“Nobody really says my full name, they just call me Dez,” East Vancouver’s Desmond Hoostie mentioned during our Push.ca interview. When that feature first went online over a month ago, there were some grumblings from people who wanted to see more, and rightfully so. The dude rips.

Vancouver photographer Andrew Koronovich (who was recently held-up by Scotty’s voice recorder) did a clutch job of sending over a few Dez images he had kicking around, and I dug up a couple cuts from the interview for this week’s post.

Desmond handles portrait status avec iPod – “The theme song to Charlie Brown might be in there,” he said (referring to “Linus and Lucy” by the Vince Guaraldi Trio) when asked about the song he’d choose to include on his life’s soundtrack.

Dez comments on the spot where he did this steepy 3-flip to fakie on his first trip to San Francisco during Fall '09: “I’d definitely go back to SF, for sure. The hills are so gnarly – way more so than Vancouver. That famous, huge bank at the Federal Building was the funnest spot. There’s caps on it, but you can still skate it.”

Kickflip fakie at the Vancouver Plaza.

“There’s an x-factor with some skaters – call it the ‘eye of the tiger’ for lack of a better metaphor. Whatever it is, Dez has it. You could see it from when he was a kid sucking at China Creek on shitty boards. Now he’s the man, and killing it!”—Kevin Kelly, BLVD Skateshop owner.

“His skating speaks a thousand words – at the very least it fills in the blanks left by his generally quiet manner,” explains Andrew Koronovich, the lensman behind this switch shuv nosegrind shuv out sequence. “Every time I go shoot or skate with him, I’m impressed in one way or another with his trick selection and consistency. Homie just loves to skate.”

Get to the 2:21 mark to find Desmond’s 10-pack in TENS, and to see what Adidas’ Tim O’Connor had to say about him, click here. A special thanks goes out to Andrew Koronovich for hooking up all the photos for this post.