That's the moment. Are you truly committed or are you going to walk away?
The foundation of why I skate is because I've always loved progression and to push the limits of my capabilities
I can create these moves and feel like I'm accomplishing something.
And so that's what's kept me going into age 50.
I put great effort into my videos and into just one trick even and that trick just goes by in a flash and no one knows
how much effort went into that. And I don't know if anyone really cares, but I thought would be interesting to maybe cover that...
so I thought I'd document the journey.
This trick is a combination of two existing tricks: a
backside 360 shuvit
into a frontside nosegrind. My board is turning one way, my body's turning the other way and I have to meet it and...
then decide to come in.
If I do this trick, I already know it's so hard I'm getting this one on video and it's done...
and that's such a weird
approach.That's such a weird philosophy
because as I learned tricks in my youth they were to do in competition and exhibitions to get in my arsenal.
And the tricks have done so difficult that sometimes you can just hope to make one.
So many pieces have to move together.
Really the hardest element is to land on the truck with my feet in the right position.
That is the absolute key to this trick.
But I only get it on the truck once every five or ten tries. So there's no consistency to that.
Sometimes it takes hundreds of tries thousands of tries.
There are these tricks that are so technical that one's gonna work.
I've been trying to same thing over and over, same technique. And so there's no learning process in that.
It's almost like you got lucky.
But I'm willing to put forth those hundreds of attempts to get lucky that one time.
And I don't like to say it's luck because it takes skill and takes effort.
Like getting into the grind that's one step closer. Those moments are the ones that keep you going.
I can't even describe where I'm looking when I do the trick. I know the timing.
I know the amount of speed I need. I know where my feet relatively should be.
Those are the things you're working out as it progresses.
There's something to be said for all these things that happened behind the scenes.
You guys are going to shoot it. You're gonna have to stay with me through all of these attempts and all this frustration.
And I'm sure it's just as frustrating behind the camera to be
sitting there filming for hours and a lot of times that's my motivation to make it.
I was like, I don't want to waste any more time for anyone else.
I have been here skating and knowing like that
I have to go pick up my daughter at school.
And it's like I only have a few attempts left one of these has to work.
It's as basic as that, and you'll risk everything to make it.
At some point the exhaustion and the frustration can overpower the amount of joy you're getting through the journey.
This is my challenge that I've set forth for myself I want to finish it.
I don't know how else to describe it, but so much of it happens innately.
It's sort of like you go in this dream state of repetition.
Just like do it again do it again.
And then I've done it so many times that I don't really think of that part of it.
It's just the moment that I need to happen on the truck on my feet is the moment where I wake up.
I'm like...make it.
Oh my God.
I did not think that was the one.
Like that's the buzz that I've always strived for.
Yes! That buzz I get when I make something new, is...
what's kept me coming back to skating all the time. Something in my head said if it lands on the nose...
make it go in. And my feet weren't ideal...
but it was by pure force that I got it in there.
Like this trick right here is not some great milestone in skating.
It's probably not going to resonate with a non skating audience.
I guess my hope is that if I explain this process, maybe they'll give a better understanding of what it takes to do these things.
Thank you. I don't have anything else in my life that is like this.
That's the buzz that I've always strived for in skating is that moment when you do something new.
Even if it's something that has been done before the idea that I've never done it is enough for me to get fired up.
Now I'm excited. Going to get some lunch and pick up my daughter from school.