c2\u00a0 Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Editor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Note: According to 20-year-old skate-activist Justin Marks, skateboarding isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t 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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t belong? If you ask […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-skateboard-mountain-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14021,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14020\/revisions\/14021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}