FreestyleXtreme Magazine Issue 7 | Page 78

out and smell the fu*king roses - I was
pumped. I met so many cool people
in there. I wanted to change my life so
bad; I ended up staying an extra four
months.”

£ Colin competes
in Step Up at X
Games VII

Like the adage goes in recovery: with
a sober life you get everything back;
friends, material possessions and
family. Eventually the pieces of the
puzzle began coming back together for
Morrison, one at a time.
“As soon as I got out of rehab, I started
working with my buddy on my first
clothing company - SMBG Clothing.
I met my now girlfriend Ashley and
things just kept getting better,”
Morrison explains. About a year after
starting SMBG, Colin developed a
taste for business and started another
brand: SKVI with his homie D-Loc from
Kottonmouth Kings. The inspiration
for this brand came about after
Colin felt the underwear his current
sponsors were providing him with,
simply wasn’t up to the job. The clever
name however, was thought up by
his girlfriend. When the company was
still in its infancy, the guys brought in
business guru Jeff Metcalf as a partner.
Not long after this, Wee Man and Byron
from Pennywise also got involved
and invested in SKVI. The goal was to
create a brand of underwear that was
better than the rest, and run by the
right people. Right now SKVI is going
from strength to strength.

Taking a full swing at his sobriety,
Morrison prides himself primarily on his
FMX classes. This project enables him
to give back to freestyle motocross;
the sport that gave him so much and
took it all away again. He teaches
small classes of 5-10 riders, mostly
beginners, as it allows him to give each
rider the attention they need. Colin
teaches the eager FMX rookies on a
set-up that is safe and has a beginner
size gap, out at Piru Ranch MX Park,
CA. Not many new-comers to FMX
can jump the 75-foot gaps found on
competition courses right off the bat,
so Colin builds riders’ confidence the
right way, and helps riders progress in
stages.

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“I’m doing my FMX classes and
working on building SMBG and SKVI.
Things couldn’t be any better. I’ve got
a truck again and my girlfriend and I
just moved into our own place.”