{"id":6305,"date":"2009-03-11T07:22:34","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T14:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6305"},"modified":"2009-03-11T07:22:42","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T14:22:42","slug":"don-brown-skinny-legs-and-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6305","title":{"rendered":"Don Brown: Skinny Legs And All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/article-10jpg.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/article-10jpg.jpeg','popup','width=470,height=268,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/article-10-tm.jpg\" height=\"245\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Article 10.Jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a classic California skateboard success story: kid from Brighton, England moves to San Diego at 18 and freestyles his way into the position of skateboard industry titan. It&#8217;s the <strong>Don Brown<\/strong> true skateboarding story as told by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redbull.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Red Bull <\/a><\/strong>in their <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.redbulletin.com\/articles\/don_brown_pioneer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Red Bulletin<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI was living in the moment,\u201d he recalls. \u201cI remember going to a contest in Huntington Beach one day, looking in my wallet and realising I only had a dollar to my name.\u201d So, Brown took a warehouse job with Vision Skateboarding. After winning three consecutive amateur contests, Vision became his sponsor, eventually giving him what no other English skater before him had managed \u2013 a professional board model named after him. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That was only the beginning. In the early 90s Don joined <strong>Pierre Senizergues<\/strong> at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etnies.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Etnies<\/a><\/strong> and the skateboard footwear world was never the same again. Then again, neither was any industry event that Don attended, but we&#8217;ll keep those stories to ourselves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.redbulletin.com\/articles\/don_brown_pioneer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Red Bulletin<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a classic California skateboard success story: kid from Brighton, England moves to San Diego at 18 and freestyles his way into the position of skateboard industry titan. It&#8217;s the Don Brown true skateboarding story as told by Red Bull in their Red Bulletin. \u201cI was living in the moment,\u201d he recalls. \u201cI remember going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6305"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6306,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6305\/revisions\/6306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}