- Lance MountainI probably told this before:
Youness is 10 years younger than me andgrew up 3 houses from me.
He started to do well and was skating 'the NIKE SB: the bird is the word tour'.
I was a huge fan of Lance Mountain and I know he'd be there on that tour. so I asked Youness if he could Lance to sign a board for me.
Me and a friend drove to the demo after work and of course we came in when the demo was just done. I was bummed as hell since I didn't get to see him. I texted Youness and askedd him where he was at.
There were TONS of kids everywhere since the demo was just over and the Pro guys were standing there taking pics etc. and after a while they went backstage which made it even worse. Bare in mind this was in the P-rod heyday.
About 20 minutes into the chaos Youness comes out with 2 security guards and gets me backstage.
I see P-Rod, Koston and Ba chilling at a table and they all said hi.
Wieger sees my Morrissey shirt and says 'Great shirt dude' and does that *poke your stomach thing* that dads do?
Than one of a sudden Lance Mountain comes out and hands me a Powell Peralta board with Happy Birthday on it and his autograph. And I stood there and I almost bursted out into tears from happiness. And he was like 'It's ok man, it's ok, glad you like it'. I sincerly thanked him and Youness, and bailed out.
After the meet I felt like I kook because I was so starstruck I could barely say anything meaningful...
Stared at the deck the whole way home though.
Barely saw, spoke or heard from Youness after that. He kinda blew up and forgot about the hometown.
Which sucks.
- Jim Greco
While skateing in Barca we were going out one night and kicked it pretty hard. It was late and it was time to head back to the appartment. On our way back we see a club with a couple of bouncers that are throwing a guy out with tons of loud swearing, yelling etc.
We stop, and one of my friends says 'that's Jim Greco!'. He kinda looks our way, kind of gives us a nod and proceeds to yell.
Rob Dyrdekhe was trying a trick at Paralel and it was some grind flip out. he kept missing it and was yelling really really loud. And the younger kids were intimidated by him. I was like 'Screw it, I'll skate over here'. he stopped, looked at me all pissed off... but he wasn't pissed off at mee. He said hi apologized for his yelling and behaviour and landed it a few tries later. Ended up in the DC video I believe.
he wasn't a dick at all, he was a 'pro'. In it, but friendly to the kids.
Appleyardhe was doing a Globe demo at the local park and he was killing it. I was just watching from a quarter pipe and one of a sudden he stands next to me. Rolls in and is gone. I think he was trying a backside 180 to fakie 5-0 on a HUGE ledge.
Rolls in, rolls away and does that a few times and starts talking to me 'I just can't get it man!' and I said something like ' 5 more tries, you got it man!'. Kept rolling in and just said small things everytime he had to wait 'Dem kids man! Dem kiiiiids... some are very good though'.
I guys by the fifth try he actually landed it, came back and said something like 'freaky!'. And skated another thing.
Cool guy and you could tell he had fun.