Seth Enslow

Seth Enslow has big, hairy balls. If you've seen his videos, you know what I am talking about. One look at the jumps he does effortlessly, the massive scar on his head, or the tattoos that cover his arms from shoulder to wrist, will make you wonder if he is a little on the insane side. I had a chance to sit down with Seth, when he and his crew were in town for their latest dirt bike tour, "Unleash the Freaks." Here is what he had to say.

If you were going to be stranded on a desert island, and you could only bring 3 cds, what would you bring?
Three CDs...ya know what? It would be nice to have a compilation mix for one of the CDs so that you could have a few band on the one but uh..I'd have to have some Rage Against the Machine probably, maybe some Method Man, and I've got this real good old compilation punk CD that's pretty good, it's got everything on there from Dead Kennedys to the newer punk; not the fresh poppy shit.

Would you rather stomp a puppy to death and have nobody know about it, or not stomp it to death but have everybody think that you did, like your family and everybody.
I'd have to say not do it and have everybody think I did it.

Why?
(chuckling) 'Cause I ain't down for stompin' a puppy.

Alright, if you could be anyone for a day, who would you be and why?
I'd have to be the richest man in the world so I could do anything I fuckin' wanted to.

If you could die doing any stunt, and be legandary for it, what would it be?
Oh shit...that'd probably have to be going for the 300 foot football field.

Right on, when do you plan on doing that again?
Well I'll planning break the record first, and then come around and do the 300 footer later on for a second jump, but it'll happen, it'll happen.

In your backyard again?
Naw, it'll be in another country, possibly England or Australia.

Do you have any props or comments, or shout outs you wanna give?
Yeah, I wanna give a shout out to DVS shoes for taking care of me for a couple years, good shoe company. Black Flys sunglasses and goggles. And uh... fuck, just the whole freestyle momement that's going on right now with the Xgames, the Gravity Games. My buddy Metzger's pulling backflips like they were meant to be, like BMX style. So... it just keeps going to the next level everyday. So, everybody that's involved in taking it to the next level, just... what up?

So, who's comin' up right now?
For the up and coming riders, there's this kid named Graham from Costa Mesa, out where I live, that's comin' up good. And uh – what else? That Nate Adams kid has been ridin' real good, Jay Windem's (check sp.) been ridin' good, those are kinda some new names.

How long have you been riding?
I'd say about... I've been riding dirt bikes for about 11 years... been making a living out of it for about 7. So, I've been pretty lucky. We normally do the videos, and we're kinda like the O.G. guys from the first videos that started the movement. So, we'll always be that. But, now the up and coming kids of course are gonna be steppin' it up and taking tricks to the next level. That's bound to happen and it's all-good, it's just progression of the sport. More power to ‘em... and you're gonna be seeing some crazy shit real soon, in the next couple years. Back flips, doing no handers, heel clickers, all that shits goin' down.

Are you gonna do a new video?
Yeah, we started making another video about 2 months ago, Seth Part 2. It'll have the world record in there, I'm gonna break it this time, gonna ride out of it. And, we're doing some crazy skits, like Hollywood stuff status with airbags and fuckin' cable obs (sp check), and blood squibs n' shit – but fuckin' motocross style.

Oh, maybe you can help... my buddy over there (Fernando) wants to be a stunt driver for movies n' shit; any suggestions for him?
Well, basically its all who you know. Ya know? It's like if you get lucky and bump inot the right guy at the right time, and you hit it off. And that guy's like, "Oh, I've got something for you to do." To tell you the truth, it's so flushed. It's not what you can do, it's who you know. Yeah, basically it's who knows you better yet. Ya know, I was once told by a good friend of mine that It's not who you know, but it's who knows you. It's just the way it goes. It's like if a guy knows ya, that means he likes ya, and he's gonna claim he knows ya, and fuckin'... he's gonna hook ya up with a deal. So, that's kinda the way it happens. But, like, hopefully from the videos I've done and all that... and I mean, I've done a couple stunts for motion pictures that's not site related.

Like the Kid Rock video?
Well yeah, but I'm talking about full on motion pictures n' stuff; I'd like to roll into that once my career dies down. But, I'm so busy right now. It's like I can't really go to Hollywood and put myself up to the chopping block right now. But uh... hopefully in a few years, break the record and make a couple more videos; and then roll into Hollywood and do some stunts and hopefully some acting and stunts like Jackie Chan style ya know?

There ya go!
Make some real movies and some real money.

So with
Yeah, Unleash the Freaks was one show they had last August 4th, last summer in Spokane, WA, and it went really well, there was over 5,000 people there, bands, chaos, did a big jump, it turned out really well. So, this summer they've lined up 5 shows, a full 4 and a half week tour with 5 shows and uh... fuck, this is the first show, right here in Tacoma. It's gonna be sweet!

So, are there any funny tour stories from other tours?
Aw yeah, there's always... Someday I wanna make a movie just about my life, just about how shit's gone down, all the places I've been, all the funny things to remember and just like have all the boys that were there. Because, you don't remember everything, but everybody's gonna remember a little piece.

When everybody's together, it's like...
Yeah exactly, and just make the sickest script and just make a full, real, true story and script about our lives.

Can you think of a particular funny story?
Um... it was pretty funny when we were in Australia last summer with the Cross It Out Tour. We did like 7 shows in 4 weeks, packed this stadium with 15,000 people a night – in one city. Back to back, Friday, Saturday, Sunday night in Melbourne. Packed the stadium every single night. Sold tickets quicker than Limp Bizkit or any other band that's ever been through those cities in Australia. And, we just fuckin'... just went off. But, along the way, we trashed a couple 5 star hotels, and broke a scooter in half that we rented for the day. And, what the hell else happened? Oh, we were gonna take a limo, and our limo driver went inside to wait for the other people that were supposed to show up; and Mike Cinqmars jumped in the driver's seat, and drove us around the block. And by the time we got back to the hotel, they were trippin. The cops were already there, they thought we stole the thing, and that was pretty funny.

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