{"id":43156,"date":"2013-08-28T07:22:57","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T14:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=43156"},"modified":"2013-08-28T13:25:30","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T20:25:30","slug":"sacramentos-n-men-the-skaters-behind-the-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=43156","title":{"rendered":"The N-Men: The Skaters Behind The Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/roger_folsom.jpeg','popup','width=640,height=426,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/roger_folsom.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Roger Folsom\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/roger_folsom-tm.jpg\" width=\"430\" height=\"286\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong><em>Roger Folsom<\/em><\/strong><em> gets on it at Granite Skate Park. Photo: <\/em><strong><em>Paul Kitagaki\/Bee<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As the late 70s became the early 80s it was difficult to skate a pool in Northern California without hear tales of the <strong>N-Men<\/strong>. Whether it was their signature &#8220;N-Men&#8221; scrolled on a pool wall or an occasional glimpse of their founder <strong>Randy Katen<\/strong> drawing out long, fast lines at a local skate park, it was hard not to know of them. At the time, some younger Sacramento skaters even began calling themselves the &#8220;N-Punks&#8221; in tribute to the SacTown pool legends.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2013\/08\/28\/5686065\/sacramentos-n-men-skateboard-into.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento Bee<\/a><\/em><\/strong> writer <strong>Chris Macias<\/strong> gets the N-Men straight story from <strong>Katen<\/strong>, <strong>Bryce Kanights<\/strong>, <strong>Thomas Bix<\/strong>, <strong>David Moorhouse<\/strong>, <strong>Marty Radan<\/strong>, and <strong>Jamie Hart<\/strong> in his story <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2013\/08\/28\/5686065\/sacramentos-n-men-skateboard-into.html\" target=\"_blank\">N-Men Skateboard Into the Sunset<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Over the decades, the N-Men have earned a reputation as one of Northern California\u2019s pioneering skateboard crews, especially when it comes to skating in pools. In a sport that\u2019s synonymous with youth culture, these elders command respect when they show up to a skate spot, even if they don\u2019t roll the fastest, catch the most air or execute the latest tricks. . . They paid their dues back when skateboarding was dangerous, sometimes dodging the law or braving barbed-wire fencing that stood between them and a skate session.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The best news from the story is mention of a N-Men documentary on the way. Could be a while, but it will be worth the wait for certain. For the rest of the story <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2013\/08\/28\/5686065\/sacramentos-n-men-skateboard-into.html\" target=\"_blank\">click the link<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2013\/08\/28\/5686065\/sacramentos-n-men-skateboard-into.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento Bee<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Folsom gets on it at Granite Skate Park. Photo: Paul Kitagaki\/Bee As the late 70s became the early 80s it was difficult to skate a pool in Northern California without hear tales of the N-Men. Whether it was their signature &#8220;N-Men&#8221; scrolled on a pool wall or an occasional glimpse of their founder Randy [&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":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43156"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43169,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43156\/revisions\/43169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}