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Greetings from Washington State.
We've been skating since the beginning
and Have never stopped. Your mag is our
only contact with the outside world. We
like it so keep up the good worki Enough
inahitjes, how 'bout I get down to busi
hess..I designed a ramp; it was built now
we want to have a contest, What do wel
do?
Let me answer that; we write the only
skatelmagazinelin existence and ask for
help. We ask them.to mention our
bontest, the Northwest Open, in their
internationally read publication. We ask
them to tell us how to get sponsors. We
even offer them free banner space at the
ringside, However, we do not offer cash,
for compensation. It's not really a wel
situation, just lost control of my personal
references and mental faculties. sorry...as
I was saying, the match will be held on
July 24, weather permitting, in Tacoma.
The ramp is nine feet high, twelve feet
wide, has twelve feet of flatbottom and
one foot of vert. Oh yes, it also has stone
coping. am hoping to collect enough
from entry fees to make it interesting for
the pros Skaters are expected from
Vancouver, B.C, Portlant, Oregon, and
the Th-Cities area in Eastern Washington.
Please do what you can and write back as
soon as possible, time is of the essence,
as some cliche-ridden lad once said.
Firally.
Joseph J. Eberting
Tacoma, WA
NEW JERSEY
Skating is going strong in Jersey
Arqund where I live there are about 20
skaters.then there's the Fort Monmouth
boys. Jeff Jones has a nice ramp, there's
a ramp in Seaside, and we found a small
whole pipe that insane (very tight). (sent
some pics of me skating this ramp we
built, after the Fort Monmouth ramp was
torn down, and we're saving to replace it
somewhere else)
We have almag called Eastern Front
put out by Steve Herring andd Jeff
Haitse it's a pretty rad little mag. When
we get a halfpipe up, we'll send some
more pids
Till then, keep skating,
Russ Iglay
Belmar, NJ
JA
There are legends and there are
rumors. Talk had it that the much
dreaded J-Boy, aka Adams, was dead or
in jail. Actually, THRASHER was inter-
viewing him on a street corner. The cen-
tral element, the only one of any impor-
tance, is that Adams remains one of the
great enigmas in the world of skate-
boarding. A prime innovator throughout
the seventies and much sought after as
a commercial entity, Jay seemingly
made every effort to avoid the "suc-
cessful life." (He once managed to post-
pone an interview for Skateboarder
magazine for over three years.) During
that fat period in the seventies when
countless less talented sorts made big
bucks off skating, Adams meticulously
sought only undiluted, uncensored and
uncomplicated thrills. Much to the
promoters' chagrin, Jay would regularly
choose to disappear off into the tropics
rather than keep in line for the movie.
gigs, mag covers, and assorted other
trappings of fame and fortune. Cur-
rently Adams is so underground that
even the magnates at the Independent
Truck Co. have to dispatch equipment
to him via well chosen Jay-designated
intermediaries. Nearly everyone has a
epic-scaled Adams tale, and just to keep
it democratic we pooled a few notables.
"Of all the people we dealt with Jay
was certainly the most spontaneous,
unpredictable, radical and fun." Warren
Bolster, Skateboarder Magazine Editor.
"Adams has the purest skating at-
titude around. He never plans, he just
does it and he goes full out. A lot of
people don't even understand what he's
doing most of the time. Jay continually
comes up with moves that you'll never
see again 'cause he changes so fast.
I've seen people try to copy him but they
can't since he never does the same
thing the same way twice." Stacy
Peralta.
There is no quote." Steve Olson
"Has the talent to be good at anything
he wants. He's a rowdy little F---!" Tony
Alva
Keeping all this in mind, we cornered
Jay for a few comments on his life and
times.
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