15 Things you didn’t know about Jai Ball

1. My first board was Powell Mike McGill. That’s a fish tail kids.

2. Before skating I was sure I was gonna make it to the NBA.

3. Before basketball I was sure I was gonna be a major league baseball player.

4. My first skate video was a 6hr vhs mix of old powell and h-street movies. There was a lot of rewinding and fast forwarding.

5. As a kid I thought the new tracker e-clip trucks were amazing until all my wheels fell off.

6. My first sponsor was Radical skate shop in China town (now Temple). I was fifteen and thought that was as good as it got!

7. At about fourteen I got a gig doing voice over work for cartoons. I made $500 bucks in forty five minutes, which I promptly spent on red raver new deal pants and other fashion trends that ended six months later.

8. At fifteen I saw Twenty shot and thought that Menace was the coolest company. I wanted to be a gangster skater from L.A too.

9. After high school I studied film for three years in college, right before computer editing came in. I know everything about the French new wave, but still have no idea how to edit.

10. At seventeen I went to S.F for the first time. At the pier Lee Smith made fun of my shoes, I was crushed.

11. I love to watch “So you think you can dance” as well as other dancing reality shows. I just wanna dance!

12. My list of Joe jobs includes; dish washer, subway sandwich artist, skate shop slacker, hospital cook, youth hostel breakfast guy, Lush cosmetics bath bomb mixer, hotel line cook, copy center copier. Please buy Studio, please…

13. I love long walks in the park.

14. My cats name is Clementine.

15. I’m a lover not a fighter.