Nyjah Huston | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts - Episode 86

well we are back huh we're back at the night club everybody yes I'm excited tonight we got a special guest mr. Nyjah Huston is here about time dude thank you so much for coming by dude thank you guys for having me yeah man well let's get right into it I have a question that I'm sure everybody wants to know [ __ ] did you get so good at skating let's see started skating when I was five actually I tried to skate when I was four pushed her out of my horn yeah my knees and my legs just didn't want to push no they didn't know because I developed kneecaps weight I was five and then I grew up basically having the worst have you guys ever seen the Davis skatepark no no the indoor one no no that was one of my family oh no that was fire Davis skatepark I'm pretty sure is on like the thrash here like worst parks things before oh really that that Southern California is that were you know Davis NorCal oh no sorry that's right yeah that's right Davis rails yeah of course um yeah I just grew up skating there and I mean I loved it right away the skate park was so bad but it was actually like pretty good to learn at okay it's like super super mellow transition like the Bulls had no coping like wasn't it sticking out for a little kid it's great yeah it's real okay but how did you find the skateboard though did your dad show dear brother yeah my dad my dad used to skate back in his years and he was actually really good too from what I know even when I was like still growing up skating he was still killing it while skating with me and my brothers and I'm pretty sure he wanted to make it somewhere in skating too but that was back in the like 70s 80s and his parents were never the most supportive on it okay I mean skating was that a much different point back then yeah it was uh yeah I was a little different but yeah he grew up skating like half pipes and stuff and I'm pretty sure as soon as he news having a couple boys I'm pretty sure he wanted to get us into skater right away right and it was cool too because I had my two older brothers to grow up skating with I'm sure you guys know you remember avi yeah yeah I'll be killed it yeah youngest one does young this one still ski yeah oh yeah yeah yeah yeah it kills it skating I've seen clips of him dude is he sponsored or anything was he trying to do he works at aliment actually oh he does yeah yeah sick puts a bunch of graphics on the boards and say okay you have a little spy down there yeah that's dope oh so you grew up in Davis and then what would your first skateboard would do you remember first skateboard was a Tony Hawk Ward Tony Hawk yeah bird house yeah Wow yeah amazing yeah and we went to a Tony Hawk demo one of the oh the old boom boom tours now wasn't that when I was like one before it's like the skatepark tours you know I have no idea that big Tony Hawk like demo demo tour and we went to one of those in sac and I think we got like me and him and we were all like super pumped and stuff because at this time we were just we're just fans of every day you know did you get his autograph I'm not sure yeah I think I just met him I'd okay I'm pretty sure you I pretty sure my dad didn't want to be that dude like I'll give me your autograph right just stoked to be there and see him skate I think BAM was there and yeah good times I have like slight memories of that I think I was probably five or six years old how do you remember that I mean you're still a kid I mean I can't remember when I was ten let alone five it's crazy so you got your first board Tony Hawk and I mean what did you obviously like you grew up I mean you your learning curve you had videos to watch and you know you YouTube what's a listen I'm not really YouTube no no no how old are you like 40 you you you you developed quickly though right I mean videos yeah let's see s body no watch that video ID I came there how many times at least like a hundred times apart at that time I think it was Burnquist Wow interesting oh yeah right now if I had to pick my favorite part I would go with let's see Arda Hey you're sure nothing Riga yeah there you go good video like even today I would so be good goddamn man so Bob Burnquist funny about that left an impression on you that that was your favorite part yeah yeah it's crazy yeah what was the first trick you learned was it a real flavours I learned I'm gonna go ahead and say just like probably pop shuvit okay yeah and fakie big spins out like total little kid trick yeah I would sit in my garage and just do him over and over and over the other day at that point I didn't even know how to kickflip yet it actually took me a little while to be able to learn how to can't play I would get so mad because I would just get my back foot on the board and then I think I was seven one day just skating in my backyard and I finally landed one finally got it and I like ran inside like so high and it was it was on after that I felt like I needed that kickflip so bad and then everything like started moving so much faster that really yeah Wow and then we were you skating the day yeah I wasn't seven I was for sure six soon I was seven I was already like seeing handrails and stuff remember what I wasn't even at six years old I don't know what I was doing but yeah definitely not doing Shabbats so uh so but yeah but so you had the Davis Park and you're you're learning how to skate there and stuff and your other brothers were skating too this time right yeah yeah totally yeah and so they they were better than you right I mean at that point they were they were had more tricks and stunts older brother Robbie he's two years older he was he definitely like progressed faster than me ho but it was good for those first like two or three years because you all start at the same time yeah and then I was like I was always trying to keep up with him so that definitely helped me progress faster yeah but I'm sure other kids at the park too right or was it just nobody was there it was a seemed like up there no there would be a fee other gifts there but it would mainly be us skating all the time I mean it was Massimo there no I masa wasn't there not even even in those early years we would like go out Street skating and stuff find little little gaps to skate and then I feel like after that stage actually the way I got to talk about before that let's see uh did we all see it start skating the first time I don't think we did I actually used to ride my bike around I remember we did an Oregon trip mm-hmm and we hit all those like awesome parks up there and my two older brothers were skating and I would ride my bike around the park because I think I was yeah I think I was still four maybe early five okay I couldn't really like skate enough to skate those parks yet right so I was just riding my bike around and then I think after I started skating the only other thing I tried one time was rollerblading and I put them on and I was so over it like pissed and I took them off so fast and I feel like that was that point where I was like wow I just I just want to take the skating you got it sucks yeah yeah no but I mean that's a kid too you try different things you know what I mean like there's skating there's BMX rollerblading scooters you know what I mean totally have you ever tried scooter no you probably really good for some boy do yourself a favor oh that's right so you so you found so you knew at that point you were just like skating that's this is my [ __ ] I knew for sure when did you figure out like you know you were getting good and sponsors and I mean I'm sure at that age it wasn't even a question yeah I mean I definitely figured out early that I was progressing really fast and getting good compared to other kids cuz I won my first council contest when I was like six almost seven throughout my whole year year of being seven and I'm pretty sure I be to what we want every contest in our every single one oh my god you think you've wanting away if you're including those I don't know how many were a year maybe like 20 or something wanting it a year it was some gnarly yeah crazy yeah so I don't know kaylynn castle I'll take half of those yeah we literally won every contest was crazy and I mean everyone knows that guy too strict dad girl growing up so he was always like on ur ass like you guys need to be winning this [ __ ] okay you would like have a have us on the program stretching before I wake up super early in the morning made sure we like had our runs down and stuff um but I mean it was it was hectic being that young and having like a father figure that was so like oh like you need to do good right at the same time I was being competitive so I was I was kind of down with it you okay yeah yeah but he was looking like living vicariously kind of through he didn't get his chance and yeah I always think about that I think it definitely has a lot to do with it with him skating and like in his early years and then him getting us into it I think he was kind of living out his dream in a way right right right right makes sense you know I mean parents do it all the time you know for sure well good I know that because I mean then you you guys did I and I and stuff like that but but much later of course but let's just keep on the track right now it wasn't your dad like filming you back then as well yeah yeah he started filming me when I was probably like seven eight years old we would like Street skate and stuff because because yeah I mean we I sent in sponsor me tapes by the time I was eight so yeah throughout seven where I was already on the streets filming and stuff did anybody buy it on the sponsor me tape did you get any well well it kind of happened naturally because I would skate the Milpitas park a bunch it was like the best park up there at the time and a San Jose and then one day there was like a bunch of pros there and like Carl was there Carl Watson's wrist I met him okay amazing dude obviously everyone knows that nice Lord ever yeah and then Reese Forbes approached like me and my older brother and my dad and wanted to get us hooked up with some element product Wow and then so that element kind of happened naturally that way was really cool and yeah when we got our first box somebody hit some wheels and like a couple boards and we were like no way we're so stuck wow I'm still like photos of it somewhere out there just so pumped holding up our project no did you guys have to split the product between you guys like you're the middle right so how did you but I don't know we probably split it evenly yourself well yeah twigs in that box yeah for me for sure yeah yeah that's the that's the cool thing about element though it was just it was our relationship has gone so far and I mean we've been together since such a young age and it was cool the way the whole thing happened with the reefs and everything and so you would probably eight would be eight or nine years old when you got that ball it was yeah I think I was like a late seven eight oh my cuz I mean we thumb that whole twigs video when I was eight when you were eight yeah what you said you your parents but had a skate park is that like around that same time well the the park was already there and I'm pretty sure the people I couldn't afford it anymore or something I forgot what it was called before us but we we my older brother oldest brother and jahmai and my dad rebuilt the entire park and I made it like really good way better than it was before yeah it was it was still like one of my favorite parks I've ever skated Lee I was awesome but indoor park you said no indoor and woodland 15 minutes away from where we're home was and who's just skate there Stephane yeah come by Janowski Matt pales Matt Rodriguez Louisville for sure came by a couple times did you charge them to get in we weren't charging the homies whatever happened to that Park that closed down the owners of the park wanted to tear it down and turn it into like a parking garage so thank you so we had that place from when I was a 8 to 11 Oh when people ask me how I got good escape skateboarding that's my main answer is like for how much I love skating any kid that's really into it loves it that much and has a perfect indoor park is skate every day yeah you're gonna get good right as long as you have that drive of learning new tricks every day and like challenging yourself you're gonna get good totally totally and and all these new parks are popping up every [ __ ] day totally crazy yeah it's way different nowadays yeah there's so many parks yeah but yeah another thing about Meighan and get it skating a lot of it it sounds weird but a lot of it just has to do with my personality and like my OCD oh yeah because the way I got the way I progressed fast was having that park is I'm from when I was probably eight to ten years old I would go there every day or like at least five days a week we would normally go street skate on weekends okay I would go there and I would have like the same not not the same it would obviously progress and get better but out of similar lines I would do every single day oh I would like feeble across my rail come back front feeble down come back Kirk across three all knows going down I have these like little routine that I would do every day except super OCD just with her you okay and that that went on for a couple years and that's how I like mastered the simple tricks at Boatwright at an early age which is really important and makes I feel like getting better at skating so much easier absolutely and I would go through these like our two three-hour long like routines of just practicing tricks and then after that I'd be like alright now I can learn something new and now we learned normally at least like a trick or two every day do yeah it's very important though the basics I see kids pushing up to ten stairs and they can't even push yeah you know yeah I feel like certain kids definitely get ahead in themselves yeah yeah I mean they just learn board slides and like kick flips of stuff at the park and the next thing you know they're taking it down some big set and well because they're watching you yeah kids out there I mean I always tell people to just take it easy take it slow like master the simple tricks down you know don't jump from learning a crook and then just go out kick crack you know yeah you gotta take slow steps especially if you're young like that old horse like we're some of your early influences early influences pea rod has always been one of my favorites and our dough mark out we are yeah definitely apples yeah always liked him a lot still them this day I just saw clipping than the other day doing some big switch when I was getting down to how I was like damn and Chris Cole always been one of my s yeah because after that s video I'm pretty sure in bloom came out maybe the year after okay and that was like my favorite video because I had periodic Col yeah all the greats in it so that's still probably my favorite video to this day really yeah you pop it in once in a while no I haven't watched it in a little bit I need to yeah I need to yeah right but did you do watch videos a lot these days or what do you kind of just going on I mean if there's any big videos that come out I definitely watch them like Ty's new video for example I was at that premiere my buddies were in it chases part was amazing worse I'm Jamie obviously killed it but if I'm like boring on my phone I'll just go watch and go to thrash your site okay see what parts are on there I like watching all the new like random kids coming up jeez I mean there's so many of them out there do you ever try to like do you ever try to like recruit any kids or try to you know hook them up or do anything anybody that you see or anything no not necessarily I mean I feel like everyone that's coming up out there and if you if you got a good style you gotta get tricks you got to get personality people people are gonna like you you're gonna get hooked up yeah kids uh people always ask me out there like how do you make it in skating and I was telling this definitely not just your skating I mean yeah I'm sure you guys know ton of people out there that do the most insane tricks but it's definitely more than that it's about having a good style and having a good just personality totally being someone that people want to be in the band with and hanging out with yeah and just loving skateboarding totally yeah so what is nice you do at home what do you do you know if you're gonna go home tonight what are you gonna do yeah are you gonna go out and to the party or you can actually am going out it's it's Felipe's birthday Felipe Gustavo happy birthday yeah lovely but do my days my day is very I'm a pretty mellow dude be honest I did just sell my house so I'm I've been like feeling kind of weird lately cuz I've been living my apartment in Hollywood oh no it was just so different cuz I already had that place before I sold my house okay which made them move really easy cuz I already had a place I just packed a few boxes and like I was all I need Cole but why did you move those yeah what you so on because when I moved into that house I really liked it at the time okay but I was only 19 and I feel like I didn't really even know exactly what I liked yet I just I just wanted a house to live in when I saw a house door I always would say come to get this one [Laughter] because before that I moved out when I was 17 for my mom's okay rented a house in Huntington for like a year and a half well and I was a gone wasting all this money on renting I might as well buy a place you're like an ant Getty community yeah alright yeah I was so like on and off about selling it though because I'd been there for four years there's so many good memories there in the house of the house was really sick yeah but these people came in they wanted to buy it full price I was like dude I'm not I shouldn't pass up but you should have any right take take it oh sure I took that and I was looking for a new place to rent didn't really find anything that I liked that much and I don't want to rush into buying another place so chic I was gonna stay in Hollywood for a couple months and see how that goes I mean if you had a place to move well where would be your ideal place I think I'll live in Orange County for the rest of my life okay cuz yeah I mean you ride your motorbike you do all kinds of stuff right you like yeah I'm outdoor activity it's just got a different vibe from LA you know it's just so much more mellow I've got a bunch of good friends over there and my mom's in Laguna Oh perfect yeah so I'll probably live down down there for a long time I'm working on buying a new place right now though let me know man if you want me to go in on it with you housewarming party I'll come here for sure Morris Kelly does so uh yeah let's see a normal day for me yeah what do we got wake up so let's see it definitely depends on what day it is normally I mean lately I've been working on my video part a lot which everyone knows yeah so Saturday's are like a for-sure skating like I'm going in on Saturdays breakfast if yeah for sure breakfast is good with me always I get a need I needed know lately I've been doing a lot of oatmeal okay and a waffle okay with some fruit nuts since the perfect breakfast burrito probably like a green juice some healthy I'm a really healthy person are you yeah Ray's being right I was raised vegan now I I'm not gonna set you whatever cuz I don't eat red meat okay I tried and I eat too much cheese not no normal milk I hate eggs I don't know eggs yeah interesting okay but aside from aside from not being vegan I am still a really healthy person I think it helps me out a lot yeah it's yeah you need to be no fast food for me you can't be like Kelly you know I don't eat fast food I saw you other with the Taco Bell burrito when you get home from skating and you and you're at your house like what do you just relax do you do you watch movies or what do you do yeah I relax I relax a lot um I'll just chill watching TV shows no man no man I don't get home until around like 8:00 at the earliest mhm so by that time I'll probably just be chilling just kicking with my check go to bed early or uh if you step late so if I'm not going out and partying with the with the boys and I'm always like in bed by 11:00 11:00 yeah that makes sense yeah it's just slowly like I swear he just slowly gets early and it's crazy because I went through with even ever since I've been a kid I always wanted to stay up late yeah our parents would never let us stay up even though we were homeschooled okay we would never stay up past like 10:00 o'clock we would always like how can we please do the night and then from when I was about like 15 to 18 I would say when I was filming like element parts rise and shine and stuff yeah me and my buddies would skate till so late oh yeah like we would literally go out we'd probably wake up at like 4:00 p.m. from skating the day before get ready go skate hit a couple spots at night and there was like a few times where we would go all the way all throughout the night and then light up another spot in the morning or not let him that's why I just skate a spot yeah when it got light out crazy and I cannot imagine doing that now that's true though that's true so going back to the element thing when you got hooked up with element how long after when you were like eight or nine well how long after did you get sponsored like sponsored by him like a.m. let's see I would say when when I had that so like nine nine almost ten okay that's when I had that video part at the last part actually well you didn't know mentality oh yeah yeah the fetal down Hollywood and say oh yeah nine years old your am for element yeah geez and now having the last part of that video was so random it definitely wasn't anything I expect you know because I was such a little kid and I mean the other guys had amazing parts in that video so I felt like it was just kind of weird even having the last part okay but I mean obviously I was I was honored oh yeah who else was in the video was it a whole was a full-length and here comes this 9 you're okay with the last no but still yeah that's crazy so now you're a man are you going on element trips and stuff now yeah going on trips scandium contests which I was super stoked on it was nice to get out of the little beginner contest thing and I think 9 yeah 9 was my first year at Tampa ok which I feel like was a big kind of learning experience was it just with just being so hectic example you know skating with big guys out there they're twice twice three times my size and a dessert yeah I was pretty crazy I definitely feel like situations like that helped me like grew up really fast as a kid and be like so mature because I was just hanging out with older people all the time you know I didn't have my level 8 9 year old friends all to go let's go to the park and play yeah yeah you're in it now what did you get the first contest who skated that at Tampa did you do pretty good I think I made it to semies ok ok yeah I don't think I made it to finals we bumped I'm not gonna say I was bummed because I think I think I even felt like it was a little early for me to be there but I feel like me and my dad also we kind of felt like it was it was good to go as early as possible so then the next year would be better out of me oh wow we do when you want it the next year was how was that was it did you notice a difference after you want it like it definitely wasn't something I expected I was surprised for sure I knew I had a chance of winning okay because I mean honestly I go back and watch my run sometimes I don't really think I could do that run right now I just like have a different tricks now I sucky heelflips I did a heel for front born in my room I was just doing heel flips when I was skating before this my buddy's like wow yeah surprise yeah it's just it was crazy dude I remember and I've like slight memories of after landing my run being super stoked and just like waiting for the results because yeah now Tampa you get the results right away yeah but are you just waiting there's no second place some people leave how far away sometimes yeah yeah yeah yeah and I think there I think there was a couple people that like had a chance of winning too so it wasn't like ah I got this I'm for sure gonna win but I was like wow this could actually happen right now and I still think that that alone was probably the craziest thing that's happened my career seriously is just I mean 10 years old Tampa way gnarlier than winning streak things and stuff I think damn yeah yeah yeah 10 well that change that changes your old path did you notice a difference after you won that like where people like yeah I feel like that was definitely something that people didn't expect and I mean out of any ten-year-old for sure I feel like it was definitely something that put me on the map yeah and made people kind of like take me more seriously because I'm feel like there was some other like younger kids back in the day that just I feel like there's always those young kids are kind of hard to take him seriously sometimes yeah I mean Sheckler was yeah you skate Tampa with the helmet on yeah and a lot of yeah a lot of them don't really Street skate too so that makes a big difference Trina I was always out in the streets filming and stuff but yeah and then next year I was in X Games so I think I won like a couple more contest contest that year I won like the dam and Canada or something like that and then yeah 11 I was in X Games X game yeah did you get me a shoe deals you know you were on s was the Esther first shoe spots yes yeah get on like right after you won Tampa pretty much or was it kind of I think and he goes around that time yeah yeah that was really cool because like I said the Minich Montevideo was one of the first video I was watching so to be on that team though that was like my ideal hue sponsor I wanted to be on at that time so at 11 now you're in X Games much higher much bigger plot platform I mean this is televised right how was that it was intimidating yeah I would say that's the best word for it I would say mainly it was intimidating just being out there with Cole and pirata it's way different than being out there with a bunch of M's that are kind of I didn't really even know who they were you know me was it one of the LA ones it was the LA one at the Home Depot Center so yeah being out there with those guys it was it was a dream come true but at the same time it was like whoa like I don't have so small right now and these dudes are all insanely good that that was the good thing though I feel like when I was so young being out there in those situations I was I've always been like a pretty humble kid and it was never something that I like took for granted and was like oh like I'm I'm the youngest dude out here like yeah I was just kind of like whoa I'm here and I'm stoked but I'm not like expecting to win or anything I mean I'm only 11 I got a lot of years to learn and get better and these guys are insanely good yeah so I feel like that was the good part about it and also being out there so young like I feel like I feel like if I would have skated my first X Games when I was 14 15 it could have been a lot more different for my career okay that's when people ask me they're like oh how did you stay focused did you think about money or sponsorships or your future and everything else yeah it's 11 years old right I don't really think I was thinking about much I think I was literally just thinking about learning tricks and just getting better skating so that timing aspect of things I think worked out really good you always wonder about sometimes young kids getting sponsored so young you know I mean like it's like hey let the kids develop and whatever yeah so different for everybody that you know being in the contests of young age like your your nervous system in front of the crowd when I watch you skating out like it's like they're not even there dude you zone out so gnarly and you must it's just like second nature for you yeah it's just like you since you're 11 I feel like being a little kid like that though you're you're almost less nervous yeah because you just less is on your mind you know your verges so you just want to skate that's all you want to do and I feel like that that helps out a lot how long how did you do in that contest I think I got I don't have to look I think I got either fifth or sixth so I mean damn good yeah oh we're gonna go through every contest you okay so I hope you got some time no but that's amazing dude so now you're I mean element must be stoked s you're I mean you're doing it you know at 11 years old you know wouldn't you turn pro by the way I mean that's an interesting question because the first time I had my pro board was with I and I I never had a promoter supplement until like I got back on and it was something that could have happened I know there was talks about it well I think it was more kind of my dad not wanting me to be one of those kids that got just like went pro too young you know yeah it was just weird I don't I still have mixed feelings how I feel about that because like I was skating Pro contest but I still wasn't like doing the gnarliest tricks and I was still progressing so fast that it didn't really matter much if I was per hour am I feel like I feel like just me being in those contests was the main important thing do you wish you would have rather turned pro an element like your own company you know it's a matter were you tripping on that though you it seems like you were just skating and I was not yeah I wasn't I wasn't stressing on that at all because I think I could just see that my career was going well yeah and I always knew I was just super focused on skating and I think I just saw how fast I was progressing yeah and I think that was I was like the most important thing to me it was just as long as I mean still to this day as long as I'm getting better every year and I still I don't feel like I'm just like losing tricks and can't skate any more than I'm in I'm stoked what led to you leave an element to start I and I were your dad or your dad's r99 yeah it was it was interesting I wasn't I wasn't too like involved at the time I was still in like 13 years old I wasn't really like talking my sponsors and dealing with them on where I need to be what demos entity BIA filming for videos and stuff like that and my dad I think we yeah we skated the contest I skated contests in Puerto Rico I think I won it when I was I think it was maybe ten yeah that same year I won a tip on Tampa well and my dad loved Puerto Rico for whatever reason don't get me wrong it's an amazing amazing place where it goes really not to be guys been it's really nice really nice place but it's just at that time in my career I wasn't the ideal place for me to move you know there actually is really good spots there and some but there's not like the best skate parks a lot different you're so far out of the way you're not like right next to your sponsors yeah Yeah right right then I just I just want to be in SoCal all right growing up in NorCal was awesome and I still love NorCal obviously like a totally different vibe in SoCal everyone's super mellow up there it's tight but all the sponsors the whole skate industry is in Southern California yeah and I remember ever since we took our first trip down there to like skate spots when I was nine I was just so stoked to be in LA and just be in that scene you know yeah so that was always my dream to just live in the Southern California area and then my dad was obviously like all of a sudden like oh we're gonna move to Puerto Rico oh that was around that was around the same time that the park was done and the owners want to take it back over and I mean I didn't have much say you know yeah it was my dad's decision at that time he was just grown weed and I'm pretty sure you wanted to go out there and grow some outdoor and stuff okay aside from that I don't really know still like what his thought process was and I never really got to talk to him about it fully I think a lot of it all I can really think it had to do with was kind of keeping as a lot of people know my dad grew up there like raised us and that super like kind of secluded like Rastafarian lifestyle where you didn't want me to cut my hair and no alcohol didn't want me and my friends to have friends with bad influences didn't want us to go to normal schools didn't want us to get involved with girls at a young age they didn't want us to eat meat like all that kind of stuff hmm revolves around that lifestyle and don't get me wrong like I have nothing against that lifestyle I think it's really cool I think it's a healthy great lifestyle but at the same time you can't really just like control people with that yeah it's kind of something that someone you gotta let someone find themselves and that's what he did when he was a kid he would always telling me about how he found that lifestyle when he was like 18 19 and I was I was always down for it but you can't like force your kids to go certain way or they're definitely gonna go the other way I mean that's it everyone knows that's how it is yeah it's true yes true so I think taking us out there to Puerto Rico he kind of wanted to keep us secluded from getting involved with all that stuff I was talking about and that's that's really all I can think of aside from that it make sense there was spot there was some cool spots there actually I had I had like a video part where there's a lot of spots about you yeah actually but do you think like moving down there like do you think it slowed your process your progress down a little bit because there wasn't I'm not gonna say it slowed it down cuz I mean I was still still skating all the time but it was just weird like like what you were asking about the element thing we're so far away we're overseas and around that time I think there was just demos I wasn't like being at just miscommunication with my dad and I think element kind of put up with it for as long as they could no countries a few years and then it got to the point where they're like [ __ ] like what are we supposed to do you know like kids all the way out here we need him at stuff his dad's not his dad doesn't want him dealing with us directly and at that point I was like 13 14 it would have been cool to start building that relationship and worse I mean that's like around there yeah you started doing that you know for sure and like traveling my dad would like never want me to go on trips without in because and he thinks that whatever the guys the team writers that bad influence on me you know what I mean how did you feel about it right you you just like dad come on get off my back yeah it was one of those things where I was like yeah I mean I would be totally down to go on a trip by myself and I feel like I'm ready for that but if I ever like expressed that to him he'd be pissed oh yeah he was just one of these just one of those people that is very very stuck in his ways you know he always thinks that he's like got the right mindset and the right way of things and she's really hard to change that so there were there was just a ton of things that I always wanted to ask him but I was like [ __ ] I'm not trying to get yelled at right now I mean I don't know I'm not I'm not like I never want to be the person that was like the hates on the way I was raised because the way I was raised is what God needs wearing that now you know me and all my siblings were all raised very humble we weren't like we my family didn't have a lot of money we grew up in a small house we really just skated all the time and even when I was making good money at a really young age we weren't like going out like spending money and stuff yeah that's just not the way we were raised not the lifestyle like literally when I was a kid and the me all my siblings we if we're gonna go inside like at like get something to eat we can't just like get it we were like I like coming out can I have a bowl seriously yeah I feel like I feel like all those situations though and I just feel like the way someone's raised in general that's a lot to do with who they become as a person and I mean I'm totally thankful for it I'm gonna go ahead and say if I wasn't raised the way I was and yeah I had a strict dad when it came to skate its skating and it was really hard sometimes but it got me to where I'm at now so yeah it worked out you know I hate to approach you and Nike coming out like that's about that by the way well we'll get into all the Nike video part that's actually dropping tomorrow starting on Tuesday tomorrow but uh so it so now you guys are down you two guys are down there and you start I and I when you were living abroad or yes we would we would go back and forth between Puerto Rico and Huntington Beach okay Huntington was where our warehouse was with all the boards and stuff and I remember yeah the whole element thing was falling through and I was super bummed on it because I still liked those guys on writing for this company since I was a baby totally still want to ride for them I feel like that's only right and then I'm trying to think the other like options around that time there wasn't that many they're like my dad was stoked on I think I was thinking it would be cool to ride for like just whatever board comfy like a girl or chocolate Carlberg trying again yeah I'm pretty sure Carl did yeah and then my dad was like almost down for it but wasn't like Foley and then he thought it was the right idea to start our own board company and I just remember in talking about it and I would just kind of go along with it but I just sitting there like Tia I'm 14 I did not need my own board company like it's just not so that whole thing was mainly his idea I didn't really have much say in it okay and I mean it was what it was you know it was the board company that I did have my first prayer board on yeah and I I remember hearing from some people like oh that's so weird for you to start your own board company and give yourself a pro board I was thinking like I could have been year I could have been pro like a year ago if I wanted to yeah it really make much of a difference but yeah the whole thing I just I just didn't want that responsibility at the time it was just so unnecessary for sure I think because you're already doing all the responsibility what about being a pro skateboarder you mean no just I'm just having my own company oh it just felt like it just it just wasn't right because at this point like I feel like that's kind of that turning point where you really start thinking about things more yeah you're like 13 14 course and I just I just wanted some normal sponsors and really just to be able to focus on skating that was it right and I just wanted to like live in California yeah and now somebody else is determining your path you know so to speak Wow so how long did I and I last couple years um say about a year year and a half yeah maybe almost two years yeah and what happened with that did it just kind of uh cuz he got back on element yeah I mean around that time yeah let's see to go back into more family stuff my mom my mom met my dad separated we're in Puerto Rico left with well this was like the shitty thing is that my dad was obviously my manager and stuff okay and then my all my siblings left back to Davis with my mom and I was kind of the one that was stuck with my dad which I was super bummed on cuz and I didn't really like have much say because my dad's a coal like obviously I'm gonna like stay with him I'm a filmer manager all this stuff right and I was just sitting there like sick now I'm just here without my brothers and stuff I was I was pretty bummed and then didn't see my mom for like a full year and then I think she still kind of had hopes as things would like work out in the family would be back together but it just wasn't happening so took my dad to court my mom did and then all the divorce stuff happened obviously the judge heard that I hadn't seen my mom in a while and I'm not saying that he thought that my dad like wasn't taking good care of me but just that Alone's like did the kid should be seeing his mother you know separated absolutely how it is so my mom ended up getting I think full custody and my dad had like just visit visit times okay it was just a weird situation for me because I was just stuck in the right in the middle yeah and my dad's all he's like Oh like I can't believe you're gonna like choose her side and like all this stuff I'm like definitely the court's decision not high right and I was like always totally still down to be chill with my dad and then I feel like he just thought that I was whatever is thoughts were like brainwashed by all this stuff and around that time it only felt right for me to get back on lmao like that was like the first step to me kind of making my own decisions and things like become right again so you don't tell your dad you quit ah and I I mean I I'm not even gonna say that because around that time I I don't I don't think I'd talked to him for at least like a year or two after the whole divorce thing happened so it just kind of element just kind of happened naturally again then right away I started working on the video part rise and shine and then around that time as well we moved Davis to SoCal lived in Laguna Beach for a couple years my mom they have tough spot for a kid to be in I know yeah it was tough yeah I was just weird being in the middle all that and I just I just still don't understand it yeah cuz I just like I wasn't choosing any one side you know I was just like I just wanted to skate and have fun like I'm still 15 like I literally just wanted to skate and have friends cuz like when I was growing up I never really was able to have friends I'd be at my skate park skating hours and hours every day practicing and then but as a public skate park they'd be kids there that I would like hanging out with and would shell sometimes and my dad would see me like just hanging out with kids for too long and just like joking around and stuff not skating but I call you need to get back an important practice I'm like you know I'm literally skating I skate so much you should see how much I love skating I realized that it's not necessary to act that way yeah I mean yeah but I mean everyone everyone's different you know it's a good thing that you love skateboarding that much cuz I mean you could have quit skating yeah wished that hard yeah are you gonna talk about that yeah I felt like I'm thankful that I got past that like 14 15 16 stage because that's when I be kind of like stop skating as much to you because I feel like that's the typical age that kids would be super good at skating and they'll have a lot going for them and those kind of just get involved with other stuff yeah you know whatever girls like alcohol just smoking weed come and lazy sure so I'm really thankful that I was able to get past that like teenage stage and still have that love for skateboarding right on it yeah yeah and with the element thing how did that how did you have to approach them again or how did how did that how did you reconnect with element after all that stuff yeah I'm pretty sure we just both I kind of reached out if we reached out to each other and they were my mom still had a good relationship with them so they were caught up on everything that was going on okay and I'm they always knew that I wanted to ride for them still okay and they always knew that me and them both knew there wasn't my fault that the relationship was messed up gotcha so yeah that was uh that was easy and kind of no hard feelings down yeah sick how long we been skating for element now I mean I don't really count that like one year separation there you go yeah I would say yeah 7 was 16 years 16 years that's incredible it's crazy can I tell you something that's incredible nice I'm Congrats Oh more than 16 years for sure nobody I mean some people did they jump around from their sponsor the sponsor and this and that I mean that's great dude yeah it's awesome so you're already pro and I and I you go over to element they immediately just give you another board I mean they give you a your own pro board yeah yeah I felt like that was a pretty big thing at the time me having that first kind of real official boards did they release it with that rise in the shine part or is it became up before that I think it came out before I found that part for about a year okay but yeah I remember going early you kind of like we're gone up for a little bit you know Rico he came back it was just like what the [ __ ] just yeah I definitely like I definitely grew up a lot from like like kind of 13 14 to 15 started getting taller and starting like growing up a little bit didn't you cut your hair off during that time cut the hair off mid mid part mid part yeah it was a big thing it was what how was that how did you decide to do that do you that was crazy it was something that had always kind of been on the back of my mind because I mean I love my dreads that were sick I think they were definitely a cool part of me growing up but I mean having that much hair for so long obviously I'm gonna be thinking like what does it feel like to have you ever run your dreads over wall skating I might have like once or twice yeah yeah I feel like they didn't really bug me because I was so used to having them but I knew that I knew the one day I was gonna happen and it kind of just happened randomly out I'd been filming and stuff for element and then randomly I think it was like the day before I did it I was like dude I think I'm gonna do it yeah yeah and literally just went home and just cut him off yeah that's crazy do you ever think about going back people still ask from that question I'm like bro that was so long things are dying there they were awesome they were sick but they had their time they had their years of years of glories do we know how much how much time do we know how much they weighed did you save them I think I still have a couple I have to give some away for king of the road one years yeah was one of the challenges to like get one of my dread No yeah and there was a few of them side I sent a couple out that's a man but I mean were they heavy they were a lot of hair yeah it was pretty heavy the main thing that was different was just them not being in my face especially when I got skated like back and forth meaner and yeah yeah it was a lot to imagine having them again it'd be crazy to throw you off at first we started skating you're like this throw off your balance at all no I didn't throw off my balance it just felt so weird not having that like on the back of my head it took like a month to get used to you for sure for Halloween you should be young nation you should czar crazy I feel like I feel like it was a cool thing though a little like image growing up I think totally for sure I think people miss it I still get people asking about it so do you yeah it's a long time ago though yeah long time ago so now elements going good pro pro and then uh still contests killing the contests yeah why won that first Street League ever in Arizona I was 15 still had the dreads they beam and go ahead Roger I say we should talk about you getting a Street League because you gun because Jeff Rowley bounced out right and yeah well yeah so weird says another one of the things my dad was so weird about like he didn't want me to ski in this really don't know why right don't know why I have no idea you know X Games castles I mean is it just yeah it's the evolution there was something about like I mean streak has kind of always been weird on there like terms of not being able to skate at like all the other contests I think he was kind of worried about that mm-hmm but I saw the lineup of everyone in there and it was every best skater so I was just I talked to him about it I was like wow why would you not not want me in there like every other best skaters in here like and yeah luckily around that time everything was happening with all that stuff with my family and I literally got in at the last second yeah and it was crazy because I won that first contest and yeah that was like that that turning point I think Jeff Rowley was supposed to be in that spot yeah then he decided he wasn't gonna do it and you took his spot yeah Wow yeah I mean rallies tell joke about that do you you would have gone in eventually yeah but uh how much was the purse for that first contest 150,000 a life changer right there huh yeah crazy totally what did you do did you go to Disneyland been like it's it's just been I feel like I've gone so far that I'm not going now my friends always ask me about this no I'm just gonna like wait till I have kids one day no I'll go with them experience Disneyland with your kids again yeah I'm not a big fan of places like that anyway so I don't feel like in this donor yeah it's cool yeah when you're a kid it's amazing yeah but uh so what did you do when you won when you got that check hundred fifty K I mean Jesus Christ how old fifteen years old yeah it's a lot I just went home and it was just super stoked and I feel like that was that point that made me like want to work for everything so much harder you know does that felt like things were kind of finally like falling into place and you know she got kicked in and yeah that was that was a really cool point to win that contest just let alone like winning the first feeling ever it was an honor and I was super stoked but just that point I was at in my career I felt like it was something that was really kind of meant to happen and I feel like it was something that I had worked so hard for yeah and it was just finally like accomplished and it finally like felt right because I mean you guys remember those Maalouf contests oh yeah where I'm gonna say I mean my dad was always like oh you should have won this one you should have won that one should have won this then I'm like whatever dude I'm not worried about it but there was one oh there was one I remember was one Cole one yeah I was I think I was 13 14 okay 14 and that was like one of the only contests maybe the only contest I've ever lost before where I've like I actually think I should have won that yeah the only one yeah cuz I'm never that type of dude that there was so many even when I like first gay that started skating when there was one against scheckler and the globe I'll show you one that was actually my first pro contest ever I think oh and it was a really close battle between us too but I was just kind of always like dude I'm so young I'm not I don't need to win all this you know I'm not really stressing on it but that one Malouf that I landed every single trick in that last section I was like wow I really really surprised at it well yeah I remember like not to like said but yeah I remember looking at you and you started tearing yeah I was like dude cuz he worked hard told that was tripping on that tube like damn I kind of think he should have won yeah I can tell that was like the like the one time you're like [ __ ] yeah I really wanted that one it was really weird yeah that was that was still maybe the best I've ever skated in the contest I literally landed every every trick in that last section yeah and I was doing some gnarly stuff it was crazy but yeah to be able to win that Street League I felt like that was something that like I've really deserved yeah any like meant to happen no were you lost that the car got second in the Maalouf contest did it like burn a fire in you to go [ __ ] him kick ass in the next one or some [ __ ] like that it kind of did it kind of like defeated me at the same time no because I felt like what's the point I felt like it had already been like so many close situations with me most winning contests and then that one I'm thinking that was gonna be the one and then a not being it was like I don't I kind of felt like to feed it in a way it's up because second though yeah yeah well I got second in the first moved to against Peter odd right yeah you did yeah I see that one for example I wasn't stressing on because Pierre had killed it he did so much gnarly [ __ ] right I'm not saying I think Cole was another one I'm not saying he did it but I am saying I literally landed every trick and I was doing tricks that probably didn't do now said won't wake up like back three live walked back up KP back Smith walked back I'm not on those but there was yeah well when Chris Cole comes on the show we're gonna ask to see how he felt Chris went like three of them he was killing the Maloof content that I got if you went four in a row in a million oh yeah so you didn't answer my question what did you do what when you got home with 150 K check it's hard to remember man what's the first thing that what's the first big thing you've bought you know it you just like I did buy my first car than Mercedes so yeah yeah I bet that was really stoked on that I was getting my license around that time without the white one yeah and I was super stoked I was still living in NorCal that time so I would drive down south like every every month I would say and stay with my friends down there and skate a bunch and stuff and that was like around that time I feel like the mote the thing I was most stoked on was honest he's just having like friends and just being able to go out and have a good time and kind of just be a normal kid just skate with my friends hang out with my friends just [ __ ] around that was like the most thing I was deprived of that yeah yeah who were some of the guy who started skating with first my oldest friends Edgar you know Edgar yeah yeah yeah yeah I've known him for a long time and yeah he's he's from Huntington we met back when I was like 13 okay and yeah we still skate with each other all the time he still lives with me oh we're gonna have house yeah okay back in with you the man is it weird living with a friend or is it cool no it's cool I live with a couple friends oh you do my last house I was living with Edgar Dominick Walker okay and my little brother chaotic okay I could never have a roommate now give me a couple years yeah I could I don't know Roger and Kelly do it so straight how many Street leagues have you won 20 yeah Wow this has it 20 yeah I know normally it's hard to figure out but I remember that last one last year yeah I was a 20th one and that was the one where you got hurt you kind of did the splits or was that the year before no that was the second to last one that was the one I didn't win last year because people were tripping that you got back up it was like trying to [ __ ] yeah you were done bro like what did you do in the mid you smile really bad but the shitty thing is and I feel like a lot of people don't know the reason why I'm not gonna say the reason why I didn't land the last trick but I was really struggling to even try my last trick which I've pretty sure I would have won if I were to landed it Mike my legs cramped up I'm not sure if I had something to do with the splits but doesn't even drop him on the ramp it looked like you're gonna fall over suck my leg cramps so bad there was nothing I could do about I was already like taking up too much time so I just went trying my check I was trying 180s which Kirk locked in the tailslide oh that's still so pissed so the DI just slammed so hard and I can still skate my leg is so cramped sucked damn but no that last one was the one here in LA okay that was after I had that concussion and stuff that's right you go you take a beating dude I do I mean yeah I gotta give it to you where are you [ __ ] oh geez have any your sponsors match to your winning for Street League yeah Nike does some yeah okay monster toons Monster is smaller small antennas yeah that's pretty [ __ ] cool he won 20 yeah probably well Street League they they were 150 K and then they've gone down over the years they have per right now it's what 50 K or something like that for the average one like the normal ones I think so I think the Super Crown was a hundred yeah still 50 K yeah you know what I mean yeah I don't know what the whole deal with the Street League price is but I never go back this cry days how do you go into these Street leagues dude you know I mean like like we said I mean you obviously like to have done contests in the past and everything like I mean the crowd and you know you're up against you know the best yeah total - it's a single tricks - yeah yeah throughout like this past I would say year or two I've tried to tell myself so many times like going to this contest and yeah like I still want to win but don't don't stress so hard on it you know like if you lose don't be so bummed right but that's not natural like competitive side of me always comes in and it's so hard if I feel like I like didn't skate good or messed up or whatever it's so hard to not be bummed right but yeah I'm always trying to be that way with contests but geez relax just you know whatever happens have fun with it yeah that's the thing though even though I take these contests seriously like I have so much fun skating that's great so much fun yeah not just cuz I mean I have a chance of winning money and it's fun skating the groomers and stuff just I'm a competitor first and I like to compete that's who I am and if there was a street league every like two weeks I would be high you would do it I think that's like the hard thing - and the thing that puts a lot of pressure on myself and myself and I'm sure other people feel the same way is there's only for a year that's right there was ten a year then it would be a lot easier to go in like more mellow and realize but they're only mean forced feel easier not that many yeah no no big money at stake - man oh I'm glad you have fun doing it you know because I mean people like me and everybody a lot of people we can't relate to the how kind of stuff you know what I mean like and it's cool to hear that you know you're uh you're out there enjoying yourself you know what I mean but you know you're known now for doing like big [ __ ] you know big rails and stuff like what what's a SL e TN does the face melters thing and everything like do you get sick of that like you know being known for like oh like 18 want you to do the craziest rail do you feel like you need outdo yourself constantly there you go kinda in a way yeah that part kind of sex right do you ever like go like a HTM like okay this Harry Skeeter [ __ ] yeah yeah I do feel that way sometimes but when it comes to skating rails it's just it's what I enjoy feel like it's mainly what I've always enjoyed ever since I did my first handrail when I was seven that was like instantly hooked what did you do and when you front board from board yeah Dave Australis yeah I've always loved skating rails so much and I feel like I feel like that's something that's awesome with this video part I'm coming out with okay here's it's something that's kind of allowed me to take my mind off the contest a little bit and be like a little more chill about those a really concentrate on this part because the last part I came out with before this was about two three years ago the Thrasher one okay which I was hyped on it was it was something I worked hard or hard on but it was also something that there was kind of some older footage so I'm just random tricks they were thrown in there it was right around the time I was getting on Nike so I wanted to get rid of all my footage that I had DC's on and it was the end of the year so Thrasher was killing with your gun for Sony yeah so yeah I feel like this part I'm so stoked on it because it's it's something I've been able to work so hard on and something I've been able to look like forward to so much aside from the whole contest scene right right and plus you were working with ty Evans yeah we're working with Ty's been sick was he up in helicopters and stuff yeah but ty it's awesome my favorite thing about ty obviously his whole professional side of things and his awesome cameras and equipment that was awesome but my favorite part about him is he's down for whatever he's down for what out for whatever it doesn't matter if you want to go cut some Dobbs up around go skate some spot all the way across the world like he's literally down for whatever whatever it's I want to go skate he is he's is dedicated yeah and I mean there's been countless times where I'm trying a trick for so many hours and I feel bad I'm like dude I'm sorry I can't land this like you're working hard too can your big-ass camera your back probably like [ __ ] Thole is he's always down I do does not give up because it is rap how long did you work on this new video what's a call do we know yeah it's called till death till death yeah next part do us part I thought I knew that you do yeah just because you're gonna skate till death right honestly I think it mainly has to do with me eating a lot of [ __ ] a lot yeah there's some heavy slams in the part and I think that the main thing that made me think of it as a cool name for a part is people always ask me how do you still want to skate big rails and stuff after eating [ __ ] after getting knocked down after having concussions and stuff and I think that's where I thought about the name because I mean no matter no matter how much I get hurt or no matter what slams I take I'm still gonna wanna live this life and skate these rails and do all this [ __ ] that excites me and challenges myself as long as I'm able to you know as long as I'm physically okay I still want to be out there doing what I love is there a real you haven't been able to conquer real I haven't been able to like have you like gone back to like one spot like you'd Slam multiple times and like not mitigate a trick no not that I can think of it's mainly like the technical stuff where I get over sometimes you that's why I like people ask me sometimes like why do you why do you not skate ledges more what more manuals or yeah I mean honestly I don't have the patience though I do not have the patience it's just I mean I nothing against I have nothing against anything like a 20-plus stair realize it's just as hard to go to a tech manager yeah I have nothing against any type of skating out there I think all skateboard is great I think it's cool there how many different skateboarders there are and how different we all are you know in our own way but yeah me personally I just I see these kids out there like I mean obviously people like Shane O'Neill do any lynching he wants to but even aside from that there's just so many kids out there doing the gnarliest lead shakes manual chicks all this stuff easy yeah I'm just like yeah I'm not gonna try to gear it up with you guys you guys you guys can have that alleged manual stuff well I hope there's a couple early mani there'll be a couple things yeah yeah yeah laelia dude that's crazy there's just the whole Instagram social media thing I just I see tricks every day and I'm like wow that was absolutely insane yeah and I mean it's just sitting there on Instagram well I mean how do you feel about Instagram I mean here you are coming out with the new video part and everything and people are saying oh maybe video parts are dead and blah blah blah and it's just Instagram like what are you what's your take on that I love Instagram yes cool I think it gets gives kids out there a lot of opportunity to show their stuff yeah and never know who's watched as a pro do you feel like it pushes you to try harder pushes me to try harder I'm not gonna say that like some random kid do something ridiculous it was like so yeah in a way in a way for sure I mean cuz even I mean not just like technical stuff like there's kids out there grinding these like 30 rails on Instagram it's insane so yeah Instagram and the whole social media thing has definitely helped take skating to that next level but I mean me personally I love it I love being able to go out there and post stuff on Instagram I'll go out and cheat skate all the time with my friends and not even have a film where I'll just film share my phone for instance yes fun it's a good medium it's cool dude that's fine about that is icy spots differently I like filming lions for Instagram mainly okay so I'll just like cruise around downtown LA and like find some random spots and just skate some random [ __ ] right instead of like going to a set spot me like oh I want to do this on I just kind of hit some random stuff and see what happens do you ever get comments like do word stuff this get on the rail no he hates the rail yeah you see I you skated a rail line you back when a nose granted the rail line fell asleep who the [ __ ] skates that line yeah yeah whole Instagram things case yeah you want to get a little common thing there's every comment out there you can quite think yeah do you respond to people oh yeah I respond to the positive comment or you go not the negative ones I talk about the way to do it I try to respond to some kids though yeah I mean especially if they have like a question about whatever it is progressing skating riddles about my shoot coming out anything like that I try to respond it's good man so video is dropping tomorrow can't wait to see it I'm stoked you picked the song or just I pick the song I did pick the song you picked the song yeah did ty was he back in it actually ty helped pick one of the song okay oh yeah I actually helped find one of them but yeah the main influence on the music was definitely myself so along with the video part though the new shoe Nike the CSB the new shoe he's got it oh let's see Wow we didn't even talk about DC though I mean DC well let's talk about this first yeah it's on the table let's talk about this right man it is very light yeah and no it seems a rip which is nice yeah it's cool yeah like looks like it wraps around your foot there's a new material they use it's crazy it's this really I forgot they call it that some high sharkskin some high tech so it's it actually feels grippy yeah it is yeah the grippy yeah and it's cool because it actually lasts a long time it's really thin and it's like really flexible but it lasts a long time it does really feel flexible it only feels like you could put this shoe on and just go yeah right first Nike shoe yeah first one you must be pretty stoked yeah be proud yeah I'm really stoked on it it's good what colors any cuz this is the launch color does white anymore a couple months after okay yourselfer did they help you yeah I was gonna say that's that's the coolest thing about having a shoe is just how involved I was on everything about it oh the way it looks the way it skates the way it feels the materials everything it's it really is my design I don't want people to think that Nike just came with me the shoe and I call you just here you gotta celebrate so we give it to you you know what I mean I actually am was very involved with this and it take took so long takes a little time dude it took forever oh it's 93 we've been working on this 2018 supposed to be like the year of Nike free okay which is supposed to be that really flexible thin light like deconstructed type of shoe yeah it's coming a runner type thing isn't it yeah yeah it's rewarding to see it come out yeah because we've literally been working on it for like a year and a half two years easy now did they come to you and be like hey we have this new material try this or try their to do I mean cuz that could be sketchy - we were like well it's just suede or leather I was I was I was skeptical on the material at first I was just obviously expecting a suede shoe that's all I've ever skated yeah it's what most shoes are but they came with me to this with this material and it actually ended up being good okay I ended up flicking really good and I was I was just really surprised on how long it lasted because it's so thin one of the first things I told them was I want a shoe that breaks in fast and lasts a long time right because I've always hated skating these shoes Owens I feel like that's the best thing about this shoe is it really does last a long time they're easy the flick really lasts a while and I don't only want that in a shoe for myself but for other kids out there too because honestly like I skate a few days a week but there's kids other that skate as much as I used to or you go hours and hours a day so many kick flips like especially when you're just learning you're learning tricks everyday you're doing so many kick flips and I just I want kids out there to be able to skate a shoe and not have to go get a new one like a weekly right want it to last yeah I'm really I'm really stoked the way it came out great yeah I really hope it's well ventilated - yeah I really hope that people like it it looks like almost like a like almost a Volk but in a cup sole - ish it looks like a mix or something ya know it's mainly a cop but it has that fake vocal oh there you go okay right but my favorite part about it is just the comfort to be honest comfortable yeah cuz I told them that I really want a shoe that I want to be able to skate in and just chilling out here I've never I've really never had a shoe like that with my past DC Shoes that designed and even Nike shoes I've skated I skated P rods and then the Blazers okay I always just chilled engine now skis after oh you did yeah and this shoe is my first shoe where I actually just want to wear it all the time no matter if I'm skating chillin working out running doesn't matter it's it's good for whatever it's really cool because it's got good heel support which is super important for me because I mean dude bruised heels are the worst thing ever sure funny guys out there know that it's the worst and this like foam padding right here it makes you real comfy but then it kind of Slim's out and I'm here because I hate it when it shoots do you think up here I'm sure you guys are bored feels everything in a shoe looks like a great shoe man Congrats that's sick dude and when does that drop do we know ya March 1st March 1st out everywhere online March 1st so try out there somewhere let me know yeah how you guys like him do you know he'll answer every seriously congrats that's an amazing that's amazing and I can't wait so the whites launching first and then you have different colors coming soon yeah yeah it's great looking shoe man March 1st March 1st should we go back to DC no because from you weren't ass yeah right and then you went from s to DC weld wait didn't gate you lefty seer or s and then you were kind of free for a little bit weren't you I was yeah yeah why'd you leave us I was at the time when it went under it was around that time it was kind of both things that was around the same time everything was happening with element okay and I think pretty sure us was kind of going under at the time okay yeah yeah yeah I didn't even have a shoe sponsor for a couple years and then after I was back on the scene and winning contests and stuff I think I was yeah I was uh I was sixteen no I think it was 2011 I got on DC how did that come around though was it just did they approach you to get on DC or were you were you actively looking for a shoe sponsor I was looking for one but I I definitely there was only really a couple options out there that I was interested in it wasn't I was I was kind of open to things though we have the DC things they just approached me and it seemed right at the time and it worked out okay what were you wearing in the in the interim were you just trying out different shoes and so I think I'm pretty sure I was already wearing DC's oh you were yeah before that okay I think there was already some shoes that I liked and yeah it was it was a good fit at the time I was soaked on their team and I mean I'm still totally down for DC I think they're I think they're really cool company no no and at times yeah my buddies still write from chase rides your um he's out there killing at that they have a bunch like a new am Sami team it says right to shoes yeah to shoes and that fade to black part I would say well yeah will always be one of my best parts there's there's definitely there's definitely a lot of tricks in there that I wouldn't want to do now you know my skating is always like kind of changing years and tricks election and spots I want to skate and whatnot but when I go back and watch that part I'm like damn how some of this stuff is pretty heavy here's you surprised yourself yeah damn I did that yeah what's one trick that what's like the one trick that you look back on you're like I don't know how the [ __ ] I did that there's a lot let's see I know the the nollie heel no slide down West was that rail Brea the Brea 12 rail oh yeah and that was in the old Ellen part still on my dreads yeah yeah I was yeah I was only 15 I would not want to try that round it was long it was long for it yeah I watched I was no way I want to try but yeah that's uh with the video part coming out that's why I'm so stoked on this part I feel like it's it's different it's not gonna be like my last video parts I had I mean obviously it's gonna be a lot more it's gonna have a lot more feeling to it because ty is doing it he's obviously got the best equipment the best experience the most experienced the best angles all that stuff and I'm gonna say it's it's kind of more like a mini movie than a part you know really has some slams in it has the battles it's not just Trick Trick Trick okay because I feel like a lot of my parts in the past have just been a lot of tricks right and I mean yeah they were they were good tricks but in this part I didn't want to do I didn't want to go back back to somebody lip another 13 real and yeah okay put back lips on 15 Rael you know what I mean I wanted because honestly it gets to a point where it that stuff's just it's just kind of not worth it you know I want to I want to do I want to do new tricks I want to skate spots that I'm excited to skate yeah and like I said my skating is always change changing but I feel like with this part it's a lot of just rails it's a lot of different types of types rails king drills like gapped rails bump trails whatever um curved rails that's that's the thing that excites me to skate okay just all different types of rails right how are you finding these rails yeah I got to mention that dude I was about to say it was uh oh yeah barracks did that post it was a funniest post they bury a bear has been all over their instagrams when he posted a video of me skating flat ground I was I had already posted I was like promoting my shoe okay and he was like something like oh what why do you think Nyjah skates all these contests but then doesn't want to skate battle the barracks which I had I've skated it I remember seeing the two times before actually and then he was like aw do you think he just doesn't want to win this - or is he afraid and I was like like way what definitely not afraid to skate flat grounds I'm not fancy I'm afraid to skate these [ __ ] railing skating and now when I read the outside clock dude this is funny as [ __ ] to be to be on yeah yeah I think I just I commented something on it but I was just thinking like I just want to tackle my buddies I want to tag like da mo cuz he skates big rails I want to tag like chase and Jamie and be like dude honestly I don't skate a vowel the barracks because we'd rather be out there getting [ __ ] buck Oh who'd rather be out there like doing what we like to do and what [ __ ] excites us and that's done big [ __ ] you're chase - yeah are you ripping on him like Jay I don't think you should do this bro he that dude is on point he's crazy he's he has so much experience me and him both we how you build up that much confidence I mean two kids out there two is just not going out there and just going for big [ __ ] and it's going and skating so many different types of rails so when you just see a rail you don't even have to roll up to it because you you know by the way the ground is or by how steep it is or how tall or low it is you know exactly how much speed you need how they pop and that's that's really what builds up that confidence because even back when I was even like a few years ago when I would go up to like an 18 reality way more hesitant than I am now oh now when I row up to a rail like that I'm like I know what needs to happen and what's gonna be the safe way to happen I mean tell me no hesitation dude you just you can't hesitate I tell ya it's all the time I'm like if you really don't feel like you want like you're ready to go for something seriously don't go for it cuz that's that's how you get hurt you know well I thought it was interesting too because like I never I've never skated with you you know what I mean but I've been watching the face melters and stuff and watching like the the five-o down the rail watching your process yeah doing that I found it very interesting you know what I mean because in my own head I'm like how is he how is he gonna do this you know what I mean and I saw you where you were getting on you were kind of like playing with it almost you were just kind of feeling it out like yeah it was very interesting to me you know because I'm SK manuals you know what I mean so but is that type is it is that the type of process usually do or was it just because maybe there was dirt on the other side I mean yeah was it that's the ideal situation to have okay you can jump over into yeah there's I mean I I don't want people out there to think I'm fearless like I still get scared of [ __ ] yeah when I would I try a lot but the thing with me is like every time I go out and film my Glee's lately for this part I'm going to spots I have a trick in mind okay it's a spot that I'm probably already familiar with the whole parts really basically thumbed her in California I'm not a fan of traveling so I don't like traveling not really flying hotels I just like I like being home I like skiing with my buddies I like I like skating spots in California but what was I talking about oh just it the process of trying to like go oh yeah yeah like yeah when I go to a spot I'm I go there knowing that I'm gonna try it you know what I mean you got to go there with that confidence if you go there and you're like oh I might hop on it might want to try this I want to try that like I go to a spot with like a couple tricks in mind and I'm like this is going down okay and I'm not saying I just get there and start going for my trick I there's there's things I roll up to a ton I might roll up to something for 20 minutes yeah hold that hype up but still when I'm rolling up I'm not being like oh I don't know I don't know if I want to try this you're not if I have that thought in my mind I'm just not gonna go for it Oh cuz I mean that's to me that's just how you get hurt right if you have that hesitation I just shouldn't just shouldn't have you know I mean it takes it still takes a lot to go for a certain a lot of things you know I mean certain tricks I've been doing lately I haven't even done on big rails that much okay and I'll have to roll up a ton but when I'm rolling up I'm just thinking like I'm just analyzing everything by pushing my speed the cracks just everything about the spot and making sure I feel right about everything and honestly just hyping yourself up yeah sometimes it takes a while to get to that point to get yourself hyped enough to try something but it we get to a point where you're over it and I'm like I'm not rolling up anymore I'm going for this right here and then once you get that first try out of the way you're you're hyped and yeah you know it's gonna go down seems like always a first try yeah is this the one where you're like okay yeah okay yeah that the hard thing though about a lot of like tricks going like going big and stuff it's it's just that thought that when you you're going to a spot and you're like I'm either landing this or I'm getting hurt there's there's really no in-between yeah like you don't go skate some 20 rail and it's gonna take 20-30 tries to land your trick you're either you're then doing that [ __ ] or you're getting smoked it's either one of the other well you just said that you go there with a couple tricks in mind do you ever just find rails out in the wild and go oh [ __ ] let me oh uh well let me try that you know or like DISA or do you have to like kind of plan it out in your head no there's definitely spots I'll come across and I'll be just down to skate yeah okay yeah there was even a couple spots in this part that I just randomly found on my own and just like random kinked rails inside out and that's kind this what's your ender there's there's some good stuff yeah all right yeah like I said I'm just stoked on it cuz it's different I feel like it's the way my style is kind of developed over the past couple years me growing up and me just really showing people what I love to skate and really just rails duuude rail King trails I love King dress exciting it's so fun it's crazy I can relate that yeah you've been really good at technical handrail skating yeah you've always every time you've dropped organ Street League you're always doing like the nollie back when a nose grind back to forward and you're kind of though one of the only guys that can really have control over that so fast there are a lot of new tricks like that in this part yeah there's a couple for sure yeah yeah yeah yeah I just I like I said I just tried to stay away from kind of doing all those tricks that people have already seen me do so many time just kind of trying to bring out some new stuff but also for yourself too right yeah yeah cuz well yeah when it comes to Street skating in general comes to putting out apart a lot of it with me is just like just self-satisfaction yeah he just being stoked on going out and getting the clip when I go out and get a sick clip and I go home and I chill I feel I'm hyped that's what makes me happy as a person you know dude that's it that's the way it should be yeah you know you shouldn't be out there trying to do it for other people yeah you know was it a trick they got away yeah let's see there was definitely one and let's see was there any other ones there's the others for sure colors mainly one though I tried for so long and I was so really technical trick that was it those technical tricks yeah I'm like the I don't know dude I have one trick I was like if there's one trick that night I want to see you do okay I know you always did the 180 switch crook from the side but backside backside 180 yes switch front crook from the side yeah I know but anyone could do it sake yeah please do that one honestly I don't think I'll do it cuz I'm not good I'm not I get it back threes but someone out there should do his back three nosegrind down around it's crazy I almost did one on accident back when I was like 15 practicing the skate park the skate park rail literally grinding down the whole thing just jumped off but I think Carl Watson actually hit me up recently DME or semi was like dude you got to do this trick I was like wow that would be really slow somewhat someone get on that yeah yeah I think those game do you have like a warm-up trick on a rail or if it's a big rail do you just go for the trick you're going for well I need it for us to test it out on Rails yeah just to test it okarin grind back grind yeah I'm not a big fan of board slides no yeah it's not that I'm like bad at him but I'm pretty sure I'm just like kind of scarred from when I was a kid I sacked this out rail when I was like 7 so bad the [ __ ] out of it and I think like six months a year later I was kickflip boardslide and down my Park rail and I sacked that super bad too and then I was like dude [ __ ] body's committing the madman right I've always been more comfortable like going back side to you know like like front boards for example it going backside on soft back lips compared to front lips front blunts back ones if you noticed a lot of my skating is backside interesting frontside flips I always stock the front side I can know frontside play out my I mean I can do them like I'm flat and like up a little step ups and stuff you're not gonna see me go friend self up some big steps so which is easier for you or what switch yeah that's actually my go-to flip trick now it's weird switch frontside flips that's why you went in Street League you took you like I'll go sit over there bug after that - yeah slam is crazy 20 Street League wins new shoe new part Jesus Christ what's next well for Nyjah I got that black plague in front of him right that's right yeah black plague Steinem a part of that part yeah how's that going it's really good beer you guys to try it actually really is though this is actually my favorite one it's drop yeah yeah oh yeah you've had it it's you Jordan Hoffert tony hawk dude Matt Berger burger yes Palmer people we got this key so Evers in Seattle carry down there and Oceanside's that's sick it's a cool place oh they got a long-ass lunch down there yeah when he first built it I was like dude I you know I actually was getting tagged in it a little bit I didn't get the invite to go down there but what's next yeah what's next when you do battle Derek's oh yeah battle base is not next honestly to you though this is what I common I was like dude I'm not that good a flat ground yeah that's like the [ __ ] out I know you don't really like I don't I don't spend my time though like I don't spend enough time skating flat grounds where I'm like I'm gonna go participate in this gnarly ass flat ground contest you're doing some insane insane [ __ ] you know yeah but no I'm just gonna be chilling dude honestly I like aside from skating and like working sometimes doing interviews photo shoots for random things like maybe like once or twice a week I live like a pretty simple life okay I love just like hanging out with my friends hanging out with my chick me and my friends we will I love going out with the boys because it's seriously the most entertaining thing ever why I've always said like dude we need a TV show just I mean you seen David yeah boys and all yeah that's true it's just always the funniest [ __ ] I mean if you guys watch my stories I'm statics going on and you ride your dirt bike around to like riding dirt yeah I'm always into car stuff I try not to waste too much money on cars cuz I mean just a waste of money yeah I mean right what are you used to got the Audi still got the Audi yes okay yeah I sold the Lambo that thing was awesome known for like a couple years it's just got stuck in LA traffic I'm not trying to like waste money on stuff like that you know I want to be able to support myself when I'm older and not having Jess on stuff and I mean obviously my body's already already its source so easily doing so yeah I mean you can't skate forever that's for sure a lot of pro skaters have been on the show saying that their biggest waste of [ __ ] money is cars yeah yeah definitely yeah I don't have that issue but at the same time you gotta reward yourself sometimes that that stuff like I've always I'm honestly not a very materialistic person I'm not someone that needs to go out and buy some some Gucci stuff you know shop it at the mall I hate [ __ ] hate shopping someone Denise go out and buy a bunch of jewelry and stuff I just I don't like having a nice house having some good friends around me good people go Ives and some fun cars to drive and honest take the car thing that stuff like motivates me sometimes there's actually been like Street League moments before I think it was before I bought the Lambo okay I was like if I win this I'm buying a [ __ ] [ __ ] win this No and I mean that stuff you got to use that to motivate you sometimes do you go do jumps on your bike and stuff do you go do you do a bunch of [ __ ] or Jesus Cruz I normally go up to Big Bear and ride trails with buddies and stuff I mean I can like do jumps and stuff but it's just dangerous yeah if I if I ever like got super smoked riding a dirt bike I'd be like wow I'm an idiot right cuz I mean I've been so like lucky and I am so thankful with not having super bad injuries I had my bad and knee injury back like six years ago oh you did just a bone bruise a bone bruise kneecap those things never heal they seriously don't heal how did you do that nollie front crook I was trying it down this 12 rail in Florida yeah I was like 17 and I just hit the ground so hard I'm surprised you to me not her it still hurts like that's the main reason why I can't really skate every day yeah much as I like would want to because it just gets so sore sore yeah I get so sore you still got your skatepark yeah I do yeah San Clemente looks big yeah I need you got a lot of big big [ __ ] in there I do yeah I need to change some stuff up in there soon but it's good having the big rail that was really came in handy recently because before I've went ride tricks like then you guys got my cover right before I wouldn't try this I like anything like this I just go to the park oh yes I just practice thank you guys okay that was a creek that came to mind when I was talking about rolling up two things a lot cuz it took me a while to try that Oh scary oh really yeah how many tries did it take you when you finally landed it I think five tries when you're going for something like this right you know your speed you roll up to it a couple times now are you aiming for like a certain point on the rail are you trying to get on like maybe halfway down or a quarter normally kind of use the posts yeah figure out okay where you want to get on the rail honestly speed is the most important thing speed and balance okay I've gotten hurt some some of the had so my worst falls with just not being like balanced right before trying a trick and having like second thoughts before I feeling like you should roll up go for it anyway stuff like that not good bi just speed it's it's honestly just takes so much experience so many rebels but this was a good session do you this is one of my best sessions ever we took the knobs off the night before okay yeah that we chase was there he was grinding a backfire but it for fun I was there he grinded it but yeah me and Ty I'm just like I was saying ty being down for whatever I told him I want to skate the spot we went down the night before we leave had a hopper they only put two on yeah mmm we are not both of these we had like four grinders we were all going in on it because you can't just like pop them off they're welded on so we were like going in on the rail and actually like dude I eat [ __ ] warming up to this thing because I got on the grind it was sticky from where we grinded it down died really doing a front guy like fell all the way down on my favorite metal real wax a rail Iowa hex all my red all my friends are always so over me added my ID wax the room you should have I mean obviously either slip out and get stuck that's always what I tell kids you always better to slip out and get stuck I remember seeing you like Schubert's down one day you like you walked through the gate have you waxed everything you want to skate and you do this marathon line around them that's that's one thing I just don't understand about skater is like I know some people got that style whether they can their skate super fast and they push through and you you hear that grind you know you can hear there's no wax and and I mean don't get me wrong that's awesome yeah I think it's actually really gnarly but when it comes to skating rails and stuff to you just getting stuck is not chill like trust me I know and I mean both most parks ice-skated everything so sticky its I'm crazy all the rails and stuff I'm just like [ __ ] dude you guys guys need a little wax well I tried I tried to knobby that is nothing like wax oh because like when wax when drink it's and wax whatever it you know it can't becomes like gummy and yeah you know yeah like sandpaper almost yeah I also hate being that dude they like going to skate parks and waxing waxing everything like I try to at least like ask people like if I wax it cuz I mean so it's personal preference to but I mean if your wax in a rail you got to let somebody know that you wax a rail so on this rail here with the cover and Thrasher which where were you aiming for for the second post cuz the D knob done the second between yeah I was probably getting on the I kind of in between in between the first post and seconds oh okay yeah and dude why why fakie 50-50 dude I already had a switch grind for my part so I didn't want to do that instead and I was just feeling that trick I don't know it's it's some of that stuff is just random like one of the last tricks I film for my part I was planning on going to the spot for like the past like a couple months and doing something else and literally two days before I was like maybe I should try this instead and just end up doing that wow it's weird I don't know sometimes stuff just kind of pops in your mind and you think it'll work and it's got to go for it crazy dude this is crazy having an article in a skate magazine had been so long was the last one dude is years ago really yeah cuz I mean I'm not that type of dude that needs to go out and have a bunch of [ __ ] in every mag you know honestly when I go film a lot I don't even have photographers know now cuz I don't like you one too much my stuff gets seen for putting out a part one of the things I hate most is when someone's last trick has already came out and I already seen it and you're like [ __ ] already saw that yeah cuz that's like last chick it's always supposed to be that the mags like they don't want the video come up before the photo yeah yeah yeah that's why yeah normally when I go film it's just filmers oh it's it's true though man I mean a lot of people they psycho that way oh dude that one what is it what is that the 180 on the [ __ ] oh well yeah well yeah this rails [ __ ] amazing I think it got knob again it's been nob a few times dude I got so smoked on it that too the first time I tried this trick I wasn't even actually planning on going all the way around I was just planning on just back when he knows guys like grinding some popover however it worked and I was there and I sacked it so bad I split my [ __ ] balls open no yeah I did six stitches in my balls Asajj now were you scared at your scrote that your balls were gonna fall through hey it wasn't that deep but yeah it was deed it was close that would be my fear like my balls open out be afraid that my balls would come it was it was honesty close it was entirely anything else gnarly like that that you have had had happened to you I mean it's like concussions I mean I've had so many sacks but that was the only time or it's been some like where I've actually had to go to the hospital I mean yeah I think I think the only times I've ever actually been to the hospital was that time and then the concussion other time I hit my head recently got a couple staples in my head okay than that not not too many hospital they know thank God thank God broken finger I was making finger yeah oh can you stop movement in there yeah it's just like I think it's still like out of place but I never listen I don't know what else to talk about you just saying dude I hope you keep going and doing crazy [ __ ] and doing what you love bro cuz it's dope I've been so focused on this Nike part yeah but I do want to have I think I have like two more months the foam for that or something so I'm gonna go out units try to get some well with that boy you're Arden's yeah go yeah I'll get me psyched for sure for sure definitely doc don't got close to stylus him but that's you guys bro both you guys view that we all wrestle edge and he is such an amazing dude yeah great good artist already drew this of us oh really yeah this is art yes yeah not to quit his day job I love I love seeing those uh those older deeds just still keep going and still skating that's one of my favorite things like guys like I'm gonna say people that really stand out are Appleyard Cole P rod Reynolds oh yeah like people that like you don't you don't have to be out still filming parts you really don't yeah I mean you've proved everyone one of the gnarliest skateboarders ever but you're still out there progressing you're not even fill in parts like pirata commented on its supposed to other day I was like dude you're always progressing yeah and because I see him post like like shell chicks and stuff is like a couple new tricks today I'm like damn like you that's that's true dedication for skateboarding right there and I mean that's something that's always inspired me because what a ten years from now when I'm like 33 I still want to have that love for it nice to 100 years from now yeah I'm like I still want to go out and get buck and like learn new tricks enough so yeah perhaps the process does get to be good inspiration were you asked to be in the Olympics I don't think it's something you get asked to be in 2019 it's gonna be like the average from what I heard average contest placing throughout the year oh but I do plan to be there it's been down for it I think it's something that I'm surprised hasn't happened a long time ago I mean just based off of how big skateboarding is all around the world and how many kids skate mm-hmm it's got to be interesting now it's gonna be interesting to see we're in the ready for the world stage this game when in reality we ready for the world yeah I mean honestly I think it is I think it's that whole like concept of people being against skateboarding being a sport all that stuff's like to you ski boarding it just like anything else it's gonna evolve into something bigger I mean look at so many people skate out there in the world millions of kids you know it's it's it's gonna get to that point sometime and it might as well be now and I mean I'm just stoked that I have a chance of being a part of it if I yeah if I can if I can be a part of it I'm super down I heard they're gonna take like three skaters from like the main countries like the US okay Australia Brazil and yeah I heard it's gonna be like average contest placing throughout 2019 okay so we'll see how that where you're in there bro bring us home a gold medal wait I can we could put it right here I think that's one of the cool parts about it too is just people being able to represent their country I think that's awesome I mean it's gonna happen you know you might as well go and do it if you don't do it somebody else will yeah yeah right and we got a place for the gold right behind me yeah you think Shaun White's gonna end up taking like golden Bert I don't know does he still sleep I don't think they do invert no Bert no I heard Parkin Street really but he just said that he wants to skate in there right now oh did he he can't amiko party get in Park yeah yeah I would think I'm honored some of those park deeds are not really there yeah it's interesting whether I'm so excited to watch that actually I love the park guys either so sick I love like Grayson oh yeah Raven Raven Touche dudes so sick to watch and who else Pedro borrows too gnarly it's crazy who's your favorite skater my favorite skater all-time favorite skater and you know just because I'm sitting here seriously no all-time thing turned face is Chris Cole Chris Cole there's people there there's other people to come close okay I'm gonna say our dough definitely one of my favorites just cuz he really helped push that that bar of skating big stuff on just like Chad Muska Jamie Thomas all those guys you know they they paved the way of skating King trails and all that big stuff right but I would say as an all around all around skater and someone who I still like kind of fan over it's definitely cool Chris Cole I'm asking for an autograph one day I build up that confidence but not I think it's just cause he's dude he's such a good like all-around skateboarder he's really good dude I love it I love his style he's done so many tricks that no one else has had ever done before huh and he's just dude he's so good it's crazy I swear that dude can do any trick he's it's insane he's a dude that when you see him skate in person you're like it's [ __ ] yeah this guy's gnarly yeah he's so he's just so talented on a skateboard it's crazy it's insane yeah it's insane any last words bro or do what should we talk about anything else dude think what I'd like to ask is how is the sweat from DC to Nike oh I mean it was good both companies are for a first skateboard shoe company they're both pretty professional you know what I mean when I was I'm not gonna lie I was kind of nervous of the switch just cuz like I said I'm not a big fan of traveling and I'm just I'm not the type of person that wants to be too busy all the time so I was kind of thinking like oh [ __ ] like Nikes gonna have me going all around everywhere all the time and I'm not gonna have time to do like normal stuff that I want to do but ended up not being that way at all everything's been super mellow over there the main thing since I've gone on is just working on this shoe in the video part mm-hmm and as soon as they mentioned about wanting to give me a shoe I made me a lot more excited to be on because I mean that's an honor to have a shoe along with people like Peter odd and stuff and all the other greats on Nike or sure but it was honestly a really smooth smooth switch and just like just like everything was awesome over at DC with like their team and stuff I mean Nikes teams obviously insane they have so many people on their team it's crazy and I get along with those guys period Shane Kevin Bradley's the funniest take the club with that my birthday party like after it was already over he like drove out like 5:00 a.m. party Palm Springs yeah yeah I do it that's the next day ideas a layer that's amazing no but being on being on Nikes honor it's really it is that's amazing - instead did they approach you or how did that work I mean I think it was kind of that time where my DC contract was coming to an end and I mean you know where it just gets out yeah yeah yeah Nike at that time it really just felt like the right fit for me I've always been the type of dude that is is down to kind of go outside of skateboarding and try to like inspire other kids out there and just just do bigger stuff you know yeah and I feel like Nikes a good fit for that and Nikes obviously like the biggest shoe company ever and it's something that I could have only dreamed for riding when I was a kid there you go and yet being on a team with so many amazing people it's it's awesome how much did you get bro 2,000 a month maybe get some royalties from your ship a but thank you so much for coming by Nyjah this has been Oh Kelly will you go Bo yes nappa what size do you wear to XL XL yeah maybe can throw a monster logo on our shirt to the next street I'm a long sleeve now I do yeah I'm stoked guys thank you for having me it's been amazing I mean it's cool to be able to like talk about stuff like that you know I'm always I'm always down for people to know the the back end of the story you know how I got to where I am and people love it bro yeah yeah yeah I mean we're all big fans so you know I just I hope that you keep doing what you're doing dude for sure you know Thank You Kelly bro oh yeah yeah well here's there's a Appleyard mug for you right here mark Appleyard look at that huh apples apples all day and then uh what did you say excel or did you say oh yeah okay yeah here's a long sleeve and in a short sleeve well I didn't know if you wanted short sleeves yet yeah we could try I think that's short-sleeve cool just Instagram or something you got a million eyes yeah thank you guys been a pleasure bro thank you so much for stopping by no worries you killed it dude well back sometime we'll come back like five five ten years down the road so you're on that I don't know if we'll be here [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Channel: The Nine Club

Views: 633,286

Keywords: chris roberts, roger bagley, kelly hart, crob, the nine club, nine club, the 9 club, 9 club, skateboarding, skateboards, skate, skating, skater, podcast, talk, show, history, lesson, interview, news, motivation, entertainment, best style, fs, tre, legend, schrock, berrics, transworld, tricks, nike sb, sk8board, street skating, switch tre flip, boardslide, crail couch, nyjah huston, element skateboards, sls, street league, full part, x games, til' death, ty evans, thrasher, monster, espn, rise and shine

Id: Aqmjl5NxhH0

Length: 105min 47sec (6347 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 26 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/bsadi]

I’m not a Nike SB fan but if they made a logo that looked like the NBA logo, had it say NSB instead and had a Lance Mountain Sadplant silhouette, I am willing to sell out hard.

[u/jakedesnake]

I just wish they could get Vallely on there, i'd love that. But maybe people have already requested that.