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Luka Pinto’s spontaneous street skateboarding is a great thing to watch but there’s more to it than your eyes notice at first. <\/strong>He’s a skater and artist from Jersey, England a remote island where things regularly grow in isolation. <\/strong><\/p>\n

So he\u2019s used to coming up with his own ideas on skating and art drawn from his own mind, environment and close knit local community. <\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s probably what makes his mindset and skating different to most.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alongside filming and skating Luka has led the charge behind the Jersey scene by creating a series of local community events, skating for the local shop Consume and for the Jersey- based board brand Subterranean skateboards to this day. <\/b><\/p>\n

He hasn’t always lived in Jersey though and has travelled around stacking clips along the way and filming tricks for a countless number of scene videos in the UK, France, Spain and around Europe.<\/b><\/p>\n

We are stoked Luka is now a member of The No Comply Network so we had a chat about growing up in Jersey, how he got his first board, inspirations from his dad’s willow sculptures, filming his part in Getting By, skating for Science Skateboards, skating with Sam Taylor, meeting Jake Harris and Tom Knox, filming for Eleventh Hour with Dan Clarke, Arthur Derrien and Chris Jones, skating in Kingston with Jeremy Jones and Marcus Adams, making art and design, his youth work and community events in Jersey, Paint, Skate Chill, visiting the Vladimir Film Festival in Croatia, hanging with George Booth-Cole and George Toland to create photo and film for his zine Crew Report and his favourite skaters, video parts, spots and photos of all time. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Read it below to discover it for yourself.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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How have you been dealing with everything Luka?<\/h1>\n

Yeah pretty good! I\u2019ve been enjoying not having work but it\u2019s just difficult. But I\u2019ve been working again every day for the last 2 months?<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s your job in Jersey man?<\/h1>\n

I work in youth clubs but because of the pandemic the youth clubs are not open right now. I also work at a jewellery workshop in the day.<\/p>\n

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What do you do there?<\/h1>\n

I am getting taught how to make jewellery at the moment.In the evening I do work at youth clubs and actually teach skating as well but that\u2019s in my own time. Occasionally people will ask me they you want to do lessons and I\u2019ll do it once a week with some kids.<\/p>\n

Yeah, I miss the youth club a lot, we usually do whatever they want to do, artwork, cooking, football, whatever.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Teaching skating and youth work, what\u2019s that like for you?<\/h1>\n

Teaching skating is good. I pretty much always enjoy it. Sometimes there are kids who find it hard to concentrate so you have to figure it out.<\/p>\n

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Sounds like it can be tough; any positive stories come to mind?<\/h1>\n

There are a couple kids that came to youth club that became skaters after I started.<\/p>\n

I brought in magazines and stuff for us to collage and they got well into that and I bought in stickers for them and we do graffiti and shit like that.<\/p>\n

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Sick, you got them into skating and art. Where’d you grow up?<\/h1>\n

I grew up in Jersey yeah, and I was born in Jersey.<\/p>\n

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You\u2019re a Jersey legend man. Your dad is an artist too right?<\/h1>\n

My dad\u2019s name is Alcindo, he doesn\u2019t paint or draw or anything. He basically looks after wild areas. So people will employ him and ask him what\u2019s best to do with this bit of land, and he\u2019ll tell them what\u2019s best for nature. He makes sculptures out of willow, like domes and fences out of willows.<\/p>\n

He recently made this insane toad, that\u2019s like 14 foot high and to scale. He\u2019s definitely an artist. But if you asked him what his thing is, he would say that he was a gardener, not an artist.<\/p>\n

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That toad is huge. It\u2019s funny he doesn\u2019t consider himself to be an artist. Some people just don\u2019t see the art in skateboarding.<\/h1>\n

I get that vibe from my mom. I feel like when she watches skating she just thinks it\u2019s the same trick over and over and over.<\/p>\n

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So, how did you get interested in skateboarding?<\/h1>\n

My dad, he inspired me with his mindset you know? The way that he thinks has rubbed off on me a lot. The first thing that got me into skating was I had this jumper with the Tasmanian devil on. Taz on it, riding on a skateboard. I think that was the first thing I can remember about skateboarding.<\/p>\n

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How did you get your first skateboard?<\/h1>\n

I think I was about three when my uncle asked me what do you want for Christmas and I said Skateboard! That was when I wanted a board for the first time.<\/p>\n

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You were skating since you were three!?<\/h1>\n

Yeah, I\u2019ve got pictures of me on a skateboard since I was 4.<\/p>\n

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What can you remember from when you were three?<\/h1>\n

It was a toy shop board, it had this guy on it, like a big square random cartoon character with a blockhead and it said something like Cool Dude on it!<\/p>\n

It had some seriously 1980s graphic style so I had that board. I used that board for a bit, then I got more toy shop boards, at ages 3, 4, 5, but then at age 6 I got some hand me down real skate stuff.<\/p>\n

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Where did you skate and what was your first proper board?<\/h1>\n

There used to be this mini ramp on the west coast of Jersey and I used to go there a lot. I went there when I was 6 and a guy was selling boards. It was there that I got my first real set up, a Tony Montgomery Girl board. It had the graphic with the chairs on it. That was my first proper board.<\/p>\n

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What did you skate when you started, just the ramp?<\/h1>\n

I used to skate the mini ramp loads. I\u2019d go there once a week with my step sister, she\u2019s a couple years older than me. I used to skate and push around and stuff but she\u2019s the person who taught me how to Ollie, how to drop-in, how to rock and roll and everything.<\/p>\n

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How much older than you is she?<\/h1>\n

She is 5 years older than me.<\/p>\n

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So she learnt to skate before you, so you looked up to her skating?<\/h1>\n

Yeah, she taught me how to do all the fundamentals of skating. But also as well as going to the mini ramp, I used to walk with my dad around town and he\u2019d take me to parks or around the town and because I was a kid with my dad, we never got kicked out so I could just cruise around.<\/p>\n

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You think having parental support helped your skating?<\/h1>\n

Yeah, definitely man. Getting support is dope. My mom would be scared that I would hurt myself but my dad would be like, just let him do it, it\u2019s the only way he\u2019s going to learn!<\/p>\n

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Yeah skating helps you come out of your shell. Did it help you to be more independent and travel around your area ?<\/h1>\n

Jersey\u2019s small. It\u2019s 9 x 5 miles square. It\u2019s hard to not see most of it. You occasionally stumble through to new parts of it that you\u2019ve never seen every now and then. Thing is, you can skate from one side of the island to the other in about 2 and half hours. It does sound tiny but when you get here, it is practically quite big. But you can drive from one side to the other in about half an hour.<\/p>\n

Skating definitely made us see more of the island though when we were younger. We\u2019d get the bus to random places, skate green lanes; go to different ends of the island. We used to skate a lot of abandoned buildings. There was an abandoned holiday village in this place called Claremont?<\/p>\n

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OK, how was that?<\/h1>\n

We\u2019d go there. We used to like to clear bits out and skate it. There was another one where it had been completely smashed up for years and we built a full on skatepark in there. There was another one which was actually a brewery in town. When I was about 15, I was at school but I skived the day off and we cleared it all out and we\u2019d build ramps and paint.<\/p>\n

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The crazy thing about that was that the electricity still worked in there. We\u2019d turn the lights on and go there at night. There were also these vents you could turn on to air out the place if someone had been graffing and it smelled of the fumes. It was crazy man. Police actually came and they couldn\u2019t kick us out one day and they ended up leaving because they didn\u2019t know how to get in! We had all the entrances.<\/p>\n

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What was it like skating in Jersey as a kid?<\/h1>\n

We would get a lot of hassle when we were younger. We could get kicked out of spots and the public didn\u2019t understand us as much as they do now. I feel that Jersey is still a bit behind the times, they don\u2019t understand skateboarding much. A lot of the public think skaters are a nuisance. People are starting to get it though. When I was going to school being a skater, people thought you were a nerd but it\u2019s totally different now.<\/p>\n

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Skating is huge but it\u2019s still illegal in so many places, it\u2019s crazy<\/h1>\n

It\u2019s getting better. There\u2019s still a lot of people who hate it and don\u2019t understand it. But occasionally you get an older person who says what you\u2019re doing is brilliant, don\u2019t stop. It’s great when you get an older person who connects with it and is positive about skateboarding.<\/p>\n

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Yeah, for sure, are you still skating with people you were skating when you were a kid?<\/h1>\n

I started skating with Glen Fox<\/a>, Ryan Cunningham and Dillon Powell and all those guys when Primo came about.<\/p>\n

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What was Primo?<\/h1>\n

So we have a shop called Consume in Jersey but years ago when I was around 10 they opened their first skate shop. That was called Primo and when they opened the shop, we all started skating together and so it was the shop where we started hanging out.<\/p>\n

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Who started it?<\/h1>\n

A guy called Karl Payne. He runs Subterranean skateboards and Pillo Wheels. Subterranean has been going for a long time.<\/p>\n

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Yeah, how long has that been going on?<\/h1>\n

I was about 10\/11 when they started it. The cool thing about Jersey is that it\u2019s so small you can\u2019t really get away from your crew. Your crew is it and that\u2019s it! We were the only ones here. Now there are loads of kids but when we were younger, it was just us, we were on the same boat and you couldn\u2019t change it. Being on the island just keeps your community really tight.<\/p>\n

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Sick, so who was your first sponsor?<\/h1>\n

Subterranean Skateboards. The local Jersey board brand.<\/p>\n

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Were you trying to get sponsored?<\/h1>\n

I think if I lived in England maybe some recognition would have come quicker. I was not looking for sponsorship. I was just trying to impress myself, I wasn\u2019t\u2019 trying to impress anyone else. But when Karl told me he wanted to give me boards, I remember one of the days I went out with one of the guys from the shop and I was skating quite well. I went back to the shop and I saw this Girl board and said I wanted that.<\/p>\n

Then Karl and this guy Phil came out with the Girl board and another board and you said you can have this board about the Girl board or you can have a Subterranean board for free.I was down!<\/p>\n

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How old were you?<\/h1>\n

I was 12. A couple years later they put my friend Damon on as well and a little after that, they put on Ryan and Glen as well. Then Dillon and later Eddie Roberts. I think we would have all come together eventually but being young and having that shop to go to, and being able to watch videos in there and chat was the thing that got us to know each other more.<\/p>\n

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What was the first skate video that you ever watched?<\/h1>\n

The first video I ever watched. You know Puzzle? It was Puzzle issue number 3.<\/p>\n

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Not number 1?<\/h1>\n

No, issue number 3!<\/p>\n

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My dad and I went to a car boot sale. It had loads of old stock from an old surf skate shop and he said if you want a video you can get one. I picked one up and it was Puzzle number 7 but inside it was the tape from issue number 3!?<\/p>\n

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What do you remember from watching that Puzzle video?<\/h1>\n

The first section was in Paris, which had footage of them skating that red brick bank spot. It\u2019s such sick footage. I think they are in Montmartre are of the city and the banks were just the steepest ones.<\/p>\n

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The Ali Boulala Kickflip Nosepick ones?<\/h1>\n

Yeah. There was a Lyon section in there as well. I remember going to Lyon when I was filming for Eleventh Hour and I was seeing spots and thinking fucking Hell! I remember seeing thee spots somewhere. But I couldn\u2019t remember where and after I realised they were in the first video I ever saw.<\/p>\n

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Yeah Puzzle was like Europe\u2019s version of 411. Jersey is in-between England, France and Spain. Where was the first place that you skated overseas?<\/h1>\n

I think it was Spain. My sister moved to Spain, when she was 17. She had had enough of Jersey and went to Malaga. My mom and I went over, when I was about 10 and I remember skating actual skateparks for the first time and freaking out. I pretty much passed out because of the boiling heat and the excitement. Then I grinded this rail and I ollied on it and I hung up on it and flew forward and passed out and all the skaters around the park were all circled around asking me if I\u2019m ok!?<\/p>\n

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Must have been scary at the time? So is this your sister who taught you how to skate?<\/h1>\n

This was my actual sister not my step sister. My sister was a DJ and she was kind of involved in skating a little bit because her boyfriend was a DJ who knew a lot of skaters.<\/p>\n

My sister actually DJ\u2019d for an Osiris Demo. They gave her a T-shirt with some photos from Subject to Change on it and with Chris Dobstaff\u2019s signature. I used to wear it all the time but I lost it now.<\/p>\n

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Yeah I think it\u2019s the craziest thing that my sister DJ\u2019d for an Osiris Demo. I don\u2019t think she still realises how rad that was DJi\u2019ng for the old school Osiris team<\/p>\n

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When was the first time that you skated in France?<\/h1>\n

I had been to France before when I was younger with my dad. We went in the van and drove to Corsica through France. We just drove and slept in the van. Visiting spots on the street on the way. My dad would go for a walk and I\u2019d go skate with him. Yeah, he showed me how to wander the streets.<\/p>\n

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How did your Getting By section go down…by the way, the music selection on that part is amazing<\/h1>\n

Yeah, that\u2019s Roy Ayers song ‘Coffy is the Color’<\/p>\n

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Yeah, it\u2019s a banging section and song. How did you decide to move to London and film it?<\/h1>\n

As a kid, I was always doodling and stuff, When I got a bit older, I wasn\u2019t concentrating in that school that much, I wasn\u2019t a really naught y kid but I wasn\u2019t 100 percent focused but when I as in art. I was doing really well and it goes hand in hand with skating.<\/p>\n

So after I did my GCSE\u2019s I did a foundation course in art and design. I had some well good teachers, I did loads of good stuff that I enjoyed and after that I was supposed to get into university but I didn\u2019t get on to the art course that I wanted to.<\/p>\n

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Where was that?<\/h1>\n

Kingston in London<\/p>\n

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Okay what did you do then?<\/h1>\n

They said I could get on to the foundation course. I was like fuck it! It\u2019s a chance to get out of Jersey and go over to England and see what happens.<\/p>\n

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What was that first year like?<\/h1>\n

In my first year of college there in Kingston, I wasn\u2019t interested as I had just done two years of foundation. I knew what I liked and I felt it was a bit repetitive. So I ended up just going skating all the time with Ross Lidgey? Do you know him?<\/p>\n

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Yeah, he made the video that you, Greg and Dan Tomlinson have parts in?<\/h1>\n

Yeah, he\u2019s the filmer of the Getting By video, Ross Lidgey. So me and the Kingston crew like Jeremy Jones, who I met straightaway, Marcus Adams, Alex Lally and Doug Parmiter, I was skating with them, all the time.<\/p>\n

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Was that at the old Kingston park? That park was gnarly<\/h1>\n

Yeah, it was the old park. I thought it was cool it had some characters?<\/p>\n

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What was your favourite trick at the old Kingston park?<\/h1>\n

Doug used to go over the metal quarterpipe over the back to bar to flat, he did that a few times. That was gnarly.<\/p>\n

Elliot Wright, he did a Nollie cab front flip from quarter to quarter over these small quarter hips. Elliot had loads of mad tricks there.<\/p>\n

Also just watching Jeremy Jones<\/a> skating the spine was crazy.<\/p>\n

Everyone had their own style and skated so good. Also the min ramps as well, the ramps were fibreglass but everyone would shred it so hard.<\/p>\n

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So living in London whilst studying, did you end up putting your course on the back burner to skate more?<\/h1>\n

What happened was, I basically came to Kingston and I was doing that course but I actually made more of a connection with the skateboarders than the college. Literally I came over in September and I came back for Christmas and I had the DVD already.<\/p>\n

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So you filmed it in like three months?<\/h1>\n

Yeah. Everyone else had filmed their parts so, me and Jeremy Jones<\/a> went to the city and met Ross, the filmer and Greg Conroy<\/a> and a couple other people who were filming parts, but basically had filmed all of their parts. So I came around and we went out every day and went back to different spots. So yeah by Christmas, I came home and was like no way I\u2019ve got a new part.<\/p>\n

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How long did you film? That\u2019s a quick turn around?<\/h1>\n

I filmed for that part for six weeks man!<\/p>\n

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What tricks come to mind from that section?<\/h1>\n

I liked the lines. I did a Switch Tailslide and then I did a Switch Backside Tailslide 270 Shuvit. And then as a single afterwards I did a Backside Tailslide Kickflip out but when I arrived those ledges were so good to skate.<\/p>\n

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What spot is that?<\/h1>\n

It\u2019s in the city. It\u2019s by the ledges where I do the Ollie up Backside 360 ollie off in that part. I was so stoked man, the ledges were so perfect.<\/p>\n

It was only about ten minutes away from Southbank. Another cool thing about that part was that I was really keen on skating Southbank but Ross Lidgey was never keen to skater there. He knew it was a like a vortex.<\/p>\n

But then after we filmed and got some clip, we would just go to different spots that he knew from videos and so he\u2019d take me around. So after we finished that part, then I started to go to Southbank more.<\/p>\n

Another funny thing about that time filming, I remember I snapped 8 pairs of Venture trucks in one year. It was nuts.<\/p>\n

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8 pairs of Ventures?<\/h1>\n

Yeah. I used to skate them a lot when I was a kid. I just remember skating those ledges and I remember being like finally I can skate some nice ledges you know?<\/p>\n

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Yeah for sure .What is it about No Complys that stokes you out?<\/h1>\n

I don\u2019t know! No Comply is not even my trick I can barely do regular ones but the switch ones comes easier for me then to do a Switch 180. It\u2019s not like I love them but I can do the Switch 360 ones and the switch revert ones and they feel great.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just felt smooth, it felt natural, and it wasn\u2019t something I thought about that.<\/p>\n

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Your Half Cab Noseslide Bigspin out on that curve ledge in Canary Wharf was sick, how did that go down?<\/h1>\n

I think we just went there and Ross knew all the spots in Canary Wharf. He took me there a handful of times to there and to that spot and we skated the underground bit too. There\u2019s a Noseblunt I do in there in the intro to the video.<\/p>\n

So security were always kicking us out and all that but on that occasion, we got time to skate and we filmed that trick as the same session as the line and the half cab crook line in the inside ledge downstairs in the mall in Canary Wharf.<\/p>\n

I always loved Half Cab Noseslides its one of my favourites but because of the whip around the corner it kind of shook me out with the Bigspin. I think I\u2019d done it once on a ledge in the skatepark. I don\u2019t remember much from that session. I just remember trying it and just doing it man.<\/p>\n

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Sick, You got sponsored by Science at the time, how’d that go down?<\/h1>\n

It wasn\u2019t that long man. It was about I don\u2019t know under year. Maybe six months to a year I ended up skating for Subterranean again after.<\/p>\n

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How did you end up getting sponsored by them?<\/h1>\n

I thought because I\u2019m in London and Sam Taylor saw my part in Getting By, he mentioned Chris Morgan<\/a>, who runs Science<\/a> that he should hook me up. I met up with Chris and ended up getting along with him and I just though fuck it yeah let\u2019s do it!<\/p>\n

But then I realised it wasn\u2019t working because he was on the east side of London and I was in the south west part of London so It was far to get there. He had his car but I just wanted to skate in the city with Jeremy and friends and he\u2019d be like I\u2019m sorry there\u2019s only one space in the car.<\/p>\n

Yeah, he\u2019s still doing his thing, he\u2019s had loads of great riders, he\u2019s got Joe Sivell, who\u2019s rode for him for the longest time. They got such a good time and they got Josh Cox on the team now too I think.<\/p>\n

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Yeah, he\u2019s San Francisco based now too<\/h1>\n

I think Lucien Clarke used to skate for Science. Steph Kou skated for them. That\u2019s funny because we actually shared a part in the Science video and I never even met him. Now I watch him and I\u2019m like he\u2019s insane and I was like I shared a part with this guy.<\/p>\n

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What inspired you to pick up a camera?<\/h1>\n

My friend Dylan Powell, he was making edits and I used to watch them when I was about 15 and he was doing a lot of filming. I remember thinking it\u2019s too late to get a video camera! Everybody else has been filming since we were like 12, 13, I can\u2019t start now, it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n

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How did you decide to get a camera?<\/h1>\n

But it was him who convinced me to get a camera. So I was like yeah fuck it, so I bought a camera of EBay for $50 and we taped a lens on that and just used that. It was a Hi-8 video camera and I filmed with that for about a year and a half.<\/p>\n

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What was the first thing you filmed on it?<\/h1>\n

We made a scene video in Jersey called The Only Reason<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That was when I started filming pretty much and then when I was around 17\/18 years old I got this little Kodak handheld camera. I used it to film with that all the time, I got addicted to having it in my pocket and recording things all the time.<\/p>\n

Since I got that, it got me addicted to filming and after that I was always filming I always wanted to have a camera on me. So it\u2019s been since I was quite young, having something on me to document things.<\/p>\n

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This was pre-smartphone era<\/h1>\n

Yeah everyone\u2019s doing it now but were doing it before we had a decent camera on our phones.<\/p>\n

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How did your Eleventh Hour section go down?<\/h1>\n

It was through Sam Taylor again. It was well random. I\u2019d been skating with Sam Taylor a little bit. He was like my friend Jake Harris is going to film an advert for some headphones at Stockwell and if you skate for it you can get paid and you can get some product. I was like sound I\u2019ll come around and then when I met Jake he told me that he and Knox had watched my part in Getting By and that they liked it.<\/p>\n

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So yeah, they hit me up after that and we got along after we went to Stockwell that time and then we agreed to go skate the street sometime.<\/p>\n

Then Jake started hitting me up and started going out to skate the streets a lot more. He told me he was going on filming missions and so after we got some decent single clips and lines Jake mentioned that he and a few people in the crew were going to go to Lyon.<\/p>\n

I was like fuck my Auntie lives in Lyon, so I was like I want come, so I ended up coming along too.<\/p>\n

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Where did you stay in Lyon?<\/h1>\n

We stayed with Quentin Laurent and when we came back, we filmed some more, it was sick. It\u2019s kind of a shame that we lost contact, it\u2019s a shame we were hanging out and skating together a bit but I came back to Jersey and we lost touch. I still talk to Dan Clarke<\/a> and Chris Jones.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve seen Chris Jones over the year. Haven\u2019t seen Tom Knox much. I\u2019ve spoken to Jake on Instagram and stuff and Arthur Derrien from Free too. Whenever I come to London I\u2019ll see him., I speak to Arthur a lot.<\/p>\n

But yeah I\u2019ve moved away for 8 years now. I want to come back and see everyone sometime soon.<\/p>\n

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