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Milan Shah Thakuriaka.Pagal Chora INTERVIEW WITH OUR TEAM RIDER Milan Shah Thakuri aka. Pagal Chora INTERVIEW Milan Shah thakuri aka. Pagal Chora Milan shah is A 19 year old up and coming street ripper from nepal. After his skatelife began at 17 his level of progression has flourished due only to his sheer love for being on the board. We called him up for a brief phone interview to find out more about his life. where he has come from and what he hopes to achieve as a skateboarder from Nepal. Hello? and his families have come down to play both because my height was Is this Milan? Yes. ktm cause of that). My big sister is in small. But in Both Junior & Senior I How are you bro? Im good bro. Malaysia and my second sister has a would get high score, my name would flight after 3 days for Japan. My dad come in a newspaper Milan shah What are you up to? has taken a lot of loan to send the jersey no 5 from this school from this Just chilling man. sisters abroad, Because of that loan a tournament. Didn’t get any certificate lot of the problems are arising in the but my name came in the newspaper We don’t know a lot about you man. family. We have one House that is also quite a few times. The Milan that we see today im sure in Bank Loan and I am the only Son. there is a story behind him. What is when I was studying in 10th standard, his background? What did he do before Now I’m 20 bro, I cleared My 12 I knew how to dance. when I was in 9th skating? How did he start skateboarding? Standard two years back, Then sat standard they kicked me out of school We want to know about that Milan. down thinking Ill do bachelors then because I was fighting too much and You want me to tell u right now? problems were like that. I’m hoping then when I went to new school where next year ill do that. I met a friend called chimsey. He used Yeah, you just got up or what? I Work in a Sofa factory. My mom to do B-boying, I used to dance but Yes bro. tells me not to work I’ll give u money not B-Boying. As soon as I met him I cause she doesn’t like me work- ing got interested in B-Boying and then I Should I call later? there. Im a grown up u know cant take did B-boying for a year. My plan was How bout I send out a video man? money from my mom. My girlfriend even if I could not do anything else You can make a video and send it but also tells me not to work there. Due in this world tomorrow I will open a to earthquake most of the things have Dance culture place where I can go I wanna hear it from you personally been closed so im figuring my ways and teach people how to dance and I Then lets do it right now man. here. would just do that and live. That was the Plan. Even in dance culture I used If you are sleepy I’ll call later When you were young what did u want to to teach two kinds of culture. I would *laughs*, no bro its cool man. become? Like lets say when you were in earn 4000 per style so my salary was 11th – 12th standard, what did you think 8000. It was like that until one culture Where are you from Milan? you would become? got bankrupt and the other culture My village is in Kavrea. We are a family at that time, ever since I was a kid I the guy ran away. And then I was in a of 7. My Big Sis, My Small Sis, Then only did extra cirucular activity. From situation that I felt like I got out of both another sister , mom , dad , grandfather Basketball to Football I used to attend cultures at once. One didn’t give me and grandmother. Because of the everything but in terms of studies I money the other one ran away. earthquake our house has broken, couldn’t become so good. Even when its in a situation we cannot really stay I was a kid when I played basketball in (Village House - He lives in ktm whether it was junior or senior I could So we also decided that may be we very impressive. After that some loose trucks. I only kept my front leg why I skate is because when I skate I everyone that street is the shit, ramp I didn’t like Ryan Sheckler, I was the leave the dance culture and then all people were doing manuals, some and pushed and I fell on my ass really really enjoy it. Sometimes there is a lot is bullshit and convinced them as well. opposite kind. of sudden there was a topic about were doing ollies, some were doing hard. Haha. I was feeling ashamed of shit when mentally tortures you in It was good reason. Then we started skateboarding. Then I said ok man kickflips, Raman was doing full power cause I fell. Shawn came and said I life, at that time when I take my boards street skating. I didn’t like learning the same thing lets go and see what this thing is. kickflips, and raju and bipu were doing know you can do it. But deep inside I out and skate I forget everything. I that everybody was learning. It has to Chimsey had his own cyber cafe and manuals and shawn was filming going was feeling ashamed and angry cause skate and then come back and then We started watching Nyjah Houston be learnt sooner or later but I m not then we went to checkout some skate behind them. All of a sudden I got a I fell down. This guy is fully bullying me, the tensions and problems start again. and Ishod Wair. These guys had like that. That’s why when the boys videos. They were doing ridiculously feeling deep down inside me, I really I really need to stand on the board and Hahaha (Laughs) more videos coming up so we started focused more on ollies I focused on amazing stuff on that video and we have to play this sport. I was watching show this guy. Even after two months I watching them too. fakie ollies, when they gave more thought that is bullshit because people everyone here and there but everyone didn’t know how to Ollie. I rolled on the Thats so amazing to hear. When did u priority to kickflip I gave more priority were jumping from 1st floor and then was Nepali, when I saw shawn he board did some cavemans, boneless. start watching skate videos? Who were your inspirations back then? to heelflip. I didn’t do kickflip only flipping the board down. We used stood out also cause he is white. At After two months crossed I felt that I I started watching before I skated as I didn’t know how to do any tricks. All heelflip. And then when we played to talk may be these people have that time we were young adults, we really needed to learn ollies now. I I told earlier. After that when I started the boys kicked ass. At that time who Game of Skate I lost once because magnets stuck for real. I didn’t use fb didn’t see a lot of white kids around, I used to go alone to skate. We were skateboarding we used to watch a lot could skate good were Ujwol, I had I couldn’t do kickflip (haha laughs ) much at that time, Chimsey was a bit mean we saw them while B-Boying but 3 guys skating. Chimsey was skating of videos like that element video which never seen him skate before but was then I told myself this is not good then popular on fb, he knew stylish people, nobody spoke that nicely. In our minds but not too much he was occupied by is really old where they wear pant and in good terms, when I saw him skate I started learning kickflips. a lot if girls. Chimsey was contacting we only had freedom and fighting his own things. The other guy would where they do handstands. Many old was impressed, my inspirations were Raju and Ujwol (skaters from Nepal) . I we didn’t really care but when I saw sometimes come. I was alone and videos like David Gonzales goes to Bipu, Frank, Raman, Prajun, Sandeep, How was your trip to india in 2015? How didn’t know about it. One day he called shawn I had a different feeling. I kept started skating. skate. Old Rodney mullen and tony Roku and Chimsey. Bipu taught me did you feel leaving nepal for up and said I called these skaters and on watching him skate, I literally stared hawk videos. We didn’t know much how to Ollie, he is my guru and I was the first time? Was it weird? they will come and we all should skate and looked at him. He had a Real A lot of the boys went to other side about street skating then. Even when inspired by Raman. It wasn’t weird. That was the first time together with them.
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