QUOTABLES:
I need THRASHER, it's essential to life
function.
Mike Harrington, Alphretta, GA
The action you cover is so radical and
maxifying!
Tony Albano, Riverdale, MD
On any given Saturday afternoon, you
could come by our house and you would
know for sure that skating has not died out
in the East.
Mrs. Dot Jones, Bricktown, NJ
We do a lot of terrorizing, at night.
Ralph Newman, Seaside Heights, NJ
Your mag is great, it keeps us strays in
touch.
Jeff Gardner, Virginia Beach, VA
Skate tough or don't even come. I have a
half-pipe in my backyard and I live only 2
miles away from a park that has a go-kart
track in part of it, but most of it is skateable.
It's called Loco-Motion.
Mark Thompson, Maryville, TN
You've probably heard it many times
before but Germany's happening. There
are growing skateboard populations
everywhere. Every bigger town has
something to offer
Matthias Bauer, Stuttgart, Germany
There's about 50 people who skate the
ramp off and on all week, every week, but
that number's growing
Cleo Coney & The St. Petersburgh
Ramp Crew
There is skating on the other side of the
world. It's a trip listening to the Japanese
talk in Japanese, and then use American
terms for the skate maneuver. They know
them all.
Bryan Cooper, USS Midway,
Yokusaka, Japan
"SKATE SPOT contests are fully happen-
ing.
Gavin O'Brien, San Jose, CA
I hope that through our paper we will make
new skate friends, and have a lot of fun.
Joe Bowers, Oakridge, TN
It's a lifestyle, a lifestyle that is still alive
and growing.
Parker Webb, Ranson, WV
THRASHER
OPPOSITE PAGE: Top left, Ciff Coleman
applies his hometown Berkeley street
tactics on this three point, Bert slide at
high speed during the College Hill
downhill event. Photo: Sylvia Amezcua
BOTTOM LEFT: If the Fort Monmouth
ramp hadn't been canceled by the U.S.
Army It would have been destroyed
anyway, by the constant abuse of
skating. Brad Constable demonstrates
with a Llen air on the now defunct
structure. J. Hartsell Photo.
RIGHT: Airborne realties of a different
kind. Mofoto
THIS PAGE: It's back to the ditches, pools,
banks, spillways, arid reservoirs for
skateboarders everywhere. Park bred
Billy Ruff proves to be a master of all
terrain with a high speed frontside grab
at Sano-Land in ditch rich North S.D.
County. Photo: Grant Brittain.
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