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Chad Knight

http://www.automaticmag.com/issue41/chadknight.htm

About Me

Long, long, long story short...
I feel like I am the perfect example for the old saying "don't judge a book by its cover". I pride myself on humility, honesty and treating people with the utmost respect. I am a firm believer in karma and that if you do good things and treat people with respect, the same will come back to you... sooner, but most often later. I don't have much patience for ignorance though.
I grew up in the suburbs of Ohio. I was strongly encouraged to play football and wrestle but never felt a part of any team. When I found skateboarding I fell in love. It was something I could do by myself, when I wanted to, where I wanted to and there was no one telling me how to do it. There is no right or wrong was to skateboard and there are endless possibilities.
In 1995 I moved to San Diego to pursue a career in skateboarding. Things went better that i ever could have imagined. I had a signature board, shoe and wheels out by 1997.
Then in 2000 I broke my leg in 10 places. My son was born that same year and I lost all of my sponsors. The next few years I was in a very dark place. Broke, , bitter, alone, depressed.
In 2005 I hit bottom and quit partying. I had a few moments of clarity and eventually got over my resentments. I got back on my skateboard.
Now I happily live in Encinitas CA. I once again find myself in a position that far supersedes any of my wildest dreams. I have the most beautiful, inside and out, little boy I have ever seen, a career riding a skateboard, a job designing skateparks, my own skateboard-oriented kids furniture company, amazing friends, a violin I just purchased and finally intend to learn to play and have started painting again. Life is good.

My Interests

Creativity, inventions, skateboarding, love traveling, billiards, good coffee, painting, photography, pro football, autumn, clean enviroment, organization, laughing to myself, art, graphic design, museums, movies, iced green tea with cinnamon, quantum physics, etymology and spending time with my son.

I'd like to meet:

People who own watch companies

Music:

I do like The Who, Led Zeppelin, Last, Mastadon, Kanye West, Biggie Smalls, most 80's music, Velvet Underground, Bowie, Lou Reed, Pulp, The Clash, Queen, Misclits, Iron Maiden, Anthrax, The White Stripes, The Heartaches, Ghetto Boys, Three Six Mafia, Pixies, PIL, The Album Leaf, Pinback, Metallica, Hendrix, Dinosaur Jr., DK, Sex Pistols, Jay-Z, Ozzy, Slayer, Black Sabbath, Rachaels, Misfits, Danzig, Modest Mouse, Godspeed... i like the violin too a lot. i bought one a few years back but havent learned to play it yet.
I do not like Sublime (so shoot me, please do it if they're on the radio too...) or any band that thinks rock, reagae and rap are a good mix; they're not so please stop. Pop country, ska, crappy voice modulated R&B, The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Brittanyand all her clones, Rage Against The Machine, I think you get the drift...

Movies:

Fight Club, The Game, Rushmore, The Fugitive, KPax, Pay it Forward, American Beauty

Television:

"Bill Brasky is a son of a bitch!""Bill Brasky is the father of every kid in this town!""Bill Brasky once showed me a video of him making love to my wife, and it was the most beautiful thing I ever saw!""One time I was with Brasky in the back of a pickup truck, along with a live deer. Brasky goes up to the deer and says, 'I'm Bill Brasky! SAY IT!' Then he manipulates the deer's lips in such a way as to make it say, 'Billbrasky' ... It wasn't exactly like it, but it was pretty good for a deer!'""He'd eat a homeless person if you dared him!""His poop is used as currency in Argentina.""He sweats Gatorade""He once breast-fed a flamingo back to health.""He hated Mexicans! And he was half Mexican! .......And he hated irony!""I once saw him scissor kick Angela Landsbury.""He sheds his skin once a year.""He makes brooms somewhere in Georgia.""He did 3 tours in 'Nam...... I was in Corpus Christi on business a month ago. I had this eight foot tall Asian waiter, which made me curious. I asked him his name. Sure enough it's Ho Tran Brasky!""I once saw him eat a whole live chicken.""His favorite movie is 'One on One' with Robby Benson.""He sleeps eight hours a night! ........ well, he was pretty normal when it came to that.""Bill Brasky was a two ton man-mountain who could palm a medicine ball!""Did I ever tell you about the time Brasky took me out to go get a drink with him? We go off looking for a bar and we can't find one. Finally Brasky takes me to a vacant lot and says, 'Here we are.' We sat there for a year and a half and sure enough someone constructs a bar around us. The day they opened we ordered a shot, drank it, and then burned the place to the ground. Brasky yelled over the roar of the flames, 'Always leave things the way you found em!'""Bill Brasky had a four day heart attack...a day for each chamber. At the autopsy, they said his heart looked like a basketball filled with riccotta cheese.""He once punched a hole in a cow just to see who was coming up the road.""He taught me how to make love to a woman, and how to scold a child.""They found $60 in change in his stomach.""He did all the makeup on the 'Planet of the Apes' movie.""He grew a 3rd arm and kept it in a vault.""Brasky drank a full glass of liquid LSD with his eggs. Then he slept for 8 months straight. When he woke he rubbed his eyes and said, 'All in all, I prefer gin.'""They say Gene Roddenbery got the idea for Star Trek from listening to Brasky talk in his sleep.""He date raped David Bowie.""He once inhaled a seagull.""The Pope told him it was ok to have a mistress.""It was the sight of Brasky's naked body that drove Brian Wilson insane.""He once had sex with a cigarette machine.""He killed Wolfman Jack with a trident.""He uses the Shroud of Turin as a golf towel.""He once ate the Bible while water skiing.""He drives an ice cream truck covered in human skulls.""He sired a baseball team.. an orchestra if you count the bastards!""You know, he would shoot whiskey into his neck with a syringe!""He has dandruff the size of mice!""He jogged with a fridge on his back!""Bill Brasky was a 10 foot monster who slept with all our wives! And punched us all in the face! And we loved him for it!""His first name is Bill! ....... I'm drunk.""He's a ten foot tall beastman who showers in vodka and feeds his baby shrimp scampi.""He orchestrated the merger between Unicef and Smith & Wessen.""He went public with his own buttocks and made $7 million.""Did I ever tell you about the time Brasky went hunting? Brasky decides he's going to hunt down all four of the Banana Splits. He stalks and kills every one of them with a machette. They all begged for their lives...except Fleagle.""We once had a bachelor party for Brasky. He ate the entire cake before we could tell him there was a stripper in it.""Brasky once hosted the Grammys and gave every award to Corey Hart.""He has a toenail on the end of his penis.""Brasky once got his wife pregnant and gave birth to a delicious 16 ounce steak. The after birth was sauteed mushrooms.""Brasky's family crest is a picture of a baracudda eating Neil Armstrong.""Brasky ranked 18th in the AP College Football Pool.""Did I ever tell you about the time Brasky was in a production of, 'The King & I?' On opening night, Brasky chloroforms the entire cast and slowly eats them in front of the audience for two hours. The production got pretty good reviews.""He breastfeeds John Madden.""Brasky named the group Sha-Na-Na. They did NOT want to be called that.""If you drop a phonograph needle on Brasky's nipple, it plays the Beach Boys' 'Pet Sounds.'""They use Brasky's foreskin as a tarp when it rains at Yankee stadium.""Brasky directed that commercial where the women play basketball in high heels.""All the 'Yes' album covers are Brasky family photos.""He wears a live rattlesnake as a condom.""Did I ever tell you about the time he taught his son how to drive? He did it by entering him in the Indy 500. The kid wrecked and died. Brasky said it would've happened sometime.""Brasky's semen can form into a liquid human - like the guy from 'Terminator 2'""Brasky still believes in Santa Claus, and he wants to put him in porno films.""He thinks then iron man is gay.""He framed Roger Rabbit.""The character of Johnny Appleseed was based on Brasky - except for the apple tree planting and not raping men.""He gave a handjob to a manta ray."

Books:

The Ender's Game or anything else by Orson Scott Card. The Power of Now , A New Earth or anything else by Eckhart Tolle.

Heroes:

People who are not bound by what is believed to be our limitations.

My Blog

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GHETTORIDGE PICTURES!

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Knight Fitness - Personal training services

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Updated Bio

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My American Gladiators show info

my show will be the premier on Jan 6th on NBC. 9PM/ 8PM central...for details check out nbc.com/american_gladiatorsit going to be good...
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CHADKNIGHT.COM

    So, for those of you who dont know (i can tell you now that its over with), my named website was owned by this guy. This dude who shared my name, was in a professional slightly more...
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