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...This Mormon skateboarding company specializes in longboarding, which according to McLoskey is “a whole different skating aesthetic” based on old-school style and surfing as opposed to conventional skateboarding’s tricks and gimmicks. But aesthetic isn’t all that’s unconventional about Latter Day Skates. Browsing the company website (www.latterdayskates.com), potential customers are enlightened with biblical-based advice, including such words of wisdom as “Don’t hide your style under a bushel; nay, let your light shine unto all that are in the house...
Even with a doctorate in music composition from Harvard, McLoskey has found professorship an almost unattainable goal. Still, music remains his first love, which means Mormon skateboarding will always be a distant second. In the meantime, McLoskey plans to continue longboarding for years to come, claiming that it is an art that can be enjoyed by people of all ages as long as they have the “dogtown and the Z-boys style” that McLoskey admires...
...shirts emblazed with the Skater’s Creed: “Skate like it’s heaven on earth.” McLoskey’s longboards are designed with illustrations such as Liahona, Hagoth’s Dream and other elements found in the Book of Mormon...
...according to results from McLoskey’s online survey, 95 percent of Latter Day Skates customers aren’t Mormon and don’t understand the puns and references. McLoskey is undeterred by the lack of Mormon know-how among his clientele. In fact, he regards his inroads with the non-Mormon demographic as a “sign of success” for his company...
Sometime in the late 1990s, Mitchell and Barzee became fixtures on the streets of Salt Lake. They kept a high profile, dressing in robes and wheeling their possessions around in an elaborate handcart Mitchell had crafted. The stained-wood vehicle, clearly modeled on the carts pushed by the early Mormon pioneers, had a sloping canopy and rested on bicycle wheels...