Dave Compton

RTH - Hi Dave

Dave - Hi

RTH - Apart from Mountainboarding what are your main interests?

Dave - I'm really into tiger art

RTH - Ha, sounds great. What is you role on the RTH Team?

Dave - I guess you could call me the biggest Lord of the Rings fan.

RTH - Very important! So when exactly did you start Mountainboarding? What did you do before your Mountainboarding enlightenment?

Dave - I've been mountainboarding since before it got cool and all the kids started doing it, but back in the old days, I was really into off-road roller skating discos.

RTH - Now that is extreme, we can see why Mountainboarding appealed to you! What would you say are your main Mountainboarding Influences?

Dave - I feel my riding has been influenced a lot by how steep the hill is, and sometimes the hill is really steep and you go really fast, but sometimes it’s as flat as Tara Palmer Tomkinson’s tits and you can’t even start rolling.

RTH - and where is your favourite Mountainboarding Spot?

Dave - My favourite place is making out behind berm 3 at XBP, its sweet.

RTH - Props! So tell us, there has to be something that you are really into?

Dave - I enjoy collecting owl souvenirs. I’ve got about 30.

RTH - Thats cool, we shaln't probe too deep into that one......what is your perfect Mountainboard day?

Dave - A perfect day for me would start off at Wanyi, then I'd go and jump into the river off the bridge with the French police, and end with a sweet Jesus boarding session on some tsunamis and zephyrs.

RTH - Ride the Hill Boards non the less! Wanyi is a great centre to go too. So, for 2010, what are you most looking forward to in the whole wide world?

Dave - I'm really looking forward to seeing High School Musical on Ice, but it's also going to be cool to see if Figure of Hate can reunite and become again the powerhouse of death metal they once were.

RTH - That is surely the question we are all asking! What is your favourite TV show?

Dave - My favourite TV show is A Place in the Sun Down Under and I'd love to meet Nicky Waterman the presenter.

RTH - You are also a founder of the BFC, a fun Mountainboard crew that produce Mountainboard Media, how is that going for you?

Dave - Riding with The BFC gets me really mad because they all suck.

RTH - Now now, I'm sure they are just distinctly average.... what is you favourite thing about being on the Ride the Hill Team??

Dave - The best thing about being on the Ride the Hill Team is riding at the Priory whenever I want because they’ve got a drag lift and an orchard run. Although thinking about it I don’t know why they call it the orchard run, because I’ve never seen any apples on it.

RTH - That is a very good comment actually, we will researchthat and let you know! In the mean time, what board do you ride?

Dave - My set-up is a MBS Pro 100 Leon Robbins. Bloody good board.

RTH - True true! What is your happiest Mountainboard memory?

Dave - My happiest Mountainboard Memory is my first backflip. That was cool, and some girls saw it and went “wooo”.

RTH - I bet they had the hots for you! What is your proudest Mountainboard achievement?

Dave - My best Mountainboard achievement is starting the BFC with Rhys, Jack, Martyn, B, Cowbag and Turner. They all suck though. 

RTH - Any last things you want to say to your fans?

Dave - So long and thanks for all the fish