I’d randomly see Sage [Elsesser] around. One time we were skating and he asked if I got shoes from anybody. I told him that I’m not sponsored or anything. He offered to get me hooked up from Converse, so I was getting Cons for a little bit, and then one morning he texted me asking if I wanted to start getting FA boards.
I was getting flowed, just skating and doing my thing, and then I started hanging out with Na-kel [Smith]. He became my good homie, and I would skate with him, but I had a job and I lived in Moorpark, California. I wasn’t able to skate as much and then Nak got an apartment and he said I could move in with him but [it meant] I just had to quit my job.
So, I quit and then Nak got me to come on this FA trip. At first, AVE said, “We’re just keeping it to a small crew,” because he didn’t really know who I was, but Nak pushed for me. Then Dill said I should be on this trip. John and Donny were fucking with me so they started saying I should get on Hockey and after that trip I started skating for Hockey. That was my first trip and that’s pretty much how it started.
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