November 13, 2025 • 41 mins
We talk Down Straight Up! Vol. 4, van-trip politics, period reality, elbow chic, superstitions, starting LOOP Hardware, and why “trust the skater” is the whole business plan. More women in the van, more clips, more money. Wild, right?
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Good Luck with That is an iHeart women's sports production
in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hey, everyone, welcome to Good Luck with That, a podcast
about women's skateboarding. I'm Ashley Raefeld, I'm Nora of Asconcelos.
I am Alex White, and today we have Bobby Delphino,
a skateboarder, a daredevil, a Floridian, a very cool human.
We're so lucky to have you here.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I'm so happy to be here with my heroes in
the flesh on the couch. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Wish you were on this couch, I know, but that's okay.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
It's probably warmer next time.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I just learned something kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Your last name means Dolphin, Yes, Dolphin and Italian.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I didn't know that, and now this all makes so
much sense. Your first board graphic the Dolphins.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
But you're Venezuelan.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yeah, I'm Venezuelan.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yea.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
My whole family's from Venezuela, and I was born in America.
My brother and I were born in Miami.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Your brother is also a professional skateboarder, yeah, yeah, he
goes by Pedro.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I'm not sure if you like no of eim ever.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Met Yeah, goes by Pedro or his name is Pitt Pedro.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
His name is Pedro and he goes with is he fifth? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Are you serious?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah? All my grandparents, like the dads are Pedro.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Does he have a middle name, yeah, Pedro.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
But enough about Pedro. Women in skateboarding. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I feel like often a lot of people love to
get into an interview with you by talking about your brother.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
And I'd love to say for those listening, this is
exactly why we have the show, because today it is
about Bobby and why we find you to be one
of our most exciting skateboarders of twenty twenty five. It's
been a big year for you, and I'm really excited
to talk about some of the things you've been up
to and some of the things you're hoping to get to
in twenty six. You just came off one of maybe
(01:49):
your best parts. I think we watched your parts all
last night and it felt like it was like, yeah, anthology.
I wouldn't call it like the Opus, but it was
like it felt like it was like your album where
you know, you have the indie album that helped introduce
everybody to your style of skateboarding and what you're up
to and people are like, Okay, I'm into this. And
then all of a sudden, the sponsors came in and
(02:10):
you got more production value and more time and more
trips and built another part out, and then all of
a sudden, the like big record label came in and
we're like, we're going to give you time to work
on this album. We're going to travel and take you
all over the world. It just showed that you had
reached this like complete peak of bringing it all together,
and it was such like an incredible part that I
(02:31):
was just like, can I watch that one more time?
Like right after it finished, it was like, let's do
that again. So I just want to congratulate you.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Thank you, hard work, very well received. I like the
way you put that the indie label the record, Like,
that's a good way to put it.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
You're on the charts, You're you're up on the top
Billboard right now.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Thanks, You've gone platinum a few times.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
It feels good.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I know.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
I want to ask you because this part you've worked
with Shari White. Yeah on two videos credits, which was
the band's video and now the volume four down straight up.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Three videos. Oh yeah. The first one was I skate,
which just part oh your skate was just probably she
filmed not all of it, but she filmed most of
it and then she edited it.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
What's different about working with a friend, a homie, a
woman film or sorry white.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
That's something I'm like kind of newly discovering because I
never really had friends who actually filmed, let alone like
women in skating. Yeah, just puttings all in one has
been really sick. So someone like Shari, who's a great
friend and then also just so talented, it's way different
from anything else that I've worked with because you could
actually be yourself, you know, So it's been really fun
(03:39):
and yeah, she's a great guideline and great director.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Yeah, do you feel like Shari gets you said? Like
I can be myself more? Can you like elaborate a
little bit about what it feels like to somebody that
knows you're skating, that knows your capabilities, versus maybe filming
with a stranger, a guy, a random Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Well be cause Shari and I probably share the same inspiration,
you know, like maybe not all women find it, but
I find inspiration in other women skaters. So I think
probably just right off the bat, without even knowing each other,
we already share so many interests and yeah, inspiration, So
you know, there's different expectations from someone like Shari versus
(04:22):
like Bill Stroback, for example, And that is super helpful
because I don't feel I don't feel insecure. Yeah, and
I could take my shirt around. I could take my
shirt off around Shari, and I don't think I.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Could do that with And she knows what it's like
to be on your period while you're trying to find
and I can talk about my period.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
It's pretty wild because every trip's a little bit different,
and you have trips that are really just set up
just to film, and then you have other trips that
are set up that have campaigns or product shoots or
demos or a huge crew, Like you'll be on a
crew with like twelve other skaters, and so if it's
a seven day trip, you maybe have one opportunity to
skate the one thing that you want to skate on
(05:01):
that trip. So yeah, I think it's hard because I
do think time is of the essence, and you travel
halfway across the globe and you maybe walk walk away
with like a three second clip, and that can be
pretty exhausting and tiring, but like Fabi is saying, when
you have a filmer that you see eyed eye with
who can capture your personality that you're not scared to
(05:22):
like be comfortable and be yourself around it like completely
changes the game.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yeah, you actually feel seen almost at the good point.
The personality thing.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yeah, I get I've had issues in the past where
I feel really frustrated and I don't know if it's
just because I was filming like with men in particular,
but for me, like my personality I think is a
huge part of like filming video parts and my skating
and like how I want to be seen. So if
(05:53):
things are too serious or if I'm trying to like
describe what you should be filming of me, especially like
in the b roll space, I'm like, this isn't gonna
work totally. Like if that makes well, do.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
You feel like you like are kind of like trying
to like prove to them like you're worthy of their
time sometimes like s are you totally this is your
friend who like knows how legit, how like serious and
knows what's at risk for you at the spot Like
she's showing up being like Bobby's coming out and trying
her hardest for this trick. I feel like sometimes when
you get a signed a film or on a trip
or like they're there and you know them, they're used
(06:28):
to filming with people who are in a different stratosphere
of skateboarding, and then all of a sudden, it's like
you're wasting their time if you can't get the trick.
There's something that like then that now you have that
mental heart hurdle to like hop over you already have enough.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
That's like a super difficult aspect and I think for
so long, like I think being a woman and like
being allowed on these trips or invited on these trips,
the amount of stuff that you're willing to sacrifice for
like your personal like expression, it's pretty crazy. Like you
get to the point where like like I've had moments
(07:02):
where I'm gonna trip and I am like down bad,
maybe I got hurt or it's my period, and it's
like the amount of time it took for me to
be like I need to text my TM and just
say I'm gonna meet up with them two hours late
because I'm like literally like my uterine wall is like
falling out, Like.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Like that's a whole thing that like I'm yeah, like
that's crazy to like have to say and it's hard
to like not be comfortable enough to say that, But
I don't know, I just hope that changes.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Well, there's like performance, Like there's science finally happening around
athletes and their periods and what that does to your performance.
It won your balance is not fully there, your hormones
and your decision making and your ability to just feel
like fully in control of your body, which is so
deeply fundamental, Like you have to be in tune with
(07:54):
the whole head to toe experience the skateboarding.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
And you have to find a bathroom, you know, talk
about you know how many insane we could take this
out later, but I've had to change my tampon in
a bush, Like we're not always stopping, yeah, fucking especially
like if you're the only girl in the van, like
which is likely, which is which is most Yeah, it still.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Kind of nine point eight percent of the time.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Yeah, yes, so much different because yeah, all women's video,
which is really rare. I mean, the guys had guest clips,
which I thought was a great way to flip the script.
But talk about being able to skate with somebody like
Ruby Lilly, like the two of you didn't really know
each other before this project.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Yeah, well, I mean this like was the funnest experience
ever filming for any part. Like I had the most
fun skateboarding period. And then also like no pun intended,
and I had the best time skateboarding filming. So it
was just an all around awesome time. And I think
about why, and it for sure was the crowd around
(08:57):
and Ruby and Shari and it was definitely like I
had known Chari before, so I was I was like
already comfortable. But yeah, Ruby's just so fun. You know,
she's ten years younger than me, and but we share
this Like I said the same that we're from the
same cloth almost is she from Florida to No, she's
(09:18):
from Maryland, Maryltimore and it shows, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
It's in the old Bay she carries around.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Yeah. The big thing for me was Monster puts so
much emphasis on making this video, so much budget, and
I was like, all they have to do is do
my thing. Yeah, so that was I mean, there's pressure there,
but I was like, fuck it, I'm just gonna do
my thing. You know.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
It really looked like you were skating stuff that you
really wanted to skate. Yeah, And I felt like there
was this like well roundedness to that, and like, I
think that's like one of the hardest things is sometimes
with those video projects there's too many cooks in the kitchen.
And I've experienced that like firsthand, where it's like just
to me, like I just want to skate this thing,
(10:02):
like you guys don't have to try hard to create
a place or space or think if I can do
something at this spot or not, Like I know what
I'm capable of. And I feel like that video is
such a good testament to they listen to you fully,
like it doesn't like there's no disjointedness. Everyone's skating super well.
(10:22):
I like the mixture of like park skating and street skating.
I don't know, I just felt like there's this this
unison there.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yeah. Seamless, Yeah, seamless. Do you think you've you've seen like,
have you felt like a seamless experience a similar to
what I've just described.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Have I had that happen before? Yes? Is it happening
for me most of the time? Probably not?
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Probably not.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yeah, And as someone who works in the industry puts
together trips and kind of the like back end of
it is that there's these moments that you have to
like drive content around product. You're going to release a product,
you got to put the video job. Yeah, but it's
like it's an amount of like so they're gonna put
together Like there's all these like quotas throughout the year
that we got to do these trips to get this content.
(11:08):
What is clear about the Monster part though, is that
you said they put a lot of funding into it,
But the funding was you were given time, you were
given agency to pick someone that would pair with you,
and you were given funding to really like make it
work for you. And as a result of that, the
product and the video piece is incredible. And we see
that again like all the time, like women's sports, it's like, well,
(11:29):
the product's always good, Like it's been there, it just
wasn't like given the right money, resources and time to
show up in the right way. And we're at this
kind of really cool point in women's skateboarding where those
in the industry that get it, see, if we give
the time, the resources, we trust the writer to tell
us what their needs are and we don't necessarily only
put them on a trip with ten other dudes eight
(11:50):
dudes and say, hey, can you guys like share seven
days and share spots and figure out a way that
like you can skate the same spot as that person
and that person and all of a sudden, you're gonna
maybe get that three second clip you traveled all the
way around the world for totally where you became the
priority and guess what that video part shows that you're
the priority. And it's just so incredible to see.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
And it's also like trust the vision, right, like trust
trust the artists, trust trust Fobby's vision, trust Ruby's vision,
trust Shari's vision. Cause it's like you're not here like
by accident, like you did, you did everything.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
To be where you are, so you know, years in
the making.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Yeah, you know what you want to skate like.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
And the thing that I think is half of it
is maybe the industry things that we just started skating
five years ago, because that's when they maybe started paying attention.
But you've been skating since you were a kid. Same
so it's like I've been known what's up, like we
just showed up. So don't think that like we don't
need our handheld, you know, I mean, you know, trust.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Us again, it's all about the van and skateboarding. It's
like a lot of travel either on the plane or
in the van. Only so many people can fit in
in a van, and you have to account for like
the film, the photographer, and then like the rest of
the team that can fill in the van. Then that
means you're traveling, So you're staying overnight somewhere. Then that's
a hotel room, so you share hotel rooms. Well, if
it's a female, they're going to share for safety a
(13:13):
room with another woman. Just better policy, better experience.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Logistics, logistics.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
But I've literally directly heard, well, we can't ask or
we can't excuse me, we can't invite three women because
then that would throw off the hotel rooms and that
would blow the budget.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Do they know how much women like to have sleepovers?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
But like my entire personality when I was eleven years
old was centered around sleepovers. I had the American Girl
book about sleepovers. I knew the snacks were eating on sleepovers.
So fun, guess what, let us have sleepovers?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
I know what are adaptable creatures. It's just crazy that
only there's room for two or one.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
There's room for eight in that you know.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Sleepover. I'm so lonely on trips. Yeah, I'm the only
in my only person in my room. Yeah, like all
the guys are like having a little somber party and
yeah summer parties too. Yeah, they love it. You know,
literally everybody likes slumper parties. Everyone loves the sum party.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Also, like the business cases there, Like the more you
put into the resources of more women are gender expansive
people on a trip, the more that they're going to
reach this unique market that is only their audience that
wouldn't have been invited in by the same typical eight
rotation people on that roster. And so you miss this
whole like kind of like system where one, it's about
you and your experience, but it's also about like the
(14:31):
business of this whole thing. That's why we're here, and
you're missing that, Like you could be growing a whole
new like customer basis out of this. So I don't
understand if it doesn't fit people's values, Like literally we
see the numbers pull in, but the values aren't there,
and it's like it doesn't fit their version of skateboarding,
so they leave the money on the table. That part's crazy.
So that's just like the industry thing.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Yeah, but speaking which I used to work at NHS
and A Cruz Skateboards is Fabian a sponsor, and I
used to see how many boards you would sell every year,
and she was the number three board seller behind and
three issues, which are classic skateboards. And then Eric Winkowski
also on the team, and then it was Fobby. Thousands
of units a year were Fabby on Adolphino boards, so
obviously there was demand for Fobby and I think that
(15:12):
part of that demand, if I was gonna articulate it,
is that you have a certain style of skateboarding and
approach to skateboarding. And maybe it's hard to do, but
can you describe like how you like to skate I'm
I think I'm pretty aggressive.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Yeah, I'm pretty aggressive, and I don't think it's just
just skateboarding. I just naturally am kind of aggressive. Like
when I played soccer, I kind of had the same attitude.
And but that's probably the best way I could put it.
I just and maybe like I just have fun with it.
I've just been skating for so long, so I just
however you want to describe it as.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Well, it's pretty like pure like yeah, watching Fabby skate
is like watching somebody like do the thing that they're
supposed to do. Yes, but there's also this like uninhibitedness
of you're gonna slam. Like we all do skateboarding, we
all slam, but like there's a part of it that
I think is part of your style in the sense
of like you don't hold anything back and it's very
(16:10):
exciting and it makes your ability levels higher than a
lot of other people. And I just feel like you're
constantly like growing and pushing yourself. Like every like like
we were talking about, every video park is better and better.
But yeah, you also have a unique style because you
kind of skate everything and it's just refreshing.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Yeah, you two kind of skate is similar similar terrain.
And what's interesting when I think about the terrain that
you all skate is like a lot it's terrain. You know,
it's and look air street skateboarder through and through. So
don't get me wrong, there's this like unwillingness to accept
that a lot of skateboarders like learn how to skate
the skate park, so a lot of their like trick
selection and terrain style that they're going to choose is
(16:48):
like from this earlier experience at the park, and I think,
what's cool about your trick selection has like you can
kind of see where the transition of the skate park is,
and then you find the craziest spots that don't look
like a skate park to skate and you like seamlessly
bring this far.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
You make it like.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Fluid and you're skating fast and slamming.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
How are your elbows right now?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
They're completely dark and I would love to see you.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
It's really dark.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
And well, they just keep adding yeah, a little bit
of swell, but I wish I had more.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Well, every time i'd see Fobby, I think, I always
think you look so cool and like every clip because
your elbows are like shot, like you can tell that
you've been slamming, and it's actually like an indicator. I
feel like, you know, people look at skateboarding at scuff
marks on shoes. I'm like, look at the elbows.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
That's true. Yeah, yeah, but that's something I had to
kind of get past because once I really started, like
in my teens, and you know, skating for me was
I wasn't trying to go. It was just something I
enjoyed doing. But then you're like enjoying this thing that's
also fucking freaking up your body and freaking you're doing
(17:56):
this thing that you love and you're actually getting like, yeah,
roughed up and my mom's like fabby, Like here's a
scar cream. And so part of it is like.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
It's like, what about your wedding day?
Speaker 3 (18:07):
No, no, no, no, no exactly no, I know, it's true,
it's a thing.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
They're like, well, what about your wedding day? Like I'm like,
what do you talk?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Literally, what are you talking the one day in your
whole life.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
That one day in your whole life you're supposed to
be a princess and your elbows look like that.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I'm like, it's distracting. But that's part of the thing
where I had to just accept, like I mean, when
am I going to quit this thing that I love,
you know? But also knowing that it goes down to
the psychology of being a woman, right, It's like letting
go of the vanity being okay, Like when people people
don't know what I do, and then they'll look at
(18:45):
my elbow and people could find that ugly. I mean
I don't it's my tattoos.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
But people ask if you're safe, if they need to
call someone for you.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
I got that in high school, did you really?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Well? You did not from skateboarding.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Yeah, I had an incident where like I had run
into a like a grown man on a scooter at
a skate park and I had these like two marks
on my forearms, like mid forearm, and I had a
teacher kind of like be like, what's that from? I
was like, if you must know, I was skateboarding and
(19:18):
I had a grown man run into me with handlebars.
And I don't think it made it. I don't think
that helped really. I think you were still confused. But
but yeah, I mean we put our bodies through a lot,
and I do think like I had so many even
like girlfriends who were like does that bother you? And
I was like, no, it really doesn't. Like our bodies
(19:38):
are like designed to be used totally and in vanity
is your thing, that's totally cool, but it's okay that
it's not mine. Four hours.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
I want to ask you a little bit about your roots.
You grew up in Florida skating like a prefab park
that now is in risk of getting demolished or you
know whatever. Can you talk about how that park shaped you?
And you know where it puts.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
You prefab park. I started skating at eighteen, but basically
my home park. I grew up in boke ratone and
they had a skate park. There was a memorial park
that somebody, a family had donated to the city, and
it was it was basically built by rollerbladers, so it
was the transition was all weird, but I didn't kind
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of care or no. And then I was a little
bit too young when to skate, but my brother started
going and then we started rollerblading there and yeah, that park.
I would go there just as much as I would
spend time in school, and I loved it. It was
fenced and it had all these like quirky little things.
(20:41):
And then I was eighteen and I was the oldest
person at the park, only girl. So I'm like skating
with these tween boys and they loved me. They followed
me around. I loved because I didn't grow up with
that attention. It was like later girl. And then I
started being the only person skating there. I was like,
fuck freak. I was like, I have to go to
(21:03):
this other town that has the prefat park. And then
actually that started when I that's when I started getting
better at skating. Yeah, like actually alling into suff Yeah,
I got better at skating like after nineteen so sick.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
You started pretty young.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
You and your brother both started like a round twelve.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
I started. I started rollerblading at like second, skateboarding at age.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Of the roller blade.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
The roller blading, Fobby, rollerblading is so sick.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
I can see it.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
And it doesn't matter if it's like I've seen you
put skates on like recently and.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
It's yeah, we went to sea camp.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Yeah, we went to this park in Oregon. We're on
a trip. We're on a skate trip and you were
shreating too, and yeah, it's just different. You just had
a different flow. You were on the I was like,
I was like Bamby on ice and Fobby was like,
was not films. Bobby was like doing tricks.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Did you was Brink in your era of Yeah, okay,
for sure.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
It was actually based off of Robby.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
I wanted to be Your name was Gabriella, right, that
that chick she was so sick. She was the only
chick I do.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Yeah, was the chick from X games who Fabiola. Fabiola
was the only chick in X games who, And she
was like a rollerblad or in liner or.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I'm happy you know this?
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Yes, And we would watch the X Games and like
we would literally watch the rollerblading because it was the
only thing that there was a chicken all right, Well,
Fabby likes to skate really fast, so in the essence
of speed, let's take a quick ad break.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
You're touched on a good point of the process, right.
The process is different for every skateboarder when they're approaching
any challenge.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
That's ahead of them too.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Are you a huck and prey or are you a
methodical Like how do you approach something new that you're
trying to film?
Speaker 3 (22:56):
I think now I'm more I'm probably more methodical now
because I do have to as I get older, just
realize that I have to if I want this to last.
I have to be just like conscious about what I'm doing.
I can't just throw myself at something. And I also
don't feel like I have to. I don't feel like
I'm in a hustling mentality like maybe I I felt
(23:17):
like when I was coming up. So now I'm more Yeah,
I'm probably more methodical, but I'm really confident right now
because I now know what my limits are and then
maybe can push them. But yeah, I feel like I'm
kind of dancing that line right now.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Yeah, what's your process?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Like, I feel like what is Oh wow, I want it.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
My process is more mental honestly than it is physical
or at this point in my life. And I think
that's like kind of circumstantial. But I think after like
breaking my ankle years ago, at this point, I don't know.
I think like, like it was eighteen years of skating
until I broke my first bone.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
An incredible record.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Thank you, be proud. I am, no, I really am,
truly thank you. But I think the circumstance of breaking
my ankle was this thing of like I literally visualized
it before I did it. And I think my mind
and like my law of attraction, like I think my
ability to manifest is kind of insane, and I've seen
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this other reason of my life. But right now I'm
at a place where I like feel good. My body
feels super good. But let's say I'm skating a spot
and something feels like really wrong, or the day feels
really wrong or whatever. Especially if I'm like just home skating,
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or if I'm visualizing hitting my head or getting hurt,
I have to stop. Yeah, I have to stop because
it's like you pull that shit in. And I also
think that for a long time as we're like growing
up and like finding ourselves and our careers and pushing
our limits. Yeah, you take a lot of risk, Like
you take so much risk for maybe a reward or
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in order to like land a trick out of contest,
or in order to do it at this spot. And
I love that. I think that's like the way to
do it a lot of the times. But but yeah,
I think age totally dictates a lot of totally and yeah,
I want to be able like to skate the next day,
you know. Like for me, it's like so much about
longevity and being able to do this stuff for another
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fifteen years or whatever.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
You know.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
I think the longevity question is interesting too, because skateboarders
for a long time were too cool to work out,
to stretch, to do anything. Do you guys, like do
you take care of your body now, like exercise in
a way that maybe you didn't when you first started?
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Yeah I stretched now I have to stretch. But I've
always been super just into being healthy, like physically.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Aren't you running? That I can tell? And it looks good.
Like there's like a whole mental quality and physical.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Quality totally totally. It's yeah, a mental thing and also
just want to Yeah, part of it is longevity. And
I mean it's fun to skate for exercise, but I'm like,
you can't skate all the time.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Yeah, and sometimes it's like almost better to like like
have skate be its own thing.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Yea.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
How much are you running?
Speaker 3 (26:19):
I'll do like three miles a day. I haven't ran
in a month because I've been on trips. Yeah, and
that's actually really hard and I'm dreading going back to it,
but I'll know it's awesome. Yeah. I started off walking
every day and I'm like, freak, I wanna.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
I want to get aggressive aggressive.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
This isn't aggresive gazelle to run. And then yeah, just
back in Florida, I was like, I'm just gonna start
I'm gonna start running. And now I'm just love running.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Now she's a runner.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
She's a runner.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Tracks that are you doing more now too?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
After the ankle break? Oh yeah, I have. I'm just lazy,
Like I am a potato of the couch, like unless
I'm doing something I want to do, like unless I'm
surfing skating surf.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Yeah, line is like soft on your body for sure.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
And I think it's such a good opposite. It's similar
to skateboarding, but at the same time it's so opposite.
Like I'm naturally like way stronger upper body, so it's
like an easier thing sometimes. Yeah, Like I was a
swimmer in high school, and so I feel like I
like I'm just designed to be in the water a
little bit. But I think for me it's really good
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for my mental and my physical and all that stuff.
But playing golf I really like. And then when it
comes to like I need more structure with moving my body,
I go to the gym. I have like a trainer.
Her name is Ryan. She's fucking great.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Shout out Ryan.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
I think it's really easy also to like just like
be distracted, like the amount of time if like I'm
having like an off day or a tired day, like
the bad habits of phone and the bad habits of
even sitting for too long and not like taking like
rest in like a really intentional way. I think I
have to do the same thing intentionally with like taking
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care of my body, just because with skating too, I
think comes the traveling, like the drinking, the partying, the
social aspect, that's a whole nother thing. And when you
live this lifestyle where you're pushing yourself to your limits
and you know this because you've been filming for the
past like five years a ton of different parts. And
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then also like celebrating other people. I feel like our
lives can be a constant celebration, especially with all the
people we know and like all their achievements. So it's
like trying to counteract that lifestyle of indulgence. Like it
is so rare for me to go out and do
a trick right off the bat, or like land the
thing I wanted to land within an hour or twenty
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minutes or whatever.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Like it's usually multiple times process.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Or going back to the spot or this. So I
think too, like sometimes when you are putting that like
mental and physical pressure on yourself and that abuse you,
you want a reward.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Yeah, so true?
Speaker 1 (29:06):
More hardcore, yeah, you know. And then like also how
many times are we going and doing this stuff and
not walking away with a clip?
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
The amount of failure that you deal with is kind
of like the masochism.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Are you first a first try? You first time?
Speaker 3 (29:24):
I have a first try, curse, I get really close
or land it the first few tries, but if that
goes away, then it's tough, interesting and I can't. I
do not repeat spots. I will battle.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
You won't repeat a spot, I won't.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
I don't like to come back. I have, I've had
to come back, but I really so much of skating
for me is mental.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Is that how you are in relationships. Won't go back,
that's your that's your breakup process. I would love to
just kind of like for the audience, like, Okay, we
got people, hopefully you're skaters on this like listening end
or watching and the we have people too, maybe like
don't skate. I'm not really sure, but please tell us
who you are right in It's like there's such a
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crazy level of superstition, superstition in skateboarding that decides what
you will and won't do. And what I've heard from
you too, like there's a few things you have some
rules on and.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
It doesn't get better. It doesn't get better.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
You think it's worse for sure.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
I think so too. Ignorance is bliss and once you.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
At all, once you realize like how bad it can be,
It's like.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
I don't know, like, how how far does it go?
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Does it go to equipment where you're like, I need
an actual color.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
I'm more superstitious about your freaks, but I'm not very
I'm pretty much not superstitious about the gear.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Okay, I like any of my rings on, but.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
That's actually yeah something, So you have to have your
rings on?
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Yeah, yeah, I do go be but that's like a
but I've had it.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
The ring falling thing is terrifying sometimes, like okay, but
we probably shouldn't be talking about this. Why superstition, baby,
it's interesting manifest this.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
I can and I know the process.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Now, Fobby, what is like your if you're gonna skate
up skateboard? Do you want it brand new? Do you
want it two weeks old? Do you want Have you
ever regripped boards?
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Never regripped? I'm going on a trip to fresh boards.
Yeah the X yes, vx's, but recently I haven't haven't
skated the x's. But I think for me, I can't go.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
For me.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
It's just like if I'm going on a trip, I
want to make sure my trucks aren't going to fall off,
Like I don't want to skate a brand new board
mid trip or totally brand new trucks or wheels mid trip.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Brandy Trucks is like, my, it's tough, it's worst, makes
me on will yeah, But it's.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Like something where it's never it hasn't failed me yet,
so I amn't still ignorant to it. So I don't
think I'm superstitious about that, but I am superstitious kind
of you were saying manifesting. I'm the same way, like
if I have it's so good to be in tune
with with that because I'm like, if I have any inking,
any something doesn't feel right, I don't mind walking away.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
And I think the one thing that helps me with
that process is it's really easy to go down like
the negative hole or the negative space. But I also
think of, you know what, I'm gonna land at this
try like visualizing the visualization of landing the trick. If
I can be there, it's gonna happen, you know. But
even that, it's cool. But it's like a double edged
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sword because there's like power with that, and there's also
power on the other side of like going to the
spot for the second time being like wow, it really
stuck to walk away, not landing it and then you're like,
I have to come back.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
A third time, so much pressure.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
And you have people there. You have your filmer who's
shown up. You have a friend or to someone else's
skate with. You have your photographer who's probably already got
the shot to some degree, but maybe you didn't wear
the same outfit you got to. Like it really is
just like the intricacies of skating. I mean, it's like
why we all do it.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
But yeah, speaking of equipment and hard goods, I think
you started a company. Yes, you want to tell us
about it?
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Ye, So basically me and Nicole Hawas, Diana Young, some
skater girls, really cool chicas. We're all friends. Actually you
were there actually in the inception. So we basically have
decided to start a collective manufacturing aka hard hardware company
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called Loop Hardware Sansford left our own party and it
we basically made it, not because we needed hardware, but
that's nice too, but kind of an excuse to bring
us all together and be creative and just do our
own thing. And yeah, we just went on a trip.
Nora's on the team. By the way, we played Nora,
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Oh the.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Breaking on good Luck with sponsored Wan give this loopsicker
to Nora.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
You're joking, you're joking.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Welcome to the team, baby team.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Wait you're old sponsorble.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Well this is very this is crazy for many reasons.
But you guys just went on a trip. And we'll
go into this. They just did a massive trip all
the way up to Vancouver, and I had prior arrangements
and couldn't join this like power trip. It was power
it was about a trip. Yeah, it was like as
big as it gets crew wise, but also just like
the coolest thing ever. So I love you guys. I'm
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very excited about this. So this is really cool.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Welcome to the team, Welcome to the teams.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
I feel like I'm like sitting at the cool kids table.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
But do you want to talk about the trip, like
what came of it? What happened by highs Lows tell
us the goss.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Yeah, it was definitely highs Lows. It was just every
emotion ever And I think going into it, it was
a little bit of there's no way this is going
to actually happen, but we're like wishful, thinking that would
be cool, that'd be cool, And then eventually people started agreeing.
We started renting the van like we got the Airbnb.
It just everything was making sense. So I think we
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just used that momentum. And I mean we obviously needed
to get some content and just start the brand and
not just have it like something that we talk about.
So we thought, let's do a trip, and it was
Nicole's idea to do a road trip. And then Monster
was going to premiere that video in Vancouver, so it
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was just the stars aligning and we got the crew.
Pretty much everyone who was down is now on the team.
It was kind of and that's organic. And yeah, we
got Poppy star Olsen legend, Australian legend, and we flew
out and she filmed for us. So we were filming ourselves,
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taking photo photos of ourselves and Nicole drove, I got
all the spots. I was a second filmer, So it
was we did it all.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Yeah, you all did stuff.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Rope Snowboarder. Tell us about Jill.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Jillian is funny. Jill is funny, Jill's the best.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
But I feel like Jill is.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Jill Jill Perkins, who's one of the gnarliest pro.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
So yeah, but Jill also skates, and I think a
lot of people like, unless you follow Jill, you wouldn't
maybe know that, but I think the crossover that we
have in our world with skating and surfing and whatnot,
it's pretty potent, especially in like the woman's scene. So yeah,
I think it was really cool to see that. And
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another thing I kind of wanted to touch on that
is more for like educational purposes. Is another reason why
like doing your own brand, big, small, whatever it may be,
like just using that as an opportunity to get everyone
together and skating together. It's really important because a lot
of us, our trips and our travel is dictated by sponsors,
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and a lot of that is like our shoe sponsors.
Like in skateboarding, your shoe sponsor dictates a lot of
who you're with, a lot of where you go, and
it's top in your priority list, especially if you are
getting a good paycheck, your your high. Like they take
up a lot of your time. So this trip's cool
because obviously you ride for Etne's, some of the girls
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ride for Vans, some of the girls ride for Nike.
So it's cool to like have that organic crew of
people who are getting to you know, go outside maybe
the normal crew.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
That they get to skate with.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
And yeah, yeah, it's really nice because I feel like
we've all been pulled in different directions the last few years.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
All Right, we have much more to discuss with Bobby,
but let's slam into a quick ad break first.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
It's a weird thing, but I let things fly. It's
like a survival thing. And I do a lot of
recreational stuff, like I like to party. I love my beer,
and the guys love that, all my bosses love that.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
I feel like there's this thing about male dominated industries
like ours, right, there's no willingness for them to change
their behaviors to be more professional because it's part of
the culture, right, So they're going to continue to behave
the same ways and boys club and all those things
because they're all still in the positions of power. They
still determine who's on the team or not. Team managers
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really do have a lot of power when it comes
to your career. And if you don't show up and
blow up drink beers after you're not part of the crew.
What's getting to me at this point too, is that
those guys are aging and how does it look for
them drinking beers at the bar with a twenty year
old girl. But some of them don't care. Yeah, and
that's where you see the difference right now. The ones
that don't seem to care, that are still upholding these
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cultural values, I feel like are really stagnating.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Yeah. But a team manager too, to go back to
the description, or like even being a boss of brand manager.
I always get frustrated with the experience that like a
lot of young men in skateboarding get to be mentored
by older professional skateboarders or people who've lived their lives,
and it's amazing, it's cool. It's like you get to
see like this, you meet this young individual and you
help like bring them forward in their career. You help
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them be a better professional skateboarder, you help them be
a better person at life. That's awesome. When it comes
to women in that experience having that one to one mentorship,
it is not the same way that like these conversations
about what it's like to live our lived experience as
a woman don't happen. And because that team manager, whose
job is to service the athlete, can't really relate to
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what's going on in your mind and body.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
I think in every aspect, there's so many places that
women could hold positions of power. Yeah, so Fabi speaking
about like holding the door open. What is some stuff
you're looking forward to in the future, and what are
some people you're looking forward to seeing as they, you know,
blossom as skaters.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Well, I want to be a brand manager and I
want to be a boss. I want to pick the
people on the Dan trip. That's my next stage of life.
But in the meantime, yeah, just just sharing my knowledge,
just passing it on like you know the people before
me did to me, and just do that.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
I like it.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Yeah. No, no holding hands, but a nice little guidance.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
You can hold hands sometimes.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
We love summer parties and we love holding in.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
We love holding hands.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Where can we find you?
Speaker 3 (40:33):
You can find me on Instagram at Fabiana Underscore Adulphino.
I'm not on TikTok. Yeah, and you can look at
my blue verified check look at it.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
All right. So that was another episode of good Luck
with That, a podcast about women's skateboarding on the Women's
Sports Network with iHeart. We're so happy to be here.
We've got a lot of really exciting guests coming up.
All right, everyone, good Luck with that.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
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in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment.
Speaker 4 (41:08):
We are your hosts Ashley Rayfield, Dora of Askenzelo's, and
Alex White.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
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Speaker 4 (41:14):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hey, everyone, welcome to Good Luck with That, a podcast
about women's skateboarding. I'm Ashley Raefeld, I'm Nora of Asconcelos.
I am Alex White, and today we have Bobby Delphino,
a skateboarder, a daredevil, a Floridian, a very cool human.
We're so lucky to have you here.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I'm so happy to be here with my heroes in
the flesh on the couch. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Wish you were on this couch, I know, but that's okay.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
It's probably warmer next time.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I just learned something kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Your last name means Dolphin, Yes, Dolphin and Italian.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I didn't know that, and now this all makes so
much sense. Your first board graphic the Dolphins.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
But you're Venezuelan.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yeah, I'm Venezuelan.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yea.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
My whole family's from Venezuela, and I was born in America.
My brother and I were born in Miami.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Your brother is also a professional skateboarder, yeah, yeah, he
goes by Pedro.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I'm not sure if you like no of eim ever.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Met Yeah, goes by Pedro or his name is Pitt Pedro.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
His name is Pedro and he goes with is he fifth? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Are you serious?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah? All my grandparents, like the dads are Pedro.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Does he have a middle name, yeah, Pedro.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
But enough about Pedro. Women in skateboarding. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I feel like often a lot of people love to
get into an interview with you by talking about your brother.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
And I'd love to say for those listening, this is
exactly why we have the show, because today it is
about Bobby and why we find you to be one
of our most exciting skateboarders of twenty twenty five. It's
been a big year for you, and I'm really excited
to talk about some of the things you've been up
to and some of the things you're hoping to get to
in twenty six. You just came off one of maybe
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your best parts. I think we watched your parts all
last night and it felt like it was like, yeah, anthology.
I wouldn't call it like the Opus, but it was
like it felt like it was like your album where
you know, you have the indie album that helped introduce
everybody to your style of skateboarding and what you're up
to and people are like, Okay, I'm into this. And
then all of a sudden, the sponsors came in and
(02:10):
you got more production value and more time and more
trips and built another part out, and then all of
a sudden, the like big record label came in and
we're like, we're going to give you time to work
on this album. We're going to travel and take you
all over the world. It just showed that you had
reached this like complete peak of bringing it all together,
and it was such like an incredible part that I
(02:31):
was just like, can I watch that one more time?
Like right after it finished, it was like, let's do
that again. So I just want to congratulate you.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Thank you, hard work, very well received. I like the
way you put that the indie label the record, Like,
that's a good way to put it.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
You're on the charts, You're you're up on the top
Billboard right now.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Thanks, You've gone platinum a few times.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
It feels good.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I know.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
I want to ask you because this part you've worked
with Shari White. Yeah on two videos credits, which was
the band's video and now the volume four down straight up.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Three videos. Oh yeah. The first one was I skate,
which just part oh your skate was just probably she
filmed not all of it, but she filmed most of
it and then she edited it.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
What's different about working with a friend, a homie, a
woman film or sorry white.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
That's something I'm like kind of newly discovering because I
never really had friends who actually filmed, let alone like
women in skating. Yeah, just puttings all in one has
been really sick. So someone like Shari, who's a great
friend and then also just so talented, it's way different
from anything else that I've worked with because you could
actually be yourself, you know, So it's been really fun
(03:39):
and yeah, she's a great guideline and great director.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Yeah, do you feel like Shari gets you said? Like
I can be myself more? Can you like elaborate a
little bit about what it feels like to somebody that
knows you're skating, that knows your capabilities, versus maybe filming
with a stranger, a guy, a random Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Well be cause Shari and I probably share the same inspiration,
you know, like maybe not all women find it, but
I find inspiration in other women skaters. So I think
probably just right off the bat, without even knowing each other,
we already share so many interests and yeah, inspiration, So
you know, there's different expectations from someone like Shari versus
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like Bill Stroback, for example, And that is super helpful
because I don't feel I don't feel insecure. Yeah, and
I could take my shirt around. I could take my
shirt off around Shari, and I don't think I.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Could do that with And she knows what it's like
to be on your period while you're trying to find
and I can talk about my period.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
It's pretty wild because every trip's a little bit different,
and you have trips that are really just set up
just to film, and then you have other trips that
are set up that have campaigns or product shoots or
demos or a huge crew, Like you'll be on a
crew with like twelve other skaters, and so if it's
a seven day trip, you maybe have one opportunity to
skate the one thing that you want to skate on
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that trip. So yeah, I think it's hard because I
do think time is of the essence, and you travel
halfway across the globe and you maybe walk walk away
with like a three second clip, and that can be
pretty exhausting and tiring, but like Fabi is saying, when
you have a filmer that you see eyed eye with
who can capture your personality that you're not scared to
(05:22):
like be comfortable and be yourself around it like completely
changes the game.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yeah, you actually feel seen almost at the good point.
The personality thing.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yeah, I get I've had issues in the past where
I feel really frustrated and I don't know if it's
just because I was filming like with men in particular,
but for me, like my personality I think is a
huge part of like filming video parts and my skating
and like how I want to be seen. So if
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things are too serious or if I'm trying to like
describe what you should be filming of me, especially like
in the b roll space, I'm like, this isn't gonna
work totally. Like if that makes well, do.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
You feel like you like are kind of like trying
to like prove to them like you're worthy of their
time sometimes like s are you totally this is your
friend who like knows how legit, how like serious and
knows what's at risk for you at the spot Like
she's showing up being like Bobby's coming out and trying
her hardest for this trick. I feel like sometimes when
you get a signed a film or on a trip
or like they're there and you know them, they're used
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to filming with people who are in a different stratosphere
of skateboarding, and then all of a sudden, it's like
you're wasting their time if you can't get the trick.
There's something that like then that now you have that
mental heart hurdle to like hop over you already have enough.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
That's like a super difficult aspect and I think for
so long, like I think being a woman and like
being allowed on these trips or invited on these trips,
the amount of stuff that you're willing to sacrifice for
like your personal like expression, it's pretty crazy. Like you
get to the point where like like I've had moments
(07:02):
where I'm gonna trip and I am like down bad,
maybe I got hurt or it's my period, and it's
like the amount of time it took for me to
be like I need to text my TM and just
say I'm gonna meet up with them two hours late
because I'm like literally like my uterine wall is like
falling out, Like.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Like that's a whole thing that like I'm yeah, like
that's crazy to like have to say and it's hard
to like not be comfortable enough to say that, But
I don't know, I just hope that changes.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Well, there's like performance, Like there's science finally happening around
athletes and their periods and what that does to your performance.
It won your balance is not fully there, your hormones
and your decision making and your ability to just feel
like fully in control of your body, which is so
deeply fundamental, Like you have to be in tune with
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the whole head to toe experience the skateboarding.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
And you have to find a bathroom, you know, talk
about you know how many insane we could take this
out later, but I've had to change my tampon in
a bush, Like we're not always stopping, yeah, fucking especially
like if you're the only girl in the van, like
which is likely, which is which is most Yeah, it still.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Kind of nine point eight percent of the time.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Yeah, yes, so much different because yeah, all women's video,
which is really rare. I mean, the guys had guest clips,
which I thought was a great way to flip the script.
But talk about being able to skate with somebody like
Ruby Lilly, like the two of you didn't really know
each other before this project.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Yeah, well, I mean this like was the funnest experience
ever filming for any part. Like I had the most
fun skateboarding period. And then also like no pun intended,
and I had the best time skateboarding filming. So it
was just an all around awesome time. And I think
about why, and it for sure was the crowd around
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and Ruby and Shari and it was definitely like I
had known Chari before, so I was I was like
already comfortable. But yeah, Ruby's just so fun. You know,
she's ten years younger than me, and but we share
this Like I said the same that we're from the
same cloth almost is she from Florida to No, she's
(09:18):
from Maryland, Maryltimore and it shows, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
It's in the old Bay she carries around.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Yeah. The big thing for me was Monster puts so
much emphasis on making this video, so much budget, and
I was like, all they have to do is do
my thing. Yeah, so that was I mean, there's pressure there,
but I was like, fuck it, I'm just gonna do
my thing. You know.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
It really looked like you were skating stuff that you
really wanted to skate. Yeah, And I felt like there
was this like well roundedness to that, and like, I
think that's like one of the hardest things is sometimes
with those video projects there's too many cooks in the kitchen.
And I've experienced that like firsthand, where it's like just
to me, like I just want to skate this thing,
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like you guys don't have to try hard to create
a place or space or think if I can do
something at this spot or not, Like I know what
I'm capable of. And I feel like that video is
such a good testament to they listen to you fully,
like it doesn't like there's no disjointedness. Everyone's skating super well.
(10:22):
I like the mixture of like park skating and street skating.
I don't know, I just felt like there's this this
unison there.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yeah. Seamless, Yeah, seamless. Do you think you've you've seen like,
have you felt like a seamless experience a similar to
what I've just described.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Have I had that happen before? Yes? Is it happening
for me most of the time? Probably not?
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Probably not.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yeah, And as someone who works in the industry puts
together trips and kind of the like back end of
it is that there's these moments that you have to
like drive content around product. You're going to release a product,
you got to put the video job. Yeah, but it's
like it's an amount of like so they're gonna put
together Like there's all these like quotas throughout the year
that we got to do these trips to get this content.
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What is clear about the Monster part though, is that
you said they put a lot of funding into it,
But the funding was you were given time, you were
given agency to pick someone that would pair with you,
and you were given funding to really like make it
work for you. And as a result of that, the
product and the video piece is incredible. And we see
that again like all the time, like women's sports, it's like, well,
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the product's always good, Like it's been there, it just
wasn't like given the right money, resources and time to
show up in the right way. And we're at this
kind of really cool point in women's skateboarding where those
in the industry that get it, see, if we give
the time, the resources, we trust the writer to tell
us what their needs are and we don't necessarily only
put them on a trip with ten other dudes eight
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dudes and say, hey, can you guys like share seven
days and share spots and figure out a way that
like you can skate the same spot as that person
and that person and all of a sudden, you're gonna
maybe get that three second clip you traveled all the
way around the world for totally where you became the
priority and guess what that video part shows that you're
the priority. And it's just so incredible to see.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
And it's also like trust the vision, right, like trust
trust the artists, trust trust Fobby's vision, trust Ruby's vision,
trust Shari's vision. Cause it's like you're not here like
by accident, like you did, you did everything.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
To be where you are, so you know, years in
the making.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Yeah, you know what you want to skate like.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
And the thing that I think is half of it
is maybe the industry things that we just started skating
five years ago, because that's when they maybe started paying attention.
But you've been skating since you were a kid. Same
so it's like I've been known what's up, like we
just showed up. So don't think that like we don't
need our handheld, you know, I mean, you know, trust.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Us again, it's all about the van and skateboarding. It's
like a lot of travel either on the plane or
in the van. Only so many people can fit in
in a van, and you have to account for like
the film, the photographer, and then like the rest of
the team that can fill in the van. Then that
means you're traveling, So you're staying overnight somewhere. Then that's
a hotel room, so you share hotel rooms. Well, if
it's a female, they're going to share for safety a
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room with another woman. Just better policy, better experience.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Logistics, logistics.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
But I've literally directly heard, well, we can't ask or
we can't excuse me, we can't invite three women because
then that would throw off the hotel rooms and that
would blow the budget.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Do they know how much women like to have sleepovers?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
But like my entire personality when I was eleven years
old was centered around sleepovers. I had the American Girl
book about sleepovers. I knew the snacks were eating on sleepovers.
So fun, guess what, let us have sleepovers?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
I know what are adaptable creatures. It's just crazy that
only there's room for two or one.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
There's room for eight in that you know.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Sleepover. I'm so lonely on trips. Yeah, I'm the only
in my only person in my room. Yeah, like all
the guys are like having a little somber party and
yeah summer parties too. Yeah, they love it. You know,
literally everybody likes slumper parties. Everyone loves the sum party.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Also, like the business cases there, Like the more you
put into the resources of more women are gender expansive
people on a trip, the more that they're going to
reach this unique market that is only their audience that
wouldn't have been invited in by the same typical eight
rotation people on that roster. And so you miss this
whole like kind of like system where one, it's about
you and your experience, but it's also about like the
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business of this whole thing. That's why we're here, and
you're missing that, Like you could be growing a whole
new like customer basis out of this. So I don't
understand if it doesn't fit people's values, Like literally we
see the numbers pull in, but the values aren't there,
and it's like it doesn't fit their version of skateboarding,
so they leave the money on the table. That part's crazy.
So that's just like the industry thing.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Yeah, but speaking which I used to work at NHS
and A Cruz Skateboards is Fabian a sponsor, and I
used to see how many boards you would sell every year,
and she was the number three board seller behind and
three issues, which are classic skateboards. And then Eric Winkowski
also on the team, and then it was Fobby. Thousands
of units a year were Fabby on Adolphino boards, so
obviously there was demand for Fobby and I think that
(15:12):
part of that demand, if I was gonna articulate it,
is that you have a certain style of skateboarding and
approach to skateboarding. And maybe it's hard to do, but
can you describe like how you like to skate I'm
I think I'm pretty aggressive.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Yeah, I'm pretty aggressive, and I don't think it's just
just skateboarding. I just naturally am kind of aggressive. Like
when I played soccer, I kind of had the same attitude.
And but that's probably the best way I could put it.
I just and maybe like I just have fun with it.
I've just been skating for so long, so I just
however you want to describe it as.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Well, it's pretty like pure like yeah, watching Fabby skate
is like watching somebody like do the thing that they're
supposed to do. Yes, but there's also this like uninhibitedness
of you're gonna slam. Like we all do skateboarding, we
all slam, but like there's a part of it that
I think is part of your style in the sense
of like you don't hold anything back and it's very
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exciting and it makes your ability levels higher than a
lot of other people. And I just feel like you're
constantly like growing and pushing yourself. Like every like like
we were talking about, every video park is better and better.
But yeah, you also have a unique style because you
kind of skate everything and it's just refreshing.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Yeah, you two kind of skate is similar similar terrain.
And what's interesting when I think about the terrain that
you all skate is like a lot it's terrain. You know,
it's and look air street skateboarder through and through. So
don't get me wrong, there's this like unwillingness to accept
that a lot of skateboarders like learn how to skate
the skate park, so a lot of their like trick
selection and terrain style that they're going to choose is
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like from this earlier experience at the park, and I think,
what's cool about your trick selection has like you can
kind of see where the transition of the skate park is,
and then you find the craziest spots that don't look
like a skate park to skate and you like seamlessly
bring this far.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
You make it like.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Fluid and you're skating fast and slamming.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
How are your elbows right now?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
They're completely dark and I would love to see you.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
It's really dark.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
And well, they just keep adding yeah, a little bit
of swell, but I wish I had more.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Well, every time i'd see Fobby, I think, I always
think you look so cool and like every clip because
your elbows are like shot, like you can tell that
you've been slamming, and it's actually like an indicator. I
feel like, you know, people look at skateboarding at scuff
marks on shoes. I'm like, look at the elbows.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
That's true. Yeah, yeah, but that's something I had to
kind of get past because once I really started, like
in my teens, and you know, skating for me was
I wasn't trying to go. It was just something I
enjoyed doing. But then you're like enjoying this thing that's
also fucking freaking up your body and freaking you're doing
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this thing that you love and you're actually getting like, yeah,
roughed up and my mom's like fabby, Like here's a
scar cream. And so part of it is like.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
It's like, what about your wedding day?
Speaker 3 (18:07):
No, no, no, no, no exactly no, I know, it's true,
it's a thing.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
They're like, well, what about your wedding day? Like I'm like,
what do you talk?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Literally, what are you talking the one day in your
whole life.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
That one day in your whole life you're supposed to
be a princess and your elbows look like that.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I'm like, it's distracting. But that's part of the thing
where I had to just accept, like I mean, when
am I going to quit this thing that I love,
you know? But also knowing that it goes down to
the psychology of being a woman, right, It's like letting
go of the vanity being okay, Like when people people
don't know what I do, and then they'll look at
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my elbow and people could find that ugly. I mean
I don't it's my tattoos.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
But people ask if you're safe, if they need to
call someone for you.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
I got that in high school, did you really?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Well? You did not from skateboarding.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Yeah, I had an incident where like I had run
into a like a grown man on a scooter at
a skate park and I had these like two marks
on my forearms, like mid forearm, and I had a
teacher kind of like be like, what's that from? I
was like, if you must know, I was skateboarding and
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I had a grown man run into me with handlebars.
And I don't think it made it. I don't think
that helped really. I think you were still confused. But
but yeah, I mean we put our bodies through a lot,
and I do think like I had so many even
like girlfriends who were like does that bother you? And
I was like, no, it really doesn't. Like our bodies
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are like designed to be used totally and in vanity
is your thing, that's totally cool, but it's okay that
it's not mine. Four hours.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
I want to ask you a little bit about your roots.
You grew up in Florida skating like a prefab park
that now is in risk of getting demolished or you
know whatever. Can you talk about how that park shaped you?
And you know where it puts.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
You prefab park. I started skating at eighteen, but basically
my home park. I grew up in boke ratone and
they had a skate park. There was a memorial park
that somebody, a family had donated to the city, and
it was it was basically built by rollerbladers, so it
was the transition was all weird, but I didn't kind
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of care or no. And then I was a little
bit too young when to skate, but my brother started
going and then we started rollerblading there and yeah, that park.
I would go there just as much as I would
spend time in school, and I loved it. It was
fenced and it had all these like quirky little things.
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And then I was eighteen and I was the oldest
person at the park, only girl. So I'm like skating
with these tween boys and they loved me. They followed
me around. I loved because I didn't grow up with
that attention. It was like later girl. And then I
started being the only person skating there. I was like,
fuck freak. I was like, I have to go to
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this other town that has the prefat park. And then
actually that started when I that's when I started getting
better at skating. Yeah, like actually alling into suff Yeah,
I got better at skating like after nineteen so sick.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
You started pretty young.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
You and your brother both started like a round twelve.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
I started. I started rollerblading at like second, skateboarding at age.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Of the roller blade.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
The roller blading, Fobby, rollerblading is so sick.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
I can see it.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
And it doesn't matter if it's like I've seen you
put skates on like recently and.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
It's yeah, we went to sea camp.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Yeah, we went to this park in Oregon. We're on
a trip. We're on a skate trip and you were
shreating too, and yeah, it's just different. You just had
a different flow. You were on the I was like,
I was like Bamby on ice and Fobby was like,
was not films. Bobby was like doing tricks.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Did you was Brink in your era of Yeah, okay,
for sure.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
It was actually based off of Robby.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
I wanted to be Your name was Gabriella, right, that
that chick she was so sick. She was the only
chick I do.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Yeah, was the chick from X games who Fabiola. Fabiola
was the only chick in X games who, And she
was like a rollerblad or in liner or.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I'm happy you know this?
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Yes, And we would watch the X Games and like
we would literally watch the rollerblading because it was the
only thing that there was a chicken all right, Well,
Fabby likes to skate really fast, so in the essence
of speed, let's take a quick ad break.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
You're touched on a good point of the process, right.
The process is different for every skateboarder when they're approaching
any challenge.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
That's ahead of them too.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Are you a huck and prey or are you a
methodical Like how do you approach something new that you're
trying to film?
Speaker 3 (22:56):
I think now I'm more I'm probably more methodical now
because I do have to as I get older, just
realize that I have to if I want this to last.
I have to be just like conscious about what I'm doing.
I can't just throw myself at something. And I also
don't feel like I have to. I don't feel like
I'm in a hustling mentality like maybe I I felt
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like when I was coming up. So now I'm more Yeah,
I'm probably more methodical, but I'm really confident right now
because I now know what my limits are and then
maybe can push them. But yeah, I feel like I'm
kind of dancing that line right now.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Yeah, what's your process?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Like, I feel like what is Oh wow, I want it.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
My process is more mental honestly than it is physical
or at this point in my life. And I think
that's like kind of circumstantial. But I think after like
breaking my ankle years ago, at this point, I don't know.
I think like, like it was eighteen years of skating
until I broke my first bone.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
An incredible record.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Thank you, be proud. I am, no, I really am,
truly thank you. But I think the circumstance of breaking
my ankle was this thing of like I literally visualized
it before I did it. And I think my mind
and like my law of attraction, like I think my
ability to manifest is kind of insane, and I've seen
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this other reason of my life. But right now I'm
at a place where I like feel good. My body
feels super good. But let's say I'm skating a spot
and something feels like really wrong, or the day feels
really wrong or whatever. Especially if I'm like just home skating,
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or if I'm visualizing hitting my head or getting hurt,
I have to stop. Yeah, I have to stop because
it's like you pull that shit in. And I also
think that for a long time as we're like growing
up and like finding ourselves and our careers and pushing
our limits. Yeah, you take a lot of risk, Like
you take so much risk for maybe a reward or
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in order to like land a trick out of contest,
or in order to do it at this spot. And
I love that. I think that's like the way to
do it a lot of the times. But but yeah,
I think age totally dictates a lot of totally and yeah,
I want to be able like to skate the next day,
you know. Like for me, it's like so much about
longevity and being able to do this stuff for another
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fifteen years or whatever.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
You know.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
I think the longevity question is interesting too, because skateboarders
for a long time were too cool to work out,
to stretch, to do anything. Do you guys, like do
you take care of your body now, like exercise in
a way that maybe you didn't when you first started?
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Yeah I stretched now I have to stretch. But I've
always been super just into being healthy, like physically.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Aren't you running? That I can tell? And it looks good.
Like there's like a whole mental quality and physical.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Quality totally totally. It's yeah, a mental thing and also
just want to Yeah, part of it is longevity. And
I mean it's fun to skate for exercise, but I'm like,
you can't skate all the time.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Yeah, and sometimes it's like almost better to like like
have skate be its own thing.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Yea.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
How much are you running?
Speaker 3 (26:19):
I'll do like three miles a day. I haven't ran
in a month because I've been on trips. Yeah, and
that's actually really hard and I'm dreading going back to it,
but I'll know it's awesome. Yeah. I started off walking
every day and I'm like, freak, I wanna.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
I want to get aggressive aggressive.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
This isn't aggresive gazelle to run. And then yeah, just
back in Florida, I was like, I'm just gonna start
I'm gonna start running. And now I'm just love running.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Now she's a runner.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
She's a runner.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Tracks that are you doing more now too?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
After the ankle break? Oh yeah, I have. I'm just lazy,
Like I am a potato of the couch, like unless
I'm doing something I want to do, like unless I'm
surfing skating surf.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Yeah, line is like soft on your body for sure.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
And I think it's such a good opposite. It's similar
to skateboarding, but at the same time it's so opposite.
Like I'm naturally like way stronger upper body, so it's
like an easier thing sometimes. Yeah, Like I was a
swimmer in high school, and so I feel like I
like I'm just designed to be in the water a
little bit. But I think for me it's really good
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for my mental and my physical and all that stuff.
But playing golf I really like. And then when it
comes to like I need more structure with moving my body,
I go to the gym. I have like a trainer.
Her name is Ryan. She's fucking great.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Shout out Ryan.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
I think it's really easy also to like just like
be distracted, like the amount of time if like I'm
having like an off day or a tired day, like
the bad habits of phone and the bad habits of
even sitting for too long and not like taking like
rest in like a really intentional way. I think I
have to do the same thing intentionally with like taking
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care of my body, just because with skating too, I
think comes the traveling, like the drinking, the partying, the
social aspect, that's a whole nother thing. And when you
live this lifestyle where you're pushing yourself to your limits
and you know this because you've been filming for the
past like five years a ton of different parts. And
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then also like celebrating other people. I feel like our
lives can be a constant celebration, especially with all the
people we know and like all their achievements. So it's
like trying to counteract that lifestyle of indulgence. Like it
is so rare for me to go out and do
a trick right off the bat, or like land the
thing I wanted to land within an hour or twenty
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minutes or whatever.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Like it's usually multiple times process.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Or going back to the spot or this. So I
think too, like sometimes when you are putting that like
mental and physical pressure on yourself and that abuse you,
you want a reward.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Yeah, so true?
Speaker 1 (29:06):
More hardcore, yeah, you know. And then like also how
many times are we going and doing this stuff and
not walking away with a clip?
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
The amount of failure that you deal with is kind
of like the masochism.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Are you first a first try? You first time?
Speaker 3 (29:24):
I have a first try, curse, I get really close
or land it the first few tries, but if that
goes away, then it's tough, interesting and I can't. I
do not repeat spots. I will battle.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
You won't repeat a spot, I won't.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
I don't like to come back. I have, I've had
to come back, but I really so much of skating
for me is mental.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Is that how you are in relationships. Won't go back,
that's your that's your breakup process. I would love to
just kind of like for the audience, like, Okay, we
got people, hopefully you're skaters on this like listening end
or watching and the we have people too, maybe like
don't skate. I'm not really sure, but please tell us
who you are right in It's like there's such a
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crazy level of superstition, superstition in skateboarding that decides what
you will and won't do. And what I've heard from
you too, like there's a few things you have some
rules on and.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
It doesn't get better. It doesn't get better.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
You think it's worse for sure.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
I think so too. Ignorance is bliss and once you.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
At all, once you realize like how bad it can be,
It's like.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
I don't know, like, how how far does it go?
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Does it go to equipment where you're like, I need
an actual color.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
I'm more superstitious about your freaks, but I'm not very
I'm pretty much not superstitious about the gear.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Okay, I like any of my rings on, but.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
That's actually yeah something, So you have to have your
rings on?
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Yeah, yeah, I do go be but that's like a
but I've had it.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
The ring falling thing is terrifying sometimes, like okay, but
we probably shouldn't be talking about this. Why superstition, baby,
it's interesting manifest this.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
I can and I know the process.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Now, Fobby, what is like your if you're gonna skate
up skateboard? Do you want it brand new? Do you
want it two weeks old? Do you want Have you
ever regripped boards?
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Never regripped? I'm going on a trip to fresh boards.
Yeah the X yes, vx's, but recently I haven't haven't
skated the x's. But I think for me, I can't go.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
For me.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
It's just like if I'm going on a trip, I
want to make sure my trucks aren't going to fall off,
Like I don't want to skate a brand new board
mid trip or totally brand new trucks or wheels mid trip.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Brandy Trucks is like, my, it's tough, it's worst, makes
me on will yeah, But it's.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Like something where it's never it hasn't failed me yet,
so I amn't still ignorant to it. So I don't
think I'm superstitious about that, but I am superstitious kind
of you were saying manifesting. I'm the same way, like
if I have it's so good to be in tune
with with that because I'm like, if I have any inking,
any something doesn't feel right, I don't mind walking away.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
And I think the one thing that helps me with
that process is it's really easy to go down like
the negative hole or the negative space. But I also
think of, you know what, I'm gonna land at this
try like visualizing the visualization of landing the trick. If
I can be there, it's gonna happen, you know. But
even that, it's cool. But it's like a double edged
(32:30):
sword because there's like power with that, and there's also
power on the other side of like going to the
spot for the second time being like wow, it really
stuck to walk away, not landing it and then you're like,
I have to come back.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
A third time, so much pressure.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
And you have people there. You have your filmer who's
shown up. You have a friend or to someone else's
skate with. You have your photographer who's probably already got
the shot to some degree, but maybe you didn't wear
the same outfit you got to. Like it really is
just like the intricacies of skating. I mean, it's like
why we all do it.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
But yeah, speaking of equipment and hard goods, I think
you started a company. Yes, you want to tell us
about it?
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Ye, So basically me and Nicole Hawas, Diana Young, some
skater girls, really cool chicas. We're all friends. Actually you
were there actually in the inception. So we basically have
decided to start a collective manufacturing aka hard hardware company
(33:31):
called Loop Hardware Sansford left our own party and it
we basically made it, not because we needed hardware, but
that's nice too, but kind of an excuse to bring
us all together and be creative and just do our
own thing. And yeah, we just went on a trip.
Nora's on the team. By the way, we played Nora,
(33:53):
Oh the.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Breaking on good Luck with sponsored Wan give this loopsicker
to Nora.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
You're joking, you're joking.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Welcome to the team, baby team.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Wait you're old sponsorble.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Well this is very this is crazy for many reasons.
But you guys just went on a trip. And we'll
go into this. They just did a massive trip all
the way up to Vancouver, and I had prior arrangements
and couldn't join this like power trip. It was power
it was about a trip. Yeah, it was like as
big as it gets crew wise, but also just like
the coolest thing ever. So I love you guys. I'm
(34:31):
very excited about this. So this is really cool.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Welcome to the team, Welcome to the teams.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
I feel like I'm like sitting at the cool kids table.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
But do you want to talk about the trip, like
what came of it? What happened by highs Lows tell
us the goss.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Yeah, it was definitely highs Lows. It was just every
emotion ever And I think going into it, it was
a little bit of there's no way this is going
to actually happen, but we're like wishful, thinking that would
be cool, that'd be cool, And then eventually people started agreeing.
We started renting the van like we got the Airbnb.
It just everything was making sense. So I think we
(35:04):
just used that momentum. And I mean we obviously needed
to get some content and just start the brand and
not just have it like something that we talk about.
So we thought, let's do a trip, and it was
Nicole's idea to do a road trip. And then Monster
was going to premiere that video in Vancouver, so it
(35:25):
was just the stars aligning and we got the crew.
Pretty much everyone who was down is now on the team.
It was kind of and that's organic. And yeah, we
got Poppy star Olsen legend, Australian legend, and we flew
out and she filmed for us. So we were filming ourselves,
(35:48):
taking photo photos of ourselves and Nicole drove, I got
all the spots. I was a second filmer, So it
was we did it all.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Yeah, you all did stuff.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Rope Snowboarder. Tell us about Jill.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Jillian is funny. Jill is funny, Jill's the best.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
But I feel like Jill is.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Jill Jill Perkins, who's one of the gnarliest pro.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
So yeah, but Jill also skates, and I think a
lot of people like, unless you follow Jill, you wouldn't
maybe know that, but I think the crossover that we
have in our world with skating and surfing and whatnot,
it's pretty potent, especially in like the woman's scene. So yeah,
I think it was really cool to see that. And
(36:34):
another thing I kind of wanted to touch on that
is more for like educational purposes. Is another reason why
like doing your own brand, big, small, whatever it may be,
like just using that as an opportunity to get everyone
together and skating together. It's really important because a lot
of us, our trips and our travel is dictated by sponsors,
(36:59):
and a lot of that is like our shoe sponsors.
Like in skateboarding, your shoe sponsor dictates a lot of
who you're with, a lot of where you go, and
it's top in your priority list, especially if you are
getting a good paycheck, your your high. Like they take
up a lot of your time. So this trip's cool
because obviously you ride for Etne's, some of the girls
(37:20):
ride for Vans, some of the girls ride for Nike.
So it's cool to like have that organic crew of
people who are getting to you know, go outside maybe
the normal crew.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
That they get to skate with.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
And yeah, yeah, it's really nice because I feel like
we've all been pulled in different directions the last few years.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
All Right, we have much more to discuss with Bobby,
but let's slam into a quick ad break first.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
It's a weird thing, but I let things fly. It's
like a survival thing. And I do a lot of
recreational stuff, like I like to party. I love my beer,
and the guys love that, all my bosses love that.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
I feel like there's this thing about male dominated industries
like ours, right, there's no willingness for them to change
their behaviors to be more professional because it's part of
the culture, right, So they're going to continue to behave
the same ways and boys club and all those things
because they're all still in the positions of power. They
still determine who's on the team or not. Team managers
(38:31):
really do have a lot of power when it comes
to your career. And if you don't show up and
blow up drink beers after you're not part of the crew.
What's getting to me at this point too, is that
those guys are aging and how does it look for
them drinking beers at the bar with a twenty year
old girl. But some of them don't care. Yeah, and
that's where you see the difference right now. The ones
that don't seem to care, that are still upholding these
(38:52):
cultural values, I feel like are really stagnating.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Yeah. But a team manager too, to go back to
the description, or like even being a boss of brand manager.
I always get frustrated with the experience that like a
lot of young men in skateboarding get to be mentored
by older professional skateboarders or people who've lived their lives,
and it's amazing, it's cool. It's like you get to
see like this, you meet this young individual and you
help like bring them forward in their career. You help
(39:17):
them be a better professional skateboarder, you help them be
a better person at life. That's awesome. When it comes
to women in that experience having that one to one mentorship,
it is not the same way that like these conversations
about what it's like to live our lived experience as
a woman don't happen. And because that team manager, whose
job is to service the athlete, can't really relate to
(39:38):
what's going on in your mind and body.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
I think in every aspect, there's so many places that
women could hold positions of power. Yeah, so Fabi speaking
about like holding the door open. What is some stuff
you're looking forward to in the future, and what are
some people you're looking forward to seeing as they, you know,
blossom as skaters.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Well, I want to be a brand manager and I
want to be a boss. I want to pick the
people on the Dan trip. That's my next stage of life.
But in the meantime, yeah, just just sharing my knowledge,
just passing it on like you know the people before
me did to me, and just do that.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
I like it.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Yeah. No, no holding hands, but a nice little guidance.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
You can hold hands sometimes.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
We love summer parties and we love holding in.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
We love holding hands.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Where can we find you?
Speaker 3 (40:33):
You can find me on Instagram at Fabiana Underscore Adulphino.
I'm not on TikTok. Yeah, and you can look at
my blue verified check look at it.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
All right. So that was another episode of good Luck
with That, a podcast about women's skateboarding on the Women's
Sports Network with iHeart. We're so happy to be here.
We've got a lot of really exciting guests coming up.
All right, everyone, good Luck with that.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Good Luck with That is an iHeart women's Sports production
in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment.
Speaker 4 (41:08):
We are your hosts Ashley Rayfield, Dora of Askenzelo's, and
Alex White.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Our executive producer is Jesse Katz.
Speaker 4 (41:14):
Produced by Tarry Harrison, Daniel Goodman and Grace Views.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Listen to Good Luck with That, a skateboarding podcast, on iHeartRadio, app,
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