It wasn’t terrible for much actually.
Better than the west for handrail concentration and culture overall.
Photo: Stewart Medford
What inspired you to excel and get a degree in Journalism at 19?
To hastily escape institutions, which may be a universal theme at that age.
Tell us about your experiences teaching English in Tokyo, did you get to do much skiing in Japan?
They have tons of snow and handrails and polite police.
I recommend basashi, onsen and staying for much longer than two weeks.
Shouts to Yoshie Ishihara, Miyavi, King Shinji and my boy Shu.
The poem’Transient' by Al Purdy.
What digging experience do you have?
Dream Feature: What would you build?
My feature was a gap-able hip with a huge tree pole jam that stuck out of the take-off.
See manifest destiny above.
Do you think that your background in Journalism will give you a different outlook on digging?
That’s a bit of a stretch, eh?
There isn’t much connection there.
Digging is something new every day and that’s what I love about it.
Dub Japan // Photo: Stewart Medford
What are you looking forward to the most with this opportunity?
Who inspires you as a builder?
Skateboarding and FODT movies.
John Cardiel, Mark Gonzales and John Melvin.
Guillaume Fournier really opened my eyes last year at COC, too.
He has a company on the east coast called Today’s Parks and Creations and they are ripping.
Mike Shaw, Chris Turpin and the Windells park crews too.
Working the Sandbox jump with Fred Moisan
Typical day as a COC digger: what are you expecting?
Beautiful mornings in the zen garden with my homies and sun from both sides.
What would you tell someone who wants to dig for a summer?
Digging in any season is manifest destiny.
Photo: Tom Winter // Liberty Skis
Any last words?
Newschoolers week at CoC is June 29th - July 6th,“Camp A”
