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A toddler zooms around Shoreline Park on bike with skating icon dad in tow

Justin Girardi, a pioneer of the 1990s street-skating scene, spends a morning navigating the Shoreline Park trails with his son, Enzo.

TYLER CALLISTER / THE ARKJustin Girardi holds his son Enzo, 3, along the Shoreline Park seawall in Tiburon on Feb. 25. The father-son duo regularly ride the park’s waterfront path, with Enzo on his Strider balance bike, before hunting for crabs at the rocky cove below.
Tyler Callister
By TYLER CALLISTER · 1 min read

Three-year-old Enzo Girardi zooms around Shoreline Park on his bicycle with his father, Justin, trotting behind.

Enzo knows exactly how fast he can go on the bright blue Strider balance bike.

“Rocket speed,” he says.

The father-son duo arrived at the shoreline Feb. 25 after dropping Enzo’s 8-year-old brother off at a makerspace class at the Belvedere-Tiburon Library.

“I get a little bit of exercise. He gets his exercise, which is impossible to exhaust,” says Girardi, 55.

The Girardis moved to Tiburon about two years ago, and Girardi works from home as a principal at software firm Silver Star Ventures. But his professional roots trace back to a vastly different Bay Area landscape, when he was a pioneer of the 1990s technical street-skating scene, rising to prominence as an original pro-team rider for New Deal Skateboards and a master of the new tricks that reshaped the era.

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A version of this story appeared in the March 4, 2026, print edition of The Ark. See something wrong? Request a correction.
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