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Hosoi was the subject of the 2006 documentary film Rising Son – The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi that detailed his initial success, drug addiction, and conversion to Christianity.
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In 1979, as an amateur, Hosoi was sponsored by Powell Peralta.
Hosoi invented the Christ Air and Rocket Air, and was renowned for pulling huge aerials ; at one point he was the world record holder.
In 1995, Hosoi was arrested on two minor offenses, and a warrant for his arrest was issued for failing to appear in court.
To avoid arrest, Hosoi stopped attending competitions and demos, including declining an invitation to the first X Games ( then the Extreme Games ), which was going to be marketed as a renewed rivalry between Hawk and Hosoi.
Rogowski was one of a group of elite skaters who enjoyed " rock star " status in the 1980s, alongside Christian Hosoi, Tony Hawk, Lance Mountain, Steve Caballero and a few others.
It was invented by skater Christian Hosoi.
Hosoi and film
The film has a close relationship with Thrashin ', the 1986 original skateboarding cult classic, directed by David Winters, where Catherine Hardwicke began her career in motion pictures as a production designer and had a chance to work with many famous skaters including Tony Alva, Tony Hawk, Christian Hosoi and Steve Caballero.
Hosoi and Rising
* Rising Son – The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi on IMDB. com
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* Hosoi Hisato – bass guitar
Hosoi and Skateboarder
In a 2005 Skateboarder interview, Song listed Rodney Mullen, Natas Kaupas, Christian Hosoi, Chris Haslam, and Eric Dressen as his top five " Timeless influences ".
Hosoi and Christian
It has appearances from many famous skaters such as Tony Alva, Tony Hawk, Christian Hosoi and Steve Caballero.
A few years after its opening Pipeline added the now legendary Combi Pool, the epicenter of many legendary contests that included such skaters as the Alba brothers Steve and Mickey, Tony Hawk, Christian Hosoi, Chris Miller and many top skateboarders of the era ... sadly enough due to insurance problems the Hoffmans had to close the Pipeline SkatePark in 1988.
Christian Rosha Hosoi ( ; born October 5, 1967 ) is an American professional skateboarder.
His father, Ivan " Pops " Hosoi became the manager of the Marina Del Rey Skatepark, and Christian quit school and spent his time there where he quickly developed his emerging talent.
Christian Hosoi emerged as one of the top competitors of vertical riding alongside such pros as Steve Caballero, Mike McGill, Lester Kasai, and Mark " Gator " Rogowski with an eventual rivalry developing with Tony Hawk with contrasting styles in both skateboarding and lifestyles — Hosoi, known for his flair and graceful style, and Hawk raising the bar with his technical ability and difficult tricks.
Hosoi became a born-again Christian through the urging of his wife and her uncle, Pastor Christopher Swaim.
Christian Hosoi also appeared in a testimonial video on I Am Second, in which he shares the story of his faith in Jesus Christ.
* Christian Hosoi Reborn, Theme magazine, February 2008
* iamsecond Christian Hosoi video testimony on iamsecond. com
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Song has stated that his early skateboarding influences were Christian Hosoi, Steve Caballero, Natas Kaupas and the Z-Boys.
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Graham fell deeper into the Skate culture of Mid 80's Los Angeles hanging out at Venice Beach with Skaters such as Christian Hosoi, Eric Dressen, Jesse Martinez and Natas Kaupas.
Hosoi and addiction
Hosoi faced bankruptcy after financial difficulties with a series of failed skateboard companies like Tuff Sk8s, Sk8 Kultur, Milk, and Focus, in addition to a growing addiction to drugs.
Hosoi and .
Hosoi started skating at seven or eight years old with veterans such as Shogo Kubo, Tony Alva, Stacy Peralta, and Jay Adams as his idols.
This, combined with major endorsements with Converse, Swatch, and Jimmy ' Z, as well as receiving a pro model wheel, the OJ II Hosoi Rocket through Santa Cruz Speed Wheels, earning Hosoi more money than he had ever dreamed of.
In 1984 he formed his own company, Hosoi Skates, first distributed through Skull Skates, then through NHS-INC.
When street skating began to emerge in the mid-to-late 80s, Hosoi proved a threat as well, winning both the vert and street contests at the Lotte Cup contest in Japan in 1989.
Hosoi is married to a former night club dancer Jennifer Lee and has four sons, James Hosoi, Rhythm Hosoi ( from a previous relationship ), Classic Hosoi and Endless Hosoi.
Hosoi continues to be open about his new-found faith, having become ordained as an associate pastor, and has resumed his skateboarding career.
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He was right, and Peter Marshall could not help but recall Andrew Cordier's words on the subject, `` Well, it seemed as good a place as any to do the job ''.
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In summary, Brooks Adams felt that the nature of history was order and that the order so discovered was as much subject to historical laws as the forces of nature.
Sam Rayburn took unnumbered secrets with him to the grave, for he was never loquacious, and his word, once given, was not subject to retraction.
The subject he liked most was the female body, which he painted in every state -- naked, half-dressed, muffled to the ears, sitting primly in a chair, lying tauntingly on a bed or locked in an embrace.
It was hardly possible to get any argument on the subject.
The wording of the question was quite general and may have been subject to different interpretations.
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Alcohol ingestion succeeded in changing immobility to mobility quite strikingly in one pilot subject ( the only one with whom this technique was tried ).
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This subject was one who gave an arm-elevation on the second trial in the naive state but not in the first.
More time was spent in trying to marry these incompatibles than over any subject discussed at Yalta.
and as the aspect of the subject was transposed into those clusters of more or less interchangeable and contour-obliterating facet-planes by which plasticity was isolated under the Cubist method, the subject itself became largely unrecognizable.
With this seven-word sentence -- though the speaker undoubtedly thought he was dealing only with the subject of food -- he was telling things about himself and, in the last two examples, revealing that he had departed from the customs of his culture.
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