Episode 83 with Laurence Keefe, professional skateboarder and team manager from Tokyo, Japan.

Together we discussed him growing up in the UK, moving to Barcelona in 2005 where he spent a few years teaching English aside from skating and traveling, connecting with Patrik Wallner and going on his first Visual Traveling trips, settling down in Tokyo, Japan in March 2011 with a working holiday visa just a few days before the devastating earthquake hit the country, building his new life there in the following years, working for Evisen Skateboards and getting on the team while also starting to build from scratch and manage the Adidas Skateboarding Japan team…

(00:13) – Intro
(01:13) – Starting skateboarding
(04:09) – First video, first mag
(06:49) – First sponsors
(08:06) – After high-school
(12:30) – Meeting with Patrik Wallner
(13:54) – 10.000km trip
(16:44) – First trip to Japan
(19:38) – Earthquake 4 days upon arrival
(25:08) – Learning Japanese
(26:28) – Transition from teaching English to working at FTC
(28:34) – Working in sales and turning pro for Evisen Skateboards
(30:15) – Adidas Japan Team Manager
(32:09) – Splitting time between both jobs
(33:24) – Responsibilities as Adidas Japan TM
(35:28) – Building the Adidas Japan team
(38:00) – Explosion of skateboarding in Japan
(40:13) – How do you see the future?
(42:57) – Most valuable lesson learned from skateboarding
(45:25) – Friends questions
(45:32) – Masafumi Kajitani
(49:29) – Phil Zwijsen
(50:09) – Kyota Kamei
(52:35) – Hiroki Muraoka
(56:25) – Kirill Korobkov
(58:49) – Chewy Cannon
(59:30) – Saki Keefe
(59:55) – Michaël Mackrodt
(01:09:00) – Nobuo Iseki
(01:12:57) – Seimi Miyahara
(01:13:37) – Walker Ryan
(01:19:27) – Gosha Konyshev
(01:22:20) – Kenny Reed
(01:25:17) – Shingo Ogura
(01:28:32) – Katsumi Minami
(01:30:42) – Patrik Wallner
(01:34:39) – Conclusion

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