LARVA
just like you saw Fred Smith and Joe Lopes, it just
makes your mind wander about what you can do.
I have two friends from my old neighborhood, Onio
and Clem, they're five and six. They can jump off
curbs and ollie, but they can also gyrate and hit the
vert, and they're just little midgets. Their mom is out
on the streets, their dad's dead. They just see some-
one paying attention to them, and that's it, "Alright,
let's go." Onio used to be so shy, and now he's such
an outgoing kid because he knows he kicks ass.
What kind of music are you listening to right now?
Probably oldies, Creedence Clearwater Revival, or
some Canned Heat. When I skate everyday, I listen to
Metallica or Slayer, so I need a break from that.
Is there any you'd like to thank?
My mom, Jake, my brother, Frazier, my dad, every-
one at Deluxe; Jim, Tommy, Jeff, Kirk, the artists and
Micke, Claire, Don at Etnies, and Schaefer.
Scoff Johnston
What's your hometown, your age, and how long
have you been skating?
My hometown, I guess it was from Maryland to the
DC metropolitan area; I'm twenty-one, I'm an old man
now; and I've been skating for like seven years.
What influenced you to start skating?
I was into riding bikes, and then all my friends start-
ed skating, so then I wanted to try it. After I ragged
on it for a little while, I finally said, "Alright, I'm going
to try it. It looks cool." And then I just stuck with it,
and it ended up, everyone that got me into it quit
skating, and I'm like the last person out of my whole
neighborhood to keep skating.
Did you have a wide variety of things to skate?
Yeah, I w
I would skate the shopping centers really
close to my house with the kids that I started with,
the curb blocks, and then we
built a vert ramp and then cut it
down like two months later and
was skating mini-ramp. And
then my friend had a mini, so
my mom would just drop me
off there while she went to
work or whatever, and I would
skate that, and then once in a
while make it to the city and
skate the real streets.
Who influenced you during
that period of time?
Bucky Lasek and Sean
Sheffey, those were the East
AL
Max gives up some service
(left) for the tailgrab. The
railing (opposite top) has a
fat of crack on the sidewalk
before you hit it, but Scotty
had no problem tailsliding
it. The sequence of Schaaf
(opposite bottom) is top
drawer. Nollie nosegrind
nollie out? Hootie Hoo!