Now I'm super into it - I probably surf more than I skate. But when I turned 12, I got a sick surfboard and wetsuit for Christmas and I surfed straight through the winter. "My dad had a surf camp every summer, and I'd always go surf his camp. I preferred skating way more," says Caples. "I started surfing basically right when I started skating, but I didn't like surfing at all. It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that Curren Caples can mix it up in the break with the best of them. I think it would look really bad if I got hurt surfing and couldn't skate for a while, so I don't really try to push my surfing that hard, but I kind of want to come out with a surf video part soon." I'm not a guy that tries street tricks in the water. The cast had this weird bubble wrap underneath it making it almost water proof so I was surfing and skating with it the whole time." "Then they told me I was a wild card in the finals and I was doing a little back lip as I was ending my run, time was over and I tried to do one last thing and my foot slid off my nose. "I got 11th place in the contest, so I didn't make the finals and I already gave up for the day," says Caples. Recently, he broke his wrist at the annual Van Doren Invitational bowl contest in Huntington Beach, but in true Curren fashion, he didn't let it sideline him. I was stoked that I was able to because it was the first Vans video ever, and that's huge."Ĭurren Caples' life might seem like one endless summer, but there is the occasional dark cloud he has to weather. "I basically filmed my whole part in six months or so just to prove to myself that I could get a part done in time. "It was pretty stressful, because a year before deadline, I wasn't sure if I was going to have a part," says Caples. Curren was fortunate enough to be included in the first Vans skate video ever, along with a massive roster that includes some of the greatest skaters of all time, such as Steve Caballero, Christian Hosoi, Tony Trujillo and Anthony Van Engelen. For them, real talent is determined by the hard work put into video parts. Skateboard contest results and earnings don't mean much in the eyes of purists. I'm saving up to buy a second house as a rental property." I figured out the format of the contests, and I've been trying to skate more to the format. "You can be the best skater in the world, but if you don't have any strategy in a contest, it doesn't matter. #Curren$y the game how to"I feel like I kind of figured out how to skate a contest," says Caples. At press time, he's positioned as the skater with second-most earnings in contests this year. I got to skate what I wanted to skate, and I didn't have to worry about finding spots or anything."Īfter a rookie year of up-and-down contest placings, Curren began to understand how judges determined their scores, and in 2015, he went on a full-on contest killing spree. "I was 13, and me and Louie would just stay at the team manager's house in Long Beach, and he'd just drive us around to spots. "That was a pretty cool time in my life," says Caples. Curren was working on his first video part for Flip's "Extremely Sorry," to be showcased alongside such legends as Geoff Rowley, Bob Burnquist, Tom Penny, Lance Mountain, Mark Appleyard and David Gonzales. While other teenagers started junior high school. That first trip was definitely, to this day, the gnarliest trip I've ever been on." It was right at the end of the Flip partying craziness. I got in the van, and there were crazy magazines everywhere. They didn't know what was going to happen. They were super scared to have me on the tour with my dad. I remember going to the Amsterdam Am contest at age 11, and Flip was doing a tour right after and they asked me to go. "I remember meeting Geoff Rowley when I was super young, and after that, he started giving me boards. "I got on Flip Skateboards at age 11." says Caples. Curren was so young when he got sponsored that he had to be accompanied by a parent when traveling.
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