DAEWON | Documentary | Transworld Skateboarding

[Music] this is day one song this is day one song in 1975 this is Dan one's childhood home I remember always doing these here still got it this is the street where day one did his first kickflip my first kickflip probably happened at this exact spot and it looked exactly like this this is day Juan's car it's a rental this is day one's favorite red curve [Music] these are Daewon shoes this is day ones first Instagram post Adonis song this is day ones first cover lays their heel crooked grunt fakie this is day one winning a bet against the Bronco when the money was on day long could just you know do stuff that was it this is the world park in 1992 this is the world park in 2019 this is like most of my childhood this is daewon's first tattoo now it's supposed to be a cover-up but he never got covered up it's like the Pamela Anderson for men tribal tattoo this is day one song when he was two right before his heart stopped beating and he almost died you know what's crazy about that now see this is the funny one because I used to always tell people in the interviews and I just seen my sister the other it was like Thanksgiving and I was like you know I was with my girl and I'm like yeah how about me almost dying when I was - like all pumped she's like day one that was me I like took all her credit of almost dying yeah and you know what at age I can't do math but at age 43 he skates like his heart is gonna stop at any second so he wants to get as much of it in as possible at the age of five the song family relocates the gardena california my cross streets were it was a trip I live between Rosecrans Crenshaw Van Ness in Compton Boulevard and I was right in the center of that but that part wasn't as crazy as it sounded it's like it's kind of like a couple of notches over where it's like okay now you're really another but I still embraced like that sister almost dying I kind of embraced I was like I live in the heart of the hood you know I try to get that street cred gardena california is kind of really what shaped that man into the epic legend that he is today in 1988 daewon's family gets a divorce and this allows him to start skating providing that he passes all of his mom's math tests I mean nowadays in an interview he'll tell you everything but when you're you know picking him up but he's 16 he's not gonna go yeah man so my mom like he wouldn't do that he would just get in go that's out of the way let's go where we going let's go skate my dad wasn't too strict but my dad was just he's always just working so my relationship with my dad was it was pretty crazy it's like he was somebody I didn't know my pretty much my whole childhood was just like he worked late so by the time I got home usually I was already tired of sleeping or once in a while get a glimpse of him and be like hey you know and in the morning he was gone for work so imagine that relationship you know my mom was the one I knew and she was crazy hardcore like old school where it was okay to swipe a rosebush across my neck I appreciate every minute of that because he disciplined me to the point where I think every beat-down I got was for something stupid there might have been some that were just like I didn't pass the test when I got bees I'd probably get a beatdown these weren't good enough for her and then the test part was if I wanted to go out and play I had to take this test and I was like this says I had to teach you this in school so I get a surprise quiz to go out and play and there was some points where I was good looking at the test one I'm not going outside today it's not gonna happen and it's just pretty crazy when you grow up that way any kind of idle knots it's weird I can complain about it now and I was so upset when I was a kid but no I just like it has made me kind of a stronger person at 14 day one begin skating 135th Street School in gardena one day rodney mullen sees i'm skating and asked his friend for his number I first saw day one I used to just go skate at this South day school and I was just coming out one day and next there's a double sided curve and a fire hydrant out of a little curb cut and he was skating with a few guys and I remembered again just watching him put my stuff back in the car and I saw him backside 180 in it I don't remember the back 180 he sure wasn't backside flip curb is pretty quick I think it's a stop sign and just how he moved his response and how agile he was through it there was just some particular poise where it's as though that's all I needed to see it was that striking where you know you're looking something different and now all I can do on this hydrant is this [Music] wasn't that much longer matter of weeks where I was skating 135th Gardena and I saw him there and I think it's then when we exchanged numbers it took it from there because I remember driving away like that kids amazing and I was so thankful that I got to see him again like that's the way like there's something to him and you can immediately see him as character too like he's just he's just president you know there's something different about him I remember Pat Tommy like hey rodney was asking about you said you had some control and I remember being all pump like what I didn't even know how to take it I didn't understand what was happening it's weird because I wasn't actually on the team I was kind of like Rodney's something somebody he took under his wing and through that time I feel like he was trying to introduce me to like some of the people of the existing writers and people but I think they were kinda like I don't know about this kid man he's kind of wack like he's Ronny was like no believe me like there's a lot of big names I don't want to bring up their names you know this dude sucks but if you watch me more said about that I don't think I deserve any credit for that at all I just always believed in day one and saw what that guy had how amazing is that like rodney mullen just happens to see you skating like it's pretty like seven Dippet us you know what I mean in October 1991 Daewon is featured alongside cream campbell and daniel castillo in the notorious white power world ad introducing the new batch of amps that was the first time I've ever seen anything I'd ever even like heard his name I mean I knew of him but I didn't really know who he was Kareem told me he was black cream was like yeah this new do got on World Industries his name is dawuan he said Diwan you know I mean I was like [ __ ] okay like what I'm okay the day I met him at the calcic contest I kind of seen him skate because I was like skating too you know so I can really pay attention to him but the [ __ ] he was doing I would see I'll bite [ __ ] he's gnarly you know and then finally when I went and really skated with them when I went to his house I was like whoa this dude's on some whole other [ __ ] there was this undercurrent between cream and day Daniel always around the Shilo I remember how fast he was advancing and then Steve was like look at this white power and it just instinct that's how Steve was with ads it just comes to me was looking at the photo that was a beginning of like look because back then it was mostly why skaters and that was like the first like wait a second there's no white guys we're seeing white power what does that mean and cream and us were like who gives a [ __ ] we're an innard you know it's [ __ ] up I'm gonna say this like cellos supposed to be in there too but cream didn't call him when you first see Dave on skate even if he just was starting now you can tell like it gets good and I felt like when day one got on the team you know and then Shiloh got on and Chico and I felt like Rodney and Rocco start focusing on us like our generation you know I mean it was cool and like kind of surprising in a way kind of like Oh what happened to the other guys Jeremy climbed them those would like the real dudes I'd really hang out with them so I didn't know what they thought they were probably tripping [ __ ] this guy gnarly [ __ ] you know they're probably kind of scared I don't know it was a pretty high entry barrier to get on the team and I remember it was not that easy at first for him cream Shiloh was like I wasn't even cool enough to hang out with creamy Shiloh but you know I mean obviously davon was so [ __ ] good that that lasted about an hour too and then that was it I mean just on talent alone he's just accepted in 1992 world releases love child Daewon takes last part as a virtual unknown and becomes one of the biggest stars in skateboarding there wasn't a bunch of coverage of day one in magazines or whatever so nobody nobody like knew who he was and you just see this video part in your your mind is just blown like my mind was blown he's really smooth and I think that looks cool I'd love to see him cut down I'm like a big wave or something like he like has that style you know it's rare that you get that style with technical it's like a little bit like warrior style really hard to believe like the heat just like at the same time as it's like hitting things like in going super fast I like you know with the good style he could also like stop take a few pushes backwards boom big fakie 360 flip you know it's like crazy that he he's got both he has one line got what he does the first trick but he does like a Howard heel you know going pretty fast you know and I was like dude that's how fast they want skates you know any me in my head that's how he always skates just fast as [ __ ] and I always felt like dude finally like in his part like damn that's they've captured it you know just him like Bonin out doing this [ __ ] I was psyched to film him I mean I got to watch all this stuff as he popped it off I was like it's watching them progress dude it's insane to to now you think about it how fast it all happened I mean I got I got the job in February of 92 the video came out in June that's four months and in four months I saw the progression it just happened so fast he also unveils the hardflip may be the first documented heart slit because I remember Rodney's saying that there was this guy Dan Gallagher he started hard flips even named him and it seems he could have done nollie heart slips too because thanks to flow warn't good guy but it's different just like I had created a lot of flat ground tricks whatever but it's different when some of the guys take him further and day one was to me I think the first I remember taking anyone taking it further away it was one of those things that we got her land that we got to do that we got a you know it was was a hot trick at that time I remember all these guys in the parking lot all the blind guys too like Henry and everybody just trying to figure it out like and everybody had their own take on it cuz nobody said this is how you do it you know nobody said you put your foot here but they were all trying to figure it out and it's funny because being known for like the first one to document that hard flip and that people showcasing it it's like one of the coolest things in it the same time one of the worst things because it's one of the worst hard flips ever on footage you know oops so I'm like oh so every time I see if you were like oh cool one of the first hard flips and then they go oh [ __ ] oh thank god it wasn't the last heart but we had to see bounced off the ground it was like the earth when the earth catches [ __ ] before you it's like God following love child Daewon turns pearl while the rise of the world Park gives him a private place to skate and he progresses at light speed after skating in the daytime out in the streets we'd go to the skate park hole on a rainy day go to the skate park or just to go hang out and you got nothing else to do go to this skate park and yeah day one was probably the one that skated there the most because I'm the one that Tookie and he was always with me those days are like felt like a lot of my buddies were like kind of dropping out of school you know and I was like [ __ ] man I want to drop out sounds [ __ ] stupid but at the time I was like do I want to skate with em - Daewon wasn't going to school you know or tim gavin in them they were [ __ ] skiing the park what the [ __ ] every time I'd go there on the weekends I'm like dude you guys get so much [ __ ] footage like it's crazy that's where day one was doing fakie five-o fakie tre flip that was um it was Lord of the Flies I mean for sure para walkie and there a few times and just like oh my god the first time like I met day one was in front of world industries it was him and Kareem Campbell and they're like little kids when I saw them I was just like this is the new [ __ ] like this this is gonna be the new the new crop of skating this is gonna be the change it was really special to see things happen for the first time things have gotten a hell of a lot bigger and crazier now but to see something happen for the first time was pretty wild like to see Gino do a back tail backside heel out for the first time to see guy do a front half cab no side switch he'll it wasn't like oh my god like just changed the history of skateboarding nothing nobody thought like that it was just progression progression progression and remember Rodney doing switch 360 flip fakie Manny there for the first time and I remember back then it was like oh yeah it's Rodney like that wasn't hard for him but think about that time doing a Thank You Manny this is the first time I did a hardflip front once light on a curb and I remember doing that and thinking that's for [ __ ] that's why I always thought he was the best man cuz he could skate mini-ramp equally as he could Street you don't amine which was [ __ ] crazy I never realized it until a few years went by but I think day one intentionally held back how good he was and then I saw him on this mini ramp just [ __ ] around and I was like oh my god like he's me he's better than everybody that was such a time in skateboarding where there was just so much progression and so much stuff happening that if you'd look back at it all now you're like wait he did what like you don't even realize I think he did like fakie tre flip switch from blonde or fakie tre flip back noseblunt I don't think anybody you still have done that to this day and it felt like Rodney and Rocco made that part for us in a way you know just to so we're all together we're so spoiled so [ __ ] spoiled we had like bunk beds and [ __ ] in 1993 new world order is released Daewon takes the last part again at the end of the video daniel castillo proclaims him the best in the world that was insane there was not no one could touch him at that period no one in he still is the best in the world right okay the reason why I said that cuz he did that seriously like first try yeah I you snarly day one skateboarding really really affected you because he's just like every time you saw me the you've just raised the bar raised the bar raised the bar this is day ones favorite skatepark Gardena South Park cuz uh this is where I grew up this is day ones front truck this is day ones back truck it's like you know to me it's an out-of-control steering wheel just front wheels turn back wheels stabilize myself and it's the way I like it this is daewon's favorite donut shop this is Burrell banks in the early 90s this is Burrell banks now this is day ones nasty skanky [ __ ] up ankle after New World Order day one injures his ankle and starts dating a girl in Long Beach who's a member of the Bloods slowly he drifts away from skating and gets into import car modifications oh I didn't actually see him get hurt I just you know heard though ah but I remember all of us getting hyped and psyched on something and giggly and then just [ __ ] going nuts you know and then they wants to skating hard and tries to ollie over this like at the world Park we had this ramp Durrant thing and it just snapped his ankle yeah dude he was out for a while he never went to the doctor to get fixed the bones never grew back I mean to this day I don't I don't think they're right on his ankle and I think that's one of the main reasons he never jumped off a much because it's definitely in him do you that but day one he was a dude he could lower your car you know he was like dude I can lower your car or your homies car [ __ ] I could cut the springs this and that you know so he knew they wants a type of dude that whatever he gets into he's like pretty good you'll figure it out and [ __ ] get really good at it dude if davon wasn't like a skater he'd definitely be like a [ __ ] asian gangster or some [ __ ] straight up six eight weeks what are the normal process you start kind of seeing people gravitate back and I remember saw less and less and and I remember us talking a number of times about how important that what he has to give yeah they want had a moment where he was like souping up Honda's thank God that ended and we were able to get day one back you know eventually he gets a call from Rodney telling him a cross-section of his teammates left world to start girl yeah me and in London we were skating together but not as often you know so I remember when I quit I didn't even like tell him I didn't be like they want him leaving you know type [ __ ] I was like I didn't think he'd care he was getting that much you know I mean look none of us knew what we were doing it wasn't like we expected it I'm sure Rodney remembers that you know I mean it it was pretty traumatic for Rodney obviously was he you know he knew everybody I mean those were all his guys it affected him probably the most it's pretty heavy it's pretty heavy I remember thinking at that time you know that could be the end I mean it might be the end of the company stuff which was part of the reason why it's heavy is because you had company stuff company stuff but and it connects with your friends it connects with who you are like we're skaters like this is who I am as through what I do and so when something's ripped out like that it's like surgery so I want you to know I understand if you gotta go I want what's best for you we had that bond [Music] and I remember he didn't like in day ones that way he has about himself that's just fundamentally cool no extra words he discuss well I guess it's just us then [Music] good morning to be said and I remember it hit me so hard and you're just like like you're happy but you're emotional and so you just want to be cool you know escape you know or whatever it was what they wanted for me that day that sight to this day I get choked up thinking right like I mean old man thinking about idea wants just a loyal guy you know when world's next video 20 shot sequences released day one only has a few tricks yeah he definitely wasn't skiing that much I think his ankle is still [ __ ] up yeah he only had like one line or something and dude I honestly after that I bet you in his head after he's seen that his little section he was like what the [ __ ] am i doing it's like I used to always have video part video part and then nothing yeah and that was that time where I was kind of gone like just in Long Island with my own self in my own head didn't know what I wanted to do except get into trouble I guess in 1996 Daewon returns to retake last part in trilogy and skates to absolute perfection oh my god okay let me say something about that dude he was supposed to skate through this Tribe Called Quest song which is [ __ ] at the premiere it was that we got to call hey this video has way too much hip-hop or whatever and we filled a ones part is better suited to like some reggae his video part was already edited to a beat that was way faster than anything that was in any of the reggae songs were listening to on those CDs we had to change it to something that would fit what was already in on the timeline and that was the only song that could fit on the timeline and it worked as soon as you dropped it in we played it as like look it's lining up so that was that was it that was a ticket was like it lines up its reggae it's not hip-hop it works right no it didn't it ended up everyone hated it and hated me I remember having it all edited to that and I was super pumped because that was what I was into and I remember watching it and it was Pato Banton like instead reggae monster I'm never watching that being so like bummed that part was still really good but it was that song was like whoa what the hell and if you watch that video part it's like it's really like I'm skating curbs while people are still skating ledges because I was trying to come back so I couldn't fake you put 500 ledge again until I warmed up and filmed it for on a curb until I can kind of get back to where I was around the same time he joins up star shoe company DVS he sticks with the brand for 20-plus years des langues at that type of guy you know he's pretty loyal he's loyal to his friends loyal to the people he skates for between 1997 and 1999 Daewon versus Rodney round 1 & 2 were released a great fanfare I liked like 90's day when he used to have like the hair like that I mean that's what I like you know he was like and he like hits that [ __ ] it's like super like it's like I'm playing it's like you know you can't [ __ ] with that like it's like boom boom boom and he holds the manual cherry flip out like it's like I don't know the names of the videos but I've seen him I know the videos I know the tricks I've watched it every time he puts up footage it's something no one else could do it's it's wildly impressive a hundred times over I think they want I mean I love broad me too but it's just so different I think it's cool that they did that I think they should do more of that certain times in your life there's no responsibility you have but to just wake up and go film the end up just having all this footage and it's the only way you can do it when you're such good friends like I mean you know we're like family and I was like it's the only way it's the competitive video where it's not competitive between me and him and you can kind of put it out there as like it is and people will say like what [ __ ] they want Rodney all the way and I feel like Rodney more he had more fans I was like oh [ __ ] I'm getting a lot of backlash on this thing it just went from there and then round two is way more competitive with each other I think they actually should have like had a real fight with weapons and tried to kill each other I think I think that's probably one of my ideas as usual nobody nobody listens to me so in the year 2000 Daewon drops apart in IE and continues his picnic table era I think they would normal edges I think it's too easy for day one he needs something else I can't find something that I'm gonna make something I like it because it's my own idea as you know to me like I'm not writing off anybody not not caring about what people are going to think like roof gaps putting benches over just jumping and the adrenaline or putting tables and making weird configurations like I'm down for it you know I'm like why do everything that everybody else is doing when I can just skate something I've created you know that means the amount of picnic tables we moved around Jesus Christ I could not imagine the janitor coming to the school the next day like are you kidding me it was like you know to this day now I regret and feel so bad for what a lot of kids and stuff and what we did to the people that worked there too I mean cuz sometimes I can reconstruct I constructed like a runway consisting of eight tables a kicker two tables under that with a gap between it and then another table and then just brought one out for the hell of it over a fence just to put it out there for a backdrop you know and it was just like oh my god probably took him longer to set up the obstacles that he was skating than actually doing the tricks short-lived eka skateboards released their video second-to-none showcasing crazy conceptual spots and dwindles warehouse this part in the is still it to this day's well the most [ __ ] up things ever window was doing all this unchanged in the warehouse hood everything was being emptied out and you had all these pallets and it looked like all these roof gaps and all these things that we could take advantage of so we just asked I remember hitting up Rocco and stuff and saying like do you mind if we skate back here in film he's like do whatever you want back there I remember doing everything we did was okay until he starts lighting the rails and stuff on fire and they're like hold dude I can't light anything on fire back here that's crazy it's like all the cardboard still around here stuff like that I'm sure of day one set it on fire his heart was in the right place so don't ever give young skaters keys to your warehouse and a video camera and say do whatever the [ __ ] you want because or actually do do that because then that video comes out in 2003 Rodney and day one finally team up to launch almost skateboards round three is released a year later with Ryan Sheckler as their child prodigy am yeah man that was crazy that's where I really got to know day one and his kind of insane awesome energy that was just like all skate all skate all skate and then he was fun like he was so fun to be around and I was a little kid you know I was like 13 12 13 and just to be around those dudes that were so innovative and so about skateboarding made me want to skate so much more in 2005 DVS released a skate more and once again Daewon completely reinvents himself he's one of the few guys that's still there's like like shock value he'll amaze you he'll he'll he'll freak you out like he'll just blow your mind like we can watch skateboarding all day long but like to watch the day one skate is like it's a treat you know and I love that about it skateboarding when I start filling for skate more I start from what Colin Kennedy he's like - that's just let's take it all these different places I remember going to spots and he's like yeah just just do a tell slider and I'm like a tell slide like no flip enter he's like dude just do a tray flip no do a 360 flip nose wheelie here and I'll go but and I'm like in round 3 I did yeah I've not only three flips out of it he's like for this different spot you're running you're allaying over two things and then you're three six it knows what he hates do different and he kind of like put me in this whole thing of like saying like you don't it you can just simply fire stuff but still it could still be good I remember thinking like okay I didn't want to go that premiere skating on premiere yeah Denny's trip in that part was amazing when I started working with him one of the first things I noticed was like when we would go to film he would start trying this crazy technical thing and the moment the cameras would be off and we'd just be skating like warming up or skating in the parking lot afterward he had this incredible like way of skating that was super fun and was like way more appealing to me I was purposefully bringing him to things that it was like gonna force him to do I think a more simplistic form of his skating I don't have this belief in like his natural ability right like if you just see this guy's skate anything you're gonna be blown away and so yeah it became this kind of push and pull though of like he would go somewhere and he'd like start flipping out and I'm like don't flip out like he would like try like flipping or like big spinning I think don't do that and so there was like a long period of time or I think he'd never like push back too hard but I think he was like questioning sexy what like why so the last trick in his part is a total fluke and he was just messing around even though it wasn't like an incredibly easy for him to actually commit like he could get down there pretty easily but coming into that last bank and almost like losing all of your speed and then like popping in like that was pretty jarring for him and I thought it was incredible it was like the antithesis of like a day juan-manuel trick there's no flip in and there's no flip out that was just us skating and having fun and he was laughing and up using as the last trick and I was like why would you use something that was just us having fun he's like dude and you know Colin had a vision of like he was like dude you're just gating you're enjoying yourself I he didn't really voice it like clearly to me at the time but after the fact after it it's kind of come out and and it was well-received he's all dude I actually equals like so embarrassed like I thought like that was gonna be my worst part and you know I didn't want to go to the premiere and and I was kinda like wait what like why did you tell me like so thankfully he kind of like kept it internal and then once it came out and was really well-received he was able to kind of let me know in 2006 he drops parts and get familiar and cheese and crackers showcasing his training skills geez aggregor's is seriously one of my favorite things ever my brother and I watched it we had gotten it for my cousin and it was just like a whole new level that we hadn't seen it was super fun and I remember we didn't promote it I never just making a small thing on my computer like a small trailer and people were like what them no is this and then it just came out and I think there was no hype on it there was nothing he was just like boom cheese and crackers a mini rant video also in 2006 Daewon is named skater of the year by Thrasher Magazine I don't think people were gone for skater of the year back then like how they are now right he's just so gnarly that probably Jake felt like [ __ ] I've got to give it to him you know but yeah that thing I don't think he was really even tripping hard when he got it now he probably appreciates it he wasn't going for it he don't I mean I remember I was on the toilet when I got the call he was just like Daewon what's up I was like what's up skater of the year I'm like what I think you sure he's like yeah you want me to give it to sheckler I'm like no [Applause] [Music] around 2009 and 2010 Daewon goes through a heavy divorce for the next three and a half years of his life he lives in his car and in random hotels skateboarding it just kind of depends on how you want to I mean everybody has a different story for me it kind of consumed me all I wanted to do was just gates gates gates gate and skate and I think from late 2003 maybe 2004 to about 2006 to 7 all I did was skate I didn't take a single day off I didn't put any time in with a family and I just didn't see my kids much cuz I was just working but it was almost like I was working so much because I wanted so much for my kid I didn't even think about it because I was so busy filming this film that and it caused a lot of problems in my life and within like my relationship and it caused us to go our separate ways and it caused I'm sure a lot of pain for my son and you know he doesn't talk about it much anymore he's he's grown up too but I'm sure it it messed him up a little bit and the thing is I never wanted skateboarding to do that to any part I'm like I didn't want it to it's such a great thing that you can do especially as a career because everybody always talks about like how amazing is it when you can do something you love for a living and it was at the same time these things can kind of sometimes it can take you away from certain things that are really important which is like family and you can't change anything you can't take it back and I always think to myself like was it worth it the sacrifice and it's like you can't really I can't really answer that question all I can say is that during that period of time I did accomplish a lot for myself and within that period too I had my own stress things going on with the relationship anyways it wasn't just that so I needed skateboarding to like put me in an area to like kind of bring me at a medium so that I wouldn't become such a stress case in 2011 Daewon is listed as number 29 on trans world's 30 most influential skateboarders of all time be 29 now I bet he made it who he has he's a mastermind you can do anything yeah I think that his brain his skate brain is like one of a kind and I think that he's only limited by his own ideas and his ideas are endless so that's why he's always changing his skate he's always changing and that's why he's always putting out so much amazing stuff it's because he's always cranking up new ideas and then fulfilling those ideas which was a genius who geniuses do their brains work overtime you know around me he's always been extremely humble so to get to travel with him and see how he interacts with kids and people that he runs into it's pretty wild like we'll go to a full demo and you know we're all skating and he like won't even be able to get on his board because of the interactions he's having with people it's like he values that so heavily and it's like Tomsk a day one or people want to escape and he's just like spending time with each individual person I would say if I had to like categorized a wonk I think he is also a person that did a lot of skating like a lot of basic skating before he did tricks you can tell by the way the person rides the board and how they stand on their board how much time they've put on into like just skating which is something that no one does now because I mean immediately you get a board and the first thing you want to do is learn how to ollie where you're always with booked a million times better if you spent like you know a couple weeks just pushing and just riding a board and feeling your board I mean the ground and the rolling in 2012 almost five incher premieres day one officially enters his tree and rock era one of my favorite eras oh my god if if wheels will if wheels can roll on it no matter what shape it is or if it's going like horizontal or vertical or whatever like dude I feel like he can figure out a way to skate it nobody else really does that we'd be like in TV some palace party somewhere you know in the the road he's like yeah I wanna get a trick there I'm like where he's like without rock around the grass but getting escaped what are you gonna do on that rock where you gonna land he's like I'll just [ __ ] roll into the grass and we roll into the street I'm like okay but it worked you know that part is crazy [ __ ] amazing he just goes to show that deed could skate whatever he could get a cover on skating a leaf or something like you know like he his creativity is way way gnarlier than a lot of other people's you know all I was trying to do is accomplish the video part where I just skated nature I guess you know give or take a few cement obstacles in there I don't know it was it was kind of like a gamble but I'd you I enjoyed it I enjoyed kicking it clicks in Iraq he skated rocks entries in 2013 Daewon posts his first video on Instagram oh I'll go shirtless for the video by 2018 daewon's Instagram has grown to over a million followers no no he doesn't are you serious is Dave on actually getting famous now it's about [ __ ] time like a Instagram post or any little video clip is this gem a tree in the skating industry the stuff he's doing is really creative but it's so hard that no one else could recreate it and it's so cool because we get to see we get to see him like all the time a lot of the funny quirky stuff that he poses like nobody else is doing that like [ __ ] man how'd you get him to be like that yeah you can't just show the tree I think for day one instagrams like one of those platforms that has just it's like it was like made for him in a lot of ways I know he struggles with going to parks and going to places and skating in front of people the part I could relate the most is he likes to skate alone and he does videos where he sets the camera up and does it himself a lot of times people get offended when you block them out cuz you have to get in your zone to do a hard trick and sometimes maybe it's a way of being polite to the people around you by going by secluding yourself and doing something that takes a lot of control or a lot of inner oneness to do the trick I think that's very inspiring and it's like environment ryx in front of people that you know I don't want to do it in front of you and make you feel like you're nothing so I'll just do it in private video and then post it so yeah I mean like imagine showing up at a spot you like do like you can probably do this [ __ ] with his eyes closed it would be like not only is he doing tricks ten times harder than me he's doing tricks ten times harder than me with his eyes closed in 2016 at the adidas of wait days from here in Los Angeles Daewon is announced to the team along with Mark Johnson crazy how long we had to stick with like keeping that quiet and I remember filming for that too and having to go out and putting tape over the logos and stuff of that because in the world we live in out social media it's like a kid justice like always seen day one boom leaders and we kept it a secret pretty good that was exciting I mean we live in we live in a culture where everything is old in five minutes everybody we're so everybody we're so you know connected there's no surprises no secrets anymore like everything is just like all that all the raw meat is thrown to the Lions you know 24 hours a day in real time it was just unbelievably amazing to make that kind of change at that time in my life with day one song of all people one of the high points of that career it's pretty fun actually do that I felt like a kid like oh my god nobody can know a secret it was a huge change but it was a change that was really worth in it kind of remote evaded me to get back out there and get back at it in 2017 Daewon is rightfully inducted into the skateboarding Hall of Fame it's Arab the seed a one up with the [ __ ] legends ooh like with a soy Tommy Guerrero all those dudes because daewon's is like that guy man like he's gonna be influencing pee for a long time I feel like you know when they hadn't said hey you're gonna be inducted in the Hall of Fame I remember being like wait what or they got a new section they're like no the Hall of Fame for the 90s I'm like damn and then I was thinking what am I thinking like I was so high it's like hell yes he'll never stop you know I mean it's like they're gonna have to make another award for the stood looking up just make one up I mean in 2018 along with the cover Daewon receives the tws Legend Award Jamie hit me up from trans wrote saying they needed a photo I couldn't think of anything but then Acosta was like hey I might have a spot for you and then he had shown me photos and all site where is that when I saw photos I was like I could just climb it but Anthony ended up bringing like a little ladder I got up there and I actually had second thoughts like I don't know about this thing it feels wide enough but I think the glass on the other side of me end up hitting it or something I thought was scared that might happen and ended up being a cover and I remember seeing it going I was so pumped just for the effort it took to like do this I know to some people it's not an effort they're just like yeah he's barge it but it was sketchy that day for some reason especially when you get to be doing it for as long as I have and here at my age - you don't want to get arrested for being up somewhere like that no enemy that was photoshopped I did it in this one and then they put me in that one in 2018 Daewon leaves almost to start Thank You skateboards with Torey Pudwill coming back together with day one joining forces their new board company dream come true so honored to work with day one after knowing it for so long and looking up to him so I was a kid I'll pop out Daewon is just pure inspiration you know he's pure innovation like when you think the name Daewon song you think innovation you think innovating if there's anybody who's kept skateboarding pushing the limits of what could be done on a skateboard and look amazing doing it it is day one song if you're looking at his body of work or his skating all these years his legacy I think is the fact that he's definitely one of the handful of guys that has not only had a long career because there are more guys who've had a long career at this point but like constantly reinventing himself and I'm staying relevant you know cuz I think that's the crazy thing is like he's never been out of like the collective conscience of skateboarding he's getting better with age I think he's becoming more wise with age you know I mean with age comes wisdom because you see more things you've lived longer and you understand but that's the thing that still marks day one and that's what in him what's in him and I think that's one of the things that like when I think when in the context of what you know legends or guys that change skating not by what they are but who they are but there's something about again putting his finger print his distinctiveness and I think that that's intertwine with his like a yearning like like it's like breathing to him to go out like I gotta film this because I got this new idea he's also contributed to what we are what we share is an ethos as a community that's the intangible stuff that's printed everywhere that you immediately recognize but it's hard to put into words it's one of the reasons that guys like they want to come around they often because the content of who that guy is yeah I get choked up because there's no one I'm more proud to be associated with [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] this guy's going too fast his love for skateboarding has never it's been the same since he was a kid [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] the fact that there's a documentary being made on him is probably keeping them up at night you know just like [ __ ] why moving more now you guys gotta wave [Applause]

Channel: Transworld Skateboarding

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Length: 49min 21sec (2961 seconds)

Published: Fri May 17 2019