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How long do you perceive yourself
being young?
I'd like to skate until my body
doesn't let me. It hurts now, but I'll
skate until it gets a lot worse. I'll try
to stay young forever in my mind.
What's your basic daily schedule?
Wake up at about ten-thirty or so,
make breakfast, listen to tunes, wait
for somebody to call or go skate by
myself and meet up with people later
when they get off work or out of
school. On weekends, if someone's
driving, I like to make a road trip to
skate different things. Maybe some
vertical in Redding, or pools,
something to get away from the basic
high speed hills and street skating.
Did you graduate high school?
Yes. Lincoln High School in
Portland, Oregon.
What was the hardest trick you
ever attempted and learned?
There was this extension at
Bryce's ramp-he put a four-foot
door up over a six-foot mini-ramp as
an extension-and I made a back-
side ollie-to-tail off of it on my third
try. It was pretty weird. I didn't think
I could do it, but I tried it a couple
of times and I made it.
Was that the hardest trick you've
ever done?
It wasn't exactly that hard, because
I ended up doing it. There are many
other things. Frontside pivot into this
pretty gnarly pool. Backside
disasters on vertical are really fun.
I like lipslides on vert. Taking stuff I
can already do on mini-ramp to big-
ger transitions makes me feel
satisfied, because I took it to the limit.
When you do it on a vert ramp, it feels
like you really did it for the first time.
Also, three-and-a-half years ago in
Portland we were doing 15-stair
handrails. That was rad back then.
What kind of music do you like?
I like AC/DC, Van Halen, Misfits,
Black Flag, Led Zeppelin, Jimmy
Hendrix, a lot of seventies stuff.
Is the history of skating important
to you?
Sure. You need to know your
history a little. I like to try to do new
stuff, but I also enjoy doing laybacks
and Bertlemans. I just like skating.
I learned that stuff before I learned
ollie flips. Back then, when I started i
skating, that was it. Bonelesses,
slides, riding ditches and banks.
Doing slides, cruising, carving. It was
before modern streetstyle really
came about.
What are you going to do after this
interview?
I might go downhilling tonight on
Mt. Tam with my friend Curtis Hsiang
from Berkeley. We might go to Red-
ding this weekend and skate vertical.
What person has influenced you
most in your life?
I suppose my dad and mom.
That's who I grew up with and they
shaped me as a person. I think that
they did a pretty good job because
I'm not a really bad person.
What's your favorite trick?
I like slappy's on curbs and Smith
grinds on vertical and pools. I like
skating curbs and transition best
Who are your favorite skaters?
My favorite skaters right now are
Mark Gonzales, Shawn Martin, Brian
Ferdinand, Rick Ibaseta, Mike Car-
roll, Wade Speyer, Bod Boyle, Allen
Losi, Ross Goodman. Of course.
Caballero and Mountain. It's lame
naming names because I know I'm
going to forget some people.
If you had to choose between
street, vert and pools, which one
would you pick?
Street is always there, and you can
always do that. Pools are all different.
I love vertical too. What do you want
me to do, pick one? I would have to
say the pool.
What was the gnarliest thing that
you've ever seen?
I like the way Chris Miller skates
vertical. The way he carves his airs
across the whole ramp. He alley-
oops the whole width of the ramp.
He's in the air more than he's on the
ramp sometimes. Stuff like that is
really awesome. Mark Gonzales
does some really crazy stuff. I saw
him ollie off a little rail thing to
railslide on the fender of car four
years ago in the rain. Seeing Wader
Speyer do stand up grinds over the
death box in this pool.
What kind of advice do you have
for young skaters?
Be open-minded. You can't just
think about skating. You have to think
about life as a person, too. You have
to work for what you want. You can't
expect to skate, drop out of school
like that. You might as well finish your
and be a pro skater-it doesn't work
high school, get a job, see how it's
going to work for a while. You're
going to have to work someday, you
might as well learn some respon
sibilities. Skate for fun. Be cool. Do
what you want to do on your
skateboard, that's what it's for. I
RAY BARBEE
(From page 75) getting up into the trick,
say ollie-to-method grab over a
box-but once you grab, it takes
punk to land it. That's what I see in
vert. People who go high, they get
into it and just hold on and land it.
I'm going to work on stuff like that.
It seems like there are two different
types of skating: real technical and
real burly. That's what I think is rad
about Mark Gonzales-he does
both, technical and rad street stuff.
He works around both areas. All
around. That's what I want to work
on. I have a big task ahead of me,
I have to work on it.
center where there are all these rad
red curbs. I skate curbs for a while,
and no one even bothers me.
What curb moves do you like?
Smith grinds-to-lipslide back-to-
Smith grind-to-revert off. Blunt slides,
half Cab blunt slides. Lipslides-to-5-0
grinds. Ollie tail slides, tail slide
reverts, Thiebaud grinds-to-fakie.
Do you ever do a trick and wait to
see what happens as you do it?
Sometimes that works out. It's kind
of luck. You can think up tricks that
COLBY CARTER way. If you mess up and it goes into
(From page 75) going to win and ended
up getting second. He probably
should have won. All of the new guys
are going to be in there, but I guess
it could be any guy's day. In a con-
test, it's just who's got it together.
What kind of music do you like?
I like everything, but I been getting
into ska music a lot lately-English
Beat, The Specials, Madness.
Do you have any tunes that you like
to skate to at contests?
Not really. I used to give tapes to
the music guy before my runs, but
I stopped doing that because I want
to keep my mind more on my runs
instead of playing the right song.
What do you like besides skating?
I like to snowboard. If I'm not
skating, I'd definitely like to be snow-
boarding. Shrewgy wants me to go
stay with him in San Francisco then
drive up to Tahoe. But I'm still young.
What do your parents think of you
skating pro?
They pretty much let me do what
I want, they just want me to keep my
grades up. When I turned pro, they
were happy for me. They said, 'We're
behind you all of the way. If you need
help with anything, we're here, just.
as long as you keep your grades up."
What do you want to be when you
grow up?
I like to travel and I like to fly, so
I might want to be an airline pilot.
Catch some big airs up there. Have
you ever done any downhill?
When I was in San Francisco I did
a little bit. I like to go fast but I don't
go to that many hills around here.
Do you like to go out on different
streets and explore stuff?
I go to the shopping centers by my
house. I've got little lines I skate.
Describe one of those lines.
I walk out of my front door, start
skating down the street, doing
manuals on the curbs, ollieing off of
the curbs, ollie grabs, flatground
tricks down the street, with my
Walkman on, then cruise through
this one shopping center, skate
around, do rock and roll slides, lip-
slides on benches, manual across an
oval island in front of a bank, cross
the street to an empty shopping
something that you didn't expect, you
could make a new trick out of it.
What tricks are you working on?
Street skating. I like doing one-
footed tricks-ollie one-footers on
and over stuff. Backside 180%.
Any thoughts for the future?
Travel as much as possible, do well
in contests and have fun.
What will it take to beat guys like
Hawk, Hosol and Caballero?
If they skate the worst they can,
which is as good as I can.
KRS-ONE
(From page 7) both. That's the concept
behind the board of education.
You've often specified that
although you were homeless for a
long period of time you were never
a bum. What's the distinction
between the two?
Someone who's a bum has given
up on himself. Someone who is
homeless is caught up in the system
and is trying to get out. A bum will
grab the bottle and drink and waste
his life away because he's given up
on himself. A homeless person has
no home. Period. That doesn't mean
he's not working, that doesn't mean
he's hitting the bottle, he's just
homeless. He hasn't given up on
himself, he knows where he is and
he has to advance himself, but he's
homeless. The bum lacks education
of the system and the homeless per-
son has education of the system.
Using myself as an example, I knew
that the homeless situation was
growing and I also knew that 47
dollars was made on every homeless
man that entered the shelter, so I kept
throwing this in the face of the social
workers and the directors to make
them do things for me. But if you
don't know the system you fall prey
to it and become a victim of it. You
either fight with the strong will to sur-
vive of the homeless, or you give up
and become a bum, so to speak.
That's what I think draws the line:
A bum has given up on himself and
a homeless person is just caught up
in the system and doesn't have a
home. The entire African race is
homeless in my opinion.
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