Interview: The 5W’s with Vinny Minton
Vinny Minton is someone who I consider a class act. I remember officially meeting him in 2004 at Tee’s house the day Ol’ Dirty Bastard from the Wu-Tang Clan died.
We were up late watching Mac Dre vids and talking and he told me about ODB after catching the info from a text I believe.
Even though we had just become friends I felt like I had known him for years. And with us being from 2 entirely different coasts I have to thank Vinny for introducing me to his Bay Area lingo…
It took me awhile to learn how use the word “Finna” in a sentence properly haha. Much love Vinny and here are his 5W’s!
You have inspired so many skaters with your style that the list would be far too long to print here. WHO were some of your inspirations when you were coming up in the blading game?
VM: Throughout my years of skating my inspiration always changed, but I would say my biggest inspiration came from Jon Julio. Seeing him skate when I was a youngster in my local skate park, I would try to emulate his tricks when he’d leave haha..
I also got a lot of motivation/inspiration from all the people that used to hate on me saying, all I knew how to do is flip and that I wouldn’t go anywhere from skating. It feels good to prove people wrong!! [...]
Full Interview: The 5W’s with Vinny Minton.
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February 16th, 2011 at 12:49 pm
Can’t wait for vinnys next rolling vid!
He was always my main inspiration as a young kid, I first saw him in 2Rs sell your soul 2Roll and soon after had to get myself a pair of salomons!
Vinny is the man, and always seems like a down to earth guy in videos / interviews etc.
February 16th, 2011 at 10:04 pm
this is not old fashioned, meaningless hate: shut up and skate is a horrible name for a ROLLERBLADING blog. we don’t SKATEboard.
February 16th, 2011 at 10:32 pm
^^^^^^ nah your right its just a really boring thing to say that no one cares about.
February 17th, 2011 at 10:51 am
“a says” can eat a dick. contribute to blading in a way as big as the dudes who put up on that site. then talk.
you should just quit blading while youre at it. fuckin troll
February 17th, 2011 at 5:31 pm
Thank you Rollernews for posting this up and creating more awareness for my little blog ShutupandSKATE! I’m glad to see that many of you are enjoying the site and I promise to keep the original content coming.
February 17th, 2011 at 10:48 pm
Should have asked more questions on his filming/editing techniques