Paul Rodriguez

You're not pushing yourself enough.

yeah um i feel like it's skateboarding is a game that never ends you can never learn every trick you can never do everything so like i feel like as long as my body will allow me and as long as i have passion for it i'm gonna always be trying to chase new tricks trying to learn new things trying to do new combinations skate new obstacles um

that's just what I'm drawn to that's just what I love you know maybe when I get like older older and I'm not like doing it at a pro level anymore I might not be pushing myself as much and I'll kind of just be sticking to the tricks that I know I have very consistent to like avoid injury because when you're retired and you know you're not doing at a professional level why risk getting injured for no reason

Right.

Do you still feel like you're getting better to this day?

I do.

Wow.

I really do.

In different ways.

Like, I'm not getting better at, like, bigger obstacles.

Like I said, I'm not jumping 15 stairs anymore.

Yeah.

But I'm definitely pushing myself in different ways technically, like with ledge skating.

My balance is probably a lot better over the years.

My board control is a lot better nowadays.

So those are things that I'm just trying to continue to improve where I physically still can.

So I would say out of all the tricks I've ever filmed in my video parts, I did a video part back in 2010.

It was called Me, Myself, and I. And it was back when streaming was just becoming a thing.

Typically before then, we would drop full-length video parts, which is like if you have a skate team, it's all your teammates.

Everybody has maybe a three- to five-minute part.