CLARK HASSLER INTERVIEW

BY ALEX HANSEN

Alex: Hey Clark, what you doing right now?

Clark: Drinking coffee, thinking about the day.

Alex: Gives us a normal daily routine for you in NYC?

Clark: Its always different, I always wake up at my girls house if it's a good day with my arms around her all warm. If its not a good day, I wake up alone on your couch in the East Village. Then I head out around 11 AM to the bodega to get a coffee and an egg sandwich. If I got extra funds I get a kombucha tea. Next, I make some calls to Todd or someone and try and get a photog or filmer together. Push around and hope that someone brings me to a dope spot. Depending on how tired I am meet-up with some friends at night and chill on a rooftoop or something. As the night starts to get later I hit the ATM and start off with a hundred. If I'm lucky I have enough for a sandwich in the morning.

Alex: How come you're so mellow all the time?

Clark: I don't know, that's just how I've always been. I've never been too agro. Like I'll have fun and scream loudly sometimes, but it's easier to be mellow than stressing out like most people in the world because in the end it really doesn't matter. When I was a kid in school, the others would ask "why don't you talk Clark?" I told them that I just have nothing to say.

Alex: Give us the deal with how the Nike per diem works?

Clark: Well, there is some lame loop hole where they can't give the riders money for trip expenses so they give us a Whole Foods stamp card, we are pretty much locals at most Whole Foods around the USA.

Alex: Whats your take on Nothing But The Truth.You got all dressed up in a wig and were doing your acting thing.

Clark: I feel like the skating in the vid was cool and it got me stoked that I had an opportunity to be a part of something like that. But it was an overload in some ways. The skits didn't fully blossom into what they were planning. When I put on the wig, I had been sitting around for awhile on the set doing nothing. So I just did what they told me to do.

Alex: Weren't you a manual skater? Recently in some ads you've been skating jersey barriers and doing fence grinds. Do you feel that since moving to the East Coast you've switched it up?

Clark: No, I still do manuals. I got a manual clip the other day. I think my wallie stuff is the kind of skating that is taking the easy way out just to get a clip. The NYC wallie barrier Nike ad wasn't planned out. We were just skating and it kind of happened. Sometimes I feel like a pussy doing manuals. You use way more of your body when you mash on walls and shit. Basically, I'm always changing the way I want to skate. Like I haven't been doing flip tricks lately but now today I woke up and I want to just practice flips tricks all day.

Alex: Is Neckface your boy?

Clark: Hell yeah, thats the homie. I love that motherfucker! He converted me to athiest.

Alex: What happened with that Quattro wheel company you were on? Did they go out of business?

Clark: Quattro was, I don't really know what it was, I was getting wheels form that Guy dave who I used to see at the Venice pits. The wheel company turned into Modern with MJ heading it, but I was out of the picture by then, they're good wheels though.

Alex: You've been am for a awhile. If you could would you kick off someone from the Enjoi team to get their pro spot?

Clark: Honestly, I don't want anybody kicked off cause everybody on the team makes Enjoi what it is...maybe Wieger. Just kidding, that would be fucked up because I just got him on. (laughs)

Alex: Shout outs?

Clark: Everyone I've known since preschool. Especially Mr Rogers, GI Joe, Sesame Street., Transformers, Smurfs, I don't know, the whole skate world. LA peoples, Nor Cal Dogs, New York jiggas.

Alex: Words of wisdom?

Clark: If you feel down and out and don't know what to do, live all your days in darkness, let the sun shine through, happiness is easy you choose to be sad you soft ass pussies. Don't be afraid to be sweet. Stop playing games with your girl, tell her how really feel.