North Skateboard Magazine Issue 23

NORTH SKATEBOARD MAGAZINE

ISSUE 23

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Cover: Manny Lopez - BS 5.0 Photographer: Graham Tait

TAL ROBERTS FILM GALLERY MANNY LOPEZ

Tal Roberts Photography by Tal

Interview by Graham Tait

I was blown away by the number of photos you sent me, how long have you been shooting?

I started shooting in 2002, so that would be about 17 years at this point. All the photos I sent over are from the past three years though.

All the photos you sent through were black and white, was that a coincidence?

I shoot mostly black and white film these days. I used to shoot lots of slide film but colour hasn’t been getting loaded in the cameras too much recently.

Has the price got anything to do with that? It’s pretty much tripled in price over the last few years.

Nah, not because of the cost, but I do keep the cost down by processing and scanning my film at home. I’ve always loved shooting black and white and feel like when I’m looking for photos to shoot I’m usually picturing them in black and white.

That’s sick that you process your own film. Do you find that stressful?

What’s the margin for error doing that at home?

I don’t stress on it too much, just try to be prepared with everything in line and ready before pouring the developer in. There isn’t much room for error with developer so you need to nail the temperature and the amount of time the film is in it, but the rest of the steps you can run a little looser.

Brent Atchley – Ollie – Burnside, Portland, OR One of my favourite skaters at one of my favorite parks. That bird worked out pretty well in this one too, so a big shout out to longtime Burnside artist Jay Meer for painting it in the perfect spot.

How did you get into photography?

I knew a guy from the park I grew up skating in Tacoma who was into photography and worked at a camera shop. I told him I was interested in getting a camera and he had me come to the shop and helped pick one out. But what was really cool was that he developed all my film for free for a few months and gave me tips and feedback on why the shots turned out however they did. I got to learn a lot and shoot more than I could afford to.

That’s really cool, what a great way to learn. What camera did you pick out?

It was a Nikon N65 and an entry level Nikon wide zoom lens.

Was that your first camera ever?

Well, it wasn’t the first camera I ever used... I actually took a couple black and white photo classes in middle school. For those I used an old Olympus that my parents had, but I didn’t stick with it after the classes ended. So the Nikon was the first camera I owned and the one I started to take learning photography seriously with.

Where did you start shooting?Were there any local skate photographers in your area that you could ‘shadow’ or annoy with questions? Did your friend at the shop shoot any skating?

When I got that first camera I lived in Gig Harbor, Washington. My friend at the camera shop helped with so many of my questions and was really, really helpful. He didn’t shoot skating though, so a lot of that I learned through the internet and by studying the shots in the magazines. I also remember TWS doing photo annuals that had photography articles with skate specific tips.

Frank Shaw – Frontside Grind to flat - Portland, OR On Go Skateboarding Day 2019 CCS put together a junk jam and wallride contest at a popular Portland schoolyard. While this wallride set up had two ramps so you could go up one and come down the other, Frank skipped the easy way down and took this frontside grind all the way to flat.

Johnny Turgeson – Backside Air –Marginal Way, Seattle, WA When I lived in Seattle in 2003 Marginal Way was just a crude two foot wide transition poured up against the back wall and a little curb. Every time I go back there I’m blown away by how far the park has come and what the community has been able to put together under that overpass.

Adam Soles – Indy – Burnside, Portland, OR A few years ago the Burnside Skatepark got a new neighbour, actually a lot of them in a huge condo building. Although this has changed things down there a bit and blocked a lot of light out, the four storey parking garage has added the angles I’ve shot some of my favourite Burnside photos from.

John Morgan – Portland, OR Skateboarders making art out of decks is pretty popular but I haven’t seen many doing it with the approach and attention to detail John is.

Integrating many different woodcarving and burning techniques while layering multiple boards on top of each other to create dimensional scenes featuring animals and nature, John plans his cuts and carves carefully to utilize the colours of the plys rather than painting the colors on later.

Transworld Photo Annuals were the best! Whose photography inspired you when you first started and who inspires you today?

Early on I started to notice the difference between a skate shot that simply documents the trick and one that is really interesting in composition and photographic technique, images from photographers like Brian Gaberman and Dan Sturt stood out. Their shots made you look twice and really examine what was happening. I’ve always appreciated the ones who were doing things a little differently. These days most of my inspiration comes from outside of skateboarding, from photographers like Frank Ockenfels, Anton Corbijn, and Danny Clinch. I’m a big fan of photo books too, I just picked up a really cool one by Jim Harrington called The Climbers, it’s full of beautiful portraits of legendary mountaineers all shot on black and white film, in a variety of formats.

Talk us through some of your camera gear. Looks like you shoot a lot with natural light.

I do shoot a lot with natural light when shooting film, some of that has to do with the cameras I’m using. I have an Xpan and a Leica M6, and I barely ever shoot those with strobes, but I’ll use them a lot when I shoot action with my Hasselblad 503. I also have a Hasselblad 2000fc which is the model that has a shutter in the body so it can shoot up to 1/2000 sec. That has been fun to shoot using natural light, it’s the only medium format camera I’ve had that can fire that fast.

You shoot a lot of portraits, do you think they’re just as important as the actual ‘action’ shot?

Yes. A portrait gives so much opportunity to show a subject’s personality, and there’s so much room to get creative. I also think there are lots of moments around the action that make really interesting photos too and are great to piece together a story.

I focus on shooting that stuff a lot more than I used to.

Josh Love – Kickflip – Portland, OR During visits to the Portland Art Museum over the past few years I would pause at this window on the top floor and frame up this shot in my mind.

One rainy day Josh and I were cruising around the area and I remembered this idea, so I stopped in and shot a quick roll through the Xpan.

It’s something I tend to forget about at the time because of setting up flashes, worrying about security etc. But they’re just as important, especially when looking back at old images. What do you do for a living?

Klay Andersen – Polejam Indy – Portland, OR

I do photography full time. Most of my work is shooting ad campaigns for brands that make gear for use in the outdoors, so a lot of ski and snowboard, biking, fly fishing, etc. When I’m not on

I would usually show people this spot as a joke; how many people are really going to polejam into a ten foot drop? But Klay Andersen is no joke.

After swapping out for the wheels on my cruiser board, he rolled away from this in just a few tries.

an assignment I try to shoot for editorial submissions with some of my friends who are athletes in those activities. The skate stuff is mostly a passion project, I’m still out skating a lot and most of the guys in these photos are friends I would be skating with anyway.

Do you still live in Washington? Where are you originally from?

I grew up in Gig Harbor, Washington but haven’t lived there for a long time. I was still living there the first couple years I was shooting but then moved to Ketchum, Idaho for about ten years and that’s where I got the opportunity to start working as a photographer. My good friend and roommate at the time, Chatham Baker, was always encouraging me to take photography more seriously and at the same time was working his way from freelancing a little graphic design for

Leo Romero – 50-50 – Portland, OR Last summer I showed Leo and the Bro Style dudes around Portland for a few days. We caught a little session at this spot by my house. Leo ollied up the three stair right into a quick footed 50-50 then went on to play a rad show with local country rockers The Lonesome Billies.

Smith Optics to becoming their creative director along the way gave me the chance to shoot for that brand which I still shoot for today. These days I live in Portland, Oregon.

What was Idaho like? I don’t know much about the skate scene there.

The area I lived in is amazing! It’s a small town surrounded by mountains and rivers with a super active community and unbeatable access to the outdoors. One of my favourite parts of living there was that you could get out of the town and be camping

Nick Propios – Kickflip – Barcelona, Spain

in the middle of nowhere so quickly. The skate scene was small,

Parc del Forum in Barcelona seems to be made to photograph. Same goes for Nick Propios’ kickflips.

but a good group of friends and there are two rad parks, Ketchum and Hailey. There weren’t many street spots but Boise is a three hour drive away so I would take trips down there pretty regularly, especially in the winter when the local parks were filled with snow.

Michael – Burnside, Portland, OR This is Michael. I don’t know much about him except that he was hanging around Burnside pretty regularly a couple summers ago. He would end a lot of his runs with a carve around the deep bowl, but not be able to roll back out of it and would climb up the waterfall to get out. It was a real struggle for him to get back out but he would keep skating into the bowl again and again, it was inspiring to watch.

Myles Laurion – Backside Tailslide – Portland, OR This is one of those spots that looks great but is actually really hard to skate. I love shooting there because in the summer the last light of day hits the spot perfect and throws those shadows from the bridge above. On this night clouds blocked the sun right up until sunset, then when it popped out Myles snapped up from the little bump and nailed a couple back tailslides.

Napoleon Dynamite is one of my favourite films and that’s set in Idaho, I’ve always wanted to check it out! Haha!

Haha! Yeah that’s a great movie and a pretty good depiction of that part of the state. Just a couple years ago I was down in that area and learned the story about the ligers he likes. In the 90’s there was a place called Ligertown where a sketchy guy had a compound full of African lions and hybrid wolves, and he had cross bred lions and tigers to make ligers. One night a bunch of the lions escaped and came down to the little town and farms. So the cops and townspeople went to war and had to shoot like 20 of them. Then they went up to the compound and rescued the rest of them from the shitty conditions the guy kept them in, and burned the place to the ground.

Damn that’s crazy. I wonder if that’s where the inspiration for using the Liger in the movie came from.

It’s got to be. I bet it’s pretty common in that part of the state for a kid’s favourite animal to be a liger.

Have you ever had any run-ins with any dangerous wildlife when you’ve been out working?

Luckily I haven’t had anything too sketchy happen with wildlife, besides getting a little too close to moose and bears on accident.

There are definitely some gnarly predators out there like mountain lions, though it’s rare to see them. They know that you are there, but they usually keep hidden and just watch humans that come into their zone. Late one Fall I was out with a buddy cutting firewood and as we hauled wood back to load up the truck we noticed fresh mountain lion tracks in the snow right next to ours.

Trevor Ward – Crooked Grind - Portland, OR Trevor hit me up to check out an underground spot he had been skating a bunch during all the rain this winter. When he told me where it was I thought it would be a bust for sure, but we skated there for a couple hours, a cop came down but he was stoked we were having fun. The only other person we saw crawled out of a manhole and hauled away a shopping cart full of junk.

Never saw it though, was like it just came by to check us out.

Trevor Ward – Fastplant – Vancouver, WA A big old fastplant on a brand new boardwalk.

Trevor came close to crossing state lines in front of one of the bridges that spans the Columbia River from Washington to Oregon.

Are moose dangerous? I know they’re pretty big but don’t know what kind of damage they could do.

They can get aggressive, especially with dogs. I know a couple people whose dogs have been stomped by moose.

What’s your stance on hunting?

I don’t do it, but I understand it and respect the self sufficiency of people who hunt for their food. It seems like a lot healthier way to go if you can eat meat from the wild rather than something that has been raised on a production line and pumped full of chemicals. Similarly, I like growing vegetables because it feels like you are providing some healthy food for yourself instead of relying on a producer for it all.

I think the food regulations in the US are a lot worse than over here. I’m not sure if it’s because I’m getting older that I notice these things more or that there’s so much information out there now that you can’t help but take notice. How long have you been growing your own food?

I’ve been growing a handful of veggies out in my backyard for the past couple years. Not a big operation, just playing around with it.

It’s been cool to learn about it and see the plants grow from nothing into good food.

What are your plans for the rest of the year?

The rest of the year is filling up really quickly with travel for my commercial work so I’m going to try to stay on top of that while the work is flowing. But more importantly I’m going to make sure to take advantage of all the downtime I can. Making time to hangout with my girlfriend, take my dog to the park, skate and go on bike rides is my priority.

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Theories

In an era where the population is constantly distracted by their televisions and iphones meet Saint Clare of Assissi the patron saint of television. Pope Pius XII declared Saint Clare as the patron saint of television just as tvs were becoming common. This might seem odd as St Clare lived centuries beofre the advent of the tv. So, what is the connection... Saint Clare is the first person to experience a “broadcast� mass.

Near the end of her life, when she became too ill to attend mass in person, the Holy Spirit projected the service onto her wall so that she did not have to leave her bed. The new god for a new era of distracting one's self from reality and a narcissistic worship of social media.

Film Gallery

Daniel Nicholas 360 Flip Photographer - Graham Tait Camera - Canon EOS3 Film - Ilford HP5 (pushed 2 stops) Location - Edinburgh, Scotland

“I don’t know who found this spot and have no idea how it’s gone so long without being documented!

Daniel takes time out of his 26th birthday to handle this gap without his board getting wet even once.”

Ryan Thompson FS Lipslide Pop In Photographer - Graham Tait Camera - Canon EOS3 Film - Ilford HP5 (pushed 2 stops) Location - Crystal Palace, London

“Ryan was over from Texas with some team mates from Roger Skateboards for a couple of weeks to film some clips. This was my first time meeting him and first time going to this spot. It’s as hard to skate as it looks.”

Yaje Popson Nose Wheelie Photographer - Graham Tait Camera - Canon EOS3 Film - Ilford HP5 (pushed 2 stops) Location - Museum Of Art, Philadelphia

“This is round the back of the infamous Rocky steps. I love the Rocky movies so I’m not embarrassed to say that as soon as Yaje put this down I ran round to get a photo of the statue.”

Niklas Speer von Cappeln BS Tailslide Photographer - Felix Adler Camera - Hasselblad 500CM Film - Fuji Provia 100F Location - Hamburg, Germany

Gustav Helestad 360 Flip Photographer - Felix Adler Camera - Hasselblad 500CM Film - Fuji Provia 100F Location - Copenhagen, Denmark

Walter Kraemer Wallie No Comply Photographer - Andreas Satzinger Camera - Leica M6 Film - Ilford HP5 then printed on Ilford Multigrade IV Paper Location - Prague, Czech Republic.

Portrait - Regensburg, Germany

Raymundo Stadelmann Boardslide Pop Out Photographer - Balthazar Wyss Camera - Pentax 6x7 Film - Ilford Delta 3200 Location - Basel, Switzerland

“While the Go Skateboarding Day session was going on in Basle, Raymundo and a few others took some distance to skate a sketchy wooden fence away from the crowd.�

Gabriel Zufferey Nose Wheelie Photographer - Balthazar Wyss Camera - Minolta SRT-303b Film - Ilford HP5 Location - Valparaiso, Chile

Nate Martinsen Fs 50-50 Photographer - Bobby Murphy Camera - Mamiya 7, 3 off camera strobes Film - Kodak Portra 160 developed at home Location - Hartford, Connecticut, USA

“In his Chrome Ball Incident interview, Jahmal Williams said: “To me, that’s the real part of being a street skater; knowing how to get around the city and all the ins-and-outs of it. Having things figured out, like where to get free food, free rides on the transit or whatever.” This always made sense to me; a difference between people that might be good at skating, and skaters.

Luc came to town with Gabriel Zufferey and hit me up. We’d never met before, we had just been shooting the shit digitally as I dug the videos those guys were putting out. I still had to joke about their weird fetish for terrible French rap, but Luc kept insisting that I was just old. Anyway, we spent an afternoon in the dead of winter by the Seine, getting this one. After that, I took them to my favorite old men café, where we shot more shit, this time with drinks.

Then, I learned that those two had jumped the train to Paris, were staying with a tagger friend, and had already figured out the best train to catch without getting caught, back to Switzerland. Next morning, I heard that they went drunkenly tagging when I went home. Not that I questioned either of them being skaters, but now I had my answer. Now if they would just grow out of the shitty French gangster rap phase...”

Luc Boimond Fakie FS Crook Photographer - Benjamin Deberdt Camera - Nikon F5 Film - Kodak Tri-X Location - Paris, France

Chris Vaughan Slappy FS Crook Photographer - Cameron Markin Camera - Nikon FM2 Film - Ilford Delta 3200 Location - Sydney, Australia

Dean Parsons FS Noseslide Photographer - Cameron Markin Camera - Nikon FM2 Film - Ilford Delta 3200 Location - Wollongong, Australia

Nahuel Kirchhoff BS Lipslide Photographer - Jan Vollmann Camera - Leica M6 Film - AGFA APX400 Location - Berlin, Germany

“One of those searching-countlesshours-for-spots-and-just-claimboarding type of days with finally one BS Lipslide going down, and me ripping off that old errortype:11 crank ep cover.�

Rowan Davis FS Nosegrind Photographer - Brendan Frost Camera - Action: Nikon F90x, Portrait: Mamiya RB67 Film - Action: Kodak Ektar 100, Portrait: Fuji Provoa 100F Location - Newcastle, NSW, Australia

Mauro Caruso BS Overcrook Photographer - Fabien Ponsero Camera - Hasselblad X-Pan Film - Fuji Pro 400H (converted to b&w) Location - Marina di Ragusa, Italy

David Bachl BS Tailslide Photographer - Fabien Ponsero Camera - Hasselblad X-Pan Film - Rollei RPX 400 (pushed to 800) Location - Magaluf, Spain

Ash Linkar FS Boardslide Photographer - Wade McLaughlin Camera - Nikon F60 Film - Kodak Portra 800 Location - Brisbane, Australia

“This really is just a shit spot.

Uneven/minimal run up and it’s quite high, not that this angle shows that at all. I just really like the lines from above and pushed young Ash into doing it so I could nab this frame.”

Ben Weir BS Overcrook Photographer - Wade McLaughlin Camera - Nikon F60 Film - Kodak Color Plus 200 Location - Melbourne, Australia

“One frame was all that was needed to capture this BS Overcrook because Ben is stupidly consistent and did this a couple of times with ease.�

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MANNY LOPEZ Photography by Graham Tait Interview by Neil Macdonald @scienceversuslife

Everytimesomebodymentionsyourname,somebody else seems to ask where you’re from. Where are you from, Manny?

My dad is Colombian and my mom is Canadian, and I was born in Peterborough, Ontario, a little town about two hours away from Toronto. I grew up there until I was ten years old, and then we moved to Hong Kong for two years, because my mom worked as a High School teacher, and she applied for a job as primary principal overseas.

She got it, and so we moved out of this tiny little town where barely anybody lives to one of the most densely-populated places in the world, which was a crazy change.

Do you consider London home now?

Yeah, I’ve been here for ten years now, and four on my own. I definitely enjoy it here.

What was the trip you were just on?

I went to the Basque Country with Levi’s, on a camping trip. We were travelling back and forth between France and Spain, in a van, and just setting up tents anywhere we could find, legally and illegally. It was pretty difficult to get a proper sleep and to feel motivated every day but it was definitely a lot of fun. I hadn’t been to the Basque Country before and it’s a really beautiful place with loads of spots.

Switch Crook

I’d have thought Levi’s would be picking you up in a limo and putting you in fine hotels.

Haha! We chose to do it this way, that was the whole concept. Justin Biddle and Shaun Witherup were already travelling throughout Spain and France on their motorcycles, and Justin pitched the idea to Levi’s to sort out a camping trip, and hire a van. And it worked out. It was a Levi’s / Jenkem edit, the Jenkem filmer Alex Raspa came over. So I think the edit’s for Jenkem, but with Levi’s supporting it.

What was it like filming for CoverVersion, knowing that it was going to be quite a big deal?

It was a really sick! It’s a really good crew. I’ve filmed with Kev [Parrott] before, and I’d done stuff with Harry [Lintell], so that made it more comfortable. Everyone, the whole crew, are such great people and it worked out really well. Dan Magee can get a bit much sometimes. I love him one-on-one, but in a crew he can get a bit much!

He can get in your head sometimes.

As long as he didn’t dictate your trouser choice, right?

Were you guys out filming as a crew or was it solo missions? It feels like a pretty crew-heavy video.

Haha! He was surprisingly nice to me about that, but there were times where he just had to say something! It was definitely a mix of both. Not everyone could skate all the time, and Dan and Kev both had their own work going on too.

Everyone had their own schedules, either with work or trip-related, so it was pretty crazy how everything came together; it was just so on-andBoardslide

off for two and a half years.

How long did your ender take, the back lip on the Southbank Centre hubba?

I tried it for the first time in the winter, in 2018. It was really painful. I kept sticking on the hubba and I had to keep waxing it over and over, and eventually it started sliding. I landed on one, but it didn’t look like I landed, and I rolled and fell off.

It was all wild, I didn’t have any control and I just fell right off. Went for it again and got kicked out, so I went back in the summertime, but it was a really hot day and the sun was beating down on the hubba and the wax was getting melted and it wasn’t working at all. It was even worse that time!

So we waited again, until it got colder, and we went back, but it was getting to the point where I didn’t think I was ever going to roll away from it. For the first time I just felt like lying down there and maybe having a cry or something! I was so frustrated, and it’s so frustrating because you grip on the floor when you slam, you don’t slide or anything. I tweaked my ankle on the try before the make, and I thought I’d really messed it up. I was trying ollies on flat and I could barely pop, so I took a breather for about ten minutes, before I went back up there. I knew it was the last attempt so I had to go for it, and it just ended up working out! It was a complete blackout. Just landed and rolled away.

You took a bit of a beating making that part. You alright?

I just take really bad body slams. Luckily no bad tweaks, nothing with the knees or ankles. Cutting myself open, banging my head, everything else but I’ve been lucky.

Pop Over to Fakie

Have you got a favourite UK video?

How did you get on Habitat?

Lost and Found is an amazing video. I really like

I’ve been getting boards from Habitat for about

all the Blueprint videos. I didn’t actually see the

three years now. Right after I left Fabric I got hit

full thing until about two years ago! I’d seen the

up by Callum Francis, who worked at Keen at the

parts on YouTube, but never the full video. It’s a

time, and he told me that they were looking for a

great video. UK skateboarding in general is just

Habitat UK rider, somebody to represent them in

amazing. It forces you to really think about what

the UK. I was definitely down, I’ve always been a

you wanna do and how to go about it. The spots

big fan of Habitat; the videos are incredible and the

are so good and look good. There are so many

team’s amazing. Getting boards from Keen lasted

incredible UK skateboarders right now. The Isle

around a year and a half, then it got switched over

video and Eleventh Hour are incredible videos.

to Rock Solid, and from then on it was more of a

Jake [Harris] did an amazing job with Eleventh

direct deal. I still get the boards from Rock Solid

Hour.

but I’m in contact with Brennan Conroy, the team manager in the States. They’re backing me and I

What happened with Fabric?

know a few guys on the team. I met Brian Delatorre in Oakland a few months ago and we

I definitely feel they have a really good team now,

got on really well.

with people from up north who can get together more often. When I skated for Fabric I barely saw

Where is your favourite place in the world to be?

anybody; the person I saw the most was Baines.

I had a friend from Holland who skated for Fabric

I really like London. It’s home to me. In the winter

and the only times we met up was for trips. We

it can get you pretty down, but fortunately enough

went on some good trips too, we went to Cyprus

I’ve been able to travel quite a bit with my

which was fun. I definitely got along with everyone

sponsors, or to have a travel budget to be able to

but over time it seemed like it just wasn’t right for

go places. I’m definitely grateful to be able to get

me then. I’d been getting into other things, and

out as much as I can.

wanted to see what would happen if I didn’t have any board sponsor at all. It was hard though, it was hard having to make the phone call. They’ve had my back since I moved to London. David from Native is a really good guy and I get along really well with Baines but it was just something that I needed to do and I’m glad I did it.

BS Lipslide

What’s your living situation just now?

I just moved into Charlie [Munro]’s place, I’m living in his living room right now! I’ve been here for a few days now, My girlfriend and I just broke up. I was in a unhealthy relationship. She’s an amazing girl but my head was getting all fucked up and it got to the point where I couldn’t even skate. When I was on that Basque Country trip I felt so shit the whole time. It got to the point where I didn’t even feel like I was a skateboarder any more. Nothing was working at all and my brain was somewhere else. That was what kind of did it for me. I saw my dad last week, we had a good chat and I opened up about things I hadn’t told anyone, and eventually it became a no-brainer, something I had to do. I really want to skate and all the opportunities are there with good support from sponsors. I’m still young so I just want to go for it and focus on that, and see whatever happens.

It’s good that you spoke to somebody about it, and that you realised and acknowledged what was happening in the first place.

That’s the thing. I was putting her before myself for about three years, and it got to the point where I loved her more than I loved myself. I didn’t really talk about it at all, and just kept it to myself, out of respect for her and everything. I spoke to Charlie about it the most, but not even getting to what I needed to say. It sucks and it fuckin’ hurts. I love her and she’s a great girl so I wish her all the best, but I need take control of my life now.

FS Ollie

What’s your next trip?

I think I might be going to Berlin in a couple of weeks, for a premiere and to film with Jon Wolf, who lives out there. He’s an American guy who’s been living in Berlin for, I think, ten years now. I met him on the first Levi’s trip I went on, when we went to Napoli and we got along really well. And Berlin is an amazing place to skate anyway; it’s got loads of spots and some of them are pretty much untouched. It’s a cool city, it’s definitely a party city!

After that I might be going to South America with Levi’s, in October, but it’s not confirmed yet. It’d either be Colombia or Mexico, so I really hope it’s Colombia! I’ll be going out to SF too, to film for Deluxe, for Thunder and Spitfire. I really want to put out another video part, and just travel around and get bits and pieces, but it’s hard to do with just one filmer. I’ll need to mix it up with filmers and gather footage. I’m filming for the new Habitat Control Room, for Thrasher. I got some footage in San Francisco and now they want me to get some London footage because I live here.

Obligatory shout outs?

Shout out to mi Papa! Kev and Dan, the Blips crew, all my friends, Thanks UK skateboarding for having my back. Thanks for the support New Balance, Levi’s, Habitat, Thunder, Spitfire, Skate Deluxe. Much love to Baines, Mackey, Alan Glass, Nate Alton, Chris and Eric! Thank you Graham and Neil for the interview! You guys rule.

Fakie Heelflip

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