Now a minister, Christian uses his former celebrity to reach today’s youth culture. While in prison, Christian earned the trust of a federal judge. “And immediately I said, ‘You know what? If I’m going to do 10 years I’m going to do it finding out who God is.” And I just kept turning the pages, and going, ‘This is who God is?” “And I just went, ‘Whoa,’ and immediately all I could do is just want more, and want more. We’re going to do everything we can, ok? I love you,’ and “click.”Ĭhristian’s girlfriend contacted her uncle, a minister, who shared the plan of salvation and encouraged Christian to read the Bible. “She goes, ‘Get a Bible and start reading your Bible. God’s going to get us through this, we’re going to make it through.” “She’s like, ‘Yeah we’ve got to trust in God, Christian. So you know, I really didn’t have any idea what that meant.” We’re down here and when I’m at the end of my life, you know what, I’ll go there. You know what I mean? Isn’t God like some happy place you go to at the end of your life when you finished?” “And all I can think about is, ‘God? What’s God going to do for me? I’m in jail. We’re going to try to get through this together, but we just have to trust in God.” “Called my wife, first phone call, who was my girlfriend at the time, and I said, ‘They’re telling me that I’m looking at 10 years,’ and I was like, ‘I don’t know if I’m going to make it.” And that’s when reality confronted me, in a way I never knew.” And then I went to prison, you know, basically got arrested at the Honolulu National Airport carrying a bunch of crystal meth amphetamines, over a pound of crystal meth. “Not going to skateboarding contests anymore, living this like, you know, drug addict lifestyle and so here I am caught up again.

Christian’s love for skateboarding waned, but he soon found a new passion - drugs. In the early 90’s the skateboarding scene changed and the vert style skating Christian was most known for wasn’t as popular. I filled with girls and I was never satisfied. “I tell you, when I was filling my life with being a pro-skateboarder, that was it - I was just wanting to win contests. And really innovate a new culture, that’s what we did.”ĭuring the early evolution of skateboarding, Christian went from being the best amateur skateboarder at 12, to reaching legendary status as a professional at 14 yet as his career escalated, so did the emptiness he felt inside. We took skate boarding to a whole new level.

Though I immediately picked it up, as time went on I became professional - it was like me, Tony Hawk, Stevie Capalaro, Lance Mountain, those guys. “I started skateboarding when I was seven-years-old.

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