Who's Jeff Rossa? I don't know, he's just a dude I met a few times, some 80s Bert dude.
He was one of those pros of yesteryear that we don't have that anymore.
80s right? What 80s? Fuckin' Santa Cruz Bert.
I've only been alive working here, so I don't know that much.
He skates and he's on, look out.
People told me stories about how he used to be a bit of a junkie and back on drugs and a bit of a pile.
Jeff Rossa is the pink Sasquatch.
I don't know, I'm just some fat pink dude from, I hail from Arcadia, California.
I live at the beach, I never step foot on the sand unless my wife drags me out there.
In the 80s he was one of the up and coming amateurs that were coming up underneath us.
Fluid, strong, strong style.
Kind of goes back way far with Jeff first getting on the Powell team.
I think first getting introduced to him through Lance, no?
Jeff was so unconventional at a very conventional time, I think.
It was just, it was like, this whole fucking shaving his eyebrows off.
And I was like, what? Jeff, what are you doing?
I don't know, I don't know, but I'm just a forefront of it.
I'm a fat, I have a nervous breakdown, my head really hurts.
Yeah, like, I fucked it all off, man.
You know what I mean? I didn't respect it, I took it for granted.
You know, I was a prick as a little kid, man. I was a prick as a young adult.
And so skateboarding went away.
My skateboarding career was over in 1990, 92, something like that.
The meth was good in the 90s, man.
And you know, I was back when fucking the ex files were going and so I thought up,
if I get the aliens captured on me, I should probably get some rest.
And I ended up with that thing after a three-day vendor.
All the ups and downs that he's had in his life, man.
He's pulled it to this point where I think he's skating better and he's ratter than ever, you know?
Holy shit, like, that's different. You know, he approaches his skating differently
and he's, god damn it, man, he's fucking new as the earth.
Like, he can just do the best inverts.
That's, like, my favorite thing to see him do is an invert.
Out of all the tricks that people invented, Boston's got the roast beef.
The ugliest one, but he's got it still. He's got it. That's all I'm asking.
You know, like, 13, 14, you'd be like, don't be like me, dude. Don't be like me.
And it's just always like, all I wanted to do was be like him, you know?
