Dave Swift discusses growing up in Southern California, skating in CASL contests in the early 80’s, getting sponsored by Schmidt Stix, shot first photo in 1983 at Great Desert Ramp Battle, started working at Transworld in 1989 as a writer, asking Grant Brittain to borrow an old camera to start shooting photo’s again, getting his first photo printed in Transworld, shooting with Tom Penny when he first came to the states, the stories behind some of Heath Kirchart’s iconic photo’s & covers, switching from film to digital, Transworld magazine being over 400 pages, leaving Transworld to start The Skateboard Mag, how selling The Skateboard Mag to The Berrics came about and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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