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I feel like I've always been a little competitive. Like I always want myself to like
Do the best that I can do, and like in anything and when I got into skateboarding
As a thing I did with my brother
And so in my head I was like like we're both starting from the same place
And I'm not gonna let him be better than me.
I was asked to skate this one contest, and the whole scene, just was like, really appealing to me,
and I liked that everyone was just like going for it!
I was like a kid I thought I was gonna be a surfer
even though I like never actually went to the beach and surf
But in my head I was like, yeah, that's like a really great lifestyle
When you first get into skating
Every kid thinks oh every so cool to be Pro, and like do this as a living.
You don't really know what that means
But it is the idea of it, that's really cool
I don't let other people define me, like, what's a good day for me
Especially when it's like contests
and people are judging you and like you seeing all these people and like this person's here and you're here
But it's not about that
Everyone has their own
abilities and the things that they do
and even if you do some of the same things, it's not the same
When I think of like going to a restaurant and like ordering pancakes,
versus my stepdad making pancakes, it's not the same
For me getting into skating was a mix of things
it was something that you could like do outside and like move around
Like when you're a kid, you just want to be outside and like play
It was cool watching people skate!
Like I think if you don't skate and you see it, it like changes your mind,
it like changes your perception or like how you see things
There's like an element to it that, at first glance, it's really hard to understand like how things are working
At the end of the day, like when you've had a good skate session, there's no feeling like it!
It's a form of expression, but then it's also like, you can go fast and not really be doing anything.
It's weird, skating makes me feel like a bunch of different feelings!
Sometimes I feel powerful, and Iike, I can do like whatever!
And there's other days, where skateboarding will put me in my place
and everyone slams and and sometimes it's like on the stupidest things
Skateboarding is really humbling
For me, X Games is so special, because it was like the first big contest that I won, that
people outside of Skateboarding,
like my family, understood, that I was like really doing something or being taken seriously
In something that's kinda not so serious.
When I want to learn a new trick I try to understand at first and
if I can't do that, then it's just a matter of like trying it and
Seeing where you're at with it
and you kinda know, what feels right and what doesn't feel right.
Like everyone has like that internal clock.
If I contribute one thing to skating, I'd want it to be
that everyone finds out, what it is they like, and don't like, and really stand by that,
and not let other people tell you like, what you are or aren't, and what's right and wrong.
Especially in something like skating, like I hear people saying like, oh you have to do this trick, this way,
but in reality, like you can do however you want it!
I think it's cool that people find things that make them stocked, and then can follow that path
I also think it's like wouldn't anyone like to find their passion, whether it's skateboarding or something else.
That'll change your life