Interview and photos by Luke Brown, (except the pool frontal which is by his bro Isaac) I'd tried a few years ago, but again I informed my good friend Noah I'd intended to ask him a few questions on a one week visit to Brisbane. I arrived on Friday night and was under the impression we'd catch up sometime over the weekend, hopefully we could talk. But next morning I received a call 'there's a pool on the go,' so it had to wait. This was then Tuesday night after those lucky sessions over a beer outside the God Bowl. Cheers mate (chink) Cheers bro So I saw you on the news once in your underpants, do you want to elaborate a little more on that? Noah: Oh, it wasn't underpants, but pretty much. I woke up, naked, and the house was on fire. Only had a chance to run out the front - to the whole neighbourhood full of people. Day before my 25th birthday, life threatened number one. Gnarly. Was it ok? Nah, it was totalled. Had to get ripped down. Just arsonists who'd lit about ten fires that night, and that was the last one. Crazy, alright. You've been Anti-Hero since day dot which is interesting considering you ride for them now through Kwala, would you mind telling us a little about what got you into it? I dunno, when I was younger everyone knew all the big names like Gator and that. But I wasn't that good at skateboarding, I just bombed down hills and off gutters. Didn't really take it too seriously, then I had another phase a bit later on and got more into it, I had a mini ramp� Yeah, I remember that, the old spine from the Moorooka Skate Shed with the rollover. Yeah, so that and the ramps at Beenleigh, but before that it was mainly street for a long while. I just remember old ads of Cardiel, didn't really know who he was, just liked the go for broke and stay on super fast style. So I was amped on that, and then I got a few boards. Then a few years later I got their second video, the one with the cow on it and that was it. So yeah I guess that vid and Jim's Ramp Jam would have been a big influence on my style. So how is it that dirty thirty is no longer on the horizon, but slightly over to starboard? I'm just trying to take as many pills for my joints and stuff, I wish I started a lot earlier, just so I can be as good as I can to skate you know. I mean you can still kinda skate all day but not like when you were younger, you hurt easier, combine that with being a concreter as a job, it's rough. I guess I'm looking forward to turning thirty, but I'd rather be looking forward to turning twenty-five, ha ha ha. Not stopping in a hurry though. No way, look at all those dudes, Lance, Cab. Look at Dwayne Peters, that guys been to hell and back and still shreds. I think Alva's like 50 now, so there's plenty of hope. There was video I saw somewhere of you running down the street and Keegan Sauder I think, in the raw? It was a bit of a night and the Canadians were around, they're known for their naked runs, so I guess I just had to man up and show 'em Aussies don't give up. So you and Keegan have been pretty tight ever since that special moment then eh? Yeah he's a good bloke. So what does it take to be a Pirate, does a good beard help and the fact that maybe you have a tooth missing? They're some good factors I spose, you can't be clean cut that's for sure, you've gotta be a bit of dirt. Bit of roughness, bitta ghetto 'crete, bitta D.I.Y. Yeah that's it, you gotta start making stuff for yourself and not complain about what you don't have. What do mean? A lot of people complain about parks getting made, and what's there, it's not smooth enough, not what they want blah blah. I made parks for a few years and I never got to make what I wanted. You still enjoy the job, but now my goal is to make my own stuff, in your yard, at your mate's houses, under a bridge or something. We've gotta get it happening in Australia, five different states have done it in the U.S, we've just gotta get together and do it over here, not be lazy. I 'spose a lot of the work is with the councils and stuff, so they don't just rip it down? Yeah, but it's good to get that first bit started so that they can see you're serious. If they can get away with it over there where they have a lot more rules then we should be able to get it going over here. I notice you look at things a little differently with your skateboarding, what are some tricks you like or want to do? I like trying to combine tricks, there's so much you can do. Look at all the ledge tricks, you know smith to lip to smith whatever. I like trying to combine stuff on trannie. If you can take it to bigger stuff it's gnarly. There's so many possibilities. It's not about copying someone else's tricks. You can just join together what you've learned over the years and it normally works. But ah, I'd like to get more inverts happening. They're the gnarly tricks like what men did, you don't see many people do them, or do them properly, you don't want them to go extinct. Is there a frontside invert on the horizon for Noah Phillips? There better be before I'm thirty or I'm gonna kill somebody! Not long now mate. That's definitely one that's been heckling me for years. Probably some of the other stuff is like no comply grinds, just other stuff you don't see, just come up with your own stuff. Ok, cheers. Well I guess we better rap it up now. Anything you want to say - HESH OR DIE! �any shout outs or whatevs? Oh yeah, thanks to anyone who's ever given me boards or shoes and stuff, helped me out. Thanks heaps to VANS and KWALA. Thanks to all my mates the PHC - and Suzy my girl.