Ivanhoe Okuda:  

I grew up in van nuys, ca. The valley talk started there for sure. We moved to maile, behind the pink store. Nolan and John Ortiz lived down the street. Danny Kim was my next door neighbor. I was a skateboarder but no place to skate. So Danny got me into surfing, bodyboarding, and bodysurfing at tumbleland. High school was fun hanging around the bleachers and gambling until I saw a lot of fighting going on aroun...Expand for more