{"id":143346,"date":"2019-05-27T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-458273-1435032.cloudwaysapps.com\/?page_id=143346"},"modified":"2023-11-04T10:32:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T10:32:07","slug":"darrell-stanton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocomplynetwork.com\/darrell-stanton\/","title":{"rendered":"Darrell Stanton"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I first learnt to skate in the streets of Los Angeles, California.<\/p>\n
I moved quite a bit, so it was really a matter of who was around that skateboards. I had different skate crews in different places.<\/p>\n
When I moved to Houston I skated with a couple different crews. Then I was in San Francisco for a while, staying at the famous Six Newell place, skating with the Anti-Hero, Real, Rasa Libra and Krooked guys.<\/p>\n
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I love SF and Deluxe. I was Deluxe to the neck. I rode for Real, Thunder and Spitfire. Deluxe raised me. I would go skate damn near every day and party all night into the morning, take a nap, then go skate.<\/p>\n
It kind of instilled that work ethic in me, seeing as I have a similar schedule to this day. I would go on tour with whoever was going on tour in the camp.<\/p>\n
I’ve been on a full on Anti-Hero tour from SF to across Oregon, and I barely even skate transition. If someone pulled up to Six Newell and I was there and they were going on tour, I\u2019d throw a T-shirt, grab a hoodie, some cash and hop in the van! I’m a product of the Deluxe camp for the most part.<\/p>\n
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I was a high school kid in Texas, so I booked a flight to San Francisco for the weekend to go skate with the Deluxe guys. Gabe Morford, an iconic photographer, was out with us skating that weekend, and he took us there.<\/p>\n
I’d been doing Noseblunts recently, but I hadn\u2019t filmed one or shot one, so I decided it was a good place and time to get one if Gabe shot it. I did it a few times, and we continued on skating more into the night at other spots.<\/p>\n
The next day I flew back to Houston because I had school on Monday.<\/p>\n
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I had a Thunder Trucks ad in the same mag.<\/p>\n
It was a Switch Front Board down a handrail. It was my first actual skate company ad.<\/p>\n
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It was another one of those, \u201cwhat should we take Darrell to? He’s down to skate” days out with the Deluxe guys, and it just worked out.<\/p>\n
I hadn\u2019t even been so much as trying that trick, and I just thought it\u2019d feel great to do it on something. I was filming for the Transworld video Free Your Mind, and so I was like, “What the hell!”.<\/p>\n
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That was a fun video part to make. It was a lot of work, yet it didn\u2019t seem like it. Frank is the star of that skit; I was just willing to do it. Frank’s great.<\/p>\n
I lived with him for a while at Six Newell. Sometimes I’d be in Huntington Beach, hanging out with Geoff Rowley, Alex Moul, Ed Templeton and Ewan Bowman.<\/p>\n
Ewan was helping me film for my part quite a bit, so we would drive from one of those places in Huntington Beach to San Francisco in his Regal and make it happen with John Holland.<\/p>\n
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Me, myself and I. Holla at me if you want to sponsor me or want me to endorse your brand. I\u2019m a blue chip free agent.<\/p>\n
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I\u2019ve been spending a bit of time in Houston, TX recently, so I\u2019ve been skating with the guys at Southside, Select and Brick Skate shops.<\/p>\n
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A new trick I did the other day on a ledge was a Backside Hurricane Seatbelt Grab. I want to do it on a rail or hubba.<\/p>\n
I just did a Nollie Backside Sugarcane to forward on a ledge, too \u2013 that’d be rad down something, I think.<\/p>\n
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I did one down MACBA when it was a big four. It was a Backside 360 one. I also did one to 5-0 down a rail. It\u2019s a tie between those two.<\/p>\n
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Todd Francis<\/a> is one of my favourite artists; he designed the Anti-Hero Skateboards logo, and that’s been one of my favourite logos for a while. That was actually one of the reasons why I decided to ride for Element at the time.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I’ve been around the world a couple times with Volcom, and every time it\u2019s tremendous.<\/p>\nDo you have fond memories of riding for Volcom?<\/h1>\n