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DUG DEEP...
Lately me and my friends have been
getting way rad in street skating. Ever
since Winchester went under we have
terrorized every skateable terrain in the
area. After your ramp article I dug deep
into the old wallet to produce a small but
intense pipe, which is nearly com-
pleted.
P.S. D-13 and the Midtonians shred.
Chris Cooper and assorted shredsters
Palo Alto, California
RADICAL EVERYDAY...
Just wanted to tell you that your mag
really rips and that there are still about
four or five serious skaters here in Balti-
more city. My friends and I built a nice.
small vertical ramp in my alley, so we can
get radical everyday. I want to tell all the
other Baltimore skaters that we still have
two radical places to skate. Crofton
Skatepark and the Liberty Bowl (empty
pool) provide lots of vertical. So get out
and shred. Keep Thrasher coming at us.
Frank Petrik
Baltimore, MD
Are you sure there's only five?
MAMBO LIVES...
-ED
Your magazine is great. Unlike others it
seems to identify more with the people
who actually keep skateboarding going,
the kid on the street. Wild Riderz is an
open minded effort which is much
overdue. However, in your September
issue there was a very close minded half-
effort in Notes From The Underground. I
mean anybody can list names of classic
heavy metal bands and songs and then
say all the new stuff is crap. I'd like to ask
Vlaadmir Blutonoir if he walked five miles
to school in the snow everyday.
I can just picture this guy sitting around
listening to Inagaddadavida over and
over, thinking of what his name will be
next month.
P.S. The photos were tasty.
Mambo King
Honolulu, Hi
(I MEAN...)
I think your magazine is way rad. It is
the only pure skateboard mag. I mean,
what do skaters and kart racers have in
common? Nothing. At least you have
"pure skating, way rad." I am a local of the
once Winchester Skatepark, home of
Stevie Caballero. It was the raddest park
I've ever shredded (I've been to Big O
and Del Mar). Speaking of Del Mar, now I
remember what I wrote for in the first
place. I just picked up your RAD October
issue. It has the gnarliest scoop on the
Del Mar Pro/Am. Photos to the max and
an excellent story. (I liked the part when
Morizen told the old man that he might
miss his stop, that stoked me totally.). Also
that pic on page two of Billy Ruff getting
max air upside down. And that one of
Mike Smith on page 15 (That guy does
the raddest hand plants). But the one that
really stokes me is the one of Eric
Grisham doing that El Rollo Neck Plant.
Your mag is what really keeps me in
the move of things since all the parks
around my house closed (there used to
be about 15), and the only other, so
called, skaters around here are all VALS.
But soon I will move (possibly to Del Mar)
and there will be a whole new skate
scene, hopefully a park, so I could shred.
I guess I've said enough for now (1
think?). Later.
Miki "Thrasher" Vukovich
Cupertino, CA
MAKE BELIEVERS...
I've been skating about a year and a
half. I live in Texas and we skate on
wooden ramps. We do have a mall and
we do make believers out of people.
Skaters Rule. Your mag is the greatest,
keep up the good work. We keep
shredding but this town doesn't. Punk and
Skateboarders and Thrasher Rules.
Mark Bridges
Longview, Texas
PRINT THE PICTURE...
Hey, Thrasher. I got this 3x5 I took at
Winchester last year. It's an okay picture,
not the best, took it when I first started
taking pictures. I used to have a lot but
they got shredded. So this is the last one,
the soul survivor. It's Geep Terranova
doing an aerial in the former washboard.
The kid's real rad and got style, give him
a chance. I should have taken it farther
back. Print the picture, I be stoked, he be
stoked and maybe you will to. Your new
mag format is rad, looks better than those
Rolling Stone type papers. Keep the mag
just skating. Your mag is only a dollar and
I can still afford it. Keep the mag for
skaters and by skaters.
Howard Ogawa
See, we print anything. Even sketchy
photos of dead skateparks.
-ED
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