His essay collection reflects on sidewalk surfing’s historical and nascent trends along with its associated people and lexicon.
Though writer José Vadi, a former resident of Oakland's Rockridge district, moved to Sacramento in 2021, it is on the district’s streets that Vadi practiced and performed his passion second only to literature: skateboarding. His new book,"Chipped: Writing from a Skateboarder’s Lens" is a collection of 10 essays reflecting on the historical and nascent movements in skateboarding.
Married to Meghann Farnsworth, the couple moved in 2021 to Sacramento near where Vadi works as a writer in the communications department at UC Davis. In an interview, Vadi says “Chipped” was challenging to write because skateboarding is inherently visceral and difficult to articulate in words on a page.
“Every time you jump on a board you feel that magic energy, so it took pushing to get that in real, tangible writing. After the first draft I submitted to my editors, I feel like I rewrote the entire thing to get the final version.” “You navigate differently; say you’re a pedestrian commuter. Your feet know your route, but skateboarding forces you to engage with the built environment and all the people who occupy it. There’s a new relationship with space, communities, the built environment and topography of a city.”
“When skateboarders work with a community and have certain things given green lights, good things can happen. It was a dezoned space and not a skateboarding park, and often those are great spaces.”
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