CONTENTS
16
VERTICAL
SEQUENTIALS
Are there no limits?
Here's a group of skate
pilots who are constantly
on the brink of finding out.
Lowboy reports.
24
HARDCORE
BOARDING
Somewhere around
Washington, D.C. there is
a ramp that captures the
history and present attitude
of the D.C. skate scene.
28
SUMMER CAMP '83
A month in Sweden in the
Summertime. Billy Ruff tells
OCTOBER 1983
Vol.3 Issue No. 10
COVER: Raucous and radical Toke Team
member Puker pumps a backside air over ramp
master Pat Clarke at the highly ripped and well
skated Annandale ramp near Washington, D.C.
Photo by Glen E. Friedman. More GEF photos
and words by lan Mackaye starting on page 24.
you about...the wild night, STAFF
the beaches, the girls...oh!!
and skating.
32
COMPETITION
Oceanside Freestyle,
Del Mar Summer World
Series Final.
4
MAIL DROP
6
STEEP SLOPES
Gary Scott Davis
10
ASK THE DOCTOR
Dr. Rick Blackhart
14
THE
SKATERS' EDGE
Bob Denike
38
SKATE ROCK
Skate touring with
The Faction.'
40
ON BOARD
42
RODNEY'S CORNER
47
SOMETHIN' ELSE
PUBLISHER
Edward Riggins
ASSISTANT TO THE PUBLISHER
Rick D. Noll
EDITOR/ART DIRECTOR
Kevin J. Thatcher
PHOTO EDITOR AT LARGE
MoFo
EDITORIAL STAFF
Rick Blackhart
Bob Denike
Garry Scott Davis
Morizen Foche
'Lowboy'
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Glen E. Friedman
Jeff Newton
C. R. Stecyk Ill
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
Mike Folmer
lan Mackaye
Stacy Peralta
Paul Schmitt
Brian Schroeder
Brian Ware
Craig Ramsay
Bill Ruff
CONTRIBUTING
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Wesley Bocxe
Matt Etheridge
Craig Ramsay
Ron Schneider
CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS
Ken McGuire
Pushead
PRODUCTION
Andy Croft
Bryce Kanights
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