Photos by Liam Annis

Interview by Sean Bendon

Are you driving right now?
Yeah.

What’s your hometown and how old are you?
I’m 22 years old. My hometown is Encinitas, California.

How’d you get hooked up with DGK?
I got hit up by Miles Wood, a skater that I looked up to growing up. He’s the warehouse manager at DGK and he hit me up to work in the warehouse. I was super stoked to take the opportunity and then I started working nine to five the next week. That was a really cool thing to happen because DGK was always a huge thing for me growing up and all the KAYO brands got me really sparked on skating through my teens. It was like a dream come true. Then I grew a connection with people that I‘d see coming to work like Liam Annis, shout out to Liam. He’s a photographer who works closely with DGK. I started skating with everyone more, having good times, and getting footage. Thankfully I was able to eventually start getting boards. I was super stoked on the opportunity. Thanks to Matt Daughters, Stevie Williams, Miles Wood, and all the homies! I recently moved to SF like two weeks ago. I’m taking a leave from working there, for now, just because I wanted to take an opportunity to skate and have a kind of new journey.

What is Series and who does it?
It was kind of just me for a while and now I’m doing it closely with my friend Jack Glancy. We’re just making clothes, fun random stuff , just trying to make a little brand to go with our crew because we have a tight knit crew. I have a love for making clothes, and art, and putting them together goes hand in hand.

Who’s the most underrated skateboarder from Encinitas?
My boy John Hamala is pretty slept on. He’s got a lot of talent. He’s put out a video part or two. He’s pretty low key, super good – front nose flips, super buttery. He’s got a lot of crazy manual combos, a ledge technician.

Best burrito spot in your town?
Oh shit, burritos. That’s like my favorite thing. I’ll put a quick note to anyone that travels through Encinitas, Serranos Mexican food. It’s probably my favorite place to get Mexican food. They have
these al pastor tacos for a $1.25. You can buy like ten of them if you get the whole crew. They’re cheap. Serranos. S-E-R-R-A-N-O-S. It’s really close to poods too. It’s one off ramp down. So you can get in a session, and get some cheap grub that makes you feel good and tastes good.

I saw that you did some art recently for McGill’s Skate Shop. What got you into art and what kind of art do you typically do?
I’ve been doing art for quite a while now. Four or five years as a hobby and it kind of grew on me. I’d say I’m somewhere in between a doodler and kind of cartoony type stuff. I think cartoons inspire me a lot. Cool books that I read growing up like Dr. Seuss type stuff leading on to other cool artists. Mark Bodie is a really cool artist who inspired me a lot with his work that was seen in the film Style Wars . My good friend Aiden put me on probably like five years ago maybe. I was already a doodler but Style Wars put me on to a whole type of world that I never even knew existed.

Have you been on any fun trips lately?
I went across the country with Anthony Capastagno. We skated in Boston to start. That’s where Anthony lives in the summer usually. It’s where he’s from but we drove down and passed through New York, we went to Pulaski, but it was fucking snowing, super annoying.

You drove to the East Coast to skate in the winter?
It was buck because Anthony had to get his car back home. So it was kind of a whole push to get his car from Boston. The aspect that we’re just driving through snow all the time and bundled up was very new to me.

I noticed you do a lot of switch flips. Do you have any switch flip inspiration?
Yes, Keenan.

Any goals for the rest of 2024? Looking forward to anything?
Looking forward to having more good times with the homies, getting a lot of footage, staying connected with loved ones, quality time with family. Hope Series does well, stuff like that!