Top 5: Rémy Meister
If you want to avoid a serious hangover, you’d rather not ask Rémy any complicated question.
Despite the impression he’ll leave on an unprepared audience, Rémy’s quite a deep thinker actually, and long conversations with him usually involve a couple of bottles of hard liquor. So do your liver a favor, save yourself the headache, and dive deep into our Top 5 with Rémy Meister!
Questions by Johannes Jacobi
Photography by Mathieu Hennebert
Top 5 words to describe yourself
• Skate
• Fast
• Die
• Young.
• Still, I’m a frustrated punk who’s dangerously excessive in whatever he does.
Top 5 ways to annoy you
• Prevent me from sleeping.
• Hide me truths I deserve to know.
• Win against me playing Scrabble.
• Not being motivated when I want to skate or party.
• Being motivated when I don’t want to skate or party.
Top 5 things to do besides blading
• Get drunk
• Read books
• Live good music
• Draw
• Take a ride to nowhere
“Still, I’m a frustrated punk who’s dangerously excessive in whatever he does.”
Top 5 things about girls
• I
• Need
• To
• Fuck.
• And I can fall in love with almost any girl in less than a minute.
Top 5 best things about traveling
• Getting lost.
• Seeing people I spent good times with.
• Pushing it to the limits.
• Tasting new drinks and foods.
• Traveling more.
Top 5 worst things about traveling
• Getting lost.
• Not remembering people I spent good times with.
• Finding the limits.
• Being sick with strange foods and drinks.
• Coming back.
Top 5 bladers of all time
• Everyone I skate with, and especially Antonin Roux.
• FP crew
• Mushroom Bladers
• Taig Khris
• The best ever has to remain unknown to remain the best.
Top 5 favorite bladers when you were 13
• XXIST, my crew
• RSB Team
• Mindgame Team
• Artysm team
• RASCA dudes
Top 5 worst things about blading
• Blading just for the free pleasure of blading is the only good thing about blading, all the rest should come in this Top 5.
• Try to get anything else with it, like:
• Money
• Or Glory
• Or any form of recognition, and so you’ll just get troubles.
Top 5 countries
• Palestine
• Japan
• Albania
• Belgium
• Dunkerque
Top 5 blading photos on your wall as a kid
• Aaron Feinberg / BS backslide by Le Nedic.
• Sorry, it’s the only one I used to have.
• But I’m still a kid and proud to have:
• Stephane Mosselmans / TTS at Home Contest I by Mathieu Hennebert
• Etienne Montet / Wallride at Home Contest V by Mathieu Hennebert
Top 5 ways to spend 5$
• Give it to someone who needs it.
• Tip a barmaid.
• 31 X 32 second-hand Levis 501
• One-way ticket to anywhere in Belgium
• Hide it, wait to have 1000 dollars then quit your flat and job and go on a trip.
Top 5 things to worry about
• Do
• Not
• Worry
• Be
• Happy
Top 5 worst injuries
• Right ankle, ice skating
• Right ankle, trampoline
• Right ankle, blading
• Right ankle, partying
• All my body suffers from blading.
Top 5 people
• Mam.
• Dad.
• Lil’ Brother.
• Can’t choose only 2 of the 7 billion that are left,
• sorry.
Top 5 items to take on tour
• SSM skates with Kaltik Frames, and good liners which can also be used as a pillow.
• A good friend who can supply you with whatever you forgot.
• Scarf, a big one I can use as a towel or a sleeping bag or a bed or a roof or a scarf.
• Toothbrush which can also be used as a weapon.
• A pen, just in case I find an interesting 5th thing for this top 5, so I can write it down not to forget it.
Top 5 worst things about Belgium
• I miss a lot of people from abroad.
• R
• A
• I
• N
Top 5 best things about Belgium
• BX’HELL
• World’s best beer
• World’s best snacks
• Cheap
• Close to Europe’s best places
