" SKATEBOARDING IS SKATEBOARDING
it's about nothing else other than itself"
(Fausto Vitello 1946-2006 . R.I.P. )
Hello, i'm Mauro "Lips" born November 4th 1970
I traveled a lot with his family aroud Europe and US ....
1974/75 , Philadelphia ,New York city and Ithaca
in the 80's I tavelled with parents around europe... I was in
Njimegen, London , Oxford , Dublin
Vienna , Warsaw , Praha
Paris , and all the way from Nice to Bierritz by car ...
in 1985 i did my first interconinental flight alone from Roma to Toronto
Winter 1987 I discovered skateboard and i got my first professional deck
ALVA / DAVE DUNCAN DESIGN
When I saw TRASHIN' the first time i thought Corey and his friends were right and the daggers were just a bounch of punks ...
but starting earing AMERICAN HARDCORE in a while i change my opinion reaiizing that "if the skaters stand united they will never be divided" !!
was 1993/4 ... big pants small weels era skateboarding coming out wit all those "pressure tricks" and i was little frustraded seeing just kids 7/10 years younger than me skatebording and lookin at me as an ALIEN , oh yes wallrides and slappy grind were out of "fashion" for them ... and than genration gap, work and sort of depression pushed me in to gay clubbin scene i did djing for 2 yrs in a gay club when i relized i was " TOO GAY FOR THE PUNKS and TOO PUNK FOR THE GAYS .
1994/1998 were the years of rave parties and drugs since I met a guy , that become my boyfriend since 2005 he helped me in 2000 ways and may be he saved me.
It takes a while , i understand that i still have GOOD friends in the skateboard scene
, more, for sure than in the gay scene .
Visiting California with my friend Stefano (owner of DNA boards -skateboard shop) i realize that I can't live outside the skateboard scene .
THRASHER's Rumble x 2 was the event that changed my life meeteing and have fun with Fausto Vitello ( R.I.P.) , C.R. Stecyk III , Dustin Dollin , Tony Vitello and Duane Peters and all the guys from Thrasher magazine .. and lots of other guys...
well was for me like a rebirth .....
When Stefano on the way back from San Diego , he was @ asr and i came to see the STREET SCENE concert decide to stop in Oceansiade for a couple of days i'll never suppose he was doing to me the best "present" of the trip ... we went to ALVA's shop and i was on the way to faint ..LOL
In the last 5 yrs i helped the guys from THE SPOT SKATEPARK in Ostia Lido ( Roma) in promoting and organizing skateboard events and i use to do djset too.The spot on fire ( for 3 edictions)
Etnies european open 2005 Etnies european open 2006 Etnies european open 2007
few local competitions
italian skateboard championship 2006 ( in Rome ) italian skateboard championship 2007 ( in Rome )
Vans shop riot Roma 07
Split demo
Emerica Demo
Jart demo
The spot Mania 2007
WCS - roma series 2008
it sems skateboarders, not all but most of them loved my selections
I spent lot of time getting tattooes @ Swan Song Tattoo , Roma, form my friends Fabio ( we did skateboarding toghter in early 90's) , Viola Von Hell , and Noyz Nracos... most of my tattooes are done by those guys ...... i also get a couple of tattoes in SF @ Ghotam Tattoo and some @ Ink For Blood in rome by Gianluca( WBNE original memeber, skateboarder, and musician RDD on myspace)
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