We hate to say it, but most interviews with pro skateboarders tend to produce some pretty stale content these days, and who can blame them?
With big sponsors to keep happy, multiple video deadlines to juggle and various modeling gigs to book, routines and opinions have gone bland. In pursuit of finding compelling stories we decided to take a page out of OG Jenkem’s playbook: turning the camera back on you.
Our series “Locals” focuses on the often overlooked characters that surround skateboarding – the eccentrics, weirdos and local legends who are staples in the community for reasons outside of having a great back tail. It’s the people with no sponsors to answer to and no paychecks to lose. The people who skate for the love and have a routine unique to themselves.
For our latest episode, we bring you Kilian Pryor, the UPS driver that skates on his breaks. He’s known in the Arizona area for spreading joy through his love of skateboarding to families all along his delivery route. Playing part philanthropic local, part plain-clothed Santa Claus, we had to know more.
A devoted father, complete skate nerd, and Birdhouse megafan, he’s a staple of the community. Follow along through a day in the back of a UPS truck and an after-work cool down session.
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March 20, 2025 1:09 pm
This just made my day.
March 27, 2025 8:29 am
wow this was really really really good gave me goosebumps! Nice done guys!
December 9, 2025 6:01 am
What a cool dude, it was really touching to hear about how he got his shit together when he found out he was having a kid because he wanted to do right by his child. I hope when these kids he’s giving new setups to grow up to be dope skaters that they remember this guy for getting them skating at a ripe age!