The Hand of God.
Imagine jet setting between endless summers on both hemispheres, meeting your childhood heroes before getting in the van and calling them teammates, and skating all the best spots on the planet for a paycheck. That’s more or less what Alex Lawton’s life looks like on paper. After winning his first skateboard in a raffle, he now divides his time between Brisbane and Melbourne, Australia, with six-month trips out to California and/or Europe, and is currently in the process of filming for the upcoming full length Element video with his crew of Nyjah, Evan, Westgate, Madars, Greyson, Tim Tim, Julian, Appleyard, Nick, Levi, Ray, Durrant and the rest. Back home in Brisbane for a quick pit stop, I managed to wrangle Alex via telephone to find out what the catch must be. Instead, I came away with something far more valuable—the recipe for Alex and Evan Smith’s proprietary magic juice—aka The Hand of God. Please read responsibly.
How long are you back in Oz for?
I got back on the 20th (of October), a couple of weeks ago. Right now I’m back where I’m originally from, which is Brisbane. Just to see the fam and the homies, then I’ll base myself back in Melbourne.
How is the Melbourne scene doing? Didn’t they just lose Lincoln Plaza?
Yeah. It was mainly because of everyone drinking there. People felt like they couldn’t walk through. But it all worked. There was never any drama. It was just this one person in the council that kept pushing for it. It’s pretty funny actually because all the locals now still go back there, hang out, drink, and still do all the same things there. They still try to skate it even though it’s not even really skateable anymore.
So it was all a waste basically.
This story is from the January 2017 edition of TransWorld Skateboarding.
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