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hen did you knock your tooth out?
I knocked my tooth out at the
Warped Tour on the vert ramp.
Suicidal was playing and I did a
big ol' ollie tailgrab one foot and kind of slid
it in. And then, wahhh, hit my tooth. And the
thing was already dead. I'd originally done it
on a motorcycle and hit it and shoved it up
my gum-then they pulled it down and put
some shit on it and put it together. I actually
knocked this one out first. I've knocked 'em
both out.
Did you track the tooth down?
Yeah. I've got it right now. I'll show it to
you. (goes to find tooth) OK, yeah. At first I
threw it into the crowd after it fell out, but I
ended up throwing it to my friends and they
gave it back to me. It pulled off and I stuck it
back on and then spit it out in front of every-
body and they were all like, "ughhh."
Have you tried to glue it back on?
I don't know. Look at that thing! Aaagh! It's
pretty heavy. It was a buck tooth anyway. It
looked better when I broke it.
How long have you been playing harmonica?
Probably about a year. Not too long.
What are some of your favorite songs?
"The Wizard," Black Sabbath. Porno for
Pyros. The Pogues.
What are some of your aliases?
Snaggle. Creature Boy. Spikale, that's
another one. I had a blond wig I was wearing
for a while. You missed that one. I was going
off too hard, I guess.
Are you Hawaiian?
I'm all mixed up. I've got a little bit of
Indian, Chinese.
How are Hawaiian skaters different?
Hawaiian skaters are mental. They just
charge. They're some heavy surfers. If you'd
been here in the day you could see some of the
skaters that come over to my ramp. They just
whap the lip as hard as they can. It's funny.
What are some of the special features of
your ramp?
It's got the wheelchair ramp extension. I just
got a door and laid it from the coping to the
guard rail. It worked good, so I relayered it
one more time. The coping is interesting. The
fish coping. I actually got that from a pool.
They molded this concrete fish into the cop-
ing for decoration and I got that and had it in
my room for awhile; then I decided I wanted
to have it on my ramp. There was a broken
piece, and I always wanted to have a death
box, so it all kind of came together.
Is the coping kind of based on your teeth?
No, not really. The cavity, in the center of
the coping; that was a mistake. We kind of
messed up the concrete and pieces were fly-
ing. It got to where you could lift the coping
out if you wanted and just make a gap, so
that's what kind of happened.
Why is Wallos called Wallos?
Wow, bro! That goes deeper than I even
know. People have been skating there
longer than I know. Tony Alva skated there
a long time ago. I mostly just went up there
with surfers at first. It's in my grand-
mother's back yard, so I grew up right
there. I started actually riding a bike there.
I was younger. Probably about eight or
nine. Then in 6th grade, I started skating
the Hawaii Kai ditches like Off the Wall and
Pipeline. Then I started doing bad in
school and got sent back to my grand-
mother's and then I actually started skating
Wallos. I was hooked.
Who skates Wallos the best?
It would have to be Christian Hosoi, the
Gonz and probably Chris Cook. I'd always see
Johnee Kopp down there doing OJII ads.
What's your relationship with Johnee Kopp?
He used to always steal my girlfriends.
Talk about the Karaoke machine in your car.
My girlfriend Gina got it for me. I recently
put it in my car so I could yell at people as I
drive by. I kind of need to watch it. My friend
got on it the other morning, coming back
from the bar and was singing so loud-just
yelling as we drove past these gnarly locals. I
had to snatch the mic out of his hand.
Who are your top three skaters?
Hosoi, Lord Salba, and Rune Glifberg.
Were you an Alva boy?
Yep.
Who'd you get on best with?
Duncan. He took care of me the first time I
went to San Diego, to the Mainland.
Do you wish you were still on Alva?
I'm still on Alva. I'll always be an Alva boy.
What's the closest you've ever come to dying?
The closest I ever came to dying-I went to
a Ziggy Marley concert. Me and my friends-
I used to do a lot of acid when I was younger.
I took, like, twelve hits of acid, and then we
got in the concert and my friend told me he
threw four more in my drink. He told me
that and I freaked out. I got super paranoid
and ran out of the place. I took all my clothes
off and was going to swim out in the ocean,
just keep swimming. But luckily I went to the
aquarium, the Waikiki aquarium, where they
have all the animals. They were having an old
folk party and I jumped into the tank with
the sea lions and was swimming naked,
bonking my head against the wall of the
aquarium, trying to get out to sea. People
were just tripping out. The police came and
fished me out. I don't remember any of it. I
just remember waking up in a hospital bed,
strapped down, and the doctor saying,
"What's your name? What's your name?"
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