Is it true you didn’t really grow up watching many skate videos or reading mags?
Yeah. Deville would sit me down to school me with a bunch of skate videos and I thought they were crazy. He gave you a bunch of homework to do? Yeah, I guess. If you’re not watching videos or reading mags and websites like most kids, how do you learn about skateboarding? I guess it came from my friends. I hung around a whole bunch of kids that were really good. Eventually I watched all the videos and just had a better idea of what I should be doing. Do you think not knowing what’s out there had a positive effect on your skating? Maybe you weren’t limited or inhibited by knowing what’s supposedly “cool” or not “cool”? Maybe it made me skate a little differently, but if I didn’t watch skate videos and learn a bit, I’d probably still be doing pressure flip melons. Good point. What’s your favorite YouTube video of the moment? “Scarlet takes a tumble” is pretty funny. Is that the one with the fat chick dancing on the table? Yeah, that huge chick is singing the song and all of a sudden she p
