Bemag Issue 29 - The Negative Side of Chris Farmer

THENEGATIVE SIDE

OF FARMER

Murda: Yo so you put everyone back on to negatives. Why is

everyone doing them now and think they can make it look

as good as you do? People ask me why you do them and my

thoughts are you can do every other trick in the world -so you

got bored and started doing those (laugh out loud)

CF: Well, I guess some people saw me doing it and they

thought it looked tight so they tried to mimic and failed

miserably. Whoops. That‘s kinda what it came down to.

For one of the most closely monitored and scrutinized cha-

racters in the inline skating world doing tricks, seems to have

become boring. Truespin fishbrain both ways, hurricane sweaty

both ways, and setting the bar for style and spinning to tricks

became distant memories as he literally jumped over every

obstacle put in front of him. It was recently that the ying to his

yang re-appeared, negativity.

Of course I am talking about Chris Farmer. Being a profes-

sional inline skater Chris has always kept himself one step

CF: I pretty much have every trick under my belt, and i got

bored of doing the same old tricks at every session. So i took it

upon myself to start doing something a little bit more challen-

ging. But shit, Letona has already done all the negative shit. I‘m

just dabbling in at the moment.

Murda: Which one is the hardest for you (negatives)?

CF: Hardest negative? I‘ll put it on the 360 negative acid that I

have yet to land on Grandview.

ahead by setting his own trends and unique style. While it

might seem that Chris is a dark, brooding, and very scary man

the truth is that behind this persona is still a nice guy from

Minneapolis. Part wholesome Midwesterner, part horror-flick

loving pseudo-sociopath, part animal-lover, and part spot killer

Chris walks the line between insanity (negative tricks) and the

mundane (boring flatbar tricks). Ladies and gentleman we

give you Mr. Negativity.

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Truespin alleyoop

negative acid

to fakie on

a slice of Topeka

angle iron.

Fakie roll up

the bank to

ao negative topacid

in the

good old BCN.

THENEGATIVE SIDE

OF FARMER

Murda: Yo so you put everyone back on to negatives. Why is

everyone doing them now and think they can make it look

as good as you do? People ask me why you do them and my

thoughts are you can do every other trick in the world -so you

got bored and started doing those (laugh out loud)

CF: Well, I guess some people saw me doing it and they

thought it looked tight so they tried to mimic and failed

miserably. Whoops. That‘s kinda what it came down to.

For one of the most closely monitored and scrutinized cha-

racters in the inline skating world doing tricks, seems to have

become boring. Truespin fishbrain both ways, hurricane sweaty

both ways, and setting the bar for style and spinning to tricks

became distant memories as he literally jumped over every

obstacle put in front of him. It was recently that the ying to his

yang re-appeared, negativity.

Of course I am talking about Chris Farmer. Being a profes-

sional inline skater Chris has always kept himself one step

CF: I pretty much have every trick under my belt, and i got

bored of doing the same old tricks at every session. So i took it

upon myself to start doing something a little bit more challen-

ging. But shit, Letona has already done all the negative shit. I‘m

just dabbling in at the moment.

Murda: Which one is the hardest for you (negatives)?

CF: Hardest negative? I‘ll put it on the 360 negative acid that I

have yet to land on Grandview.

ahead by setting his own trends and unique style. While it

might seem that Chris is a dark, brooding, and very scary man

the truth is that behind this persona is still a nice guy from

Minneapolis. Part wholesome Midwesterner, part horror-flick

loving pseudo-sociopath, part animal-lover, and part spot killer

Chris walks the line between insanity (negative tricks) and the

mundane (boring flatbar tricks). Ladies and gentleman we

give you Mr. Negativity.

41stspreadof

Truespin alleyoop

negative acid

to fakie on

a slice of Topeka

angle iron.

Fakie roll up

the bank to

ao negative topacid

in the

good old BCN.

Commitment

time. Negative

mistrial to

negative misfit

rail to rail.

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Murda: Yea most likely...I was gonna ask you about that! I

remember we was skating and you wanted that on that rail..

you haven‘t done it yet.

Murda: -Crazy that is fucking exclusive, great tricks take time

I say.

CF: I pretty much landed it a year ago, but touched my hand

for a brief second. Then a year later I go back to the spot

and there‘s a fucking dumpster at the bottom of the rail. My

dumbass thought that I could end up doing it anyway.... wrong

answer. Totally mindfucked.

Murda: Where do you think skating will progress to in a

couple of years.. you can only do so much grinds spins to grinds

jump off roofs, where do you think it‘ll progress to playboy?

CF: I really can‘t be specific, but i guarantee it will revolve

around something that‘s already happened/been done. History

repeats itself. Most likely it‘ll be a combination of past trends.

Murda: Any upcoming projects we need to stay tuned for or

any traveling?

CF: Only the two biggest releases of the fucking year! The first

ever Vibralux team video and the long overdue second 4x4

team video. Which pretty much sums up my travels for the

next few months.

Be-Mag: What were your thought processes on the tricks you

chose to do for your (new) sections?

CF: Lack of thought process is more like it... lately I‘ve just

been completely scatter brained, kinda all over the place.

Which is cool, because for the most part, a lot of my previous

sections have been kind of more thought out.

Negative Topside

mistrial on an

Atlanta drop

rail in the hood.

Commitment

time. Negative

mistrial to

negative misfit

rail to rail.

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Murda: Yea most likely...I was gonna ask you about that! I

remember we was skating and you wanted that on that rail..

you haven‘t done it yet.

Murda: -Crazy that is fucking exclusive, great tricks take time

I say.

CF: I pretty much landed it a year ago, but touched my hand

for a brief second. Then a year later I go back to the spot

and there‘s a fucking dumpster at the bottom of the rail. My

dumbass thought that I could end up doing it anyway.... wrong

answer. Totally mindfucked.

Murda: Where do you think skating will progress to in a

couple of years.. you can only do so much grinds spins to grinds

jump off roofs, where do you think it‘ll progress to playboy?

CF: I really can‘t be specific, but i guarantee it will revolve

around something that‘s already happened/been done. History

repeats itself. Most likely it‘ll be a combination of past trends.

Murda: Any upcoming projects we need to stay tuned for or

any traveling?

CF: Only the two biggest releases of the fucking year! The first

ever Vibralux team video and the long overdue second 4x4

team video. Which pretty much sums up my travels for the

next few months.

Be-Mag: What were your thought processes on the tricks you

chose to do for your (new) sections?

CF: Lack of thought process is more like it... lately I‘ve just

been completely scatter brained, kinda all over the place.

Which is cool, because for the most part, a lot of my previous

sections have been kind of more thought out.

Negative Topside

mistrial on an

Atlanta drop

rail in the hood.

Be-Mag: What is the worst negative?

CF: I don‘t do bad negatives. -Wait, I read that one wrong, I

thought you were referring to the worst neg I‘ve ever done but

as for the worst negative? Ally oop neg mizou, hands down. I

threw down the neg mizous back when, but you won‘t catch

me doing them allyoop nowadays.

Be-Mag: You said you got bored with regular tricks, so you

started doing negative tricks. Now that you got all the negative

tricks, where do you go from here?

CF: That‘s something I‘ve been thinking about lately, and I ho-

nestly can‘t answer it. I‘m sure my brain will conjure something

fun to do. Maybe I‘ll start getting into flips? Fakie front flips

will be the new hotness.

Be-Mag: Only if you can do them switch

CF: Which is totally possible, throw in that switch hippy clinch

and you‘re golden.

Be-Mag: Thanks Chris

Chris: See ya bye!

CF: I guess we‘ll see what the out come is.

Be-Mag: What do you think your negative trick to regular trick

ratio is?

CF: Not to be a let down with the whole theme of the article....

70 reg, 30 neg... hahah soul grinds galore!

Be-Mag: Haha

Be-Mag: What‘s the favorite negative trick that you‘ve ever

done, like one that sticks out the most in your mind?

CF: There were two switch ups that I did on this rail at the

ukskate skatepark. First was a true neg misfit to keep spinning

to neg mistrial. The other was zero neg topacid to keep

spinning to switch topacid to fakie. That last one was actually

posted online by ukskate as a promo for „Through the Looking

Glass.“

CF: The ao neg makio to switch ao fish on forum is also up

there. Mainly because that was honestly the only trick I wanted

to do there. But once I realized that the spot wasn‘t as i pic-

tured, things were looking quite dim. I handled it though....

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This is the last trick

you’d ever

want to do on

a high rounded

coping ledge.

Thank Chris for

doing it so you don’t

have to.

Alleyoop negative

makio to alleyoop

fishbrain

at the forum.