DEERMAN OF DARK WOODS SKATEBOARD PROFESSIONAL

A lot of people judge this team on that, because you're restricting what you can do by only skating one surface, but to them it's very ritualistic. I wanted to focus on why they were only skateboarding this one surface, the Jersey Barrier, and not stairs or bowls or ramps. They wanted everything to be about skateboarding and the barrier. VICE: What is the story with these Canadians running around hiding their faces in ski masks, skating on Jersey Barriers? Are they embarrassed to be Canadian?Īnthony Tafuro: When they first agreed to let me shoot them they set some ground rules of no tropes of fire, no women tropes. Luckily Barrier Kult founding member, Depth Leviathan Dweller, only does email interviews so I was able to avoid fanning out too hard. Kult Skating/Dark Rituals,I decided I'd break the rule just this once. But after speaking with Anthony Tafuro about his new book, BA.

DEERMAN OF DARK WOODS SKATEBOARD PROFESSIONAL

I've always wanted to interview them, but there's an age-old Big Brother rule that forbids interviewing people with whom you are too obsessed to keep a professional journalistic distance (as a result, I've refused three Ghostface interviews in my life). For more than a decade I've been keeping tabs on the Kult, getting as excited by their 'evil' web videos as I do when I see Batman on his bicycle.

KU.' is a collective of like-minded professional and amateur Canadian skaters who were displeased with the direction skating was headed and decided in 2003 to don ski masks, create Black Metal-inspired identities, and dedicate their existence to skating only one obstacle: the Jersey Barrier.

For example, take Vancouver B.C.'s Barrier Kult. All skateboarding can do at this point is batten down the hatches and prepare itself for The Great Kook Epidemic of 2016, while championing those who truly do not give a fuck.

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