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I was born in Orange, California and I grew up in Huntington Beach. I started skateboarding when I was five and continued to do so off and on over the years.

When I was still in high school I knew I wanted to live in California.

Growing up in Huntington Beach, you were either a traditional sports athlete, a skateboarder, or a surfer. I got my first skateboard when I was five and skated off and on over the years, did a little BMX racing as a kid, and then in my freshman or sophomore year I started getting a little bit more into skateboarding.

I always wanted to be a Californian. In my wildest dreams, I always liked California - it's the place where oranges grows on trees! Fruit just falls off the trees.

I love living in California and being able to go to the beach or go to the woods.

Skateboarding was everything to us growing up. It changes the way you see the world: you spend all day looking for ditches.

As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.

I grew up in the Midwest, quite far from any ocean or any beach, a million miles. I think for kids who grew up where I did, the idea of California, surfing and beach life was so exotic and glamorous.

Growing up, I absolutely loved skateboarding and dirt bike riding with my brother and the neighborhood kids.

I grew up skateboarding, but I don't even do that anymore.