Stacy Peralta

Stacy Peralta Instagram – At age 17, Golden Breed Sportswear is flying me to Australia to introduce modern skateboarding – a dream come true as I will get to surf the fabled Gold Coast! I pack two things; my Zephyr surfboard and orange Zephyr skate (pictured)…So I’m at LAX with my Mom at the Qantas counter and the ticket agent says, “No surfboards!” I’m dumbstruck! What? I plead, “But I’ve taken this to Hawaii!” In his best school principal, “No surfboards on international flights.” I step out of line, melt down and begin sobbing. “I can’t go to Australia without my surfboard! My mom, unaware of how to handle this strange mishap, stares at me, considering. She then looks at my skateboard and then my surfboard and very gently says, “which one is your future?” I look at her with tears running down my face desperately wanting to avoid the answer. Moments later I hand her my surfboard, we hug and say goodbye. “See you in 6 months”…I arrived to drizzly skies and quickly jumped into demos all over Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne and everywhere else except the Gold Coast. During my trip I’m plagued by vivid dreams of never reaching the Gold Coast, dreams so real I’d wake up not knowing where I was…After 5 months I was done. I procured a car and a surfboard and headed out. I was alone and finally on my way to the Gold Coast. At a campground on night two an intuition blew a hole thru me, “Get home now!” Intuition has always been my trusted guide as so much of my life has made no sense. The next morning I obeyed it and turned around. I arrived home just in time for the Cow Palace event in San Francisco. It was at this event where Larry Gordon saw me skate and approached me to ride for G&S. Had I not made that contest on that weekend I doubt I would’ve had the opportunity to write this post. | Posted on 07/Jun/2023 19:29:00