Where are you from?

I’m from Allentown Pennsylvania

Favorite think about Allentown?
I don’t know how to explain it. It’s shitty and nice. You know what I mean, there’s skate spots and then there’s not skate spots.

What do you think made you start skating?
I was 13 or 14 and the skatepark opened next to my house, Penn skate and my took me there to check it out and was like “You wanna get a bike or some skates and come here?” His girlfriend used to take me to the skating rink, so they got me a pair of roller blades and i started roller blading there, and I started going there a lot and getting to know the dude that works there and the people that skate there I found out that rollerblading was really gay, ha. Nobody liked it, and these dudes were always telling me get a skateboard, get a skateboard. I was real young and didn’t know what to do, and one day my buddy stops skating and I had a skateboard. I was like that’s it I gotta fuckin do this shit. and I go there every fuckin day on a skateboard getting yelled at for getting in older dudes way and I used to push mongo, Ray Gurz, would throw his board at me and tell me to push the right way.

What’d you do the first time you got drunk?
First time I got drunk this dude Eric Clark took a bottle of vodka and just started chugging it, and he’s like 6 years older than me and he’s like here, and hands it to me. And I think yea I not knowing what the fuck I was doing and I remember throwing up all over myself and then somehow winded up at my house and then I got in trouble my dad at the time was not down with his 13 year old soon having puke all over him, but that’s what happened, I pretty much just blacked the fuck out.

You had to get some surgery recently?

I had back surgery and shoulder surgery but the back surgery was pretty much a really crazy gnarly surgery that fucked me up for a while.

What happened? Why did you have to get the surgeries?
Right when I was starting roller blading or whatever I had like weird pains down my legs and it was just really rare every so often . It was something I thought would go away at some point and it didn’t as I got older it was just kinda there when I got beat up or something I’d have this pain down my leg. It finally got worse when I moved out to California, I fuckin couldn’t keep up with everybody I was laying in bed all day, like couldn’t handle the pain. After I went to the doctor I found out, I always thought it was just from like falling all the time, always hurting myself but I guess it was like a birth defect some type of scoliosis where the bottom of my spine curved therefore it caused the nerves to pinch, my l5 f1, the last disc in your body before the tail bone there’s like bone bone and gel in your spine, in the middle of each disc, and there was like no gel there I guess it was like like bone on bone and that like caused everything.

How long were you in the hospital?
I was in the hospital for a week, and then I couldn’t do anything for like 8 months, then I couldn’t skate or fully do whatever I wanted for a year. I had to wear a back brace for 6 months almost the only thing I could do was walk a mile a day. That’s what they wanted me to do. That was that, once the year was up it was fucking game on after 8 months of therapy start feeling like a warrior you know you got that mindset like fuckin go for broke.

Do you feel the same on yr board? Still go to physical therapy?
That’s actually the sickest thing about it. It fixed me. like there’s no pain and I can move my body in a way, on my skateboard that I never could like fs carves, like fs rock and roll anything where my body is backside like that I could never really do and now I can fucking learn tricks I’ve never done before. Just on my board its so much better its just crazy how skating is like the whole world and I’m learning shit I’ve never done before because I couldn’t. As for therapy I don’t go to therapy anymore but it’s like up to me to stretch everyday , keep a strong core, just be healthy and you know like if i don’t stretch I just get lower back aches and pains in my back now from like being on my feet too long or not stretching if I don’t keep up on that physical therapy or whatever’ on my own I’d be worse ‘that’s for sure.

Did you watch a lot of videos and follow what was going on while you were recovering?

yea I tried as much as possible to follow up on what was going on I was like all kinds of fucked up on pills and smoking weed on top of it honestly a lot of it was a blur those days, I’d fucking go on all the websites everyday and Luke would keep me posted

What did you do to pass the time while you were recovering?
I did a lot of just like drawing, arts and crafts shit. My dad would take me, like I had to walk everyday that my physical therapy and he’s take me to like the woods, and all kinds of places to walk. I got into rap music, a lot. I don’t know why. but I started listening to rap music a lot more than I ever have. I wasn’t really a big rap music listener before that. I didn’t hate on it or anything. I don’t know if this is shitty to say but I fuckin smoke a lot of weed, I just fucking bugged out and went on walks tried mediation and just artwork, music and that shit, try to get girls to hang out with me as much as possible.

Do you think we went to the moon, or nah?
That’s a hard question I seriously almost debate that everyday that’s something that I’m like so curious about but I’ve heard so many people who are like friends but also people that like know what they’re talking about it’s such a hard thing to decide. I would say yes but not like the day and time that they showed it happen and shit.

Favorite East coast skaters?
I’d have to go with Luke (koch) Luke’s honestly he’s like my brother from another mother fucking the way that guy skates is unbelievable I fuckin I love that dude and think he skates like no other dudes around. He’s a beast. Also Dan Densyl, Jay Sigafoos, Mike Emery and Roy Carnage.

If you could go on skate trip anywhere in the USA next week where’d you be trying to be out to?
I’ve never been to Skatopia, so that’d definitely been the place. Wanted to go there for a long time.

Favorite game at the casino
Definitely the roulette table. I have a weird thing about numbers and colors I went there on my birthday at 3:33 pm I was at the roulette table, black or red. I bet on black won that shit. I don’t know I can wrap my mind around that game you know, black or red or if you want to go crazy and bet some numbers go ahead, but a 5050 chance. That’s like my favorite one.

First tattoo
I got the love park sign on my wrist, I was 16 and at the time that’s when I first learned what street skating was, and this dude that would go to Penn skate would talk about how he’d always go skate love park and New york . He was way older but one day he took us me and my friends it was like Love park at it’s prime. Showed up first time I ever smelled weed. Josh Kalis was there, Mike Maldonado the whole pack. I don’t know I was like why don’t I get a love Park sign on my Wrist

Shout outs?

What’s up to the 5boro crew, Long Island dudes, Lancaster bros, the old Berkeley Crew, you guys in Philly doing Skate Jawn, and A town trash. Shout outs to fucking Homebase crew. Lost Soul skateboards is the company I ride for. We’re just a group of guys who like to have fun on our skateboards and that’s about it. Just never stop skating no matter what.