Yet another full-color sequence.
Obviously bad Brad don't bail too
much, 'cause Morf don't waste
film. Fat kickflip from skinny
ledge to ledge.
skate handrails, but I guess
I've been skating them lately.
They're fun, you know?
When you land something,
they're fun.
Ever pulled the switch
360° flip?
Yep.
How many times?
I've pulled it a lot of times. I
used to do that trick all the time.
I used to love it. I'd have fun
BA: It was triple-kinked.
I don't know how long it was,
but maybe that was the longest
one I did. How long is it, Brian?
BA: I don't know, thirty feet or
more maybe?
Thirty feet?
Probably longer than that.
Pleasant Hill? Where?
I'm not going to tell you
because then someone's going
to go there and grind it.
All right, it's a secret Staba
spot. What were you trying
when you ripped your liver
in half?
I was just at Petaluma, and
I was just grinding across the
bar-the one bar that goes
across the bowl. I usually just
cruise and grind it, but this
one time I don't know what
happened. I don't even
remember. It was the worst.
It's the stupidest thing. The
sewed it back up and I'm on
the road to recovery.
How does it feel?
It's all right. I can't stand
up straight that much. Well,
I can, but it just stretches
and pulls. I'll be skating in
three weeks.
Can you eat normally?
I don't usually eat too much
but I guess I can eat perfect.
Are you going to lay off that
rail or are you going to go
straight back?
Name five skaters, from any
era, who you think should go
into skateboarding's Hall of
Fame.
I'd have to say Todd
Congelliere, Eric Dressen,
Brian Anderson, Chris Senn,
and... I've gotta say Natas.
All right, name five of your
buddies. Five only.
Anderson, Greg, Waters,
Morford. I don't know. I'd
have to give it to Barley.
How do you figure on
I'm going to go straight back. making a living for your-
Well, not to Petaluma. That self once you've ripped
place is cursed. I'll skate a rail your arms off skating?
though. It sucks getting hurt,
I don't know. I'm really into
man. But I guess that's part of filming and stuff. I've been
the territory.
shooting a lot of photos lately
Nothing beats skating, so I but I'm not really in it for the
guess it costs the most.
money. I have a subscription to
Definitely.
National Geographic and I'm
psyched on stuff like that.
So you know about F stops
What's your usual sequence of
tricks for gap assault? You
doing it but I haven't done it in
a while. The last time was like a
month ago.
Flat?
Yeah, just on flatground.
Nothing too gnarly.
"I DON'T JUST SKATE
HANDRAILS, MAN."
thing's six inches off the
ground and I fuck my liver
up, you know? On some turd-
ass bar. It sucked.
What was it like?
I couldn't breathe. I didn't
know what was going on.
Gabe had to hold my arms
over my head so I could
breathe. It sucked so bad. He
drove me right to the hospital.
emergency room in Walnut
Creek. I was making all these
fucked noises and stuff. I
sounded like an elephant.
What did the doctor say? What
exactly went on in there?
He said my ribs pushed in my
liver and lacerated it three-
What's the biggest rail fourths of the way open.
you've done?
I grinded this one in Pleasant
Hill and I don't know how long
it was... it was kinked and stuff.
I had it in my video part.
know, first, ollie, then 180°,
then kickflip, then nollie ...
what's your usual cycle?
It goes ollie, kickflip, then
probably frontside flip, then
maybe 360° ollie.
Which way?
Frontside.
and exposure?
Yeah, I know a little bit about
that stuff.
Nice. You got a camera?
Yeah, I have a Nikon. I got
some gear.
Where'd you get it?
I bought it off a friend
What about rails? What's the for $250.
sequence there?
50-50, lipslide and tailslide.
Tailslide before frontside
railslide?
It depends on what rail it
is. I guess maybe frontside
boardslide sometimes.
You got any flip-and-slides in
your rail bag?
I've kickflip frontside board-
slid a rail before but it's not a
So it was hanging on by usual. I don't just skate
a quarter?
I guess. I had some inter-
nal bleeding and stuff. But
he did a good job. They
handrails, man.
I know, but have you ever
done a handrail drunk?
Too many times.
What's the highest you've
ever been?
As in, how much weed
have I smoked?
Just however you want to
think of it.
That's kind of a silly question.
I'm not Muska, man.
You got anything else you
want to throw in?
I just want to thank Gabe
Morford for helping me out
when I got hurt, and Tum
Yeto and stuff. My friends.
Friends are your life, man.
You need friends.