Madars Apse is a creative pro skater with a restless curiosity to explore the world around him. His ability to stay productive is fuelled by his drive to discover new things and to challenge himself. He’s always hyped to take a route less travelled to do something unique.
So after watching two of his latest banging video parts and checking season 4 of his show Skate Tales, we had to hit him up to see how they and all of his other recent projects came together and also see what upcoming projects he’s working on.
We also had some questions for him about a few of his most classic clips and sick photos along the way.
Read his In Focus interview below to find out his stories behind a selection of his standout moves in his ‘Forget Me Not’ and ‘Wanderer’ video parts, his experiences battling for tricks with Ira Ingram and Patrik Wallner for Red Bull and OJ Wheels, his sick ‘Get your Sh!t Together’ Independent Trucks edit clips, making Skate Tales Season 4, Milton Martinez, Evan Mock, filming in Argentina, Lithuania and New York and his new perspective on his epic El Toro Firecracker and more.
Madars, Argentina: Photo by Ale Mercado
There were loads of sick tricks in your ‘Forget Me Not’ part. Your Boardslide Pop-Over into that vertical wall was gnarly. How did that one go down?
It’s been a couple years that I’ve been thinking about spots to do a trick like that. So this spot in Portugal is like a perfect spot for that trick. You could almost want the wall to be even a little bit higher, so it’s more wheels on the wall. But I was in Portugal, the filmer, Ira Ingram he came out and that was one of the only trips where I was like, I want to go there and do that.
When the Element guys were in Portugal, we went to the same spot and I tried it. I couldn’t do it and it was not even like I was part of that trip because it was an Element clothing trip. I was just living in Portugal, so it wasn’t really my trip. So we had to move on. Basically, I gave up on it.
I couldn’t do it so then I went back with Ira, I put on two insoles because it’s a lot of attempts going into the wall. So the double insoles made it feel like there was no pain on my feet when I was attempting it. Then yeah I made the Boardslide Roll In. Yeah, dude, people do 50-50 Roll In and I’m sure some other homies have done similar tricks to that one before. It’s not like a NBD, but like at that spot it was.
It’s cool that you had that redemption aspect to it, where it’s like, fuck, I’m gonna come back and do this!
I was a little bit lucky with that attempt that it actually slid and didn’t stop because I did it a couple times before and it kind of stopped. It wasn’t like full wheels on the ground and it was like two hours or something that I was trying it, almost three. Then some skater kids showed up and they pretty much hyped the session up. In the end there were like six of them, just celebrating together. It was a good moment.
That’s sick. So how about your Switch Roll on 50-50 on the long snaking circle flat bar that goes over that grass gap?
That’s in Barcelona. I had never been to that spot, but I’d seen it in some videos and always wanted to go and finally made it there. I don’t know why but I started trying it Switch because I feel like everything else had been done by the Sour guys and other homies.
But I broke my two fingers on it. I didn’t go to the hospital to check, but there’s a crack on the rail which when you grind it and if you’re leaning in too much, the wheel might get stuck, and if it gets stuck, it goes straight down.
That’s what happened. There were some bricks right next to the rail going along with it, and I put my hand into the bricks and did something to hurt my fingers, they hurt for a while. Then, I don’t know, I kept trying. I hurt my fingers but I was like, damn, I gotta keep trying because it looked sick.
Madars, Crook Pop Over, Paris: Shot by Alex Pires
You did that with two broken fingers?
I mean, I didn’t know at the time that I had broken something. But later, after a couple weeks, I was like ah, this is taking its time.
Now it’s good, They were completely sideways when I looked at it at the time. I just grabbed it and made the click. It came back all easy, but it was like a shock.
For sure. So what inspired your Wallie Lipslide out of that metal post spot?
That was the DC trip to Paris. Yeah, Pole Jam grinds on rails. I’ve been doing them probably 10 years, like Pole Jam onto a handrail or down rail or flat bar, and this was the perfect pole jam, with the rail being right there. I did the 5-0 a couple of times and then the Lipslide.
I guess I had to do something else, because the 5-0 was kind of whatever and the Lipslide was a bit scary because you’re going straight on and then you go, you know…perfect sack potential.
But I guess you can still try some where you’re kind of on the side, so it wouldn’t be a full sack. But I guess later, after a couple of attempts, I was just going for it.
Madars, Kinked Hubba BS 50-50: Shot by Artūras Jendovickis
How did your Frontside Flip out the bump on the side of that grass verge go down?
Vilnius, Lithuania. I don’t know the name of the spot, but my lady, Agne, she’s from Vilnius in Lithuania. I met her about three years ago. So I moved there and that was one of the first spots I saw that was a new spot and I was just so blown away. I knew that I had to film something there right away. But what made me do the Frontside Flip? I don’t know, just the perfect kicker, try to launch as high as I can and flip the board.
I had the homie there that had the only long lens camera, like no zoom or nothing. There’s like loads of those banks. I did a line at that spot too in my part with the Backside 360 and the 50 up and down too.
I did a 50-50 up Ollie to 50-50 down when some Polish homies came out on the beam. But yeah, but it’s kind of a bust. I don’t know when you can really skate it.
Your Backside Nosegrind 360 out was tight. Never seen that before
I’ve done it a couple times before. The first time I was on a GoPro trip in Berlin and I did it on the streets on one of the benches at Warschauer Straße and then later in my OJ part, I also do the Nosegrind 360 out too on another ledge spot in Portugal.
Sick. What about your Hillbomb Bluntslide Powerslide line?
It was just too hectic or I was being too much of a wuss to start. So I started off with a proper Powerslide right away. So the Blunt one is a bit safer because you’re closer to the ground.
Initially, I wanted to go to that spot and do a Slappy on the sides or a long Bluntslide or Noseslide, but it was just too much waxing to do, so I just did the basics.
Speaking about doing things differently, you’ve presented two of your own skate shows over the years but how did the first one ‘Mad World’ morph into ‘Skate Tales?’
Mad World was run from England. An English production company reached out to me and said that they wanted to do the YouTube channel, the offer was good and I couldn’t say no. So that’s how I got into becoming a host for a couple years. Then, when that stopped my homies from Barcelona, Gaston and Danny, had an idea to make a cool show that could be proposed for Red Bull, with me as the host. So, that’s how Skate Tales came about.
You’re a great presenter but is it nerve-racking doing the show?
For sure. Sometimes I felt nervous as well, but that wasI guess, in the beginning. I’ve done three seasons of Skate Tales and before it was like 40+ episodes of Mad World. So, here and there, there’s situations where I’m like, oh, I don’t really want to talk in front of the camera, but what has to be done has to be done, and I try to keep a straight face and do it good. But most of the time it’s just me being myself really.
What’s your favourite episode of Skate Tales to date?
There’s been 18 episodes and each episode is memorable in its own way. But Uganda was definitely sick, and so was Ethiopia, it’s not too far from Uganda and then going with the homie Dan Mancina and Justin Bishop in Detroit, Michigan, was pretty sick because those homies are skating without any vision.
It’s unique and it’s different and it was an amazing experience, those guys got the passion.
Also going to India to skate with the Girls Skate India Crew. It was similar, just watching skating grow in this community and seeing the vibes and the energy. You know the situations that skateboarding brings about and the stories it can tell while on the session. It brings a vibe.
In your ‘Wanderer Part’ you do a Switch Backside Feeble to Switch Back Lip on the Barceloneta Banks. That’s tight, I remember I saw you do Feeble Kickflip out to Back Lip on it a few years ago. What do you like about skating that spot?
It’s really nice for Feeble Grinds that spot and it really grinds the truck and makes like a nice dent in it, over time. I used to live right next to that spot for about six months, so I’m proud to say that on the way to school, I would always do a Feeble Grind.
Did you have a hand in editing that part?
I worked with the editors and with Red Bull. First I was going through music that Red Bull has in this one library and I didn’t really like any of the songs. And then they sent me this new little library of songs that they had, it was around 200 or 300 songs. I listened through all of them in one hour, after one hour I was like, yep, these are songs that I like, sent them over to Ira and he liked Forget Me Not.
So I trusted his judgment and I sent him all my footage and then he made the selection for the Red Bull part and he knew that I was going to do an OJ part too, so he didn’t take all the best tricks that there were. So he sent me the first cut and I was like, okay. I did trust his judgment but I did have doubts that maybe I should do just one really banging Red Bull part, instead of two parts but I had already kind of committed to the OJ part.
So your Crook to Fakie on that volcano with the flat bar on top in London. Was that filmed by Rich Smith, who does Skate Cafe?
No, Rich Smith filmed a lot of my Paris footage.
Which tricks did you film with Rich Smith?
Noseslide to Boardslide around the corner for the corner pop over on a rail then there was Lipslide with a drop on this tall rail like a handrail and the 180 Nosegrind on a hubba. He’s also on the line with kids, like with the wide banks, where the kids are coming and chasing. The Wallie Lipslide and Wallie 5-0, that was also Rich Smith and Jack Thompson. Also the three big Firecrackers in a row. Rich and Jack also filmed that. One angle is Jack, one angle is Rich.
Those Firecrackers in Paris were sick. Which one was the gnarliest and how long did it take you to do all three in a row?
The second one I guess, I’m not even sure because the first and second they’re together. The way I go with the first I have to be like perfectly on top to keep going on the second. So the first one is the most important. I have to just go perfect on it to keep a straight line on the second.
So how did you find that long, mellow rainbow rail spot?
It’s like the Frontside Flip spot you were asking about earlier. It’s a spot in Vilnius, Lithuania, it was kind of downtown and I always drive by and see it. So when the homie Travis came out, I finally went to try and it was very hard because you can’t Slappy. You have to Ollie from the side and there’s a drop on the other side. The filmmaker’s there, the photographer’s there and anyway, you don’t want to fall over on that other side.
Madars, FS 50-50: Shot by Nauris Dollins
It was actually a long battle. I kept going to the top pop, pop out, back to the top, pop out and one try I went to the top and went all the way and I was like okay, let’s go home!
I picked up some metal plates back in my hometown and I was like I’m going to bring it back to Lithuania. So I thought maybe I’ll use the metal plates and make a little setup to be able to really enjoy the spot okay?
Then when we were there a guy from the business over there came out and he kind of like allowed us to skate it. At first, he was like what the fuck? But then he realised what we’re doing and he was like, okay, you got this shit and then he was filming.
That’s sick when that happens. What trick stood out the most for you in your Forget Me Not part?
The Wallie. I was stoked for the Wallie.
Where is that spot?
It’s in Vilnius, Lithuania. All of the spots are here, come over.
Madars, Backside Tailslide, Vilnius, Lithuania, Shot by Nauris Dollins
How did your Rainbow Rail BS 50-50 go down?
Because it was the last attempt that I had on it. I had spent five days in Hong Kong visiting Patrik Wallner and we were filming a video for Red Bull Hong Kong, I thought maybe I could film also something for my part. So for me that was really important, even though we were already done with our video or whatever.
But I went there on two different days and on the last day before the flight we went back there and it’s literally just going around the corner waiting for the security to go back in, then trying again, then doing the same thing again, going around the other corner and then running.
I was begging Patrick to go back for one more try. He was like worried, he was filming and a few weeks later on actually he went into that building to do some job interview.
Sloped Handrail, BS 50-50, Hong Kong: Shot by Patrik Wallner
Returned to the scene of the crime!
I managed to get it on day two because on the first day, I tried a couple of times and I was just bummed, the security was just not letting me have it, and I still didn’t believe I could do it. Then on the second day before the flight, I realised, damn, I can kind of do it. When I landed it I hurt my ankle. It was not badly hurt, just got a hot pocket because I really wanted to throw it down.
I guess you kind of stomped it down a bit too hard. But speaking of bruised heels, how did you not get one doing Firecracker down El Toro and how did you decide to try that in the first place
Yeah, well, of course I did the trick, but the filmmaker Ricki Bedenbaugh must take the credit for pushing me to do it because he asked me, do you have any tricks in mind that you want to film? I had just went on a tour and the only trick that I did on this DC trip was Firecracker down this 16 in France, in Bordeaux.
So like the whole week, I just got that one trick. So I told Ricki, yeah, I could do Firecracker, and he’s like, oh, why don’t you do El Toro?
So I was like, yeah, let’s go to El Toro. I was like you think that would be cool? He said yeah, and that made me kind of happy because I did it on 16. It’s just four more steps.
It was 60 tries in total and I didn’t get hurt. On the bottom five or six stairs I pretty much slammed three times maybe, but out of those 60 tries, it was just running down the stairs and walking back up. Walking back up was the hardest part.
Madars, El Toro Firecracker, Shot by Ricki Bedenbaugh
You start off straight and drift backside. Looks gnarly. But what was the toughest part about doing that trick for you?
The drifting for sure, going to the side and kind of locking it in and going the right amount of speed. In the end, after 40 or 50 tries, I realised I needed to go a little bit faster to cover those last six stairs Because in the end it would just kind of stop Because you can go slow because the stairs are not too steep. So yeah, my dream is to do it down Lyon 25, but that’s just a dream, I don’t know.
How’d your Ollie out that wave kicker shot by Jake Darwen go down?
I saw the photo on the camera when I was already doing it. So the photographer was stoked, everybody was stoked, and it’s Jake Darwen, one of the best photographers out. So I was pretty confident in how good it is but when I did it on footage, it’s maybe a half a meter lower or something, maybe a meter or half a meter lower than what the photo actually is, but who cares!
There was no tail popping. I think, maybe, I popped my tail, but it’s just so steep that it kind of launches you out there.
Madars, Boosted Bump Ollie, Barcelona: Shot by Jake Darwen
It’s like skating a jersey barrier. So, back to Skate Tales. What was Evan Mock’s Skate Tales episode like to make?
Evan Mock‘s down to earth, he’s a normal skater homie. We share a lot of mutual friends, so it was actually pretty normal. But to do a piece for Red Bull, that’s like a different story because there are managers involved. I’m a fan of his skating, like I said in the episode, and I’m a fan of him for being who he is
But I wanted to do his episode because he is part of the skate world and to me, that’s interesting to see. You know if somebody’s binge-watching Skate Tales it’s cool to see that it’s not just pro skaters doing tricks, it’s also this whole other world. You know fashion, acting. You’ve got so many different aspects of skating.
What was the biggest surprise for you that came out of making Evan’s episode?
Maybe that he’s going to The Met parties and you know how big the contracts can get, and the people that he gets to hang out with. That’s just kind of a whole new world for me and seems surreal, like being in a movie and whatnot. But being there and with his presence it kind of makes me realise that this stuff is real and tangible. So it was pretty cool to get to hang out with him and see the same people that he’s hanging out with and a little bit of enjoying New York from that kind of perspective instead of just skating.
Madars, Milton and his dad Tatu, Mar Del Plata: Photo by Ale Mercado
You went to Argentina for the Milton episode. That episode is rad and so is Evan’s. Are there any more episodes coming for Skate Tales Seasons 4?
Beyond Milton, Evan and Andy, there’s just gonna be Peter Hewitt’s episode and that’s it. We only got four. Peter’s a fan of the episodes, so he was down to skate with us. His episode should be coming out in a month!
Madars, Ollie, Argentina, Shot by Rhino
Is there anything people should look out for in Peter Hewitt’s episode?
People already know that skating in backyard pools is really hard and I don’t know if it translates in the episode, but I feel like I couldn’t do any tricks because it was so hard to skate the same things that Peter is skating.
Yeah. Peter Hewitt can skate any kind of transition with style.
He just looks so casual and he skates every day by going to the park and skating with a board that has no nose or tail and soft wheels. It’s called The Polarizer and they skate transition with it. It’s like a whole different kind of skating. It’s like skateboarding but without the nose and the tail. Until you try it, you don’t really understand how crazy it is. It’s just carving and nothing else.
What was it like filming in New York?
Kind of similar to Venice when we filmed Andy’s episode. We go skate the Venice Curbs and there’s like Lucas Puig skating there and you know a lot of OGs and then in New York is the same, like Kevin Bradley shows up and then Nikolai Piombo is there or we see Carl Aikens skating down the street, and seeing John Shanahan is trying a trick over a bin.
Go down the next street and there’s freaking T-Funk that I hadn’t seen in five years, I feel like since DC Days, and like everybody’s kind of homies and friends.
Yeah, the streets in New York are amazing. There’s so many spots, and we did a lot of riding around on bikes too and seeing a lot of skate spots, so it was kind of cool. Yeah, otherwise, I don’t know, it’s just all the people. We go sit at a cafe and a lot of people come by and just Evan, I feel like, knows half of them.
I didn’t know Milton’s dad skated or his family. Did you know that going into filming
Not really, not really. No, I mean, I knew that Milton Martinez‘s daughter skates, and his dad skates. I knew that. Of course, I didn’t know in detail that there are skate shops and that the whole city has so many parents who have sons and daughters who skate. Yeah, I didn’t know it was that heavy. Or that both of his mom and dad have a skate shop. I didn’t know that, but I knew they were all skaters.
I think because the producer of Skate Tales is from Argentina. So, he is just like Milton, he knows the scene.
Was the plan for you to get the Ollie before you came out, or did you get there and just think, fuck it?
I don’t know, we were just filming Skate Tales and we were at the park and I knew we got the Kickflip Melon footage. So I was like, alright, let’s talk about it in the episode. Then I talk about it and I gave it one go, and then two, three more goes, and then it’s like, oh, should I actually try and do it? Yeah, all in, it was a battle, as you can tell by the footage.
Milton and Tatu, Doubles: Photo by Ale Mercado
Are there more tricks you did in the edit that stood out for you?
A couple of days later after that Ollie, I skated this other gap that Milton did Kickflip in, I guess, but I did an Ollie as well. It was like like a flat gap, but into a bank, like that goes to the left, That was a battle for me too. At first, I thought that I couldn’t do it.
Like every time I would roll up to it you’re going real fast and it’s a long gap and it’s high and there’s like a dirty ditch and I’m going over and every time I would bend, duck down to pop, I feel like I would slow down a little bit. I thought maybe it was because of my cramps, like my legs are just too tired after three days of skating Milton spots, I thought maybe I was just exhausted and I was really like gonna give up and whatever.
Madars, Ollie: Photo by Ale Mercado
But then I kept trying and really battled it out and finally landed it and the footage and photo don’t really translate it, but it was a harder battle almost than the other one. Then later on we go home that night and the homies are checking out my board in the van and they’re like yo, did you notice that your bearing is fully gone. Turns out I was doing the gap without a bearing and that’s why I couldn’t pop.
At what point did you realise the Milton episode was going to be a sick episode?
Well, there wasn’t a single point like that. I knew from the very beginning that it’s Milton Martinez one of the greatest skaters alive and he’s done some of the craziest stunts in the world, so I knew that it was going to be a good episode. Milton is my friend too. I had hung out with him before a couple of times. I used to go to Long Beach in California and stay with my friend Dave. Dave lived just above Milton, so I would hang out with Milton every other day.
Photo by Ale Mercado
Anyway, I already knew that it was going to be amazing, and it was more like hanging out with a bro and having him be together with his family and letting him enjoy this time that he had the time that he appreciates, you know, to be with his family and see his grandma. His daughter finally sees his grandmother after a year or two, maybe two years, of not seeing grandma. So it was more like being part of a nice little family reunion, and there’s nothing really better than that in my opinion.
Milton and Madars, Mar Del Plata Driveway Doubles Ollie: Photo by Ale Mercado
Had you skated that driveway spot at Mar Del Plata before?
I did Backside Flip over it a couple of years previous to that. Yeah, Mar del Plata has been a battleground for me a couple of times. I had a broken kneecap and I was pushing for that Backside Flip with a broken kneecap and somehow managed it.
Fuck man, that’s sick.
It was a battle. Yeah. Milton has definitely done some superhuman stuff over that spot as well.
Is there anywhere that you want to go in future for the Skate Tales episodes?
We’re still planning for next season. I guess we will have three episodes next season, every season at least. But there’s no precise destination. We’re always down. The producer always wants to go back to Japan, so it would be cool to go back to Japan and maybe film a Japanese Super Rat episode.
Then I would love to go back to Africa and places that not many people visit yeah, or even do a Tiago Lemos one or more Euro episodes.
Madars, Frontside Flip: Photo by Ale Mercado
Is there anything else that you want to mention about these upcoming episodes?
Well, I’ve got to wait till Peter’s episode comes out. But Peter’s episode was kinda cool because when I asked him what does skateboarding mean to you, he gave the realest answer of all I think. You know, we always ask what does skateboarding mean to you at the end of the episode, and Peter’s answer just blew us away. So you have to wait to see until it comes out.
What was the gnarliest trick you saw go down on that Indy Trucks Finland trip? Did you expect it to be that gnarly of a trip?
Yes, I did expect that people are going to be killing it because it’s a freaking Indy trip with Thrasher and Rhino shooting photos and like the crew that’s there. It’s so insane and it was cool. It was for me and Tyler Surrey. It was our first Indy trip, so we kind of felt like beginners in the van or whatever so hyped to be with them, and so when it came down to skating, I tried really hard and Tyler absolutely smashed it and the most mind-blowing thing was Doobie’s Gap Lipslide. Obviously, he did like a couple of tricks on the whole trip, but it felt like it was all about that Gap to Lipslide, on the day of his birthday. He didn’t drink or party the night before, which we were all surprised, because he’s always like fire it up, boys, fire it up. And then the night before I’m like Doobie, fire it up, Doobie. And he’s like nah, man, cool it down. Tonight, boys, cool it down, because the next day was his birthday.
So we’re downstairs in the car, 10 am in the morning and we’re all already in the van ready to go. Rhino’s looking at his watch like what’s up with Doobie? Where’s Doobie? So Doobie finally comes down and he’s like oh boys, I need to wash my hair, I don’t have any shampoo, I need to buy shampoo. So he goes all the way across the street like way over there, goes to the supermarket, buys the shampoo, goes back to the hotel, goes upstairs, washes his hair all while we’re waiting in the van for him comes downstairs, gets in the van, we go to the spot and he does the gnarliest trick I’ve ever witnessed with my own eyes.
And that was like, after the first attempt, his body was literally shaking. He was shaking with how much adrenaline he was feeling, and we talked to Doobie about it and he said that he’s been really into snowboarding, just like me recently, so this is kind of a snowboard move for him and he brought snowboarding to skateboarding. It was just absolutely amazing to watch and he was just such a character, such a nice guy. It was incredible. I’m glad he got out safe with that one. Yeah, definitely. I don’t really know much heavier tricks that I’ve seen in person. Now that I think about the Lipslide, I can’t even remember any other tricks I’ve seen, but I’ve seen Wes do some shit and Evan Smith I guess too.
Doobie’s gap lip was really gnarly, but I actually preferred your gap to Nosebluntslide. How did that go down?
I tried it on two different days. The first day that I was there, we were just skating the spot and this bank just doesn’t slide at all. It’s super rough, super sticky and it was during the Helsinki Hell Ride. So at first, when I started trying it, we were maybe 12 people, but by the end of it, when I was done trying, when I was already exhausted and over it, I think, there was 40 people just watching the session, all drinking, partying, enjoying the good vibes, and it was all these people trying to motivate me, hype me up and I really didn’t want to skate anymore.
It was one of those moments where you’re just done but you’re skating because there’s people like saying you can do this right here, now and here, and then somehow I just ended up saying no, like, after like 300 tries more, I stopped.
So then we went back two days later, took it then the next day I was kind of chilling and then the day after that I went back with a smaller crew again, tried again and I feel like I got lucky to slide through all the cracks because it’s really rough, and somehow I slid all through those cracks and popped in and rolled down. To me that trick is kind of not even that special. A Noseblunt on a bank is kind of like an easy trick. If it would be perfect it would be fine. But I guess what makes the trick, is that it’s not perfect maybe.
I think it would have been cool if I would have like flipped it or something. But I’m glad that you like it and that you appreciate it.
I also heard back from a few people on the Noseblunt. People were hyped on it you know, because it’s been like a legendary Finnish skate spot and nobody ever tried to Noseblunt or people have tried to Noseblunt it but nobody ever could. So that was kind of actually a standout for a lot of the locals too sick.
Madars, Sculpture 50-50, Helsinki: Shot by Rhino
What’s the story behind your 50-50 on that sculpture?
That trick was also two different days. Maybe not 40 people watching but still, like the first day, everybody was hyped, we knew I could do it. It was a cool photo, like I had to keep trying but in the end, I had to give up because I was just so devastated and then again I took a day off and went back the next day and tried it again and somehow blacked out and landed it. It was kind of like a miracle because my wheels kept getting stuck in between the sculpture.
What was the toughest thing about skating that?
Not getting on, my board was getting stuck. Then like my feet would get stuck and I would fly over. But none of that really happened. It was kind of chill, worked out and I don’t know. It was just hard to get to the rollaway somehow.
Then it started raining a little bit and then there’s all these people and it’s pretty high up. You go up the little curve and then you have to like all the way onto the sculpture which is almost hip high. So that was a hard one to overcome and then every try is different because of all these different grooves.
What about the street Euro gap to Wallie on that pole?
The hardest part about that trick was that I was really tired, as was everyone in the van. It was kind of like, towards the end of the day, three or four, and I just didn’t care that I was tired. I just grabbed somebody’s cruiser board and went and skated just to get those clips. I’m almost like addicted to getting stuff. I could have just chilled out but I cannot. I always like to go and get more and more and more until I can’t walk anymore.
That’s rad to hear. Before I let you go, do you have any shoutouts you want to make?
I want to say thanks to the people at the Red Bull Office and Ira, who flew out all the way to Portugal just to film with me and finish up the parts to get the ending and some other clips. So shout out to Ira and the homies at the office, they know who they are.
I wanted to also mention my beautiful lady Agne, because she helped with finding the music and she did graphic design for the Red Bull part, so there’s some animation also, Forget Me Not came from her, so she did a lot too. And I also found the song for my OJ part through her. It’s a cool song, so I’m stoked on that and the homie, Chris, who edited the OJ part and Alex, the OJ TM.
Do you have any last words for people reading this?
Keep on pushing, keep skating!
