He snappco
"Hey, sshhh! I'm doing questions with answers
into a tape recorder. No screaming!"
I begged to continue. "I'll think about doing
tricks in a pool or something. Then I'll just want
to skate. I get disturbed about it. I'!! think about
new tricks, and I'll want to try them right hen."
"What's your threshold?"
I want to skate better than I did last time. If I
ore. then I get bummed. It's basically an
S.. neres sometimes that I'll
tewri to, and I
's a drag. Eu
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"OK. Getting back to the scheme of things..."
he was pausing, perplexing and contemplating,
you got to put some of this mustard in your
sauce
1 can't deal with it Jeaz, I don't know how
many times I gotta tell this guy.
Whadaya mean?"
"trs ike, gnarly"
Just a little."
"I might vomit"
"OK. There you were, you had a Pro Class
board, it looked like an organ. So what was the
first thing that you started doing?"
"I learned how to carve. Do, like, lite bowd
transfers. I started skating in the snake run.
Then I got an Andrecht, a board that was twice
as big as I was. I noticed his eyes were watering
hard all of a sudden ike. His face practically
folded
This shit's gnarly," he said.
could do airs out. Dave Andrecht was my first
That's when I started getting into pools, I
real hero, though."
"Yeah, he inspired you?... don't eat that
"What is it?" I queried.
"Ginger, or something, but it's gnam! It's rad
It's too rad for you!"
"After that, I got signed on by Dogtown
Denise Barter helped me so much, it was
Incredible."
"She worked for Dogtown?"
"That's when there was four skaters on the
team. Christian, Gator, Mike Smith and 1. Then
Stacy Peralta called me up one night, and he
said that Dogtown went out of business, and
here I thought I was still riding for them. He said
he wanted to get together and talk to me. So we
went out to Marina and he sponsored me."
"What about oysters, you like oysters? Raw
oysters?" he said, right out of left bold.
1 suppose." This guy probably eats anything.
"Those are wierd."
This kinda stuff makes your..." he says
something pertaining to sex. "Yknow, at atten-
Bon. Then he started laughing
"Don't laugh at me," I said.
"I'm not laughing at you. I'm laughing at how
Not just
another Circus move? Del Mar
you made that piece of snot shoot out your nose,
then you sucked it back in. Oh, there, you did it
again. Don't laugh out your nose.
I began laughing inwardly, uncontrollably,
bending over in my chair, my eyes watered. Our
waitress saw me, rushed over and said, "Are
you O.K.?" She thought I was O.D.ing on the
green paste, hot stuff,
"He's OK, the interviewer said. The waitress
still rushed into the kitchen, and came back with
some ice water.
"I'm gonna vomit I said.
"Don't do that," he said.
"Kevin Staab told me that once, when he was
eating pizza with friends, he laughed so hard
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