I love it. I can\u2019t stop. I\u2019ve been skating since I was four and I just kept skating. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Where do you come from?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Indiana. <\/p>\n\n\n\n What did you guys have to skate there? Was it mainly transition or street? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Our main park was mostly transition. The street section was kinda like a joke, so I grew up skating a lot of transition. I actually grew up going to Skatopia a lot in Ohio. It was a four-hour drive, but it was good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019ve been to Skatopia. We used to go there for the Bowl Bashes and potato gun wars. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n We had to have been there at the same time. I shot a potato gun at this dude on Heckle Hill and it smoked someone\u2019s case of beer and they were heated. They were trying to fight me and I was like 12. They were like, \u201cOh, I can\u2019t fight you.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s crazy! I was there the year that Dustin Dollin was there with Remy and Volcom and the year before that too. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Did you know Morgan Burgess, the bowl riding kid? That\u2019s who I went with. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Yes! Science and Morgan came out to California and we took them to the Jet Inn and a bunch of spots.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Dude! Science rips. I don\u2019t think Morgan skates anymore. He broke his legs really bad in a pool. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He was a gnarly little kid. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yeah. He was like the youngest kid to do a McTwist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He had a mullet too!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s crazy. Small world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Yeah. The East Coast scene is tight. When you brought up Heckle Hill, that is pure East Coast. Out here, when you heckle people, they get mad. They don\u2019t know that, if you suck, we won\u2019t even heckle you. If you\u2019re ripping, you\u2019re going to get heckled. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yeah. You better do it proper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Did you have winters there too? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Oh yeah. It\u2019s like a frozen tundra from November to early March and then it just goes to rain and humidity. I drove back there a few weeks ago and it was nice weather all the way to Kansas and then it sucked. When we got to Indiana, it was 95% humidity. It was bad. I skated once for 45 minutes. Out here I\u2019ve been skating all day and I\u2019m not even sweating. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Midwest weather is gnarly. What do you think your biggest challenges were growing up in Indiana and skating?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s the seasons for sure. The concrete at spots gets fucked and the grass is growing up and pushing through. It ruins spots that are good. <\/p>\n\n\n\n How long ago did you come out here?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It will be two years ago next month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Why and how?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I just wanted to skate more. At one point, I almost quit skating and went into the Marines. I was dating the same girl that I\u2019m dating now and she pushed me back into skating. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Did you actually join the Marines?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n No. It was a Thursday and I was supposed to sign on a Friday and I just skipped. I passed the physical test and everything and then I was like, \u201cFuck this.\u201d It was a split decision. I woke up that morning and I was like, \u201cI\u2019m not doing this.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Well, props for being willing to sign up.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yeah. I feel bad for not because I convinced a lot of people that I was going to sign up but then I was like, \u201cWait. I want to skate still.\u201d My girlfriend got a job at Ernst & Young. It\u2019s an accounting firm and she got put out here so she was like, \u201cDo you want to move to California?\u201d I was like, \u201cYeah. Immediately.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Where do you stay out here?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I live in Fountain Valley. It\u2019s pretty much inland from Huntington Beach, a block in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So you\u2019ve been out here for a few years. How did you get hooked up with Powell?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I knew Dan Corrigan. We\u2019d been skating together since I moved out here and he just called me one day. I was back home visiting for Christmas and I was snowboarding and he was like, \u201cHey, can you come skate tomorrow?\u201d I said, \u201cNope. I\u2019m in Indiana right now.\u201d He said, \u201cOkay, give me a call when you get back.\u201d He didn\u2019t really give me a heads up that we were going to be skating with the Powell dudes and then two or three sessions later, Deville was stoked on me, I guess. I liked how it was organic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Nice. What does it mean to you to ride for Powell now?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s really sick. It sparked that want to film a full on heavy part. I was skating for James Kelch and his company Hella Cool and I actually had a board for him. When I came out here I was like, \u201cI\u2019m not a pro skateboarder by any means.\u201d I had to call James and tell him, \u201cI might be pro for you, but I\u2019m not pro out here. I have to restart.\u201d We were cool. It wasn\u2019t like a hateful thing. So that happened and then three or four months passed and I got swooped up by Powell and I like it. I\u2019m doing good and the team feels good. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Do you have any other sponsors?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yeah. Blacklist Board Shop back in Indiana and this CBD Weed Shop called Motive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cool. What kind of music are you into?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I like a lot of different music. I stream everything from grindcore to psychedelic music or beats. It\u2019s usually stuff made with good intention, not stuff just made to be produced. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Good answer. What\u2019s been your favorite skate session since you\u2019ve moved here?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n We skate some pretty gnarly spots so it\u2019s hard to say. Having Deville with us eliminates that fear of being arrested at these spots when we skate at school or skate the roofs. We lose that fear factor and we get to skate these spots that are perfect. We skated the Long Beach sign and it has a big O in the middle. It\u2019s a fullpipe, but it\u2019s only a few feet wide. That was really fun. At that session, it was crazy because a cop pulled up and Deville said, \u201cDo you want to talk to him?\u201d I was like, \u201cNo.\u201d [Laughs] You almost feel invincible when you\u2019ve got Deville with you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Deville is the man. Speaking of being invincible, if you could have any super power, what would it be?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It would be not getting hurt. If I could never break a bone, that would be great. When I was younger, I used to get broke off a lot. I used to race BMX and I\u2019ve broken 25 bones. I broke my right wrist five times and my left wrist four times and I broke my hand, my shoulder, my jaw, my tailbone and my ribs. We get broke off skating too. With biking, you\u2019d hit a jump and you\u2019re clipped in and you didn\u2019t know how much speed you had going, so that alone was live or die. <\/p>\n\n\n\n What is your biggest challenge in life?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s convincing myself that I can do something. When I\u2019m skating a rail, half of me is like, \u201cWhat the fuck are you doing?\u201d The other half of me is like, \u201cYou might have it.\u201d I never have that full confidence. I\u2019m always second guessing myself. That\u2019s what I\u2019ve noticed gets me in a lot of trouble. Sometimes I\u2019ll ollie and be like, \u201cOh, I probably shouldn\u2019t do this.\u201d And then I\u2019ll eat shit. It\u2019s that split moment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Totally. Are you interested in anything else besides skateboarding?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I wanted to go to school for Graphic Design, but I never pulled the trigger on that. I like to draw and sculpt and stuff. It\u2019s fun. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Are you California for life now?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yeah. I think so. So is my girlfriend. It\u2019s so nice out here. I will do whatever I can to live out here and be able to skate all year round. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If you could give some advice to a kid from the Midwest or East Coast, what would you tell them?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Those are some realistic issues. I\u2019ve had to tell friends to wait and not move out and be homeless. Save your money and make sure you have a legit plan. I have two friends that mixed up what I said and they were like, \u201cYou said it was easy to live out here.\u201d I said, \u201cNo! You have to do something with your life out here.\u201d They both came out here on a Greyhound and they were homeless for three months and they tried to blame it on me. I was like, \u201cDude, that\u2019s not real.\u201d I told you the formula and you ignored me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s sound advice. Don\u2019t just come out here. You gotta have a plan. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yeah. You gotta have a plan. You have to know what you\u2019re doing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Do you have any shout outs?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Shout out to my parents, and Deville and all my team riders and my shop owner back at home and everybody that\u2019s smiled and supported me along the way. That\u2019s what it\u2019s all about \u2013 having a good time. Thank you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Craig-Edwards-back-lipDSC06581.jpg\")
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