If you've seen any of his footage, you're well aware that Ben Kadow is one of the most stylish skateboarders around. Needless to say, we were stoked when he agreed to do an interview with us.

We won't succumb to cliches and say “Ben lets his skating do the talking.” No, there were things he wanted to talk about and things he didn’t, and that is just fine.

In case you're not familiar with him, Ben holds down the last part in Lurk NYC's Strangers, which came out a few weeks ago and is amazing from start to finish. Like most of his parts, Ben's Strangers part contains plenty of footage of him slamming. This sparked our initial plan for this article, which was to edit a clip of his slams and ask him about why there exists so much footage of him falling off his board.



This seemed like a great idea, we'd get an article out of it and the internet would get what it wants: footage of people falling down. That is, of course, until we actually talked to Ben. From our conversation we realized that Ben is a super interesting guy and that there's a lot more to him than what could be conveyed by some Scarred-type video.



So without further fanfare, here's our conversation with one of our favorite skaters right now, Ben Kadow: