I grew up in Southern California, so there is just a part of me that is a Hollywood rocker.
Skateboarding is forever, and things like college and girls only ruin an endlessly savored adolescence.
I've always wanted to make a music video with skating and different imagery, something very artistic.
I was always interested in skateboarding, BMX bike riding, flipping, gymnastics. Anything with tumbling, turning, twisting, and extreme sports.
Growing up, I absolutely loved skateboarding and dirt bike riding with my brother and the neighborhood kids.
I like necklaces that are short, the way skateboarders used to wear them in the seventies.
What's skateable is limitless by design.
Skating was popular, but it wasn't mainstream. It had this underground following, and you could go on tours, win decent prize money, and make royalties from signature products - that's how I came to buy a house when I was a senior in high school.
I started skating when I was five years old in Pasadena, California.
I quit high school to be a pro skateboarder out of Ohio, which is just asinine, but it was meant to be.
'Rob & Big' was a buddy comedy show.
I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.
Once you pick up a skateboard, you'll find out that it's not a hobby, it's not a sport, it's a lifestyle.
Once you land a jump, you put it straight in the program. That's the way I've always been doing it.
I was a little nerdy, but I got along with everybody. I had fun at school - skateboarding, surfing, getting kicked out of class for making too much noise.
I'd ice-skated before, because I'm Canadian and that's what you do as a kid, but I'd never, ever been on quad skates.
I roller skated when I was younger, but when you're on a track that's slanted and you're with other people all skating in a pack, it's a whole different sport.
Hopefully, kids realize you can do anything you want. Skateboarding can be that gateway.
All my life I have wanted to skate, and all my life I have skated.
I studied everyone in the business of entertainment: Dr. Dre, Diddy, everyone. Rob Dyrdek was big for me. He would get 2 million views a week on 'Rob and Big,' and from that sprung everything: DC shoes, Monster Energy, 'Fantasy Factory,' everything.
I started skating when I was about 10 years old. It was in an alleyway. I picked up my brother's skateboard and stood on it. I started to roll down the alley, and I yelled at my brother asking him how I turn the thing. At the end of the alley, I just jumped off, picked up the board and physically turned it around.
I'm too into skateboarding to be devastated by anything.
Ever since I was a younger skater, I've been working my way to these big jumps.
I was really excited to land my first 1080. But I was surprised that it came a lot easier than I thought it would.
For my equipment, we're not about running. We're about wheels, action sports, and that type of thing. So we want range of motion and shock absorption. The foot itself has 28 degrees of ankle motion as you press into it or you put weight into it. A typical running or walking foot has kind of around 10 to 12, at max, flex at the toe.
