The spiritual markers were there but it took a long time to see them.
He also became addicted to drugs, went to prison and later became a man of God. He traveled the world, made hundreds of thousands of dollars and was skateboarding’s most popular rebel and hit of the party. During his heyday, from the late 1980s to the early 90s, he was the rock star of skateboarding. “The focus right now is just training as hard as I can with the timing that we’ve had during Covid, just trying to make the most of it,” she says.Christian Hosoi’s life has been filled with what he calls “spiritual markers.” His name was Christian, his nickname was Christ and his most well-known trick was the “Christ Air.” Hosoi, of Huntington Beach, CA., is a professional skateboarder and Associate Pastor of Sanctuary Church. Instead, Santana used the extended lockdown as an opportunity to train, working on the 540 and other big tricks at North Houston Skate Park, where she does most of her training and which happened to remain open during lockdown unlike many others around the country.
Still, the young Houstonian wasn’t too dejected. The cancellations put the brakes on thousands of promising young athletic careers, Jordan’s among them. With only a few qualifying events left before Tokyo, and a spot on the Olympic team on the line, all remaining 2020 skateboarding events, including the Tokyo games themselves, were canceled. That is, until the pandemic brought all 2020 contests, and Jordan’s Olympic hopes, to a grinding halt.
At the 2019 World Championships in Brazil, she earned a spot on the 2020 USA Skateboarding National team-a feat that put her within arms’ reach of a spot at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Nationals appearance, later winning that competition in 2017. Santana’s ability to soar through the sky earned her top spots at local and state contests in her tweens-often outplacing much of the otherwise all-boys roster, or straight up winning the events all together.
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