It seems like they're picking up a lot of
people; they've got a lot of weight on
their team.
Yeah, I'm not going to be involved with that
whole thing that they're doing. My thing with
Vans is something different. You'll see in future
ads and stuff like that-they'll be different from
everyone else's.
Have you ever seen a girl rip?
On a skateboard?
Yes.
Yeah, I see Elissa all the time. She lives
right around the corner; she's the only girl
I've ever seen rip. Oh in fact, you know
When you warm up for a rail, like say
that lipslide, would you warm up with a
50-50 or did you go there to conquer it as
a lipslide?
You have to plan certain things out. I look
at it first, so when I go there I know I can
do it. When I go out skating I just skate a
bench first, or skate the flat, and then I'll
be like, all right, I'm warmed up now, I'm
having fun. Then I'll go up to it. If it's a
kinked rail then you can't railslide it first
because there's a barrier there. So I go
straight at it.
What's the greatest feeling you've ever
I'm super stoked. It's like you've been hat must have been hard for him to
deal with.
right there.
That's me, I did it.
Exactly.
Yeah, but he still skates all the time. I built
mini-ramp for him in this barn.
Why are English people called poms? DHe lives in France?
Yeah.
you know anything about that?
It's something to do with an apple, right? Is he your personal favorite skater of
No, it's like pompous bastard all time?
that's what they call them i He just blew me away more than
Australia. What are the five gnarlie anyone else.
things you've seen on a skateboarHe was so relaxed.
Exactly; he was so fun to watch. I skated
that people have done?
All the legendary moments in skateboardin with him a lot, and I saw it so much.
like dropping in off the helicopter. I meal remember the first time I saw him
some Bullet wheels years back at this
demo, and I know Tom Knox was there.
This next part is word association;
you know how that works.
I just say whatever the hell I want.
The first thing you think about.
Success.
Money.
Happiness.
Sadness. Oh, that's so gay.
Television.
Fuck.
Football.
Soccer.
Above: Big-guns
frontside flipper in LA.
what, that is not true one bit. I've seen
that what's her name-Jodi or whatever
in Chicken's.
She charges.
Yeah, she grinds the hell out of that thing.
What's up with British people and their
teeth? Why do they have such bad teeth?
Everyone keeps giving me shit about that.
Not you, just in general.
Yeah I know. There are a lot of English peo-
ple in our area, around Southern California, and
they have fucked up teeth.
It has to do with no fluoride in the water.
Maybe.
achieved through skateboarding?
That photo, the kinked rail, felt the best; it was
hard for me. It was only like ten feet so I had to
put down two sheets of plywood to go run and
jump on. That felt the best, because I did what
I wanted to do.
Do you feel like you conquered it? Is it the
accomplishment of it that counts?
I don't know how you know, but that's
exactly how I feel about things. I see
things that are really gnarly and I think,
you can do that, and everyone else says,
oh, that looks so bad. I'm like, no-I can
see it in my head, and then when I do it,
how the hell do you psych yourself up to
in a helicopter and jump out? I know eve
one says things about Tom Penny, about
being the king; but there were times skat
with him where he just kept going. Seriou
personally, he was the best skateboarder
watch.
What's up with him? Is he just
of commission?
t
Radlands in '93, and it was like,
ho's that?
Hooligans.
Kill.
DVD.
Shitsville.
NorCal.
I remember being there and seeing Tampa.
ome of the pros watching him and
alking shit; I'm not going to say
ames, but these were some of the big
uys. I was like, he's a fuckin' skate-
oks like or where he's from. Just
barder-it doesn't matter what he
ppreciate the skateboarding.
No, he still skates all the time. I speak to you have a first autograph from
He's burnt out on the whole t
because everyone was pumping him
so hard?
Exactly.
kateboarding?
The first ones might have been Clause
rabke and Tom Knox. Grabke gave me
Trees.
Hills.
Mountains.
Hospital.
Pain.
Chipmunks.
Kill.
Cloning.
Aliens.
Video shit.
STDs.
Not even wanting them.
SUVs.
Don't give a shit about them.
'95.
Bullshit.
Cargos.
Great.
And the last question that I'm going to
ask you is have you ever skated with
Joey Brazinski?
Who the hell's that?
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