Marc Johnson, pictured above, was an influential professional skateboarder who helped define modern street skating and made formidable tricks look effortless. He "played a leading role in shaping the San Jose and Bay Area skateboarding scenes and had a hand in some of the most recognizable developments in street skating in the late 1990s and early 2000s."
My report on Johnson relies on what I learned from his obituary, which ran in the June 2, 2026, edition of The New York Times. Johnson died on May 26th. He was 49 years old.
Here is a quote, from Johnson, which I commend to you:
If you think of something, you can do it, you know?
Johnson was onto something, there, with that quote from his "Hot Chocolate" skateboarding video! That "Johnson Rule" works for skateboarding. And it works for politics, too (which does have some similarities to skateboarding, after all). That "Johnson Rule" works for life in general!
Try it! That's my advice. You might like it. In politics, it's best practiced with friends!
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