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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.
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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