Ivan's Q&A!

[Music] hey guys here with y'all to answer some questions let's see first question heat go skate what made you get into skating we've got me into skating fun just having fun with the friends first got on the board six or seven I called it Street luging we'd lay on our backs on the board and we just go down the steepest hill my friends and I but if you want to get technical and get in a skating skating doing tricks and all that was about 14 and honestly I thought it would be cool to get back into it because I heard a girl had a crush on was in the skaters and I was like I can just kill two birds a stone get back in the skating and that was a long story shirt short could have been because of a girl I think I was also trying to be cool with these kids at the time was Aaron Lopez [Music] Nathan abejas and Luke Contreras and a few others mo they're all wearing famous stars and straps shirts and they got into skating and and I pretty much hung around with them and I got my first blank board it was a brown wood stain board from Odyssey skate shop and I had a stencil from somewhere it was a check of our stencil and I just mount it on the bottom of the board and I spray-painted a checkered Guara and stencil on the body good for you that was my first board so that got me into skating is that their friends or a girl I was trying to impress when I was 14 you know do you practice Qi Gong and or meditation practice Qigong every single day try to practice every breath and with chi-gong a lot of movies how they portray Chi and Qi Gong and Star Wars films and whether it's a force and [Music] the matrix being the one what she gan is just being aware of every breath you take and every step you take so you can be walking down up or down the street and you can be in walking meditation like dick not hot the vietnamese philosopher he talks about walking meditation so yeah I practice I do practice and I think everyone has his or her own way of practicing Qigong whether it's well watching reading a book sewing knitting tying your shoes swimming whatever works for you and is your happy place and gives you the ability to have free space and to reflect on yourself that is meditation whether it's prayer you know kneeling down before you go to sleep and being grateful for the things you have we all have our own ways meditating and I meditate what's your favorite drink favorite drink well I love green tea but it's either green tea or boba anything with boba in it like I think it's tied sheet that the chai latte or like with like a chai flavor with bowline and that's what that'll do anything with the earthy taste and with boba in it I like it what's your favorite okay you're just all right cool yeah all right we can chill right now yeah it was pretty crazy what happened there dude I sure you would have molly-whopped his ass cuz he was the one intimidated by you yeah that's from the other day like crazy guy he came across and I fear just watching this video and you're thinking what is he talking about well the other day I almost had to defend myself against some guy came across and he's pretty crazy and so on I read someone's comments said he it looked like he was trying to take my boob and I'm pretty sure he was it's pretty scary that's some great a self defense right there questions pride man I see you doing all sorts of cool [ __ ] on the board that other people don't what's your favorite trick that's on the more unique style someone told me before and I agree Swit anything with the frontside 360 shove I don't see that often and I don't know how I got into it some of the tricks I learned was just by plain skate one and one of the tricks that was easy he's just a frontside 360 shove you know you just do the dump stick around and the way I saw it with a frontside 360 shove I don't really see those and for some reason I wanted to do a switch because I had switch front side do 60s down and I just figured my back leg does a better job of goofing frontside tricks feed yourself a switch frontside 360 show that's what I think is unique or a frontside 360 show I think I've seen air Carver Foster do it in a video part and I don't really see too many others so that's one of my favorite tricks I think he was moving on Yankee or smash a female no comment I haven't have you ever had someone come up to you at try to steal your board [Music] once I don't remember where it was but he act he was a black kid and what does it have to be black well he just was alright and he came up as to use my board and he kept distance distancing himself and I can't how to keep an eye on him and then I saw him take he was jogging away with I think it was a shindig that's where it was is that this shindig I let a kid borrow one my board there and he kind of ran down the street within I'm like running jogging with him and then he turns around and he turns around and he smiles at me and he's like oh what's up man I'm like huh what's up you mean give me back my board and he's just like yeah yeah I was just playin bro I got my board back what's your favorite obstacle escape lately it's been pledges and with ledges I can just I can be really creative with them I can try new things and I've been learning a lot on ledges recently and it's between ledges and stairs so ledges are stairs between those two and I really had to choose an area down to stairs because I just like the hang time the catch and then the stop and the rolling just that feeling of just stomping something fat and you flick dragon caught in midair and that's what it's all about so I'd say stairs for sure I'm just at a reassure would you baby nope how long did it take you to learn a kick bullet and tre flip to learn how to kickflip no lie after I got that board I was talking about earlier the brown wood stain deck with the check of our stance on the bottom at fence venture trucks and some blank think there are mini logo wheels or just some plain white wheels and after that day right that day I went to my friend Luke Caesar we called him and my friend Aaron Lopez Caesar and I were at his house I brought a video game console over blocks my uncle as a as a Sega Dreamcast we're out there playing for playing video games and I just told myself you know what I'm gonna learn how to trade photo and I was just so determined to learn to learn tricks and I learned it I learned to kickflip probably six hours no luck now the first kickflip I ever did is on my friend Caesars driveway after playing video games I put the I would take the board to the driveway and the way he taught me was so weird my friend Aaron Lopez he was saying he was saying for the board you have your feet imagine I'm standing on a board right he told me to put both feet forward so my back foot is in the corner pocket my front foot was like this once I pop and then I just flipped it's a pop flick totally awkward and almost credit card in a few times but I got the trick and I got it within six hours I stayed up till I don't know how to do the math but I think I stayed up until 2:00 in the morning that's all I remember staying up till 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning in the front of the driveway so I started late and I was just up in front of the driveway and I stayed up till like 3:00 in the morning trying it I got it next day I kept watching trick tips and I kept all my friends I kept telling Aaron I was telling him dude the pros don't do that you know and then I show him the trick tip I think it was Mike Mo it could have been someone else but I just showed him how both feet work and instead just forward in this sense not how do I put it not like this on the word that the board is vertical it wasn't like this so here's the board horizontal and my feet would would be more like this right for a kickflip sake pop and then you flick out to the corner not in this sense like this if you're looking at the board horizontal so it wouldn't be would be more like this I don't have a board with me I'll show you and to learn the trade flip I learned to tre flip two days that's a lie probably - it's two or three days two or three days I my friend what is his name was Christian funny thing his name was Christian but we were always battling it out and we could do a trade flip first and I only got with and middle school I was hanging out with the older kids and we had this spot across the street called the Mormon Church and it was just a parking lot just flat have plenty of room and I stayed there late with my friend Anthony Saldana and Andrew Zamora and I want to say Joe Zamora was there but I think it was just those two Anthony and Andrew Zamora so I stayed out with them and they're just doing trades you know you just got to do this you know put your further here and I stayed I stay there all night I stomped it over and over and I kept falling and then I'm pretty sure the next day I got and one key to learning tricks quick is to play people were better than you at a game escape and always have a strong head on your shoulders because trust me I'd be so many people who are older than me and who've been skating and years four years boredom and I learned the trick right there in the game of skate no lie I just tried it I've never thought I could do it when I did it everyone was like oh you know how you freak out when you see your friend do something you didn't think they could do and we're just going back and forth and game escape I was always playing people skate and that's how I learned most of my tricks quick what is your dream shrink dream trick I don't know if it's mine drink like my like my dream trick but I want to see it be done and my friends say I can do it but this is a really crazy trick is a laser flip back Smith just a laser flip back Smith I'm regular so I'll do it this this way so laser flip back Smith but till then that's that's a crazy trick I would love to see that favorite and ER people's part off the top of my head either mousses back three hollywood high 16 or he cos fakie small spin on quad leave is a fitness ball spit and if you haven't seen Kiki's Barton Rica Perez it's on this is why video is really cool we stayed we stayed up late for his trick and it and I don't think it took him along it was just the fact that his trucks kept getting undone in the bowl the bull was loosening his bones kept broken and breaking off and then his his hardware is breaking and then his his axle nut was coming off it was stripped so it was just Kevin shooting off and we had a lick for the bowl we put it back on that computer's dying [Music] all right how long have you been skating forward since I was 14 10 years it's 11 years it's 11 years I've been skating for 11 years I'm 23 14 how much yes 11 years what do you get by being sponsored I'm sponsored by kids skateboards local company owned by Roger King and I get to free board someone I get stickers I get to travel all over the place and film with the crew I get clothing sometimes from them that's that's that's what I get so far that's the only sponsor I have how did you get sponsored it's a funny story I was actually just skating heritage and I met Roger just by watching him skate he was trying to do a crook on the box and he asked me he asked me how do you backside crook how you how do you do it and I just I just told them basically just you kind of go out of angle not too much and place your foot in the knees position the front foot kind of in the middle next to the front bolt so right when you get in you slide your foot and you walked in and you don't want to lean too far forward but just kind of back you know your head and your shoulders have to lean back toward the ledge and then your shoulder you're basically I was just you know teaching them out or just demonstrating and then right after we land he lands a trick and he goes dude what the heck like it worked you know that's that's what it is and then we just we just laughed and I saw Roger every time you do a trick he had a little notepad and he was trying to go down the list because he he's done all the tricks before and he was just asking for my advice and he just crossed the trick off the list and a year pass and you've passed and I haven't seen him since then and I heard about a new skate shop opening up on the other side town next to Beach Park and the shop called catering and I I find it so funny looking back that's how I met Roger was him trying to cater on a crooked grind and I don't know if he had that same class or if I had any influence on that or was it the fact that there was a another company that started with a cane next to the cake buying some shop I don't know and I go into the shop and I heard Devon Calloway was working there for a little bit and that the owner was getting hooked up by Ronnie Krieger and I go in the shop and immediately you just like you know hung out for and he has his little indoor skate park in the back and it was like a little kicker rail box some time passed on since then I think it was almost a year and Roger was juggling a lot at the time family wife kids and he had a supplement shop or people who were you know for nutrition nutritional value whatever and so yeah he stopped with the shop long story short I that's how I got sponsored I met Roger and any advice I would say you never know who the person is next to you always treat others how you want to be treated and you know even at a grocery store you don't know who it is you're standing next to and if you even if it's a small conversation take it to heart you know that's practice you know even if it's a little small talk cuz you don't know who that person is I didn't know who Roger was when he was asking me how to crooked grind I could have been just one of those people who just like what like you know but at knowing me I'm not one of those people I would take the time to get to know the person talk whatever because that's that's what anyone wants to do these days is just headphones in go skate it's me me me I'm just this is me time but I would just say just treat others how I be treated be you don't be what you're not you don't have to prove yourself to anyone and keep persevering man keep it up keep working hard people will notice you know if you're one of those skaters that does a trick and you're just constantly waiting for attention or you're hoping that someone solid trick just just keep doing it you grow someone will notice that's how you get sponsored anyhow that's it for the for the questionnaire I'm sorry if I talked to your off I appreciate it appreciate you guys's questions I have fun and I hope you guys enjoyed this video on Mito fall peace you guys take care have a good night [Music]