skateboarding

“The era that I grew up in, a three 60 was the most you could spin, and then Mike McGill did the five 40, and then I did a seven 20, And then, 14 years passed, and between that and a 900.”

“They do 900. They do back to back 900. One kid did a kick flip body barrel 900. You know, so he's got a kickflip in the middle of the 900.”

“To reach the top of skateboarding at the time I did it meant that you got your picture in a magazine. That was it. I mean, truly, like, first place for a competition was a hundred dollars.”

“When Back to the Future came out in 85, kids wanted skateboards. I mean, Marty McFly invented the skateboard, and a lot of kids, that was their first glimpse of what's possible. So there was this sort of wave of popularity that happened, like, 86 to ninety-ish”

“There's a mindset, especially in skateboarding, where you want to make it, right? You want to get on the cover of Thrasher, or you want to have a good video part, or you want to win a contest, and if you get to that goal, you might lose your incentives.”