Top 3s With Robert Belter
Intro - Andrew Phillips Photos - Ryan Grant
Robert
Quiet and respectful kid who stood out straight away skating with a smooth mature style - drawing his flowing lines around Helensburgh skatepark.
That smooth mature style carries over into his everyday life too with his interests in nature , photography and learning - rob has a calm wise character about him which blends over to the way he skates- a pure pleasure to watch and skate around.
Things to do in the Burg
Not leave the Burgh
Shit talk everyone and everything (especially the Sutherland Shire)
Stay humble
Bush walks
Burgh Track
Any Royal National Park walk
Anywhere I haven’t been before
Photographers
Stephen Shore
Joel Meyerowtiz
Fred Herzog
Cameras
Polaroid SX-70
Canon Auto Zoom 814 Super 8
Any 35mm camera
Recent photos you have shot
The Grounds of the City
Sydney Cranes
Royal National Park – Palm Gully
Local skateboarders
Dylan Ross
Andrew Phillips
Gerome Waters
Reasons to not have social media
Too anti-social
Seeing lame shit people from high school are doing
An Instagram page dedicated to myself seems a bit extravagant
At our family Christmas get together my cousin told me that when I didn’t follow him back on insta he felt “personally attacked”
Too many to be listed in a top 3 (already broke that rule… sorry Granty)
Things to go down at Helensburgh skatepark
Andrew Currie – back tail slide wallride
Jack Fardell – back blunt slide off the side of vert into the bank
Oski Rozenberg – ollie up from big bowl to nose pick vert
Movies
Any movie with Clint Eastwood
I don’t really watch movies. They’re too dramatic. I’m not into drama
The only movies I ever watch are when I take a girl on a date and even then I’m too busy wiping the sweat off my forehead to pay attention to the movie
Skate vids
Tent City
Pretty Sweet
Passport’s ‘Kitsch’
Bands
ABBA
Fleetwood Mac
Mercyful Fate
Books
The last book I read was Harry Potter. That was over 9 years ago…
Fullpipes
Gecko Pipe
Frews Gully Pipe – only visible via google earth
Snowy Mountains pipe (the one day I get to skate it)
Meals to Cook
Toasted sandwich with beetroot
Microwave my mum’s home cooking
Grilled cheese
Skateparks
Bundeena
Greenhills
Noble Park
Lockdown pastimes
Breaking the no skateparks rule
Bushwalks
Wondering what I’m going to do with my life now that all the gyms are closed
Nicknames
Lord Mayor of Helensburgh Skatepark
I only go by Robert…
