Interview by Joel Meinholz.

Photos by Daniel El Yamen.

Where’d you just come back from?

Just came back from a trip. I was in Montreal. I road tripped around the East Coast a little bit on a two week trip. It was pretty epic.

How does it feel to get out?

It feels great to finally be able to get out and skate. Being in Miami and always skating, I knew that I wanted to get out of here and skate all these spots that I grew up seeing. 

How does it feel to skate with heads that are better than you or really pushing you?

I love that, you know that. The type of skating I like is based off of whatever energy I’m around. So if I’m seeing people doing shit obviously I’m hyped. I want to do my best shit too. Seeing people progress is sick. Being on the road and skating definitely gives you that energy to just try harder. It’s what you’re there to do.

Is that what you always wanted?  

Yeah pretty much. I started skating but that wasn’t my main priority like, “I just want to get on trips and do that.” I ended up realizing “oh this is what happens when you fuck with skating.” People fuck with you and you end up traveling and skating. 

What’s the best city to skate in the US?

Miami is for sure number one but I have a lot of favorites. I love DC, I love Atlanta. I’m more of an east coast city guy. LA is sick and all of that, but definitely the East Coast just suits me better. Miami is definitely the top city though. 

So when heads come to town how does that feel?

I feel like with the park, Lot, and with the shop being open it’s like we see so many people coming through. It’s picked up a lot from what it was, you know what I mean? For a while there we didn’t really have anything, shitty parks and not the same spots. It felt like Miami was asleep for a little bit, and now it’s time to see heads pull back up. Every team you could think of was here last year. It’s sick to see that. We all want that for the city. You want to have a good ass scene. 

Andrew plays a big part for the community. How did you end up linking up with those guys?

It was kinda like me, Reza, and my homie Daniel. We kinda were on our own skate thing and then Justin, Kari, and Two Times they had everything. They matched us all together. They went on one trip to Orlando. Meeting Nick, I just met him at Lot randomly. His homie in Toronto’s shop Adrift, I was skating his shop board, the homie Jake. Nick saw my board and was like “yo where’d you get that board?” I told him the homie gave it to me, and Nick just asked me to be on the team and stuff after we filmed. 

What’s going on with Alltimers? You ride for them, Dime, who else?

Alltimers, Dime, Nike, Andrew, getting blessed by Venture, and I think that’s it. Getting Alltimers, it’s crazy to actually be able to skate with all those fools. Shoutout Will Marshall. He came to Miami a bunch one winter, like three or four times. We would chill and I’d show him around. He didn’t really skate, we just hung out and partied. He asked, “yo do you want to skate Alltimers boards? If I give you these boards you have to actually skate them and not anything else.” I was like “yeah forsure. Let’s get it.” It’s been almost two years now getting hooked up by Alltimers. This past trip we went on, it was sick to be on a trip with all of them. It’s so sick being in the van. We’re all like minded and it felt super good to be a part of it. It’s something I’m really happy to be a part of. 

You know what’s sick? Coming over to you guy’s crib and seeing this next generation of a skate house, seeing what you guy’s got. Do you know that you’re living in a moment?

Yeah for sure. I feel blessed to have the roommates I have, Justin and Kari. We kinda all knew that we needed this spot for everyone to come and have that skate crib. In every city there’s someone who has a skate crib. We were all in our situations, like I needed to move out and they were looking for a new spot. It just worked out and we’ve had no problems. The crib is super clean. Without having this crib in the area we’re in, nothing would’ve worked out the way it did, you know what I mean? It’s kinda crazy.

Being an old Miami head I’m hyped to see it. To see new Miami heads starting to take it into your own hands, I think you guys are starting to grow up to represent 305, Miami, and hold it. 

I feel like that’s the goal we had going into it, just trying to represent Miami in a way we can relate to. We just want to show our view and what we think Miami is. I feel like people can see that in our videos and the way we skate. 

I think you’re killing it. I’m stoked to be a part of it. 

Exactly, that’s been sick too, having you around. That solidified me, having the OG around. We’re still just skating and getting clips. Having fun and not even thinking about anything else regardless of the new situation. We’re still gonna be skating and getting clips. 

I think I’m gonna keep this short. You got anything else?

Let’s do it, let’s keep it short. Thank you Skate Jawn, Joel, Daniel, Justin, Mom, Alltimers, Dime, Scuba, Bram, and the Andrew family.