He’s one of the more admired figures in the history professional skateboarding who has been features countless times in magazines. In fact he’s still being featured in the skate mags. You can walk down the toy aisle and see his picture on the Del Mar Pool replica. A couple years ago he had a Shot of the Week here on S&A ( I’m sure his biggest honor to date…) The great thing is, you can still skate with this guy if you want to . I took this poorly exposed shot of him last year at the Dew Tour. He was sitting behind me and I happened to turn around when the arena sign was lit up with “Skate Vert.” It sounds like a command, but it’s actually just the event that was happening at the moment. Hear Tom ‘Wally” Inoye interviewed live at 2pm Pacific on Callin’ on Colin. If you miss it you can download the show when they archive it.
3 comments
chaperone
Wally is a ripper and a cool guy too……dude can still rock it!!
john e
Wally is one of the greats. I have a late 70’s Skateboarder mag with him on the cover doing a layback at a park in Gaithersburg, MD. It was a terrible park, but Wally could skate anything and make it gnarly.
JKP
Cool shot.