On Jay Adams and skateboarding, and a tiny, brief, cosmic perspective about the Z-Boys

On Jay Adams and skateboarding, and a tiny, brief, cosmic perspective about the Z-Boys (from a Human Design perspective)

Wrote this just now:

"Fun fact: Stacy Peralta and Tony Alva are generators...

Jay Adams was a projector.

“He was literally skateboarding incarnate, and the genius of it was he wasn't the best at anything, he just was it." - Stacy Peralta

It was also said that Jay Adams WAS the best of the three skaters.

"He should have had it all. And it makes me so sad that he didn't. Because he was- he was better than all of us." - Viceland

Some of Jay Adams' greatest lessons in this incarnation were about identity, love, and direction (and expression of the creative self). He certainly learned about these themes. (Undefined G with dormant gates).

He was literally open (undefined) to the identities of others. Living vicariously through them as himself.

One could say he got "mixed up with the wrong crowd" and he was addicted to heroin.

But this was not due to his decision. This was no choice.

When the generators were offered contracts they naturally took the deals/money/energy.

Jay Adams, a projector, was not an energy type despite his style, skill, ability, or awareness, and so, he was not fully recognized as a professional skateboarder. The Penta could not make money off of him unless it was through selling skate products. (No defined sacral and no role in Penta).

This is the reality.

The two generators "made it" because they were paid for to perform and continue their passions.

Jay Adams was a life guide. A projector. Mastering what he learned, but not recognized for the physical DOING of what he had mastered.

He was certainly humble, and regardless of whether he had the correct influences around him or not I'm certain he learned all about identity, direction, and love.

Funny enough, Emile Hirsch, the actor who played Jay Adams in Lords of Dogtown is a 1/3 Emotional Projector and his only dormant gate (in the G) is 10.3. Gate 10 is the gate of behavior of the self.

In a behind the scenes of the real Jay Adams' cameo in the house party scene of Lords of Dogtown, Emile Hirsch said, "Being around him [Jay] was the most important part of the whole thing for me."

They had harmony in that gate. There to meet the other side of the channel together.

10.3 and 10.5, dormant.

An homage to my broken dreams. I always saw Jay Adams in myself in some way when I grew up as a legit street shredder.

But the reality- everyone- is that generators are recognized for doing. Projectors are recognized for their intelligence, wisdom, and guidance.

It's not that they can't become successful in physical activities out in the world. It's that they aren't always designed as such (without the correct others in their environment, or in their corner).

After all, in the end Jay Adams had the most die hard supporters of all, in spirit and in life. Not just in skateboarding contracts and sponsorships. But no matter what he did, everyone saw him for what he really was, a real one. RIP Jay Adams."

- Micah Jay

There's so much more I could say about the mechanics of the charts and how it applied in reality, but I'm leaving it at what I wrote.

Legendary photo of a Projector who creatively expressed himself in the openness of life.

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