For a start Ian & Paul are not are real names, my real name is John and Ian's is Lee. We both live in the South of England around the New Forest area of Hampshire. I'm an Electronics Engineer but currently I work as a IT Systems Support Analyst for a global chemical company. Lee studied in Sports & Leisure and currently works as a leisure coordinator for an outdoor activity center in the Forest. Both of us are 20 year old.

We first met at college back in 1996 and became friends when we discovered that we had a similar passion for raving, this led us to go to events together and before long we became very close.

In the college summer holiday of 1997 Lee came and stayed with me, during this time we got chatting about the internet and I suggested that we built a site about something. I had always loved seeing things destroyed, why I don't know I just do. I remembered seeing a handful of pictures on a Footfetish site run by a very good friend Martyn from South Wales. When I showed Lee the pictures he was in agreement that we should produce something bigger and better. At this time there were no STOMP sites on the internet we were going to be the first to ever produce a site.

So one morning we grabbed some items and the camera and started what was to become a catalyst to a whole new fetish on the internet. The both of us were very dubious as to whether what we were doing would become successful but imagine our surprise when the first site went up and within a month we had 500 visitors not bad for 30 days !!!

So that's how it started as we expanded and improved more people discovered STOMPING, this inspired others to produce more really great sites all of which are distinctively different and innovative. It makes the both of us really proud to think that we were the first.

• WHO DOES WHAT ON THE SITE

  We both work together to produce the site, Lee does all the STOMPING and I take the shots. But the organization of the site and the coding side of things are down to me.  But it is definitely a joint project.

• ARE YOU GOING TO DO ANY TRAMPLING PHOTOS

  Now this is something that we are considering doing, but neither of us want to model for the pictures. But we would be more than happy to take photos of others being trampled or host photos produced by others.

• CAN YOU PRODUCE SOME PHOTOS OF THINGS BEING STOMPED FROM ABOVE

  We are going to produce some photos based on this idea, we just need to find the time to build a suitable structure to do this.

• WHY WONT YOU STOMP ON LIVING THINGS

  We don't as this is cruel and wrong, what gives us the right to kill something just to make you happy, what the hell do you think we are ???

• WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO PRODUCE A STOMP VIDEO

  This will hopefully be in the making at some point next year, we just need to purchase a suitable video camera, then we will produce some great video's. If you have any ideas of what you would like to see please drop us a line.

• CAN YOU DO SOME BOOT STOMP PHOTOS

  Neither of us currently own any boot's so this may be a problem, but if we do get some we will of course use them to produce some pictures :@)

• WHY DON'T YOU DO BAREFOOT STOMPING

  Well Lee does all the modeling for the pictures and isn't comfortable doing barefoot STOMPING but we will be more than happy to host pictures produced by others.

• CAN YOU UPDATE MORE OFTEN

  We intend to update this site regularly, once the site is up and running doing a regular update shouldn't be a problem.  

• CAN YOU PUT A NEW SIGN NEXT TO NEW PICTURES

  Yes this is a point raised by several of you, from now onwards we will do this for you :@)

• HOW CAN WE CONTRIBUTE STOMP PICTURES

  It's very simple, email us first to let us know what you will be sending us.  We will need to know how many images you have, what format they are in and how large the files are.  

  If you don't have a scanner, don't worry, we can scan your pictures for you.  Just mail us for more details.