INTERVIEWS

Listen to Wade Desarmo’s Postmortem on Leaving DGK

Published

3 years ago

May 7, 2020

Skate Newswire

Two years ago, Wade Desarmo parted ways with DGK to ride for Primitive. The news came towards the end of a turbulent time for the company that ultimately resulted in The Kayo Corp umbrella being downsized to just DGK. Most people assumed that Desarmo broke out over money issues; but he clears the air with the real reason behind his decision at the 18:26 mark of the latest episode of The Bunt.

That tough time that happened with the money; when everybody started turning their back on Kayo…. I can only speak for myself. But the way that I wasn’t really in the know of what was going on with the company…We just didn’t know what was going on, and couldn’t get any clarification from the higher ups… I road for the company for 15 years. If people really wanna know, they missed three checks. That’s it. I didn’t quit over money or checks not coming in… I quit because over the breakdown of that year period, there wasn’t any communication going forward with the team.

Listen to the entire interview above.

INTERVIEWS

Kelly Bird Opens Up in Latest The Nine Club Episode

Published

3 weeks ago

December 28, 2022

Skate Newswire

Nike SB Global Brand Manager Kelly Bird opens up about growing up in Houston, getting into skateboarding, becoming a pro, and eventually transitioning to the industry side of skateboarding.

Before he became the global brand manager of Nike SB, Kelly worked for DC Shoes and Lakai Footwear.

INTERVIEWS

Catch Up with Mariah Duran in the Latest Nine Club Episode

Published

1 month ago

December 20, 2022

Skate Newswire

Pro skater Mariah Duran has always been into sports as a young kid, she revealed in the latest episode of The Nine Club.

The goofy-footed skater from Albuquerque, New Mexico got introduced to skateboarding when she was around 10. Initially, she would borrow his brother’s board, but her mom eventually bought her a board.

She was also into softball when she was younger and basketball when she was in high school. Later on, she shifted her focus to skateboarding.

Mariah won the USA Skateboarding National Championships Womens Street in 2019, and 2021. She placed 4th in the most recent competition.

She is also a two-time X Games gold medalist for Women’s Street Skateboarding.

INTERVIEWS

Nyjah Huston Talks About SOTY 2022

Published

1 month ago

December 13, 2022

Skate Newswire

Nyjah Huston has only good things to say about his rivals for the 2022 SOTY.

In the ONSTIX Episode 108 streamed on Thrasher’s Twitch channel, Nyjah described the 2022 SOTY Tyshawn Jones as the “King of Pops” for “skating over anything and everything possible.”

He also said that Louie Lopez is just straight-up creative and had a good chance of getting SOTY for many years now.

He also commended TFunk’s latest video part.

Nyjah said in the interview that he watches almost every video that Thrasher posts, even those names he hadn’t heard of.

I love watching everyone’s skating because everyone skates differently and that’s what beautiful about what we do.
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Tyshawn Jones eventually got the 2022 SOTY title. He is one of the three double-recipients of the title, the other two being Danny Way and Chris Cole. He earned his first SOTY in 2018.

Watch the full interview here.