Andrew Reynolds in Rolling Stone | From Drug, Alcohol Abuse to Skateboarding Sober
Andrew Reynolds is The Boss. Always has been. Always will be.
Actually wait, he wasn’t always The Boss. He was a dirtbag, hard partying, drug using skater living in squalor in Huntington Beach. Andrew became The Boss once he straightened out and started to give skateboarding 100%.
“I’m happy I found drugs because it brought me down quicker,” Andrew claims in this new Rolling Stone profile. Truth because a drinking problem can drag out for decades, where drugs will either kill you or you’ll go sober. Luckily Reynolds ended up taking the latter trail after a near death experience and it led to putting out the best skateboarding of his life as well as heading up a few influential brands like Baker.
How did you manage to put out all those incredible video parts in the early days when you guys were wasted all the time?
I still skated. I had a pro model shoe and deck. But there were these periods of time where I just couldn’t pull it together. And back then you didn’t have to film a part in a year and a half. We had four years to film parts. There wasn’t a push for video content like there is today – skating was very different. We were partying most of the time, and not even skating for weeks at a time. Kareem [Campbell], [Javier] Nunez and all the guys, that’s what they were doing. [Guy] Mariano didn’t even have a board for like a year. He might set up a board and do tricks like twice a year. Skating everyday was kind of nerdy back then. And that’s something that’s totally changed. Today, the best skaters go out and just attack shit all day long – like Figgy and Dickson. If you were like that back then, it was like, “Whoa man, chill out.”
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