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For those with rather short attention spans, here is the short version of
the Shin Campos profile. It covers the basics without forcing anyone to wallow
through the interview (which of course, everyone should do). The following
was going to be the intro to the interview but we decided to use the one
about going into the studio with Biohazard. So here you go:
One evening, when Shin Campos was only a pup, his mom (who was an enlightened, cool hippie kind of mom) gave him an ultimatum: "Either you get out there and split up that firewood or you can stay in here and cook dinner while I do it." She probably thought it was a clever way to get Shin (pronounced "Sheen") to go out to chop the wood, because what guy would want to stay in kitchen and cook? Well, Shin for one. He stayed in and cooked dinner and has been whipping up the savory culinary delights ever since. I haven't tested a morsel of his chow, but I could tell by the way he talks about cooking that he's down with the Bon Appetit crowd. And if Shin cooks as well as he snowboards, someone's up for the serious gourmet feast because Shin is a freeriding ruler. Just ask anyone at Whistler. Shingetsu, Shin's full name, is Japanese for new moon. "I was born on the new moon," he says. "And the names of all the rest of my family are made up or somehow acquired. Like my sisters name is Sithra Cho and Sithra is just made up and Cho is Japanese for butterfly. Actually, Sithra was my parents cat's name and they liked it so much they named a kid after it. Then my brother's name is Shandy and that means boisterous young kid or something like that." If there was ever a product of the 70s it's Shin. The child of a draft-dodging father and a hippie mom, Shin grew up in a family filled with psychedelic flavor. "My parents met on a beach in B.C.," he says. "My dad was skinny dipping and my mom was walking along the water. That's how they met." His mom runs a foster-child home so Shin grew up surrounded by messed up kids of all sizes and shapes. "We had lots of fucked up kids in the house," he says. "We had some retarded kids, and some Cerebral Palsy kids. There were a couple of sexual abuse kids, too." At the time he wasn't too stoked about the whole scene. "I used to be bummed that I had such a weird childhood, but now I'm kind of glad because at least I didn't grow up all white-bread and shit." Currently, Shin rides for Luxury Snowboards, lives in Vancouver, B.C. and travels the world snowboarding, doing video and film shoots, and living large. The End
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