"Jay Adams' contribution to skateboarding defies description or category. Jay is probably not the greatest skater of all time, but I can say without fear of being wrong that he is clearly the archetype of modern-day skateboarding. He's the real thing, an original seed, the original virus that infected all of us.
I believe this photo of Jay is the most stunning and strikingly clear representation, of any photo ever taken, of modern skateboarding."  "Jay Adams was the most spontaneous skater you ever met"
"That's why Jay's so great, because nothing is ever the same before or since. Jay doesn't practice, Jay doesn't re-do it...He doesn't do it twice..he's doesn't do it 3 times..he doesn't even do it 1 time. He's over it before it happens"
"He will be in the middle of a maneuver and have the whole thing collapsing on him and somehow at the center of that disaster he will make something else out of it completely which becomes art" |
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Jay's interview with the L.A. Weekly
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