Photos by Deville

What you been up to today?

I woke up at 6 and went to a auto swap meet. Sold an old pickup I had and have been trying to get rid Of for a while. Went to lunch with some friends then went and got a trick. It was a good day.

Sick, where’d you skate?

Well I’m in Phoenix right now. I met up with my friends at this over a rail into a bank not too far from my place.

Where the homies stoked?

Always! If anyone gets a trick we’re all having a good night.

How many cars you have?

Right now I have two. I drive a 4runner and I have 1950 ford 4door that I’m building right now. It’s been a project for a bout 2 years now.

Sick how did you get into cars?

My pops. I’ve always been around them. He does body work I did it with him for like 3 years.

What’s sick about Arizona?

Everything except the heat. Good parks everywhere, spots, winter weather, cheap rent, skate scene, friends, and so on and so on.

What’s your favorite ditch and why?

There are so many here none really my favorite though. But I’ve probably spent the most time at Beardsley banks. There are a lot possibilities there and you can get creative. And I doesn’t hurt that it’s only a few miles away from me.

What do you smoke?

No cigs at all, hate em. But the occasional weed is nice sometimes. It really fucks with my head the next day though.

What do you drink?

IPA’s and whiskey. And anything else I can get my hans on. I’m really trying to cut back lately though. Drinking really has an impact on my skating.

What’s up with a happy medium 3?

We just put out the promo for it a few days ago. Im really psyched one how it turned out. Buster and Hunter are amazing at what they do. We just like skate, have fun, and put out a quality skateboard films with our friends. No date right now but we are working on it.

Ever find a Scorpion in your shoe?

No I haven’t had the pleasure. I almost sat on one on a toilet seat and not too long ago we were all a Jaws’s house and one crawled on Rob’s chest while he was laying on the floor. They are pretty damn scary.

What’s the Hawkins twist?

I don’t what know that is. Haha

I found it on YouTube.

Really? Maybe it’s that switch front foot impossible 360. That’s a twisty one I guess. I’ve never heard of Hawkins twist though.

Have you watched pretty sweet? What do you think about the way skate videos are heading?

No I haven’t seen it. It just depends on who is filming the video to me. HD and dolly shots and all that can look good but not many people do it justice. I think the widescreen format doesn’t really help with making spot look good. But there are a lot of creative things you can do with all these new HD cameras that I haven’t seen anyone capitalize on. If everything is just going straight to the Internet nowadays it might as well be standard def with that buttery lens. You can’t beat a vx1000 for skateboarding.

Did you see the bones brigade documentary?

Yeah i did. Only once though. It was good. A real emotional one.

Got any Deville stories or just stories from being on the road?

Yeah I think so. On the Powell fun video tour Deville knocked out a dude with his pants off and dick out on the dance floor of this club. It was pretty funny. Wait what happened? Elaborate We were all dancing at this club mostly fucking around making fun of peoples crazy dance style, probably because we weren’t drunk enough to make fools of ourselves. There was an older guy like maybe late 40s dancing around the floor. What you don’t know is that’s this is a clubs for people in there early 20s to 30. All the sudden the old guy we’ve been fucking around with is bottomless and dick out. The dude gets close to Deville and his girlfriend and so he decks him, knocked him out. Bouncers come they drag him over to the corner where he put his pants. In a daze he put them on and was escorted out.