Andre Kondoch was on the Morphium team for 16 years and currently holds the record. I got to know Andre through Richi and Shiran, with whom he also stayed in skater style for a weekend or two in Hamburg. If he happened to be there on the same weekend as me, we went skating together in the city all weekend and kept in touch.

Andre had always received trap decks from Richi and also sold them to his colleagues in Copenhagen. When Andre once approached me about Morphium, I first thought he wanted to sell Morphium decks in Copenhagen too, which of course I thought was cool. However, he noted in the same conversation that he could sell the decks even better if he himself stood behind the brand as a team rider. Up until that point, I thought he was already a flow rider for Trap. Once the misunderstanding was cleared up, I agreed to his idea and added him to the team.
Finally, I also had the hope that Andre could get some stores in Denmark interested in morphine.

When the first video project started in 2004, he was the one who had already finished his entire part in the first year.
A big advantage was that he had been studying in Barcelona for several years at the time. He always organized himself in such a way that he went to film a few tricks with every filmmaker who happened to be in town. He downloaded the footage from the tape onto a homie’s computer the same day and gave the tape back to the filmmaker a short time later. So a lot of footy has accumulated over the years.

Besides skating, Andre has brought some design ideas and influences to Morphium. Among other things, he designed the “Triangle Series” and the “Krink Series”.
Apart from his years in Barcelona, Andre has generally traveled often and almost everywhere around the globe. He has many international contacts and was thus able to present morphine worldwide.

Nevertheless, Andre did not succeed in getting morphine to gain a foothold abroad. In the end, Andre’s representative skating became less and less and his and my ideas of what a team rider has to achieve diverged widely. In the end, I made the decision that it was best for both sides if we went our separate ways when it came to morphine.

Although we didn’t part so happily, I can only say from my side that I’m glad to have had Andre in the team. The four weeks I spent with him in Barcelona in 2004 were some of the best skateboarding experiences I’ve ever had.