Even in talking about faithfulness to his soon-to-be wife, it's embarrassingly honest. This tell-all and fall from grace is different from all the others in its rad truthfulness mixed in the end with evangelical fervor. He vividly recounts the California skateboarding scene with friends and the illicit stuff they smoked, shot up, and swallowed. Readers do have to tolerate a lot of second-hand smoke (from drugs) in the book, but this helps readers feel the gravity of addictions that brought Hosoi crashing to the bottom of the pipe. Brilliantly written with Chris Ahrens, Hosoi's memoir does more than tell-all he includes extended passages written by friends and more than 100 photos to show how he rose to the top of his sport and turned it into art. You don't have to like skateboarding to like Hosoi.
(Death or Prison Eventually), and served as editor-in-chief of Risen magazine from its inception in 2002 until May 2010. He wrote and directed the award-winning skateboarding documentary D.O.P.E. Hosoi is an outreach pastor at the Sanctuary, "the raddest church" in Huntington Beach, and lives in Southern California with his wife, Jennifer, and four sons.Ĭhris Ahrens has worked as a full-time writer for nearly thirty years, with four popular books on surfing to his credit and bylines in publications that include the Los Angeles Times, The San Diego Union-Tribune, Outside, Family Circle, Skateboarder, Surfer, Surfing, and The Surfer's Journal. Since then, he has risen to prominence in the skateboarding world once again and was the subject of a full-length documentary narrated by Dennis Hopper, Rising Son. After serving time in prison for drug trafficking, he devoted his life to Christianity.
A professional by thirteen, he went on to become an industry icon. Christian Hosoi is widely recognized as one of the greatest skateboarders of all time.
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