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Do you feel like there’s any competition
with anyone here?
NEVER!! What I tell people, is if you don’t know what
you ride, then customs not your thing. Especially
here in Houston there’s a couple of local companies
that will fix you with whatever you want.
Where do you see OFCS in the next 5 years?
OFCS has a lot of things on the agenda for what I
want to see it grow into. Some I can disclose, but for
the most part I just want to keep moving forward as
long as I can and put something back in the skating
that I love so much.
Now time for some fun questions. I have
seen you at the skate park rolling on your
board, I see you carving, I see you doing the
old school tricks, but what or who got you
into skating?
Photo: Ant
thing new on the board, one offs that no one will ever
see again and overtime I have gone to things that I
do repeat, but I’m all about the colors and the feeling
at the time.
Man I’ve been skating since the mid 70’s, clay
wheels, steel wheels and we started pushing on sidewalks
and stuff all around the neighborhood, basically
infatuated. I took woodshop and couldn’t wait
to get to shop, make my own board, get out of school
Photo: Ant
Do you have any flow riders that skate for
you right now?
I do have flow riders. I have 2, Raina Saenz and Ben
Elliot. My whole purpose for the flow riders is definitely
not sponsorship, but if I can take someone who
loves it as much as I do and I see them riding with
passion and energy the way they do and I can teach
these kids to be I touch with what they ride, then we
can work together and someone else will see them
ride and they can help the others figure out what
they ride.
So how did you select the two that you have
right now on your team and what caught
your eye?
Man, one word, STYLE!! Ben Elliot’s got a style that
is unbelievable, it’s very surfer. And Raina, she’s
got a style that you can’t turn away from, its full of
energy, and she’s driving forward. She took third
place in California (Exposure) and we all proud here
in Houston.