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Here: Wave jumpin' Knightums.
Sequence: Scott Pazelt barged Dodge
with a backside nollie flip and topped
it off with a tall, cool Budweiser.
Ed, not looking
his best.
ED DOMINICK
Ed Dominick entered the skate industry
when he lost his job at the Fender guita
factory. He's the Maple team manager.
His favorite saying is "Damn, man."
Compare and contrast Ohio and your
home of Ramona, California.
There's a lot of corn in Ohio. There isn't a
lot of corn in Ramona.
Cheese corn.
A lot more mullets in Ohio, too. There
aren't too many in Ramona.
Really?
Yeah. But other than that, it's pretty much
the same.
SCOTT
PAZELT
Do you feel like
you're a better
person having
grown up in Ohio? P
Yes. I think people
Scott Beezelt.
in Ohio are much
more real. People in
California are more
fake and plastic.
Have you ever had a friend with a
weight problem?
No, except for my friend Chad Knight. He's
really hefty. It's not like he's fat, he's just kind
of hefty. He breaks a lot of boards.
What's that shocker you've got?
It's for toning your muscles; when you
hurt yourself you can put it on you and
it electrifies your muscles. I got it in
Japan. Coyne put it on his nuts. He tried
to electrify his sperm.
So people have been abusing the shocker?
Dave Coyne. Dave Coyne put it on his
face, his balls, his ass, his fingers.
Do you ever get the team manager blues? Is it dangerous?
I definitely get those.
You get 'em bad?
Yeah. The slacking. People slacking gets you
down. We could talk for days about the blues.
Have you ever had any team riders with
a weight problem?
No comment.
Hey, when you were a kid did you ever
huff gas?
Did a lot of that. One time I was huffing
gas out of my cousin's three-wheeler.
Out of the tank?
Yeah, out of the tank, sitting on it. And I
looked inside the gas tank and I saw my
brother surfing in there. Then I looked back
and I could see into one of my back wheels
of the three-wheeler and my buddy Brian
was stuffed in there-curled up around the
inside of the tire. And they were like, "Yeah,
come on, Ed, we're goin' to the desert!" They
were all excited about going to the desert. It
was a mess.
You saw Quiet Riot recently, I heard.
Were there any disappointments?
No, not really. They could have played
"Slick Black Cadillac," but other than that, it
was pretty damn good.
Do you ever feel like you don't get the
respect you deserve from your team?
On an hourly basis.
800
Wood packer.
No, at least not in the short term. I don't
know about possible long-term problems.
Do you know what Coyne's genetic
make-up might be?
He might be half-Samoan.
Are there any secrets in the Osiris
video, The Storm, that you want to tell
people about?
Yeah, well, Chad never did that
frontside bigspin kickflip boardslide for a
photo sequence.
He didn't?
Nope.
How'd he do it then?
Maple magic. I don't know any other
secrets. I don't know the inside dirt. They
don't tell me anything.
What about Daxter's kickflip one-
footed grind?
Oh. I don't know if he was trying it. I
heard he wasn't.
I noticed on the box and on the poster
it appears as if you're glowing. Are
you an angel?
Well, they just had the light shine on me so
I would stand out because I'm the newest
guy on the team. Does that sound believable?
What important lesson did you learn at
the Quiet Riot show?
I learned not to try to set other people's
mullets on fire, even if it's a slow song and
you have your lighter out, don't start fights
with biker bitches, and drink beer from a
pitcher instead of a glass.
Do you have a message for the
contributors of Photograffiti?
Just keep sendin' 'em in. We're all looking
forward to 'em!
Kristian spins this
Cab heelflip right
'round, baby, right
'round, like a record,
baby, right 'round,
'round 'round.
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