i guess i'll tell my Heath story. prob posted it in some thread at some point but its fun to revisit.
back in ~2007 they were doing the wild ride tour and i went to the demo a couple hours away in some really random small town. shitty indoor park, they probably hated it. lucky for heath they had a snowboard jump and he did a back 360 nosegrab. so sick. it was one of those awful indoor parks with ramps that seemed designed for skaters, rollerbladers and bmxer's all at once. you can probably picture it. after the demo we got word that they would be camping at the campground in my city and the invite was open for people to come have a good time.
at the campground, heath was just sitting on the bumper of a rental car with the trunk open and pounding the case of budweiser he had next to him. me and a couple friends are talking to him and cant believe how normal and nice he is. a lot of the other guys are raging and hes just relaxing. i had no choice but to tell him that his Sight Unseen part was the best thing ever, and he talked about how that was the best compliment he could receive since he worked so hard on that.
the following day i decided to drive another couple hours to the next demo by myself. i was 20, had the day off, and an emerica demo was pretty rare. when i got to the shopping center with the park, both heath and reynolds showed up like 30 minutes before the huge bike squad. i was standing outside the little coffee shop and heath comes up and starts talking to me. wow, he remembered me! we talked for a few and he asked me about the park and then said he was going to go inside to check it out. he comes out and says "im not skating this fucking park" or something along those lines - it was another small indoor park. hes eating a reeses cup (2-pack not the king size) and he says "want a reeses cup?". i wasn't going to eat half his snack but i'll always remember the offer lol.
also - when the demo started he DID skate. he rode up the bank, tried a kickflip and landed as hard as he could with one foot in the middle to snap his board and left. 15 seconds tops. very on brand.