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"\"&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Continued from &lt;a href=\\\"\\/2008\\/12\\/29\\/chris-haslam-kevin-harris-out-of-the-wild-part-2\\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"&gt;Part 2&lt;\\/a&gt;&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interview by Sean Mortimer&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You both have really original tricks. What one garnered the most enthusiastic response?&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Haslam:&lt;\\/strong&gt; The front blunt on the board from the almost video got as much response as the kickflip back smith on the 12-stair Hollywood High rail. I was shitting my pants on the 12-stair. I wasn&amp;#8217;t even going to put the front blunt in the video. I thought the line sucked but that trick seemed to get people psyched on the part.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nWhy do you think the blunt gets so much attention?&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Haslam:&lt;\\/strong&gt; Maybe because it&amp;#8217;s in the grasp of everybody if you know how to ollie? It&amp;#8217;s something you do for fun.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And it was a complete surprise. When I saw the board come into frame, I don\\u2019t expect you to use it. You don\\u2019t get ambushed like that in skate videos often. Even if an upcoming trick is gnar, just by the way it&amp;#8217;s framed, you have a general idea of what to expect.&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harris: &lt;\\/strong&gt;That&amp;#8217;s what it is about Chris\\u2014you expect him to do something but he&amp;#8217;ll bust something unexpected.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nKevin, what one of your tricks did people really respond to?&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harris: &lt;\\/strong&gt;Maybe when I broke the world record for two-board 360s.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe src=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.youtube.com\\/embed\\/PA0Z32YBr0M?enablejsapi=1\\\" width=\\\"640\\\" height=\\\"360\\\" frameborder=\\\"0\\\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;\\/iframe&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;br \\/&gt;\\n&lt;strong&gt; Can you break down what 360s meant in the 1979?&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harris: &lt;\\/strong&gt;In the &amp;#8217;70s, it wasn&amp;#8217;t how high can you ollie or how many stairs. It was &amp;#8220;How many 360s can you do?&amp;#8221; How you were judged as a skater was down to how many spins you could do. This was before airs on ramps. I read in the magazine how Steve Cathey spun 65 two-board 360s, one on each foot. I was trying to keep up in my garage in Richmond with my friends counting. Then the next magazine would come out and announced that he&amp;#8217;d spun 155, but by then I had spun 200.&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nSomehow the organizer at the Canadian National contest heard about it and he invited me to try and break the world record at the contest. I went into the Vancouver Coliseum with 5,000 plus people in the crowd thinking it was going to be a sideshow, but the lights dimmed and two spotlights came on me. I was super nervous but I started to spin. Monty [Little], the organizer, announced how the record was 155 and after I beat that, I thought I should stop so they could get on with the contest\\u2014I was taking up the whole friggin&amp;#8217; floor. At around 200 spins the crowd started stomping their feet and chanting &amp;#8220;One thousand! One thousand!&amp;#8221;&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nIn my mind, I thought, Are you friggin&amp;#8217; kidding me? But the crowd kept pushing me. I wore full safety equipment and was sweating like a sprinkler. I could see the circle of sprayed sweat on the ground. It took fifteen minutes and I finally stopped after 1,032 spins. I could barely walk\\u2014all the moisture was gone from my body. That was talked about a lot until skating changed and 360s didn&amp;#8217;t mean the same thing.&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nI imagined I&amp;#8217;d get a full page color shot in SkateBoarder, but it was just a little black and white picture. If I was in California, it might have gotten more coverage. It emphasized the second-class identity of Canadian skaters.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nHow many 360s can you do, Chris?&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Haslam:&lt;\\/strong&gt; I think seven. That&amp;#8217;s insane\\u20141,032. I&amp;#8217;ve got some work to do.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harris:&lt;\\/strong&gt; Fifteen minutes\\u2014it could be your whole video part.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe src=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.youtube.com\\/embed\\/2jg5epl1GPM?enablejsapi=1\\\" width=\\\"640\\\" height=\\\"360\\\" frameborder=\\\"0\\\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;\\/iframe&gt;&lt;br \\/&gt;\\n&lt;strong&gt; Looking back, are you glad you started skating away from a strong scene?&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harris: &lt;\\/strong&gt;Yes. But I didn&amp;#8217;t think that way back then.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Haslam:&lt;\\/strong&gt; I&amp;#8217;m glad I grew up the way I did, but when I was in Singapore, I wanted to be in Vancouver.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nDo you think location matters in skating regarding influence?&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harris:&lt;\\/strong&gt; If I grew up in California in the &amp;#8217;70s and dealt with that peer pressure all the time, maybe I would have completely changed my style of skating. But in Richmond, I wasn&amp;#8217;t aware of that pressure until I came down for contests.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe src=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.youtube.com\\/embed\\/c78IVxRfKn4?enablejsapi=1\\\" width=\\\"640\\\" height=\\\"360\\\" frameborder=\\\"0\\\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;\\/iframe&gt;&lt;br \\/&gt;\\n&lt;strong&gt; A strong skate city like L.A. can freeze a skater&amp;#8217;s creativity. There are so many gnar skaters doing crazy things at the spots.&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Haslam:&lt;\\/strong&gt; Yeah, for some people, L.A. can mold you. It&amp;#8217;s like Kevin was saying\\u2014you can lose your hometown originality. Now, if you go anywhere in the world, there&amp;#8217;s going to be skaters there and they&amp;#8217;re going to have different outlooks.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nAre you interested in those different outlooks?&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Haslam:&lt;\\/strong&gt; Oh yeah, obviously. They&amp;#8217;re going to skate stuff that nobody else will and have tricks from their area. I&amp;#8217;ll learn a version of it and people will react like it&amp;#8217;s new but some guy has been doing it for fifteen years and I just kind of stole it from him. I give credit where credit&amp;#8217;s due, though.&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nI had to move to get where I am. You won\\u2019t be able to skate for a living in Malaysia\\u2014the resources aren&amp;#8217;t there. But you have to work with what you have because it&amp;#8217;ll influence your skating at a later date for sure.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe src=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.youtube.com\\/embed\\/6RZiPxqguoc?enablejsapi=1\\\" width=\\\"640\\\" height=\\\"360\\\" frameborder=\\\"0\\\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;\\/iframe&gt;&lt;br \\/&gt;\\n&lt;strong&gt; Let&amp;#8217;s end with a reversal\\u2014you guys ever see some random kid do something weird and original on a skateboard and go tell him how rad it is?&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harris: &lt;\\/strong&gt;If I see a kid at a skatepark doing something totally different, I&amp;#8217;ll be the first to go up to him and tell him it\\u2019s awesome and to keep doing it.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Haslam: &lt;\\/strong&gt;There are so many skaters doing the same thing now that those kids doing their own thing are easy to spot. I want to see creative skating. I don\\u2019t want to see people doing the same tricks over and over again. When I see somebody putting their brain into what they&amp;#8217;re doing, I get psyched. I skate with kids at the park and they each have their own little flavor. I tell them all the time that they can frontside flip a twenty stair and it&amp;#8217;ll take two seconds to go by in a video and people will forget about it. 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