Glenn & Bernie
What are your first memories of each other?
Glenn: It was at a Boom/Strobe demo at the old Rec Centre in Wellington. It was an old indoor roller rink and sports centre that had all these ramps that they’d pull out from Friday to Sunday. The skateboard scene in Wellington revolved heavily around the Rec back then. I’d say this was 1996, maybe ’97. Bernie was there skating with this ghetto dreadlockspiked kinda hairstyle, which I found out later had been done with Shoe Goo. Anyway, he was the best dude I’d seen on a skateboard in real life, so I took notice straight away.
Bernie: My first memory of Glenn would have been around the late ’90s at the Rec Centre. He was rollerblading and every now and then I would see him skateboarding. Not long after that, I started hearing about this kid Glenn and the tricks he was doing. I remember someone telling me that he noseslid nollie heeled the Midlands stair ledge and I was thinking to myself, isn’t he the blader from the Rec?
Glenn: Cheers Bernie, I was just gonna brush over that one [laughs]. It’s true, deep down I’m just a rollerblader. The cat is out of the bag.
Who else were you skating with at that time, and who did you look up to?
: I was skating with Jeremy Tavendale, Dave Colman, Ollie Logan and a bunch of Wellington skaters around my age. I would have been in my early twenties. We looked up to each other and the American pros we watched in videos. NZ pros I looked up to were Chey
