Zander Mitchell
Shazam: 9.1
Skate
Alexander Mitchell is from the middle of nowhere. It’s the kind of place where kids grow up dreaming of one thing and one thing only: escape. I looked up New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, the town of 9,000 that Alexander hails from, on Google Maps streetview and even after a few minutes of lazy clicking around its downtown, I myself felt that very same overwhelming urge to just get the hell out of there. After just watching Alexander’s jaw-dropping sponsor me tape, it was hard to believe a kid from the boring streets I was looking at could get so damn good. Seriously, what does he skate? Isn’t it like winter all the time there? And whipped with hurricanes for the rest of the year? Well, obviously he’s skating something, because this past year Alexander went on a tear that included first place finishes in both the DC Nationals and Am Getting Paid qualifiers in Halifax, and a spectacular 3rd place in DC’s King of Montreal, where he bested some of Canada’s most seasoned and hungry amateurs, thus vaulting himself from absolute obscurity to a prominent place on the radar of skaters and skate media across the country.
