So Hot Right Now: Jody Smith
November 10, 2007
Following on from Leo Smiths "Haunts" interview back in January this year, we thought we'd track the other half of the Smith brothers, Jody, down and find out why he's been keeping himself so quiet lately.
Read on...
It’s been a while since we last spoke, what have you been up to lately?
Well I just got back from a little two week trip to London, went up to see my girlfriend and at the same time shoot some photos for my interview with Kingpin magazine. The last few months I’ve been flying around with the DC team attending these ‘King Of’ trips, the last one was in sunny Barcelona which lasted for 2 weeks and had pretty much the whole DC team out there. I actually had to come home a few days early because I had my driving test which, may I just add, I passed first go!
What’s an average day consist of for you?
On an average week day for me I’d get up at around 11am, if my girlfriend’s around she’ll make me the nicest egg and bacon sandwich but if she’s not I’ll usually opt for the standard marmite on toast and a cup of tea combination (which I think you just can’t go wrong with). After checking emails and keeping up to date with my sponsors etc. i’ll pop down to Sj’z, equipped with a chicken pasty in one hand and a can of coke in the other and have a good old chin wag with Titmus and SJ, or maybe sometimes I’ll just sit in there and read the latest copy of sidewalk...
I’d say 9 times out of ten I’d go chill with my brother for a bit and beat his arse at Pro evo soccer, but right now he’s putting together his latest DVD so I’m usually sat next to him advising on his editing skills etc. Then around 6pm we all jump into someone’s car and go hit up Mount Hawke Skate Park for a few hours, usually in the evening time I’ll watch a film, go for a quiet beer somewhere with friends or just chill with my girlfriend.
Jody switch back tails an old favourite. Photo: Leo
Do you still hit up Mount Hawke quite a bit? Have you had any say in the recent street course rebuild?
I wouldn’t say I had a great deal of input into the actual designing of the street course but I did however help out with some of the building work and I did make a few adjustments to the heights and widths of some of the obstacles, might not have gone down well with some people but I’m not the kind of person to say ‘I guess that’ll do’; it has to be perfect. So yeah whenever I’m back in Cornwall I’ll go skate the park as much as possible, I would mainly go there to skate the blocks and mannie pads but now the park has steps and hubba ledges I’ll be hitting that on a regular basis.
What’s the scene like in Truro these days?
I do sometimes find it hard to see a skate scene in Truro but it does exist, I would say it was much bigger back in the day though. I think it’s getting to the point now where you’ll start seeing some kids quitting because they don’t think its cool anymore and the kids who are just far too addicted to it and just want to skate all the time which is what it was like for me, Leo and Stuart who carried on when everyone else drifted away from it.
Which youth on the up should we keep an eye out for?
I’m sure there are loads of kids out there killing it at the moment that I’m not aware of but I would say right now Pablo Aresu and Gavin Boon are the two most talked about. Gavin actually had a ‘first light’ not that long ago and they both have video parts in my brother’s new DVD. So look out for them, hopefully people will be stoked on their skating.
What does your current sponsor list look like?
Seems like every time I get this question my sponsors have completely changed, anyway, right now I’m riding for Plan B Skateboards, DC Shoes and Apparel, Venture trucks, Travel wheels, Nixon watches, S’jz Skate shop, New Era and Object hardware.
Is Leo still into his filming?
Leo is still filming and is currently editing his third video project which should be available to buy at Christmas time, fingers crossed.
