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SKATE GAMES!
How do professional skate-
boarders keep tuned up in
between practice and qualifying
runs on the Gold Cup circuit? They
skate, of course. During Gold Cup
#5 at Marina Del Rey many of the
top Pros were seen gathered
around the smaller pools engaging
In a friendly form of one-upman
ship. While several skaters hovered
around the pool one skater would
ons
rollin
roll in and perform a single trick
and having made it, roll out. The
next skater would, in turn, drop in
and duplicate the previous trick
then add one of his own. The third
com-
skater would be t
plete the forced to com
st and second moves
and then add another, etc. etc.
Some of the more inspired sessions
saw up to twenty maneuvers being
sequence. If a skater
ruled off ins
missed a trick or failed to add on
an additional move he would be
eliminated and eventually a winner
would be declared
Needless to s
say. there were
questionable maneu
attempted that resulted in friendly
ments, but it was all in good
arguments
fun. There are several variations on
this theme, so gather your skate
bro's together and head for the
local park to try this one out. You
may come up with some new
tricks and you will definitely
sharpen the ones you
aready know
After the Capitola Classic
or
sleep
The Capitola Classic was held
on the same weekend as the Jerry
Lewis National Telethon. Roger
Hickey and the rest of the Madrid
racing team participated in a
local fundraiser after the race
While most of the other racers
went home to party or
tape injuries, the
they were
busy raising money for MDA
During the fundraiser dema
Roger, while jumping chairs, fell
and injured his anida. Ho left and
returned later on crutches. "We
had a goal of $1200, but we had
only reached 5900, so we hyped
the crowd that was there. We said
that if they could pool $300 to-
gether, I'd got off my crutches.
fape up my ankle and jump over a
trough of fire burning rags soaked
in gasoline). Roger made the jump
and while landing severly bruised
his anide again
A few weeks later, Rogertetumed
to Laguna Seca Raceway to
compete in another race. "
hurt quite a lot at the end of the
race, it especially hurt during the
turn, that sharp right hander. I'm
gooty foot and my front anide was
the one that hurt. It made it hard to
apply pressure during the turn it's
probably a good thing that I didn't
go to the finals. I probably couldn't
have completed all the races."
Keep a helmet on your
head. Stay out of hospital
beds.
Slip of the grinder-Life-
time reminder. In other
words, check your board
before you
Steve Cabalevo adding up the tricks in his local high school pool
skate.
5 FROM THE
UNDERGROUND
happen to b
to be p
Finally. It's being done. What!
mean by IT is this mog, a magazine
about skateboarding, not just
about a few skatawankers who
personal friends of
some poofer industry bigwig, but
o mag for skators. It's for the real
skaters, the park pummelers
sounds like a
sounds like a good name for a
band don't it?) and the ones I see
riding their boards 1
to school or
work or home from a late night
gig. The kind of high energy skaters
you find any time, anywhere.
and
there's a challenge.
wherever
d time to be had
mainly
a good time
My contribution to this ragazine
will be t to keep you up with whats
cumently happening in the music
scene from SF. to LA and from
New York to London--the new
music, the music for you, you
the skater.
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THRASHER WORLD CHART
Police-Zenyatta Mondatta
The Cure-17 Seconds
The Jam-Sound Effects
Rockpile-Seconds of Pleasure
Jeff Beck-Thore and Back
Stiff Little Fingers-Hanx
David Bowie-Scary Monsters
The Psychedelic Furs
The Selector
Club Bands
GoGo's
Circle Jerks
Social Distortion
Weirdos
Code Blue
24k
Naughty
Sweeties
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THE CURBS OF SAN FRANCISCO
Our monthly skate architecture
award goes out to the City of San
Francisco for its use of metal
"coping" on hundreds of milles of
curbs. Dubbed "armor guard" by
the City engineers, our discovery
consists of a quarter round steel
piping imbedded into the top
edge of the cement. Constructed
in the days before the 1906 earth-
quake, when horse-and-buggy
was the official urban transit, the
metal defended the curbs from
the constant thrashing of the steel
wheels
Very thoughtful of the City
forefathers to provide some of the
longest grinding in the history of
skating, don't you agree? Grinds of
up to a hundred feet or more are
a possibility on some sections of
the curb which have survived
earthquakes, horse-and-buggy
and now, skateboards
you have a suggestion for our
Skate Architecture of the Month
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