It's funny, say you meet a girl and she's like, ‘What do you do?' I just skate. ‘Where do you go to school?' I don't go to school. I try to explain it to her, and if she's simpleminded, she'll think, ‘Oh, you're stupid, you're not going to get anywhere.' She doesn't understand. So I don't even try to think how anyone else thinks. I just try to think about coming up and being original."

Say your name, Peter.
Ol' Dirty Smolik.

How old are you?
Twenty years old.

When's your birthday?
November 20.Coming up kind of soon. Ready to be 21? Yep, that'll be crazy.

No more problems with the ID?
No, that's gonna be sick.

Do you have a fake one right now?
No. I wish.

You kind of look like your brother, does he have the same color eyes?
I think his eyes are brown. I could get some contacts, though.

How old is your brother?
Twenty-one.

You skate with him a lot, right?
Yeah. As much as we can. We used to like every day.

That's rad. Did your brother skate before you?
No, we started skating at the same time. I got a skateboard down the street from my house-a little wooden one. Then he got one that was fiberglass with some crazy-ass Vision wheels. It was pretty sick, though. We used to just bomb around on that. Eventually, our parents got us better skateboards, so then we just started skating, skating, and skating.

What footed are you, and what footed is he?
He's regular, and I'm goofy. See, that's how me and my brother are. It's fun, but at the same time you learn different tricks when you go to different spots. Sometimes you want to do the same thing. That's why you have to learn to skate both ways.

Yeah, exactly. Do you skate switch a lot?
Yeah.

Have you always tried to keep up on that?
Every trick I do regular, I want to do switch. I want to learn every trick in skateboarding there ever was. I like inventing my own tricks, too. But I think it's important to accomplish something different.

It's hard now days, don't you think?
It is, dude, but that's what makes it fun. It's more complicated; you have to adapt so much quicker. That's the fun about it-you have to be on point all the time.

How was it filming for the new Shorty's video [Fulfill The Dream]?
It was fun. In my part, I was kind of messing around. On some tricks I was serious; on other ones I messed around, because I didn't have the capability to drive somewhere and plan something out. I wasn't really trying to stress out and film all crazy-I was just bustin' shit. When I get my car and have the ability to travel places, then I'll start bustin' twice as hard. I'll be able to skate all the bomb-ass spots all the time, instead of waking up and being stuck without a ride. What do we do?Go skate flat ground at Mervyns? That ain't shit. It's like when I don't have my car, I'm on everyone else's time.

It's definitely a hassle to get stuff done without a car. Do you guys even have a filmer down here?
Yeah. My brother films, but then again, he has his own shit to do. Just like I said, I was on his time. He'd work at the stadium, and when he got off he'd go skate, and he wouldn't want to go to spots I wanted to go to. [Danny] Minnick films, but he doesn't have a ride, either, so it's hard for me to connect with him. I like filming with Minnick, he's sick. Then there's [Steve] Celentani, but he was always busy filming the Osiris dudes. So, I hooked up with [Dave] Schlossbach in the end. It was pretty sick. Schloss was the first big-time filmer I ever filmed with. I met him at Mervyns in Clairemont Mesa [San Diego]. Kanten Russell was skating there, and I was tripping. I was like, "Whoa, I can't believe Kanten's skating here." I think Dave had seen all of us skating there before. He probably said, "Hey Kanten, there's a group of people skating [at Mervyns], you should check it out." That was back when Kanten was on Chapter 7.

So that was like five years ago, maybe?
Probably six or seven. It was a while ago. Sc