Going to Arizone to shoot/skate something different. See ya in a week….

Tags: Terror Skateboards

Photos & interview by Brooks Fritz

Name: Ryan Williams

Age: 27

Resides: Bellingham, Wa

Occupation: Teacher

boob tube

Wait a minute? Your occupation isn’t skateboarding? This isn’t a job for you?

Are you kidding? I’d have to get better real quick. I wouldn’t be eating much because nobody wants to pay a 27 dude from Washington to skate. Every one has already seen most of the stuff I like to skate in the beer bong series.

What have you been up to?

I’ve been hanging out inside, eating, having some beers, making breakfast burritos, BBQing, and working on some artwork.

What kind of art work we talking about?

We are talking a variety of stuff like painting, colored pencil, wire, ceramics, and some mixed media crap.

fs grind

You kinda seem more low profile then most people. Is that a conscious decision?

Most of the time I don’t have much to say about the situation at hand. Sometimes it’s funner to listen to people and wonder what the fuck they’re talking about.

What you dont like to flap your mouth aimlessly for hours on end?

I talk all day at work. If I don’t like to listen to myself talk, why would anybody else? The more time I spend talking the less time I get to spend skating or doing something fun.

fs air transfer

When was there a time when you were not psyched on skateboarding?

Today, I had to encourage a fifteen year old smoking a cigarette on a bmx bike to get out of the bowl. I was not so much bummed on skating, but rather the kind of crap that takes while your trying to skate. People think they can go and hang out where people skate and be accepted for acting like an idiot. I see that kind of crap all the time. Like the guy with the ROB and big bulldog on a leash skating in the middle of everyone under the bridge. Stupid.

backside air

Why dont you do all the barney bowl contests? You know the contests that I am talking about…..Why not get on the tour?

I don’t have the get on the board and give ‘er all you got mentality. I tried to do it on several occasions and it never worked or felt right. A few times I skated with friends during contests and that was kind of fun. Skating with a bunch of randoms who are trying to kill it sucks. I do not enjoy being on display for a bunch of people to watch. I skate because I like it and it’s fun. I’m trying to skate for a long time. Blowing up my body at some competition is not in the plan.

backside ollie

Gnarliest thing you have seen done skating?

Dorfus

low to high truck bash

Who and what gets you stoked on skating?

Joe the Jewler, Kyle Gallahger, Peter Gunn, Jamie Weller, Derek Plourd, Mike, and Cam all make me want to skate more and better. I’m always hyped on skating with friends. Kids that are hyped on skating rather than bullshit skate fashion are rad too.

hip grind

lipslide transfer

What has skateboarding taught you over the years?

Skateboarding has taught me to look at things differently.

Boring……Ryan, you can answer it better then that. Explain.

I’m talking about driving around your home town and seeing a ledge you skated years ago and remembering when your friend was smoking his mom’s filterless menthol cigarettes. Being out at night over the holidays and running into a bunch of dudes who “used to skate” now look like their 40 with no interests and wondering, “what happened to those guys?” I’m talking about the tranny shaped brick lamp ledges in my parents neighbors yard that I want to skate while they’re at work. Skating keeps my mind working and reminds to stay young. Even if I’m old as crap I’ll still look at a full pool and wonder what the tranny is like?

rock N roll

If you didnt skate what would you do?

I guess I would fish and make art in place of skateboarding. I wouldn’t be much fun to be around if I didn’t skate. How do you feel when you don’t get to skate for a few weeks? I’d probably learn how to fix the oil leak in my truck and figure out what’s missing from the front of my license plate.

So what’s the story with being called “chairman of the board”?

I was skating in one of those killer contests we were just talking about and had my picture taken by the local newspaper. They put the picture in the newspaper and wrote Chairman of the Board across the top. That was the end of me. A terrible photo with an even worse nickname.

Any Regrets?

Smoking and Chewing for a long time.

pipe ride

Best advice anyone has ever given you?

Check your knot after every fish.

stalefish

Thanks Ryan…. Any last words or thanks or no thanks to be given?
Thank You Concrete

Not really sure why I titled this with this title…… Tony Alva never skated this thing, at least I hope he didn’t. There was no boom booms or hucks going on. Just some more backyard pillaging.

Not the day this photo was taken, but the other day the neighbor called the cops and now it’s no more. Or more like its a bust. Thanks Seattle kook. Mariners suck….

Rockit, with a frontside grind through the window in the room where the pigs accused us of doing meth and squatting… yeah, it’s like that.

Cobra carve grinding over the stairs with ease…

After the Blue tile dolphin pool we moved onto the mini amoeba…

Look!

Rockit with the best grind all day. The standard played out saying of the photo doesn’t give it justice applies here.

Everyone burnt or over it hung out in the remaining light and drank the last few cold one’s…. The huck boom jam was over….