Page 62 - BackSIDE rollbrett-heft 25th Anniversary

I’m thinking about opening a tobacco I love it, though. Wouldn’t change a
But when the cake is big enough,
you’ll have to deal with toxic jerks.
People who are there just to be
friends of the VIP brand or name and
climb the power/influence ladder.
The bigger the cake, the more you’ll
find lurking around. That’s just the
nature of it.
You men�oned in vaguemag.com
that Gonz entertained you guys with
‘his inexhaus�ble source of crazy
80s, 90s and 00 stories’. Can you
share one?
I think he should do that; the stories
belong to him. But anyways, it is not
only the story but also how he
explains it. He is funny.
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store. bit of it for any extra �me.
In vaguemag.com you said that ‘I
What do you do when you are not
enjoy skateboarding very differently
working?
than 20 years ago’. Can you
When I am not working, I focus on
elaborate in what way?
my kids 100%. During this pandemic
Yeah, back then I couldn’t even
they couldn’t go to school for
imagine Skateboarding without
months, so my wife Gemma and I
progression. But now I am happy just
had to be the teachers. We’ve kept
by cruising or doing powerslides or a
busy! I’d teach them English, Music &
couple ollies. I am happy with my
Art and my wife would do Grammar
Mark
skateboarding de-progression, ha!
(Catalan / Spanish), Maths & Science.
I appreciate not taking skateboarding
A�er schools opened again, we just
too seriously. Life got simpler and
Gonzales
kept doing it because the kids loved
-
be�er. Which at the same �me is the
it. What I mean is, you really don’t
opposite of what’s coming with the
New
have much �me le� with kids, ever.
Olympics.
York
I am sure this coopera�on with the
godfather of skateboarding has
brought you a lot of a�en�on? Has
anything changed for you since then “The project came in a time
professionally and personally?
Not really, I’m s�ll not Instagram where I had very big
famous. I have to try harder next
�me! Maybe I should shoot fashion
so I can get skateboarding jobs…? disappointments from some
Now serious. I never did this book to
get anything out of it, and that’s the people who I thought got my
most honest thing I can say about it.
It’s been a passion project, and it’s
back and turned out they were
been great, but that’s all done now.
I’ve already moved forward.
ready to stab me in the back”
What do you want to do going
forward?
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