VIDEOGROOVE’S DAVE PAINE ON THE POWELL MOVEMENT


Mike Powell keeps doing in-depth interviews with action sports legends, this time it was Dave Paine’s turn to spill the beans. Dave’s life started as a team sports kid from Philly who got into skateboarding through his brothers. When he got into rollerblading, he sent the equivalent of a “sponsor me” edit to a video magazine, his footage was used and Dave somehow ended up running the video company. He did that until the bottom dropped out and moved to Fuel TV where he launched a network. Here from him on the early days of blading, to the skateboarding vs. rollerblading hate campaign, Vans Warped Tour, and how he got to where he is now.

Listen to it here.