Chris Farmer

Christopher John Farmer is a professional rollerblader who currently resides in Dallas, TX. He is sponsored by Xsjado Skates, Ground Control Frames, 4x4 Wheels, Vicious Bearings, Vibralux Denim, and Connections Skate Shop.

Early Career

Chris Farmer grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He explains his earlier days and how he came to limelight of the rollerblading scene:

I really never thought I’d get anywhere in rollerblading. Being a random kid from Minnesota, I just skated A LOT and didn't worry about much else. I had my friends and my skates, that's it.

Throughout my school career, I didn't really hang out with anyone, and never cared to make any friends (that didn't skate). It’s not that I felt like the weird/loner kid, I was just content with being myself and doing my own thing. Luckily, the friends I did have were really good at rollerblading, [so] every session was definitely a learning experience.

So, with a lot of good skating happening there would always be a camera out. During a time when my friend Zach lived at my house, he decided to make a section of me with footage spanning the last two years. Zach and a few of my other friends went to the first Detroit IMYTA and apparently showed it off to a few people. It caught the eye of James Reetzke and he asked Zach if [he] could put it on his site, intelligentproductions.com.

Next thing I know, I’m the talk on all these message boards and James ends up coming to MN to film a section for the up and coming first Life Plus issue. With the buzz of that section still lingering, I get a random [...] IM from Rob G[uerrero] (who at this point I had never met before) saying that he watches my section everyday before he skates and that he wants to get me a pair of RB's and some 50/50 frames. Weird huh?

Then comes my attempt at turning ASA pro in Dallas, which obviously didn't turn out so well. But I did end up getting hooked up with SixWonSix and met up with the FID tour and filmed for the next VG. DAP ends up coming to MN to film the French bro's for their section, but they both end up getting hurt the first few days of filming. So about a month later, I get an IM from Dave saying that he wanted to give me a part in VG19 cause I had apparently accumulated a lot of tricks with him in TX/MN.

[I asked myself]"Haha, is this really happening?" Apparently, the day he finished my section, he set up a meeting with Shane Coburn and D[ustin] L[atimer[ to show them. Later that night, he tells me to call him and he says, "Guess what? You’re going to skate for Mindgame!" I really wish someone were there to take a picture of my face when I heard those words. I honestly couldn't believe it! But it wasn't official until I talked to Shane about a week later. James Reetzke just so happened to be in MN [ the same week] we were filming the snow section for Life Plus 2.

About a week later, I ended up going to California for the first time and stayed with Haffey, and pretty much said hello to the whole rollerblading industry. Being there a week, I filmed a part for Brandon Negrete's first video called "US" and then [went] back home to good old Minnesota.

2 weeks later, VG19 comes out..........” and this was the best section ever -VG19ecvg2!

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