Torger Johnson does a wheelie on a Makaha skateboard
Title
Torger Johnson does a wheelie on a Makaha skateboard
Description
Torger Johnson (1951-1983) does a nose manual.
Johnson was an original Makaha Skateboard Team member and then Hobie Super Surfer team member. He invented many freestyle tricks, including the "Spacewalk," a maneuver in which a rider balances on the back wheels and moves the board sideways in the air.
He won some of the 1965 International Skateboard Championships held in Anaheim, CA, and got the cover of the third issue of "Skateboarder Magazine" doing a nose wheelie the same year, He also got the cover of in the mid-1970s.
He influenced the style of Dogtown skaters Tony Alva and Jay Adams. Asked who made the biggest impact on his career growing up, Tony Alva replied: "I would have to say this guy named Torger Johnson. He's a very well rounded overall skateboarder. He was about 5 years older than me, and I used to look to him for direction not only professionally but also in the way he lived his life."
This card was created when Johnson was inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame in 2010. Watch his intro montage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkEXVwB9Bc0
Johnson was an original Makaha Skateboard Team member and then Hobie Super Surfer team member. He invented many freestyle tricks, including the "Spacewalk," a maneuver in which a rider balances on the back wheels and moves the board sideways in the air.
He won some of the 1965 International Skateboard Championships held in Anaheim, CA, and got the cover of the third issue of "Skateboarder Magazine" doing a nose wheelie the same year, He also got the cover of in the mid-1970s.
He influenced the style of Dogtown skaters Tony Alva and Jay Adams. Asked who made the biggest impact on his career growing up, Tony Alva replied: "I would have to say this guy named Torger Johnson. He's a very well rounded overall skateboarder. He was about 5 years older than me, and I used to look to him for direction not only professionally but also in the way he lived his life."
This card was created when Johnson was inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame in 2010. Watch his intro montage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkEXVwB9Bc0
Date
1960s
Source
Digital only
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Creator
Lance Smith
Publisher
Skateboarding Hall of Fame