Addison Sasso Bio - The 17 Stair Barspin Kid

FatTony

June 17 2009
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In the latest issue of Ride we featured a photo of an unknown rider from the Orlando, Florida area doing a barspin over a handrail, down 17 stairs to flat—in the rain. Who is that crazy kid? We hit up Addison Sasso for the answer to that question and more… - Interview & Photos by Fat.

First thing’s first…name, location, sponsors, etc.?
ADDIson Sasso, Central Florida, Morphine Industries, Sea and Sky Clothing…

Next most typical question is how did you get into riding and how long have you been riding?
One day I flipped the channel to X Games, thought that shit was sick. Now I’ve been riding for about three and a half years.

Now we get to the juicy stuff… We first saw a clip of you attempting this wild barspin in a video floating around the Internet. What happened the first day you went to get this move done?
My friend Brett brought me to this stair set and vibes were good, haha.

After that day you didn’t pull it and you hit me up to see if I wanted to shoot a photo of you trying it again… Why in the hell did you want to go back to that setup?
It was wild and fun. I just wanted to do it again and land it—who wouldn’t? Haha.

On the only day I was in town and available to shoot it was raining, but you insisted we shoot it anyway. Explain…
You live once. Fuck it, have fun.

17 stairs, over the rail, to flat…in the rain.

Ok, enough about the trick. Onto other things:

5 Favorite spots to ride:
- The spot
- Miami / Ft. Lauderdale street
- Colleges
- Arizona
- Gnarly shit

5 Riders I’m stoked on:
- Garrett Reynolds is on fire, haha.
- Corey Martinez
- Steven Hamilton is coming back. STOKED!
- Cody Perry
- Ty Morrow

5 Things I do when not riding:
- Killin it
- Burnin
- Hangin with my niggas.
- College
- Getting loose

5 Favorite foods:
- Steak
- Pizza, for sure.
- Chinese take out
- Outback cheese fries.
- Taco Bell’s “Forth Meal,” haha.

5 Books I read in my life:
- Tweak. Good ass book.
- Fig Pudding
- To Kill A Mocking Bird
- Into The Wild
- Hatchet

The pulled barspin clip is in the new Banned In Orlando 3 video (and the trailer below)…

Eying it up…

The result of the first attempt (this day).

Homies helping him up.

A smile for a pulled trick with soaking clothes and a bit of road rash.

24 Comments For This Post

fluffles 17 Says:
June 17th, 2009 at 7:09 am

riding in that vid looks unreal! but absolutely shitty music

btw Says:
June 17th, 2009 at 8:30 am

CORONES

lamesauce Says:
June 17th, 2009 at 9:33 am

the clip is around :55 ….gnarly..

fbm shredder Says:
June 17th, 2009 at 10:13 am

go to church

DanJohn Says:
June 17th, 2009 at 11:23 am

niggas?
and it looked like he almost hit his face on his crossbar.
fuck.

Wet T Says:
June 17th, 2009 at 11:36 am

yeeeahh

happyharryhardon Says:
June 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am

the music and ridin are perfect match.

happyharryhardon Says:
June 17th, 2009 at 11:42 am

hook this kid up with some real sponsors!

Brett Says:
June 17th, 2009 at 11:55 am

he DID hit his face on the crossbar. his gums were bleeding some.

sean mccann Says:
June 17th, 2009 at 1:03 pm

bad freakin ass

jumpingbean Says:
June 17th, 2009 at 2:56 pm

awesome. should be on FBM

kb Says:
June 17th, 2009 at 3:50 pm

he was but thinks he is to good for some sponsors. he just hit up srteetmafiabmx

kb Says:
June 17th, 2009 at 3:51 pm

not just i meant should. stupid fingers

ben Says:
June 17th, 2009 at 5:38 pm

sea and sky has some really good riders on it
look em up

Brett Says:
June 17th, 2009 at 7:45 pm

kb what are you talking about? you aren’t making much sense. Plus if he’s on something called “morphine industries” i doubt he thinks he’s too good for anything.