It\u2019s just fun, bro. It\u2019s what has made me happy my whole life. I\u2019ve been skating for a long time and it\u2019s just as fun as when I started, so I just want to skate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do you remember how you got into skateboarding?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I remember seeing a toy skateboard in a magazine when I was younger and I just wanted it and then I got it for Christmas and I fell in love with it and I kept doing it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Do you remember what flipped the switch on for you with skateboarding?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I did a kickturn when I was really young and I thought it was a trick. I was like, \u201cThat was crazy!\u201d The front of the board just went up and I turned a little bit. I still get that same excited feeling when I\u2019m trying to do something hard or something I\u2019ve always wanted to do. It\u2019s unexplainable really. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Where do you come from?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m from Aurora, Colorado, originally. It\u2019s cool out there and the parks out there are great. I grew up at Trails Recreation Center and that\u2019s where I skated forever when I was a kid. I skated at Wheel Park before that. That\u2019s a little bit older of a park, but shout outs to Aurora, Colorado. <\/p>\n\n\n\n When did you move to California?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n When I finished college I was trying to be in warmer weather and pursue skating as much as I can. I wanted to see what was up out here and I already had some friends out here, so I was like, \u201cI\u2019m going to make the move and try to get a job and see what happens with skating.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n When was this?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n That was five years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Where did you move to out here?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I moved to Koreatown first and then I ended up in Mid-City. I\u2019ve been around there since. It\u2019s cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n How did you hook up with Powell?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Deville came to Westchester one night and I was skating and he asked me who I skated for. At the time, I had a board sponsor, so I sorta chilled for a while. I ended up hitting Deville up a year later to see if I could come skate with them. He was like, \u201cYeah. Come through.\u201d I linked up with them and he was like, \u201cYou can try some boards if you want.\u201d I tried \u2018em and it was cool. Westchester! Best place ever. Shout out to Westchester Skate Plaza!<\/p>\n\n\n\n What did you go to school for?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I went to school for marketing and I got my little Bachelor\u2019s degree. Being all the way real, that\u2019s the most useless business degree. I wish I would have studied finance. After I graduated, I realized that you learn more about marketing from firsthand experience. They can teach you X, Y and Z from a book but you really learn from being around people who have businesses and weren\u2019t afraid to make mistakes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n School of hard knocks. That works.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yeah. I couldn\u2019t get a job with a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Marketing. They said, \u201cWhere is your experience?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n You seem pretty motivated. Do you ride for anyone besides Powell?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I get a little hook up through New Balance and Acid Chemical Co. Wheels out of San Diego and I get Andale Bearings. 303 Boardshop in Colorado and Pharmacy Boardshop in Hollywood are my two board shops. I love 303. They\u2019re cool. They\u2019ve held me down for years. Shout outs to Pharmacy too because they were gracious enough to allow me to maintain my relationship with 303. Shout out to 303 too because they were cool with it too. I\u2019m from Colorado, but I live in California, so they were both cool with that, and I really appreciate both of them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s love. So if you had to describe your style, how would you describe it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I just skate for fun, honestly. I just do tricks that I like and that\u2019s what\u2019s cool to me. I don\u2019t really know if I have a description for my style. I just cruise around and try stuff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n What kind of music do you like to listen to?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mostly hip hop. I listen to a lot of rap and oldies. I like funk music from back in the day like Dazz Band and Bootsy Collins and stuff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We love Bootsy Collins. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yeah. For real. His music is hard. I listen to a lot of hip hop and a lot of funk and some jazz here and there too, a little low-fi hip hop instrumentals when I\u2019m chilling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I love funk music too. If you could have any super power what would it be?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s a good question. I would like the ability to regenerate and heal really quickly. I would try a lot more stuff skating if I could heal quickly and regenerate from injuries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s a good one. What do you think are your biggest challenges in life?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n My biggest challenge is to not stress on small stuff. I get wrapped up in things that don\u2019t necessarily matter and then it turns into an issue in my own head, but it\u2019s not really existing. That\u2019s a big thing for me that I\u2019m working on. It\u2019s also maintaining patience. I can be patient to a certain extent, but sometimes that\u2019s not enough and you have to be patient more, so I\u2019m working on consistent patience. The patience thing is no joke. I\u2019ve been working on it my whole life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n How do you think skating helps that?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It takes my mind off of whatever is bugging me for the most part. At the same time, it can sometimes go the complete opposite direction. If I\u2019m having a bad day skating, it might just be like, \u201cThis sucks and now this sucks too. I\u2019m about to just go home.\u201d When it is helping, it keeps my mind focused on what I\u2019m doing in the present. It\u2019s not like anything else I could be doing, like video games. It really keeps me distracted because you have to pay attention to try tricks and stuff. Even pushing down the street, you have to pay attention. If you fall, you\u2019re extra mad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yeah. It\u2019s a weird deal. I said to someone the other day, \u201cIf you want to live in the complete present, ride a skateboard.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Exactly. That\u2019s the best way to do it. As human beings, it\u2019s very common to be living in the past and the future. I think living in the future is the worst. You have all sorts of hypotheticals that could happen and that\u2019s really stressful. Skateboarding keeps me in the present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think a lot of people have learned, since the coronavirus pandemic, that you can\u2019t really plan anything.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Absolutely. It\u2019s crazy. It\u2019s so left field for everybody. It\u2019s terrifying, but there can be therapeutic aspects to it with the whole quarantine thing. That\u2019s how I found out that my girlfriend and I have a really good relationship because we were locked down in this house and I was only skating two hours a day and we were co-existing perfectly. It has been therapeutic for both of us and it\u2019s been good quality time for us both. We are in a really healthy relationship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s great. So what does it mean to you to be on Powell?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s cool! It\u2019s super family driven and we all skate together. It\u2019s been chill. As far as defining what it means, it\u2019s homies that get together and skate. If you land something, you land it. If you don\u2019t, you don\u2019t. That\u2019s cool too. It\u2019s just getting in the field and trying to make it happen and being around good people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Where have you travelled in the world for skating?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019ve been to China once and it was cool and so much fun. I\u2019ve been to New York, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, San Diego and all over California. As far as stuff that is noteworthy in my mind, it was China. That was a cool experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Where would you like to go?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I just go with the wind. Whenever someone has a plot to go skate somewhere, if it sounds cool, I\u2019m down. Off the top, I need to visit Barcelona. That just has to happen. If you skate, you go to Barcelona at some point. I really want to go to Copenhagen too. I\u2019ve been to Mexico on a little trip and that was really fun. I went to Ensenada. That was super close to Chula Vista, San Diego, where I was at, so we went there. It was cool. I\u2019m pretty much down for whatever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you had to describe what you want your legacy to be, how would you describe it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I would want to be known as somebody who loved skateboarding with his whole heart and somebody who did their best to be the best human being that they could. I don\u2019t really care about having pull in skateboarding or anything like that. Skateboarding really just makes me happy. What\u2019s really important to me is being the best person that I can be and doing something I enjoy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Do you have shout outs you want to give?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Shout out 303. Shout out Pharmacy Hollywood and Pharmacy Boards. Shout out to my girlfriend. She has really held it down for the last few years and it\u2019s been cool. Shout out Powell and to anybody who has ever done or said anything nice to me. That\u2019s the real shout out. 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