3 Minutes with Davis Torgerson
3 Minutes with Davis Torgerson
By Rob Brink
etnies.com April 2009
Last September on the Japan tour, Sean Malto was raving over this one video part he saw on YouTube—bringing his laptop into everyone’s rooms and making us watch. After witnessing four and a half minutes of some of more stylish ripping we’d seen in a while, followed by the nollie frontside hurricane ender, we were all pretty blown away.
“Oh isn’t that the kid who nollie heeled the Brooklyn Banks rail?” Someone said. A web clip here, a photo there, an in-person spotting at Tampa Am or the Brooklyn Banks… as it turns out, we all kinda knew about Davis in one form or another.
It wasn’t long before everyone was saying “We need to get Davis on etnies!” And lucky for us, he was down to join the crew. We took him to Florida last month and it felt like he’d been on the team for years. There was no weirdness, no “getting to know you” nonsense… just skating and good times.
The way Davis skates doesn’t need to be compared to anyone else out there. He’s not the “If you mixed Skater X with Skater Y and a little of Skater Z you get Davis Torgerson” type of dude. We’re just flat-out down for him and looking forward to our future with him. Welcome to the etnies team, Davis.
Top three reasons Minnesota is better than California:
1. Lakes
2. Seasons
3. Homies
Top three reasons California is better than Minnesota:
1. Ocean
2. Weather
3. More homies
Top three Midwest cities that aren't in Minnesota:
1. Chicago
2. Kansas City
3. Denver (if considered Midwest)
Top three things about being Norwegian:
1. Eating Lefsa
2. Having an excuse for always being so pale
3. Metal
Top three reasons to wrestle Malto in a hotel room:
1. Video documentation of Malto’s head under a mattress
2. Getting choked by two fingers
3. Actually, there is no reason
Top three nollie heels in skateboarding:
1. Kenny Hoyle
2. Mike Carroll
3. Dennis Busenitz
Top three reasons you are so much like your dad:
1. Short
2. Similar mannerisms
3. Golf!
Top three favorite tricks to do:
1. Tre flip
2. Nollie flip
3. Powerslide
Top three that you suck at:
1. Frontside flips
2. Hardflips
3. Front bigspins
Top three things you hate right now:
1. The cold
2. Mosquitoes
3. Stupid people
Top three things you love right now:
1. Basketball
2. Spring
3. Coffee
Top three favorite skate videos:
1. Sorry
2. Yeah Right
3. Shitheads Vol. 8
Top three favorite people to skate with:
1. David Jaimes
2. Josh Folley
3. Dan Narloch
Top three things you are afraid of:
1. Venomous spiders
2. Venomous snakes
3. Sharks
Top three favorite foods:
1. Burritos
2. Chinese
3. Ribs
Top three memories of your first etnies tour:
1. Sean falling on the folding chair
2. “Seagulls”
3. Mochi balls in Bill’s hair
Top three things to never leave home without:
1. Wallet
2. Phone
3. Keys
Top three reasons you decided to ride for etnies:
1. Team
2. Awesome people
3. Great shoes
Top three things you want to do before you die:
1. Triple flip El Toro
2. Knife fight a bear
3. Date a supermodel
Top three movies:
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Sin City
3. Burn After Reading
Top three DLX employees:
1. Wang
2. Alex
3. Jim
Top three embarrassing things you do:
1. Constantly spilling on my shirt
2. Awkward handshakes/high fives
3. Stressing about stupid shit
Top three things about Sam McGuire:
1. There’s no way to limit to three favorite things about Sam
2. He
3. Kills it
Give one favorite or funny thing about Jose, Mikey and Tyler:
1. Jose's “going pro” Cake
2. Mikey's mini that I never got to skate
3. Tyler's spaghetti incident
Top three things that you could be doing instead of this interview:
1. Barbecuing
2. Playing Rock Band
3. Cleaning my room
Top three ways to end this:
1. Stop
2. Answering
3. These
(1) response to: 3 Minutes with Davis Torgerson
max martinson(minnesota) said:
hands down. my favorite skater
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