Welcome to "Cryptoskaters" Issue #6 everyone.
"Crypto Skaters" is a new skatehive.app exclusive series. Each week we're gonna interview one member of Skatehive community, ask a bunch of questions about skateboarding, life and their involvement with crypto and web3.
In this issue we invited @knowhow92, skateboarder, content creator, gamer and member of Skatehive since 2018.
Hey @knowhow92 , welcome to "Crypto Skaters"
- Yo yo,what's up fam? Stoked to be here!
Can you tell us a few things about you?
- For sure! My name is Haris or @knowhow92 in web3 social, I'm 30 years old and skateboarding for 18! I'm also one of Skatehive's founders as well as a board member and sponsored athlete of Gnars Dao
What's your background with skateboarding?
- I started skating at the age of 12 while I was at a summer camp! There was this kid named "Fotis" who skated every single afternoon at a basketball court and one day I decided to try it out too! I asked him if I could skate with his board, he said yes and I just knew I was born to roll from the moment I stepped on the board! Been skating ever since! Used to ride for a few companies like Vans and Propaganda in the past but I found it really hard to maintain traditional sponsorships so I'm just riding for fun now!
Goofy or Regular? / Grinds or Slides?
- Goofy and both hehe! Actually I think I'm better on Grinds but I enjoy doing both equally! Used to suck on slides but trying to learn as many of em as I can the past couple years, feels good to sliiiiiiiiiide for dayz!
Favourite Skater and video part?
- Daaaaaaaaaaaamn! This is probably the hardest question you can ask a skater hehe! So many guys out there ripping right now, I could name a dozen of them but I think I'll go with "Heath Kirchart" in "This is skateboarding" by Emerica! Love his style, spot selection and huge bag of tricks
How did you get involved with crypto and why / How did you find out about Skatehive??
- Got accidentally involved with crypto back in 2018 while I was trying to find ways to make money from my skate content! I came across "Steem" blockchain, created an account and started posting my clips there! Was making around 0.10$/post but found it really cool that I can earn something so I kept doing that while interacting with other skaters on Steem at the same time! There were only like 6-7 of us at that time and @web-gnar was organizing weekly skate contests for everyone! Our community used to be called "Steemskate" back in the day. At some point during 2019 web-gnar was too busy with life to organize those dope contests so I asked him if I could continue his work and he said yes! In 2020 Justin Sun bought Steemit inc., centralized Steem blockchain and the community forked Hive. Hive is decentralized and Steem was becoming a circus so the choise was obvious, I moved Steemskate community to Hive, re-branded as Skatehive and building Skatehive ever since!
Kickflips or Heelflips?
- Kickflips for sure! Heelflips are fun but Flips are the best!
In your opinion, how can Web3 change skateboarding?
- Skateboarding nowadays has becomed a really popular sport, it's everywhere! On the news, in every social app, hell it's even in the Olympics! The skateboarding market has grown tremendously the past few years but most of that money are going to big corporations while a tiny ammount goes to the skateboarding community! That's where web3 comes in. Using web3 platforms like skatehive.app allow us to own our accounts and monetize our content while connecting with cool skaters from all over the world! Platforms like Instagram are cool but they are making a shitload of money by selling our data and showing us advertisements and us users don't earn a single buck from it! There's no data or personal info tracking in platforms like skatehive.app , jut community and skateboarding! Web3 will revolutionize the way we share content, the way we interact with people and the way we build business
Any Web 3 communities you're part of and wanna mention other than Skatehive?
- For sure! As mentioned before I'm a board member and athlete for Gnars Dao, member of Shredding Sassy and stoked in Sk8coin! All these communities will revolutionize skateboarding and the best part?!? We all work together! Web3 skaters united!
What should we expect from @knowhow92 in 2023?
Lots of exciting stuff like my GNARS'ly Video part, lots of fresh skateboarding content in my Skatehive.app blog and lots of building for Skatehive! Let's make skateboarding great again!
Any last words for those reading or anything you wanna mention?
- A big thank you to everyone who checked this interview and a small advice, be confident and follow your dreams! Never listen to anyone else than yourself, you know what you wanna do in life better than anyone else! SKATE4LIFE
Find @Knowhow92 on
- Skatehive.app : https://skatehive.app/@knowhow92
- Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/haris_housos/
- Twitter : https://twitter.com/theocharis_ch
@Knowhow92 getting some "work" done at Warehouse 1350 DIY Skatepark
Thank you all for checking out this week's "Crypto Skaters" issue and big ups to @knowhow92 for doing this interview! Awesome times!
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