Byerly Catalog

GEORGE DANIELS
GEORGE DANIELS///INTERVIEW 6-20-14
Have you ever caught an alligator
with your bare hands and if so does
that make you more of a man
BRET LITTLE///INTERVIEW 6-18-14
Where you from
GEORGE: Yeah I’ve caught a couple gators, I just
Where you from
think it puts hair on your balls when you grab one.
GEORGE: Orlando, Florida
It definitely separates the men from the boys.
BRET: Austin, Texas
How’d you get involved with the
Byerly team
GEORGE: Ever since the first TOE JAM I met Scott
and he’s like, “Hey, you wanna ride for hyperlite”
So I start riding for Hyperlite and going
over to his house like every day and hanging out
learning new tricks, yada yada yada. Scott and
Hyperlite formed his new brand and I have been a
part of that since the beginning.
What other sports do you do
GEORGE: I do a little bit of surfing when the
swells up and a I’ll do a little bit of skateboarding
when it’s nice and cool and a little bit
of bass fishin in the evening time. Little bit of
Mountain Biking too.
If you could be on any reality show
which one would that be
GEORGE: Duck Dynasty. For sure man that’d be
dope..
HA HA, yeah that’s a good one
Who’s your biggest supporter
GEORGE: I’d say Scott. Scott’s had my back a lot
through everything.
What fad really pisses you off
GEORGE: When everyone started wearing the shit they
slide over The wakeboarders would put these like
compression sleeves on. Like all the Basketball
players wear them.
If you had to get a tattoo of any
Byerly team guys face on your ass,
who would it be
GEORGE: Um...I’d say Kyle Rattray
What’s on your CD walkman What’re
you listening to
GEORGE: I got a lot of a Hank III, Alan Jackson,
Tim Mcgraw and George Straight.
Whats the Number one thing you’ve
learned from life
GEORGE: I’d say appreciate what you’ve got, don’t
take it for granted cause it can be swept away
real easy.
What are you going to do after
you’re done wake skating
GEORGE: Right now I’m actually cutting down trees
and shit, a lumberjack so I’d probably say that.
BRET LITTLE
How long you been into wake
BRET: Um...man, first learned to wakeboard when
I was about 12, but didn’t really get into until
after high school when I re-found wakeskating, so
about 11 years.
So, did you ever do wakeboarding
professionally
BRET: Yeah,I wakeboarded for a little bit when
I got back into it, but they built a cable
park out here and I ended up getting a job out
there. So when I went out there I’d heard of
wakeskating,but didn’t really think it was something
I could do. Then when I started going to
the park I started gravitating towards it, I got
an older brother that skateboards and I grew up
around Skateboarding. It appeals a little more
to me.
What other sports do you do
BRET: Uh, I play Soccer, Skate, try to Snowboard
when I can.
What’s the biggest difference between
wakeboarding and wakeskating
BRET: You know we’re just a little more free from
our boards. More skate influenced. Loose and a
little more forgiving some times. I was kinda
into snowboarding before I got into wake and
stuff, so I like rails and stuff. I never really
wakeboard behind a boat or anything.
Who’s your favorite female pop star
BRET: Taylor Swift
What’s the future of wakeskate Not
being the biggest selling category in
wake and all
BRET: Hopefully it sticks around, I think the
doors are real open on it. There’s so many areas
left to explore. With lock-in tricks and flip
kicks that we know are possible through skateboarding
but hasn’t necessarily been done with
the wakeskates yet, so I hope it sticks around
long enough to grow to it’s full potential.
What’s the weirdest thing you’ve
ever eaten
BRET: Probably Shark I wouldn’t say I’m a super
adventurous eater. Haven’t really had that many
opportunities
Have you ever caught an alligator
with your bare hands and if so does
that make you more of a man
BRET: Yes, yes I have, and yes it does, but it
was small, so I don’t really want to claim that
one too hard.
What’s the newest trick you’ve been
working on
BRET: Um... Probably switch heel flips.
What’s the coolest trick you’ve seen
in person
BRET: That’s tough, I’ve been lucky enough to see
a couple things, but I’d probably say Danny Hampson’s
first late front big spin. I think that was
the first time someone’s done that off the wake.
What’s worse, hairy armpits or legs
on a woman
BRET: Uh......Legs You come in more contact with
them I guess.