FreestyleXtreme Magazine Issue 21 | Page 35

.............................................................................................................................. Five minutes with... Dustin Dollin Australia’s most outspoken skater is getting on for being one of the sport’s veterans, but showing no signs of slowing down the sort of antics that saw him branded a wild-child in his early years. He’s been doing this a while - 2017 is his 18th year as a pro - so what sort of wisdom has all that mileage borne? We nabbed a chat on the Volcom team’s recent visit to Campus. ............................................................................................................................... Dustin, where has skateboarding brought you this year? This year, in skateboarding? I didn’t do too much this year. I decided to just try and level out my emotional psychology, and keep my brain in the direction of going forward, personally- wise. And then, the skateboarding stuff, I mean, there’s been a lot of trips, but I just keep f***ing up visa s**t. Now that I’ve got that on point, then I can focus my mind on skateboarding. So, this year, I haven’t done so much travelling. I’ve pretty much just been: States, road trip on the Wonder Bus, Volcom Tour and then, back to Paris. Not too much this year. Where do you rate for skating at the moment – not so much the scene, the landscapes, obstacles etc... Well, I mean, it just depends. What obstacles depend on is, what year it was, and who had done what. Because, now, if you’re in California, you can’t go anywhere where anyone hasn’t destroyed it. So you hav