skaters: any coverage comes out in
Clairemont. I'm taking you fools out.
What about skateboarding in general?
What I don't like is all these fools
half-stepping. If you're going to bust
out, bust out.
What do you mean?
It just seems like too many people
are half-stepping. It's time for skate-
boarding to move on to the next gen-
eration. Pull the weeds. Weed that
shit out. But as far as skateboarding
in general. I love it. I love how fun it
is. I just love skateboarding every
single day of my fuckin life. Just
going to skate until I can't.
So you're getting a model with Shorty's?
Yeah. I turned pro for Voice a
couple years ago, but Schlossbach
was just trying to be everything, like
the manager, the salesman. the
filmer-it was just too much for one
person to handle so it didn't really
work out. It's dope now, though.
What do you have to say to anyone
who's disappointed that you're the
third Shorty's pro?
If anyone's disappointed 'cause I'm
the third Shorty's pro. I'll fuckin re
appoint them and shit. Whatevers is
clevers, too many heads I got to sever.
What are you looking forward to as a
Shorty's rider?
The money's cool, but just skating
and traveling. That's the shit about
being pro. it's the gift of traveling.
You can just travel anywhere you
want with a skateboard
Are you going to go to Europe
this summer?
Czech full blooded! I'm going to
meet up with all those Europeans.
Are you going to get your own pad?
Hell yeah. No doubt. I'm going to wait
on a car. Wait until Shorty's buys me a
car-hint. hint. Psych! Ohhhh!
Have you ever been in a fight?
Yeah, there was this incident recent-
ly in the ghetto. That was some shit.
dude. These two eses came up all
drunk and talking shit. At first we
were all. "All right, homie, chill out."
but then they were all trippin' on my
homies, so we just took care of
business. Period.
Has this had any negative repercussions
on other skaters?
Yeah, some skaters went to that spot
and got chased out.
What's the closest you've ever come
to dying?
Ohh! I came close to getting fucked
up. dude! At this school. Madison, we
were skating this roof-to-roof gap and
shit. But we were only fuckin' around
cause it was the summer and we were
just bored, skating anything. It wasn't
even that wide, but we were just fuckin
around. I was going up to a switch
frontside 360 over it, but then at the
last second I was like. "Fuck it, I don't
want to try this no more. and my foot
slipped. I was going headfirst right for
the ground and then all of a sudden my
fuckin right arm says. "arghh," and I
reached for the edge of the roof and
grabbed and slammed on the side. It
was fucked up.
Do you ever get rowdy when you go out
at night?
We just go out and have fun and try
and make everyone else have fun too.
One time we showed up at this party
all drunk and there was a fight
already happening, and this one dude
just knocked out this guy and he was
going around like. "Who wants some.
who wants some?" and he started.
bombing on my friend for no reason.
So I just went up and clink, broke a
bottle over his head.
Did he go down?
Nah, but my homie punched him out
after that and I cut my finger up and
shit. I'm always down for my homies.
No doubt.
"FUCK BEING ARRESTED, DUDE. BEING ARRESTED FOR SKATEBOARDING IS STUPID."
SMOLIK HAS BEEN
COMIN' UP FOR YEARS AND
PROVES IT WITH A PLASTIC
ESCALATOR NOSEGRIND.
WORLD, MEET THE
BACKSIDE NOLLIE TO SWITCH
5-0 TO 180 OUT. BACKSIDE
NOLLIE TO SWITCH 5-0 TO
150 OUT, MEET THE WORLD.
FLIPS TO BACKSIDE
NOSEGRIND, PETE DOG IN THA
HOUSE! OOOOHHH!
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