Vincent Bressol: Aces High
April 02, 2009 @ 4:00 AM
Benjamin
He was once crowned the Gypsy King… He opened Europa the first Cliché video with a part mixing tech skating, manuals mastery and no fear for large obstacles either. Before that, he was that young kid from the suburbs of Paris that was friendly with everybody, despite hiding behind a false grumpy persona, and whose reputation kept growing as his motivation was endless. Time has passed and Vincent is now facing some changes in his life. No, he’s not leaving Barcelona, which he’s been calling home for years now, and, no, he’s not putting his board back in the closet. Far from that, as you’ll see in the next pages…
No, he is just facing a major sponsor change, and like everything else in life, Vincent takes it as the solid man he is. At the end of the day, with that sense of humour, nothing can be that bad, right? We still called him to make sure he was fine…
Interview: Benjamin
Fakie tre ph: Chami
Do you hear me?
Yes, how are you doing, Benjamin?
Like on a sunny day spent in front of my laptop…
Well, I’m having a rainy day spent in front of my laptop!
The eternal sun of Barcelona legend gets a blow!
Yes, oh, wow, I just received my last Cliché boards!
You want to speak about that, now?
As you want, I don’t mind. Do your journalism work and ask me questions, Mr. Deberdt!
Well, I wanted to start with your Barcelona life, actually. How long have you lived there now?
Four and a half years.
Frontside bluntslide fakie ph: Chami
Compare your routine from when you moved there, to now…
Wow… Well, when I arrived, it was a bit more party mode, really! I think I did like everybody else arriving here. I was moving from one place to another, sometimes renting a room, sometimes staying at someone’s… that went on for three, four months and then I settled down in the apartment of Paul Shier, Kenny Reed and Kenny Hughes. Then, we were partying a lot, that’s for sure! But I was fully skating, also. I was coming from two or three very depressing winters in Paris, I don’t know if you remember? So, since, all I had to do was skate, I thought: “why not move somewhere with better weather?” And I won’t have to explain how Barcelona is the Mecca of skateboarding, right? So that was my routine, then: skating, going out, skating, Manolo, parties, skating the next day… that was it. Now, I’m more settled down. I go out a lot less.
Don’t you think a lot of people move to Barca to skate and just vanish there?
Maybe… I can’t think of any, right there… But I do see a lot of people coming here to study and totally losing it. Maybe some skaters, also, get taken out by the party tidal wave! It’s so easy, that’s for sure. You can get stuck in there. That city is not meant for some people! I know some people that could not live here! [laughter]
Tailslide ph: Rodent
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