All right, welcome back to Love Letters. Still can't believe you're watching this
thing. We're here with Paul Peralta's favorite son, first son, Mr. Steve
Caballero. Hi guys. And we're gonna see about doing a love letter with them
today.
He's very excited to do this interview.
Did you make up the frontside slider?
I think I made it up.
You got credit for it?
Yeah, I was probably the first one doing it in contests.
I remember doing it like rapper, I saw Eddie Algarra do the frontside rock, learning the
rock and roll, frontside rock, and then just taking it to the next level.
So what's your love letter going to be to?
My love letter I want to send to is Jeff Kendall.
I love that dude.
Indiana's favorite son.
Yeah, ever since I saw him skate back in the day, early 80s, fell in love with just how
perfect he made every trick look.
So this love letter is going out to Kendall?
Yeah, Jeff.
Right on.
Is it like lame I'm looking at you?
No.
When you see this thing, dude, it's so like...
And I'm looking at you?
Yeah, it's...
This is cable access.
It's better actually.
It's so cable access.
It's awesome.
Okay.
It's a complete train wreck.
I couldn't stand him.
I hated him.
I was totally jealous of him because I had to compete against him.
He rode for Santa Cruz, well, first he rode for Madrid and he had a little tiny quarter
page Madrid ad doing a Smithpert and it was just obvious that this kid was insanely good.
Like I said, he's done the best Algario I've ever seen.
Algario just stole Smithpert and come in and no one did him like he did.
He was another one of those guys that was so talent, so naturally gifted that he would
sit down and figure out how to make each move, it's like take it to its furthest extreme.
He was a mini-ramp champ too.
Yeah, I mean he could attack a mini-ramp and it was very consistent on there as well.
He just made it look really easy, but then if you really like sat and thought about what
you were viewing, you were like, oh my God, that is so hard.
Probably one of the ultimate most underrated skateboarders, you know, he's always been kind
of a shy guy and, you know, kind of kept to himself, but his skateboarding was definitely
spoke for him.
I have a Groskowsky thing though, Groskowsky introduced Metallica to skateboarding.
Yep.
Big time.
I mean, he gave me the tape back in Kona, actually forgot what here was.
I'm stuck in the 80s with my show, it should be called stuck in the 80s, but it should
be called.
Well, thank you for sitting down with us.
Appreciate it.
Jeff Kendall, love letters.
How do you fucking make it as gnarly and as deaf as possible?
That's Schroeder in a nutshell.
