^that photo is awesome.
in response to what happened with him and chocolate: a combination of injury and alcohol.
Yeah thats the skinny, here is the CBI interview part where he says the same.
"Now I don’t know how much you want to get into this… but what happened with Chocolate? That was a real shocker.
Oh yeah, that was a total shocker. I was just at a shit point in my life. I had this girlfriend and we weren’t really having too good of a time being together. She was cheating on me and embarrassing me. I was drinking a lot… and being a bad drunk at that. My knee was messed up and I just couldn’t get over this hump from my physical rehabilitation. My leg was strong and I could bend it and pop off of it but my lateral movement was done… and skateboarding is all lateral.
Yeah, I remember that from the Hot Chocolate video.
Right. And that video was after my surgery.
During Yeah Right, if you look at my shoes, I’m a year behind because I was on the couch waiting for everyone else to finish their parts. Thank God I was able to produce as much footage as I did to be in there. I would’ve had a Marc Johnson part if I wouldn’t have busted my knee. I was on the couch for 14 months. Chillin’ on crutches. I called it “Skate Jail”. I think a lot of that depression made me start drinking.
I lost sponsors due to that injury and my time off, which meant I lost money. My car got repo’d. Real life stuff. But there’s always rent… and my life is starting to fall apart. I had to move out. I moved away from my girl and moved in with Chris Roberts and Robbie McKinley and I’m the worst roommate in the world. I’m going through hell. I’m drinking. I don’t feel like anybody understands me. I’m a bad drunk when I’m upset. I’m a fun drunk when its all good but if I get bad, I’m bad. And that was where I was at. I wasn’t rehabbing. I wasn’t skating. I wasn’t caring. I was loud and I was disrespectful to those dudes. I was just the complete opposite of who I really am.
They were bummed and they felt that they had to just let this dude rock. They just couldn’t support where I was going. I was getting random sponsors... like anybody that would fuck with me, I would just take it. Before I’d be like, “nah, I’m cool. $200 isn’t gonna make or break me.” But at this point, I was just on everything. Like whatever, just hook me up. Save me! I was just thinking with my head in a fog.
That’s what I’m assuming where it came from. It wasn’t about my skateboard abilities. They never said that I couldn’t skate at the pro level or anything like that anymore. It was just like nobody had my back supporting me being that way. No one felt an intervention was needed or anything. They had their own problems. And I respect that. If I had a dude like that on Turf, I wouldn’t want him on either."
http://chromeballincident.blogspot.com/search/label/mike%20york just read it if you havent
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