Morning hours, whittling
Seeking out the Sun
Familiar shapes and navy skies
Darkness comes undone
As the Sun does rise
Recognition blooms
Mysteries in the light becoming nothing new
Night is the basswood block
Hidden possibilities
Day is the knife
Carving out reality
Another great interview is up. Swing by and read about it on the Freestyle Video Mag!
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Check out the latest interview!
More great stuff to come.
1. As I last checked, you’re in the States right now for a pro freestyle contest in Arizona. You’re quite the skateboarding globe-trotter! What contest or event sticks out to you the most? Any specific memories or stories you’d mind sharing with us?
1. I’ve been getting around a bit! I’ve been lucky enough to skate in a lot of contests, ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous. One that’ll always stick out to me is my first contest, Paderborn 2015(?) I think it was. I was advised to enter pro despite only being back into freestyle for a short while. I got utterly smoked, which led me to have a difficult relationship with contests from then on in. I think that baptism of fire was a good thing looking back on it. It motivated me to work a lot harder.
2. Your skating is—among other things—lightning fast. Did you…
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A push to move things forward
No use waiting for a chance
“Life is what you make of it”
Something often said
Directionless for decades
Drifting through the years
Fighting hesitation and a thousand little fears
Leave it all behind
Choose progress over death
Find your strength
Take pride in every step
Passing through cracked sky
Slipping between clouds
Rising
High above the ground
From troposphere to stratosphere, mesosphere and on
Through boundaries, into the beyond
Deep space
Past the reaches of our familiar Sun
Seeing in a new light
See the universe undone
Fraying at the edges
Lost void
Grand precipice
Gaze into the well
Cast yourself and make a wish
An interview with a world class freestyle skateboarder, conducted by my friend Tom from Freestyle Video Magazine. Be sure to check out his other interviews and stay tuned for upcoming news.
1. What’s your real name and how old are you ?
Mei-Lwun Yee, 49
– [ ] 2. How long have you been freestyle skateboarding ?
I started freestyle during the pandemic while we were all stuck at home so 2020 in my yard on scrap plywood.
– [ ] 3 .who was the first freestyle skater you remember seeing ?
Rodney Mullen, Per Welinder, Ray Meyer
– [ ] 4 . What music have you been currently listening to if any ?
All over the place.90s hip hop, Chet Baker, Drum and Bass, Radiohead.
– [ ] 5 . Favourite trick ?
Favorite one I can do is probably 360 toe side rail-flip. Favorite one I wish I could do would probably be a Yuta spin.
– [ ] 6. Your current favourite skater/ skaters ?
Yuzuki, Jesse whalen, Mike Osterman, any Fujii
– [ ] 7 . Have…
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Somewhere beyond the atmosphere
Mind wandering deep space
Starlight and sightless dark
Silence in my wake
Eyes to take it in
Flames into my lungs
Burn myself alive to know the warmth of the sun
Struggle for the day
Each taken at great cost
Non-renewable
You only live life once
Closing out the year
Another cycle ends
Weather juxtaposed
Last year’s snow
Winter’s dread
Seasons pay no heed to dates
Carving up the calendar
Each claiming their own stake
Darkened hours before the light
Sun surfacing slowly
Winter nights draw on
Cold heart
Cold hands and feet
Rise in the morning
Mistake it for dusk
Back to bed
Going back to sleep
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