What was it like having Jamie Thomas in charge back when you rode for Mystery and Fallen?
It was cool, I think he pushed me a lot and I definitely appreciate everything he did for me, I donât think I would be sitting right here if it wasnât for him.
Is his reputation as ruthless as itâs rumoured to be?
(Laughing), yeah probably. At the same time he gets people to do shit. Heâs really good at motivating you or getting you to do a trick you donât think you can do and things of that nature.
I heard heâs no stranger to using money to motivate people to land tricks. How much do you reckon that you won from that?
I grew my hair out for a year and he gave me a hundred dollars from a bet. I used to get paid by the trick that was video worthy, I used to work in the warehouse. I used to work half days which gave me $24 and some change or something like that. So instead of doing that, he was like âEvery trick you get, Iâll pay you what youâre making in the warehouse,â so I stopped working in the warehouse and started filming.
Whatâs the strangest thing you have witnessed Chris Nieratko do?
Oh shit. Well I met him when he was sober so I donât have any of the crazy stories that old Nieratko was doing. I might have to skip that one.
What was your first tattoo and how long did it take you get completely covered?
âCELLOUTâ â which was a skate video me and friends made on cell phones. I got my arms mostly covered in like a year.
Who is âSpecial Gilbyâ?
(Laughing), I canât even remember how that started but itâs basically a really ghetto version of myself. I think it might have started on a Vans tour when I was tired of doing demos. I did an interview like that for Skate Warehouse I think it was. Just being on the road for a while is pretty much what spawned it.
Whatâs the most intense thing you have witnessed AVE do whether on a skateboard or not?
Letâs see⦠One thing that sticks out is a session where he was trying to backside grind this handrail where you have to ollie over a curb at the top. It was a tall handrail anyways so he was battling it. I think we were in Australia and the team was hanging out near the spot and he got so pissed that he was throwing his board. Everyone just dispersed and was freaked out by being around him and scared of how angry he was. We just left the spot, (laughs). I remember being blown away by that.
Oh actually, the first trip I went on with him⦠This was the first time being around him. We were at a spot and Dylan [Rieder] was skating a rail. We were in Miami and AVE came back with a Cuban sandwich. It was all greasy and he started eating it really fast and he just freaked out after a few bites and focused the sandwich on the sidewalk after a few bites and was so disgusted by it. I was blown away, (laughs). That was my first impressionâ¦
How much say do you, Jake Johnson and Tyler Bledsoe all have in who gets on Quasi?
Itâs a pretty tight ship, I think if one of us said ânoâ and the other two said âyesâ I donât think someone would get on but I think itâs probably different every time. I donât really know what would happen like that.
There has been rumors of a video, can you give anything away about that at all?
Yeah, theyâve been filming it for a while, Dick and Josh have been and now Justin. Other dudes have been doing other shit, Tyler just put that part out [All Clear OK] and Jake has been doing GX1000 stuff, and Iâve been working on Gospel so hopefully weâll start working on it soon.
Is that going to be a full length?
Hopefully, but not like years and years of working on it.
If you had to fight any teammate, past or present, who it be?
(Laughing), oh shit. Who would that be? God damn. Iâll say Daniel Lutheran just because heâs my boy.
Any Vans rider on Quasi who would it be?
Dan Lu, I love him.
Best pro skateboarder that dropped off or went AWOL?
Anthony Pappalardo.
Do you care about politics?
I do not care. I mean I care but I try as hard as I can to stay ignorant to it because I know itâs not going to bring me anything but down. So, I donât really want to be involved.
Finish this sentence â âYou should buy my shoeâ¦â
So you can skate like me! (Laughs).
Shop the Vans Skate Gilbert Crockett collection here- http://www.blacksheepstore.co.uk/vans-skate-shoes.html
*Release date- 11/02/17
What was it like having Jamie Thomas in charge back when you rode for Mystery and Fallen?
It was cool, I think he pushed me a lot and I definitely appreciate everything he did for me, I donât think I would be sitting right here if it wasnât for him.
Is his reputation as ruthless as itâs rumoured to be?
(Laughing), yeah probably. At the same time he gets people to do shit. Heâs really good at motivating you or getting you to do a trick you donât think you can do and things of that nature.
I heard heâs no stranger to using money to motivate people to land tricks. How much do you reckon that you won from that?
I grew my hair out for a year and he gave me a hundred dollars from a bet. I used to get paid by the trick that was video worthy, I used to work in the warehouse. I used to work half days which gave me $24 and some change or something like that. So instead of doing that, he was like âEvery trick you get, Iâll pay you what youâre making in the warehouse,â so I stopped working in the warehouse and started filming.
Whatâs the strangest thing you have witnessed Chris Nieratko do?
Oh shit. Well I met him when he was sober so I donât have any of the crazy stories that old Nieratko was doing. I might have to skip that one.
What was your first tattoo and how long did it take you get completely covered?
âCELLOUTâ â which was a skate video me and friends made on cell phones. I got my arms mostly covered in like a year.
Who is âSpecial Gilbyâ?
(Laughing), I canât even remember how that started but itâs basically a really ghetto version of myself. I think it might have started on a Vans tour when I was tired of doing demos. I did an interview like that for Skate Warehouse I think it was. Just being on the road for a while is pretty much what spawned it.
Whatâs the most intense thing you have witnessed AVE do whether on a skateboard or not?
Letâs see⦠One thing that sticks out is a session where he was trying to backside grind this handrail where you have to ollie over a curb at the top. It was a tall handrail anyways so he was battling it. I think we were in Australia and the team was hanging out near the spot and he got so pissed that he was throwing his board. Everyone just dispersed and was freaked out by being around him and scared of how angry he was. We just left the spot, (laughs). I remember being blown away by that.
Oh actually, the first trip I went on with him⦠This was the first time being around him. We were at a spot and Dylan [Rieder] was skating a rail. We were in Miami and AVE came back with a Cuban sandwich. It was all greasy and he started eating it really fast and he just freaked out after a few bites and focused the sandwich on the sidewalk after a few bites and was so disgusted by it. I was blown away, (laughs). That was my first impressionâ¦
How much say do you, Jake Johnson and Tyler Bledsoe all have in who gets on Quasi?
Itâs a pretty tight ship, I think if one of us said ânoâ and the other two said âyesâ I donât think someone would get on but I think itâs probably different every time. I donât really know what would happen like that.
There has been rumors of a video, can you give anything away about that at all?
Yeah, theyâve been filming it for a while, Dick and Josh have been and now Justin. Other dudes have been doing other shit, Tyler just put that part out [All Clear OK] and Jake has been doing GX1000 stuff, and Iâve been working on Gospel so hopefully weâll start working on it soon.
Is that going to be a full length?
Hopefully, but not like years and years of working on it.
If you had to fight any teammate, past or present, who it be?
(Laughing), oh shit. Who would that be? God damn. Iâll say Daniel Lutheran just because heâs my boy.
Any Vans rider on Quasi who would it be?
Dan Lu, I love him.
Best pro skateboarder that dropped off or went AWOL?
Anthony Pappalardo.
Do you care about politics?
I do not care. I mean I care but I try as hard as I can to stay ignorant to it because I know itâs not going to bring me anything but down. So, I donât really want to be involved.
Finish this sentence â âYou should buy my shoeâ¦â
So you can skate like me! (Laughs).
Shop the Vans Skate Gilbert Crockett collection here- http://www.blacksheepstore.co.uk/vans-skate-shoes.html
*Release date- 11/02/17
