I was a real skateboarder, not a gifted skateboarder. I represented that skateboarding was fun to do by being terrible at it.
For me, skateboarding is a lifestyle. I really don't know anything different. My life revolves around skating. If I wasn't a professional skateboarder, I'd still be skating every day.
Actually, I've always wanted to be a professional skateboarder ever since I was about six.
I am a skateboarder, and to stay fit for skating I have to stay away from a lot of things. I go to parties and that's fun for me, but between skating and lifting and everything, I know what I have to do the next day, so I'm very conscious about my schedule and keeping it.
For me, I'm a skateboarder. If I'm not skating then I'm going crazy. The big deals, if I'm not skating, it's not worth it.
I was knocked out by a skateboarder when I was 11.
Growing up in Huntington Beach, you were either a traditional sports athlete, a skateboarder, or a surfer. I got my first skateboard when I was five and skated off and on over the years, did a little BMX racing as a kid, and then in my freshman or sophomore year I started getting a little bit more into skateboarding.
I was into Ted Nugent, I was a Nugent guy. I was a skateboarder listening to Ted Nugent.
There's also a lot of skateboard stuff, because I was a skateboarder. Somewhere around here I have one of my original boards.
All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding.
My first on-screen kiss was lame: Nickelodeon. But my first real-life kiss was super cute and nice, but still very awkward. It was with this hot skateboarder with dreadlocks. He was my little Rasta man.
When skateboarding hit, I wanted to be best skateboarder in the world, and I fought for it, there was nothing that was going to get in my way.
