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I’m thinking about opening a tobacco I love it, though. Wouldn’t change a
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
But when the cake is big enough, I am sure this coopera�on with the
you’ll have to deal with toxic jerks. godfather of skateboarding has
People who are there just to be brought you a lot of a�en�on? Has
friends of the VIP brand or name and anything changed for you since then “The project came in a time

climb the power/influence ladder. professionally and personally?
The bigger the cake, the more you’ll Not really, I’m s�ll not Instagram where I had very big
find lurking around. That’s just the famous. I have to try harder next

nature of it. �me! Maybe I should shoot fashion
so I can get skateboarding jobs…? disappointments from some
You men�oned in vaguemag.com
Now serious. I never did this book to
that Gonz entertained you guys with
get anything out of it, and that’s the people who I thought got my
‘his inexhaus�ble source of crazy
most honest thing I can say about it.
80s, 90s and 00 stories’. Can you
It’s been a passion project, and it’s
share one? back and turned out they were
been great, but that’s all done now.
I think he should do that; the stories
I’ve already moved forward.
belong to him. But anyways, it is not
only the story but also how he ready to stab me in the back”
What do you want to do going
explains it. He is funny.
forward?

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