5 Greats: Simon Bannerot
5/25/2025
From Survival skills, to Seattle slang and saying goodbye to Lakai, Simon hit us with the lists for every burning question we had. Equal parts heartwarming and hilarious, this piece from our June '25 mag will make your day.
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- Rick Howard
- Cory Kennedy
- Guy Mariano
- Rick McCrank
- Eric Koston
- Don’t charge it
- Airplane mode
- Leave service
- Forget it somewhere
- Let it break and don’t get a new one
- People have been kicked off for less
- Fakie frontside 180 half-Cab flip
- Watch out for Rickk
- Don’t read the comments
- Don’t take it so serious
- A nice hug
- Send a letter
- Listen
- Give them undivided homie attention
- Jam some music with them or go skate
Prop-up Smith, before the vandals stole the handles Photo: Zaslavsky
- Daan Van Der Linden
- Rick McCrank
- Cory Kennedy
- John Cardiel
- Julien Stranger
- Tom Peha
- Jamie Lynn
- Temple Cummins
- Mark Hubbard
- Scott Stamnes
Bounding the gates of Babylon with a righteous wallride nose press Photo: Torres
- Where are you from?
- How long are you gonna stay?
- What’s after this?
- Are those soft wheels?
- You got a job?
- Washington State, not DC
- Texting over calls
- Olympics
- Telling others what to do
- Not respecting Mother Nature
- Burning incense
- Psychedelics
- Ganja
- Collecting rocks
- Eating plants
Bankride bigspin out. Trip on this
- Speed
- Hip master
- Homemade stickers
- Tail high on da frontside air
- Mass destruction, heavy maka
- Henry Gartland
- Tanner Van Vark
- Pedro Delfino
- Jaakko Ojanen
- Young Kader
Proper table-top method in the primitive Kamba flume. Australia, 2025 Photo: McLaughlin
- Blaize Blouin
- Neil Blender
- Peter Hewitt
- Mike Frazier
- Jeff Kendall
- Jesse Lindloff
- Keenan Witte
- Erick Winkowski
- Nolan Johnson
- Turtle Tom
- Jimmy Wilkins
- Bob Burnquist
- Chris Miller
- Chris Livingston
- Nolan Johnson
- Trudjah
- Crust
- Durf
- Nuking wind
- Pissing rain
- Tired
- Sore
- New shoes
- Too much pressure
- Not today
- Soak/swim
- Go into nature
- Eat healthy—fruit smoothies, miso soup
- Mellow stretching and breathing
- Sleep
Taking the tectonic shifts in stride, Simon blasts above the detritus Photo: Mullins
Be patient- Be passionate
- Enjoy what you are making possible
- Reap benefits
- Work hard towards your goals
- At Stills Basement —Jimi Hendrix and Stephen Stills
- Grindline the Band
- Exodus —Bob Marley
- Live at CBGC 1982 —Bad Brains
- “Soul Sacrifice” —Santana
- Endless Summer
- Osiris Feed the Need
- Mystery Black & White
- Tony Hawk’s Trick Tips
- Almost Round Three
- Golf balls off the roof
- Z Games—pig roast/egg nog contest
- Lukas leaving the oven on
- Dropping Larry’s car battery
- Exploding barrel fire
Snappy corner air in Argentina Photo: Torres
- “Silver Stallion” —The Highwaymen
- “Guide Over Us” —Sizzla
- “Heart of Gold” —Neil Young
- “Raggy Road” —Capleton
- “Natural Mystic” —Bob Marley
- Build shelter
- Boil water
- Forage sea
- Forage land
- Cook on fire
- Satellite maps
- YouTube
- Facebook marketplace
- Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
- Monty Python
- Step Brothers
- Super Troopers
- The Big Lebowski
- Steve Caballero, frontside rock and roll slide. July 1991
- Chuck Treece, layback tailslide. May 1984
- Jeff Philips, frontside boneless. January 1985
- Puker and Pat Clark, grind/air doubles. October 1983
- Mark Gonzales, frontside ollie. June 1993
- Jake Johnson
- Natas Kaupas
- Yoshi Obayashi
- Lukas Miller
- Niels Bennett
Styling a tap Down Under Photo: McLaughlin
- “God damn it!”
- “Fuck off!”
- “Oh my God, this shit sucks!”
- “Fuuuuuuuuuuk!”
- “Aaaaahhhggg!”
- Never tell others how to be or what to do
- Don’t let people change your look—team manager cutting hair
- Learn Spanish
- Yoga
- Four-wheels-down turns
- Good quiver of boards
- Spot repair kit—broom, always
- Pool pump, if that’s the kind of mission
- Swim stuff: goggles, trunks, fins
- Camping stuff
- Listening to whales underwater
- Bird calls
- Frogs
- Carve grinds
- Trees warming up
All grown up, spinnin' with four on the wall
- First Euro tour with Niels
- Tijuana/Ensenada with Rickk and Mike
- Tampsterdamn Maka tour
- When Nature Calls tour
- Aliens in the corn field—Robin and Manch at my house in Washington for
a few weeks
- Car crash with my sister, we both survived
- Skitchin’ my friend’s car from the front window. He turned and I almost got my head ran over. Always skitch from the back wheel well!
- Every Volcom trip
- SF close encounters with friends and intersections at high speeds
- Close calls driving with other people
No-death experience as Simon busted this gap to grind several times in a row Photo: Zaslavsky
- Doing nothing all day
- Wearing really old clothes
- Running away from problems
- Drinking too much coffee
- Going off the grid
- Soul carves
- Power slides
- Slappies
- Mellow hills
- Pool coping
- Barefoot roll in, Raven Tershy
- Switch bigflip the 11, Cory Kennedy
- Wallride front board, Kyle Nolan
- Wallie front lip, Tanner Van Vark
- Ollie over rail to wall, John Fitzgerald
- P-Stone
- Beagle
- Ryan Garshell
- Rye Beres
- Robin Wilson
- Breana Gearing
- Una Farrar
- Elissa Steamer
- Helanor
- Maité Steenhoudt
- Body surfing or surfing a Tech Deck-size board
- Swimming with sharks
- Swimming in jungle rivers
- Rolling into a massive deep end, riding the vert with no transition at the bottom
- Cruising in the van with the homies
Metal ramps and limitless laybacks. Life is but a dream Photo: Burnett
- What do you call two girls in a closet?
- When I grow up, I wanna be a bee keeper
- Buzz Balls?
- I’m just busting your balls!
- I’ll kick your ass!
- Less hats
- No product
- Swim in the ocean
- Swim in the rivers
- Don’t look in mirror
Covered curls for serious business. Alley-oop wallride on some unthinkable terrain 
- Rickk, Mike and Spike
- Vincent Alvarez, Stevie Perez
- Playing hide and go seek in every Airbnb
- Skating with Tony Hawk and Jimmy Wilkins
- Skaters supporting skaters
- Inspirational encounters
- Adventures
- Health
- Happiness
- New tricks
When hippies attack! Simon’s 5-0 out and around the bend was a straight-up war Photo: Zaslavsky-
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