Rock, Paper, Slalom | TJ Rogers ’Steady Pushing’ in partnership with 7-Eleven Ep1/4

TJ Rogers came up in skating like every dreamer, shooting ’sponsor me’ tapes on the freezing streets of his hometown in Ontario, Canada. Nowadays we all know TJ as the internationally-respected top-tier pro skater he is, living in Los Angeles, skating every day and living his dream. His life wasn’t always like that, though- and nor were those of the people he grew up skating with. ‘Steady Pushing’ sees TJ bring us back to his roots in the Canadian skate scene he came up through. On a four-part road trip across the hidden and diverse scenes that make up Canadian skateboard culture, let TJ introduce you to slalomers, skate shops, wilderness skate-spots and downtown scene-builders all the way from Ontario to British Columbia on a skating road trip for the history books. Episode one sees TJ return home to Whitby, Ontario to link up with childhood skate buddies before heading through Ottawa to the gnarliest weather-formed skate-spot you will ever see. As the man himself