Dave Bachinsky in China of hat

[Nicki]

who was he on between Darkstar and city? Think?

Yep.

[Sick Duck]

He picked the wrong time to go to china

[TheSinforoso]

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Dude kickflipped El Toro, sickening to see a legend getting disrespected regularly on here.

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Also on a 7.5 board, which is bonkers.

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What video part was that in?

Oakley - Our Life

[frig deuce]

Bachinsky is the FUCKING MAN.

End of story.

I really hope he's gotten paid decently over the years. He fucking deserves it.

He's no young buck either.

The guy's been CRANKING out footage for over a decade. Shit.

[HotnSpicyMcChicken]

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Dude kickflipped El Toro, sickening to see a legend getting disrespected regularly on here.

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Also on a 7.5 board, which is bonkers.

It's fucking insane. Sucks that this place is so populated with kooks that some kid who doesn't know about Bachinsky  gonna come on here and think he's lame due to the slander.

[Rasmus]

That was insanely good for a part filmed in 6 days (if it could just had let out Manny, then I would have been happy... his style really itches me the wrong way).

I don't know what it is about Bachinsky - in interviews he seems really sweet (and quite the redneck). He is one of those guys that you can't deny has put in the work to have proper sponsors! And it seems like he's toning down the amount of 5-o to Crooks variation, which I must say I was beyond fed up with.

[Ingenting Polisen]

Of hat on Corona virus

[Betaphenylethylalamine]

He picked the wrong time to go to china

Where he ate a sick duck.

[silhouette]

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Dude kickflipped El Toro, sickening to see a legend getting disrespected regularly on here.

[close]

Also on a 7.5 board, which is bonkers.

[close]

It's fucking insane. Sucks that this place is so populated with kooks that some kid who doesn't know about Bachinsky  gonna come on here and think he's lame due to the slander.

I interviewed him recently (for a mainstream publication, so it's really basic and surface level), seemed really genuine to me, the text has been published already so here it is if you're into his stuff. Some commercial talk about his current company everyone is free to skip or not somewhere in the middle, too.

"When and how did you pick up skateboarding?

My grandfather built an additional house on their property, and that’s where it all started. My uncles had a six-foot mini ramp in the back yard and everyone in the area would come by to skate. Around the age of thirteen, the city of Lowell (Massachussets) blessed us with four new skateparks and that’s when skateboarding took over my life. Those parks shaped who I am today and allowed me to make so many good friends. We had a crew of twelve of us and we’d drive into Boston, just thirty minutes south, to skate the city. In the Northeast, you have a ton of granite quarries, so skate spots throughout the city were amazing to skate. Endless granite made the spots perfect. The downfall of the north is the four months of winter. We’d always have a covered plaza we’d bring a flatbar to, or drive an hour to a skatepark. Other than that, Massachusetts is by far one of the best places to grow up and experience four seasons. For someone that’s never been to New England, I’d recommend you pack a hoodie, your skateboard, and get a plane ticket during late September, early October. It’ll be one of the best things you’ve ever done.

Had you traveled extensively before you started going on skate trips?

When I turned sixteen and got my license - that was a pivotal moment. We explored every surrounding city like NYC, Philly, Washington, Baltimore, Connecticut, Burlington. A crew of us drove up to Montreal, Canada. It was only six hours away so for us that was a quick trip to get out of the US. I do remember skating at the Big O, and we realized we could shower at the Olympic stadium for three dollars and we could jump off the giant diving boards. That made the start of the mornings epic. We were all teenagers and all we wanted to do was skate. I wanted to go everywhere at that point. In 2006, I visited China and that was a real game changer. Every year since then, I try to visit a new city in China. It’s one of my favorite places to explore. The people are so nice, the food is amazing, and the architecture is unbelievable. It’s all marble and they usually never kick you out from a spot. It’s paradise for skateboarding.

Do you feel like describing exactly what it is that you’re doing and making, with Shapethree?

Shapethree has been around for the last four years. I’ve been recycling skateboards and handcrafting new things one project at a time. Each item that gets sold gives back a percentage to the skate scene where I grew up in Lowell. Right now, with woodworking I’ve been really hyped on restructuring classic items with wooden attributes. For instance, recently at the FISE contest in Chengdu, a group of us were out at a restaurant and our waitress brought out a small eight-inch pan that had a vertical wooden handle on it. I had never seen a pan with a vertical bamboo handle. After that delicious feast, I brought the receipt up to that desk with the pan in my hand. I asked if I could purchase it and they laughed at me. With a little explaining and an extra hundred China dollars (which is seven American dollars), they cleaned the pan and gave it to me with a smiling smirk. When I touched back in Los Angeles, I removed the bamboo handle and restructured it with some broken skateboards. These small projects hold an experience, just as much as the broken board I use has a story too. I love creating and making custom projects for people. It’s everything I want to do when I’m not on a skateboard. 

Check Shapethree on Instagram and www.shapethree.com

Where did you pick up the inspiration to work with recycled boards? Maybe Japanese artist Haroshi (most popular in the West for the Battle At The Berrics trophies he’s made, but his actual body of work is quite incredible)?

Oh yes, his work is incredible and I’m a huge fan. By far, one of the best at hand. I’ve been following his builds over the last seven years and each project is so detailed. It’s always inspiring to see so much precision and creativity from him. Back in Boston around 2009, my friend showed me a picture frame he made for a friend. That Christmas, I decided to cut up some boards and make some photo frames for the pictures I had taken. Some gifts were given to friends, and that’s when it all started.

Do you still ride 7.5’’ boards that was the norm fifteen years? Was the infamous El Toro kickflip seriously on a 7.5’’ board?

I grew up skating a 7.5’’ and somehow never switched sizes. It just felt normal and so comfortable. I skated El Toro on a 7.5’’ and it’s been that way for seventeen years.

One of my sources recommended I should ask about your current food habits. How carefully do you watch what you put into your body, have you noticed certain nutritional habits that helped your skating (as generally, bad food will make one skate terribly) ?

Haha, oh, how times have changed. I’m really into looking into ingredients on packages and trying to find the most pure products. Most companies are just trying to make the longest lasting foods and not caring about the ingredients. I went from growing up on fast food which I have no idea where it came from, to now finding a local farmer and knowing that no chemical products were used to grow what were eating. My tip for everyone is, look into gluten-free foods. Sometimes healthier, not always... But it’s easier for your body to break down, so you’ll have a quicker recovery time if you're dealing with an injury. Also, you're still delaying the process of recovery if you're drinking, but enjoy a whiskey over a pack of beers, that yeast ingredient is hard to break down and slows your recovery time. Stay local and enjoy a feast!

Another source suggested I’d ask: do you still collect those Marlboro points? It’s called optimization, I’m backing it…

Damn, the good ole’ days! A lot of people don’t know, but I quit smoking 5 years ago; I was living at the Thrasher dojo and with all the saw dust at the skatepark, plus smoking so much, my immune system shut down. I spit blood for two days and couldn’t smoke a cigarette for the next week, even if I wanted to. Every couple years, I’d get sick like that and eventually decided it was time not to feel like that ever again. Till this day, I’m still dealing the worst repercussions from smoking and no, I don’t feel like I can breathe better from quitting, haha, everyone says that line. I guess my lungs feel the same as always because I skate until I can’t move, haha.

What’s next in the cards for you, what are your projects for the near future? Any shout outs?

I gotta thank all the skateboarders out there! Keep on building and ruling the streets. 2020, so much is happening; more skating and exploring to do! January, we’re releasing a video part from Chengdu, China so, that’ll be dropping soon. Thanks FISE for the good times and making this happen. Enjoy, everyone!"

[HotnSpicyMcChicken]

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Dude kickflipped El Toro, sickening to see a legend getting disrespected regularly on here.

[close]

Also on a 7.5 board, which is bonkers.

[close]

It's fucking insane. Sucks that this place is so populated with kooks that some kid who doesn't know about Bachinsky  gonna come on here and think he's lame due to the slander.

[close]

I interviewed him recently (for a mainstream publication, so it's really basic and surface level), seemed really genuine to me, the text has been published already so here it is if you're into his stuff. Some commercial talk about his current company everyone is free to skip or not somewhere in the middle, too.

Expand Quote

"When and how did you pick up skateboarding?

My grandfather built an additional house on their property, and that’s where it all started. My uncles had a six-foot mini ramp in the back yard and everyone in the area would come by to skate. Around the age of thirteen, the city of Lowell (Massachussets) blessed us with four new skateparks and that’s when skateboarding took over my life. Those parks shaped who I am today and allowed me to make so many good friends. We had a crew of twelve of us and we’d drive into Boston, just thirty minutes south, to skate the city. In the Northeast, you have a ton of granite quarries, so skate spots throughout the city were amazing to skate. Endless granite made the spots perfect. The downfall of the north is the four months of winter. We’d always have a covered plaza we’d bring a flatbar to, or drive an hour to a skatepark. Other than that, Massachusetts is by far one of the best places to grow up and experience four seasons. For someone that’s never been to New England, I’d recommend you pack a hoodie, your skateboard, and get a plane ticket during late September, early October. It’ll be one of the best things you’ve ever done.

Had you traveled extensively before you started going on skate trips?

When I turned sixteen and got my license - that was a pivotal moment. We explored every surrounding city like NYC, Philly, Washington, Baltimore, Connecticut, Burlington. A crew of us drove up to Montreal, Canada. It was only six hours away so for us that was a quick trip to get out of the US. I do remember skating at the Big O, and we realized we could shower at the Olympic stadium for three dollars and we could jump off the giant diving boards. That made the start of the mornings epic. We were all teenagers and all we wanted to do was skate. I wanted to go everywhere at that point. In 2006, I visited China and that was a real game changer. Every year since then, I try to visit a new city in China. It’s one of my favorite places to explore. The people are so nice, the food is amazing, and the architecture is unbelievable. It’s all marble and they usually never kick you out from a spot. It’s paradise for skateboarding.

Do you feel like describing exactly what it is that you’re doing and making, with Shapethree?

Shapethree has been around for the last four years. I’ve been recycling skateboards and handcrafting new things one project at a time. Each item that gets sold gives back a percentage to the skate scene where I grew up in Lowell. Right now, with woodworking I’ve been really hyped on restructuring classic items with wooden attributes. For instance, recently at the FISE contest in Chengdu, a group of us were out at a restaurant and our waitress brought out a small eight-inch pan that had a vertical wooden handle on it. I had never seen a pan with a vertical bamboo handle. After that delicious feast, I brought the receipt up to that desk with the pan in my hand. I asked if I could purchase it and they laughed at me. With a little explaining and an extra hundred China dollars (which is seven American dollars), they cleaned the pan and gave it to me with a smiling smirk. When I touched back in Los Angeles, I removed the bamboo handle and restructured it with some broken skateboards. These small projects hold an experience, just as much as the broken board I use has a story too. I love creating and making custom projects for people. It’s everything I want to do when I’m not on a skateboard. 

Check Shapethree on Instagram and www.shapethree.com

Where did you pick up the inspiration to work with recycled boards? Maybe Japanese artist Haroshi (most popular in the West for the Battle At The Berrics trophies he’s made, but his actual body of work is quite incredible)?

Oh yes, his work is incredible and I’m a huge fan. By far, one of the best at hand. I’ve been following his builds over the last seven years and each project is so detailed. It’s always inspiring to see so much precision and creativity from him. Back in Boston around 2009, my friend showed me a picture frame he made for a friend. That Christmas, I decided to cut up some boards and make some photo frames for the pictures I had taken. Some gifts were given to friends, and that’s when it all started.

Do you still ride 7.5’’ boards that was the norm fifteen years? Was the infamous El Toro kickflip seriously on a 7.5’’ board?

I grew up skating a 7.5’’ and somehow never switched sizes. It just felt normal and so comfortable. I skated El Toro on a 7.5’’ and it’s been that way for seventeen years.

One of my sources recommended I should ask about your current food habits. How carefully do you watch what you put into your body, have you noticed certain nutritional habits that helped your skating (as generally, bad food will make one skate terribly) ?

Haha, oh, how times have changed. I’m really into looking into ingredients on packages and trying to find the most pure products. Most companies are just trying to make the longest lasting foods and not caring about the ingredients. I went from growing up on fast food which I have no idea where it came from, to now finding a local farmer and knowing that no chemical products were used to grow what were eating. My tip for everyone is, look into gluten-free foods. Sometimes healthier, not always... But it’s easier for your body to break down, so you’ll have a quicker recovery time if you're dealing with an injury. Also, you're still delaying the process of recovery if you're drinking, but enjoy a whiskey over a pack of beers, that yeast ingredient is hard to break down and slows your recovery time. Stay local and enjoy a feast!

Another source suggested I’d ask: do you still collect those Marlboro points? It’s called optimization, I’m backing it…

Damn, the good ole’ days! A lot of people don’t know, but I quit smoking 5 years ago; I was living at the Thrasher dojo and with all the saw dust at the skatepark, plus smoking so much, my immune system shut down. I spit blood for two days and couldn’t smoke a cigarette for the next week, even if I wanted to. Every couple years, I’d get sick like that and eventually decided it was time not to feel like that ever again. Till this day, I’m still dealing the worst repercussions from smoking and no, I don’t feel like I can breathe better from quitting, haha, everyone says that line. I guess my lungs feel the same as always because I skate until I can’t move, haha.

What’s next in the cards for you, what are your projects for the near future? Any shout outs?

I gotta thank all the skateboarders out there! Keep on building and ruling the streets. 2020, so much is happening; more skating and exploring to do! January, we’re releasing a video part from Chengdu, China so, that’ll be dropping soon. Thanks FISE for the good times and making this happen. Enjoy, everyone!"

[close]

Good shit man! Always seemed like a really down to earth guy. Love that he's still so much of a skate rat that he "skate's until he can't move" 

[gsosa]

Damn that was ill. Questionable trick selection aside Bachinsky is sick. Always stuck to his guns and the dude has always put out quality parts. Doesn't seem like a kook so it makes you wonder the shitty sponsors. (Fuck it I'd ride for Darkstar if I got paid and shit, but I think he has the ability to go for something a bit more legit.) Anyways Bachinsky apreesh

[Lord Viper Scorpion]

i know, i know, it's the berrics but goddam he fucking razed the plaze