Francisco Goya

How it all started
and what's next

How did you get into gear design and starting Goya?

I was tuning my skateboard when I was 6, back in Argentina, my brother will work on the graphics and I would tune the tracks and rest of the pieces. As soon as I got hooked into windsurfing, I understood that to be able to ride how I wanted, I would need to spend almost as many hours developing the gear as I did in the water. I would look at magazines and videos when I wasn’t in the water and draw my ideal moves, sails, boards, fins, etc. Along that time I started working with the local custom manufactures in and when I turned 18 I moved to Maui to ride all day long. There I started riding … Read more