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you're not twenty-one? Well, where I live, it's legal to buy beer at the age aap sn! чam puños jaббiq e sata pe o mo na ang p
So Tom, what's it like being a hardcore drinker and a pro skater when
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friend had opened up a skatepark called Skate Works in the city where I lived
fourteen. How'd you get into it? The first time I really started skating, my
g? When I was thirteen or
When did you start skateboarding? W
You learned how to skate s
complished vert skater? No, I skated arter you were already an aбuneytis Jaque
d street a long time before I skated
I used to travel a lot more, but I really like where I live and lately, I've just been puе л бч way we can be as a t
doing a huge handrail or something. You do a lot of travelling, don't you?
yourself skating street too, but it just seems more likely on vert, unless you're
seems gnarlier because you can kill yourself doing it. I mean, you can kill
rushes that you can obtain from street and ramp skating? Vert skating just
vert. Then I started getting serious and just skated vert pretty much every-
you like that they're out in
Conklin and Duane Pitre. Do
Dyrdek, Bo Turner, Scott
And
if we wanted to ge
who was that? Rob
o go with them.
were riding for G&S at the time
they asked a couple of us who
start their own company so
G&S and then decided to
and Mike Hill, were working at
Well, the owners, Chris Carter
you get on Alien Workshop?
super cold there now. How did
hanging out there. But it's
STRANGER
Where do you live? I live in a closet with no windows. But your closet is
big.
A
I share a room with Brian Ferdinand now. It's pretty rad because we live e di assist me to be kinļu!
right on Oak Street and rush hour is from 7:00 am to 9:00 pm everyday, so I
at 7:00 am. Now we
ght Stree
looking for a party. Here comes Jesse Driggs who rips hard. Jesse, what do
you think of Julien Stranger? That guy has got a serious fuckin' attitude
problem and needs to get beat up really bad. Hey, there's a party over
there with three kegs. How do you pick up chicks, Julien? Heckle them.
What do y
o you think of Brian Ferdinand? He's a fuckin' awesome skate-
boarder. Whatever he does is fuckin' real. He feels it one hundred percent. 24s de pe ses par to be an ad te
He's got follow through. Jason Lee's got follow through as well. It's a rad
way of skating. Doesn't it seem like all of the people who are the sickest
usually get nothing for it? What are you supposed to get out of skate-
boarding anyway? Don't they do it to become something? Robotic Andy
Roy says he skates like a robot. But he's a radical robot. He defines him-
self. Andy Roy is Andy Roy. He's not trying to be Mike Carroll or whoever else.
What's your favorite movie of
all time? It was Up in Smoke,
then it was Repo Man, then
Bladerunner. What do you
think of San F
Francisco? It's
pretty set up, man. It's got the
most stop signs and one way
streets. The most liquor stores,
right? The most fags. What's
the difference between here
and Venice? Everyone here
thinks they suck or knows they
suck. But in Venice, a lot of peo-
ple think they rule. They brag
breathe? To do laundry and pay rent. To give someone else your money,
right? Yep, I'd rather end it at the hype when I'm at the fuckin' all time high.
What would you consider the hype? Maybe if we were bombing the sick-
est hill after raging with all of our friends and just being stoked on life, your
know? Like Jagger? He just got laid, got loaded and got hit by a car. But aчp up so far as to be the most to a toy kep
he's alright, though. We haven't been bombing the hills like we used to
do, man. What's up with that? The wheels got too small. Yeah, I guess we
were able to go faster with bigger wheels. In
slide, right? No, that's just because we were less advanced than we are eu un as a pues no sea pana sweapon! | puel
now. You think so? Yeah. My personality's stagnated, but it's all right. What
Motörhead, Joey? What do they know? Everything. You could only
from music than
about
learn.
I learn
more
any fuckin' high school class I've ever
or four people up on stage? I mean, you got three or four (continued page 64
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side revert? No, I had already stopped skating vert when that happened.
twist and a little bit of backside revert stuff. Can you do a gay twist back-
as much coverage. Ever done a five-forty? The only spin I can do is a gay
California and since we don't really have any riders from there, we don't get
in some ways and bad in others. It seems easier to get a company going in
Ohio so you don't have to deal with all the hype and the sludge? It's good
at heelflip
That he
indy
that Danny Way did w
doing a lot of rad stuff now on vert. What do you early Colin McKay
you like that's different
go ice skating? Last year I went to play hockey a little bit. What's the worst
do any sports as a kid? A lot of ice hockey. It's pretty fun. Do you ever still can be on top bunge am on web de
guess things are cheaper, but it doesn't really matter that much. Did you ever
of the climate. If I go somewhere in the US, it's usually to a warmer place. I
about the United States and Canada? Well, I like where I live better because
skatepark called Skatezone. My jaw was wired shut for a (continued pege 47)