How ya fuckin doin’?

Couldn’t be at a better time or place in this world we live? HOW YOU FUCKING DOIN EARTH PEOPLE!?

Where are you from?

Saugerties, NY. Two hours north of the city. Perfectly placed at the base of the Catskill mountains and right on the Hudson River.

You had an interesting childhood, your parents were in the circus. What was that like? Were you involved much?

They had met in NYC through performing arts. When they moved upstate they started the Runaway Circus with my older brother. I was born into the family circus but I can’t remember much because the circus stopped when I was three. One act I can recall is riding a tricycle around on stage with my head tipped back and a ping pong ball balancing on my nose. The crowd was always so impressed as I dismount my ride, ever so carefully, not to lose balance of the ball. I finish the act with ping pong ball still on my nose! The crowd goes wild!! Hahaha.

Who is the most famous person you’ve ever eaten dinner with?

I would say Phelippe Petit, The man who walked a wire across the World Trade Center. Graciously I have spent many dinners with him and his amazing wife Kathy O’ Donnell.

You know how to ride a lot of different things, so how did it all lead up to you getting into skateboarding?

When I was seven I saw this older kid as recess running and sliding the garden boxes at school with soap shoes. So I asked to get a pair. They sold them at TSX in the Kingston mall. The guys in there were real skaters and thought soap shoes were like scooters at that time. They really thought I should be skating. So when I left with my new shoe box the homies packed it full with skate stickers and told me I needed to get a skateboard. So I soaped long enough until I was really ready for the new obsession. skateboarding.

How did you get into skatepark construction?

My family and friends had a skate and bike park committee all through my middle and high school career. When I graduated in 2009 the skatepark in my hometown finally came to fruition and there was no way I wasn’t going to be stalking them working everyday. At the end of the job some of the crew had to leave so they needed more labor and I was there to help and learn.

What would you tell somebody who wants to get into the trade?

The road is a wild ride! Make sure you’re okay with living in a broom closet. Getting screamed at should never be taken personally. Never stop learning.

Your dad, I’ll let everyone know is one of the most epic/inspiring people I’ve ever met.  Can you talk about him a little bit?

Ever since I was a little kid, when I’m with my dad I am his apprentice. He has more ideas for projects than he will be able to do in his life time. Traveling the last 22 years to Easter Island he has finally established that he is going to spend the rest of his life there, doing art and making the island a better place. He has been doing art his whole life and I know he will keep on that path until he moves on.

We both got our dogs in out of the ordinary ways. Most people who have met you, have probably met the girls. How did you get Lex and Heyla?

Heyla and I met out in Oregon at Windells camp. She was a foster rescue from Texas and just moved to camp where I was living. She was looking for a new home and I was looking for a new homie. Lex was found on the side of the highway out on the Blackfeet reservation in Montana. She was inside the track of a gigantic excavator about 200 feet off the road. I pulled over and gave a whistle and she came running. Sloan called her Little Ex before she even got in the van. Heyla approved and the rest is history.

Gnarliest fire you started and put out?

Jobsite down in Mississippi. We had a huge burning man fire with all the scrap lumber from the job. Next day there was a pile of ashes the size of a small car. I picked up the pile with a machine and dropped it into this big ditch that ran for miles. The whole ditch was covered in Kudzu, a super invasive plant that grows for miles. After I dropped the ashes I was cleaning up around the site, and I noticed that there was smoke coming from the ditch. Since we had no water on site I used the machine to drive into the flames with the bucket in the air and smash it down and drive out. I did that action a few times with a couple piles of dirt and we were all good.

Advice for the youth?

Never stop learning! Always keep a positive attitude! If you’re trying something and you fall, and you don’t get back up and try it again, you fell for no reason! Never grow up! Skate Army!

Do you think public art is important? Why?

The more the merrier! Getting the locals and outsiders involved in community art projects brings new energy to the area. Keeping people out and about conversing with strangers and appreciating creativity is good.

What is your first skate memory?

The day I got my first board. My mom had taken me to TSX skateshop to pick out my board and from there I went to gymnastics practice. I had been practicing that for 5 years and was totally obsessed. When I went inside to practice there was a whole new mind set. SKATE!!! I was so excited to show my friends after practice, from that day on I never went back to Gymnastics.

What is your favorite dog food?

From trying almost all the different dog specific foods, Pupparoni beef sticks. It’s the closest thing to what most humans eat as a Slim Jim. Way better then dry chunks, and gravy train.

How do you keep your PMA (aka Preston Maigetter Attitude aka Positive Mental Attitude) levels so high?

No one wants to be around people who are in a bad mood. So I do my very best to make sure everyone I am with is as stoked as they can be and in return, I am as stoked as I can be. Pretty easy living.

What is your favorite kind of shampoo?

The Original Mane ‘n Tale shampoo & conditioner. You can buy it at your local Walmart in the pet supply department. It works great for the dogs and even better for me.

What is the favorite place you’ve ever slept?

In the bushes out front of the W hotel in San Francisco, where we had gotten kicked out of the top floor suite at four in morning for wrestling.

What’s the gnarliest thing you have ever rolled in on barefoot?

Louisville, Kentucky.

Favorite skatepark builder/concrete influence?
Tavita Scanlan, his experience mixed with creativity make anything possible. He is also the best dad I have ever met other then my own.

Shout outs/thank yous?

5th pocket skateparks, icecoastkillsshit, backyard legends, Maggie’s Krooked Cafe, Digger crew, Thrash Addiction, FSBS, Pidgeon, Vans shoes, Crocks, Ford, Reed, Makita, Snap-On, Quickcrete, Patagonia, Stance, Kraft. Thank you my family and friends you have made my time on earth like my dreams could have never imagined.