CHRIS HASLAM: We're not sure if this place has asbestos in
it or whatever.
But if it does, then I think me and Daewon and [INAUDIBLE]
are probably going to die in the next couple years.
PATRICK O'DELL: So you're going to try to film one
continuous line through this place?
CHRIS HASLAM: Yeah.
But I'm starting up here.
Like [INAUDIBLE] right here, which, like I said, is
ridiculously steep now.
I didn't think it was going to be this steep but whatever.
We're coming up this wall right there, which is another
thing that's retardedly steep.
And we're going to come through here, this little hole
in the wall, that we probably won't fit through.
PATRICK O'DELL: How would you get through there , and then
what happens?
CHRIS HASLAM: We get [INAUDIBLE] on this thing
right here.
And then I'm coming through here.
Got to duck under this thing.
PATRICK O'DELL: How tall are you?
CHRIS HASLAM: Tall enough, like 6'1".
And then you duck under this thing.
This is going to be like the hardest.
This is where I'm going to probably smoke
my head a few times.
I'm going over this thing.
Under this thing.
PATRICK O'DELL: [LAUGHING]
I can't even walk it.
CHRIS HASLAM: [INAUDIBLE]
yeah, go under it.
And then, front side come around this corner
[INAUDIBLE].
Over this little wave thing.
Over the wall ride.
And the try to make it from the wall ride back over up
that bank and that's a full shot.
[SKATEBOARDING SOUNDS]
PATRICK O'DELL: Welcome back to the Epicly Later'd show.
This week we have Chris Haslam on the show.
You know when you see his name come up and you see him about
to trick, you know it's going to be just something new that
you've never seen before.
But he can do anything on a mini ramp or on street.
Everything's just taken to a whole other level.
Over and over his tricks kind of blow your mind.
So anyway, this is just a little bit of an intro into
the mind of Chris Haslam.
CHRIS HASLAM: Amazing crib, man.
PATRICK O'DELL: This is your place?
CHRIS HASLAM: This is my friend Brandon's.
This is where he sleeps.
There's some sort of stain on the bed there.
This my set-up.
I usually go here.
[INAUDIBLE]
It doesn't even get over my whole body.
PATRICK O'DELL: Who's this guy?
CHRIS HASLAM: This is Danny Gonzales's dog, Ginger.
She's one of the most stunning poms you'll ever see.
Danny.
PATRICK O'DELL: Which skate videos do you have. ?
Lookit, he even has a-- damn--
401, 402.
Obviously, this one is the finest one he has.
PATRICK O'DELL: Oh, you're in there right?
CHRIS HASLAM: I'm in there, yeah.
PATRICK O'DELL: Whoa, that 's you?
CHRIS HASLAM: Yeah.
Look at this, shorts even.
PATRICK O'DELL: How long ago is this?
CHRIS HASLAM: Gee, I have no idea.
What is this 2000 and something?
PATRICK O'DELL: So you just haven't cut
your hair since then?
CHRIS HASLAM: 2002, yeah.
PATRICK O'DELL: What made you want to grow your beard and
your hair real long?
CHRIS HASLAM: I started the hair because my buddy Steve in
Canada bet--
I told him I was going to grow it-- and I guess he didn't
believe me.
So he bet me I couldn't grow it as long as his or whatever.
Like $50 or something.
Something lame.
And I was like to here.
I think it was in the digital video where I had--
That's mid transformation.
That's probably the video that has clips of me in that one
that have the shaved head.
And the next clip is me with long hair, with some lame-ass
bandana out of my pocket.
And then a real tight-ass shirt.
So I will put this in.
No BMX, no blades ever.
[SKATEBOARDING SOUNDS]
CHRIS HASLAM: Oh, first complete
round in about a year.
I got to bleach my hair.
All blond hair, surf kid.
How come all these kids are ripping?
Oh.
Just got to pretend like I know what I'm doing at this
place, when really I don't.
PATRICK O'DELL: Should we watch [INAUDIBLE] video?
CHRIS HASLAM: Yeah, yeah, I had first part.
And this is where all that Sasquatch, me
being in the woods.
I'm getting sick of it, so I'm sure everybody else is getting
sick of it too.
They should probably stop putting me in
the woods and stuff.
PATRICK O'DELL: What's the trick called that you did in
Barcelona over the bump [INAUDIBLE] bar?
CHRIS HASLAM: I call it a run [INAUDIBLE].
People that know skate histories generally know what
I'm talking about when I say that.
Most of the stuff I've done has been done before already.
Kick foot, one footed, nose manual, I seen
Danny Gonzales do that.
Front board, kick flipout.
I saw Chris Cole do that in, I think, or something
[INAUDIBLE] or whatever.
That one you see when I'm skating up to that kick-foot,
my shirt is tied around my pants.
That's because my pants ripped and my balls were hanging out,
so I had to tie my shirt around my pants so that I
wouldn't be caught hanging.
PATRICK O'DELL: Do you consider a lot of these tricks
dork tricks?
Or it's like--
CHRIS HASLAM: I've heard people
call them circus tricks.
Like just whenever like, oh this is kind of weird.
Kind of unusual tricks or whatever.
Surprisingly, a the three tricks that people were the
most psyched on was the kick-foot Smith at the end,
the one- footed board slide, and the front
blunt on the board.
I think the reason why kids were psyched on the front
blunt of the board was because you could do
that any day you want.
You could do it on the front yard, you can do it on the
driveway, or you could do it wherever you want.
It's in the reach of any level of skating.
I'm sure I got hated on a few times, but I'm surprised that
I haven't just gotten completely shunned from any
kind of sponsored skating event from all the lame tricks
that I usually pull off.
There's been a couple, like the crook lip slide that I
wish never really came out anywhere, ever.
Oh what's this?
And, oh, there was one dude.
There was a career-ending photo.
It was the World War Three.
The best trick World War Three video.
Dude, on the back cover I had a shaved head, these
baggy ass jeans on--
I don't know what kind of shirt-- but blazing Benihana.
Like dude!
Just so big.
And just on the back cover is so devo.
So bad man.
I wouldn't mind doing another video--
well I don't want to say like cheese and crackers--
but I want to do that kind of video.
But not of mini ramp skating, of doing something else.
I like those kind cheaper, free, kind of short, and just
fun to watch videos.
You know?
Because I think people want to see fun stuff now.
I've been skating with Daewon for a bit.
And there'd be the demo or there'd be like a mini ramp at
the park that we'd go to and stuff.
So we'd be skating mini ramps.
So we knew the skill level of each other.
And we just, one day, thought that we might as well, maybe,
make something.
You know?
Like make a ramp video.
We wanted it to be as homemade as possible.
There was all kinds of stuff that we built
and tried to get.
But there was no way.
There was one part of the extension that I built.
Kind of like a bridge to the wall with coping on it.
I don't know what the hell I was thinking because it's not
going to happen.
So there was all kinds of stuff that we built that we
didn't even skate.
We spent hours building it.
MALE SPEAKER: [INAUDIBLE]
PATRICK O'DELL: Yeah?
MALE SPEAKER: [INAUDIBLE]
PATRICK O'DELL: So, I mean if you could take a look, and
then if you really think that we need to.
MALE SPEAKER: Oh really?
PATRICK O'DELL: Yeah.