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He was on the hustle he was making a company. Nobody wanted to fuck with me I remember the last thing I filmed was the switch fronside pop shuv-it at Lockwood in late 2001 and one of the magazines photographers refused to shoot the sequence.
I think he had a deal where he could run ads for pretty cheap or free. Transworld and Big Brother did release certain things of me, though Transworld did because Julio’s part-owner was Larry Balma.
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I was like that Jesse dude.Īfter LA County came out, Julio De La Cruz gave me a couple pro models for Neighborhood and a clothing company out of XLARGE called XLA hooked it up as well. It was like Breaking Bad-except I wasn’t making it. I made the dumbass mistake of not playing dumb.I think when I realized this, I got super depressed and started using some fuckin’ heavy drugs. When you say you’re going to do a company, they need to make sure you don’t get released to the public-like run ads and this and that. So I made the mistake of letting Rodney and them know that I had these intentions. We’re just part of a big machine to sell product. Everything we thought we weren’t-like, we’re not part of society and this and that-bullshit, man. It’s not that there’s no place for it, it’s just that the guys before you think that they deserve to control you and make money off of you because that is what happened to them.
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So I wouldn’t necessarily say blackballed, they just made sure nobody would work with me, plus I think the drugs were another major problem.Īnd then-skateboarding is no place for an entrepreneur. Then you’d look like you copied that dude. There were a lot if kids-including me-that were the same as this, and they’d go and show the footage and then Rodney would go tell whatever pro what trick was going on. So I’m trying to get a check from Rocco and them-cause I need money everyone wants to live the dream. You need to keep that shit a secret, clump all your footage together, and then release. In the skate game or whatever, let’s say you’ve come up with some crazy fuckin trick nobody’s done before. So what happened when they found out that you wanted to start your own company? What happened was that I had decided that if they weren’t gonna pay me, I was gonna start my own board company. They were just stringing me along, though. I met Shiloh in like ’92 at the World park (pre-graffiti period) I remember being star struck. They never saw me skate, it just happened somehow. In 1990 Rocco and Rodney started sponsoring me and that continued till about 1999. Who were you sponsored by in that era and how did you get hooked up with them? If you were able to ignore the competitive aspects and just enjoy the actual moments skating, it was amazing. My prospective was heavily clouded with drugs, but I remember it always having a heavy overtone of competition at all the popular spots. Skateboarding’s funny no matter where you go, it’s super territorial.
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I remember being infatuated with skating after seeing the movie Back to the Future.ĭescribe a typical day skating in LA in the late 90’s when the pit, USC ledges, etc. I am from Breckenridge, Colorado and I started skating in 1985.
Where are you from and how did you get into skating? In the following interview, Chris tells his story, provides a perspective into the inner workings of the industry around the turn of the century, and elucidates a window back in time to a definitive era in Los Angeles. The video has earned status as one of the most celebrated #lowimpact vids ever, yet its creators are still shrouded in mystery.
It seemed like a good opportunity for an interview, both about the trick and about LA County. It was as if a new dead sea scroll was unearthed. A legend grew of someone switch 360 kickflipping over one.Ī few months ago, Chris posted a sequence on his instagram account of him switch 360 flipping over a picnic table. In the years between then and now, a certain subdivision of skate nerdery concerning who has done what over a Cali picnic table flourished. The genesis of this interview took place about five years ago, when Chris emailed me after reading t his post.
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