 Alright guys, what's up? Welcome back to another video. Welcome back to the channel. Question and Answers video. So you guys sent in a bunch of questions and today I'm gonna answer them. I'm gonna get right into this video. First question comes from Logan. How long have you been skating? That's hard to say because I've been skating on and off. I've probably been skating 15 plus years on and off. Next question is from Javier Sanchez and it says, when did you start tattooing and do you tattoo in CA? I probably started tattooing about eight, nine years ago now and yes I do tattoo out here. I tattooed three days a week. Out here it's 12 hour days so that's like from noon until midnight three days a week. Next question comes from Aiden Sluber. Probably butchered your last name but he asks, how's Cali been? Cali's been great. It's awesome. I love it out here. So much freedom and opportunity in this country and it just seems like California is like this place you need to be if you're trying to do something. You know what I mean? Like I was trying to do stuff in Sydney but I don't know different vibes in Sydney. I feel like California is definitely the place that you want to be to be an entrepreneur per se. Next question comes from the Jet Black Wings and they ask, will there ever be an Enoch school photo deck? That'd be cool I think. I think it would be cool too but then I would put myself right in front of all the criticism and all the haters that are going to say, you copied FA blah blah blah blah blah blah so that would be a cool idea but I'm not going to do it because everyone's going to think that I ripped FA and haters love to hate. The next question comes from Radha Karani and he asks, favorite music? I can't really pinpoint my favorite music genre. I've listened to so many different genres over the years. It's hard to say like some days in the morning I could be listening to Fleetwood Mac and then that same day in the afternoon be listening to like Chief Keev so I don't really have a genre apart from like I don't really listen to like EDM. Alright next question here comes from, I don't know if I can pronounce your name, Matthew Zumbi and he asks, the main difference between Australia and California? I'm not going to go too into depth with this question because this is a topic I want to do for like another video. I've got a really cool video in mind but the main differences between Australia and California is definitely being in Southern California. This is the epicenter of skateboarding in the world so I'm privileged to be around the scene here and to be able to connect with different like-minded YouTube skateboarders and skateboarders and just people of that same scene. Whereas in Australia the population of Australia is much smaller so there's going to be less people that are involved in the skateboard scene meaning that there's going to be less people to kind of bounce off and collaborate with and work with so that's probably one of the main differences. The other main difference is the weather. It's rained probably three times since I've been here. It never rains here. The money lasts longer here like a $20 US note will probably last you the same as like I don't know $30, $40 in Australia so the money lasts longer here but then there's the tipping. You have to tip at most like city and restaurants. I'm not talking about like when you go to Macca's and you buy something you don't have to tip like when you go to a restaurant and you sit down and there's a waiter and they serve you then you have to tip. That's probably another main difference. All right next question comes from first-rate skate and they asked what's the biggest culture shock you had moving to the USA? So not long ago I had my first experience at the urgent care. I went in to see a doctor, needed an x-ray and there's actually a sign so it's like a doctor's office. You go in, there's a waiting area, there's a reception, there's some TVs on the wall and there was a sign at the desk that said check out legit. It said check out like you were at Woolwerves or Coles or at the grocery store and you have to pay to see the doctor. So I ended up paying 95 bucks just to talk to the doctor and then I paid another 130 to get an x-ray and then I'm up for another $420 to get an MRI on my ankle. So yeah that's the number one biggest culture shock for me was experience how the kind of healthcare system here works. Next question is from Kevin Ramirez and he asks do you like Xavier Wolf? Yes I like Xavier Wolf, shouts out Sush Hello Water Boys. Next question comes from Danny Cabanas he asks do you FW the baggy pants trend in skating? I think yeah it looks cool. I've tried to wear baggy pants but for some reason when I wear baggy pants it kind of makes me look really short, makes my legs look short I don't like it so I kind of stick to like the normal straight leg. I don't wear skinny jeans anymore though I used to wear skinny jeans and skate but I think it's dope. A few people have asked me if I was going to get the pole of big boys and I said like no it's like I don't want to spend that much money on some pants like that. I'm sure they're dope but I'm just I don't know haven't really hit that that time in my life where I want to put on baggy pants again. I mean I used to wear baggy pants like that when I was in my grade four and listen to like Limp Biscuit and Eminem you know. Next question comes from Skateboard underscore swiper941 he asks Ricky from Braille went to Outback Steakhouse have you been if you so if so did you like it? Well funny story about Outback Steakhouse. Outback Steakhouse is actually owned by two dudes from Florida it's not owned by an Australian so that was a really funny thing that I found out but yeah before I was a vegan I used to be at Outback Steakhouse weekly I used to go in and get like dinner there like at least once a week back before I was a vegan. Next question comes from Jeremy Hampton sorry for pronouncing your name real. Are you coming out to NYC? I do want to come out to the east coast I really want to check out New York but I can't catch a plane right now in the country for reasons um so yeah I love to get out there and skate but I'm not going to drive out there because driving up to Washington and back was a big trip so I feel like driving out to the east coast would be like three times that so one day I'll be able to fly out there and it'll be dope so yeah. Next question comes from Peter Chavez he asks why do you like hockey boards? I like hockey boards NFA boards because of the shape they have that really cool shovel nose concave is really steep before I skated hockey I skated Baker and Deathwish and honestly Baker and Deathwish the concave is quite mellow and flat so jumping onto like a hockey slash FAA it's been rad because I just feel like there's more kind of pulp in the board at least for me anyway. Next question comes from Slimeball and they asks have you ever quit skating for like a year or more? So the longest I've been off the board one time was about nine months and the other time would probably would have been about six months so I feel like that's probably nine plus six that's more than a year so yeah I have been off the board for that long it wasn't all that one time though it was like the nine months I skated for a bit again then it was like the six months and then I've been skating from then until now. Next question comes from Dylan Green do you plan on staying in the USA long term? Yes I do I love it out here as an Australian being born and raised in Australia you don't understand the amount of opportunity and freedom you have in the USA like being in Australia it's kind of like a police state the government want to kind of control you I feel like I sound like a conspiracy theories but I'm just telling you living in Australia it's like super strict compared to out here there's so much more freedom out here you're not getting hassled so much for things from like the government or the police and whatnot well at least I have it anyway but yeah I do want to stay in the USA long term. Next question comes from David Hart and he asks what's one thing you miss most about your hometown or maybe something you took for granted back home not realizing until you came to the USA? Definitely the biggest thing that has hit that has hit me and made me feel homesick about my hometown is like waking up in the morning in Australia anyway you'd wake up in the morning you can hear like the cockatoos squawking and there's like cicadas outside and stuff you can just hear nature I guess whereas here you wake up and you don't really hear that I mean you'll hear the occasional crow every now and then but you won't hear cookaburras you won't hear cockatoos you won't hear magpies that kind of stuff so like the wildlife really hits me about my hometown and just because living in Southern California doing this kind of stuff it's very past pace you've got to be like ready to go out and get it like every day whereas living back home in Australia I was like a sleepy little town and I could kind of procrastinate more I guess and I wouldn't have to worry about having to like be on the ball every day whereas here I'm like pushing and pushing and pushing so yeah it's like the main thing team Tom jump and they asked what's your setup basically I ride anything between 838 to 85 hockey slash fa I ride independent 149s I believe that the standards are not the hollows I have Bronson Roars and Bronson G3s I have two setups they're roughly the same and the wheels are between a 52 to 53 millimeter 101 conical full conical shape that's about it and I think I have bronze hardware next question comes from emotive visuals I can't talk and they asked the tattoos you did on your homey was super professional any aspirations towards working out at or owning your own tattoo shop someday thanks man to begin with thank you um I used to want to own my own shop in my hometown where I used to live and like just go to work and like tattoo every day and live that tattoo lifestyle but I kind of got over it no offense to the tattoo industry I just got over it because I feel like I had kind of exhausted myself with the amount of energy and effort I'd put into pursuing tattooing which is fine but I started pursuing tattooing at a very young age I was like 17 18 years old I got my first apprenticeship in a shop when I was 18 and my experience with the industry wasn't the most positive so now I'm trying to like slow down a bit like I still can do a really nice tattoo and like draw and whatever but I'm not so like yeah man like ink masters whoo like yeah dude traditional whoo like I can do a nice tattoo I can draw I can put a nice tattoo on someone that wants to get a nice tattoo but I'm not like yeah dude like I'm going to be in this industry until I'm like 80 I'm going to own my own shop I'm just kind of like oh cool like whatever but um yeah I used to want to own my own shop but I don't anymore that's the long-winded answer to your question next question comes from Trey Gabriel and they ask do you miss your homies back in Australia yes I miss my homies back in Australia um it seems like the momentum that I had tried to build with my local skate scene and with my friends back then has kept building since I've left shouts out to Leon really really proud of him because um he jumped on the youtube thing he hustled it out got videos done he just hit a thousand subscribers so yeah super proud of you Leon it's really awesome to see you do this because I felt like such a black sheep doing youtube back in Sydney like especially youtube skateboarding um yeah people just weren't about it back then but now more people are kind of coming around to the idea and it's just opening other avenues to everybody so yeah it's awesome and I miss my homies back in Australia all right next question comes from Daniel Green what's up bro can you come back up to Washington and finish my arm dude come down come down to southern California I mean once you get back from your um training and stuff come down we'll finish our arm for sure next question comes from nobody 86 and they ask how do you deal with homesickness usually if I'm homesick it usually happens like once a week I'll feel homesick I'll chuck on some like Australian content I'll listen to like some Australian music like Australian crawl called chisel and then um yeah usually if I'm listening to that stuff watching that stuff sometimes I'll ring I'll ring my mom talk to my mom or like I'll just message them and my friends back in Australia that's how I kind of deal with homesickness but yeah dude the homesickness out here is real it hits super hard um yeah I don't know if you've ever listened to sticky fingers but that song Australia Street like when I hear it it like it just hits you know next question comes from Steven Welsh and they ask what is a good passing time you do other than skating I've been messing around with graffiti again because my ankles I can't skate to my normal ability so I've been messing around with graffiti again I've been riding my fix gear bike a lot more um that's about it riding graffiti and then riding my fixie so yeah next question comes from underscore dot time page dot underscore they ask favorite skate video my favorite skate video mind you I didn't really grow up watching skate videos like I wasn't I grew up not poor but not rich and not in the middle so I don't know where that would that have land me but I kind of only the first ever skate video I watched was um bacon destroy and it was because I bought it through like iTunes or something and that was the first ever skate video I watched I'd seen snippets of other videos like um what's that girl one and it was super crazy yeah right I've seen snippets of stuff online back in the early days of the internet but I never watched from end to end a proper skate video but my all-time favorite skate video it sounds a bit biased because it's from Australia but passport kitsch that's like sick just the skating just the music cut scenes editing it just flows so together it flows so together it flows together so well in a way that's like very authentic and Australia like you can watch skate videos the majority of skate videos are from the USA and I'm just watching kitsch it's like I can relate more because I can I know those what's in real life and it's sick to see people skating those spots but yeah favorite skate video kitsch passport if you haven't watched it go and check it out right now not right now but after you watch this video next question comes from still lost and they asked I know you're a vegan and I think I've seen you say no to drinking as well are you straight edge and what's your top three hardcore bands I stopped drinking when I was 17 I can't really say how long I've been completely so before because it'd give away my age but I stopped drinking when I was 17 living in Australia the drinking age is 18 so you naturally start to drink when you're like well I had I first got drunk when I was 13 so you're usually drinking from like 13 14 15 16 17 and by all by the time I was 17 I was like over it I couldn't skate the next day or so hungover had a bunch of pimples and it was just a gross feeling being hungover and throwing up and stuff so yeah uh what's your favorite what's your top three hardcore bands if we're talking like hardcore hardcore probably hoods it's a hardcore they're a hardcore band from Sacramento death before disona hardcore band from boston and then probably I'd have to say mad ball or no no sorry chromags and mad ball top three next question comes from sudyashi and they ask when you get thrown off your skate game for a day or so what do you do to overcome it so basically the more you skate the more consistent you're going to be the more natural you're going to feel on your board I used to skate about three times a week now I've been skating once a week because of my ankle I shouldn't be skating at all but I can't have myself anyway usually if you're if you're not feeling as your normal self on your board I'll just try to take it slow go back to your basics hit your allies hit your 180s hit your knowledge hit your 50s 50s hit your board slides just take it slow don't try to force yourself into like getting right back into your old kind of skate ability enjoy being out skating because honestly a lot of people don't get the opportunity to go out and skate it's either they don't skate they're injured they have to go to work or they're stuck at home with like their girlfriends or partners and they can't get out and skate so if you're being if you're able to like leave the house and go and skate that's awesome like you should really appreciate being well and being able to skate I'm trying to punch through as many questions as I can I don't want it to be a super long video next question comes from arjun storm they ask what does skating mean to you skating means a lot to me because I feel like if I didn't skate and if I hadn't skated at such a young age I wouldn't know who I'd become and just as who I am as a human I feel like skateboarding has taught me a lot of things that are good things you know so yeah that's what skating means to me kind of it's a guide I feel like it's like a guide for my life in a way next question this is a good one comes from noa syvenka advice for a skater living in quiet Australia all right now this is a tricky one because I'm not too sure whereabouts in Australia you are from but if you're skating in quiet Australia I'm gonna hope you have a local park and I'm gonna hope that it's a decent local park I want to say decent at least it has a flat ledge a flat bar and a quarter pipe because that's kind of the basis of what you need my advice would be to you kind of have to push yourself yourself in that way I mean I don't know if you have friends to skate with out there but if you're skating majority majority by yourself it's going to be tough so the more stuff that you look at online that's going to be the scene for you is to be able to look at Instagram YouTube watch people skating there and then you're going to have to apply that energy to your skate sessions and it's not all bad though I mean I used to skate a lot quite a bit so I'll write in my phone tricks that I wanted to learn and tricks that I wanted to progress on and I would just tick them off the list so that's some advice you could make a hit list of what you want to try to learn or what you want to film kind of that thing but um yeah it is tough dude next question comes from sara and they asked what got you into skateboarding so when I was a small little boy my dad had VHS recorded a snippet of the news I think it was like channel 9 news and it was like the last section before the end of the news program and it was about skateboarders in New York and I feel like it was Brooklyn banks are skating at and these dudes are just ripping and I was like mind blown because before that I had a skateboard but before that point I didn't know that's what it was for I just thought you rode the skateboard like you just ride your bike up and down the driveway when you're a kid so I've seen that video and then um the coolest thing from that video I seen was the guy was talking to the news anchor and he's like yo I gotta go gotta catch my bus and then this bus like pulled out of the street he threw down his board asset dropped off the gutter and grabbed the back of the bus and like sketched the bus out of the frame and I thought it was the coolest thing ever so that's what got me into skateboarding something from the news next question comes from tylo pulse and they asked what is the idea or meaning behind your brand evening what made you want to go that so basically I chose the word evening to run with because I like the evening time like when the sun's starting to go down you get all those cool colors in the sky and usually if you've been out skating all day with your friends your body's tired your body's releasing the dopamine and you feel kind of you feel really nice you feel really relaxed and you feel kind of I don't know it's hard to put a unless that's happened to you out skating you've been skating all day with your friends you see the sun going down you get those endorphins it's hard to explain but that's basically why because I like evening time and it's an easy word to remember evening and it's simple so people aren't going to forget what it is instead of having some crazy brand name like or something like that it's just like evening it's simple it's effective and everybody knows what evening is next question comes from the homie janik ever in Germany he asks what's your way to overcome hesitation you have to break through that wall like you fray down your board and then just about when you're about to get to that point where you need to start thinking about popping onto a rail ledge popping out of a quarter pipe anything there's a wall and you kind of have to push through it it's kind of a it's true but as it sounds it's kind of a blind faith thing like you know your own body you know physically what you can do skateboarding um you just have to kind of push through it and then hope for the best nine times out of ten you'll push through it get on and the outcome won't be as bad even if you bail the outcome isn't as bad as what you think in the in your head is going to be so you've kind of just got to force yourself per se through it i don't really have that's how i do it anyway um next question comes from marco check on they asked what inspired you to make videos basically i had a lot of time in my hands in between jobs i'd been watching a lot of youtube i'd fell down the skate youtube rabbit hole and then i tried to look for a strain skate youtubers and back then it was none and i was like ding why is anyone else doing this i should do this so that's what got me into making videos next question comes from jude chats out jude jude from texas and he asks what are some things you recommend doing such trying when you feel stagnant in your progression of skating if you feel stagnant in the progression of your skating that means that you're not looking at skating enough you're not watching enough skate videos you're not watching enough skate content um you need to pick tricks you want to learn dude like i prior to before dan told me how to blunt i was scared to doing blunts and i wanted to learn them because they look cool and i was like you know what i'm just going to spend my time and i'm going to learn how to do the trick so definitely progressing it's kind of a double edged sword because it's like you feel stagnant because you're not progressing but the only way to feel better about skating is progressing so you need to push yourself to progress in a way so all the scary tricks you want to do they're the ones you've got to work on next question dude i think i've smashed like most of these questions out next question comes from beanie kellaman and they ask face tattoos yes or no i mean i've tattooed a bunch of faces it's nothing new to me personally i probably wouldn't get my face tattooed because i just don't think it'd suit me i have too much of a baby face to get my face tattooed i look kind of i don't know i look kind of strange leave the face tattoos to the people that like look like gnarly they look like they can rock them i'm i'm too baby face to have a face tattoo if you guys want to ask more questions i could probably do another one of these down the track so yeah shout out for hanging out all the way to the end of this video hearing me answer all these questions and listening to my terrible delivery delivery of speech yeah follow me on instagram at enarkism follow evening mob join the mob today evening mob.com go grab one of these sick t-shirts it's about it guys cheers for sending me in so many questions to answer that was fun had a lot of fun i need a drink now because my voice is dry but yeah hopefully i'll catch you guys in the next video cheers for watching