Rules Of The Underground Skate Scene w/ Dan Wolfe | “…, no piss pedaling. No switch mongo pushing at all.”
Dan Wolfe is one of the original capturer’ers of the east coast skate scene with his Eastern Exposure series. Documenting not just the skateboarding but the full story of what was going down in LOVE, NY, and other cities close by. Chrome Ball goes deep into all these stories and all those larger than life personalities.
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And, of course, Matt and Ricky with their little rules about skating, that just came from them being 100% dedicated. I mean, if you saw either of Matt or Ricky’s apartments back then, it was seriously just a mattress, skate magazines, weed, and a little bit of food in the fridge. That was it. They thought about skateboarding non-stop and skated every day. I was at that point in my life as well, so we got along well together.
Didn’t you film Reason’s 411 Profile?
Yeah, we worked on that together. That was maybe a couple weeks of filming, if that. It happened really fast. We got the okay to do it and he was ready to go… motivated. And it all came pretty easily for him.
Get into those rules a little more… I know switch mongo was always out.
(laughs) Yeah, no piss pedaling. No switch mongo pushing at all. Because their thought was that it wasn’t truly switch skating if you’re not pushing switch, too. That was a big one.
Another one was that you can’t just turn around in a line, you had to do some kind of 180 trick in order to get you back around. No turning around on the ground.
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