Osiris Blog

What’s your full name, and where in Germany are you from?
My full name is Alex Mizurov, and I live in a small city called Rastatt.

Who’s hooking you up these days?
Osiris, Plan B, Red Dragon, Silver, FKD, Oakley, Nixon, T-Mobile, Ogio, Titus Karlsruhe, and EMillion Griptape.

I’ve noticed that you’ve been traveling quite a bit in the last couple of years. What has been your favorite destination so far?
Barcelona, of course! I like Dubai as well. And Hawaii was really fun!

Your English is near perfect these days. How crucial is it to know English in this industry and during all of your travels?
It is really important to know English, cause wherever you go there are always people who are going to understand you! I wouldn’t say that my English is near perfect though…

I remember when you won the eS game of skate a few years back, have things changed a lot for you since then?
Yeah, that’s for sure! Way more traveling and skating…

You seem to kill it in every game of skate you enter; do you have a certain flatground spot you typically skate?
Not really. I like good ground though, so wherever I go I practice a bit.

Speaking of the eS game of skate, do you like entering all contests or are you more into the flatground ones?
Right now I feel like skating street, cause in the last couple years I’ve just been skating so many contests that it did get a little boring to me…

Who are some of the skaters and videos that influenced you growing up?
It is and will always be Paul Rodriguez, but I really like to watch Deawon Song skating, too.

Now that you have been to the states a hand full of times, do you think it’s harder to film and shoot photos in the US or back home?
That’s a hard one! For me it is harder at home, I guess. Even if you get busted in the states more often than in Germany… If you go to a place like Barcelona of course there is always someone who is shooting or filming, but in Germany we don’t have as many filmers and the spots are not as good.

Everyone is anticipating the release of the new Plan B video. How is the filming for that coming along?
I have a couple clips for it so far and I’m still working on a few tricks.

Alright last question. If you were in the finals in a game of S.K.A.T.E. with P-Rod and Chris Cole for a million dollars, and it was down to the last letter, what trick do you think you would try?
Fakie bigspin hardflip I guess.