Continued.. for Blood Wizard, I decided to get past the art thing and try to improve my skills to give the skaters justice that ride with the Wizard. I am still intimidated though filming in front of Mike, Cause you know he would do it 10 times better and smoother. So when Mike is around I usually do back up angles. He is a really knowledgeable dude from filming to editing he is a one man show. Genuine awesome human too. Not a lot of people like him. Also in the past 8 years I have met a lot of filmers here in SF that are awesome too. Schmitty has being producing sick stuff for years and has always been helpful with tips behind the lens or the keyboard. What companies were you involved with before starting Blood Wizard? I rode for Adrenalin Skateboards through its 3 phases of backers. Then I went to no sponsors for a few years. It feels really good to skate for yourself and not because of the pressure of delivering something for boards given to you. The pressure is also what drove me to skate better though and I found I still pressured myself to maintain the level I was at. Which by the way was’nt much, but for me it was a lot. I guess right before Blood Wizard, Krooked had given me some boards here and there and some other people had offered me boards but I was psyched to be riding boards with graphics that Mark Gonzales had made. I mean he is our skate god that we all bow down to right? If I could learn to be as fluid as him at anything in life I would be content for a moment, or contently discontent. One or the other. But Blood Wizard is the first company I have been involved with that I am really proud of and not afraid to promote shamelessly. How did the beginning of Blood Wizard come about? There seems to be a lot of people involved in it with tons of different aspects and perspectives. My friends Rico and Visser were talking about this street wizard (long bearded, long haired, homeless looking dude) they were calling the Blood Wizard. They were all drunk and could not stop talking about him. Finally I was like guys that would be a sick name for a board company. (Continue >>) Photos: Dowdy
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