INTERVIEWER: Damn.
Lucky.
Wait, tell me about this place.
DYLAN RIEDER: I don't want to reveal too much information.
INTERVIEWER: You've gotta tell me something, Bro.
DYLAN RIEDER: It's just a private facility me
and some guys got.
I designed the [INAUDIBLE] corner,
that was my main piece.
INTERVIEWER: And we're not supposed to
be filming in here?
DYLAN RIEDER: I don't think we're supposed to
be filming in here.
Whatever, I pay rent, so.
I might get yelled at for this.
But, whatever, my life.
PATRICK O'DELL: What's up?
Welcome back to Epicly Later'd.
This episode's about Dylan Rieder whose hands down one of
the best pros out right now.
He just came out with a part on gravis, just him as the
whole video, and it's amazing.
I guess the only reason he made it is because he wasn't
really that satisfied with the Alien Workshop part that came
out a year ago.
Dylan's amazing, I hope you enjoy the episode.
DYLAN RIEDER: I grew up in Westminster, a little north of
Huntington Beach, kind of like Korean, Mexican town, a lot of
pool halls, a lot of pho.
I don't think anybody's really from Westminster, none of whom
that skates.
Just Huntington Beach, Dells from Huntington Beach.
I think, Templeton's from Huntington.
Like you ever been to that murdy park down there, it's
like a little ashtray park, I think Templeton designed it.
INTERVIEWER: Yeah, the famous one.
DYLAN RIEDER: No, I think in Huntington Park's the famous
one over by the high school.
Then there's another one before that, that was smaller,
before Huntington Park.
But we used to go there, because we were too
intimidated to go to Huntington Park, because
that's where Andrew went and all those those Warren Avenue
crew dudes, at the time.
I was like 11, maybe 10.
I remember seeing like Andrew at Huntington Park for the
first time, I was pretty star struck.
Saw Penny there a couple times when I was little.
That old Penny footage there is awesome.
He rips that place.
It's not there anymore, they took it out, demolished it to
extend the football fucking field, which is stupid.
INTERVIEWER: So how old are you now?
DYLAN RIEDER: 21.
INTERVIEWER: OK, that seems like you'd be real young when
that was going on.
DYLAN RIEDER: Yeah, I was super young.
Such a little shit head.
MARK OBLOW: I first met Dylan, I was doing a photo shoot for
Quicksilver for their youth campaign.
I would shoot whoever they would bring.
They would bring models, or whatever.
And then at that point Dylan actually had come in, like
they picked him as a little boy model.
And he had come in like that like, and they're like, oh, we
brought a little skater guy, and I was super anti.
I was like, [PHEW], totally get away from me.
We shot some photos, and then they needed action photos.
So then I sent Tim to go shoot some stuff with Ortiz, because
I was like, I ain't even going to waste my fucking time.
I talked to Ortiz later, and I was like, hey, how'd that go?
And Ortiz was like, Dude, he's pretty gnarly.
And I'm like, what do you mean?
What was he pretty gnarly?
He's actually like, Smith Grind this rail and he kick
flipped down these stairs.
And I was just like, what?
Get the fuck out of here, whatever.
So then, Damn Am comes around, he basically is like, can I
come enter the Damn Am?
Can I enter under Quicksilver?
And I'm like, yeah go for it, whatever, it's totally cool.
And then next thing you know, he won the contest.
And I was just like, what the fuck?
From that point on, he basically went on pretty much
every single trip that I did for Quicksilver.
These are the fucked up ones.
Like this, this was the first Miami trip.
That was his first trip with us.
That was with Janoski, and Donny Barley, and Reece.
But like that was--
INTERVIEWER: He's got braces?
MARK OBLOW: Yeah, he's got braces.
He was such a little, like, little guy.
The old team right there.
GREG HUNT: I mean, that's something I even, like, I
skate with him all the time and I forget.
Like when he was like 12, he was going on trips with the
Quicksilver guys, like Reece, Stefan, and he was just like
the little kid with men, you know.
And then also with Osiris, I think he went on like a bunch
of trips with Jerry, and all those guys.
So he's got like some pretty deep roots.
Like, once in a while I'll see these old photos, be like, Oh
yeah, were like, one of those little kids.
Misled Youth, or whatever, was his favorite video.
And like, he had like super skin tight pants, he was like
13 years old, he's like one of those kids, like lip sliding
15-stair hand rails, or something.
Going out with his buddies at night, like lighting stuff up
like a bunch of like 15-year-old kids.
Like trying to skate like most gigantic hand rail and almost
killing themselves, you know.
MARK OBLOW: Jerry has a portrait of him somewhere.
And it's just like this portrait of this baby, it's
like Dylan, it's like this baby face.
JERRY HSU: I first met Dylan when I rode for Osiris.
And I think Chris Pastras was our team manager at the time,
and I don't know where he found him.
I think he went to like a contest or something, and just
found this kid, and just brought him on some trips.
That's how I'd first met him, I'd never heard of him, or
seen photos of him, or anything like that.
But I just trust Chris, because he had good taste.
Me and Louie on tour we would kind of try to take care of
him and make sure he didn't get into too
much trouble or anything.
He was so young.
He was really quiet.
He never said anything.
He was just this really quiet kid, with like braces.
It's funny, like he was really shy.
Girls always wanted to talk to him, and
like hug him and stuff.
He was just like this adorable little kid, and like he was
just so shy, and like he didn't really-- and it was all
really new to him, just being sponsored and traveling.
You could tell he was a mature kid.
He wasn't like just some spaz.
Like normally kids at that age you can tell that they don't
really know how to skate yet.
I mean, maybe they could do hard tricks, but they can't
really skate.
But Dylan could skate everything, and like skate
really well.
Like, we liked him a lot right away.
We really liked his skating.
DYLAN RIEDER: When Osiris came out with the Subject to Change
video, I shared a part with "the Butcher".
I was excited, it was the first video I was filming for.
I was like 15, 14.
When I was that age all I really did was like skate
rails and stuff.
GREG HUNT: He kind of got labeled as like a little rail
kid, because that's all he was really skating was rails.
Once again, seeing a little kid in the beginning.
He thinks one way, and then he gets
influenced by someone else.
He really got influenced with Tony T and those guys.
And Tony was, I think, a big influence with him, and so was
Donnie Barley.
And those guys, what kind of set them apart, was their
being able to skate tranny.
It really hit him, and I think the way he looked at skating
bowls, and skating tranny.
And, like I actually made him enter the first contest.
And he did pretty bad.
And then he went back the second year, and he actually
got 13th place, which is pretty gnarly for Marseilles.
This was actually that one he rode in Marseilles.
That was the one where he got 13th place.
That was pretty gnarly, stoked on out.
INTERVIEWER: That was an Am contest?
MARK OBLOW: No, it was pro.
It was pro, that was when he did, and that was before
anyone, I mean, I saw doing them was the no-comply
tail-side reverts.
He did that in there, in one of his runs.
And then he did like, there was a wall, a vert wall, and
he did like, kick flip front side wall rides, and kick flip
backside wall rides, but like super high and popping.
He was skating more like, doing more
technical and flip stuff.
It was good, I think, it was just good for him to like
break out of the little rail kid deal.
JERRY HSU: After all the Osiris stuff, I would just
kind of see him around.
I didn't see him for years, and then he just grew up.
I guess I feel kind of like proud.
It's not like I played like a big part in his life, or
anything, but it was just cool to see him go from like a
little kid to just like a full blown, like totally well
respected skater.
INTERVIEWER: Are you psyched to be in another episode?
DYLAN RIEDER: Yeah, I feel like it's good that I make my
cameo every three or four episodes.
That's good.
INTERVIEWER: You're in the [INAUDIBLE] for no reason.
DYLAN RIEDER: Yeah like--
INTERVIEWER: [INAUDIBLE] occasionally pan over to you
[INAUDIBLE]
DYLAN RIEDER: Yeah, Yeah, I don't know, that day I just
felt like being in an episode.