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Santa Cruz Hood Natas Kaupas Color Moon Rock Size M.
80% cotton, 20% polyester, 330gsm brushed fleece, regular fit, hooded sweatshirt with pouch pocket, left chest print and back print.
Before street skating had rules… before every handrail had already been conquered… there was Natas Kaupas.
Some kids know Nyjah. Some know Yuto. That’s cool. But if you want to know why modern street skating exists in the first place, rewind the tape to the late ’80s.
Alongside Mark Gonzales, Natas helped invent the language of street skating. Curbs became playgrounds. Benches became obstacles. Walls suddenly looked skateable. Things nobody had imagined riding suddenly made perfect sense. Together, Gonz and Natas dragged skateboarding out of empty pools and into the streets, rewriting the rulebook one impossible line at a time. They are widely regarded as two of the defining pioneers of modern street skating.
Then there was the legendary Natas Spin—that surreal moment when he wrapped himself around a fire hydrant like gravity had simply clocked out for lunch. It wasn’t just a trick; it was proof that skateboarding rewards imagination more than obedience.
Santa Cruz has been backing Natas since those glorious days of oversized pants, screaming wheels and videos copied so many times they looked like found footage from another civilization. Wearing this hoodie isn’t about fashion. It’s a quiet nod to one of the architects who turned the city into a skatepark.
Because every crooked grind, every wallride, every sketchy line through downtown owes a little something to Natas.
Respect the roots. Then go make your own history.
A fun fact for our Baltic crew: Natas is of Lithuanian descent, making one of street skating’s greatest pioneers a little closer to home than you might think.
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