NOBODYS - Sam McKinlayAn enigma amongst the wise in Canada's skateboarding community, Sam McKinlay was, and pretty much is still today the last rolling survivor of the original guard of Kelowna skaters from the mid 80s. He entered the Nobodys video (by Kyle Shura c.1997) as first part with a distinctive style and trick selection that most of us "new school" kids only respected. At the time of this video I had only come to know Sam a little bit, using his skate shop, "S&M" (co-owned with his brother, Mike McKinlay) as a refuge during the winter months. Some might have been introduced to Sam along with other fellow "Mains" in the 1990 issue of TWS where he and other skaters in Kelowna such as Sandy Plotnikoff gained coverage by none other than Spike Jonze. The town has spawned an excess of talent through the years, but only Sam has been there to see and influence it all. I got to talk to him a bit about that and what it was like filming for this video nobody ever really got to see until now.