{"id":160361,"date":"2021-01-25T19:25:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T02:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=160361"},"modified":"2021-01-25T19:25:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T02:25:14","slug":"340-pound-skateboarder-shatters-stereotypes-with-new-bay-area-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=160361","title":{"rendered":"340-pound skateboarder shatters stereotypes with new Bay Area club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Andy Duran, nothing compares to the feeling of smooth pavement.<\/p>\n<p>Whether he\u2019s stepping off BART or seeking out driveways and parking lots, he skates to find a special rhythm between him and his board. \u201cIt\u2019s a thrill,\u201d he says. \u201cWhen it all aligns, it feels like a dance.\u201d However, it hasn\u2019t always been easy for the 36-year-old, who works as a sex educator, to find his footing.<\/p>\n<p>As someone who skated in his youth, Duran decided to revisit it as a way of staying active and having fun during lockdown \u2014 but he says that while researching skateboards for fat folks, he couldn\u2019t find much gear, if any. What he discovered instead was that fat shaming and baseless stereotypes still prevailed in the skating world\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/characters\/article\/chub-rollz-bay-area-overweight-skateboard-club-15883128.php?IPID=SFGate-HP-CP-Spotlight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Andy Duran, nothing compares to the feeling of smooth pavement. Whether he\u2019s stepping off BART or seeking out driveways and parking lots, he skates to find a special rhythm between him and his board. \u201cIt\u2019s a thrill,\u201d he says. \u201cWhen it all aligns, it feels like a dance.\u201d However, it hasn\u2019t always been easy [&hellip;]<\/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-160361","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\/160361","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=160361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160362,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160361\/revisions\/160362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}