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Photo: Adam Israel Valadez
(Laughter)
Everytime I’m batteling a trick and things don’t go
the way it planned in my head, that’s when I feel like I
want to give up but then again my friends are always
there behind the camera and they push me to keep
going and I’m not going to like stop after falling.
It’s tough though! Those falls will make you
change your mind. Make you rethink if it
was the right sport.
(Laughter)
I noticed that your trucks are super loose,
why?
I don’t know, I guess because when I was growing
up skating everything just felt kind of robotic with
having tight trucks all the time so I just wanted to
kind of adjust and maybe see if I could adapt. I guess
it kind of worked out because everything feels like
surfing, not that I surf but it feels like it.
Yeah, I’m not good with the loose trucks, in
fact, I suck with loose trucks.
(Laughter)
Your style of skating is much different than
most. It’s good, I like the way you skate! Did
you have a favorite skater that you liked
with the same style or was it just a natural
progression?
I watched a lot of skate videos growing up so… and
its not like what everybody thinks, you know. It’s
kind of like underground stuff. Id probably say people
like Chris Milic and Jesse Alba. They changed the
way I kind of looked at skateboarding, like don’t take
it too serious. You’re just riding a piece of wood with
some wheels on it.
Almost like Lance Mountain?
That too, yeah, I like how he’s goofy
One thing I can say is, I watch a lot of skate
videos as well but, when I see your skating,
it reminds me of the Welcome videos. I
could honestly see you skating for Welcome,
have you ever sent them clips?