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BOD BOYLE
(From page 90) and said, 'Too much
noise, picked up the VCR, the CD
player and the TV and walked off with
them. Just took them and said,
"You'd better turn up in court, or
you're not getting this back. That's
not right. It's illegal, but because
they're the police, they can do
whatever they want. I threw up on a
cop in Germany and I didn't even get
arrested or hassled. Had I been in
San Jose, I'd probably have been
beaten up and thrown into jail for
three days. I don't need that. I think
that the hostile police attitude makes
kids a more hostile towards them too.
The police are aggressive to the kids,
so the kids are aggressive to the
policemen
What's your favorite music?
I like everything. I don't have a
favorite. The other day, I went out and
bought a Black Sabbath tape and a
disco hits tape with Boogie Wonder-
land on it.
Why are you guys so into disco?
Because we hung out with Lee
Ralph all summer and he's fully into
disco. We listened to a lot of disco,
and it's kind of cool. I love reggae
music. I listened to a lot of reggae
music when I was in England. I like
Black Sabbath, Sex Pistols, The
Damned, it depends. I go through
phases. I like Bad Religion a lot. I've
seen them a couple times in San
Francisco and they were really good.
Would you say you're at your prime
right now?
Oh, I'll never reach my prime.
How old are you now?
Twenty-two. No one knows how old
a pro skateboarder can be.
Skateboarding is so new, we don't
know. We could be thirty-five and still
out there. It's all luck. If you get in-
jured, it's a bad thing.
What's the harshest slam you can
remember?
Slipping out on fiberglass ramps
in Virginia Beach. Landing perfect
and going to pump up the next wall,
slipping out on the fiberglass and
slamming into the transition. Full
body jars. Dizzy head. Either I know
how to fall or I'm lucky.
Best contest?
The best contest ever was the
European championships at Warr
ington in 1987. There were about four
hundred in the crowd, all of them
stoked on skateboarding. People in
the competition could barely skate
because the crowd was so wild. The
ramp was a self-contained unit inside
a roller rink. There was a bar, a
restaurant, a ramp, a crowd of cool
people-amazing.
Are skaters different than normal
people?
It takes a certain type of person to
throw himself around and risk
destroying himself every day. I think
you could spot a skater even if he
wasn't wearing anything with
skateboarding on it. People don't
realize how we get so stoked every
day about skateboarding. We don't
need to go out to a disco. The
highlight of our week is not going out
to the bar and picking up on chicks.
And if we do go out we do make it
interesting. Joe Lopes went to the
Oasis, climbed down the beam and
backslapped into a four-foot deep
pool from fifteen feet up. He just did
it because he had the urge. I don't
think a normal person would think
about doing that, but Joe Lopes the
skateboarder would do it. You meet
so many rad people traveling around.
I could go to Czechoslovakia and
meet someone, couldn't even speak
to the guy, but because we skate, we
have something between us and we
can get on. In England, I've had peo-
ple that I've never met turn up at my
doorstep. Jawhn Dettman and Jeff
Croteau turned up and I'd never even
heard of them before. It was cool.
Jawhn walked from Victoria Station
to my house at three in the morning.
using a tube train map as a map.
Do you think that skating will get
to a serious Olympic level?
No, because, like I said, you can't
judge skating. You can't put skate-
boarding into categories, and say,
"Do this compulsory run. That would
ruin it. It wouldn't even be skateboar-
ding anymore. It would be terrible if
it got like that because you'd have to
drop in and do identical rides. Why
would you want to do that? Now you
can drop in and do completely dif
ferent rides. Mike Smith can drop in
and do nothing and he rules because
he looks so good on his skateboard.
Who are some of the guys you look
up to? You mentioned Mike Smith.
Obviously you enjoy just sitting
there and watching him skate.
I don't just enjoy watching people.
I enjoy skating with Mike Smith. I en-
joy skating with Todd Prince.
Everyone at the warehouse is cool.
I enjoy skating with Sergie and the
guys from Virginia Beach. I don't
know them that well, but when we get
together we always have good ses-
sions. I have a lot of respect for
everyone, really. I can't narrow it
down. Everyone is so good.
Any regrets over the years?
I feel like I missed out on a lot. I
learned so much from skating, but
I missed out on all my friends. Right
when I came over here, my friends
went off to school. It was that time
in life when everyone goes their
seperate ways. When I went back, I
felt almost lost. I didn't know where
I was anymore in England. It's kind
of hard to explain, I just felt strange.
Do you still follow English politics?
I try to keep up. I have my opinion
about what's right and what's wrong.
There's a lot of unemployment there
I wouldn't say England is sinking, but
I think people over here should ap
preciate what they have a lot more
than they do. I hear a lot of American
people whining. Really, it's not that
bad over here.
It's just what you can make out of
everything. I never thought I would
be in America as a professional
a
skateboarder, but here I am. I've
been doing it for two years now and
I'm doing all right. I seriously wanted
to be a good skateboarder and skate
lot, so I went out and to America.
I had to work my balls off and save
all of my money, not go out and
spend it on having a good time. Also,
I should say a great thank you to Joe
Lopes, Steve Douglas, Flej. Gon-
zales and a few others who sent me
money when I was in England to help
me get back out. Good friends like
that make it cool. Skaters understand
each other
I still can't look at myself and think
of myself as a good skateboarder. I
can't even think of myself as a pro-
fessional skateboarder, because I'm
not. I'm just the same as any little kid
out there who wants to skate, and I'll
skate even when there's nothing
around.
Can you think ahead to a future
plan, except for skating?
do
I have no clue what I'm going to
in a few years. But I want to skate
as long as possible.
What if you couldn't skate?
I'd have no other choice but to ac
cept it. I'd be pissed off, I'll tell you
that much. I'd have to go out and get
a job, but we all have to do that at
one point in our life. I'm not going to
be able to do nothing all of my life.
I've just got to enjoy my youth as long
as I can.
How do your parents feel about
your current lifestyle?
They're happy that I'm doing well.
They can see something back for it
now, which not every parent can see.
My mom and dad are really cool.
They let us do our own thing. They
didn't say, 'Go to college, go do this,
do that. They're stoked that I've
traveled. If I had never made a penny
off of skateboarding, they would be
happy just because I've done all this.
I've been so many places. I've been
all over the whole world now-
everywhere. You're not going to get
the choice to do that your whole life.
You learn a lot from traveling and you
meet a lot of good people. I learned
more traveling than I did sitting in
school. Skating is a great thing.
Well, it's time to see what your for-
tune says, Bod. This could weigh
heavily on the interview..
I don't believe it, it says, 'Quit
skating and go home!'
What does it really say?
"Your business will assume vast
proportions."
That's perfect.
PAY YOUR DUES
From page 5a) is the $5,000 per month
he pays to lease the large warehouse
at the Skate Ranch. Jyme George
cites the large electric bills during the
winter. If you're talking about cement,
the construction costs alone could
wipe out the budget. Regardless,
some park developers have opted for
concrete. Don Ford claims he's put
close to 100-grand into his Thrashers'
of Ocala in Florida, but also lets on
that it was he and three friends who
built the large cement freestyle/street
area that empties into a gnarly.
somewhat kinkish ditch bowl. Stone
Edge in Daytona, Florida won't reveal
how much they've put into their ce-
ment work, and the debate still rages
as to which park is best-the old style
70's pour of The Turf in Wisconsin
or the newer "nine" bowl design at
Stone Edge. There will always be
skaters who swear by concrete and
plaster over plywood and masonite.
ARE SKATEPARKS THE FUTURE
OF SKATEBOARDING?
"Most unpredictable business I've
ever put my hand in," says Richie
Misterka at Underground. "But parks
have to be the future. Street skating
is boring." Some take a more prac
tical approach to the worst that can
happen, like Norm MacDonald at M
& J's Skatetown in Ontario, "If I go
out of business, I've got enough.
lumber to build a house." Ask some
body who's been around, "Yes," says
Kevin Harris, "Because it's a neces-
sity. The new park is there because
kids have no place to skate. I'd keep
our park open even if it wasn't mak-
ing money" Bob Petosky, manager
of the Turf agrees, on the yes part
anyway, "Kids will keep skating on
the streets and building ramps, but
they'll want to skate everything." The
crew down at McGill's in Carlsbad
say no, but for almost the same
reasons. "People will still build ramps
and everyone is a street skater."
Who knows what the future holds
in store? The main thing is to get out
there and enjoy the parks while you
can. It looks like it's going to be a
skatepark summer, anyway, so plot
a course, borrow mom's car and go
investigate for yourself. Just remem
ber, if you're under eighteen, you'll
probably need a notarized parents'
signature on a liability release form.
Send SASE's to the parks you plan
to visit requesting their parental
release form. If you're over eighteen,
make sure you have proper ID. Oh
yeah, most importantly, make sure
you tear it up when you get there!
Gramma
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