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Name: Martin Winkler
Date of birth: 1973
Residence: Munich
Job: Manager of the civil-cervants in a Munich hospital
Website: www.winklerwheels.com

Goofy/Regular: Regular
Boardsize: 8- 8,5
Skateboarding since: 1986
Sponsors: blackriver-ramps (haha#2), unitedskateboardartists
Favourite trick: No-Comply´s, Manual-combos, Oldschool-shizzle
Favourite skater: Mark Gonzales, Jason Lee
Skateboarding because: a gentleman won´t answer this one
Favourite spot: no spot around here ... couldn´t afford the tickets you get for
skating Barcelona, but I had some nice vacations there, end of the nineties, when it all was a secret spot.
Favourite Sk8-Magazine: boardstein -what else??

Other interests
Music: everything that sounds good. Listen to Jintanino -the best german rapper around.
Books: ... you may laugh, the bible! (Bertold Brecht), Hermann Hesse, Helge 
Schneider, 1000 Recordcovers everything about skateboard-history and 
newest possessions I found in a lost place in the alps:
"Fear in Capitalism" and "`Beneath vultures´ - how to start a 
collective"
Movie: Emir Kusturica (Super8-Stories, Schwarze Katze, weisser Kater), 
Jim Jarmusch (down by law, night on earth, ghost dog ...), Punch 
Drunk Love (Adam Sandler) just to name a few.

Favourite quote:

"More light" (Goethe)

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What does blackriver mean to me?

The mothership without which I, being a pirate, could not exist

Three non-board related things to survive everyday life

Faith, hope, love

Three statements I´d write on my griptape

Arrogance is not a crime, Skateboarding is for girls, I´d rather ride real Fingerboard!

Things I try to create/ establish

Myself, you and winklerwheelz!

Things I try to destroy

Myself, you and...no, wait:  Stupidity, Arrogance, Prejustice, Lies of all kind and injustice.

Three lies I believed in for too long

That EWO would give me my money back.
That the owner of a former fingerskating webshop would give me my money back
That Loco would give me my money back

This is how I create my future

Think fast, skate faster and don´t look back! (Steve Rocco)

Skateboarding needs more new positive influences. I´ll skate as long 
as I can and I swear I´ll be the first one with a part of prothetic 
knee, that´ll do ollies at age 60!

This is how I deal with my past

Pain-Lonelyness-Grief-Argue-Acception. Never give up.

Last words

Thanks to the fingerboard scene (you know who you are) and everyone who made it what it is today (except the spamkiddies, fakers and gangsters).
And stop playing S-k-a-t-e, play S-t-y-l-e!!!

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