064 Lonny Hiramoto, Skateboarder, Friend, Shape Stealer, and former Hoodlum…
Lonny is an awesome skater, and hit the pro skateboarding scene as a youngster in the late 70’s. I assumed he was older than me cause he was in Skateboard Magazines when I was a kid, but turns out he was just amazing at a young age. We didn’t actually meet until 20 years later, now he is a great friend, and die hard lover of rolling on his board, and he’s actually two years younger than me.
You’ll hear some interesting stories, a bit about his Hoodlum Days, and one of the best stories ever about how legendary skater Shogo Kubo (RIP) gave him his first skateboard, just to get him out of the house, so he could make out with Lonny’s sister, and even better he had no idea Shogo was a good skater, much less a legend in the making. It’s one of the most random and funniest random occurences I’ve ever heard in our little skate network.
This podcast was an accident as Lonny was just popping by to show me the sample deck he had made after copying one of my (Art School Skateboards Jim Gray Guest Model) shapes.
Hope you enjoy his Christian Hosoi stories, Lester Kasai stories, and a lot more. Hope you enjoy my chat with this living legend.