 Very weird intro to the video as I was heading towards a park to meet up with Dan There was a yellow rental truck and he was trying to back in to a driveway as he was backing up He hit my rear quarter panel. There's a knock in my rear quarter panel. It can probably be pulled out and it's scratched I just approached him I said hey man like you hit my car like I'm not bummed about it because I This is a three grand car bought this car for three grand and I've had way nicer cars in the past and I knew this car would be Disposable so I would drive it for two or three years and then get it another Disposable car maybe a nicer car. I don't know he came over had a look at the damage rang his boss And he's like can we come to any type of cash agreement? How much do you want? I said a hundred bucks So he just he just legit pulled out a hundred dollars out of his pocket from a wad and broke me off a hundred bucks I feel like I should ask some more, but I don't really care about this car I mean I do it makes my car look ugly and it makes me look like an irresponsible person and it makes me look Chat that I have damage to my car, but I understand why people's cars are so jacked in at least because people drive crazy here You know what the most ironic thing is about this little car scratch dent incident I sat my DMV behind the wheel test yesterday, and I passed with flying colors like the instructor and the one behind the Counter was like wow you did extremely well, sir. It's like thank you. So yeah Goes to show it doesn't matter how careful of a driver you are people will still ruin your shit and In LA I don't believe I've been to this park before The summer is is this Santa Monica? Is it Santa Monica? Arjun is here all the way from the East Coast long time no see It has been a while. Oh, yes, sir More than a country it's also a continent. It's also clearly an island It was a prison at 1.2, and it's almost 95 percent desert. Yeah, as you guys can see this is a completely prefab park on this bit of concrete right here pretty fun, but some of the distances between the ground and the ramps are really sketchy like Look at that That's at least like two or three millimeters, you know enough to if your weight isn't right You hit that and you die, but really cool flatbar here really long really low as a really fun steel mini ramp here Pyramid some ledges and there's actually a circle mani pad down there just like at Karns Hill back in Sydney And yeah There's a spine here too pretty satisfying. I tried to do the four worst tricks I could think of And now I'm out of breath It's a good warm-up. So we've been doing a little bit of skating For Dan's channel did some stuff. I just grew I just drew my grip tape a little bit had this sharpie I bought I've been wanting to draw this my grip tape for ages now, but check it out So if you're from Sydney, you'll know what this is. This is the Sydney City logo It's an anchor and I feel like that's a center point tower This bit right here is like the center point tower Or I think it's like the bird's nest on a ship at the top of the thing at the top So, yeah Sydney City Hello everybody Here we are we're in Florence. I think Florence, California. It's a prefab park We're gonna zip around do some stuff and then we're gonna talk about some stuff First try man with the plan if that was the worst one dude, I think you missed the five I did before Yeah, did you see my fun? I'm gonna try feeble it. I'll try at least feeble halfway. So I'll come this way All right, did you mean to do that feeble no comply feeble that was better than the real one I don't think it is cuz cuz you're grinding it like if your weight was incorrect you wouldn't grind it But it's like it goes forward your body goes forward. Yeah, okay, so try this instead like when you're on the rail Just put your weight all your weights there all you're doing that your front foot is pointing like like this on flat ground Like you see how like my foot's not touching the ground. Yeah, just do that Just point don't put any weight on your front foot and like when you come out all you're doing is lifting up into five They look good like crazy like this they look good Just remember to be on the back foot and just point with the front so you can lift up That was it had no idea you could do that holy shit Whoa, that was sick dude Dan can't do it. I'm hungry to let's can we get raising canes get This guy he's got reloads ready to go once one gets done trucks another one on I bought him I bought him out of stock. They gain gain special All right, so as you guys know I'm not sponsored Danny sponsored Arjun is sponsored What um, who was your first sponsor my first sponsor your very first sponsor? My friend's clothing company called merge Co. What's never made any clothing, but we rode for it We're like, oh, we're like you want to ride for my clothing company We're like, yeah, and he like ordered online like a shirt that just had like merge Co And I think he had the only one that was ever made. Yeah Yeah, like a team. It was sick. Yeah, sponsor, but my first real sponsor. I guess was a skate shop called charm city charm city Yeah Okay, yeah, well who was your first sponsor first ever was natural skate shop in East Brunswick They I got on and then they closed after a year I'm trying not to laugh. He thought it's one three times now Oh That was a close one Yeah, they were open for a year and then they they went out of business pretty pretty hard and then I Know I think it was because NJ skate shop opened actually Yeah, I mean once they opened they like really took over a lot of shops in that area went out of business And then I went and wrote for a pro skateboard shop. Okay. Well, so It's like I don't know when I was a kid when I was a teenager I was like It was like the coolest thing ever if you were sponsored like there was a guy This is when I was like 13. There was a guy that skated my local park Robert Kenworthy and he was sponsored by element He's sponsored he was sponsored by element like I remember him coming to the park with a box And him opening the box and like all the product coming out what okay, and I was like Can you imagine getting a box like okay your sponsor your bid it's getting you get a box he gets mailed to your fucking house He got it in the shop like they sent it to the local skate shop back And then he brought it from the shop to the skate park to open in front of everyone like you will think unboxing videos are cringy doing it publicly Yeah, that's that's kind of girl It's obviously different this day and age because we have social media for like skateboarding But like how does one get sponsored these days? Actually, I think it's the same as it's always been kind of I don't think it changed so here's the deal The idea of someone getting sponsored back in the day was like you made a sponsor me tape You send it in yeah, it's all the video and they hook you up that never happened Like your sponsor me tape had to be so fucked up. Yeah to get hooked up even watch it Yeah, they 90% of the time they don't even watch it and now it's like same thing with instagram Everyone's just posting all their fucking shit on instagram about this like team managers and stuff like they Fuck go on instagram for an hour. You know what I mean? Imagine how many tapes videos clips and stuff You know dm'd a day like there's no way they're watching even a quarter of those Like like I don't know back in the day for me. That was a little different I felt like the only way Like of getting sponsored back then like we didn't have social media Yeah, right like social media was not a thing like my space had barely even come out And uh, I think that it was more like show face Like you would have to like go to the contest like go. Oh, wow Go to the events like even like I remember like fiber would do demos like all the time Yeah, and I would like go to the fiber of demos and I would just like What? Like go to the fiber of demos and I would just like start skating like with them To the point where like when they started their demo, they wouldn't be like Oh, hey dude stop skating. They would just kind of like let me skate in the demo with them That's kind of bullsy, huh? It's like yeah, it is bullsy, but like back then that's How it was especially in jersey Like I I feel like that was like nobody watched sponsored me tapes. It was all about like Did they did they know who you are because you keep going to the events or not? Okay, that's another version of what I was going to say the only way to get sponsored now Is the same way you got sponsored then they if you're good enough at skating They will find out who you are. Yeah, I was just gonna say that like don't don't worry about sponsors If you're good enough, they will find you. Yeah 100% if you keep bugging them with your tape You're gonna get like a sticker potpack. I want them to annoy that now if you're gonna get hooked up It's because you're good at skating and they know who you are a lot of times Uh, some of the dudes because here's here's what the biggest mistake that I see people make They look it's they watch a video part and they think I can do some of the tricks in this video part Yeah, therefore I should be sponsored when in actuality if you can do some tricks in the video part And you're not sponsored one of two things what you're a kook And they don't want to sponsor you or the person who's in the video is the homie And he's gonna get hooked up because he's either like got really good style or everyone loves him or just Maybe he's been on the team forever and he's on his way. That's the only reason I'm sponsored by anybody anymore I think it's just because they like they just like What is that supposed to mean? He's been around a bit of a skate shop been around I don't I don't think I've had that I just know a lot of people I guess and It's I I'm trying to say I don't think it's because of my skill level That's enough skate they know What does I mean obviously You're sponsored you get free like product and stuff. Yeah And that's like Like what is being sponsored actually? Yeah, it's like sorted out for you You don't have to be jumping down crazy 12-serials and doing all this crazy stuff. I'm a different kind Yeah, I'm a different kind of sponsor so Well people don't what people don't realize is you're not sponsored because you're good at skate What do you deserve for your product? No one sees you doing tricks and like he's good He shouldn't have to pay for stuff. No, they look at you when they see that is a billboard Let me put my product on this guy. That's literally what it's all about If I put his name on something are people going to buy it? Yeah, that's what it's getting like Okay, if he's riding our boards or little kids gonna look up to him Be like oh, he's probably good because he rides those boards and that's like It's an industry. Yeah, absolutely People don't look at it like that people don't because they think it's just skateboarding But these brands are companies still, you know, they gotta they go to make money if they're not if they're not making money They're gonna go out they're gonna go bankrupt Yeah, people think it's like this like these there are these core companies that are like in it for the ride He's like no motherfucker. You think like big boards are free. Yes. What do you think they're made out of trees? You gotta work for it and if you are sponsored like the old-fashioned way Like I have a lot of friends who are sponsored by like legitimate companies Like toy machine and whatever and it's like they work. Yes, they wake up in the morning sometimes and they know they have to skateboard That's a whole different feeling. That's scary to think about. I tried doing that And I was never good enough to do that. Luckily I ended up in this weird realm of I'm marketable without being as good as skating or as ballsy as skating or as x y and z of skating as everyone else But people will buy my product because either they trust what I say They think I'm funny. They think I'm entertaining and they're like I want to support what supports him Yeah, of course the product and thinking if I buy that truck, I'll be able to skate like him They're just gonna be like, oh, so I can't all anymore. I can also do a slap. He's like, they're not thinking that they're just like Oh, they support him. I want to support them and that's a whole different new market that it's a blackhead industry He's getting it's relatively new. Huh? It's like just starting to break in that whole market It's been around for a while, but they haven't been letting anyone in like that's why like andy schrock has been like murdering it Real guys have been killing because they had no competition They basically had a monopoly on this idea of people will buy product because they like because they're better than everyone But it's true and I'm better than everyone and people I don't know like I I get flowed by America. They're probably oh, that's sick, dude Oh, thank you. They're probably they're probably the biggest brand that hooks me up Yeah, like they don't there's dude look at their team, you know, like they don't expect anything out of me I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure I just like get free stuff because don likes me. Yeah, you know, and That's it. And I also like make sure views for them for youtube. Yeah, so I'm sure that that helps out Yeah, definitely more eyes on that. Yeah, but I mean like Yeah, other sponsors that I have like one skateboards Is probably the most demanding. Yeah, be honest because you have don't you have your own board for them? Yeah Yeah, yeah, that's sick. Yeah. So AJ he He asked a lot out of me like yeah, yeah, he's put like deadlines on video projects. Okay and Like contests. He's like required like contests. Yeah, I'm not a contest skater at all before He put my name on a board. He made me do so many contests Over the course of like four years. Wow. Yeah, it was a conversation We like we had it a long time ago and he was like, okay. Well, if this is a goal of yours Like this is what I expect of you. Okay. So it's like a yeah, so but like I in a way Like I hated it, but I didn't yeah if that makes sense like it was almost like oh, no, you definitely earned it Let's put it that way. Thanks. Yeah, I felt like Like I don't know I guess It was it was a lot like the contests were really frustrating Of course, dude I couldn't I never skated a contest and I never will because I'm just not I'm not made like that Dude one of one of my so there was like a Philly cup series. It's like a contest There's like four or five of them throughout the year. Yeah, and one year he told me like You know, I want you to win the whole thing So I like remember he literally was like if you don't win this whole thing like How do you expect me to put it? Oh See that's another thing pressure like it was pressure In the back of my head. I was kind of like I kind of feel like I do have this Yeah, I feel like I could do it. Yeah, of course. Yeah, that it was also like a little motivation And I did end up doing it. Wow on like the Philly cup Drink a beer out of it and there were holes in the bottom Yeah, that's another like for me like I'm not sponsored at all. I've never been sponsored. You never will be Like I don't care anymore because I can Like I have a job. I have money to buy the shit. I need to skate. I can I can wear what I want to wear It's bigger than mine. I see that to your job kind of I don't even care anymore But when I was a kid I was like that was like a that was like a be all end all thing in my head was like I'd want to get sponsored like when you're 15 16 in my head I was like I'm going to get sponsored and it never happened. I'm like, I don't really care anymore It's like I still have the same amount of fun skating That's that's the most important part is like dude if you're not having fun skateboarding like why Would you go skate? Yeah? Like why would you want to? Yeah You have to be in it for the right reasons to like yeah, I mean You don't enjoy it. Why fucking do it? Yeah I think where you're at is at a realization that a lot of people have where when you're younger free stuff sounds like such a Oh, oh my god a free board that's you know, it's way bigger than free stuff being able to buy your own When you can like you're in a position where you can get whatever you want Yeah, like is it because if you get free stuff you have to ride that you have to ride Yeah, you just have to yeah, what about if it's like, oh, you don't really dig it anymore What if the product sucks what they change? Yeah, I just feel like I don't know and then it's like youtube. It's like I would rather be like Getting hooked up for youtube Oh, yeah, because then you can do whatever you want. You don't have to rely on oh, I got to ride this board I got to wear these parachutes. I've got to dress a certain way or whatever. Yeah, I feel like it's super Your channel is super market. We got thank you Yeah, I just I don't know I just thought it'd be a cool topic to talk about since both of you guys are sponsored It's like pretty much everyone I skate with here is sponsored. Yeah No, it's because in Australia, no one gets sponsored like Yeah, but he Like the local kids they'll get put on by the local stores And then I guess sometimes it levels up to like the distribution for like Baker down under They'll like flow some boards to these kids Do you know, you know why people like on the east coast in australia and other countries don't get it hooked up as fast Why they move here why because they think to themselves What can I do with this person when he's way out there? I have to fly him out here to go It's a business I can't believe people don't Grasp basic business come maybe it's because i'm indian it's like But like that shit like makes total no, yeah, you have to be marketable like Why would they buy you a plane ticket and fly you all the way out here? And then they don't make a dime off of you Yeah, someone's already here Yeah, they buy the sponsored people that are right here. I'm not saying I'm not open to sponsorship or whatever But it's not it's not like a big thing in my mind. Yeah, it's like whatever No, my goal is to like keep doing youtube and progress my channel. What about coming to the east coast Maybe for a summer and east coast would be cool. Yeah, I would like to go to this coast. That could be cool I'll go to the east coast. He's going to get beat up. Why tail's not excited Gatekeepers of the east coast Oh, he's so I got through east coast locals here We walked over here and I seen these dudes I seen those balloons. I was like that'd be so fun to pop them and they're doing it literally right now Murdering those balloons. It's a cool job. Yeah