"I wanted to be a different pro every week. I remember doing that with Andrew Reynolds, Geoff Rowley, Scott Kane, P.J. Ladd, Ronnie Creager, Brian Wenning, Kerry Getz — the list goes on and on. I’d watch a part and just go out and set up fake handrails and shitty PVC-pipe boxes in my driveway and pretend I was them. I had the spiked Pig belt at one point. I did the red spray-painted shoes. Whoever I liked at the time, I’d just try to look like them and do the tricks they did. Nothing I regret at all. I was just being a kid, idolizing pro skateboarders."
Brad talks about his influences growing up. I like the line about spray painting his shoes red. I think happened on a Foundation or Emerica tour article in Big Brother back in the early 2000s.
There will probably be stuff next week. It depends how snow shoveling goes and if I come up with any ideas. Clearing out the snow has taken up most of my free time for the last week. It's not really fun, but I tell myself things could always be worse as I shovel out the driveway and marvel at the utterly terrible job the plow driver did. I'm hoping to get to an indoor park on Sunday. That's probably way too much to ask at this point.
For the quote: Thrasher - March 2016 Volume 36 Number 3
Thrasher - December 2014 Volume 35 Number 12
2 comments:
Was doing my driveway in Scotland the other week. Normally pointless as the snow doesn't last long, but I told myself (a) it's a bit of cardio and (b) if it DOES keep snowing the base will get frozen and be difficult to shift.
I always think it is better to clear out the snow in case it comes back. For as much snow as we got this last week, it was fairly easy to remove, there was just a lot of it. Our winters tend to operate on a snow/thaw out/snow pattern so it pays to keep up.
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