In the midst of the virus confusion, there was a competition mainly for skateboarders made by PendrekMag. The idea of the challenge was for competitors to fully land a trick set by skaters within a period of time and post it on instagram. While I do not skateboard, I play games, so I decided to contribute to competiton, just to steam off some energy by playing one of the skate games.

I quickly set up the play, wrote down the list of tricks to land, set up my computer for screen capture and tried to land all of the tricks. I made a quick video of all landed tricks, with competition theme song playing in the background and posted it to Instagram with a playful tagline.

While it was made for fun it was accepted in the skateboarding community as a real video, which made my heart warm a bit 🙂

After all the fuss was settled I was contacted by Marko for an interview you can read here CLICK.

Ever since I was a young boy, about 11-12, not skateboarding but riding roller skates (blading), PendrekMag was the alpha and omega of what was happening in the scene. I vividly remember visiting a skate shop in Ljubljana, begging the guy behind the counter for a magazine, and then religiously reading every single line of that mag from front to the back. Thinking now how this magazine somehow inspired all of my art later in my life, not really knowing it. Design of the magazine was really well done and it really had some of the iconic plethora of ads of skateboarding, snowboarding and similar companies, like toy machine and hookups (I am still holding my grudge for mocking bladers xD) to more darker ads like zero ads.

To sum up this entry, somehow getting an interview in PendrekMag was a personal achievement I was not expecting in my life, not really as a blader, but here I am.

Thank you Marko and PendrekMag for your time.