There are people who come into this world blazing through it, shaking & rattling common beliefs, leaving the rest of us wondering “wtf just happened?”
Jake Phelps was one of those beings. It is tricky to eulogize someone like Jake. He was more than just a passionate person, sometimes (most of the time) he was described as an asshole, but like the true asshole that he was, he lived life on his own terms.
For 26 year, Phelps or The Phelper, as he was called in the skating world, ran what has been described as the Skateboarder’s Bible, Thrasher. He said some pretty shitty things, did some equally wacky things and pretty much didn’t give a fuck if Thrasher rubbed people the wrong way or not.
Phelper was a punk annoying as fuck. Skateboarding to him was an all in or all out activity and he hated posers and appropriation of skateboarding. To read full article, please download the app……
