Bemag Issue 29 - The Negative Side of Chris Farmer
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THENEGATIVE SIDE
OF FARMER
Murda: Yo so you put everyone back on to negatives. Why is
everyone doing them now and think they can make it look
as good as you do? People ask me why you do them and my
thoughts are you can do every other trick in the world -so you
got bored and started doing those (laugh out loud)
CF: Well, I guess some people saw me doing it and they
thought it looked tight so they tried to mimic and failed
miserably. Whoops. That‘s kinda what it came down to.
For one of the most closely monitored and scrutinized cha-
racters in the inline skating world doing tricks, seems to have
become boring. Truespin fishbrain both ways, hurricane sweaty
both ways, and setting the bar for style and spinning to tricks
became distant memories as he literally jumped over every
obstacle put in front of him. It was recently that the ying to his
yang re-appeared, negativity.
Of course I am talking about Chris Farmer. Being a profes-
sional inline skater Chris has always kept himself one step
CF: I pretty much have every trick under my belt, and i got
bored of doing the same old tricks at every session. So i took it
upon myself to start doing something a little bit more challen-
ging. But shit, Letona has already done all the negative shit. I‘m
just dabbling in at the moment.
Murda: Which one is the hardest for you (negatives)?
CF: Hardest negative? I‘ll put it on the 360 negative acid that I
have yet to land on Grandview.
ahead by setting his own trends and unique style. While it
might seem that Chris is a dark, brooding, and very scary man
the truth is that behind this persona is still a nice guy from
Minneapolis. Part wholesome Midwesterner, part horror-flick
loving pseudo-sociopath, part animal-lover, and part spot killer
Chris walks the line between insanity (negative tricks) and the
mundane (boring flatbar tricks). Ladies and gentleman we
give you Mr. Negativity.
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Truespin alleyoop
negative acid
to fakie on
a slice of Topeka
angle iron.
Fakie roll up
the bank to
ao negative topacid
in the
good old BCN.
THENEGATIVE SIDE
OF FARMER
Murda: Yo so you put everyone back on to negatives. Why is
everyone doing them now and think they can make it look
as good as you do? People ask me why you do them and my
thoughts are you can do every other trick in the world -so you
got bored and started doing those (laugh out loud)
CF: Well, I guess some people saw me doing it and they
thought it looked tight so they tried to mimic and failed
miserably. Whoops. That‘s kinda what it came down to.
For one of the most closely monitored and scrutinized cha-
racters in the inline skating world doing tricks, seems to have
become boring. Truespin fishbrain both ways, hurricane sweaty
both ways, and setting the bar for style and spinning to tricks
became distant memories as he literally jumped over every
obstacle put in front of him. It was recently that the ying to his
yang re-appeared, negativity.
Of course I am talking about Chris Farmer. Being a profes-
sional inline skater Chris has always kept himself one step
CF: I pretty much have every trick under my belt, and i got
bored of doing the same old tricks at every session. So i took it
upon myself to start doing something a little bit more challen-
ging. But shit, Letona has already done all the negative shit. I‘m
just dabbling in at the moment.
Murda: Which one is the hardest for you (negatives)?
CF: Hardest negative? I‘ll put it on the 360 negative acid that I
have yet to land on Grandview.
ahead by setting his own trends and unique style. While it
might seem that Chris is a dark, brooding, and very scary man
the truth is that behind this persona is still a nice guy from
Minneapolis. Part wholesome Midwesterner, part horror-flick
loving pseudo-sociopath, part animal-lover, and part spot killer
Chris walks the line between insanity (negative tricks) and the
mundane (boring flatbar tricks). Ladies and gentleman we
give you Mr. Negativity.
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Truespin alleyoop
negative acid
to fakie on
a slice of Topeka
angle iron.
Fakie roll up
the bank to
ao negative topacid
in the
good old BCN.
Commitment
time. Negative
mistrial to
negative misfit
rail to rail.
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Murda: Yea most likely...I was gonna ask you about that! I
remember we was skating and you wanted that on that rail..
you haven‘t done it yet.
Murda: -Crazy that is fucking exclusive, great tricks take time
I say.
CF: I pretty much landed it a year ago, but touched my hand
for a brief second. Then a year later I go back to the spot
and there‘s a fucking dumpster at the bottom of the rail. My
dumbass thought that I could end up doing it anyway.... wrong
answer. Totally mindfucked.
Murda: Where do you think skating will progress to in a
couple of years.. you can only do so much grinds spins to grinds
jump off roofs, where do you think it‘ll progress to playboy?
CF: I really can‘t be specific, but i guarantee it will revolve
around something that‘s already happened/been done. History
repeats itself. Most likely it‘ll be a combination of past trends.
Murda: Any upcoming projects we need to stay tuned for or
any traveling?
CF: Only the two biggest releases of the fucking year! The first
ever Vibralux team video and the long overdue second 4x4
team video. Which pretty much sums up my travels for the
next few months.
Be-Mag: What were your thought processes on the tricks you
chose to do for your (new) sections?
CF: Lack of thought process is more like it... lately I‘ve just
been completely scatter brained, kinda all over the place.
Which is cool, because for the most part, a lot of my previous
sections have been kind of more thought out.
Negative Topside
mistrial on an
Atlanta drop
rail in the hood.
Commitment
time. Negative
mistrial to
negative misfit
rail to rail.
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Murda: Yea most likely...I was gonna ask you about that! I
remember we was skating and you wanted that on that rail..
you haven‘t done it yet.
Murda: -Crazy that is fucking exclusive, great tricks take time
I say.
CF: I pretty much landed it a year ago, but touched my hand
for a brief second. Then a year later I go back to the spot
and there‘s a fucking dumpster at the bottom of the rail. My
dumbass thought that I could end up doing it anyway.... wrong
answer. Totally mindfucked.
Murda: Where do you think skating will progress to in a
couple of years.. you can only do so much grinds spins to grinds
jump off roofs, where do you think it‘ll progress to playboy?
CF: I really can‘t be specific, but i guarantee it will revolve
around something that‘s already happened/been done. History
repeats itself. Most likely it‘ll be a combination of past trends.
Murda: Any upcoming projects we need to stay tuned for or
any traveling?
CF: Only the two biggest releases of the fucking year! The first
ever Vibralux team video and the long overdue second 4x4
team video. Which pretty much sums up my travels for the
next few months.
Be-Mag: What were your thought processes on the tricks you
chose to do for your (new) sections?
CF: Lack of thought process is more like it... lately I‘ve just
been completely scatter brained, kinda all over the place.
Which is cool, because for the most part, a lot of my previous
sections have been kind of more thought out.
Negative Topside
mistrial on an
Atlanta drop
rail in the hood.
Be-Mag: What is the worst negative?
CF: I don‘t do bad negatives. -Wait, I read that one wrong, I
thought you were referring to the worst neg I‘ve ever done but
as for the worst negative? Ally oop neg mizou, hands down. I
threw down the neg mizous back when, but you won‘t catch
me doing them allyoop nowadays.
Be-Mag: You said you got bored with regular tricks, so you
started doing negative tricks. Now that you got all the negative
tricks, where do you go from here?
CF: That‘s something I‘ve been thinking about lately, and I ho-
nestly can‘t answer it. I‘m sure my brain will conjure something
fun to do. Maybe I‘ll start getting into flips? Fakie front flips
will be the new hotness.
Be-Mag: Only if you can do them switch
CF: Which is totally possible, throw in that switch hippy clinch
and you‘re golden.
Be-Mag: Thanks Chris
Chris: See ya bye!
CF: I guess we‘ll see what the out come is.
Be-Mag: What do you think your negative trick to regular trick
ratio is?
CF: Not to be a let down with the whole theme of the article....
70 reg, 30 neg... hahah soul grinds galore!
Be-Mag: Haha
Be-Mag: What‘s the favorite negative trick that you‘ve ever
done, like one that sticks out the most in your mind?
CF: There were two switch ups that I did on this rail at the
ukskate skatepark. First was a true neg misfit to keep spinning
to neg mistrial. The other was zero neg topacid to keep
spinning to switch topacid to fakie. That last one was actually
posted online by ukskate as a promo for „Through the Looking
Glass.“
CF: The ao neg makio to switch ao fish on forum is also up
there. Mainly because that was honestly the only trick I wanted
to do there. But once I realized that the spot wasn‘t as i pic-
tured, things were looking quite dim. I handled it though....
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This is the last trick
you’d ever
want to do on
a high rounded
coping ledge.
Thank Chris for
doing it so you don’t
have to.
Alleyoop negative
makio to alleyoop
fishbrain
at the forum.
Be-Mag: What is the worst negative?
CF: I don‘t do bad negatives. -Wait, I read that one wrong, I
thought you were referring to the worst neg I‘ve ever done but
as for the worst negative? Ally oop neg mizou, hands down. I
threw down the neg mizous back when, but you won‘t catch
me doing them allyoop nowadays.
Be-Mag: You said you got bored with regular tricks, so you
started doing negative tricks. Now that you got all the negative
tricks, where do you go from here?
CF: That‘s something I‘ve been thinking about lately, and I ho-
nestly can‘t answer it. I‘m sure my brain will conjure something
fun to do. Maybe I‘ll start getting into flips? Fakie front flips
will be the new hotness.
Be-Mag: Only if you can do them switch
CF: Which is totally possible, throw in that switch hippy clinch
and you‘re golden.
Be-Mag: Thanks Chris
Chris: See ya bye!
CF: I guess we‘ll see what the out come is.
Be-Mag: What do you think your negative trick to regular trick
ratio is?
CF: Not to be a let down with the whole theme of the article....
70 reg, 30 neg... hahah soul grinds galore!
Be-Mag: Haha
Be-Mag: What‘s the favorite negative trick that you‘ve ever
done, like one that sticks out the most in your mind?
CF: There were two switch ups that I did on this rail at the
ukskate skatepark. First was a true neg misfit to keep spinning
to neg mistrial. The other was zero neg topacid to keep
spinning to switch topacid to fakie. That last one was actually
posted online by ukskate as a promo for „Through the Looking
Glass.“
CF: The ao neg makio to switch ao fish on forum is also up
there. Mainly because that was honestly the only trick I wanted
to do there. But once I realized that the spot wasn‘t as i pic-
tured, things were looking quite dim. I handled it though....
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This is the last trick
you’d ever
want to do on
a high rounded
coping ledge.
Thank Chris for
doing it so you don’t
have to.
Alleyoop negative
makio to alleyoop
fishbrain
at the forum.
Photos: Jeremy Stephenson & Interview: Murda & Intro: AJ & Design: Boris Schandert
This trick is the
equivalent
of tying your
legs into a pretzel.
Negative top acid
through the
kink to “positive”
top acid on the last
down.
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Photos: Jeremy Stephenson & Interview: Murda & Intro: AJ & Design: Boris Schandert
This trick is the
equivalent
of tying your
legs into a pretzel.
Negative top acid
through the
kink to “positive”
top acid on the last
down.
44thspreadof