{"id":28,"date":"2005-12-12T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2005-12-12T09:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whenwewasrad.co.uk\/?p=28"},"modified":"2006-05-08T17:49:49","modified_gmt":"2006-05-08T17:49:49","slug":"58_25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2005\/12\/12\/58_25\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucian Hendrickse Interview 1987 Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lucian<\/a>
\nTwo things come out of this for me now, Lucian’s very acute perception of the state of skateboarding in Britain just as it was about to go big-time again, and his sense of frustration. Wanting it and not wanting it. There were some very knowing sound-bites: “Publicity and money changes — everything. I’d like to to change me some more” and “I’ll Ollie all the way to the bank”, but the frustration seems to dominate the piece.<\/p>\n

I don’t know where skating’s going. I think it’s going to the dogs really. There’s no energy in England. Nobody’s really good. I’m supposed to be good and really I’m not any good. I feel disappointed when I hear people getting stoked and thinking that I’m great, because I know I’m not. There’s a big delusion that we’ve got a pro scene in this country and we’ve got good skaters who are going to be pro.
\nI’ve been offered a pro model but I don’t want it because I’m not up to it really. I’ve been skating for such a long time that I don’t want to do it until I’m really ready. I want to turn pro, place tenth in my first comp and regularly come in the top ten in the States.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s really good to see an amateur who’s ripping like Lee Ralph: he’s over in America, skating like an animal, skating so hard and all the pros are scared of him. It’s great: I’d love to be there. That’s what I want to be: an amateur who’s tearing so hard you have to turn pro. Like Jeff Grosso. He won every competition for a year: there was no doubt about it when he turned pro.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two things come out of this for me now, Lucian’s very acute perception of the state of skateboarding in Britain just as it was about to go big-time again, and his sense of frustration. Wanting it and not wanting it. There were some very knowing sound-bites: “Publicity and money changes — everything. I’d like to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-issue-58-november-1987"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}