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VARIFLEX/KONA SUMMER NATIONALS
July 13-19 PRO 17-18-19
Amateur - Bowl and Half-pipe, Sponsored 13 and under.
14-16 and 17 and over.
Pro-Half-pipe $4000.00 purse.
1st -$1000.00
6th - 300.00
2nd
700.00
7th
250.00
3rd
550.00
4th
400.00
8th - 200.00
9th
150.00
5th
- 35000
10th
100.00
LAGUNA SECA DOWNHILL-PRO EVENT
July 11-12, 1981
Contact Fred Lowery
P.O. Box 1183
Pebble Beach, CA 93953
Phone: (408) 372-4389
CAPITOLA CLASSIC
The Capitola Classic will be held on September 5, 1981,
this year's event will be run as an invitational. Time
limitations on the availability of the street has forced the
promoters to change to the new format.
Thirty four of the world's best downhill racers will be
invited last year's top sixteen finishers automatically
making the list.
This year will be Capitola's fifth anniversary, making it
skateboarding's longest running event. More details on
this race in our next issue.
Hollywood Dateline:
Upland regular James Robinson is the featured skater in Sprite's
latest TV commercial Our Editor captured its premiore airing
during the Academy Awards telecast
Stacy Peralta and Cliff Coleman have just completed shooting
askato centered Marin The Magician TV pilot which will probably
air sometime later this year Heavy video activity will surely help
reestablish skateboarding as a thriving worldwide sport.
G.L.S.A.
The 1980 GLSA season and
awards banquet are now history.
The points from the six contests
were falled by Mr. Fred Scott who
had done an excellent job for the
curcuit all season. What this circult
has done for
for skateboarding here
in the Midwest, may be too much
to comprehend at this time and
might be realized only in years to
come. It is possible that the success
of GLSA and ASPO will lead to a
national pool finals.
Park owners from Apple, Astro
Cosmic Waves, Endless Summer
and SurfTurf USA met early in
the spring to lay the groundwork
for the 1980 season. If was decided
to use a format much like that of
ASPO. With the help and consulta-
tion of Chris Yandall and
d Lou
Peralta GLSA proved successful in
its first year of operation
pantsuits by the
ance
D
The awards banquet was held
at the Harbor House in Roseville.
Michigan, just a few minutes from
Endless Summer, where many of
the skaters tuned up before the
award festivities began. The dress
for the evening
ing ranged t from black
leathers to tweed jackets, from
Vare to cowboy boots, and from
s to Levi's The punkers
were outraged by the appear-
first place winner Mark
Carpenter. The shock of seeing e
skateboarder with shoulder length
hair brought quick comment and
dubbed Mark with a new gick-
name, Woodstock" Teammate
Todd Cadieux's new cropped top.
however, was the envy of many
Spike Blauvelt dressed in tasteful
punk attire led the way as the ES
Boyz mode their entrance. Next
come the Cosmic Waves Gang
led by the Northrups and Mike
Early
An "all you can ear menu of
shrimp, chicken, ribs, fish, and ham
started the festivities. After every
one had finished eating the Apple
Boyz made their timely appear-
ance. Dressed heavily in blacks
leather boots and spiked leather
wrist bands, they dug for seats and
grub in an already packed house
After dinner, moster of ceremo
nies Mr. Ron Z, and Chris Vandal
presented trophies to the winners
One award of special interest
went to Kevin Tate, whose devotion
of both time and money prompted
the park owners to provide him
with an "Outstanding Contributions
Award" "Tm stoked," was all Kevin
could say. What more need be
said? ES resident intellectual, Mike
Dooley, wrote an emotion-packed
speech which capsulized the
feelings of all the award winners.
Here, then is that speech in its
entirety: Tanks you guys" (Nuff
said
everyone
The highlights of the GLSA season
are just too many to list, but here
are a few. Jex Harrison, skating for
Endless Summer (ES) and most
recently for SMS and Indy, went
undefeated at all six v contests
Pulling off first places at
else's home parks is almost unbe-
lievable
Shawn Scott, skoting for
TRACKER TRUCKS, lived up to his
nickname.
Mr. Smooth, as he
routinely ended up in the top five
at each contest and placed first
overall in the 13-15 division. Just
behind him was friend and team-
mate Kevin Chinchar, from Akron
Ohio. Perhaps the most exciting
rivalry was in the 16 and over
division. Mark Carpenter of USA
and Bill Gergusson of ES and
VARFLEX (battled for the numero
uno" position throughout the entire
season. When the dust settled at
the end of the season 1 Mark had
494 points and Bill had 493.
We are interested to see w
what
some of the locals, who showed
that they can blaze at
their own
parks, can do in the long grind of
an entire skateboard circuit. Most
notable of these locals are Bill
Reevens of SurfnTurf and VARIFLEX
and Ken Mollica of Apple.
Well that raps up the 1980 edition
of GLSA, but youll be bearing from
us throughout the 1981 season.
Come out and participate and
keep on skatin
rite
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FROM THE UNDERGROUND
ADAM
And the
ANTS
In this the outset of the eighties
where iterally hundreds of rock
bands are clamouring daily for a
chance to be heard and
accepted there seems to be very
fow that are successful in gaining
worldwide notoriety. Since the
boom days of the new wave
scene in the late seventies it has
become increasingly difficult for a
modem band to break
big in an
overstuffed and highly competitive
rock marketplace. With the big
record companies growing wary
of backing groups unless they can
show immediate sales potential
and a cautious record buying
public, the prospects for many
bands seems bleak if not
impossible
Yet regardless of the statistics
and sales figures there is always
room for another good rock 'n roll
record to spin on anybody's turn-
table. The recent album by Adam
and the Ants Kings of the Wild
Frontier is one that is being
cranked up quite frequently of
lato
Claiming boredom with rock
and jazz, chief songwriter/lead
vocalist Adam Ant began listening
to Aborigine and North American
Indian tribal music. Other influen
ces are also apparent, spaghett
western (Los Rancheros) and
heave-ho pirate like numbers
Lolly
Roger) as well as Zulee in-
spired chanting The attraction to
me was to find something as for
away from rock 'n roll as I could
and work it back into the
rock
framework. The two poles in our
music are voice and drums," says
Adam which is basically what
tribal music is all about. Everything
in between is just there to create
Adam Ant
a fuller sound" "Tve always de-
manded an element of unpre-
diclabilty from myself. If your
audience knows what you're going
to do next you've had
Although an Ants audience may
not know what's coming next, they
do know who they've come to see
and why. I was Adams original
intention from the group's incep
tion to "create
ate an audience not
steal somebody's else's" With a
background in graphic arts and a
keen sense of marketing. Adam
seems to be on the right track so
far. Over half of the album's songs
refer directly to the band and it's
avid followers
Although Adam had worked his
way up through the club circuit in
England (to sometimes mixed
responses from press and aud
ence, he claims no allegiance to
the
the punk movement that sur-
rounded him in the late 20s.
says that he never went along
with the no heroes idea of anarch
Adom
that coincided with the "punk
thing" Adam definitely has his
heroes, which is evident at one of
his shows where he strikes pose
after pose, directly stolon from the
glitter rock days of David Bowie
Gary Gitter and early Roxie Music
From the arched back stance of a
flamenco dancer, to his knee
slapping in time with the
drummers on identical kits, that
pound out a strong driving beat
which S the basis for most of
forms t
his songs he struts and flails"
himself about the
stage
220 wit
authority. The in-between is pro
vided by the hard driving bass
ines and the guitar work of Adams
song writing partner Marco Pirron
who mixes twangy Duane Eddy
style riffs with well placed power
chords
The kids that form the Arts huge
following in England are described
by Adam as "dressed for an event
when attending one of his con-
certs 's not just fashion-oriented
but strongly sexual You get really
beautiful kids turning up at our
shows
The beautiful people attitude is
great as long as the audience
does not get so wrapped up in
looking good and sexism that it
forgets why they came to s see
the
show in the first place, which is to
dance and see a good band
perform. With the dog collar,
leather jacket mentality that is stil
prevalent with the punkers today.
maybe a retum to the glamour
days of rock might be a refreshing
change from and white of the
unk anarchists
punk
After all
all any kid who takes on a
rock 'n roll career shouldn't be
content with being in just another
garageland paradise for the rest
of their days. With a horo like Adam
Ant for inspiration at least rock 'n
roll has a chance to continue its
never-ending cycle and change
with the Times Like Adom sings in
Don't be square (be there). "You
may not like it now but you wil