Rhys Green Interview

Interview: Rhys Green

by Sam Coady



What�s going on bro?

I�m just sitting at home, chilling out on the computer.

Let�s get the ball rolling, name, age, what you do and other various details?

Well my names Rhys, I�m 21, I ride a skateboard and work at Penrith Panthers RSL club. I know you moved around a fair bit growing up, where have you lived exactly?

When I was really young I lived near Penrith, I don�t really remember much, then we moved to New Zealand when I was about 2 and lived there for about a year, then we moved out to Valley Heights up in the Blue mountains and lived there till I was 12. We then moved out to Queensland for 6 months, near Morton Bay then back out to Valley Heights.

You folk up in the mountains are as chilled as they come, what�s the deal with your family owning a skate shop a while back? That certainly wouldn�t be stress free?

Yeah, when I was skating all the time, my mum saw how expensive boards were and thought for us that we could make some money plus it would be a good way to make boards cheaper for us through the shop, so she kind of financed my sister and her boyfriend to start up a shop near where I lived in the mountains, but it ended up not being able to stay open. It went for 3 or 4 years though, so it had a good run.



You started getting some boards off folklore around that time right?

Yeah yeah, they hooked me up through the shop.

I know you got a little bit of coverage a couple of years ago when you went on a WA trip with Folklore, how was that?

Yeah that was fun. I was only 16 then, I was the youngest one there. It was my first complete skate trip and it was pretty exciting, amazing actually. We travelled down to Albany and spent like 10 days or something skating, not actually in Perth but travelling around skating demos at skateparks, it was good.

Some of those dudes have blown up now like Nick Boserio and Barry Mansfield, what happened to you?

What happened to me, fuck you. I don�t know, I didn�t really know anyone in the scene taking photos or anything, I had a filmer and that was it, we would just skate and film and the footage didn�t really go anywhere at the time .

The Heavy Flow comp really showed people your smooth style and big bag of tricks, a lot of people were tripping out how you managed to stay under the radar for so long, how did that happen?

I guess all my footage just kind of banked up and it didn�t really go anywhere and I didn�t have any photos for ages, so no every really saw me skate. (Laughs)

How did your entry come about? You were filming for a homies video right?

Yeah Alex Petkos�s video. We were just filming for ages and it was his idea, it was basically all of his footage, I was letting him do whatever he wanted with it and he said he wanted to enter me because he though id have a chance, so yeah he put it together, it was basically already together from my part I was going to have, but yeah he just sent it in for me.



The quality of the clips were so high, how hyped were you to come second?

Pretty damn psyched, it was nerve racking all week watching clips come up and not seeing mine yet or knowing if it even made the top 5 (laughs) it was exciting though.

Apart from the well deserved recognition, has anything else positive come out of it?

Yeah, Trev from theeve hooked me some trucks, that was pretty sweet, and yeah just been way more physched to skate and get stuff done.

What about go skate day at waterloo this year, you took it out and won the check out in slam, how was that experience?

That was awesome, on the way there I knew there was a comp on but I had no idea what the prizes were or anything, just thought it was the same as the year before, free product and whatnot, and then yeah throughout the day I heard someone say about the checkout, so I tried a bit harder (laughs)



Apart from ripping, what else does Rhys Green get up to ?

Well I work at an RSL club, I�m a storeman, basically just stand around and except delivers of beer and food and whatnot, other then that just hangout with friends and have fun.

I hear you have quite a record collection?

Ahhh yeah, I�m getting there, I�ve got probably just under 200 now, I never really liked cds because you could just put them on a computer or ipod and then not use them anymore. A third of them I got given from my dad when he didn�t want them anymore so it�s mostly old rock and stuff, then my stuff, a fair bit of Pink Floyd and the Beatles, a lot of hip hop aswell.

Well lets wrap it up, when are we going to see more of you? Are you filming for anything?

Not particularly right now, I�m just filming all the time. I don�t know, this interview, we�ll see

Any shout outs or thankyous?

Yeah you Sam, thankyou to Drew for giving me the chance to do this. Petkos of course for filming and just being all round awesome , Bryce for driving me round all the time ( laughs ) And Trev at Theeve for sending me some trucks.