PUSH JOSH MATTHEWS

I think there was this malady in skateboarding a few years ago that you needed a reality show to be successful. That you needed to be on Mtv to be important to your parent s friends or your girlfriend s parents or your teachers at school or the people you grew up with because they all knew Rob, Ryan, Bam and the guys from Jackass. For as much as these guys, as well as the XGames and the Dew Tour, have done a great service for skateboarding, and I truly believe they have, they ve never been accurate portraits of what a skateboarder s life was really like. With their emergence and subsequent popularity there seemed to be two different universes at play here, the scripted world and the skateboarder s world with the latter seemingly very disconnected from the former the way a beauty queen and a homeless man might be. So, earlier in the year I convinced NBC, Dew tour to let me try and offer some balance, do something different, something new, something that had nothing to do with scr