Mehring's Bearings Presents: Lost Pat Smith Interview

Mehring’s Bearings Presents: Lost Pat Smith Interview

By: Jonathan Mehring | Wednesday, January 11, 2012 //

In 2000, when I first started working for Slap, I lived in DC and one of the only sponsored dudes who would shoot with me at the time was Pat Smith. I didn’t really know anyone in Philly yet and I still had some dues to pay. I worked really hard on an interview with him while he was filming for Label Kills. Unfortunately, maybe because I was still honing my photo skills, or maybe because of politics, the interview never ran. I always wished it had because both Pat and I had worked so hard for it. I recently found the stack of photos we shot and decided to post them on here. Pat Smith now runs Coda Skateboards.

Pat Smith - back smith - Baltimore, MD

Ollie - Brooklyn, NY

Ollie - second angle - Brooklyn, NY

Gap to lip - somewhere in MD

Frontside 180 - Washington, DC

Ollie - NY, NY

Make shift lipslide - Baltimore, MD

Miller flip - Somewhere in West Virginia

Back tail (around a bench that I was standing on) - NY, NY

Disaster - Brooklyn, NY. This ramp was 5 ft on the far side and 9 ft on this side. Pretty crazy to skate.

Kickflip - Chicago, IL

Wallie layback frontside grab or something - Washington, DC

Kickflip - Washington, DC

Ollie - I have no idea where this was

Gap to 5-0 - NY, NY. We curb grinded and waxed this ledge for hours. It had never been skated before. Then Pat did the 5-0 as soon as it would grind. Only a couple tricks have gone down since then on this spot. Cairo's crook and Zered's front tail.

Method - Lansdown, MD

Ollie in, front 360 out - Washington, DC

Ollie - Somewhere

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Comments

willj

the b+w “ollie – somewhere” photo is so good
Andreas

Nice work, Mehring. Nice work, Smithers.
Chris

The B and W Ollie down the steps over the wall was Ocean City Maryland.
NYSkateboarding.com

Brooklyn Ollie was used for this 151 ad: http://www.nyskateboarding.com/2009/08/sunday-scan-pat-smith-151-ad-2003/
Corbin Flynn

The Ollie “no idea where this was” is in Ocean city maryland between 139th and 140th street coming out of a parking garage. i remember seeing the spot and talking about Pats ollie. PITCREW fam for life, http://www.pitcrewskateboards.com

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=140th+street+ocean+city+md&hl=en&ll=38.444643,-75.050972&spn=0.000539,0.000862&sll=39.168059,-77.058141&sspn=1.092363,1.766052&vpsrc=6&hnear=140th+St,+Ocean+City,+Worcester,+Maryland+21842&t=h&z=20
Dizzle 3000

Stupid for not running this shit. just some of the best skate photos i’ve ever seen in my 30 + years in skating. kick ass!
Keilis

lol i cn do oilles lol i cn do oilles so easily . but kickflip sum time i kick the boared infront of me and in pop shuvits the boared goes infront of me 2 and lands in random places