Japan : Clips of Nanuba

Here's a few clips from our day over at Nanuba resort, Japan. A Humble resort in a big city next to the mountains with a sick park!

Chico Brenes Interview

Chico Brenes Interview

"You can't hate on that."


Interview by Jake Phelps
Why’s the LRG video called “Give Me My Money, Chico?”
The video started off travelling with the guys, going to spots, and pretty much betting people to skate.  Most of the time I win. ’Cause I know they ain’t gonna make the shit. It’s a little incentive. I wanna actually see the dudes make it, get ’em hyped.

You guys shot it around the world. You got big juice—
everywhere I look it’s giraffes and shit. What about elephants?
That’s Mike V’s shit so we can’t do that.

What about rhinos? Africa? What is it?
It’s just roots. A giraffe on a skateboard, it’s just something new.

An original? I ain’t never seen nothing like that.
An original. That’s some gangster shit right there.

You’re from Serramonte, Daly City?
Well, I’m from Nicaragua. You know how I came here, right?

I know. It’s why you’re the American dream.
The American dream—I crossed 
the border and went straight on over 
to EMB.

You couldn’t speak English?
Nah. None.





How old were you? Thirteen?
I was probably 10, 11.

And you went to Embarco 
right then.
Right then! No, I probably started skating a few years after that.

But you knew the Carroll’s since before EMB.
I knew Mike and Greg. Henry Sanchez and Mike, I used to go to school with them in Daly City. 
I happened to live like, seriously, five houses away from Mike. He had the mini-ramp, so we’d go over there and skate with him and Greg. One time me and my boy Angelo were knocking on the door and they weren’t there, so we snuck in and skated the ramp—it turned out those dudes were at skate camp so we were skating the ramp everyday. And we thought they were coming home on Sunday, but they showed up on Friday. Greg was like, “Dude, what the fuck? What are you guys doing here?” Seriously, so pissed. “We’re just skating the ramp!” Mike was pissed at me for about a year. But he’s pissed about everything. I heard you’re pretty psyched on the new Thrasher video. Pretty proud.

You know how it is Cheeks, everything’s a collab.
Then it’s time to do the LRG/Thrasher/Chocolate collab.

But the LRG video’s just dropping. You’re gonna do two ... Read More