{"id":117,"date":"2013-07-18T01:30:22","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T01:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deafskateboards.com\/deafsquad\/?page_id=117"},"modified":"2024-11-01T17:42:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T17:42:03","slug":"brian-werner","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/deafskateboards.com\/deafsquad\/brian-werner\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Werner"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s right a rare look at Deaf Skateboard’s President and Founder Brian “Mad Dog” Werner. It’s a tough life being such an occupied and tirelessly on the go person. I did manage to steal some of his time for these quick 25 deaf questions. -J.P.<\/p>\n

\"135<\/p>\n

Brian, You must be a busy guy. Do you have time to skate or film while operating a business and attending college fulltime?<\/p>\n

B} School is fun, learning is fun, skateboarding is more fun. The company stuff is also enjoyable. So there is usually always time to do these things. Filming is fun but I haven’t lately. Homework sucks!<\/i><\/p>\n

How long have you been deaf?<\/p>\n

B} Deaf for life, since birth.<\/i><\/p>\n

Is it true that it gives you extra concentration being deaf when you skate?<\/p>\n

B} Yes..I don’t have to hear people yelling at me like “no skateboarding” or other outside noise that might distract hearing people.<\/i><\/p>\n

What’s skateboarding like in St. Louis?<\/p>\n

B} Beautiful, loads of sk8 spots.<\/i><\/p>\n

\"disaster2010\"How did you come to live in San Diego?<\/p>\n

B} I lived in STL, then somewhere in Florida, Phx Arizona for a while now San Diego. Who knows where next? Its fun, go to new schools, meet new people, skate different stuff.<\/i><\/p>\n

So, where is the best place to skate, for ultimate extreme gnarly shredage?<\/p>\n

B} Arizona parks, and street.<\/i><\/p>\n

Have you flown overseas for skateboarding?<\/p>\n

B} Yeah , no big deal I went to Hawaii. Oh, and also the moon!<\/i><\/p>\n

How long have you been skating, and have you had any injuries?<\/p>\n

B} Skateboarding for 20 years. Everybody gets injured.<\/i><\/p>\n

Was that your face I saw in Thrasher at the Kum de la Asr Long Jump Reynolds Rapper thing?<\/p>\n

B} Yeah, I didn’t know I was gonna be in that mag.<\/i><\/p>\n

What happened that day with your board getting stolen?<\/p>\n

B} I skated the ramps then checked my board at the board checker. That was last last time I saw her..I think someone was watching me the whole time. Motherf*#ker!!<\/i><\/p>\n

Damn, How many boards have you had stolen from you in all?><\/p>\n

B} A few, I don’t remember.<\/i><\/p>\n

Who is on the deaf skateboard team?<\/p>\n

B} Alex the Wookie and me so far. Checking out some other deaf guys, Maybe Monty Nolder. Always looking for more.<\/i><\/p>\n

\"brian0022\"Is it deaf people only or can mutes join in?<\/p>\n

B} I would prefer deaf or mutes, but anyone can be considered for a team vote.<\/i><\/p>\n

Ok. Now we’re going to play favorites.<\/p>\n

Boards? B} 7.8×31.5<\/i><\/p>\n

Trucks? B} Thunder 147<\/i><\/p>\n

Shoe size? B} 10 or 43 in european.<\/i><\/p>\n

Terrain? B} anything is skate able.<\/i><\/p>\n

Food? B} spaghetti with ketchup.<\/i><\/p>\n

Music? B} everything is beats.<\/i><\/p>\n

Skate park? B} AZ<\/i><\/p>\n

Flip trick? B} ollie impossible.<\/i><\/p>\n

Candy bar? B} all of them.<\/i><\/p>\n

Old School Pro? B} Mark Gonzales.<\/i><\/p>\n

Video Part? B} Flip.<\/i><\/p>\n

Skateboard shop? B} Cowtown….CTAZ sucka!<\/i><\/p>\n

Fabulous, I’m done for now… Is there anything you’d like to add?<\/p>\n

B} I’d like to add a personal question.. Do you like spaghetti with ketchup or plain spaghetti? Let me know on the message board.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That’s right a rare look at Deaf Skateboard’s President and Founder Brian “Mad Dog” Werner. It’s a tough life being such an occupied and tirelessly on the go person. I did manage to steal some of his time for these quick 25 deaf questions. -J.P. Brian, You must be a busy guy. Do you have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-117","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deafskateboards.com\/deafsquad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deafskateboards.com\/deafsquad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deafskateboards.com\/deafsquad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deafskateboards.com\/deafsquad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deafskateboards.com\/deafsquad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/deafskateboards.com\/deafsquad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768,"href":"https:\/\/deafskateboards.com\/deafsquad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117\/revisions\/768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deafskateboards.com\/deafsquad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}