Put Corey Klim in a room full of 100 skaters and I'm sure you'd be hard pressed to find someone that could say a bad thing about him. Corey's got that mix of natural talent and drive that's packaged up nicely in a laidback wrapper of humble that's too good to hate on. He's been coming up for sometime now, but has been on a straight up tear the past couple of months. Fresh off a mission to China and ditch fishing trip to Texas, he's poised to leave his mark on Vancouver after this summer. He's always rolling with this ‘down for whatever' attitude that makes it easy to want to be on his program. With the support his skating is getting these days, there's no telling where you might be seeing Corey a year from now, but when you do, slap him a high five - he feasts on positive energy.

I hope it's fair to say that in the last year your skating has really taken off, or at least people are really catching on to what your doing. What do you think?
Yeah...ever since I dumped my girlfriend! (Laughs) Dude, straight up. It basically changed everything, and that sucks to say and it was a bummer for sure, but when Dane (Collison, Supra Distribution Team Manager) and Nugget got their tickets to China, they were like "you're blowing it," so I got the money, got a ticket, broke up with the lady. It was unfortunate; it was a good relationship, but it just needed to change. That changed everything.

And that was in February you went to China?
Yeah.

And now you're focused on skating 100%?
Skateboarding has been so sick lately. So fun. I've been way too spoiled going on all of these trips. I've just been skating everyday, trying to shoot, getting down.

Who have you been filming with recently?
I film with Dane usually. We did that 72hr film festival thing with Dave and Benny, the Intersection deal. That was awesome, so much fun. Dane has my life filmed.

Don't Sleep Productions' 72hr Intersection entry, Squambladesh:

I was searching for footage of you on the web - how did you end up having footage in the Voleurz videos?
I used to go on tours with those dudes! We did this tour from Victoria to Montreal. They're all my homies from back home. I was the only skater, and all those guys are amazing skiers and snowboarders. We drove across Canada in the Coors Light bus doing movie premieres.

How did you come up being a skater from Vernon?
Snowboarding. Man, I grew up snowboarding, I had been snowboarding for, like, seven years. I just loved it so much. That's how I hooked up with the Voleurz crew. Then skating took over, just skating our local park. I miss snowboarding; if I had the money I'd still be snowboarding for sure. All my good friends are still skiing and snowboarding, I wish we all were doing the same sport.

When did you make it out to Van?
2007? Yeah. I came out here and Dane just hooked me up, introduced me to people, then the same happened with Nugget. Nugget and I grew up together, then we just started touring to skate. Instead of going to Am Getting Paid or whatever we'd go to Hawaii and skate Cholos Bowls, just backpacking around. We went to Europe for three months and backpacked around. No filmer, no photographer or anything. Just backpacking and skating. It was the best. Slept on the streets of Marseilles, France...went all through Europe and met some of the coolest people. Nugget and I have always been pushing each other. He's kinda on his own program now, but it's really cool to see.

(keep reading for Corey's snowboarding connection, who he thinkgs is on the come-up, and the teaser for this new part)