360 flip p-Patrick Beaudouin

What’s up with the new car you got?

Dude, I got a time machine yo. I scored some old mint condition car that, I dunno, it’s crazy.

Does it stress you out when people get into it with their skateboards?

It doesn’t, naw. It’s just that there’s shit on there that you can’t replace, so I’m trying to be good about it. But at the end of the day if it gets fucked up I’m not going to freak out.

What are you going to do if somebody burns your seat with a joint?

It’s just another material thing, ya know?

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How do you feel about skating in a city after doing it for over a decade? Seeing the culture change and how many participants there are in skateboarding now?

Back in the day it was a totally different scene in the city, the old Union Square, all these weird cutty spots, even pier 7 was a go-to. It’s changed; there’s different spots that are go-tos, 3rd and Army kind of replaced a lot of those and even that’s an old spot now. Some people go to Waller, which I try to avoid, not because I don’t like it but it’s just such an easy go-to that it can kill the motivation for the day. But there’s hella people skating, with cruisers and longboards and such a diverse range of people who actually ride a skateboard. Compared to back in the day there were more actual skater-skaters, like if you saw someone out skating you knew they were just a skater. Now more of the population of earth is skating in general.

You teach kids how to skateboard up in Santa Rosa?

Yea, I have a skate camp I do in the summer, this is my 4th year, I do it through the city of Sebastopol. I had to propose my camp idea to them, they reviewed it and were all, “ehh, I dunno,” but they approved it and now all my kids are insured and we have contests. Everyone’s stoked. The kids love it.

It seems like you DJ quite a bit…

Yea, there are so many DJs out there that it all depends, real gigs where you’re trying to get paid and shit are kinda few and far between. It’s more like going to people’s parties, having a community of DJs that you respect and mess with and everybody kind of gets together and you get gigs through homies and shit. I was DJing at bars when I first moved to the city but that got a little crazy, ya know, the bar life. Getting paid basically in drink. I had a lot of fun, getting home at 8am while my roommates are eating breakfast and shit, but ya gotta watch out, gotta try to do it and then go home. I just love to DJ and wanna be out there DJing as much as I can.

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You gonna make the soundtrack for the new Acid Boys video?

Oh yea dude, that shit’s going down. I can’t wait. I think that’s gonna come together pretty soon, gotta get the homies filming their parts.

What is Acid Boys SF?

It’s actually Acid Boysfff, just so you know, and it’s just a sports team. We do a lot of shit like hockey and volley ball and some badminton.

Do you think your interests in music and skateboarding have influenced each other?

Yea, I think I first became a skateboarding enthusiast and fanatic, knowing all the shit that’s going down, grom status, reading all the Thrashers and that shit. Skating helped refine my music tastes through videos, 411’s and stuff, ya know, you’re listening to Mobb Deep or DJ Crush or something else that’s the shit. I got into that, then I think getting older, being as into skating as I was kind of tapered off and I actually just skated. It was just a thing I did, and I’d think about other stuff. I think music took on that enthusiasm I had for skateboarding when I was young. I had the same kind of excitement about music that I always have had about skating.

Are you working on any video parts currently?

Just working on the Acid Boys video. My boy GX1000, me and him are trying to film some shit here and there. Mostly shit for the web, there’s so many videos and projects I’m trying to wrap up.

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You’re from wine country, do you drink a lot of wine?

Just a little Rossi, and some Franzia box wine. I went to the Franzia winery, I took the Franzia tour just the other week, I love it.

What’s the secret dude?

It’s all in the box, it does something for the fermentation. They got some kind of shit worked out with the design.

If you had to leave SF, where do you think you’d go?

That’s a trippy question. There’s a saying, I can’t remember who said it, but it goes “What do San Franciscans say when they go to heaven? It ain’t bad, but it ain’t San Francisco.” And that’s real.

So, you’d go to heaven?

Yea.