Stance: Why does everyone always wanna talk about politics?
Hometown: Temperance, Michigan
Years skating: 16
Board size: 8.25
Favorite skater: Brad
Best skate video: Boyish, by Jackson Casey
Dream spot: Any downtown area.
Favorite city: San Francisco
nose grind pole dodge
Proudest skate memory: I nose grinded up this pretty gnarley pole jam rail thing once during Emerica wild in the street in Detroit. I think it was in 2010.
Best feeling trick: Nosegrind
Bad speed wobble experience: An ex-girlfriend was skitching me and got all the way up to 35 miles an hour. I went down pretty hard and hit my head. Super embarrassing haha.
If we googled you, would we find anything out??: The guy who has the exact same name as me who has 100 orgasms a day. (Not clickbait)
Hometown: Columbia, SC, I tell everyone Long Beach, CA though, because I’m embarassed.
Years skating: 16, more years than most new pros have been alive
Board size: 8.25 when I’m actually skating a normal board
Favorite skater: Sebo Walker atm
Best skate video: Yeah Right’s my faves
Dream spot: diy flatbar and box in super open parking lot
Favorite city: LA
Song recommendation: “i go to sleep” by Anika
Proudest skate memory: getting on Bluetile
Fs lip off the bump?
Best feeling trick: fakie flips
Bad speed wobble experience: traveled through woods, found unfinished road, bombed whole thing, got rekt, now i live with a somewhat numb area above my left knee.
If we googled you, would we find anything out??: I secretly make youtube videos talking about my deepest insecurities
Worst camping experience? only been camping once, and it was awesome. So that one was the worst, and the best.
Bad speed wobble experience: when I was in 5th grade, my friend reggie and I decided to try to skate to school and we both got speed wobble at the same time going down a super mellow hill otw. We walked into school all scraped up and shit. Put the boards in our lockers and went to class lookin rugged.
If we googled you, would we find anything out??: photo stuff
years skating: I lost count but I think it’s been 11
board size: 8.25
favorite skater: Jason Dill
best skate video: Mindfield
dream spot: not sure about my dream spot but any spot can be fun with your friends there.
favorite city: Santa Fe, New Mexico
song recommendation: anything by the Bob Dylan or Beach House
Frontal Feeble in your Face
proudest skate memory: it’s a tie between my first kickflip and getting on Bluetile. They were both super sick days.
best feeling trick: frontside airs
bad speed wobble experience: luckily I haven’t had one yet
if we googled you, would we find anything out??: I did a really bad 720 bigspin down some skatepark stairs when I was 15
worst camping experience? Driving to New Mexico for 30 hours straight and when we got there it was pouring down rain. The roads were washing away on the way to the camp site and when we finally got there it quit raining for just enough time to set the tent up. Then it didn’t quit raining for the next day.
Best skate video:Giant spider skates to rave on PCP* or something like that, I just really like watching it with all my friends and laughing and freaking out at the same time
nose slap off the “bump?”
Dream spot:some sort of wallie or slappy
Favorite city:Albuquerque was so nice
Song recommendation:ashton martin music chopped n screwed
Proudest skate memory:I’ve never thrown up at a contest before, I feel pretty proud about that. Also, skateboner cover (shout out to Matt)
Best feeling trick:a phat O from the deck to flat
Bad speed wobble experience: I’ve had soo many… one time Garet and I bombed this impossible hill in PA at the same time and we both started getting the wobbles at the same time. He was a little ahead of me so I watched him go down so hard, he slid on his neck on the curb and ripped up his sweatshirt… I made it through the wobbles but like I said it was an impossible hill so i had to either make a 90º turn or dive into this yard so I penguin slid like 20 yards into these peoples yard. It was our first day in Pittsburgh and the homies literally told us not to do it because it was impossible so I guess thats why we wanted to try it?
If we googled you, would we find anything out??: one time my friend sent me a screen shot of a google search and somehow there was some article about me on some skate lesson website and I was referred as “Irving the skate guru” I never found this article myself
Worst camping experience?Nothing too out of the ordinary, I’m just a complainer so like waking up in a puddle of sweat or being in a tent full of stinky ass dudes and their stinky ass feet. Always great times still.
Board size: 8.38 has been treating me nice as of late
Favorite skater: Not a fan of picking favorites. I always liked Kirchart growing up. Ishod Wair is a current heavy weight that I back. Lizzy Armanto’s smith grinds are pretty hard to beat. Brandon Westgate swims upstream and thats pretty cool.
Back board the whole thang!
Best skate video: Welcome To Hell
Dream spot: Russel House 7 stair handrail when that was around
Favorite city: The ones where my friends and family are at.
Song recommendation: Louis Armstrong did a recording of Harry Wood’s song Red Red Robin Comes Bob Bob Bobbin’ Along, that one always puts a smile on my face.
Proudest skate memory: Towards the end of high school I managed to film 6 personal NBD’s between the Russel House 7 stair and 10 stair handrails all in the same afternoon. Was feeling pretty juiced after that.
Best feeling trick: Frontside flips feel pretty cool when they work. I also really like smith grinds.
Bad speed wobble experience: I chased Willy Akers down a hill outside of some skatepark in PA or DE can’t remember which. He won, but I don’t even think the slam was that bad. I guess I’ve been pretty lucky on the speed wobble front.
If we googled you, would we find anything out??: You’d find out that I share a name with a guy who Will Smith did a movie about. Dude and his son had it pretty rough for awhile, then through pure determination, he turned things around. Boot straps kinda story. Pretty sure he does motivational speaking stuff now. You’d have to dive pretty deep and/or refine your search before you found anything about me.
Tall 50-50 at the Greenhole
“Didn’t get any rest and my body felt like a soggy raisin”
Worst camping experience? Was in TN once with some friends and we were all sharing one of those big family sized tents. Some gnarly rain started up and the side of the tent I was on was a little lower in ground level. The water pooled up pretty bad and I just kinda laid there in 6 inches of water till the sun came up. Didn’t get any rest and my body felt like a soggy raisin, but it was still fun.
