| Terry Hamilton: What’s your name, age, and where are you from? |
| Taylor J Caruso 19 Palatine IL |
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| Frontside Noseslide, Buffalo Grove, IL. |
| How did you start skating? |
| When I was in middle school my next door neighbors would always be outside skating their flatbars and one day after school was let out for summer they taught me how to Ollie and ever since then I have been skating all the time. |
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| Bluntslide Pop out, Bensenville, IL. |
| So at what point did you start hucking yourself? Because From what I’ve been told is that you weren’t very good for at least 2 years. |
| Cool man, haha... yeah when I first started I was the worst out of the crew and every time I would try a trick my friends would tell me that it wasn’t good or to learn how to Ollie, shit like that. After I was being put down a little bit I wanted to get better and show the homies that I wasn't as bad as they thought so they would put an end to the bull shit. Then I kept skating and kept trying new stuff down bigger things and eventually got more consistent with it. Now the old crew is stoked and don’t break my balls. |
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| Kickflip Fs Board, Evanston, IL. |
| So have you always ridden a backwards board? What’s the story behind that? |
| No, not always but I always had to mark my board for the nose and tail because I never really knew or cared which way I was riding it, but I like how I pop off the bigger wider part of the board for everything. I guess that’s why I started, but a little bit ago I broke my board and had no money for a new board so I had to use a friends old board, and I was convinced to try and ride the board the regular way because there was a huge chip on what would be my tail. So I skated the board and tried to skate this eleven rail and when I popped to do a frontboard my front foot didn’t stick and I came real close to nutting and slammed on my back. That’s when I really decided I would never ride a board the right way again. |
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| FS 5-0, Evanston, IL. |
| So when I met you, you tried to inward heelflip a 13 stair stair, I saw you for a few months straight after that, and then you disappeared for at least a year, what the hell happened during that year? |
| Haha…Yeah that was a little shitty, I fell out real hard. I started to party a lot and just skate the local park around here. I was drinking a little too much and getting into a lot of trouble. It was pretty shitty.. |
| What’s going on with you and Foundation? |
| I've always been super hyped on foundation ever since I saw That’s Life when I first started really getting into skating so when I started getting some boards from the local rep right I was extremely stoked. Hopefully things will keep progressing and getting better. |
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| Huge ollie, Chicago, IL. |
| You have balls when it comes to big gaps and stairs, you have Ollied two different spots that have never been Ollied by any other skateboarder ever, first the Ollie over the Lowes rail in Gainesville, and now the Big Aon gap in Chicago. What is going through your mind trying stuff like this? |
| To be honest nothing. I scope out spots without my board and tend to call things out, and then when I walk up there with my board it’s a little more nerve racking. I will roll up a couple of times just to make myself feel better, and then when I just fully clear my mind that’s when I go for it. Sometimes I even close my eyes for a quick second while I’m in the air or some shit like that, haha. I just like the feeling of floating in the air for a while and waiting to absorb the impact successfully I guess. |
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| 50-50, Des Plaines, IL. |
| You used to ride for Martyr Skateboards out of Florida, what happened with that? |
| It was a local company that my friend rode for that used to live in palatine and when I went out there for a skate trip I got a couple clips and got on. I was getting some boards out here and then it all of a sudden just stopped and then I don’t know what happened to the owner or the company really, seems like it just wasn’t working out and it went under. It wasn't a big company or anything like that it was just cool to be skating with some people that I pretty much grew up with. |
| Tight, what about L.P.P.x, what’s that all about? |
| L.P.P.x is a little skate crew that me and my friend Phil started out here in palatine. It isn’t anything special or nothing like that, but we have fun with it. We are making a little L.P.P.x video that is going to be a little online mess around video coming out on Halloween, so its really just some homie fun. |
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| 50-50 Pop out, Des Plaines, IL. |
| So your leaving for ISU in the fall, what are your plans as far as skating goes? |
| Skating isn’t going to be an issue, there is a local park there that is pretty legit and there are a lot of neighboring towns that have a lot of spots to skate so it wont be too bad. Plus my friend Phil is going to have his car and needs to come back to palatine every couple of weeks so that he can work, so I will be coming back with him and skating here with everyone. Nothing will really change because my main priority will still be skateboarding without a doubt. |
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| Heelflip 12, Chicago, IL |
| Is there anyone you would like to thank? |
| Yeah! Thanks to L.P.P.x crew, FA Skates, you and Schmoldt, Jack Donze for the help and Foundation, Cody and Steve for getting me started, and all the homies around here! |
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