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In this episode…Jen takes us back to the 80’s when Skateboarding was all the rage. Think: Vision, Santa Cruz, Powell, all the popular brands in skate culture at the time along with home-made plywood ramps, skate parks & rebel attitudes. It was during this time when Mark Rogowski, better known to fans & fellow boarders as “Gator,” was considered one of the most iconic vertical skaters of his time & rose quickly to fame and fortune between competitions and sponsorships.

Hard partying ways however, would catch up to Gator and after a near-death experience, his life would start a downward spiral that would ultimately lead him down a dark path of destruction. In a twisted, tragic turn of events…Gator would commit one of the most heinous crimes we’ve talked about to date.

What happened and where did it all go wrong for the boy that seemed to “have it all?”