So, I don't even think I even thought about what could go wrong. “I think I was only about like nine or 10 years old. It didn't end well, but I made it down the ramp and it just was the ramp after that gave me trouble,” Joslin reminisces. “I think I rolled down like a 16 ft roll-in one time. The hours spent toiling away in the parks and on the streets, with the persistence still obvious today, enabled the young American to tackle obstacles well beyond his years. Joslin’s prodigious talent at skating began to take shape about the time his age hit double digits. Summer X Games California 2023: Full schedule, preview and how to watch live actionĬhris Joslin: How street skateboarding is a part of me Chris Joslin and the Hollywood 12 at 12.I think it shaped me into the person I am today, whether that be good or bad, but I’m happy with the outcome.” So, I’m not mad at the situation I was put in. “My grandma would take me to the skate park every day and I tried to learn a new trick every day and some days it would work, some days it wouldn’t, but the days it would work just made it feel all worth it and I would just try and feed off of that,” Joslin explains about how the sport became something of an escape for him, ultimately moulding him into the skater the world now knows. Joslin never met his father, after he passed away when young Chris was just seven. It wasn’t until the age of three after she was sober that he got to know his mother. Joslin’s grandmother took on a key role in his upbringing with both his parents, then on drugs, unable to initially raise him. “I actually have my grandma telling me when I first started because I started when I was about three years old which, I don’t know about other people, but I can’t remember that far back so I’ve been skateboarding longer than I can remember - literally.” “I discovered skateboarding before I could even remember, I was so young.” the 27-year-old says in an interview with at the WST Rome Street 2023 event. And for those that know him, the grit and determination to deliver is Joslin through and through.īorn and raised in Hawaiian Gardens, a suburb of Los Angeles, California, Joslin doesn’t have memories of when he first started skating, such was his age. His skating is dramatic, compelling the kind no one would ever dream of tearing their eyes away from. When he nears his prey, he launches himself into the air artfully executing his trick before stomping the landing as if to put a full stop next to the statement he has made. The breeze whipping through his loose-fitting shirt tells of the speed he has generated as he prepares to own the biggest obstacle, or widest gap, on the park. You don’t need to be an expert in skateboarding to see the relentlessness with which Chris Joslin rips through a street competition course.
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