JOHN DILO LAKAI MANUALS
JOHN DILO LAKAI MANUAL
JOHN DILO LAKAI FULL

Do you maintain your body in any way? Or is it because you do them so often, you are almost conditioning your ankles naturally?

You do a lot of tricks into nose manuals, I can’t fathom how it doesn’t give your leading foot/ankle any grief. I never took any of it too seriously, I ended up picking it up again in recent years, I have a little art Instagram now and I want to involve myself more with the art direction of my graphics or maybe a series if possible, but it’s been super fun to revisit and get stoked on it again. It was something I had before I found skating to kind of escape from reality. I didn’t know you were into art, is it something you do a lot?Īs a kid I was always drawing, my parents really wanted me to go to an art school and stuff cause I guess they saw I had talent with it or whatever. I saw in your Thrasher interview that you did the artwork of the tiger and was very impressed. I’ve never pet one before or anything though, which would be sick.

JOHN DILO LAKAI MANUALS

I think I prefer manuals just because they are really satisfying for me, tigers are more just cool to look at.

JOHN DILO LAKAI MANUAL

Which do you prefer, Tigers or Manuals? What would you pick, land every single manual you try, or be able to hang out with tigers, Dr Doolittle style? They roll solo too which I think is pretty interesting, As I kid I don’t think I really had a reason, I just always felt so attached to them in some way, like a spirit animal I guess. One aspect I love is how they are practically demanding to be seen, most animals are meant to blend in with their habitat typically.

Let’s, start by talking about you a little… what is it about tigers that you like so much? He is a huge favourite here at Supereight and we hope he doesn’t slow down anytime soon.

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He is a dude full of ideas and passion and we cannot stress enough how happy we are to have been able to catch up with John and ask him some questions. For example, his Boss Fight part was hard-hitting and filled with hammers, whereas his ‘Summer of Manuals’ project was a fun (still mind-blowing) manual concentrated video. This is clear when looking through his collection of parts, which can broadly differ stylistically from section to section. It’s incredibly rare for a skater to blur the lines between these two aspects of street skating, and it results in video parts that hold a sense of true originality and consideration. What really sets Dilo apart is his rare mix of technical manual tricks combined with huge pop and big drops. John hails from Jupiter, Florida, somewhere that for whatever reason is producing some of the worlds best skaters at the moment, and John is proving himself to be exactly that. John Dilo is a fairly fresh face in the world of skateboarding, with his name seemingly popping up every few months with another mind-melting part over the past few years. John Dilo Mexico – Photographer: Jon Spitzer Who is John Dilo?

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