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i think im going to try and do a interview a month or so w/ people around the southwest. soo.. the first one is ryan chadwick. ive known ryan for a few years and hes always been real good at riding. and recently hes gotten real good at filming also. hes putting together a video for kore bike shop in tempe so i asked him a few questions about that..and other random shit. give the basics. name age location place of residence: Ryan Chadwick, 20 years old, and I currently live in a dude house in Tempe, Az. how long have you been shredding and what was your first bike. I got my first real twenty inch when I was in eight grade, so thats about 6 or 7 years. It was a 18.75" top tube Hoffman George Jr. and I was about two inches shorter than I am now, lets just say it was a little cramped. favorite spot/s I like alot of different places but PV Skatepark will always be number 1. I basically grew up riding that park and I like to think i know it inside and out. favorite people to ride with This is gonna be a long list. I'd have to say my top 3 are Sam Buros, Eric Bahlman, and Dustin Orem. All of us have been together since the start and its always great watching them progress. Each and every year they just get better and better as I get worse and worse, hahaha. Besides those three: KC Badge, Jeff Herrera, Adam Bong, J Lo, Mike Vakula, Derek Riggs, Looftop, Brandon Straubb, Bink, Billy Franevski, Sean Sexton, Tolly, Marcus, Wes and Skyler, and pretty much anyone else who enjoys riding bikes and dicking around. what do you do besides ride Right now i'm enrolled as a Film and Media Studies student at ASU. That takes up a large chunk of time. I am also well known for shading off to Flagstaff to be with my girlfriend Amy. Computers, editing, Guitar Hero, buying bongs with roomates and eating are all mixed in between there. any current projects? Right now i'm working on a video for the bike shop Kore Bike Industries, located on Scottsdale and Curry. It basically takes up all my time and I definitely quit my job to work on it full time. whos all in the video and when can we expect it to drop I am HOPING for full parts from Eric Bahlman, Zach Vogle, Mike Vakula, Derek Riggs, and Dustin Orem. Right now it's looking like a few really good mix sections, two or three full parts, and a full friends section (send me an email at chadwick4686@gmail.com if you go to kore and have something to film). Loofa is coming through with ALOT of good stuff and he might be bumped up to a full section. I am not 100% on the direction I want to take the video, but i just really want it to look and feel good, nothing too serious. worst part about filming people MOTIVATION! Hahahah. Nah. Its not that people aren't wanting to do stuff for the video, I think alot of the problems are that no one is really used to filming. Its a whole other thing to have someone be there in front of you watching everything you do with a purpose. It is distracting and difficult. I'm trying to be alot more positive with people and trying to make them more comfortable in front of the "no fun gun" as you would put it. hahha. best part Just watching my friends produce some wild tricks. People are really coming up with some good stuff. Its just real good to watch people really try and throw down when they can. Also, just knowing that this is all gonna result in a finished product and that I'll having something to show for it all, is gonna be a great feeling. favorite people to film with Eric Bahlman, Dustin Orem, and Spencer "Loofa Doofa Looftop" Lee. These three kids just want to film. Always. Some may get mad, some may throw there bikes, but all three show commitment. They fall and they get back up. They want to show people what they really can do on two wheels and its great to be around that. I'm really excited to see what they do in the last months of filming. give me a funny story Just the other day, Dustin and I went out on another filming mission. Basically this means Dustin thinking for two weeks about random stuff he wants to film and then one day we just go out and shoot it all. This particular day, some of the stuff just wasn't working right. Some spots where busts, some things just didn't look right, and some places where just completely unrideable. After getting about two or three clips, we were gonna call it a day. When out of no where Dustin remembers seeing a roof that he could drop off of. I think, a clips a clip, so we start to head to where it is at. We get to the spot and it is just the backyard of someones house. The patio has an awning that points towards a wall and on the backside of the wall is a grass bank that is barely a bank at all. So Dustin and I go up to the wall and talk about the chances. I tell him to look over and see if anybody is in the house. He refuses, saying that it might blow our chances at the clip. He tells me to set up my camera and help him lift his bike to the roof, if someone is there, let me jump off the roof, put your camera gear away, and run. I get together my things and find the angle I wanna shoot it at, hit record, and run to him. He peeks for the first time, sees no one, and climbs up the wall. I hand him his bike and run out of the shot. He jumps off the roof and jets off. I pack up and ride like the wind. I just find it funny that those people will never EVER know that two idiots decided they wanted to jump their bikes off of their roof. The clips funny too. inspirations Riding wise: Van Homan and Taj, need I say more? Filming wise: Walter Perringer, Joel Moody, Will Stroud, and others, but I like to think I mix it up and kinda do my own thing. Life wise: Sam Eric Dustin and all my friends who have always been there for me. no thanks Broken bikes. Flat tires. No money. Jobs. Buffalo Exchange. Shitty computers. Douche bags who used to live next to me. Bills. Dirty camera heads. Low batteries. School. Milk. Videos that use bangers in the promo. Bad lighting. Hyper dogs. Dirty houses. And last but not least World of Warcraft, for prolonging the video and making me fat again. thanks Mom and Dad for supporting me always with everything that I have ever wanted to do. Sam. Eric Ballzman. Dustin Orem. Everyone at the Fun Zone. Everyone who goes out to film and gives it 100%. My friends for giving me shit for never ever doing a video. Amy for being there for me even when I don't get any clips that day. Clinton for letting me go buy a bong with him. Kyle Carlson for being fat and critical. Ryan at Kore for helping me out when I needed new parts and giving me a starting point for the video. And everyone else that has helped me in one way or another with the video or anything else. You all know who you are.