Lodge Guest, Austin Novy

What is your name ? Austin Novy

Where do you live and where are you from ? Born and raised in Encinitas, California

What set up do you currenltly ride ? Brandon Lasko’s old Real board with Jimmy Wilkins older thunder trucks and Zach Millers old Spitfire wheels.

Any sponsors ? I consider all the boys to be my sponsors.

Family status ? I have a beautiful tortoise named Dave the tortoise.

School, work or both ? chasing the dream

Who are your early skate heros?

Earliest skate heros have to be Rune, Bucky, The entire Miller family, Burke Gamblin, Arto Saari, Gonz and Haslam.

Who are your todays skate heros?

Same as the early skate heros as well as Jimmy,Shea,Brandon,Perelson,Clay,Beckett and the list goes on.

Who is your early photographer/filmer hero?

For Photo, For sure Grant Brittain. A few years ago I hopped in a car and went and shot full pipes with Chris, Zach and Grant and it was one of the best days of my life. For video, Socrates leal, Ty evans, Spike Jonze. huge heros, Im also a huge fan of the way Arto shoots and catches lines and shadows.

Who is todays filmer heros?

Russel Houghten, Gregson, Ty Evans

Tell us about the perfect skate tour for you:

Perfect skate tour would be to a place like Japan,Copenhagen or NYC with all the boys, street, vert, art and everything in between. Ideally spending multiple weeks skating, partying, and filming mental stuff with those hangover days spent filming broll. Also If we went somewhere like japan and scored perfect waves, skating and exploring it would be perfect.

How is a great normal day looking for you ? ( start from morning til late night) Normal day is waking up, making breakfast, go for a surf and skate and then get some shooting in with some edits to end the day and then chill around the house with the boys.

Tell us how a good weekend is looking for you A good weekend includes surfing, skating and shooting my favorite people and ending Sunday with a full day of color correction and edits.

How is your summer coming along and how has it been ? Summer has been unreal, best summer of my life, been getting to shoot, skate and travel more than ever.

Any summer projects you wanna talk about ? About to drive up to Washington from San Diego just to camp and explore and in October I think me and a few of the homies are going to film in NYC for some skate parts.

Who are you hanging out with at the moment ? My roommates, Brandon Lasko, Jimmy Wilkins, Shea Donavan and Zach Miller, Dave the tortoise, lots of good people and reptiles.

Do you plan any fall or winter skatemissions ? Hopefully NYC, maybe Brazil for Ronnys contest, and for sure gonna try and go to Vert attack again and CPH if I can!

What else is going on ? Not much just got some groceries and some modelos, saving some money so I can travel more with the homies!

What do you do besides skateboarding ? Photography, Surfing, Videography, Camping

Do you do have other hobbys besides skateboarding ? Yeah surfing and playing with camera.

Who do we need to interview on the lodge ? Dave the Tortoise or Griffin Dorkus

add skate photo here, please credit photodude https://www.instagram.com/p/xxMxGhRM8J/?taken-by=davethetortoise

Last Question…what you got ? Vert attack… 2017… second to last!

Come on, tell us a slippery story. One time when I was like 17, Myself, Alex Perelson and Zach Miller went to Woodward… I thought it was a good idea to buy a lunchable from the grocery store, turns out it was expired by 4 months and I got super sick… super sick…..

Thank you (s) ?

Thank you to Thomas Kring for showing us such an epic time in CPH and for everyone in the skate world that has been supportive, such a sick family and so stoked to travel with such great people.