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ANACAPA gear sold exclusively in the HATCH SHOP

The word Anacapa is the Spanish translation of the Chumash Indian word ‘anyapax. Anacapa means “mirage” or “illusion”. Many times in my life while sitting on the beaches of Santa Barbara, I’ve looked out at the Channel Islands and noticed a strange phenomena that happens.  It’s usually when there’s some form of Marine layer on […]

QUICK CLIP – DAMIAN BRAVO – 360 FLIP

Tre-flip in Santa Barbara, CA.  Early 2000’s.

LOWKS feat. George Nagai

George and I have been doing this shit for a minute. He’s several years younger than me, but I think we probably both started skating around the same year. He was a little freestyle kid from Goleta. I was a Suicidal Tendencies obsessed teen living in Los Osos. We didn’t meet until maybe ’88?? I […]

MARK APPLEYARD AND CHRIS COLE

I’ve been wanting to post this photo for a while, and after watching Chris Cole’s Nineclub interview, I figured I’d put it up. This is from a Make-a-wish event in Houston Tx. I’m guessing 2000? Pretty sure Chris rode for World at the time, and Appleyard was just about to get on Habitat. (Mark was […]