Johnny Layton
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Hometown
Murrietta, California
Currently Resides
Long Beach, California
Sponsors
Vans shoes and clothing, Toy Machine skateboards, Spitfire wheels, Theeve trucks, Bones Swiss bearings, Mob grip, Furnace Skateshop
Date of Birth: 10.5.85
First board: Shop blank
On Vans since: 2004
Nickname: JLAY
Stance: Regs
Shoe size: 11
JOHNNY LAYTON INTERVIEW...
What shoes do you skate?
Half Cab Pro.
What’s your set up?
The OG Monster Toy graphics on 8.125", Thunder 149er's, Spitfire Classics 52mm, Bones Swiss.
What’s the best trip you’ve ever been on?
I don't think there's one trip I've been on that's better than any other. Just as long as there are good spots, food, trees and the homies. Spain is always the top on the list though.
Favorite Vans rider?
Geoff, by far! He's been one of my favorite skaters since I picked up a skateboard.
What trick can’t you do that you wish you could?
540s!
What’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to you?
Ankle problems, truck to the chin, double black eye's with a broken nose in baseball.
What are some interests outside of skating?
Bowling, photography and Wii.
Last good book you read?
I haven't read a book since high school. I mean, I've tried to, but I can never finish.
Five songs that have to be on a mix tape?
Andre Nickatina - Blood N My Hair
Bob Dylan - One More Cup of Coffee
Pink Floyd - Goodbye Blue Sky
Scientist - Blood on His Lips
Sizzla - Dem Ah Gaze
What’s your best Ed Templeton story?
There are plenty. Most of them involve paintball wars, fireworks and chaos. Ed's such a kid. I love it!
On any given Toy Machine summer tour, how many noseblunts would you say Ed does?
How many? I can't keep track. Anything and everything. But when you got the best one in the biz then why wouldn't you do it on everything? Haha.
How many impossible tailgrabs?
First try at every demo pyramid.
What did you do today?
I just woke up and took the dogs for a walk. Gonna roll one, have some coffee and play some guitar, then figure out the skate situation.
What kind of dogs do you have? And what tricks can they do?
I have two dogs. Maggie is almost three years old and she's a true Boston Terrier. Kingston is nine months and he's a Boston Boxer mix, so he's already bigger than her and has a lot of pop. Maggie's got tricks, but she'd rather pull me on my cruiser. Kingston is still a pup so he's learning from her.
Is your kitchen floor checkerboard to match your SLIP-ONs? Do you ever trip out and look down and think you don’t have any feet?
Yeah the kitchen floor is checkerboard, but I don't ever have SLIP-ONs to match!
Your dad spent time in Iraq. What was he doing there? How long was he there? What kind of stories did he tell you about it?
Yeah, he spent time in Iraq, Kuwait, UAE and Saudi Arabia. He's a foreman, so he pretty much tells all the contractors what to do. He was over there off and on for about three years. He kept telling me that if I ever got the chance to go to the Middle East I would be skating nothing but marble and amazing spots. He's got the skater's eye for shit like that. He got to go into a few of Saddam's palaces, slept in underground bunkers, convoys through the desert at 120 miles an hour, and flew in Blackhawk helicopters every now and then. He even spray painted "Toy Machine Bloodsuckers!" on a military tank. My dad f@%king rules.
Are Billy Mark’s ping pong tricks legit? Or done with CGI?
Billy's a wizard. He's good at everything he does.
Has he taught you any ping pong maneuvers?
I stick to straight beer pong and leave all the wizardry to Bill.
Hometown
Murrietta, California
Currently Resides
Long Beach, California
Sponsors
Vans shoes and clothing, Toy Machine skateboards, Spitfire wheels, Theeve trucks, Bones Swiss bearings, Mob grip, Furnace Skateshop
Date of Birth: 10.5.85
First board: Shop blank
On Vans since: 2004
Nickname: JLAY
Stance: Regs
Shoe size: 11
JOHNNY LAYTON INTERVIEW...
What shoes do you skate?
Half Cab Pro.
What’s your set up?
The OG Monster Toy graphics on 8.125", Thunder 149er's, Spitfire Classics 52mm, Bones Swiss.
What’s the best trip you’ve ever been on?
I don't think there's one trip I've been on that's better than any other. Just as long as there are good spots, food, trees and the homies. Spain is always the top on the list though.
Favorite Vans rider?
Geoff, by far! He's been one of my favorite skaters since I picked up a skateboard.
What trick can’t you do that you wish you could?
540s!
What’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to you?
Ankle problems, truck to the chin, double black eye's with a broken nose in baseball.
What are some interests outside of skating?
Bowling, photography and Wii.
Last good book you read?
I haven't read a book since high school. I mean, I've tried to, but I can never finish.
Five songs that have to be on a mix tape?
Andre Nickatina - Blood N My Hair
Bob Dylan - One More Cup of Coffee
Pink Floyd - Goodbye Blue Sky
Scientist - Blood on His Lips
Sizzla - Dem Ah Gaze
What’s your best Ed Templeton story?
There are plenty. Most of them involve paintball wars, fireworks and chaos. Ed's such a kid. I love it!
On any given Toy Machine summer tour, how many noseblunts would you say Ed does?
How many? I can't keep track. Anything and everything. But when you got the best one in the biz then why wouldn't you do it on everything? Haha.
How many impossible tailgrabs?
First try at every demo pyramid.
What did you do today?
I just woke up and took the dogs for a walk. Gonna roll one, have some coffee and play some guitar, then figure out the skate situation.
What kind of dogs do you have? And what tricks can they do?
I have two dogs. Maggie is almost three years old and she's a true Boston Terrier. Kingston is nine months and he's a Boston Boxer mix, so he's already bigger than her and has a lot of pop. Maggie's got tricks, but she'd rather pull me on my cruiser. Kingston is still a pup so he's learning from her.
Is your kitchen floor checkerboard to match your SLIP-ONs? Do you ever trip out and look down and think you don’t have any feet?
Yeah the kitchen floor is checkerboard, but I don't ever have SLIP-ONs to match!
Your dad spent time in Iraq. What was he doing there? How long was he there? What kind of stories did he tell you about it?
Yeah, he spent time in Iraq, Kuwait, UAE and Saudi Arabia. He's a foreman, so he pretty much tells all the contractors what to do. He was over there off and on for about three years. He kept telling me that if I ever got the chance to go to the Middle East I would be skating nothing but marble and amazing spots. He's got the skater's eye for shit like that. He got to go into a few of Saddam's palaces, slept in underground bunkers, convoys through the desert at 120 miles an hour, and flew in Blackhawk helicopters every now and then. He even spray painted "Toy Machine Bloodsuckers!" on a military tank. My dad f@%king rules.
Are Billy Mark’s ping pong tricks legit? Or done with CGI?
Billy's a wizard. He's good at everything he does.
Has he taught you any ping pong maneuvers?
I stick to straight beer pong and leave all the wizardry to Bill.
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Yesterday began Johnny Layton's Rider Week with Part 1 of his exclusive interview on how he started skating and got on Toy Machine. Today we continue with the 2nd part of his interview where we learn about how he got on Vans, his near baseball career, bumming out Brian Wenning and what it took to ollie the Pulaski Double Wall.
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In Support of Johnny Layton Week his Toy MachineTeam Manager, Mike Sinclair, interviewed him for ESPN HEREabout being a Big Boy.
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Welcome back to the second installment of Vans Rider’s Week. This week we feature another Toy Machine team member and long-time Vans rider, Johnny Layton aka J-Lay. We start the week off with an in-depth interview covering J-Lay’s early days, his ties to Neil Heddings, how he won his spot on Toy Machine, who he pissed off by switch tre-ing MACBA, how he could have been a pro baseball player and his historic ollie at Pulaski. We cover ...
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"Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes, Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eye lashes
Silver white winters that melt into spring...these are a few of my favorite things!"
Everybody has got their staples, their favorite things they can't live without.
For Day 4 of Daniel Lutheran Week we get in the van and follow Dan Lu around
Long Beach to check out five of his favorite spots:
(Filmed & Edited by Grant Hatfield.)
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For as long as the world has been hearing about Daniel Lutheran they've been hearing stories about all the photos he carries around in his cellphone. He literally has thousands upon thousands of shots that he takes around with him at all times. We asked him to share a few of his favorites with us. We were going to call this The Lutheran Eleven but he just kept finding images that he was stoked on. Here are some of ...
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"We thought we told you that we won't stop."
Thrasher just reposted the King of the Road adventure in one video!
2+ hours of footage plus a ton of additional, unseen madness all right here.
The Vans Team extras start at 1:23.
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2012 Thrasher King of the Road is a wrap!
The Vans team killed it, narrowly getting beat by Lakai.
Congrats to Gilbert, Tony, Elijah, Johnny and Daniel and to everyone involved.
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Thrasher's King Of The Road Webisodes are rolling into the finish line.
Check out episode 12, the last Vans Team webisode with some serious
shredding, Elijah Berle with the worst haircut ever, some sexy TNT male modeling
and the contortionist, Gilbert Crockett, doing what he does best:
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The 9th webisode of Thrasher's King of the Roadfeatures all 4 teams
and a major make out session between Lutheran and a juggalette,
JLay shredding some stairs, naked ramp riding from Trujillo,
Elijah Berle casually wrecking Clipper
and Gilbert Crockett's insane switch flip UP six stairs.
All the Vans acton starts at 3:55.
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Welcome in the New Year with the second installment of
The Vans Team on Thrasher's King of The Road.
Trujillo's boneless off the van is off the hook and
Lutheran and Berle skating a rail in the rain is painful to watch.
Check out the entire KOTR article from last Thrasher here.
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If you you missed last month's Thrasher's King of the Road issue
no need to drop the toaster in the bath tub. We've got the entire
Vans Team article right here!
And if that's not enough coverage, watch Thrasher's KOTR webisodes.
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Adventures with Chris returns with it's 2nd First Annual Christmas Special.
This year the absurdity gets turned up a notch as Santa Nieratko goes to see a psychiatrist
about his limp lighting issues. Expect 47% more holiday cheer then before with cameos from
the Vans Team's own Geoff Rowley, Anthony Van Engelen, Tony Trujillo, Daniel Lutheran, Tony Alva,
Johnny Layton, Donovon Piscopo, Gilbert Crockett, Jason Dill, Chima Ferguson and East Coast Flow Trash Kids.
It's all sealed ...
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The internet has given us a many great and glorious things in 2011,
but nothing so awesome as the boatloads of skate footage that was unaccessible
20 years ago. Skateboarder Magazine did their part to NEVER FORGET
all the great footage of 2011 by editing this Best of Straight to the Internet clip starring
Johnny Layton, Daniel Lutheran, Yaje Popson and a slew of others:
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The wait is over. The Vans episode of Thrasher's King of the Road is live.
Follow the insane clown antics of Tony Trujillo, Johnny Layton, Gilbert Crockett, Daniel Lutheran and Elijah Berle
as they run around Denver breaking boards, making out and making a mess.
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Thrasher posted another 30 second preview of the
Vans team killing it on this year's King of The Road.
Just fast forward through the first 4-minutes of BS in this clip
and the teaser starts at 4:05:
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Woodward Skate Camp posted a quick clip of Johnny Layton
doing one of his raddest moves, no comply tre flip down 8 stairs. Totally casual.
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In October a select few dudes left Hollywood on a filming mission/demo tour to
Lutheran-Land and the greater Southwest area of America.
Antics ensued. Our man in the van, Grant Hatfield, tagged along to
get some of that BTS (behind the scenes), making-of action that everybody loves.
AVE, ball in hand.
Dodgeball?
Nay! Football! Ave spelled backwards is Pele?
Dill's whip? Someone has a warm spot for canary yellow.
Dill...urine-soaked thoughts?
Hunt hunts for moments.
'Sup shorty ...
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Just a few days until Thrasher's King of The Road starts airing.
To get you fired up, check out the Vans Team's KOTR teaser.
Our guys killed it! Good job, fellahs.
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In October a select few dudes left Hollywood on a filming mission/demo tour to
Lutheran-Land and the greater Southwest area of America.
Antics ensued. Our man in the van, Grant Hatfield, tagged along to
get some of that BTS (behind the scenes), making-of action that everybody loves.
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Thrasher Magazineposted a sneak peek of their KIng Of The Road Issue Cover
and a couple of our guys, Tony Trujillo and Johnny Layton, got some BGPs.
Look for the webisodes of the trip December 10th.
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Johnny Layton gets his overcrook on for
The Berrics First Try Fridays:
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Check out Johnny Layton killing the Sayreville, NJ Skatepark
on Skateboarder's Daily Film Blog HERE.
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The latest issue of The Skateboard Mag is their Photo Annual
and our ace photographer, Anthony Acosta, killed it,
filling half the magazine with Vans riders.
Grab a copy on newsstands now.
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Toy Machine had a halloween costume themed demo yesterday at Active,
our guys dressed as BIg Boy & Angry Bird.
Check out all the the photos on Thrasher's Burnout HERE.
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You may recall the recent Vans East Coast article in the last Skateboarder,
you know the one. With J-Lay on the cover at Pulaski. NBD.
Well, they just added some photos to their semi-anual Film Blog from the trip HERE.
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Transworld posted more photos from the Southwest tour HERE.
Don't forget to check out the guys tomorrow in San Antonio, Tx at 4pm at Evolution Skateshop.
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Transworld photographer Sam Muller is in the van
with the Vans dudes on the Southwest tour and posted
a photo blog of the adventure thus far HERE.
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If you're in New Mexico,
get out to the Coronado Mall In Albuquerque today at 6pm and check out
The Vans Team on their Southwest tour at Industrial Rideshop.
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The Vans Southwest demo tour will be in Albuquerque Thursday.
The first stop was Hollywood and it was a huge success.
With a crew consisting of JLAY, AVE, DIll, Chima and Dan Lu
you know there's going to be a fair amount of ripping and laughing.
Check them out if they roll through your hood.
Check out the photos from last Saturday HERE.
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AVE, JLAY, Chima, Dill & Lutheran kick off their filming/demo tourof AZ, NM & TX next Saturday the 15th in Hollywood.Come check out the dudes as hey pass through.
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Check out this Vans East Coast road trip article from the newest SKATEBOARDER (the one with J-Lay on the cover.).
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Check out this 30 seconds of rad with the dudes:Vans Skate Team Commercial from Off The Wall TV on Vimeo.
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Thrasher's Burnout has all the KotR wrap up party photos HERE. Cameos by AVE, TNT, Dan Lu, Gilbert and more.
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Congrats to Gilbert Crockett for being Thrasher's King of the Road MVP!Gilby scored 1200 points on his own. Pro status can't be far off...Also congrats to the entire Vans squad for getting second place in KotR.
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Jaws dropped around the globe when they caught first glimpse of this insane J-Lay Skateboarder cover.Never been done? There's a reason. This gap is massive. Off flat? No bump? Doesn't even make sense.DC has had some of the heighest olliers ever withBrian Tucci, Reese Forbes, Darren Harper; so we're proudof JOhnny for hucking one for the history books.Congrats, Johnny.
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If you live under a rock and somehow missed all the actionof this weekend's Maloof MOney Cup in Washington DC, don't sweat it.We got you. We'll get you up to speed.The Skateboard Mag posted a bunch of rad Anthony Acosta photos HERE. You can see the rest of his photos, including Steve Van Doren's uncut sheet of $50 bills HERE. And if still photography confuses you, here's some moving images of our boys:
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Thrasher's King of The Road starts this weekand here's Jake Phelps& Griffin Collins to announce what Vans riders will be on the mission:Loading the player ...
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The dudes will be at 303 Boards next WednesdaySeptember 7th from 4 to 6pm. Buy a plane ticket, go check them out, lend them your lady.
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Issue #91 of The Skateboard Mag has some rad shots of Johnny Layton & Omar Hassan,an OCD piece on Jeff Grosso as well as Elijah Berle's New Jack already posted HERE.
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