{"id":311393,"date":"2020-10-13T11:55:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T11:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nocomplynetwork.com\/?page_id=311393"},"modified":"2024-02-10T22:52:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T22:52:39","slug":"jackson-casey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocomplynetwork.com\/jackson-casey\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackson Casey"},"content":{"rendered":"
Jackson Casey is a skater and filmmaker who runs Pyramid Country. Living and working in Arizona, his space meets world style skate videos capture the tricks, tribulations and triumphant skate situations that he and his Pyramid Country crew unearth whilst out filming on the challenging selection of skate spots that they find in the Midwest and across America.<\/strong><\/p>\n Through Pyramid Country Jackson films, edits and collaborates with friends to showcase their footage in an artistic way that also gives an insight to their personalities, skateboarding and creative interests.<\/strong><\/p>\n Jackson Willis Casey<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I grew up in a small suburb of Grand Rapids, Michigan called Ionia. It\u2019s a little prison town. There are so many prisons on the west side of town that it looked like the sun was setting all night long from all of the artificial light from the prison yards.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Downtown Phoenix, Arizona.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The first board I ever owned was one I \u201cindefinitely borrowed\u201d from this girl who lived in my neighbourhood.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n It was a super shitty board from the grocery store. It didn\u2019t last long. My friend ended up breaking it so his mom then got me an X-Games board from the grocery store with plastic trucks, which, again, didn\u2019t last long either.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n My first \u201creal\u201d setup was an Alien Workshop with Indys, Spitfire Wheels and Black Panther bearings.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t have a very precise reasoning as to why I got it, just always thought my friend Cory and his older brother Tyler seemed to be doing so much radder shit than the other kids around my neighbourhood because they were skateboarding.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Seeing my friends older brother and all of his friends on a TV set doing dumb shit kind of set the tone of, \u201cI wanna do that shit, too!\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n @bratrud<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n My friends Brad Hurlbut, Jamison Crynes, Evan McKendry, Aaron Courts, Kevin Clayton were the main dudes I\u2019d be skating with daily at first. Aaron and Kevin have since passed.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n We all skated all over our little town, which eventually got a skatepark that we fundraised for.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n We grew up with super harsh winters so we\u2019d go skate at this school called Jefferson in the winters, which had a basement below the parking lot that was heated, so there wouldn\u2019t be snow on the lot. We also broke into this building at the fairgrounds a lot to skate, which eventually lead to some trouble for us.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n As we got older, we began to make the 30 minute trek to the city, Grand Rapids and it really opened my eyes, like, \u201cHoly shit, there\u2019s so much more to life than I\u2019ve seen in that little town!\u201dI really appreciate growing up where I did with who I did, though.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\nWhat’s your full name?<\/h1>\n
Where did you grow up?<\/h1>\n
Where do you live now?<\/h1>\n
How did you get your first board?<\/h1>\n
What board was that?<\/h1>\n
I bet. So when did you get your first proper setup?<\/h1>\n
Right, so it was your brother’s friends that got you on board?<\/h1>\n
Cool.Who was in your first skate crew?<\/h1>\n
Where would you and your crew go skate?<\/h1>\n
Did you go to many street spots?<\/h1>\n
When did you begin to travel to other places?<\/h1>\n