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He was my idol during now n later. Was so disappointed after he did 5-0 switch crook and bluntslide kick flip out in the blind promo then never had a full part again
That now n later part is One of my favs... i know he hated the commentary, but i always thought it was pretty funny...
I remember in the early 2000s i heard he had left skating to join a Hare Krishna church or something ha... granted i was a little kid so it sounded believable... i actually never knew he had so many injuries.
Hare Krishna is not that far off , he actually moved here to Hawaii to be with Buddhist monks, apparently he was super into Zen Buddhism at the time and I remember hearing about this and being like "no fuckin way" but we started seeing him pop up at our local park and he was actually still skating.
It was very trippy to see him in person , it wasn't like he was a weirdo but the dude was definitely reserved and kept to himself kinda, we only knew about this from our homie Andy Henrie (former Nike SB team manager and same guy that was in NY with him when he saw Gino do the 360 ollie down the double set in Yeah Right)
Anyway this dude rules, I celebrate the guy's entire catalog, fuck, imagine if that full length Blind video with him, Henry, Guy, Rudy, Jeron, Bertino and Gavin ever came out, holy shit.