Spots w/ Brian Winning | “… if any of these kids with their headphones came to The Banks or LOVE back in the day, they would have been brought to the ATM with a knife.”
Brian Wenning is a character that stands out even in a character driven culture like skateboarding. From his early days skating the east coasts most grimy spots he has seen (and swum in) some shit. Re-live some of his highlights, lowlights, board jackings, and vibing of outsiders thanks to Village Psychic.
Great to see Wenning out of the halfway house, cleaning up his life, and becoming a dad. That 90’s trend comeback is really having unexpected side-effects.
Sample:
What were your first times at LOVE like?
I went there a handful of times when I was like 15. After getting closer with Alien, me and Anthony (Pappalardo) went there to meet up with Joe Castrucci and Kalis and everybody, just get to know the team a little better. They wanted the two of us as a package deal. There was no ‘You guys wear this, you guys say this, act like this,’ none of that, it was just natural. Me and Anthony were tight back then.
You know what, I hit him up the other day. I sent him a direct message. I see him creeping around at like 3am every two weeks, liking my pictures. I know he’s out there somewhere. I haven’t seen him in like 12, 13, 14 years. Me and Ian (Reid) talk about the goal being to just get him out one day. I don’t care if I just get him pushing, just get him out. It’s kinda funny, for so long I was the problem to get out. Now I’m trying to get him out (laughs). Guy Mariano said something about skating going in waves. It’s like one, two years this guy is back skating, then all of the sudden another dude disappears. You’re in a rut, you’re feeling hot, that is just how it goes.
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Were dudes vibing out the out of towners then?
Some of these guys would get real heated, ‘Oh no, so and so is moving here from SF?!’. You didn’t see a lot of Philly footy from out of towners around then, because it (the vibing) worked. I never cared though. I’m just doing switch backside tricks off the 3 stair ledge, those dudes coming through from SF or whatever were not doing my types of tricks, so I wasn’t stressing it.
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