All I Care About Is That People

I Played Team Sports, But I Never Felt Like I Fitted In That Well, So This Allowed Me To Be Part Of A Community But To Do It In My Own Way.

My Definition Of Success Is Doing What You Love. I Feel Many People Do Things Because They Feel They Have To, And Are Hesitant To Risk Following Their Passion.

I Love Snowboarding, But I Would Never Want To Do It Competitively Or At A Professional Level. Snowboarding Is A Spawn Of Skating, And Skating Is My Passion.

I Think Skateboarding Is Better Now In Terms Of The Amount Of Facilities And The Amount Of Support Young Skaters Have - Including Encouragement From Their Parents. There Was Definitely An Element To It When I Was Younger That Was Exclusive And Kind Of Rebellious Because Most Parents Didn't Want Their Kids Skating. They Thought It Was A Bad Influence.

I Think That There's A Sense Of Self-reliance That Exists In Skateboarding That Kids Can Take To Their Daily Lives. I Think There's Also A Sense Of Creativity And Community-based Goals - In Skating, Even Though It Is An Individual Pursuit, A Lot Of Things That You Learn Are Things That You Borrow And Expand From Other People's Ideas. I Call Skating A Combined Evolution - It's Individual, It's Artistic, But At The Time, There Is A Communal Push To Keep Doing Your Thing. And A Sense Of Camaraderie In That.