{"id":317074,"date":"2021-08-10T11:01:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T11:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nocomplynetwork.com\/?page_id=317074"},"modified":"2023-08-02T15:36:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T15:36:05","slug":"mike-manzoori-in-focus-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocomplynetwork.com\/mike-manzoori-in-focus-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Manzoori: In Focus Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"
@don_brown<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mike Manzoori\u2019s skateboarding shows just one side of his creative talents but<\/strong> it was his pro career that put him on a path to filmmaking.<\/strong><\/p>\n We were really interested to find out how exactly he made the transition from pro skater to filmer, how he made the move from the UK to the USA and found his focus on filmmaking. So we gave him a call to have a long chat about his stories and perspectives on it all.<\/strong><\/p>\n Read Mike’s In Focus interview on making ATM’s Flick, meeting Don Brown and Pierre Andre, setting up Sole Tech’s video department , skating and filming for Sheep shoes, making full-lengths for Etnies, Emerica and \u00e9S, collaborating with Fred Mortagne on Menikmati and Jon Miner on Stay Gold and This is Skateboarding, Album, his short film Aimless, untold Tom Penny stories and his plan for a Penny documentary, Kyle Leeper, Rain and Shine, going freelance, his latest and upcoming projects, and his favourite skaters, styles, videos, photos of all-time and more below.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n @mikemanzoori<\/a> , Backside Lipslide: Shot by @humphriesphoto<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n So I\u2019d been to The States when I rode for Santa Cruz. That was kind of a weird one because I thought I was kind of done with being sponsored at that point.<\/p>\n I went out there to visit and the team manager at the time, Shane O\u2019Brien, was like you need to talk to them about turning pro and getting a board.<\/p>\n I was like mate I don\u2019t feel comfortable having that conversation at all.\u00a0He\u2019d sorted out a thing with them where I was getting paid a couple hundred bucks of month over a year and at the end of that year, me and this Dutch skater Dirk Winkleman, one of us was going to turn pro. It was a really weird setup. I\u2019d never heard of anything like it in skating before.<\/p>\n But I was happy to get a little bit of a pay check at the time. I had no income at the time.<\/p>\n I was just going to college. So I planned this trip to The States towards the end of that year. So even though it wasn\u2019t quite a year yet, he was like you\u2019ve got to talk to them when you are here.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He was like you need to talk to them face to face. I didn\u2019t want to have that conversation.<\/p>\n I put it off and put it off and then on the last day of the trip, he was like have you talked to them yet? I was like no, he was like you should!<\/p>\n Then I did and they basically shut me down. They were like your tripping!? Nobody\u2019s having a board in Europe.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\nSo before we get to your filmmaking in The States, you were skating for a company called ATM, how did that start?<\/h1>\n
So what went down with Santa Cruz?<\/h1>\n