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Photo: Ant
(Laughter) Jeremy Smith is the only drama queen.
I love him like a son, but he’s our only drama. Everybody
else is totally humble, totally down. They
rip when everybody’s looking or no one is looking, it
doesn’t matter and that’s just the way they are. We’re
all like family, Jeremy included in that. Jeremy likes
people to look at him a little bit and every now and
then he’ll start a little drama but it’s all in fun.
Where do you see Cockfight in the next 10
years?
(Laughter) Probably in my living room like it is right
now. I mean, that’s the way it’s going to stay. First of
all, I don’t have the time to put anymore expense into
it or any more effort. I have a real job; Kevin has a
real job. He’s off building skate parks, so he’s never
around. It’s what it is man. We do it when we can do it
and how we want to do it and it basically takes up my
living room. That’s Cockfight, my living room.
Now for a few fun and personal questions.
You kill it every time I see you skate and it
doesn’t matter whether its and ditch or the
skate park. How long have you been skating?
When I first laid eyes on dudes skateboarding in
1981, was the first time I saw people ripping with
skateboards and I knew I wanted to do it. Probably
82, I got it all together and started doing it. So, that
long, however long that is.
What or who got you into skating?
I was a big time BMXer racing, not anything like
there is now. BMX racing, jumping and all that crap,
just doing what kids do. They started putting skate
photos in the BMX magazines and I guess that was
around the skateboarder with the action now. It was
like, I do don’t know man. The beginning of all that
and melding it all together and I was like that looks
really cool. And then I rode my bike. I was in Houston
and I rode my bike down to EZ-7. We were going to
go ride our bikes there and there were all these like
punker dudes skating and ripping so hard. I mean,
we thought they were ripping and I was like, “I want
to do that!” so immediately I did whatever I could do
to get everything together to start skateboarding. We
bought a deck, three allowances later we got some
trucks, however it worked. We were hooked at that
point. Once we started doing it, there’s no stopping it,
you know how that goes. It’s an obsession!