Justin Robertson Interview.

Justin Robertson is a name that's gotten more and more recognized over the past year. Justin really hit the scene last year, releasing banger video after banger video during the spring. It was after that when people started to get a little tired of his frequent videos, and he took their advice and took the whole summer to film his next mini. The extra time definitely paid off for him, as this video was filled with huge street bangers, ridiculous tech combos, and an improved style. Justin was sponsored by Dogg and later picked up by Quebec Scooters, which his latest video is promoting. I asked Justin a few questions about his latest video, and this is what he had to say.

Jordan Jasa: First of all that video was ridic, you never seem to fail to make me feel like I suck haha. How do you manage to get some of the biggest street bangers yet completely destroy tech tricks?

Justin Robertson: Thanks man. Not gonna lie I usually feel the same way after you drop a new vid too haha. When it comes to street I guess I'm just dumb enough and pretty much willing to try anything and sesh anything when I'm in the mood for it. For the tech stuff I've been working a lot on it lately. I haven't been riding as much street cause I always break my decks so I've been more into tech and park tricks lately. Just recently it seems like tech got a whole lot easier for me and I've been learning new combos like crazy, just working on getting them dialed now. Some tricks in that video I'm not even sure how I managed to do though haha.

Before you film a video, do you know what tricks you wanna get, or do you just film as you go?

I usually have a list of tricks I want to accomplish before hand. By the time I finish my video though I usually only did like 3 of those tricks. Then like 75% are just random tricks I came up with at the time and the other bit are tricks i one up'ed from what I wanted.

What was the hardest thing for you to film in this video?

Hmm, to be honest it was probably one of the smaller things. I'd say the bar to manual to around the world drop in on the quarter. For some reason I just remember that taking me forever to finally get haha everytime I went to do the around the world I'd keep spinning so I'd end up dropping in like sideways/to fakie, I just couldn't get it to work out right.

Do you find tech or big riding more difficult than the other, or are they the same for you?

Tech tricks are by far more difficult for me, I can do quite a range of things but I don't have a lot of them on lock. Big riding's just natural to me, seems like I can throw anything down like a big set or something and get it first or second try pretty much. With tech it usually takes me a lot longer, I've been working on smaller stuff a lot more recently though and I've been getting a lot more on lock and more consistent but still not quite as consistent as I'd like to be with my tech game.

During the course of filming this video, how many parts did you break?

Since I barely rode any street I didn't break to much actually haha umm 2 decks, 1 wheel and I think that's it really. A lot better then usual haha.

I can't help but notice you don't have a fisheye. Whats the reason behind that?

I don't have a job so I don't have the money for it. Been trying to look for a job forever though so once I get one I'm hoping to upgrade my camera maybe, get a fish eye and tripod and stuff so things look a bit more legit.

And finally, what does it mean to you to finally put out this video after 3-4 months of filming?

It's a huge relief. I mean, last year I released 3 videos already by now and at the time they were each filled with bangers for my riding level then. All I kept thinking about was trying to make this video perfect to me and trying to get a little bit of everything, park, street, tech, creativity/originality and just trying to one up my other videos. And aside from not having a huge trick for my ender like my past 2 full videos I'm super pleased with this and happy it turned out how it did and that everyone's pretty psyched on it so far. Makes me wanna get started on filming my summer video already haha.


Thanks Justin,

And thank you for deciding to do this interview with me! I'd also like to thanks Lloyd from QCS for helping me out with some awesome parts and all my friends that filmed for me and motivated me to try certain things. Also thanks to everyone for the positive comments about the video!


Well there you have it. And in case you missed it, here's Justin's QCS Promo-