I think that’s where wisdom comes, through rock-bottom experiences. So now I really do care a lot more about not only myself, but about my children, about people, about our culture. My mentality has gone from a worldly place where it was all about me, to a spiritual place where it’s all about people. You know, traveling the world by myself – doing whatever I wanted. But I think that if I were to take myself out of the picture – yeah, it’s ridiculous what we did at such a young age.
What I thought was kind of weird was if you didn’t do what we did.
L+T: Do you find it pretty hard to believe the life you lived?ĬH: No, because I was the guy living it. And Harper Collins ends up approaching me and saying, “Hey, we’d like to do your book.” And it just happened like that. But it just didn’t sit well in finalizing it. I was talking to indie people, studio people, you know, big studio people, and I had like five or six people approach me to do a movie. From the documentary, they wanted to do a feature film. It came out organically because I was talking with a bunch of people who wanted to do a movie. What prompted you to decide now is the time to share this with people?Ĭhristian Hosoi: It’s funny. Life+Times: In your book you lay out your own personal history. Life+Times caught up with the skateboarding legend to talk about his new autobiography, Hosoi: My Life As a Skater Junkie Inmate Pastor, as well as his thoughts on the industry he helped establish. After serving several years, Hosoi left prison a converted Christian and now works as a pastor. The impossibly slick skateboarder dominated the field alongside rival Tony Hawk, until Hosoi’s hard-partying lifestyle derailed his career in the ‘90s and landed him in jail in 2000 for a 10-year sentence for drug trafficking.
Nothing could slow down Christian Hosoi during the 1980’s.
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