Interview: Racan
Images: Romac
Translation: Tenšek
Hello Raul, how are you? I do know I’m going to sound like your grandmother, however how’s college, what’s the hold-up?
Hello Nikola, I’m feeling nice, I’m younger and it wouldn’t be OK for me to really feel dangerous. The issue with college is that I’ve misplaced my curiosity in it and if one thing will not be fascinating to me I can’t make myself do it. The time has come for me to discover a correct job and never lose time on pupil jobs. I imply, that’s OK as a result of you will have time to do different issues.
You made Quicksand as a result of guys from Tabula Rasa went their separate methods and pursued another targets – the everyday story. Are you able to describe this course of for us? Did you additionally perhaps need to transfer ahead, or simply catch some breath after this mission?
This new video was a completely totally different course of from making Tabula Rasa. For that video I precisely knew the place I needed to journey and movie, there have been extra skaters concerned, I made DVDs, and so on. I began filming for Quicksand at first of the pandemic; Antonio Peković, Dino Coce and I made an association to make one thing occur. All three of us had nothing higher to do and the VX was nonetheless working, so we made a few journeys to one another’s locations, seeing as all of us reside in several cities. We randomly looked for spots, received fortunate and filmed it.
Yeah, I believe that’s it for me so far as these sorts of initiatives are involved. I don’t need to sacrifice that a lot time for this stuff any extra. I believe that we will simply meet up, hang around and skate with out filming for some mission…
They’re constructing a brand new skatepark on the coast of the town. Pula, a small metropolis, quickly to have two skateparks (Fažana continues to be ready for one), not dangerous, eh?
Yeah, I can’t wait. Each day a pleasant bike journey to the brand new park… After so a few years of the identical park we finally received uninterested in it, we want the change.
After I see you round, I see you in a BMW, which suggests that you’ve got some new hobbies and rituals. It may be an excessive amount of generally when you simply do skateboarding. Are you able to inform me why precisely a BMW from ’95?
To be truthful, I bike across the metropolis. However yeah, drifting is my new interest. I assume that it was interesting to me as a result of my father skilled me for motocross and took me to races once I was a child, and I nonetheless love driving vehicles and bikes. When it comes to how you concentrate on it, drifting is extra just like skateboarding than you may assume. It’s additionally good to relaxation your legs and take your thoughts off skateboarding each every now and then. It additionally saved me final summer time whereas I used to be coping with knee ache. I couldn’t skate for 2 months and I didn’t have the rest to do. A BMW from ’95 is the most cost effective and most accessible automotive for drifting. I’m simply going to smash it anyway – like a board – so it’s a must to take the worth into consideration as nicely.
Exterior of the vacationer season, Pula (in addition to Fažana) is a useless metropolis. However from a skateboarder’s perspective, that’s the rationale why we like it. Do you assume that somebody new with a camcorder of their hand will succeed you in the future, in the identical means that you just’ve succeeded me?
I’d be the happiest if the brand new youngsters developed an curiosity in filming, however once I give it some thought I’m simply unsure if it would occur. They began skateboarding when the format of the full-length video was just about useless, they usually in all probability don’t personal a single full-length on DVD at dwelling, which may encourage them to try to do it themselves. I’m unsure, however time will inform. It’s necessary that they’re skateboarding.
Watch Quicksand right here.
