Eddie “El Gato” Elguera, hailing from the mountain resort area of Lake Arrowhead CA, was a local at the infamous Colton skate park run by the Losi’s who also had Variflex Skateboards and sponsored him in those early days.
El Gato pretty much single handedly took skateboarding from a surfer style Dogtown lifestyle to a technical and more physically demanding art form in the late 70’s and into the early 80’s. Inventing and perfecting vert tricks such as the "Elguerial" and the "Frontside Rock-n-Roll". El Gatos innovation helped advance and inspire the next generation of skaters that he would eventually skate with on H-Street in the late 80’s.
Eddie El Gato lives in Palm Desert with his wife and is a father, grandfather and pastor of his church. He still skates and is active in the skateboard community. He’s currently filming and producing a video series “The Golden Era of Skateboarding”. It’s mostly focused on the first vertical skateboard contest series starting in 1978-1979 with the Hester Series and the 1980 Gold Cup series.
Eddie El Gato is a two-time world skateboard champion, was named Skateboarder of the year in 1979 & 1980 and was inducted into the Skateboard Hall of Fame in 2016 and is an H-Street Legend.
Eddie “El Gato” Elguera, hailing from the mountain resort area of Lake Arrowhead CA, was a local at the infamous Colton skate park run by the Losi’s who also had Variflex Skateboards and sponsored him in those early days.
El Gato pretty much single handedly took skateboarding from a surfer style Dogtown lifestyle to a technical and more physically demanding art form in the late 70’s and into the early 80’s. Inventing and perfecting vert tricks such as the "Elguerial" and the "Frontside Rock-n-Roll". El Gatos innovation helped advance and inspire the next generation of skaters that he would eventually skate with on H-Street in the late 80’s.
Eddie El Gato lives in Palm Desert with his wife and is a father, grandfather and pastor of his church. He still skates and is active in the skateboard community. He’s currently filming and producing a video series “The Golden Era of Skateboarding”. It’s mostly focused on the first vertical skateboard contest series starting in 1978-1979 with the Hester Series and the 1980 Gold Cup series.
Eddie El Gato is a two-time world skateboard champion, was named Skateboarder of the year in 1979 & 1980 and was inducted into the Skateboard Hall of Fame in 2016 and is an H-Street Legend.
