So John how old are you and where are you from?

I am 25 years old, and I’m from Dracut, Mass.

How did you get into skateboarding?

I started skateboarding when I was in 7th grade because my two friends Jarred Laganas and John Surrette were doing it. I always wanted a board, but my parents would never get me one because it was “too dangerous.” My buddies ended up making me a board out of all their extra parts, and since then I’ve been doing it every day.

You skate on an everyday basis with a heavy crew of skaters, Manny Santiago, Dave Bachinsky, Serge Murphy, and all of the other guys from the Shape and Thanks Camera videos, do those guys push you to bring your skating to the next level?

Well they don’t necessarily push me to, but when you’re skating with Serge and he’s hucking a heelflip down a gap or something you can’t just ride up and ollie. Or, if you’re skating a rail with Manny and he’s trying a kickflip 50-50, you gotta step it up a little more than a boardslide. So, I would say it was definitely a motivation to get better, and learn better tricks.

You just had the last part in Elliott Vecchia’s video Sea Level. How did you feel your part came out in it?

I felt pretty good about the part, of course there’s always stuff someone can “nit-pick” about their part, wishing that I had landed some other tricks that I couldn’t seem to get, but all in all I was pumped at the end result.

Are you currently working on any other projects right now?

Yes I’m working on another project with Elliott right now, I don’t think there’s a date yet, but sometime in 2012 I would imagine it’ll be dropping.

Are any companies or shops helping you out right now?

Eastern Boarder has always been helping me out, can’t say thanks to them enough. Currently I’ve been getting helped out from Bones wheels and bearings. DC is helping with some shoes and getting some boards from Alien Workshop.

What are your plans for the winter? Do you usually have a routine of going somewhere or are you gonna stick around Mass?

Plans for the winter are typical. Stay here, skate outside when it’s nice, indoors when it sucks. Occasionally I’ll try a little snowboarding here and there.

Got anything planned out for yourself coming up?

The only plan I got is hopefully next summer to go to NYC and D.C. a lot, those places are so rad.

Is there anyone you would like to thank or give a shout out to?

I’d like to thank everyone from Eastern Boarder. Tallone and Butchie for always helping me out. Elliott for always holding it down filming, Xeno for contributing the photos and always putting up with my shit while shooting. Everyone else that I skate with, you know who you are I don’t need to type out all them names.