All Hail Cardiel
January 15, 2010 | In Cycling, Inspiration, Skateboarding, VideoSo it must have been 2008 when someone handed me a dvd version of Epicly Later’d John Cardiel. I’ve been skateboarding for years and years and still do but sort of stopped reading magazines and keeping up to much with pros and industry stuff. So I had no idea what happened with Cardiel.
Not to spoil anything, but after an injury a couple years ago he’s been no longer able to skate as he used to and instead has turned his energy to riding bikes which is great. He just has to be such an amazing athlete to be able to come back from these injuries, and though he didn’t regain full function exactly like before the injury he’s well resilient enough and strong of will enough to get back and put his energies into something he loves like cycling. So great.
Watch his part in Sight Unseen from 2003 or something. He’s definitely one of the fastest most impressive guys on a board I can think of. I’ve always loved this part. Mark Gonzales on Cardiel from the part:
The way he skates is amazing cause he’ll skate so fast but it seems like the faster he goes the more control he has… which is you know, unexplainable. Yeah he’s unbelievable. I’m not tryina kiss too much butt but he’s a ripper. An original ripper. He’s an original Coors. (laughs)
Now that you’ve seen that, take some time and watch through the Epicly Later’d series. It was meant to be just 2 or 3 short pieces on Cards, but his story is just so good and amazing that it turned into a feature documentary. Seriously Cardiel is one of the absolute most inspiring people around. He’s just so positive and earnest. You just want to hang out and give the guy a fucking hug.
Hero Status. For sure.
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