🌊 Video by Farran Golding
Skateboarding is in a constant state of reinvention. This is probably twice as true within skateboarding’s professional class, where reinvention is part of the job description. Whether it is recovering from injury, relocation, abilities that shift with age, or simply changing tastes and tides — the 2015 skate career has little resemblance to one in 2025, and you haven’t heard much from anyone in denial of that.
The most successful career reinventions are the ones where the skater leans into who they are, and grows into their talents. As opposed to the, you know, “here’s a dramatically different wardrobe, but let’s all pretend that I’ve always looked this way”-sort of thing.
Since his 2023 “Curren Caples For Vans” part — one of that year’s best — Curren went from a skater still shaking associations with his child prodigy years on Flip, to a permanent presence on pretty much everyone‘s radar. It was executed so well that the long hiatus before the part didn’t even register for many of us.
To talk career renaissances, we got Curren on the line at the tail-end of a media tour for an earnest chat about parts of that journey unknown to the outside observer.
