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so it's two years old now.
When you were growing up did yoeft and above: Geoff has no
have any English skateboard heroe
people who were popular that yotherfucking fear, taking the hur-
looked up to like Justin Ashby or Pecane-a trick normal humans do
Dossett? Manzoori was obviously bn ramps and parking blocks-to
about ten years ago.
nine-stair handrail.
No, no English skaters. I looked up to telow: KFNS, oh yeah.
American pros, like Natas first, but
whole of my skate life it was pretty mu
Danny Way. Of anyone in the whole ska
world he's been the best skateboard
Street, vert, everything-no one else h
been able to do that.
If you were designing the Ge
Rowley skatepark, what three thin
would be mandatory?
A little tight transition bank.
So tight that it goes to vert?
Almost to vert so you can get a gohat's your favorite kind of terrain?
pop on it with a good lip; that's what do you look for?
funnest thing to skate for me ever. As far as what I like to skate for fun?
bank with a curb on top, 100 feet loomething that you would drive for
and one of those spine ramps that jhree hours to get to and you knew you
joins up everywhere.
ere going to rip when you got there, it
as that fun for you.
Like the Animal Chin ramp?
Yeah like an Animal Chin mini-ramp. I like cement parks. Those are the funnest
One of the ones where you can just ings to skate for me.
anywhere, like those old Powell videave you ever been to Australia?
with Colin, where you're like, oh Yes.
God he's over there.
Yep, that's the one.
that the most amazing place?
The most amazing place, the best parks.
The people there, they're like, if you
wanna break your neck, go for it.
Yeah, everyone says it's a mixture of
England and America.
Did you feel the same about South Africa
too? That felt a lot like Australia to me.
A little bit, yeah. It was still a little behind.
It's a bit of a conflict there as well, if you
know what I mean.
What's it like living in OC? Is the beach
culture really different from the gloom
of England?
It's good, but it's got a lot of bad points.
You seriously cannot do anything wrong.
Like you want to skate a supermarket curb
at night, but you can get in trouble for that.
It's all rules, and it's bullshit. It's all
oppression, especially in Huntington
Beach. It's all police oppression.
Do you and any of your bros get
together for afternoon tea?
Occasionally, yes.
What kind of tea do you drink?
Earl Grey. I drink lots of tea; I love tea.
Say you were diagnosed with a termi-
nal illness and you could have one
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