One, two, three, four.
There's so long since I've seen you.
There's so long since the darkened nights.
And if I make you a chance, don't kill me.
Come knocking on your door, I'll make you cry.
Tell me how's your sister?
Come knocking on your door, I'll make you cry.
Skateboarding is, well, first of all, it's just my life completely. If I wasn't skateboarding, I don't know what I'd be doing.
I've met pretty much everyone I know through skateboarding. I've had the best nine years of my life.
I mean, every day I go out and I'm doing something athletic and positive.
You know, it's keeping my body healthy instead of sitting on the couch, playing video games or just eating food all day.
I guess skateboarding is just like a hot woman on a beach drinking a coke and a casino, man.
My name is Zach, Zach Newman. I'm from Atlanta, Georgia. I've been skating for, like, nine years.
My daily routine consists of, I guess, I'll wake up, call some friends or something, tell them to meet me at Decatur Park.
We call it Decatur Park. And we petitioned to get it there four or five years ago. Got a million signatures and went to all these board meetings and stuff and finally got it done there.
I go there pretty much every day. That is like a training ground. That's where I learn pretty much everything I know.
Most shoes I get, they rip up the laces, rip up in one day at the most, and I gotta relace them every day.
And then after I do that, I usually go to Foundation. It's in just like the middle of Atlanta, downtown Atlanta.
Great spot for pretty much everything. I mean, it's built by skateboarders, four skateboarders.
It's got transition boxes, ledges, manual pads, flat ground. It's just good for pretty much everything you want to skate.
Great warm-up spot. Meet all your friends there and just go on from there.
When I try to learn tricks, no matter if it's flat ground, box, manual, transition, stairs, whatever, there's definitely a deep mental process that goes through it.
The more videos you watch and the more tricks you learn, it's kind of easier to figure out some of the other ones.
Like if you can do a nally kick flip, it's probably not going to take too long to learn a nally frontside kick flip, just because you can do both those tricks and you just put them together.
It's just a little bit different. If you're just starting skating and you're learning kick flip, it's going to take a long time because your legs have to get used to what your mind is telling them to do.
Because your mind, when you don't know, your mind is going, hey, do this, do this, do this, and it's really challenging to make everything just work just right.
So you kind of like put your foot in this one position and it doesn't work.
So maybe you kind of nudge it to the left or to the right, move your foot back or forward maybe, go a little bit slower just to get used to it.
And then eventually you just kind of feel what works for you because everyone does it differently.
Not everyone puts their foot in the exact same spot and does it just the exact same way. It's all different. Everyone looks different doing it.
Atlanta is great for skating. I don't know. It's like you go to places like California and stuff and it's just smooth ground and everything's perfect there.
You know, it's like, you don't really have to try hard. I mean, I guess you still do. I mean, skateboarding is hard no matter what.
But Atlanta is like, you go to a spot and there'll be a little crack on the ground or something. You roll over it.
They'll screw you up if you're doing anything. I mean, there's just trash all over the ground and people sitting around at the spot.
I tell them to move and ask them politely, I guess, and it's way different than the West Coast. It's the complete opposite, just sketchy ground.
It's just a lot tougher, I guess.
Check it out.
Check it out.
Some days you wake up and it's not a good day. You step on your board and you don't feel kind of weird and just things don't work out the way you want them.
You're still going to land straight. It's not going to land anything the whole day, but it just takes a little bit more effort.
I guess sometimes it's more on point. Every fall you do, the one after that just seems worse and worse and you feel like you're never going to get it.
You just keep falling. Sometimes you just think about it so hard. The mechanics of popping and landing, riding this position, that really doesn't help because skateboarding is more like an instinct.
You kind of feel when you're supposed to curve around and hit the spot where you're supposed to pop, where you're supposed to pop.
If you're not thinking about it, if you're just confident and you just feel like you got this, most of the time you're going to land it.
If it's like some big stair or something you're doing it, it'll probably just be screwed with your head and just think of the worst possible outcomes.
And that's something you don't want to do. You don't want to stay away from that because the more you think about that and the less effort you're giving into it, if you're jumping down it, you might get hurt.
Just some people have it to where they can do a trick and it's just the most simple thing in the world for them.
They'll just pop it, flick it, catch it and just roll away smoothly like they won't even try.
Usually when you watch a skate video and you see someone's part and it's only going to be makes.
Maybe it was thrown like a fall or two there, like a really bad one that looks really entertaining.
If you watch a video like that and it's just all lands immediately, it's like big stairs and stuff and some people that don't skate anything.
How can they do that first try? They don't see what goes into a behind the scenes and they don't see all the mental anguish that people go through.
Because that one trick that they saw landed might have taken a hundred times to do.
People were a couple days to go back there because they might have gotten kicked out, they might have gotten injured a couple months before and then when they were trying it or their board broke or something.
It's not even pros, they don't land everything first try.
They'll go back to a spot for weeks sometimes just because it has to be perfect to do it like that.
Yeah, well some of those days that you know you don't fall and stuff, it feels great but it wouldn't be the same without those other days where you fall all the time and you just got to work for it.
Skateboarding would just be, I mean everyone could do it if you could just land everything first try, you know you wouldn't have to try for anything, it would just come naturally and stuff.
Some days you fall and you just got to work and work and work for it and then you finally landed and that's probably a better feeling than when you can land everything first try.
Personally when I land a line or just whatever and land something that I'm pretty psyched on and would film and I look at it and stuff, I always like to have her a celebratory cigarette.
You know I either if it's rolling tobacco I'll roll that up or just Camelot, you know, sit down, smoke that and just take a break and enjoy it and just think about what a good line that was.
My dreams and ambitions for skateboarding and besides that or I don't know I guess just for skateboarding I want to just travel the world and make a good living just doing that.
It's definitely a creative thing because I mean we use like the entire city just to do what we do. It's just like paying on a canvas, you know, we're the paint and the city's the canvas, you know.
Now we're wasted all these days, it's time to come back again.
Too bad we're just so sad but it's warm and I don't want it, it's time to come back again.
I just hate you, I just hate you, I just hate you.
