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Fresh Blood – Daniel Clarke

Photo: Front tail, bigspin out @ St.Pauls by Rob Shaw
Switch Tre flip roadgap filmed by Jake Harris

WHO?

Full Name: Daniel Clarke.

Age:19.

Sponsors: Jart Skateboards, King Apparel, Force Trucks, DVS.

Hometown: Ealing, London.

Skating since: I was about 12.

Favourite tricks: Nollie flips, Switch heels, front krooks.

Favourite spots/terrain: Creteil and Bercy in Paris.

Inspired by: Skate videos, the people I skate with, magazines etc

Hates: Snapping more boards than the average skater.

Loves: A heated session, discovering new spots, skating abroad etc

Can’t live without… skating

Skate video: At the moment it has to be Mindfield, all time favourite would be Modus Operandi.

Fave sesh: Skating Creteil in Paris, perfect marble floor and ledges with all the Square One lot..Good times!

Music to die to: Tough question. I would have to go with any song by The Stone Roses.

Ultimate aim in life: To enjoy myself and keep skating no matter what.

TEZ FROM 2DIST ON DANIEL:

The old ‘were do I start’ with Daniel Clarke……well the truth is I’ve never had the pleasure of meeting the guy (team manager of the year award i hear!) but from his first visit up North, good friend and scout for fellow team riders Eddie Belvedere gave him the serious thumbs up. So instead of being the old school team manager of hanging out with his riders, I prefer the modern approach of keeping in contact via facefuck. This is how I find out if he needs boards and what parties he’s been going to as late!

So from our bizarre type internet friendship (sounds so wrong) I’ve come to realise Daniel is pretty dammed focused on this thing we call skateboarding and I cant wait to see his full part in the fourth coming Square One DVD So till we meet I will just admire like the rest and be stoked to be the one who sends him his Jart packages. ‘Keep em peeled’ as they say for Mr Clarke and I shall definitely be doing the same!