In the not so distant past, an unknown, grimy blond, 18 year-old skate dirt named Dallas Ives moved to Toronto from Windsor, Ontario, to make things happen. Within a month Dallas made an impact on the skate scene that can take others years to achieve. Sure, his style is raw, he lives to skate and has a cool attitude to match, but it was the switch lip down the infamous Skydome rail that had the streets talking.

Chris Quick, his filmer, was there the first time it went down: "I had just moved to Toronto a month or two before, and Dallas had been living with me for a few weeks. We would go to Skydome and get people to give him a loonie or toonie for boardsliding the rail first try. One time he made, like, 20 bucks. The night of the switch lip we were skating CBC and he just came to me and was like, 'Let's do it,' so we skated over to the rail and within three tries it was a done deal."

Since he did it first without a photographer, he went back and sent it the next three days in a row with various photographers. With that quick breakout under his belt, Dallas has since been filming up a storm and had shots published in all the Canadian mags. He's been heavy on the couch time lately, coming off an ankle injury, so he broke us off some top tens.

Dope

1. The Windsor House: "Feels like home, pretty much it's just a pure skate house."
2. Hotties: "Can't live without ‘em, can't live with ‘em."
3. Red fucking Dragon: "Represent, yo!"
4. Red Bull: "Keeps me hyped."
5. Coronas: "Also keeps me hyped."
6. Traveling: "Has to be one of favorite things to do... new places, new people."
7. Kush: "Best weed there is."
8. East Coast Whallin': "Is a video I'm filming a part for. Chris Quick and Brendan Kidd are filming. It's gonna be dope. Definitely gotta peep that shit, yo!"
9. Bongs: "Keep me going day and night!"
10. Cookies: "Facking cooks!"

Nope

1. Injuries: "Just getting off one right now... worst thing ever... good thing I watched the movie The Secret."
2. Snow and rain: "Definitely a big, shitty deal."
3. Security: "I've met cool ones and I've met shitty ones. Don't like any of them."
4. Wind: "I usually get pretty mad at the wind."
5. Crackheads: "Fucking hilarious. Ever been to Hastings? Ha!"
6. Stupid handrails: "Short plus high equals stupid."
7. McDonalds: "Sometimes you've just gotta do it."
8. Shitty weed: "Don't even bother with it."
9. The judging panel: "Ha, ha... East Coast Whallin'"
10. Being hungry: "Shitty buzz."