Greg Nowik Interview
What made you start skating?
Seeing the Donz do a wall ride when I was riding my BMX. My mate had a skateboard and I was getting him to bring it out more and more. I did both the BMX and Skateboarding for a while until I smahed my head in on the BMX and decided that the skateboarding was safer!!!
Where was your first bit of coverage?
Backside Melon at Monks Ditch, and a Noseblunt over the Slide in Mayflower Park. Both in the same issue of RAD. I was 14.
How you got hooked up with first sponsor?
The Donz, and Mark Abbot (Brand-X TM at the time) were starting to take me places to skate. Eventually Mark asked if I wanted to be on Brand-X
History of sponsors?
Board Sponsors;
Brand-X ( Which then became Triple-X )
Bash
Deathbox (Flow)
Vision
Blue
Acme
Bigspin
Players
Panic
Black Market
Ennvi
Wight Trash
Currently also riding for Death Urethane, Independent Trucks (Flow), Santa Cruz Clothing and Vans.
Influences
Don Brider
Danny Way
Tony Hawk
Jed Cullen
Favourite video (old School)
Hokus Pokus
Favourite video (new)
Heel Toe Magic - Plug (Greg has a full section in Heel Toe Magic)
Favourite video part of all time
Danny Way - Living Legend (On Video)
Favourite skaters
Danny Way
The Donz
Flynn Trotman
Jed Cullen
Marc Churchell
Andy Scott
Danny Wainwright
Trev Johnson
Manhead
Raemers
Haslam
Daewon
To name a few.... Could end up with quite a list....
Your occupation
Desktop Support Engineer
Favourite place to skate
Just come back from the USA. So many parks, and we only sampled a small percentage. I could stay at Orcas Island for a long time!!!
Your philosophy on skateboarding - advice to youngsters
You dont get anywhere saying "I can't" all of the time. Try, try and then try some more. You will make it in the end!!! Then you get to roll away with a big smile on your face! :-)
Black Market
Ennvi
Wight Trash
Currently also riding for Death Urethane, Independent Trucks (Flow), Santa Cruz Clothing and Vans.
Influences
Don Brider
Danny Way
Tony Hawk
Jed Cullen
Favourite video (old School)
Hokus Pokus
Favourite video (new)
Heel Toe Magic - Plug (Greg has a full section in Heel Toe Magic)
Favourite video part of all time
Danny Way - Living Legend (On Video)
Favourite skaters
Danny Way
The Donz
Flynn Trotman
Jed Cullen
Marc Churchell
Andy Scott
Danny Wainwright
Trev Johnson
Manhead
Raemers
Haslam
Daewon
To name a few.... Could end up with quite a list....
Your occupation
Desktop Support Engineer
Favourite place to skate
Just come back from the USA. So many parks, and we only sampled a small percentage. I could stay at Orcas Island for a long time!!!
Your philosophy on skateboarding - advice to youngsters
You dont get anywhere saying "I can't" all of the time. Try, try and then try some more. You will make it in the end!!! Then you get to roll away with a big smile on your face! :-)
What do you get from skateboarding ?
A life !