ready hi I'm bloody McCoy I'm 19 years
old and I'm from London and a
skateboarder who has a clothing company
not around
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I feel completely at home
skateboarding making artwork and making
clothes a sort of byproduct of
discovering skateboarding to me to be
honest
it opened up the doors to everything I
know now I first met blondie when he was
13 Southbank remember just seeing him
like skating really good inside doing
random years later were like best
friends any kind of a unique bag of
tricks that you don't normally see the
common thread between everyone is that
everyone's got their own unique style
and way of doing things not used to
being filmed for breakfast yeah but I
don't mind me there is an idea that
skateboarders or the cartoon
skateboarder is feel like stoner dropout
he's actually completely wrong I think
it's just that they're very hard-working
at what they want to do
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my parents didn't really know that I was
coming here as much as I was because as
soon as I started going to school in
London I got sick of it really quickly
and it was only over that over the
bridge so it was way too close to
forbidden pleasures the people I met
when I first came it was like no one
I've ever met before because prior to
that had only had any social interaction
with kids at school so coming here it
was open to all types of people
introduced me to so much a less fond
memory what I've tried to do it it's
called an impossible off this into there
and I landed on it and pulled out and
straight onto my wrist and I think it
was the fourth time I broke my right
wrist in total in skateboarding I broke
this hand five times in this hand five
times
we've got a couple of scars and
obviously that's completely deformed and
disgusting
growing up in London as a young man
there's a lot of severe anxiety it's
something that no one should suffer but
a lot of people do and the last thing
they want to do is talk about it I
really think that people shouldn't be
embarassed to feel the way they feel I
think progression really comes from
talking about and acknowledging it as a
real thing when you're young you're
still finding out what you are but feel
like it's quite a responsibility that
the people that pay attention to what
I'm doing a young and they're at that
age where they're easily influenced so I
want to be giving a good message I was
15 it was really before I started to
appreciate fashion in general it's a
beautiful photo but I mean I'm sort of
doing that I sort of look a bit pissed
and it meant a lot only years after it
came out to me to be honest I'd love
another one if that's all right
I saw what Lev was doing just making
ends meet selling skateboarding products
and freebies that is sponsored mates had
and now obviously runs a skateboard
company and it's a big deal so that was
really inspiring and like nothing I've
ever seen before
or said it's really
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we're in my studio now in Soho and I
pulled some of my favorite things that
we've done over the last couple of years
all of this temp stuff is really
inspired by where we are now just
physically standing on a skateboard
going fast nothing makes me up here then
skateboarding around here
I suppose the message line everything is
to not lose that sort of thing that all
kids have when they are young that
everything is possible and also to try
and really drill in the fact that London
is the best place to do it lucky to be
here the shows on in about an hour so
we'd probably better get off and get
ready for that one so fingers crossed
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remember South penguin is about 15 I
think and I got to know him properly
when he always starts going for pallets
of course I'm very proud of him so
you're hung he's doing a lot of stuff
and you know these skates good too so
that's what I'm happy to wrap
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having dial-up and talking to the people
which are looking at your stuff and I'm
a fan of it I think that's really
important and I hope that we shed a bit
of light on mental health there the
message of the whole thing is to
hopefully encourage the younger kids of
my generation and even younger the kids
every to skateboarding the palace and
all that stuff to not be afraid to do
exactly what it is they want to do
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don't get me started on brakes it what
it communicates it to me was that
pretend for the moment
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