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you are in a contest you get nerves
and it gets to you. After doing it for
awhile you get used to it and calm
down.
How do you skate a contest?
Strategy?
Make my first run at all costs. If I blow
the first run I usually get pissed off,
and then I go balls-out on the second
run and hopefully make it. And if I
make the cut you get stoked and
just go for it. The jam is a little more
relaxed than the preliminary heats so
the jam gets really radical. That's
what every pro shoots for, to be in that
jam. Everybody is just going to go out
and try and do their best.
What do you think they could do to
improve the contests?
Have the same five judges and pay
'em. That's the only thing I see where
the NSA...I mean we give them
money and they're not trying to make
the contest come out right for us.
They pretty much want to please the
crowd, I think.
What about the fly-by-night, one-
off contests?
There are so many contests now,
everyone can't keep up. Chicago is
the same time as this streetstyle in
Oregon, and I'd like to do both. So
that kind of puts me at a
disadvantage.
Do you approach a pro streetstyle
contest in the same way as a ramp
event?
There's a big difference. Streetstyle
is hard to judge. It's kind of stupid in
that everyone is doing different shit.
Some people are riding the walls:
some people aren't using anything
and just doing these dry little street
moves. Streetstyle has gotten to the
point where if you can't do the jump:
ramp, don't plan on placing too well.
I've built a jump ramp and it's fun. I
have a good time on it but I'd rather
be doing other stuff also. I approach
It like, just go out and have fun. Don't
take it seriously.
Are jump ramps pretty harsh on the
body? Pounding?
Yes. Your whole body. Espeically
hard on the ankles. At the last
Capitola I was going backwards
down the hill to do a 180° footplant.
trying to go a little higher than usual.
Well, the transition of the ramp gives
you a pretty good jolt and I kind of got
jolted and flew over the ramp
backward and landed on my head
and got a good hipper. It was sore for
the next week.
Now that you mention Capitola,
what happened this year? Let's
talk about that classic street
contest.
Capitola was a fun contest. It was a
challenging street style contest and
a better one to judge because
everybody had to pretty much use
the same course, and it was downhill
from one point to the other. Not where
you see this guy cruising all over the
place. People can understand it a lot
better too. The crowd gets into it a lot
more. It's a bummer, they're not hav-
ing it this year. It got so big last year
with the crowd that the Capitola cops
didn't want to have anything to do
with it this year.
Rob lofts a lengthy launch on his home turf, Soquel Banks.
What's your advice to kids think-
ing of turning pro?
There are a lot of people that are tur
ning pro now. I see some for no
reason. I mean, they haven't really
earned it or tried to. They're all just,
"Oh, I want to turn pro, be a pro
skateboarder now." I think, for like the
NSA or something, they should make
some kind of deal where you have to
skate so many contests before you
turn pro...I don't know how to do it.
But, it's getting kind of out of hand.
Every John Doe, Dick and Harry is
getting a model it seems like. There's
a lot of weird companies that haven't
been around that long. It's pretty
lame, I think. It's partially everybody's
fault. Everything is everybody's fault.
Do you think the manufacturing
process and products get a little bit
ahead of the skating?
Well, like Vision, they produce
everything. They make everything in
the world. They're going to make
toilet paper pretty soon, probably. It's
just getting so big now, everybody
wants to make a buck. It's the
American way, I guess.
Do you want to make a buck?
Yeah, you have to live and support
yourself. And this is a great way to do
it. It's a lot of fun, something I love to
do. It's better than going to the office
and dealing with the same thing
everyday.
Does the Rob Roskopp lifestyle de-
mand a high income to support?
When I first moved out here I was liv-
ing on pretty much nothing. It's
helped out a lot. I've been able to buy
some new stuff I've wanted. It's a lit-
the higher up now, yeah. I eat good,
good food.
What were you eating back then?
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches,
not that much. Because I had to pay
rent. The first place I got in Santa
Cruz was $225 a month, and I had
maybe 20-30 bucks a week to spend
on food. Now it's a lot better.
Do you think skateboarding has
changed much since you started in
'75-76, has it reached a high point?
It's gotten a lot more radical. I don't
know. I miss the old days. It was fun
and a little different...a lot different.
Now it's all ramps, back then it was
the parks. And it was not one person
just ripping one thing, it was ripping
everything that was available. That
was the fun part, we had so many dif-
ferent kinds of moguls and bowls to
skate. Like that Vancouver park was
a blast. Just a snake run, but
plastered. It's real smooth, not
kinked.
What's your advice to kids just
starting out, how to skate and keep
The worst thing I see now is kids get-
ting a skateboard for the first time,
and they go out and try and learn in-
verts first. I think they should learn
the basics. Learn how to fakie on vert,
kickturn real well, do some grinders,
just work your way up from the bot-
tom up. Not from learning how to do
an invert and then you can't grind or
rock 'n roll or something. That's kind
of stupid. It helps you out if you learn
the basics before everything else.