The following interview was conducted February 4:

Voice staff member Conner Press: Whats crackin, son?

Nick Smith: Just hangin out at this lunch.  What’s good my dude?

CP: I’m hanging in there.  I see you can snowboard.  Tell me about that?

NS: Yeah, I’d say I shred alright, not the best though.  It is super fun to get out and go on missions whether it is searching for spots or hitting Mountain Creek.  Winter would be unbearable without snowboarding.   

CP: From credible sources, I heard you don’t get “Buck” on the snowboard?

NS: Just check the gram, the photos, and my fans.  Getting “buck” is a staple of my everyday life, on and off the snowboard.  

CP: Have you thought about retiring, yet?  

NS: I’m 17, hahaha.  Yes, I will “retire” right now.  I guess you can say I am a legend.

CP: I was joking.  When did you begin snowboarding and why?

 NS: I began snowboarding at the age of 6, stopped for a little while, and got back on about 3 years ago and it’s been a rad time ever since.  My dad use to push me down double blacks and I would prevail.  It hardly felt like a hill.

CP: What’s your setup, poser?

NS: K2 Hit machine with union bindings and custom Gucci everything else.

CP: What do you like to shred the most?

NS: The gnar haha.  I tend to hit the streets but I am clearly a park rat. Just look at my gear.  

CP: Word on the mountain is that you can’t shred some half pipe.  Is this a fact?

NS: Everyone in Jersey talks too loud.  Just check out my methods, then tell me I don’t shred.

CP: You live in New Jersey, “Land of the Ice.” Do you miss fresh Pow Pow?

NS: No way do I miss “Pow-Pow”.  That fresh snow isn’t allowed in dirty Jersey.  I only know about landing on ice. It turns you into a man that can raise children.  

CP: What do you plan on doing with snowboarding? Your travels?

NS: I plan on shredding as much gnar as physically possible and hopefully it takes me to new places.  One day, I’d love to go to Japan to explore their mountains and keep my shredding alive.  

CP: Would you rather listen to Yellowcard or Lincoln Park before you hit a jump?

NS:………………………..no comment….  Justin Bieber is pretty sick, though.  

CP: I heard you really like bananas, explain this to me?

NS: Bananas are a great source of potassium.  It gives me enough energy to keep going and going on the shred sled.  Also, you can put it in your pocket without a worry of losing the banana.  

CP: How many times a month are you able to hit the mountain in the short lived season?

NS: Probably between 10-20 times. But I rip street whenever we get some snow down in the suburbs of Boro.  Backyard hills are always a good time.  

CP: You went to Vermont a couple weeks ago.  Talk about that trip.

NS: Shredded some pow. Good times, good people, good vibes. I don’t remember much of it though, hahahaha, I took a pretty bad slam. Vermont is really a whole different type of snowboarding, I prefer those mountains than our man made hills at Creek.  

CP: What was the gnarliest slam you ever took ?

 NS: I slipped out on a kinked rail this season, took one up the butt pretty hard.  I actually got stuck in a blizzard and proceeded to look like a dead man on Mt. Everest, apparently.  

CP: Do you see any potential in the New Jersey snowboard scene or should we all migrate to the west?  

NS: No one’s motivated over here, they just wanna do the same tricks and sit on their butts. Also,  Jersey’s full of chuds (wack fools), the vibes are all unalign.  Shout out to Steamboat Spring Colorado Crew… YEEEE!

CP: Any last word for your haters?

NS: I drive a Corvette and that is the biggest flex on all of the haters’ lives.  Keep hatin please, I crave it.