“I first saw @oski at Bryggeriets… This was when he was a little kid, before he went to high school there. I think he was there rollerskating or rollerblading, you know, just what kids do. Then at some point he picked up a skateboard. He was this tiny, mini kid… We all kind of slowly followed his progression and then I remember one winter thinking, ‘oh shit he fucking rips!’ That’s when I started to enjoy skating and jamming with him… The energy and hype he’d bring to the session was amazing. I remember very early on he was doing backside nosebluntslides on this China bank-like hip at the skatepark and that’s quite an advanced trick. I could never do them! But he was just sliding them over the hip… For some reason, even when he was a kid, that trick has always been really natural for him. Now he can do them first try in contests and on anything.
Anyway, around that time (winter 2010) @davidstenstrom_ came to town from Stockholm and he and Oski were the first two little kids that I put on the team. I asked them when I first started Polar. I said: ‘I want you guys to be a part of this thing I’m trying to create.’ And they were down, but obviously Oski was on Sweet flow back then. It’s funny because he was on Sweet and getting products and I kind of said, ‘well I don’t have any products. I’m designing them… I don’t have a name either… but trust me it’s gonna be dope!’ And this now is a classic story: I remember Oski called me and said, ‘I’m quitting. I don’t want to be a part of it.’ And I said, ‘well OK, but we haven’t even got the boards yet.’ He said, ‘well I know, but I got the latest Sweet catalogue and there is a jacket that I really want so… I‘m just gonna stick around and get that. I want these Sweet products.’ And so when he was a kid he called me and quit. Then some time went by, the Polar products came, the boards came and he was so bummed when he saw people in the city (Malmö) riding them. He was like, ‘oh shit uhh…’ And I was like, ‘hey Oski it’s OK, just come skate with us. So what’s up you want to still be on?’ ‘Yeah I wanna be on. I wanna be back on.’ And so he was.”
- @pontus_alv
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