Way back in 2008 Surface dropped a trailer to their upcoming team video- Walks of Life. The forums have been buzzing ever since. There’s been plenty of speculation, but no official word from the Surface camp as to when it will be dropping. We’re as eager as any of you, so we cornered Mike Schneider of the Surface/Causwell/JOY empire in his booth as SIA. Matt and Chris stood guard at the entrance, and I snuck up behind Mike with an audio recorder and started firing questions.

BroBomb: When is Walks of Life dropping?

(Mike tries to run away)

Mike: Come to find out, making a movie is harder than we thought. We’re going to continue filming through this winter, and try to put something out this spring that we’re proud of. We have a lot of footage gathered, but we’re not 100% satisfied with it, so we’re going to keep cracking at it and try to put something out this summer.

BB: What’s been the stumbling block so far?

Mike: You know, we need to get a camera first. We need a camera.

Rob: And with new athletes, new talent we want to get them in there.

Mike: That’s true; we’ve got to get a lot of Jeff Kiesel, Banks Gilberti, and some Anthony stuff. Blake’s on the road with the Nimbus guys now and we don’t want to make a movie without those guys. It’s going to take us a little longer to put something together that we’re proud to show the world.

BB: Are you currently filming with your grandmother’s Super 8?

Mike: No, I wish. That would be a treat. We got a nice JVC that we purchased from a friend of ours over at Fifty Fifty BMX, who made us a hell of a deal on it, so we got that. But it broke, it’s not working anymore.

BB: How broke?

Mike: It’s done. I actually threw it away. We need to invest in a camera here pretty soon. We’ve been getting filmers like Hennie. He’s been filming a bunch when he can.

Chris: Can we throw a Surface camera benefit party?

Mike: That would be amazing. Let’s do some sort of fundraiser on BroBomb where we can get a camera. But really, we’re going to get crackin’ on it again.

BB: What are we looking at for a date now?

Mike: E.T.A?

BB: We’ve pushed it back a few times so far, so what are we at?

Mike: Walks of Life E.T.A? I don’t know?

Jason: Two years!

Chris: Teddy Bear Crisis 2 is coming out before Walks?

Mike: Yeah, we wanted to bring Ostness on board…if we can find him. Nah, we’ll do something one day. But we’re going to spend a whole bunch of time up at Hood, so if we don’t have something by spring, it’ll be the middle of the summer.

This is an ambush.

BB: Do we have some edits looking to drop soon?

Mike: Yeah, Hennie talked me into doing some finally.

Chris: Yaaaay.

Mike: With all of our Mount Hood footage from last summer, we’re going to do an edit here in the next few weeks.

BB: The footage is already gathered?

Mike: Yeah it’s done, but Hennie’s been busy. He’s doing a lot of work for The North Face now. They hired him up to do a bunch of stuff. He’s awesome. Hennie’s the man.

BB: He is a good filmer.

Mike: He’s come a long way. He blew his knee out too. So I’ll put an E.T.A down on [Walks of Life] and say July 17th.

BB: Of?

Mike: 2012.

BB: Haha, so now that’s settled. The next question: When is Causwell going to put out a fitted pant for those of us over the age of 25?

Mike: You know what. It’s taken us five years to shake the emo thing. And I think we’ve done it, so we were a little nervous to put out a tight pant this year.

BB: So now it’s time to dive back in?

Mike: It’s G-mo. We’re the G-mo. No, but we’re going to do a fitted pant for sure. We want to do one.

BB: By next year’s line? We’re going to hold you to it.

Mike: No, that’s cool because we want to. We want to do a nice slim pant. We’ll probably put one together in the middle of spring and release it in the fall…something like that.

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