I got to know Max Dwertmann through David Conrads. David had pointed Max out to me around 2004. David told me about a young boy in Cologne who had been highly motivated to skate with him on the Domplatte. David suggested to me that Max could become a team rider for Morphium.

I asked David if he could bring Max to Hamburg so that I could meet him in person. The Cleptomanicx video premiere “Rollen Aller 3” was coming up and David took Max with him.
That evening, Max immediately made a positive impression on me. We went skating together the next day, which also convinced me.

Although Max was only 13 years old at the time, he regularly came to Hamburg during the Easter and summer vacations and skated all the spots there. He got to know the other Hamburgers himself, with whom he then made the city unsafe.
When Stephan Pöhlmann joined the team a short time later, the two of them regularly went out together during the vacations in Hamburg.
Max was always motivated and almost always with us everywhere. Of course, it was also a great advantage that, although he was still so young, his parents had given him a lot of freedom. So he was able to join in on the odd tour or demo.

In the end, however, contact became less and less frequent and I couldn’t see any more of his skating. He wanted to go on a trip around the world and said he would be away from Germany for a while. I then made him the offer to take him out of the team for the time being. After his return, he should consider whether he still wanted to ride for Morphium as a sponsored team rider. After that, I never heard from him again, which is obviously a great pity.

We also thought that we could open up the skateboard market in Groningen and the Netherlands through Klaas van der Laan. Unfortunately, that didn’t work out, even though he was riding for the biggest skateboard distributor in the Netherlands at the time.

So he had been selling morphine stuff among his colleagues and friends on his own for a long time.

Towards 2006 he withdrew from skating and told me honestly that as a sponsored skater he could no longer perform as well as he thought he should. They parted ways and shortly afterwards he and a few friends tried to set up a skateboard company called “Broken Skateboards”, which unfortunately no longer exists.