Photos and interview by Jonathan Becker 

How are you doing? What did you do today?

Today I just went street skating with RB and Jack Fardel.

You saw RB today? Where’d you guys go skate?

We went to Midtown East basically. Brick nine area, basically right around there, like the hubba and this ride on grind thing.

What’s good with switch backside feeble grinds dude? Like where did that one come from? I’ve seen you throw that out there a few times and that’s not a standard trick.

I guess I just kind of like it because it’s kind of a more unique switch grind. A lot of people do switch 50-50s and switch 5-0s. I mean, switch back feeble is just not one that I see too often, but also it’s just not the hardest switch grind for me to do. It just makes more sense usually.

You skate a fair amount of contests, but you definitely still hold it down in the street. How do you keep a good balance between them?

I just skate street whenever I can and work on the stuff that I have to. Then when there are contests coming up, I’ll practice. If no one’s getting in the street though, I’ll definitely skate a park.

You’re a pretty well-rounded skater as well. Do you have a favorite obstacle that you enjoy more than others?

Lately I’ve been skating transition a lot, so I guess I would say a bowl. If I’m going to a skate park, maybe I will want to go to a skate park with a bowl.

You skate with Mark Suciu a lot. What’s the best part about skating with Suciu?

I haven’t skated with him too often recently. He’s been out of town a lot, but he’ll just surprise you. Anytime you skate with him, he’ll do some crazy shit. I’ve seen him switch back nose blunt a rail at the skate park. That was basically for fun, and he did a switch flip back lip down it.

So you do online school. How does that work for you? I’d assume it’s pretty helpful for you to be doing school online as opposed to in person.

Yeah, definitely because I have more time in the day to skate and because I didn’t like my teachers too often. I usually just don’t like teachers. I don’t like ‘em or I don’t get along with them. I feel like in school you waste a lot of time and then in the winter you get out at like three thirty and you can’t even skate for more than an hour because it gets dark. I like it because I just kind of wake up and eat and then I get it done and I have the whole rest of the day to skate.  

Do you do it every day or do you let it go and then you’ll catch up?

I do it every weekday like it’s regular school. Sometimes I do wish I had someone I could ask directly though. 

Do you ask your parents or something or are they kind of just like “Google it”.

I could Google it, but sometimes it is particular to a book or a math question. Something I can’t just search up and you have to read to know.

You went to Japan not too long ago. Was that just like a family trip or did you get some skating in?

I didn’t take my skateboard because I had just like fractured a bone in my hand and broken my thumbs.

Thumbs, plural? You broke both of them?

Yeah, I fractured both of my thumbs and one of my hands was in a cast, so I just didn’t bring my board when I went there. It was a family trip anyway.

Did you pick up Japanese at all?

Not really. I know a small bit but not enough get around in Japan.

Do you keep in touch with what’s coming out or do you kind of just skate and put out your own stuff?

I watch a lot of the new videos that come out. I don’t know, I feel like a lot of the stuff I see is on Instagram and if there’s a video that someone posted about, then I end up watching it on YouTube.

Are you most hyped on any specific projects that you’ve put out in the past or maybe something that you’re currently working?

I would definitely say the clips that I’m working on right now. I’m pretty hyped about those.

Do you have any shoutouts?

I guess shout out to everyone that hooks me up, you know. Shout out to Nike SB, Habitat, Thunder, Spitfire, Bones Bearings, Jessup, Red Bull, and Volcom.