Interview Wolfi Wanner
Hey y’all
My name is Wolfi Wanner (insta@shredtheshizzle)
I live in St.Gallen Switzerland and I’m almost 50 years old.
I started skating in summer of 82
What was your first skate complete,did you remember that?
My first complete was a very cheap one straight out of a swiss catalogue but then after some time my first pro setup was a vision jinx with gullwing trucks and some jigsaw wheels and it was mounted with some rad brigdebolts.
Tell us about your begginings on skateboard..where and how all started
I started skating during summervacation in 1982.I was sitting at home and i was a bit bored but then i saw a short documentary on tv of some skaters somewhere in Germany and at that second i saw it i totally fell in love with it…I never forget that moment because that was a life changer til now.
The background song was from Billi Idol,Dance with myself and i love that song since then.
Tell us about your local scene then and now? Whats your best spots to skate?
Back in the 80‘s the whole skateboarding scene was way smaller and also more kind of hesh and rougher like more Punkrock attitude and pretty much gnarly shit was around everywhere.
At that time we’ve had like no skateparks around so we hit the streets and shredded everything we could find we were streetrats but on the other hand the hate was real from the regular people in the city cause skateboarding was too new for them…
Skate & Destroy was the deal at that time and i loved it.
Now almost 43 years later i still skate until my body says no but after 2-3 days of resting i need to skate again otherwise i wouldn’t be that balanced in general.
Nowadays i mostly go to skateparks cause it’s not that body wrecking as street skateboarding.
The skatescene here in St.Gallen is pretty big with lots of young gunz who skate or started skating.
The attitude has changed but hey the good thing is we got more skateparks and more contests and the acceptance of skateboarding is growing like crazy.So all over it’s just awesome to witness that change.
Whats your biggest inspiration in skateboarding and life?
My biggest inspiration is that I’m still able to skate after all those years but mostly its to skate with friends and having a nice sesh and traveling like check out and skate new spots in different country’s and also freedom that automatically comes with skateboarding im my opinion.
I’m also doing since over 15 years skatelessons for kids & girls every week cause i just want to show everyone what skateboarding can achieve and create and see the kids ripping and see their stoke in their eyes burning.
Are you a street or park skater? Which you prefer
I was a streetskater til like 2010ish then i slowly became a park skater.
What do you thing about the skateboarding in the olympics?
It’s a tricky question but i think that skateboarding in the olympics is sort of cool but in my point of view skateboarding isn’t actually a sport it’s a artform and a lifestyle that’s why i think skateboarding doesn’t need the olympics but the olympics need skateboarding.
But hey everything changes and it’s cool for the young generation.
What is saintcity skate club , tell something about that
I am also the president of the saintcity skateboarding club and we’re here to push skateboarding and skate events here in town and keep the whole skatescene alive.
Your top 5 skate designs?
Ray Barbee,Ragdoll
SMA Natas
SC Atomic Man Jeff Kendall
Vision,Psychostick
Powell Peralta,Cab Chinese dragon
Too many to name…
Your best music to skate?
I don’t listen to any sound while skating cause the best sound brings skateboarding when your shreddin…
When I’m at home i listen mostly to old school Punkrock,Hardore,Reggae
Thanks for time , your words greetings etc. Feel free to write what you can
It was a pleasure to sit down and to give you guys this interview and i hope you have fun while reading it.
Never forget skateboarding is fun!
Maybe we will run into eachother somewhere in a skatepark.
Stay rad
Cheers Wolfi
Thank you Rob for giving me this interview.
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