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Connor "Skooter" Getzlaff interview

Connor "Skooter" Getzlaff, Frontside Pivot Fakie, Photo by Chris Rice
Fs Piv fakie - cab

Dowdy: Name, Birthplace, Age?
Skooter: Connor Getzlaff, San Diego, 19

What have you been doing lately?
Trying to go skate everyday and having a lot of fun. I try to get in a Washington St. session every morning and then go into the tattoo shop and learn some stuff.

Do you work?
Nah I'm not working right now. I was a janitor for a while but then i started apprenticing at a Tattoo Shop. Thats what i'm tryin to do now.

Connor "Skooter" Getzlaff, Frontside Smith Front Shuvvel, Photo by Austin Mayer
Fs Smith Front Rock shuffle

Where do you apprentice tattooing at?
Slinger's Ink in Mira Mar its by the Dennys' you should go get a tattoo there

How did you get into doing tattoos?
I was always into getting tattoos and drawing and art and stuff. I had been getting tattood by Santa Fe for a while and asked him if he would apprentice me. He said he would I was stoked. I would be stoked if I could give people tats and do art and keep having time to skate for the rest of my life.

When did you start drawing that crazy skeleton art?
{Laughs} I used to draw little monsters all the time when I was younger, lately for like the last month or so I have been on this mission of drawing skeletons skating and/or drinking beer.

 Connor "Skooter" Getzlaff, Backside Disaster Frontside Smith by Chris Rice
Bs D Fs Smith

Five ways you want to make a living?
1. Tattooing 2. Some other kind of art 3. Janitor 4. Selling my blood 5. Collecting recycling

Top 5 Skate videos?
1. Thrasher beer series 2. Cash money vagrant 3. Thrill of it all 4. Krooked chronicles 5. Thrashin!!!!

Top 5 places to skate?
1. Yellow capper banks 2. Washington St 3. Poway park 4. Brandons old ramp 5. Save On ledge

Connor "Skooter" Getzlaff, Frontside Smith, Photo by Andrew Quinonez
Fs Smith, Photo: Andrew Quinonez

Bottom 5 places to be?
1. School 2. In traffic 3. Hospital 4. In the rain 5. In bed sick

Top 5 artists?
1. M C escher 2. Dahli 3. Roy Lichtenstien 4. Orman 5. Everyone at the tattoo shop

Top 5 reasons to drink beer?
1. Tastes good 2. Get rad beer belly 3. Get drunk 4. Make a wizard stick 5. It makes falling off your skateboard hurt less

Connor "Skooter" Getzlaff, Poll Jam, Photo by Andrew Quinonez
Pole Jam up the gap, Photo: Cameron Sanchez

Top 5 best ways to die?
1. Skate out of a plane 2. Jump off a skyscraper on fire 3. Peacefully with family and loved ones there 4. Bird flying into your mouth 5. Spontanious Combustion

Top 5 Tattoo's
1. Harness the gnarness 2. Really old man who had 'kiss my ass' on his ass 3. Unicorn w. flying dicks 4. Fat pinup girl 5. A heart w. a banner that says 'me'

Top 5 reasons why Washington st is better then other parks?
1. Built by skaters 2. Bigger and faster and scarier 3. In the shade 4. Fun shit that you won't find anywhere else 5. My friends are there, skating

Top 5 Mexican Food places?
1. Ringo G's 2. Sahira's 3. Aibertos 4. Albertos 5. Denali's

Connor "Skooter" Getzlaff, Switch Dum Truck, Photo by Chris Rice
Switch Dum Truck

Top 5 movie quotes?
1. Youuu Dick! 2. Nobody fucks with the jesus 3. Punch my back! harder! harder! too hard!!! 4. Best of seven? - Damn straight! 5. What exactly do you Thrash? - what do you got?

Bottom 5 places to eat?
1. This one mexican food spot where i got food poisoning 2. Taco bell 3. Anywhere too expensive 4. Shit that i microwave and still comes out frozen inside 5. Everything else is good i can't think of a fifth place

Top 5 reasons why you avoid cops?
1. Don't wanna get pulled over 2. Don't want to hear how they used to skate too when they were my age 3. Don't wanna get hassled 4. Don't want a ticket for skating 5. Really don't want a ticket for skating

Connor "Skooter" Getzlaff, Feebs Pop-Over, Photo by Chris Rice
Bs Feebel Pop over

Shout out
Rene, Dowdy, Jeff, Mom & Dad, Matt Holerge, Factor, Broke, Torment!!

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