HOSOI Eddie Elguera El Gato Skateboard Deck - 9" x 32.75"
The Hosoi ElGato OG deck is a rad custom shaped Eddie Elguera deck featuring artwork by skateboard legend Lance Mountain. It measures in at 9.0" wide, 32.75" long and has a 15.5" wheelbase. Great board, from one of the greats, made in the USA
Born November 12, 1962, Eddie is a two-time World Champion, one of the most prolific trick innovators of the early ‘80s, and has served as a key mentor to anyone from Eric Koston (who logged his first ever footage on Eddie’s driveway quarterpipe in 1990) to Tony Hawk.
Having borrowed a wooden Hobie board with clay wheels from his older brothers at the age of eight in 1970, by 1979 he became the U.S. Amateur Skateboard Association Champion for pool skating, and by 1980 he had turned pro, won Skateboarder Magazine’s “Vertical Skateboarder of the Year, won the 1980 Gold Cup Series to notch back-to-back World Champion titles, and with the help of his coach Dale “Sausageman” Smith—invented the aforementioned Elguerial—the trick itself then winning a “Most spectacular New Maneuver” award.
