Steve Rocco. If you were into skateboarding between about 1976 and 2002, that name means something to you.
Rocco was a top pro freestyle skateboarder in the late 1970's and early 1980's. He took the weird, young Florida kid, Rodney Mullen, under his wing, in the early days of the 1980's. In about 1987, Steve started a thing called Santa Monica Airlines, and that morphed into World Industries, the craziest skateboard company ever. The best known version of the World Industries story was told by the 2007 documentary, The Man Who Souled the World. Steve Rocco didn't like how he was portrayed in that documentary, and in this new interview above by Ian at Jenkem Magazine, Steve tells his side of things, more than 15 years later. If you're into skateboarding at all, check this interview out.
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