Date of Birth: 9th November 1985

Place of Birth: Auckland, New Zealand

Skating Since: 1997

Team Member Since: 2003

Current Residence: Sydney, Australia

Video Parts: Squadrophenia, Killself, Escape from Boredom

Favourite Video Parts: None, I hate everyone

Sponsors: Death, November, Etnies, Pig Wheels.

Profile: Well, it's 2006 and I'm still a piece. Skateboarding is still the shit and there's still lots of "KREATORS" to be induced. Pole jams are everywhere now, which is cool, because now you actually have to try. You can't just do a pole jam bs 180 and claim instant KREATOR status anymore.

It seems there are alot more people around these days who can actually skate, which is a great change from the days in Australia where fs noseslides on ledges (which you didn't land) meant instant sponno. I'm talking about the Kleavors and a whole bunch of other rippers. Motiva-TOR.

Negative attention is still the ultimate motivator though. Negator. I've been trying to goad Cates into hating me even more, I wrote him a slanderous letter on his birthday which Horsey transcribed through MSN and stuck under his door. Cates does not take things like this lightly and I'm expecting a fierey rebuttal.

My pro board should be out soon and I'm not even fussed if it's a deserverous. I only care about the fact that this one is dedicated to my long-haired partner in crime and teenage beard cultivation, Mr Martin Jennings. Marty died last year, An ultimate bestman gone way too soon. He was a ripper, and one of my all-time skate homies, so I put him on my board.

I figure I want to be reminded of skate adventures we had, like when we devoted a solid few months to doing slappy fifties on kerbs, because we had never seen anyone do them in real life and had no idea how they worked. What followed was some intense slappy variations which probably peaked with Marty doing a slappy layback one-foot feeble k-grind tailgrab, up across and down a double sided rollercoaster kerb rigged up with cinder blocks. This is not one of those bogus claims made in writing which never really went down or wasn't landed, I actually have footage of this trick somewhere, It's a mind-blower.

I'd like to thank Marty for the years of fun, as well as anyone else I've ever had the pleasure of sharing a skate with.

Shredderous

Richie Jackson