Vincent Bressol: Aces High
October 31, 2008 @ 5:00 AM
Do you play online, or just with friends?
I used to play online, but now I’m chilling on it, because when you play too much, you lose your references! That’s not good. But we play at night, with friends. We’re stealing each other’s money! [laughter] Nah, it’s all in good spirit.
Explain me what interests you in poker…
It reminds me of skating, in the sense that you can never stop learning. There are no limits! There are so many things that matter… A bit like in skating, if the ledge doesn’t grind, or is too waxed, or if the ground is shit… you have to adapt, and it’s vast!
Between videos and people in town, who’s been motivating you recently?
First of all, I’m feeling free, I don’t feel like I have anything to account for, and that’s good for your mindset! Apart from that, the latest videos… The Lakai one brought so much and it’s a type of skating I appreciate. That and all the Frenchies here are motivated, so we’re all skating!
I imagine the return to tech of the Lakai video speaks to you!
Yep, the tech side, but also the fact that you don’t have to skate rails, that you can do a better video without going bigger. In the state of skateboarding now, it’s very refreshing.
You always mixed tech skating and bigger spots, where was that coming from?
I don’t know, we were watching Frankie Hill’s parts, then, and it was all gaps and rails!
Fakie five-o 360 shove it out ph: Rodent
Were you already skating then? How old were you?
I couldn’t tell you. Since I’m 23 now, I must have been 6 years old, right? [laughter]
You really think I’m an idiot?
Not at all! [laughter]
I hear you shuffling cards, have you ever cheated at poker?
[laughter] I can’t answer that question, or everybody is going to be on my back! [laughter] No, I never cheated at poker, because when you play some money with friends, you don’t do that! A bit of respect!
Did you ever cheat at S.K.A.T.E, then?
So many times! [laughter]
What’s the best way to do so?
If you don’t know how to do the trick switch, just ride the nose of your board, acting a bit sketchy like when you’re in switch and do it normal! That only works with people that don’t know you so well. That, or scream when the guy is about to pop: “Watch out!”. Boom, he bails!
Fakie five-o ph: Chami
I was just thinking that in between you, Luy-Pa, Stéphane [Larance], Franck [Barratiero], there is this whole generation of Parisians that still kill it. What’s the secret?
Passion! If, at our age, we can skate like that, it’s got nothing to do with sponsors, it’s because we’re loving it, simple as that!
What’s you first memory of seeing skating?
Back to theFuture… And the first time I saw someone ollie some stairs was at the Trocadéro [old Parisian spot, facing the Eiffel Tower]. I was so little, my parents took me there for a crepe, and I saw this guy riding towards the stairs, I was thinking: “he’s going to kill himself!” and he jumped the steps, I was blown away! I didn’t understand, I was asking my parents, but they couldn’t explain it to me! After that, I was haunting them for a board. It took a while, as they didn’t have that much money. But I ended up getting a second hand board, and I started like that.
Was there a moment when you thought, “that’s it, I’m a skater!”?
I never thought about it like that… From the first moment I got that first board, it was on. First friends, first ollie, first steps, all of this was skateboarding!
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