It’s Go Skateboarding Day today, what you doing?

Well I just had knee surgery about a week ago, so I’m in the city lurking around with everybody but I can’t skate.

Where you from?

I was born in Upper Darby.

How far is that from Philly?

It’s like a ten minute walk from West Philly.

Where’d the name Jaybin come from?

My homie Pat was just calling me it one time on a trip we were on and I just kinda ran with it.

When was the first time you went to Love Park? What was it like?

I don’t even know, what’s the word I want to use… I just remember walking in there seeing a bunch of skaters, it was somewhere around summer of 2010. I just remember it was like a dream, it was just like Whoa.

And you skated through the last days?

Yeah. I mean the last days were going on for like weeks. But the very last day everybody was there, it was like below zero temperatures outside, and right before that weekend I was skating the couch ledge at Love and hit my back on the edge of the ledge and I just couldn’t walk. So that very last weekend I wasn’t able to skate, I still came out to lurk with everybody in the negative degrees but I couldn’t skate at all.

When did you start skating?

When I was like nine or ten.

When would you say you started to try and get clips and really go for it?

Like when I came to Philly in 2010 that’s when I really learned about filming and all that. It was like two and a half years of skating and then I started coming to the city and learning about it all.

You ever skate Paines?

Mmm, not really. That first summer it was open I was skating there a lot, but not any more.

You ever skate the Philly subway concourse?

Sometimes, but not really.

What’s the biggest skate trip you’ve ever been on? I saw that Bones Philly to Cali thing…

Yeah, I want to say that was the biggest one. The most memorable one to me was when DC flew me up to Canada, that was pretty dope cause I had never left the country before.

What was that trip like?

It was cool, it was for that Dime Glory shit so a bunch of people were out there. It was just dope to be there for that event.

Have you been in every Phat House videos?

Yes I have.

Those videos are sick, how do you know those guys?

Through skating that indoor park in Northeast Philly, X-park. Met them through there and we would just go out and film on the streets around the park. And Pat’s always been a big homie of mine.

You have any inspirations outside of skateboarding?

Honestly I get inspired by everything I come across. Music, movies, people, I’m inspired by a lot of things. Pretty much I stay inspired.

Hell yeah, that’s a good way to be. Aight, top five Philly skaters?

Shit, there’s definitely more than five, but if I had to choose. I’ll go with Chris Cole, Stevie, Kalis, Tom Asta, and Ishod.

Good list.

Heavy hitters.

What’s yr favorite Philly trick?

I’m gonna say bs nosegrind. Wenning.

Pop out. You turned 21 this year right? You tired of bars yet?

Yeah in January. Honestly I feel like I’ve been to bars more when I wasn’t 21. I been 21 and I haven’t even been going out like that.

When was the last time you were in New York?

Right before I got injured, so about a month ago.

What were you doing out here?

We were linking up with the DC team, we stayed at Shanahan’s crib. It was a good time, skated, got some clips.

If you could go on a skate trip anywhere in the world, where would you want to go?

I really want to skate Barcelona, I want to skate Macba so bad, it looks really dope there. Just skate all day and chill, almost like a Muni.

Plaza life. What’s your favorite plaza outside of Philly?

I like Freedom, but the two times I’ve been there I was injured so I want to get back out there and be able to skate it at my best you know.

You seem like you got pretty good balance, think you could walk a tightrope?

Ha, I don’t know about that.

That shit’s mad hard. What do you do when you can’t skate?

Well lately I’ve been resting a lot, which is probably good for my body because before I got hurt I was skating nonstop. I’ll just come out and chill with everybody even if I can’t skate. Just pull up to Muni, kick it, smoke, chill.

Stay amongst it. Thanks man.