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    13. @TeeloSeyna on

      JB Gillet : 25 years in Skateboarding (great read/march 2017)

      Hello JB ! Please do a list of all the board brands you’ve been sponsored by !
      Ok, but it’s gonna take some time ! So first of all : Powell-Peralta. Tony Hawk had talked to me at a tradeshow in Biarritz (southwest of France, known for surf spots) when I was around 12. I still have the fax that he sent to Nicky Guerrero at Powell Europe on which he was talking about « that kid from Lyon I forgot the name »! So I was on Powell for a year or two. After that I got sponsored by Cops distribution that was doing Real, Vision… But the official board sponsor after Powell was New Deal, in the 411 days, when we started filming with Fred Mortagne. Fireworks, our second video after Magical Mystery, made the New Deal guys come over : Rene Matthyssen, Dave Duren, John Montessi… But it didn’t last very long. They flew me there and I was staying at Matt Milligan’s. I don’t really know what happened, maybe some misunderstandings or maybe they wanted to change the whole brand… Anyway, I got kicked out. After that I went to San Francisco and stayed at Josh Kalis’ who put me on flow for Alien Workshop. Probably 1997. And one morning, at a tradeshow where I was supposed to be officially introduced in the Alien Workshop team, I run into Marcus McBride that I knew from Pier 7, who tells me that half the 101 team left and that everyone is going to skate for World Industries and that I should join. So I’m going to the tradeshow where on one side was the Alien Workshop booth and the other the World Industries booth… Back then World was Kareem Campbell, Daewon, and I could relate more to them than Alien Workshop, and they said they’d give me 300$ ! So I made the move… I think Josh Kalis wasn’t so happy about it ! Then this all became Deca but in between I was on Chocolate for a week ! Marcus had got kicked out of World, Kareem had left and World was getting lame with the Flameboy/Wet Willy thing. Back then I was living at Chico Brenes’ who had seen my upcoming 411 part. He talked to Mike Carroll and Rick Howard and they decided to put me on Chocolate. So I get there, get my box and do the paperwork for the visa. I go back home in Lyon and Daewon calls me and tells me about Deca, that Marcus is on the team and that I’d turn pro straight away… He finally convinced me and got back on it ! And after that came Cliché…

      Rest of the interview here, he also explain how he got banned of the US for 5 years : ( http://www.aproposskatemag.com/5-questions-jb-gillet/ )

    22. @datownbird on

      Yaaaaas my favorite skater of all time…about time he gets the proper reckoning that he belongs among the elite….style alone…

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