Ellis Jones

It's not necessarily a great thing to be part of because it's illegal.

But again, it was like me.

To skateboard?

150 kids stopping traffic is kind of like this protest for skateboarding because it was still illegal at the time.

Skateboarding is illegal.

You can get a ticket or you could.

I don't know about anymore, but you can get a ticket and go to jail.

Even in San Francisco, when I lived there in the late 2000s, early teens, you could get a ticket and the charge was skateboarding.

It was against – that's why they had all those shirts that said skateboarding is not a crime because it was a crime in some places.

So anyway, I'm saying I'm not living like a – what my parents would say is like this is what we expected of you.

My dad always kind of treated me like if you're not going to be the son that I want –

then I'm just going to torture you and make your life living hell.

So it's like, and he was, you know, he told me recently that like, he's like, I was just afraid of you getting caught up in the system and becoming one of those guys who becomes a lifer, not necessarily getting sentenced to life, but just a jailbird loses track of his dreams.

And it's like within a year and a half, I'm already making impacts in my community, pursuing my dreams.

Right.

So, um,

Then it ends up not working out at the skate park.

And this is where I revert back to my youth.

And like the day that I got fired from the skate park, a buddy of mine happened to hit me up.

And he's like, oh, you got to come out to San Francisco and trim some.