X Video games professional skateboarder Nicole Hause’s first Aquatennial Parade needs to be memorable.

She is grand marshal of the 2018 CenterPoint Power Torchlight Parade. As a baby in Stillwater, she “by no means imagined” that she’d star on this premier Minnesota occasion. “Not one thing I ever anticipated. I’ve by no means been there. This might be a first-time expertise and I’m excited. The issues I’ve heard about it have been actually cool, and it’s at evening in order that might be cool,” she mentioned.

Hause can be geared as much as be a part of ESPN’s X Video games after they return to Minneapolis July 19-22. She missed her 2016 highschool commencement to compete in her first X Video games. By the way in which, her surname is pronounced like Pause with an H — however Hause is tremendous mellow so she rolls with all pronunciations.

Q: Do you will have any thought how scary it’s to look at the X Video games for individuals who have points with heights? I’m not afraid of heights; I’ve a concern of damaged bones.

A: [Laugh] Yeah, I think about. My mother will get scared, my aunt will get scared. Lots of people positively get scared. You don’t have that a lot time to suppose. You’re 5 ft within the air for 3 or 4 seconds. You possibly can give it some thought, however you’ve already taken the autumn, taken the slam.

Q: When was the final time your have been shooed off a chunk of property for skateboarding?

A: It was truly … March, no, April. I used to be in Seattle. Acquired kicked out of a spot by some man who thought he ought to inform us we shouldn’t skate there.

Q: Describe the locale.

A: It was like a park in Seattle, and this man simply got here out of nowhere and advised us we couldn’t skate there. There was an enormous ordeal. We have been so confused. We have been like, “Do you’re employed for the park?” He was like, No, no, no. We have been like, “Then why do you care?” He referred to as the cops and we needed to get out of there. I’m certain they didn’t care as a lot as he did.

Q: Had been you capable of suppress the urge to say: Don’t you realize who I’m?

A: [Long laugh] In fact. I used to be fairly quiet. The remainder of the women, they’re all well-known, have been yelling at him. I used to be like, “Let’s simply get out of right here.’’

Q: Was Stillwater pleasant for skate boarders?

A: Nobody actually skated in my highschool. Individuals knew I skated, however I don’t suppose they knew what it actually was so that they didn’t have an opinion about it, I suppose.

Q: Will you do 50 methods in your fiftieth birthday like Tony Hawk?

A: Proper. You by no means know. It’s a chance. I watched that; me and all my pals. Simply the methods he does at 50 are insane.

Q: Do you want profession aspirations when you find yourself an X Gamer? In different phrases, what do you wish to do whenever you develop up? I ask proper after a Tony Hawk query.

A: Proper, proper. I’m planning on skating for most likely the subsequent 10 years. After that, I’ll most likely nonetheless be concerned in skateboarding indirectly. Perhaps begin a life-style, skating clothes model or one thing alongside these traces. I’m additionally actually interested by actual property and investing in actual property as effectively.

Q: You advised WCCO-TV no one in California is aware of what you imply whenever you say “Uff da,” so have you ever stopped utilizing that exclamation?

A: [Laughter] No, I nonetheless say it fairly a bit there. Some persons are like, “What? What does that imply?” and I’m like, “Wait, what does that imply?”

Q: Are you residing by yourself or together with your mother and father?

A: I’m residing with my boyfriend and one among my different pals; she’s a professional skater, too. She’s most likely extra well-known than me within the skate world, Nora Vasconcellos.

Q: Whenever you return to Minnesota and keep at Mother’s, what do you ask her to cook dinner?

A: We joke about that. My mother is an excellent mom [Missy and husband, Jeff, have been married 33 years] however she doesn’t cook dinner a lot. The one factor I do request is beef stroganoff.

Q: Is it OK so that you can sleep in the identical room as your boyfriend at your mother and father’ home?

A: Yeah. They’ve accepted it.

Q: Wow.

A: I do know.

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