An older friend told me he met Phelps at a local contest in in Germany in the 90s. He talked to him and Jake persuaded him to drive him to a local vert ramp. At the session Jake thanked him by yelling, him snaking people and aggressively hitting on his girlfriend. There are a lot of those stories about him all over the world. He was such an asshole to people that it was even mentioned in his obituary in one of the major German skate mags.