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Flash in the pan.
Boulala.
Euro trash.
Germany.
Sean "Puffy" Combs.
Who's that?
Chat room.
Internet.
Jock itch.
My little toe.
Death lens.
Fred's lens.
Male pattern baldness.
Geoff.
Caine Gayle.
Cars.
Lester Kasai.
Who?
Was it hard to go from being a
kid living at home to moving to
the US and being a pro skater?
Yeah, it was really hard at first.
GR: Would you recommend it?
Yes. I mean, it's great. But the
thing is, you might get tweaked,
especially if you hang out with Ed
or someone. You see all these pic-
tures at his house.
Were you startled the first time
you saw Ed naked?
Yeah. It was like the second time
I hung out with Ed, and we went to
his house because we were going
to skate. Deanna opened the door
and told me that he was in the back
room. So I went back there and Ed
was naked, just lying around play-
ing with a mouse, with his hand on
his balls. He was fully naked, and
there were plastic bags on his seat,
like covers. It was pretty sketchy.
Did any of your friends get
jealous when you moved to
California to live with all the
top pros?
Most of my friends were really
supportive, but there were a few
people when I went back to
Finland who were kind of weird
about it. They think that when you
turn pro you can land every trick
every go or something like that.
Are Europeans more competitive?
No, it's worse here, because here
it's more like a job. You need to do
well at the contests, you need to
skate well all the time. But in
Europe, it's not a big deal. No one
is a superstar. The contests are
more just everyone having fun.
There's no actual feeling that you
have to win.
Did any American pros ever
give you the vibe at first?
GR: He's been handed every-
thing on a plate.
I didn't go through any of that.
Maybe people talk shit about me
behind my back, but everyone
seems to be pretty nice to me.
Geoff had to go through that.
GR: He had lots of support.
When we came out, we were a
group who had just moved.
Do you want to be in skating
after your time as a pro?
Yeah, probably, because I'm too
worthless to do anything else.
You could be a sales rep well
into your 50s.
I could get coffee for Geoff when
he's running Flip, 'cause he won't
let me do anything else.
Geoff, did you have to break
Arto in at all?
GR: What, like doing beni-
hanas or something? Yeah, I
had to tell him to stop
doing benihanas.
I can't even do that trick!
GR: You need someone to show
you the path. You need people
who have been through it to
help you; the rest is just what-
ever you want to do.
Right, right. It's like someone has