right
there when I did that front board I was
like yeah it was just me Choy mapstone
and um one of my friends bchi from Japan
when I got there I was like I looked at
it and I was like there's no way I can
do this no way I'm going to try
this he had mannerisms when he was
rolling up that I'd never seen him up
until that point I've seen him do
everything like now
he was literally like rolling up and he
was doing stuff I'd never seen him he
was batshit scared I was
batshit scared dude he goes front bored
he gets caught up in the top he's flying
exactly what
happened went for it like
basically breakes his wrist that's it
huh yeah stops for a second like
my WR listen that he's like yeah
I'm going to do it just like I'm so
on and then he's like okay I'm going to
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go ho come back him happy yeah
holy
there's my name
now team was here
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yep yay yay
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this curb right here we used to get a
candle and put it in
like a Boiling Pot pour onto the gutter
and then we skate the
curve
yep Tona when shim was a little kid he
was the Chima controller he'd be like yo
you see my brother skate you heard of my
brother
Jima there's obviously not a lot going
on out here so seems like little that
was showing off to people look at this
like check at my
brother cuz I was excited and I love
skateboarding too and it was just
amazing to see him do those sort of
things be so
little I was a kid then and he was even
smaller I think I was like 15 and he was
eight and my mom would still let us go
into town I couldn't let him get too far
away from me cuz you know just wonderand
off
Theona he took care of CH so well like
he brought ch in the city every day I
don't think CH would have been allowed
to come and skate in the city if it
wasn't for his brother BL a good
spot you can like drink here and skate
here all day pretty much until you get
kicked out talking about it the other
day like trying to work out something
new you could do into it that hadn't
been done and there's like maybe five
regular tricks that people do like left
for
it everything else has been done
you guys all right we'll move
along Chima moved from juice to Vulcan
and that was such a big deal cuz we were
still like so young and the idea of
leaving guy Miller and Juice was just
insane I was like shocked I was like
guy's done so much for everyone he was
always appreciative and cool to me and
you got to be an if you don't
want him to do good I'm stoked when they
can make a
living I think he went up to Queensland
and was hanging out with
Shane peanut was the team manager and he
just offered him a better deal uh we
couldn't match it between Dustin and
peanut they wrangled four of the best
AMS in the world at the
time CH L was Jake and Shane nothing but
love from this guy pretty much as soon
as I got on vcom talks about making a
like Australian only video with the
whole team so that kind of started
straight away definitely during the
filming of that I got to know everyone
pretty well we all became boys after
that it was going to be like a Mad Max
ripoff until Shane passed away and then
they were like okay we're going to
dedicate the video to Shane everyone was
like yeah that's that's all we want to
do and then they called it let's live
cuz that's something that Shane would
always
say could you describe what he was like
h Larger than Life all around just
Legend miss him every
day it's got to be acknowledged that
Chima kept it going in a good direction
given that the fact that in the space of
a handful of years he lost two of his
really good friends and you and I both
know a track record of guys that that
could lead them into a downward spiral
he was able to maintain his trajectory
to accomplishing his goals and pretty
heavy when you think about
it
yeah breath it in
boys if you kind of look at chim's
career I think he's really smart about
it obviously it's the skating but a lot
of it is like the choices you make how
much time you spend in the states what
you do while you're in the states who
you skate for Dolan is as crazy as that
may seem is like a really good role
model in a lot of ways he's not afraid
to like tell these guys this is what you
need to do this is like what your
priority should be he was living in
Australia and like he was this kid that
was ripping and stuff but they wanted
him over here and I was like do you want
to move in with me since then like he's
been here he's he's kicked ass and he's
so humble that he like gets a trick he
comes back from skating and he won't
even say anything about it you
know bet come on for the first two weeks
every time I get back to Sydney like if
I've just been hanging around with
Americans over here then my accent's
pretty like sterile like somewhere in
the middle of Pacific between Australia
and the United
States I definitely didn't think that
would be living here
today there's little pockets of Vans
everyone feels comfortable I think but
like there's definitely gravitation
going on Chima has been at the top of
where I've gravitated to he'll do the
gnarliest thing he'll come over he'll be
talking to you or I and it's like he's
in casual CL you don't even know if he
skated he just lets his skating talk
then he's a human on the other side of
it a lot of the guys on the team are
pretty outgoing and I think Chima kind
of Falls more in the like he's just a
really amazing skater and I
don't think he has to do that which I
think is rad a lot of people didn't know
how good he was but it was pretty
apparent that people would I knew knew
right off the bat that chimo was sort of
going to be a no-brainer for one of the
main guys in the video just cuz his
approach to it either he's filming
something really gnarly or he's
just kind of like hanging out support
Squad
style it was the last day of the Vans
video and he went and tried to kick his
double set that never been kick flipped
and he was doing it but he's like dude I
don't kick flip anymore you know like I
don't know how to kickflip down a huge
set of stairs anymore like I used to but
he's broke his ball like he knows how to
kick for it he's got that focus in his
mind there's like you know certain
people that just have it a Reynolds or
rally where they're just like it's a
supreme Focus that I don't I don't know
and he would just turn up and like oh
I'm going to do this trick and I'm like
I've never even seen you do this trick
and then next minute he's flying down 12
stairs and within five tries it's
done every day I get to skatee with that
dude it's still surprises me and it's
still like as exciting as it was from
the
get-go so we premiered the video in LA
and then literally the next day just
went on a twoe trip around the world
just premiering the video in like
Australia China London Paris New York
Toronto and like Mexico City and now
that it's finally done we need something
else to like start working on so I'd
like to film a video part in Sydney cuz
my last one was all of La so it'd be
nice to do something from my hometown
again I like that he doesn't take a
permanent chunk of life and just be like
yeah now I'm a Californian now I live
here I'm a skater I do you know he's
kind of set himself up in a position
where he's like I'm still Chima from
Australia I'm running this lifestyle
right now but end all be all I'm Chima
from Australia you know this dude his
family his friends he's passionate about
that there'll just be one day that'll
set it off and just hearing like the
California girl accent really gets to me
after a while you my family's here my
friends are here and yeah it's
definitely where I see
myself ending my
life find like a cottage in the hills
and
just kick it I don't know buy some mini
goats or something