The first time I ever met Reef, he was 12 years old, wearing a pair of baby pink Vans and trying to back-three the threeblock at Melbourne’s City Park. He was younger and so much better at skateboarding than me and all of my friends. He ended up destroying his ankle trying that back three, and I have memories of him sitting on the couch inside the shop waiting for his mum to pick him up.
That was almost 10 years ago now. Over the years, I would catch glimpses of him here and there, when he’d come down to Melbourne to see family, or from clips on his Instagram. I remember hearing he had quit skating and was shocked. Then, out of nowhere, he was back posting tricks on Instagram as if he never left.
For just over a year, he has been living in Melbourne. He has been unstoppable, getting on Hoddle and filming for the upcoming CONS Australia video that will probably be out soon after you read this. Reef is back and isn’t going anywhere.
When you were super young, I remember hearing that Dustin Dollin called you
