Thrasher – August 2019

190 Thrasher

“I’VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS VIDEO PART

SINCE BEFORE YOU WERE ALIVE”

With the way you’re putting it, I feel
exactly the same way. But for me, at
a certain point, it becomes more of
an acceptable thing. If I try a trick for
four hours and finally land one, but
not exactly the way I wanted to do it,
sometimes I get bummed and I don’t
want to use it at all. I then think about
all the work I put into it and what it
meant to me to actually roll away from it
and I know I’m not doing that shit again.
Has it ever come to a point where it took

more effort than going to the moon and

back, where you like the energy you put

into doing the trick?

Nah, I would never put out a trick based on

my own personal ties to it. That’s the way I

read your question. Do you ever have such

a strong relationship with a clip that you put

it in there? Even though all of my skating is

based on a personal attachment to things, I

would never place my attachment to a clip

over the reception to it. I’ve seen all these

video parts that I really like and what I want to

do is emulate or do them better. When I make

something, I am viewer, performer, audience

and actor, so I can make something that has a

certain effect. If I don’t think it has that same

effect but I still like it, then at least I’m happy

I did something that I like but I’m not going

to use it.

You’ve spent a lot of time on this video

part you’ve been working on.

I’ve been working on this video part since

before you were alive.

TAKETOMO