tailslide. Too bad my boss didn't like
that sequence. And maybe the noses-
lide finger flip. Which one of the
Superfriends do you most identify
with? Either Flash Gordon or Green
Lantern. What about the Wu-Tang
Clan? Method Man. Maple's sister
company is 151; have there ever
been any problems working with
skateboarding's darker side? No.
Pigpen's rad. Who are you closest to
on the 151 squad? Neil and Swanson.
you're a freeballer. It's natural. I don't
need no jock itch or rash from some stu-
pid little underpants! All I need is pants.
I love pants! If you were on the
Titanic, in a lifeboat, and there was
only room for two members of the
Osiris team, who would you pick? I
don't know. Keep in mind, the ones
you don't choose would go to a
watery grave. I can't deal with this
stuff. It's an easy question: who lives
and who dies? I'd have to take Chad.
because I have sisters. An older sister,
Kelly, and a younger sister, Meredith.
Are you taller than they are? No. Did
your mom ever tell you what your
name would have been if you were
a girl? No, but I'd want to be named
after my first dog, Sally. What kind of
student were you? A sleepy one. Do
you remember your first car date?
No, but I remember the first time I was
supposed to drive myself to school in
my mom's car. I ran over my dog. I
And Zac, the team manager. When a
photo comes out in the magazines,
do you prefer the filmer to be creep-
ing in the corner of the shot, or to
be fully lounging on the stairs?
Depending on what you're doing, it
might be a good idea for them to be fully
relaxed. Do you have any lucky
items of clothing? Good question!
These American boxer shorts I wear
every day. Do you ever wash them?
Nope. What's so great about them?
The fact that they don't exist. Oh yeah,
Oh, God! And I'd have to take Scott
too. Oh, man. Sorry, guys. What's
your ethnic heritage? A lot Irish
and a little bit Polish. What's the sig-
nificance of your new graphic?
Well, it's a leprechaun, and lep-
rechauns are lucky. I feel that I've
been lucky. And the goose with the
gold coin? Like you're golden? No.
If the goose eats the coin, he might
shit gold, but I wouldn't bet on it.
What would your name have been
if you were a girl? I don't know,
Left to right: Over traffic and up
against the fence, Dave finds and grinds a
ghetto 10-stair 50-50. ¡Dios mio, my friend!
While Northwest Neil Heddings would
charge through the kink at the bottom of this
gnar hip, Down South Dave simply sailed
past it on his late-shove flight.
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flipped out, threw the car in drive, and
let it go over into trees and bushes and
ruts in the ground. Wait. You ran over
your own dog? Yeah, Sally. Not just any
dog-Sally! And then you did what to
umn shifter shifted into drive somehow!
And you were out of the car? Yes! It
was kind of my fault. I put it in drive and
got out of the car. I was trying to hold on
to this Ford station wagon as it went
I didn't learn anything that day. Jesus.
Yeah, I know. Have you ever had any-
thing pierced? Nah. Oh yeah, we
I have to be able to show this to the
grandparents. Yeah, and they're going
"I don't need no jock itch
or rash from some stupid
little underpants!"
the car? I got out to check on the dog.
"Oh Sally, you're all right! You'll be OK!"
It was kind of a Titanic moment, really.
And I didn't know how to drive an auto-
matic at the time. It was that damn
shifter. So you threw it into drive and
jumped out of the car? No, the col-
over this big-ass cliff. "No! No! No!" If I
could have just jumped into it and
turned the wheel... I rode it out, all the
way, until it smashed into a tree. It hit a
tree? Oh, it totalled it. Did you have to
go to school? Yeah! They made me go
to school! I've never heard this story!
to be grandparents. You mean you're
going to have a child? No, dude, I've
never given a girl morning sickness.
What were some of the steps you
took to turn pro? I don't know. Ed,
could you answer this one? [ENTER
ED DOMINICK, MAPLE TEAM MAN-
AGER] ED: Beats me. I heard you got
a new car. What's that you wrote on
the back of it? "Caution: Driver Must
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