“You know what man? As of recently I have been less interested in travelling because I enjoy being at home with my two and a half year old son. But I still enjoy a good skate trip. Get all the boys together, get the team together and it’s always good. A lot of good skateboarding happens and you polish up on your skating and everything’s good…”
Category Archives: Interviews
David Gonzales – Globe EU Trippin’ Tour
“I think it’s a lot different to be honest, not so much transition, not so fast – maybe. In America there’s more tranny, more vert skaters, more pool skaters. Here there’s more street, more banks and ledges. Different styles but I think the European’s level is fucking gnarly now, they can compete with anybody now.”
Dave Mackey Interview – Vans X Lost Art Shop Rowley [SOLOS] Launch
“The shop is packed out and it’s to see their friends skateboarding in the city and the spots that they know. It will always be the most important thing. You can put out huge video productions; you can have the best fucking social media accounts but if it’s not something the kids are stoked on or care about…”
Geoff Rowley Interview – Vans X Lost Art Rowley [SOLOS] Launch
“It was super important to me that my part started in Liverpool, and ended in my current hometown of Long Beach. I felt like the Vans tradition wouldn’t be there unless we looked at it like that. The opening scene was at Edge Lane Skatepark which is where I spent my youth. It was the first skatepark I ever went to and the terrace houses in the background are where my parents grew up, met and then married.”
Catching Up with Mike Arnold
(Featured: Welcome Skate Store blog, 15/6/2015. Intro by Josh Hallett, interview by Farran Golding, photography by Reece Leung & videos courtesy of Skateboard Café & Rich Smith.) When he first moved to Leeds, I didn’t really know him. He was just a dude that skated around Hyde Park in a beanie. One of many. TheContinue reading “Catching Up with Mike Arnold”
Dining Alfresco with Rich Smith
Rich’s thoughts on full-length skate videos over web releases, filming for ‘Alfresco’, seeing the brand grow to what it is now and most surprisingly; how a drunken Mike Arnold ended up one upping Jake Johnson.
Paul Rodriguez talks Primitive Skateboards & Nike SB
“It’s hard to answer this question without sounding a little…’cocky’ or whatever the term is, but I just felt like it was a window of opportunity within my own career. I might be one of those lucky few who’d be able to do that, start my own brand and move on. That window of opportunity only upholds for so long in skateboarding before you miss your prime, so I’d be kicking myself in the ass five years from now looking back and saying “how come I didn’t capitalise on that?”
‘A Generation of Boys Raised by Women’ — Chad Bowers talks Mother Collective (Sidewalk Magazine #221, April/May 2015)
“If people want to know what we’re about, look at the graphics and the skating. Ultimately, we want Mother to be judged on our action.”
Harry Lintell – True To This Interview
“I don’t know what to say. I’m just stoked everyone is stoked on it, y’know?”
Pro Shoes, Black Sabbath & Filming For MADE With Figgy
“I was just completely fucking thrashed. Hands, hips, knees, everything was all fucked up. But I’ve had some time off to recuperate. I’m ready to get back and start jumping. Definitely I’ve been going for it. Before this trip I was jumping like I was fucking seventeen, not that I’m some old dude but shit does take a toll.”
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