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So we have our newest guest here.
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And what's your name again?
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I'm sorry.
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I'm okay, it's okay.
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My name is Sam and I like to roller skate.
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Okay, there we go.
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Roller skating, but it's not my school of roller skating.
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Do you do roller derby as well?
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No, actually, unfortunately, growing up, uh, I was too poor to pay for the monthly fees, and also updating all my gear and stuff like that costs a lot of a lot of money, upwards of like$2,000 a year.
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So unfortunately, I just went to the practices but never got to participate in playing.
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But that also led me to going to the skate park next door and testing, you know, just carving through the banks and stuff like that.
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I thought I was the first person to ever roller skate at the skate park until I Googled what it was, and I saw Moxie Roller skates posting YouTube tutorials on how to do all these really cool tricks, and I saw this community in Long Beach full of really, really cool, strong women, and that's what kind of opened the doors for me right there.
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And roller skating has become such a huge part of my life where I feel like my mind and my body are very, very connected, and I can't think about anything else on the outside world like paying bills or whether or not my car's gonna get repo'd or whatever.
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Right.
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It's just life or death, you know, right there and then.
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Yeah.
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So that's what kind of is my therapy, and I love it so much.
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Yeah, and so how old are you, if you don't mind me asking?
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I'm 19.
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19?
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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I can relate because that's about when I I mean I I have a skateboard company, but I've been riding since about 71, 72.
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I still ride.
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Yeah.
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But skateboards.
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Yeah.
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Because I couldn't ride skates.
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I'm actually sponsored by two skateboard companies.
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Oh, really?
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Which ones?
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Uh NFG MFG Wheels out of Northern California.
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I love them real so much.
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Yeah.
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A lot of my really good friends are on the same team as me, and I really, really love the owner.
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He's really cool.
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And then also Rockstar Bearings.
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They're all around the world, but they're based in New York.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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We're gonna I'm gonna get into the whole setup and exactly, you know, riding the rails and all that.
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Because back, I mean, when when I was a kid, you would kind of basically see, and I collect some, you know, metal wheels, and I actually collect vintage skateboards, metal wheels, clay wheels.
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So when it started becoming more and more of I wouldn't say acceptable, but it just kind of writing skates kind of took a turn and got really, really creative and cool and accepted.
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Yeah.
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Because as you know, inline skates are not really they were a fad for a while, but then they died off.
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Yeah, they because of bullying, they were bullied out of skate parks because of uh homophobia specifically.
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Uh they were called fruit boots a lot of the time.
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Oh yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yep.
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You heard that one.
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Gay bleeds?
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Yeah.
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Oh yeah.
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No, I knew a professional inline skater, and but roller skates were if you were like a derby doll.
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Yeah.
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It's because that's when John had told me about you.
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I'm like, is she a derby doll?
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Because my wife knows some derby dolls, and that's just that's some cool ass shit.
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And that's kind of why the skate park community of roller skaters is more women-led because of roller derby.
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A lot of people transition from derby to the parks because they already have the equipment.
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But when you're in a bowl or if you're on the street and you're riding rails and stuff, the gears are not the same as like my wife has some, and I actually have them.
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They're cryptos.
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Yeah.
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So the wheels are a little bit closer to skate wheels.
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They're not your and the whole everything that's marketed is so much different.
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Yeah.
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Right?
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I've seen um a lot of where you can get like vans and then they're modified.
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Yeah, you just have to put an aluminum insole inside to make it more stable, like a skateboard, so it doesn't battery.
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So you could basically turn any shoe into a roller skate.
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Yeah.
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As long as you put a piece of metal or something on the inside that keeps it stable so the trucks turn and the base of the shoe doesn't, then you can make a skate you can make a roller skate basically out of anything.
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So the trucks still move kind of like a skateboard individually.
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Here, let me do you mind if I take off my shirt.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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No, I want to see this because I'm this is gonna be one that I'm gonna be sharing with my wife for for sure.
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Because Jerry's you see, she's riding a rail like a skater would.
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But it's completely different.
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It's not like you know, just the whole concept of how they ride and how their setup is totally different.
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And it's crossing over into some of the skateboard stuff.
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Like the wheels are much better, the bearings.
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The wheels are 98A europhane, so they're a little bit softer so that way I can ride on harder concrete without slipping out.
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But they are 53 so that way I don't get wheel bite whenever I'm running on the coping.
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So these trucks right here are modeled after pennyboard trucks, because that was originally what was put on roller skates to get us to be able to drop grind on pool coping.
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Sure grip.
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Sure grip was it.
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Yep, yeah.
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That's one of my sponsors actually.
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Shout out Sure Grip, yeah.
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Yeah, huge shout out to Sure Grip.
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Sure grip.
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They've been running it since the 30s, they know it's good.
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That's just gave me serious chills, see?
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So another thing is the slider in between the trucks, it hangs on to the kingpins rather than get getting grinded down into the board or the plate, like how typical skateboard would.
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So, because of that extra piece of metal and because of how bulky it is, it actually is about like$100 to$200 on the market rather than the standard 10 to 20 that a board slider would be.
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Right.
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So there's a lot of components in a roller skate that people like to take as um, I guess fashion and not take it seriously, and that's why I feel like the sport has not grown, and more of a cutesy side of it has been blossoming in the more corporate areas, and so people like me who don't necessarily need very cute stuff and more stuff that'll actually last aren't getting that.
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Right.
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Yeah, because um of misogyny, people like to treat roller skates as a fashion accessory rather than a skate tool, and it's really sad.
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Well, it's just like skateboarding now.
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I mean it's a yeah, till these cells complete that are really pretty.
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Yeah.
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The crazy thing is, you know, when I mean I have some that I still make now.
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I I take an old piece of wood just like I did back in the 70s and early 80s, and sugar grip trucks.
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Yep.
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You just take a piece of wood, make it kind of look like a surfboard.
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Used to be able to go to a hardware store and get like spray glue, sandpaper.
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I mean, we had to make it.
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I grew up poor, so I didn't now I have I don't know, three, four hundred skateboards.
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I don't know.
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But when I was growing up, you had to use what you could, and then it died off in the eighties, and Vert skating completely died.
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So that's when I dropped my sponsors.
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Yeah.
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And then it started coming back, and then the nineties was all the big pants thing, and it was kind of like it's still a wooden toy, right?
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And now it's in the Olympics.
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So it's got to really agree with the Olympic judging and skateboarding.
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Yeah, defining it into very simple tricks that really goes against what skateboarding is about, honestly.
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The freedom.
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Yeah, the freedom in being able to choose your style and develop it without an actual box that you're having to put it in.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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And then the judging's a little bit more open, but did you hear the what tricks they were calling out versus what tricks that were actually happening?
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Did you see that?
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No, I didn't I to be honest, I I can't pay any attention.
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I get my my the main place I get my info from is either Instagram when I'm promoting my company or the nine club.
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I listen to that podcast.
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But other than that, I just I'm an old punk rocker.
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I don't I don't Olympics know.
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Yeah.
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Back in the early days, the castle competitions, but actually there was an Olympics, not the Olympics, ABC News or Worlds, I think it was ABC World Sports, wasn't that it, Jerry?
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I think it was uh worldwide sports.
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Yeah, so they would they had you could do slalom, freestyle was one thing that used to be judged, and then downhill.
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Yeah, those are you know if you're going by something that's that I mean if I watch Daylon's song skate and then I watch Tori Pudwell because you know they have their company together, but then if I watch Tony Alva, I can watch Alva and just go, oh yeah.
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The style.
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You know, it's all about the style.
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Yeah, for sure.
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But then you watch Daylon and you're like, how's this guy doing this?
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And then you watch Tori Pudwell, and he can do a back blind, you know, 700 feet, and he makes it look good.
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If so.
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So to judge the style, you know.
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Nowadays a whole bunch of little kids are getting first, second, and third.
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Sky Brown is one that I hear about my favorite child skater is Ruby Lily.
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She's coming out of Prince Park, and I love her so much.
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She's great.
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Out of Prince up here?
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Yeah.
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Really?
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That's my local actually.
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I live pretty close to there.
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I skate with like almost every day, yeah.
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Love Prince.
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Actually, I had my only video part ever.
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Very small part.
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We did a team part, is at Prince.
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That's really cool.
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I'm just doing some burts and I love that big square bowl.
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Yeah.
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So do you ride the bowls as well as Oh, yeah, for sure.
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That's what I was actually hoping that was gonna be at this event, actually.
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I was told that there was gonna be a half pipe and I was gonna try to do handstands, cartwheels, and flips and grinds and stuff.
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They just broke out a rail and stuff.
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Yeah, yeah.
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You know, it was actually I was told that there was gonna be rail and a couple of boxes, ledges, and stuff like that.
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I thought there was supposed to be a fun box.
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Yeah, fun box, love fun boxes.
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Well, I noticed on your trucks that you do, you are able to grind.
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So that's the one thing.
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The toe stop doesn't get in the way, or the toe stop actually helps because you can't really jump off of these and run down the wall and bail.
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Like you're just stuck on there.
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So I attempt a lot of my tricks going fakey.
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I mean going out of it faky, so that way I can just put my toe stops down and slide down the wall.
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And it also helps with gaining speed.
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It's kind of funny, it reminds me of Mario.
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I kind of just run up the bank within 180.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, so they're they're pretty helpful.
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Also with going downhill, if it's very, very steep, you can just go backwards and pop one down.
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You got a break, you're good.
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Yeah, that makes sense.
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Because, you know, it's not like a skateboard where I foot drag.
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Also, the way we do bonelesses are jumping onto our toe stops out of the bowl onto the ledge.
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Oh my, I gotta see this.
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But that is that was my trick in 80.
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I think I started doing them probably 83, 84-ish when they were just being invented.
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Nice.
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And through into the 90s, I was still able to do them.
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Now, I'm that they're so sloppy.
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If Jeff Grosso was around, he would see me do a bonus and be like, dude, just put it away.
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Do more manual tricks now, buddy.
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But um, no, that's that's absolutely amazing.
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Before we you know, we gotta make sure that you let people know like your social media and all that, but I still got more questions.
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Okay, for sure.
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So, what is what do you prefer?
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Do you prefer like a nice bowl?
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Do you like ditches?
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Do you street like a rail?
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When you see a red curb, do you get kind of warm and fuzzy?
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Oh yeah, like the big the big one behind the Edwards Cinemas in San Marcos.
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You know that big big yeah, that one is very nice.
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Don't they do Slappy Sundays there?
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I'm pretty I'm not sure, but did you see the DIY that they built right there behind it as well?
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There's a really, really cool DIY in San Marcos right behind the Edwards.
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Actually, cut that part out, locks only.
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Okay, yeah, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Don't want everybody to know.
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But I'm so sorry.
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Yeah, then they blow out the spot.
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That's why no one skates.
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I have a bowl in my front yard that's it's basically like a glorified ditch.
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Yeah.
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That I did.
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And I've had a few well-known people supposedly gonna come by, but it was at the beginning of COVID.
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And um well, if since you're at Prince, uh Otis, O, Big O.
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Yeah, that guy's cool.
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Yeah, so we've we've known Otis for 30 years.
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Yeah, easily.
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And he came by once.
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Small world.
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And um, he came over with uh another one of my neighbors, Ryan, Ryan Fox, he's from a few bands.
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But they came over and I was looking at him like, yeah, you want to come over and skate.
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It'll never happen.
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But it's like it's definitely and because I am older, once a bunch of people know about a spot and they blow it out, it's just done.
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Right?
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You're just that's it.
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Yeah, just like turdside.
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Rest in peace, turdside.
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Oh my god.
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I spent weeks there.
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I miss it so much.
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It was about a year ago when it started getting blown out.
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I just heard of um some I can't remember the name, but another park has just gotten opened up again.
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But that's the thing, you know, when thrasher starts their own events, because I live right by Washington Street.
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Yeah, ooh, I got kicked out of there a couple times.
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Yeah, quads are not allowed there.
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That's the same thing.
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I always go I go in with the skateboard in my hand and my skates in my backpack.
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Yeah.
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I throw them on really quick and I just do a flip, and then they're like, alright, fine, we'll leave her alone.
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Whatever.
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Yeah.
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But to answer your question, I'm so sorry.
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I really like to skate transition that has a lot of different elements.
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Like my favorite bowl right now would have to be the bowl with the uh spine at Linda Vista because it has a little pocket with pool coping, has a spine, has a really, really a lot of variations that you can do in there, and that's what I really like.
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I don't like to have to be more creative than the park already is, like CBP.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Do you hit the uh full pipe in there?
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Are you able to get up?
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Oh yeah.
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I've slapped a couple of those stickers in there.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Do you skate a clam?
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Can you skate a clam at all?
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Or a clamshell, yeah, actually.
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Really?
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I've I I dropped into the one at Prince for the first time like a week ago because it was kinda hard for me to climb up there on just like my toe stops, you know?
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Right, right.
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Yeah, so I had two friends like hold my hands and I dropped in.
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It was cool.
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But that is so gnarly.
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Clamshells are nice.
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I like the curvature of them.
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Yeah, I I just I can't do that.
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I'm never when I was really little, I was better at pools, but I've always been a a street and ditch.
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See, that's what I'm trying to get into, because I feel like my tricks are kind of limited in the bowl in the pools and the bowls now because if I learn anything else, then I have to really, really eat shit to learn a new trick because I'm kind of at a plateau right now.
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So I've been trying my best to find cool ditches, cool little street spots, more ledges, more drop stairs, and stuff like that.
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So I've been cruising downtown Oceanside quite frequently.
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Do you hit any rails and stair like any flats or my favorite spot right now is the transit center because there's a there's these really waxed out benches on there that have different layers to them.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, so it's pretty fun.
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They call it layers.
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Oh, okay.
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Oh, wait, no, actually layers is the one that's behind the mall up on the hill there.
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It's just a couple quarter pipes.
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Have you ever been there?
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No.
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It's pretty cool.
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It's got a beautiful view.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, top ten piss spots.
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Wow.
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Alright, that's that wins me over.
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I I mostly to be honest, I just stay around my place.
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I don't I'm pretty much um solitary at this point.
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My wife and I used to ride because she would ride to work all the time on her board.
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So I would ride down as well.
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Our daughter rides a long board better than I will ever be able to do.
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That's cool.
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In my 50 years of riding of skateboard, but pretty uh reclusive.
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So I'm lucky to have my little bowl in the in the front there.
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But I skated Washington a few times, Prince a few times.
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There's some other other areas.
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When I grew up though, I skated around the Mara Mesa Mall.
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Oh.
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So that was well, I left Mara Mesa in 86.
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So the thing back then was to go around and you would hit all the you know, the lampposts, and they have those big pillars.
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Yeah.
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Bonuses off of those, go running over cars and just think of um all the early uh Bones Brigade stuff.
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Yeah.
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Think Lance Mountain.
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And my crew, I was the Lance Mountain.
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We would do the lizard walk through the mall and you know, jump out and scare people and get on our skateboards and take off.
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It was a lot more innocent back then.
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Oh, absolutely.
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Nowadays there's security around every corner looking to make money off, yeah.
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And they all have skated before.
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Oh, absolutely.
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You get that?
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Do you know the person who invented skate stops was a skateboarder?
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He gave us away.
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Yeah, he knew that the only way to actually get us to stop skating was to put chunks of shit where we actually do it.
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Hmm.
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That person should be called out.
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I know.
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I'm amazed Thrasher hasn't called him out.
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Speaking of I'm amazed I don't know his name.
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What about publications and whatnot?
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What what gets you inspir inspired and what um what because there's there's a whole group of girls up in uh Long Beach.
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Yeah, Moxie.
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Love them.
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That's I'm actually riding their skate right now.
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Moxie Jack that too.
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Love Moxie.
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Nice, so shout out to Moxie.
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Yeah.
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That's awesome.
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What wheels are you riding?
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What kind of um these are NFG MFG wheels.
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Okay.
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They're based out in Northern California.
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I really like them.
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These are teardrop shapes, so that way they're round on both sides because I do a lot of sliding around and stuff.
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I don't really like to flut out the corners of my wheels if they are square.
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These are sugar grip trucks, they are huck trucks.
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They came out about a couple months ago, and I'm very lucky to have them.
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Thank you so much, Nick.
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And then these are gumball toe stops.
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I really have mixed feelings about my plate.
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This is a sunlight plate, it's plastic, so over time my pivot cups get worn out, and my trucks pop out when I'm doing high impact stuff, so that's not cool having to literally deconstruct my truck and put it back in the middle of a skate slash.
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So but these boots are the most sturdy, sturdy roller skates that I've ever had the grace to have been put on my foot.
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I love them so much.
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They feel like an ankle brace and a Doc Martin with just the perfect amount of heel, perfect amount of toe box, and every time I land from high impact, it doesn't feel like sand ankles hot anymore, like ankle spurs.
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It's very nice and cushion-y.
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Yeah, really nice.
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That's awesome.
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Definitely come a long way.
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How much do those run you?
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Um most of this was gifted to me, but I actually took out my calculator and it's gonna be around$900 for this setup, yeah.
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Oh, and also disco trucks.
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I mean, not disco trucks, disco block.
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Sorry, my bad.
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Okay.
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Love disco block.
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I like it.
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These are definitely not mama skates anymore.
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Nope.
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Not your mama skates.
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So how like what um other than the Moxie girls, like uh, is there any skaters that you like hang with?
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I've seen you skating with someone out here.
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Oh, that's my boyfriend.
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I actually met him at a skate park one time and click pretty immediately because we go to the same shows.
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We know a lot of the same local bands and stuff, so it's pretty easy to meet.
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But there are a lot of local small skate groups.
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Anti-Clickzine is a magazine that is run out of San Diego.
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I love them.
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Um there's a new street skating group called Phantom, and I'm really excited for that because it's got some of my favorite girls in there, and they're amazing.
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And they're awesome.
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Yeah, they rip the streets.
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So they're yeah, most of the corners are pretty much covered for skate groups.
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Cool.
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Um a bit loud.
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Can I get you to give shout-outs and then uh I'm gonna wrap this up so that we can actually unless they close this door.
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But um, yeah, your social media, where people can find you, and then um my Instagram and my TikTok and basically anywhere else you can probably find me.
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It's gonna be HelloTitty, but the I is a one.
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And then shout out to my sponsors, Truggerup Rollers Gates, NFG, MFG Wheels, and Rockstar Bear.
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Awesome.
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Thank you so much.
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I'm sorry, the music's so loud.
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I could just sit here and and talk.
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I just I'm fascinated.
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I really appreciate coming down, and um, we're gonna bring in the music and thanks again.
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Definitely definitely taught me some stuff.
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Yeah, damn.
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Thank you, well, dude.
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Crazy.
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Well, also, I wanted to say one more thing.
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Um, if you want, you can hit me up for lessons, DM me on Instagram, and I charge$50 an hour for beginners if you want to start skidding at the park.
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Cool.
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Definitely.
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Thanks for being on the podcast.
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Of course, thank you.
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This podcast was recorded at Red Rose Gates.
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So we have our newest guest here.
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And what's your name again?
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I'm sorry.
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I'm okay, it's okay.
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My name is Sam and I like to roller skate.
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Okay, there we go.
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Roller skating, but it's not my school of roller skating.
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Do you do roller derby as well?
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No, actually, unfortunately, growing up, uh, I was too poor to pay for the monthly fees, and also updating all my gear and stuff like that costs a lot of a lot of money, upwards of like$2,000 a year.
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So unfortunately, I just went to the practices but never got to participate in playing.
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But that also led me to going to the skate park next door and testing, you know, just carving through the banks and stuff like that.
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I thought I was the first person to ever roller skate at the skate park until I Googled what it was, and I saw Moxie Roller skates posting YouTube tutorials on how to do all these really cool tricks, and I saw this community in Long Beach full of really, really cool, strong women, and that's what kind of opened the doors for me right there.
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And roller skating has become such a huge part of my life where I feel like my mind and my body are very, very connected, and I can't think about anything else on the outside world like paying bills or whether or not my car's gonna get repo'd or whatever.
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Right.
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It's just life or death, you know, right there and then.
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Yeah.
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So that's what kind of is my therapy, and I love it so much.
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Yeah, and so how old are you, if you don't mind me asking?
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I'm 19.
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19?
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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I can relate because that's about when I I mean I I have a skateboard company, but I've been riding since about 71, 72.
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I still ride.
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Yeah.
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But skateboards.
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Yeah.
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Because I couldn't ride skates.
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I'm actually sponsored by two skateboard companies.
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Oh, really?
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Which ones?
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Uh NFG MFG Wheels out of Northern California.
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I love them real so much.
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Yeah.
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A lot of my really good friends are on the same team as me, and I really, really love the owner.
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He's really cool.
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And then also Rockstar Bearings.
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They're all around the world, but they're based in New York.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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We're gonna I'm gonna get into the whole setup and exactly, you know, riding the rails and all that.
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Because back, I mean, when when I was a kid, you would kind of basically see, and I collect some, you know, metal wheels, and I actually collect vintage skateboards, metal wheels, clay wheels.
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So when it started becoming more and more of I wouldn't say acceptable, but it just kind of writing skates kind of took a turn and got really, really creative and cool and accepted.
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Yeah.
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Because as you know, inline skates are not really they were a fad for a while, but then they died off.
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Yeah, they because of bullying, they were bullied out of skate parks because of uh homophobia specifically.
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Uh they were called fruit boots a lot of the time.
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Oh yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yep.
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You heard that one.
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Gay bleeds?
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Yeah.
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Oh yeah.
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No, I knew a professional inline skater, and but roller skates were if you were like a derby doll.
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Yeah.
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It's because that's when John had told me about you.
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I'm like, is she a derby doll?
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Because my wife knows some derby dolls, and that's just that's some cool ass shit.
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And that's kind of why the skate park community of roller skaters is more women-led because of roller derby.
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A lot of people transition from derby to the parks because they already have the equipment.
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But when you're in a bowl or if you're on the street and you're riding rails and stuff, the gears are not the same as like my wife has some, and I actually have them.
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They're cryptos.
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Yeah.
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So the wheels are a little bit closer to skate wheels.
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They're not your and the whole everything that's marketed is so much different.
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Yeah.
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Right?
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I've seen um a lot of where you can get like vans and then they're modified.
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Yeah, you just have to put an aluminum insole inside to make it more stable, like a skateboard, so it doesn't battery.
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So you could basically turn any shoe into a roller skate.
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Yeah.
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As long as you put a piece of metal or something on the inside that keeps it stable so the trucks turn and the base of the shoe doesn't, then you can make a skate you can make a roller skate basically out of anything.
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So the trucks still move kind of like a skateboard individually.
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Here, let me do you mind if I take off my shirt.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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No, I want to see this because I'm this is gonna be one that I'm gonna be sharing with my wife for for sure.
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Because Jerry's you see, she's riding a rail like a skater would.
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But it's completely different.
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It's not like you know, just the whole concept of how they ride and how their setup is totally different.
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And it's crossing over into some of the skateboard stuff.
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Like the wheels are much better, the bearings.
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The wheels are 98A europhane, so they're a little bit softer so that way I can ride on harder concrete without slipping out.
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But they are 53 so that way I don't get wheel bite whenever I'm running on the coping.
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So these trucks right here are modeled after pennyboard trucks, because that was originally what was put on roller skates to get us to be able to drop grind on pool coping.
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Sure grip.
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Sure grip was it.
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Yep, yeah.
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That's one of my sponsors actually.
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Shout out Sure Grip, yeah.
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Yeah, huge shout out to Sure Grip.
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Sure grip.
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They've been running it since the 30s, they know it's good.
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That's just gave me serious chills, see?
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So another thing is the slider in between the trucks, it hangs on to the kingpins rather than get getting grinded down into the board or the plate, like how typical skateboard would.
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So, because of that extra piece of metal and because of how bulky it is, it actually is about like$100 to$200 on the market rather than the standard 10 to 20 that a board slider would be.
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Right.
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So there's a lot of components in a roller skate that people like to take as um, I guess fashion and not take it seriously, and that's why I feel like the sport has not grown, and more of a cutesy side of it has been blossoming in the more corporate areas, and so people like me who don't necessarily need very cute stuff and more stuff that'll actually last aren't getting that.
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Right.
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Yeah, because um of misogyny, people like to treat roller skates as a fashion accessory rather than a skate tool, and it's really sad.
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Well, it's just like skateboarding now.
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I mean it's a yeah, till these cells complete that are really pretty.
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Yeah.
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The crazy thing is, you know, when I mean I have some that I still make now.
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I I take an old piece of wood just like I did back in the 70s and early 80s, and sugar grip trucks.
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Yep.
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You just take a piece of wood, make it kind of look like a surfboard.
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Used to be able to go to a hardware store and get like spray glue, sandpaper.
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I mean, we had to make it.
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I grew up poor, so I didn't now I have I don't know, three, four hundred skateboards.
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I don't know.
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But when I was growing up, you had to use what you could, and then it died off in the eighties, and Vert skating completely died.
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So that's when I dropped my sponsors.
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Yeah.
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And then it started coming back, and then the nineties was all the big pants thing, and it was kind of like it's still a wooden toy, right?
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And now it's in the Olympics.
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So it's got to really agree with the Olympic judging and skateboarding.
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Yeah, defining it into very simple tricks that really goes against what skateboarding is about, honestly.
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The freedom.
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Yeah, the freedom in being able to choose your style and develop it without an actual box that you're having to put it in.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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And then the judging's a little bit more open, but did you hear the what tricks they were calling out versus what tricks that were actually happening?
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Did you see that?
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No, I didn't I to be honest, I I can't pay any attention.
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I get my my the main place I get my info from is either Instagram when I'm promoting my company or the nine club.
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I listen to that podcast.
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But other than that, I just I'm an old punk rocker.
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I don't I don't Olympics know.
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Yeah.
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Back in the early days, the castle competitions, but actually there was an Olympics, not the Olympics, ABC News or Worlds, I think it was ABC World Sports, wasn't that it, Jerry?
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I think it was uh worldwide sports.
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Yeah, so they would they had you could do slalom, freestyle was one thing that used to be judged, and then downhill.
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Yeah, those are you know if you're going by something that's that I mean if I watch Daylon's song skate and then I watch Tori Pudwell because you know they have their company together, but then if I watch Tony Alva, I can watch Alva and just go, oh yeah.
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The style.
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You know, it's all about the style.
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Yeah, for sure.
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But then you watch Daylon and you're like, how's this guy doing this?
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And then you watch Tori Pudwell, and he can do a back blind, you know, 700 feet, and he makes it look good.
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If so.
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So to judge the style, you know.
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Nowadays a whole bunch of little kids are getting first, second, and third.
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Sky Brown is one that I hear about my favorite child skater is Ruby Lily.
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She's coming out of Prince Park, and I love her so much.
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She's great.
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Out of Prince up here?
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Yeah.
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Really?
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That's my local actually.
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I live pretty close to there.
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I skate with like almost every day, yeah.
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Love Prince.
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Actually, I had my only video part ever.
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Very small part.
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We did a team part, is at Prince.
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That's really cool.
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I'm just doing some burts and I love that big square bowl.
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Yeah.
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So do you ride the bowls as well as Oh, yeah, for sure.
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That's what I was actually hoping that was gonna be at this event, actually.
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I was told that there was gonna be a half pipe and I was gonna try to do handstands, cartwheels, and flips and grinds and stuff.
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They just broke out a rail and stuff.
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Yeah, yeah.
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You know, it was actually I was told that there was gonna be rail and a couple of boxes, ledges, and stuff like that.
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I thought there was supposed to be a fun box.
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Yeah, fun box, love fun boxes.
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Well, I noticed on your trucks that you do, you are able to grind.
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So that's the one thing.
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The toe stop doesn't get in the way, or the toe stop actually helps because you can't really jump off of these and run down the wall and bail.
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Like you're just stuck on there.
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So I attempt a lot of my tricks going fakey.
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I mean going out of it faky, so that way I can just put my toe stops down and slide down the wall.
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And it also helps with gaining speed.
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It's kind of funny, it reminds me of Mario.
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I kind of just run up the bank within 180.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, so they're they're pretty helpful.
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Also with going downhill, if it's very, very steep, you can just go backwards and pop one down.
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You got a break, you're good.
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Yeah, that makes sense.
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Because, you know, it's not like a skateboard where I foot drag.
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Also, the way we do bonelesses are jumping onto our toe stops out of the bowl onto the ledge.
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Oh my, I gotta see this.
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But that is that was my trick in 80.
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I think I started doing them probably 83, 84-ish when they were just being invented.
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Nice.
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And through into the 90s, I was still able to do them.
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Now, I'm that they're so sloppy.
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If Jeff Grosso was around, he would see me do a bonus and be like, dude, just put it away.
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Do more manual tricks now, buddy.
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But um, no, that's that's absolutely amazing.
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Before we you know, we gotta make sure that you let people know like your social media and all that, but I still got more questions.
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Okay, for sure.
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So, what is what do you prefer?
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Do you prefer like a nice bowl?
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Do you like ditches?
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Do you street like a rail?
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When you see a red curb, do you get kind of warm and fuzzy?
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Oh yeah, like the big the big one behind the Edwards Cinemas in San Marcos.
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You know that big big yeah, that one is very nice.
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Don't they do Slappy Sundays there?
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I'm pretty I'm not sure, but did you see the DIY that they built right there behind it as well?
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There's a really, really cool DIY in San Marcos right behind the Edwards.
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Actually, cut that part out, locks only.
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Okay, yeah, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Don't want everybody to know.
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But I'm so sorry.
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Yeah, then they blow out the spot.
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That's why no one skates.
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I have a bowl in my front yard that's it's basically like a glorified ditch.
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Yeah.
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That I did.
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And I've had a few well-known people supposedly gonna come by, but it was at the beginning of COVID.
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And um well, if since you're at Prince, uh Otis, O, Big O.
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Yeah, that guy's cool.
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Yeah, so we've we've known Otis for 30 years.
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Yeah, easily.
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And he came by once.
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Small world.
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And um, he came over with uh another one of my neighbors, Ryan, Ryan Fox, he's from a few bands.
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But they came over and I was looking at him like, yeah, you want to come over and skate.
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It'll never happen.
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But it's like it's definitely and because I am older, once a bunch of people know about a spot and they blow it out, it's just done.
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Right?
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You're just that's it.
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Yeah, just like turdside.
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Rest in peace, turdside.
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Oh my god.
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I spent weeks there.
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I miss it so much.
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It was about a year ago when it started getting blown out.
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I just heard of um some I can't remember the name, but another park has just gotten opened up again.
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But that's the thing, you know, when thrasher starts their own events, because I live right by Washington Street.
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Yeah, ooh, I got kicked out of there a couple times.
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Yeah, quads are not allowed there.
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That's the same thing.
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I always go I go in with the skateboard in my hand and my skates in my backpack.
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Yeah.
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I throw them on really quick and I just do a flip, and then they're like, alright, fine, we'll leave her alone.
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Whatever.
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Yeah.
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But to answer your question, I'm so sorry.
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I really like to skate transition that has a lot of different elements.
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Like my favorite bowl right now would have to be the bowl with the uh spine at Linda Vista because it has a little pocket with pool coping, has a spine, has a really, really a lot of variations that you can do in there, and that's what I really like.
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I don't like to have to be more creative than the park already is, like CBP.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Do you hit the uh full pipe in there?
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Are you able to get up?
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Oh yeah.
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I've slapped a couple of those stickers in there.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Do you skate a clam?
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Can you skate a clam at all?
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Or a clamshell, yeah, actually.
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Really?
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I've I I dropped into the one at Prince for the first time like a week ago because it was kinda hard for me to climb up there on just like my toe stops, you know?
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Right, right.
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Yeah, so I had two friends like hold my hands and I dropped in.
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It was cool.
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But that is so gnarly.
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Clamshells are nice.
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I like the curvature of them.
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Yeah, I I just I can't do that.
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I'm never when I was really little, I was better at pools, but I've always been a a street and ditch.
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See, that's what I'm trying to get into, because I feel like my tricks are kind of limited in the bowl in the pools and the bowls now because if I learn anything else, then I have to really, really eat shit to learn a new trick because I'm kind of at a plateau right now.
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So I've been trying my best to find cool ditches, cool little street spots, more ledges, more drop stairs, and stuff like that.
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So I've been cruising downtown Oceanside quite frequently.
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Do you hit any rails and stair like any flats or my favorite spot right now is the transit center because there's a there's these really waxed out benches on there that have different layers to them.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, so it's pretty fun.
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They call it layers.
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Oh, okay.
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Oh, wait, no, actually layers is the one that's behind the mall up on the hill there.
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It's just a couple quarter pipes.
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Have you ever been there?
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No.
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It's pretty cool.
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It's got a beautiful view.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, top ten piss spots.
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Wow.
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Alright, that's that wins me over.
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I I mostly to be honest, I just stay around my place.
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I don't I'm pretty much um solitary at this point.
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My wife and I used to ride because she would ride to work all the time on her board.
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So I would ride down as well.
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Our daughter rides a long board better than I will ever be able to do.
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That's cool.
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In my 50 years of riding of skateboard, but pretty uh reclusive.
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So I'm lucky to have my little bowl in the in the front there.
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But I skated Washington a few times, Prince a few times.
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There's some other other areas.
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When I grew up though, I skated around the Mara Mesa Mall.
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Oh.
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So that was well, I left Mara Mesa in 86.
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So the thing back then was to go around and you would hit all the you know, the lampposts, and they have those big pillars.
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Yeah.
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Bonuses off of those, go running over cars and just think of um all the early uh Bones Brigade stuff.
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Yeah.
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Think Lance Mountain.
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And my crew, I was the Lance Mountain.
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We would do the lizard walk through the mall and you know, jump out and scare people and get on our skateboards and take off.
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It was a lot more innocent back then.
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Oh, absolutely.
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Nowadays there's security around every corner looking to make money off, yeah.
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And they all have skated before.
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Oh, absolutely.
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You get that?
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Do you know the person who invented skate stops was a skateboarder?
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He gave us away.
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Yeah, he knew that the only way to actually get us to stop skating was to put chunks of shit where we actually do it.
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Hmm.
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That person should be called out.
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I know.
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I'm amazed Thrasher hasn't called him out.
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Speaking of I'm amazed I don't know his name.
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What about publications and whatnot?
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What what gets you inspir inspired and what um what because there's there's a whole group of girls up in uh Long Beach.
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Yeah, Moxie.
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Love them.
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That's I'm actually riding their skate right now.
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Moxie Jack that too.
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Love Moxie.
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Nice, so shout out to Moxie.
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Yeah.
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That's awesome.
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What wheels are you riding?
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What kind of um these are NFG MFG wheels.
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Okay.
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They're based out in Northern California.
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I really like them.
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These are teardrop shapes, so that way they're round on both sides because I do a lot of sliding around and stuff.
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I don't really like to flut out the corners of my wheels if they are square.
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These are sugar grip trucks, they are huck trucks.
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They came out about a couple months ago, and I'm very lucky to have them.
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Thank you so much, Nick.
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And then these are gumball toe stops.
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I really have mixed feelings about my plate.
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This is a sunlight plate, it's plastic, so over time my pivot cups get worn out, and my trucks pop out when I'm doing high impact stuff, so that's not cool having to literally deconstruct my truck and put it back in the middle of a skate slash.
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So but these boots are the most sturdy, sturdy roller skates that I've ever had the grace to have been put on my foot.
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I love them so much.
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They feel like an ankle brace and a Doc Martin with just the perfect amount of heel, perfect amount of toe box, and every time I land from high impact, it doesn't feel like sand ankles hot anymore, like ankle spurs.
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It's very nice and cushion-y.
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Yeah, really nice.
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That's awesome.
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Definitely come a long way.
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How much do those run you?
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Um most of this was gifted to me, but I actually took out my calculator and it's gonna be around$900 for this setup, yeah.
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Oh, and also disco trucks.
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I mean, not disco trucks, disco block.
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Sorry, my bad.
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Okay.
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Love disco block.
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I like it.
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These are definitely not mama skates anymore.
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Nope.
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Not your mama skates.
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So how like what um other than the Moxie girls, like uh, is there any skaters that you like hang with?
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I've seen you skating with someone out here.
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Oh, that's my boyfriend.
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I actually met him at a skate park one time and click pretty immediately because we go to the same shows.
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We know a lot of the same local bands and stuff, so it's pretty easy to meet.
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But there are a lot of local small skate groups.
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Anti-Clickzine is a magazine that is run out of San Diego.
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I love them.
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Um there's a new street skating group called Phantom, and I'm really excited for that because it's got some of my favorite girls in there, and they're amazing.
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And they're awesome.
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Yeah, they rip the streets.
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So they're yeah, most of the corners are pretty much covered for skate groups.
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Cool.
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Um a bit loud.
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Can I get you to give shout-outs and then uh I'm gonna wrap this up so that we can actually unless they close this door.
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But um, yeah, your social media, where people can find you, and then um my Instagram and my TikTok and basically anywhere else you can probably find me.
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It's gonna be HelloTitty, but the I is a one.
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And then shout out to my sponsors, Truggerup Rollers Gates, NFG, MFG Wheels, and Rockstar Bear.
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Awesome.
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Thank you so much.
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I'm sorry, the music's so loud.
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I could just sit here and and talk.
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I just I'm fascinated.
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I really appreciate coming down, and um, we're gonna bring in the music and thanks again.
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Definitely definitely taught me some stuff.
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Yeah, damn.
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Thank you, well, dude.
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Crazy.
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Well, also, I wanted to say one more thing.
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Um, if you want, you can hit me up for lessons, DM me on Instagram, and I charge$50 an hour for beginners if you want to start skidding at the park.
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Cool.
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Definitely.
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Thanks for being on the podcast.
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Of course, thank you.
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This podcast was recorded at Red Rose Gates.
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Fixed by me, Jared.
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Please stay tuned for the next one.
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