Top to bottom: Kickflip
backside tailslide bigspin.
Flushing, Queens.
Frontside bluntslide to
fakie. Hubba Hideout,
San Francisco, CA.
Think about people 150 years before
us, out whaling all the time.
I know. That's why I like living there. There's
just so much of that feel still left in New
England, with all those monuments. I love it.
when you were a kid?
Actually, no. He was in WWII and
after the war ended he was out. I never
even saw him in the service. My whole
life he's worked in a submarine factory
my sisters lives in France and has four
kids. They're all over the place doing all
kinds of things.
That must be so awesome, to have
your own football team if you need it.
don't know what you feel when you're on
your skateboard, so they have no idea
how cool it really is because that's not a
good representation. I went to a couple,
and they're okay. But I think I'll only go
it.
But they have to make the big super
quarterpipe street course. All it is, is
grind the bar, make it to the flat. It
looks like a lot of the German courses
types of skateboarding?
Of course.
Do you like bombing hills?
Definitely.
Is that the best feeling, going faster
than you could ever jump off
from, so you just have to
pull it?
"I BROKE LIKE THREE BOARDS A WEEK"
New England's burly. There are hous-
es built in 1620, and when they tear
them apart they find seaweed in the
walls that they used as insulation. Did
your parents grow up there?
No, they grew up in New Hampshire,
Maine, and Massachusetts.
And you said your dad was in the air
force? Did you travel around a lot
by my house. He worked there for like.
37 years.
So your dad was later on in his life
when he had Brian Anderson.
Yeah. I have eleven sisters and two
brothers. I'm number 14, the last one.
Have any of them taken to anything
like you took to skateboarding?
They're all doing their own thing. One of
It is. I feel really lucky to have a
family to help me understand the way
things roll.
What do you think about going to the
big corporate things like the X Games
and Gravity Games, that are kicking
out the big cash? Do you feel kind of
cheesy when you do it?
It's a little weird. A lot of people there
to maybe one of those a year-not every
single one that comes up..
Some of the sponsors they have are
so bad-the Marines, Slim Jim.
Yeah. And if they had better set-ups it
would be more fun, or if they had a con-
test that was down one city block. That'd
be so sick. They have so much cash, they
could make a little escalator to go back up
and like Slam City Jam are doing the
same thing. They're getting huge.
The pyramids are fucking snow-
board jumps.
It's not street skating. Like Natas said
in one of his old interviews, when's
the last time you saw a jump ramp
when you were street skating?
Anyway, do you have respect for all
Yes. And now I'm spon-
sored, so I don't even care; I'll
just wheel slide the whole way. One day I
was being careful, and I was like, "What
am I doing? I have more wheels at
home." I love all that shit. When I go to
contests, I like to go chill and watch vert.
Did you skate any good stuff on the
way out?
We had some fun in New Orleans, skat-
ing Canal Street and all around there.
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