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What's your name, age, and where are you
from?
My name's Charles Sands (my nickname's Chaz), I'm 19 and I'm from
Clydebank in Glasgow.
How long have you skated for now?
I've been skating for about five to six years, on and off due to
injuries, you know.
What's the skating like in Glasgow at
the moment?
It's massive - it's the best place in Britain for skating right
now, I'd say.
Have you got any favourite places to skate
in Glasgow?
The best place is the art schools at the Anderson station, and St
George's Cross.
You've been sponsored for a while now,
and you're on the Salomon pro team, how's that changed things for
you?
There's a lot of travelling and stuff, you know? I get to see a
lot of the world and meet a lot of people that I'd never get to
meet if I wasn't on the team. And it's really just given me a whole
new perspective on skating.
How was it that you got hooked up with
Salomon?
I was on the K2 team at first, and I knew the [Salomon] team manager
for the UK, and I was speaking with him, just saying 'Could you
get us on the team' and a few weeks later he got back to me and
said he had a space for me. So he put me on the team.
How have you managed to come so far in the sport,
living where you do in this country? Because it's a bit out of the
way from the scene.
Yeah - it's quite far from all the rest of my friends and stuff,
but there are loads of people who skate from where I stay, and every
weekend they just hook up and go skating. And then it just went
from every weekend, to every day. Then we met other people through
going into town, and from there I just started travelling down to
England, and once you go down to England and enter a few competitions,
people start recognising who you are and people start talking to
you.
Are you sponsored by anyone else?
I'm riding for another company called Kaiser, which is a hardware
company, and I'm riding for a clothing company called Shifty, and
another clothing company called Enigma.
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