Oct 11, 2018
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CHASE DEHART BACKCHECK INTERVIEW
By: Rich Hirsch
Chase released a new video for what appears to be his new clothing oriented project BACKCHECK today. I’ve known Chase for a long time and one thing I can say defines him the best is that he’s very calculated in what he does making sure to thoroughly vet his thoughts before he speaks similar to how he choses to perfect new tricks before ever filming them or even bringing them out in a sesh. With that said I can only imagine that he’s been cooking BACKCHECK up for a while now so I hit him up to get some info. Shirts are available now on his site as well as through Cult.
What’s new man how you been holding up through the Covid lockdown?
Honestly not much really has changed by me through it all, our county didn’t get hit bad so we were pretty fortunate to not be on a strict lockdown. But we’ve been playing it safe and keeping to ourselves, which also isn’t much of a change haha
That’s good to hear, was that Cult AZ trip your last time away from your area?
Yea I literally came home from that trip, and about 2 to 3 days later is when all the shutting down started, I thought I had the virus no doubt because I was just on a plane haha, I was stressing at first.. Not to joke about it.
Did you end up getting it you think?
Honestly right when I got home, me and the family were real sick for about a week, and we all kind of thought maybe we had it and it passed. The only thing was none of us ever had a fever, we just felt shitty mostly. Like just cold symptoms mostly, and we were having wether change so it was pretty normal to feel that way here.
Same here around that time everyone I know had a bad cold/flu that lingered a little longer than normal but nothing too crazy luckily.
I’ve been seeing the Backcheck stickers and then shirts floating around the area the last few months when did you decide to start this new project and what was the motivation?
I feel like I’ve always wanted to do it in the back of my mind, I tried when I was younger with butter, but I lost interest in it because I was just young and doing so much other stuff, and then about two years ago me and my girlfriend and a couple friends would always talk about doing something on our own for fun, and then I tried filming a video last summer to get things going, but motivation kind of died out and I was really busy anyhow, but this time around it just felt right to get it going and started really coming together, my friend Tom started coming around and filming, so that kind of helped motivate us because we had a good filmer, and then me and my girlfriend have good friends who run a printing business, and they motivated us because they knew we’ve been wanting to make shirts and stuff, so that also helped get things going, like I said things just seemed to start coming together and we are going with it.
But yea, it’s kind of been a long time coming as far as wanting to do it.
That’s awesome man congrats on making it happen.
I think this is an element in BMX that a lot of riders never see. You hear so much about how a check from a single sponsor may not be that much but when you look at the guys who have always flourished they had not only good sponsors but their own projects in many cases myself included.
Yea definitely, If it’s what you do, you’ll always feel the motivation to get a project going one way or another, wether it’s filming or whatever.
What would you like to see happen next now that you’ve released your first video and tee? Anything you can share without ruining the surprise?
From here just gonna do more of the same, continue to film and lurk around, working with some artists on shirt designs. More stuff to come for sure.
Sounds good man good luck with all that, excited to see what’s next. Anything new coming up with Cult we can check for? Hyped to ride your new primo grip when they come in ;)
Yea speaking of sponsors I definitely want to thank cult and primo (you) for supporting me, I’m very lucky to have your guys support. and for cult we are about to do a video for a vans x cult shoe that’s coming out soon, and yea my primo grip is coming out real soon and I’m hyped, I definitely appreciate that.
That’s what’s up man thanks for being down and continuing to inspire. See ya soon hopefully.
Chase Dehart DTLA clips while out filming for Midnight Creatures. Pic: Rich Hirsch