Skateboard File II: Lesque Skateboards

For Koji Asada and the Lesque (les-ke) team, skateboarding isn’t particularly the answer to all the endless questions we face in life, but rather an essential way of dealing with the tribulations and occasional emotional turbulence of life. This ethos of acknowledging skateboarding as a positive force and its indispensability remains at the center of the Lesque team and their march towards progress.  In 2007, the Lesque team formally blasted onto the Japanese skate scene and raised eye brows with an introductory collection of five models and the timely premier of their then new video, “Endless Question.” While 2007 proved to be a tremendously busy and active year for the young skater-run company, the road there was not necessarily the stuff of pipe dreams. This is the story of Lesque Skateboards. …»