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So excited about the new boot release!! Presale is LIVE!

I’ve been skating for so long! This is a collection of footage from every year since I started my journey aggressive skating. Before all this I was 12 years old putting on my first pair of ice hockey skates. Little did I know it would take me on a journey of self discovery all around the world, meeting so many wonder humans along the way! What a great time to be HUMAN!

Today PRE-SALE starts on my first ever signature skate from @factionskatecompany. I couldn’t be more proud of all the hard work I’ve done to receive such an incredible honor. Thank you all so much for the support throughout the years. I’ve had such an incredible time on these skates and I’m looking forward to many more!

2000 I was a senior in high school and I just qualified to the ASA Pro circuit. 24 years ago and without knowing skating was going to be the catalyst to the rest of my life. It was going to be the one that taught me hard lessons about pushing fear and accepting failure as part of the process. Itshowed me how powerful community is and the influence we have to others and from others. It taught me about risk and reward and when to hold and when to fold.

2024 my first pro model skate is going to be released! The last year of development has felt like days compared to the decades of dedication I’ve put into skating. I didn’t ever think the day would come that I would have this opportunity. I am so grateful for the support @factionskatecompany has given me being able to continue to travel and skate around the world.

This skate is full circle for me. It encompasses everything I have taken from skating and the reason I started doing it in the first place. The freedom of self expression and the NOW moment coexist when you put your feet into these skates.

To the many more years on skates. I salute you all!

“These things make us superheroes!!!”
-Carl Hills
RIP

2005 and run it back to 2004 when I came to skate the skyline track handicap rails. (All the way on the other side of the campus kitty corner, farthest away from the disaster. I was skating with @sweet_avenue and wanted to check out the stairs to see if there was any trick I could do here that would be cool. I got to the rail and it was awkwardly high with no run up to really do anything on it. I remember going to the top of the stairs to see if there was a line I could do to it or something and I thought to myself, wow I think I could gap to that! but it’s sooo big, I’m afraid it’ll end my career. I told Tory at the end of my career I’ll come back to this to do it and we left.I would dream about this trick for a year long. At that time I didn’t really have any idea when that would be or what it would look like. One year later and I get a call from @slaychain telling me that he’s organizing a @bemag.official tour and they want to come through Utah. That wasn’t enough for it to click in my head that it was time for me to do it. It was only 10 min before I did it, that it was meant for me to do at that very moment, not at the end of my career.

2005 “I’m so glad there’s grass there.” This ski clip I found of @mr_boo_dro from 2013 and he landed it “switch”. When I attempted it, it took me four tries. I tried to land backwards and it didn’t end up well for me. This clip of Tanner is cut so fast after he hits the snow, it’s hard to tell if he rode away or not. I sure didn’t!! But when I fell it felt like I was about to hit cement and instead went to the grass and slid! I can’t imagine how bad it would have been on the cement.

2005 Inline Skyline High Disaster vs 2012 Ski Skyline High Disaster
#ski #inlineskating

2002 and my “made up” brother Don Bambrick is visiting Utah and we’re filming for our split part for ESPY made by my friend @rogeremmer . We took Don to the University of Utah to skate and of course we ran into the campus police. Not before Don laced up these two full cabs down it!!

2002 and I’m pretty new to this being a “professional” skater thing. I remember my Mom taking me to get a haircut and she asked the woman if she could cut my hair like a professional skater. I’m also a very sensitive being and was pretty known for being “soft”. Hence the nickname “Killa Cam” that was given to me by a peer of mine. He said “You’re too soft, we need to make you harder.” It seemed the trend back then was to poke at each other and push each other’s buttons. People were louder about that than actually celebrating the people around them. I remember when people would get loud for another skater, it seemed uncomfortable for me. Like it wasn’t “normal” to celebrate yourself or anyone else. You don’t want to ruin the clip!! Nowadays I make sure to let people know I saw them and I was impressed. For me it’s all about personal progression and growth. This said person may have done this said trick on this said spot, but I didn’t! Let me, do me!

2001 vs 2010 American Fork Twin Labs. Not only does street skating come with battling the obstacles and the tricks, but also the people trying to kick you off. Sometimes it takes multiple visits on different days and lots of failed attempts just to get a few second clip!

KAREN says “You have a right to go up and down the stairs, like a normal human being with shoes.”

I SAY…
#karen #remix

OMG get outside and MOVE!

KARENS were invented because of my generation.