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IT'S HOT UP HERE
The skate scene here in Seattle
and south of Seattle (mainly Kent,
Burien, Sea-Tac) is extremely hot! I
skate every day I can (and even
when I can't) and usually with the
other members of the B.M.S.T.
(Bowel Movement Skate Team) who
include Rick, Mike, Jeff and even
Morgan.
We usually skate my halfpipe or
Rick's quarterpipe and his halfpipe
when he gets it fixed!
The banks down in Kent are hot!
The banks at Budget are some of
the best around. The bank is at least
150 ft. long and about 4 to 5 ft. high,
and they don't even hassle us (at
least not while I've been there). One
of the coolest skaters up here is
Steve Coucher who promotes a lot
of skating contests and gets a lot of
sessions together. Steve has helped
everyone in one way or another.
You have the best mag on the
street, don't change it at all. Aggres-
sion and Minor Threat are hot and
Ronald Reagan is not!!
Find the gnarly men!
LADIES FIRST
Skate and Bowel,
Harold Headbone.
Auburn, WA
We're writing from Temperance,
Michigan (right by Toledo, Ohio).
This is a nothin' town but hey, one
thing we do have is a halfpipe. And,
of course, every halfpipe needs a
few girls, so we're them.
Anyways, I (Danielle) saved three
guys from becoming full fledged
BMX'ers. I got them interested on
my small pipe about a year ago.
With a few other locals they built
their own. In a short time they were
really thrashing, even skipped
school just to skate. Well, here's the
scene, it turned out to be the hottest
place around, and even the NEC-
ROS came to skate. Soon they had
people coming from over 50 miles
away. Even though we had to move
the ramp about a month ago, it's still
in T town and still the place to be. Oh
yeah, your mag really rips too.
Later,
Banielle Kirchoff
Lisa Bachli
Temperance, MI
P.S. We wanna see lots more pic's of
Duane Peters. The guy's a god!!!
SKATE DESPERATION
I was normally an Escondido, CA
local, going to sky bowl and Del Mar.
Hitting the streets after midnight,
creating terror wherever I went.
Then I had to move to Phoenix,
Arizona, to go to school. Don't come
to Phoenix mad rats, no skate park
here. Talk about dead city. I would
have gave up on my skating career
if it wasn't for your magazine and Bill
the Cat writing me and telling me all
the local news back home.
Out of sheer desperation to keep
my sanity I set out every day looking
for a pool, peeking over fences,
looking right and left, asking every
person on the street, fighting mad
security dogs and then I got a hot tip.
A bus driver told me about a pool on
12th St. at Indian School.
So after work I grabbed a pickle
bucket and an old broom they threw
away and set out for my destination.
When I reached the pool I looked in
amazement, nothing but trash, mud,
water, crickets and bugs. My ska-
ter's soul overwhelmed my fear of
whatever might lurk in them waters
(I pictured a tentacle dragging me
down the drain). So I hopped into the
pool and started bailing. By the end
of the day my dream was accom-
plished and I was skating the walls
and attempting the so-called impos-
sible. Last act of Defiance.
R. Minton Bleuch
Escondido, CA
P.S. Could you print this so Bill the
Cat can read it?
HEAVY RESPONSE
I am writing in response to the let-
ter I saw in the September issue Mail
Drop called "Criticism on Edge."
First of all I want to say that I thought
the heavy metal article "Metal Edge"
was great. It's good to see other
kinds of music represented in the
mag besides punk. Don't get me
wrong, I like hardcore too, but heavy
metal is #1 with me. Second of all, 1
want to tell Chris, the dude who
wrote the letter, that he's totally
wrong when he says that nobody lis-
tens to "Hippy music." Me and all my
skate buds listen to heavy metal
when we thrash; and Iron Maiden
isn't hippy music, stuff like the Grate-
ful Dead is. So get with it dude, just
because you and your circle of
friends don't listen to heavy metal
doesn't mean that nobody else
does. Iron Maiden rules!!!
Dan Headbanger Lutz
Ft. Collins, CO
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AND YOU THOUGHT
IT WAS DEAD
I'm writing from Deadmond, Joke-
lahoma, a town filled to overflowing
with lame assed, generic, trendie
people. We have a total of about 14
skaters here if you count the po-
seurs who carry a board to be cool.
The total number of actual skaters is
about 6. The six of us that do skate
thrive on skating.
The punk scene here is sort of
lame. We do have a couple of good
bands from here. N.O.T.A. from
Tulsa are great. They play good, fast
hardcore and probably have the
most popularity. The second band,
No Direction, from Norman, I be-
lieve, personally rank just as good,
they have a lot of potential and with
a little more practice will soon be
well known.
Skate terrain here is excellent if
you're into freestyle. We have an
abundance of flat, wide open park-
ing lots. My friends and I don't crave
freestyle so we built a halfpipe, no-
thing big, it's 8 ft wide by 9 ft high.
There's one other halfpipe in town,
but we don't skate it much.
Also, when we get to we skate at
the Electronic Silvermint Skatepark
in Tulsa. I think it's the only one left in
Oklahoma.
Well, I'd like to end this by saying.
all you people who thought skating
was dead better hurry to your near-
est variety store and get yourself a
brand new shiney, plastic board and
start thrashing.
till later,
Terry Jacks
Writing from the epicenter of
nothingness, Edmond, OK
NORTHWESTERLIES
I just got your new September
issue today. It's getting bigger and
better. Good job guys.
What happened to the Dr.? He
was a bit too self-righteous, but de-
serves to be put back in.
How about doing an 'equipment
review on both the new Alva and
Board to Death model?
I know you haven't heard much
about Portland and the rest of this
area in your mail, so I understand
why we haven't been covered by
your mag yet, but now you have.
Seattle, Portland and Salem hold
a lot of potential pro-level skaters
R & S
and would make a great issue of
Thrasher even better if we were cov-
ered. Hint, Hint.
Portland, Oregon isn't very fa-
mous for skating in general, but de-
serves to be checked out.
We have a couple ramps here in
Portland, and many kick-ass banks,
but do most of our vert skating in the
nearby city of Salem where there is
a larger sized ramp. (16' wide, 10
tall, 1 vert, 16' flat).
We just discovered a hot pool
near Salem too. It has 4' of transition
and 6 of vert. Needless to say, this
is our favorite spot due to its intense
walls. We had a contest at the ramp
in Salem on the 17th and 18th of
September, with a skate-rock gig af-
terwards consisting of Barely
Human (from S.F-Hi Angie), 'Con-
demned to Death' (also S.F. based),
"Youth for Buckley (Portland), and
E-13 (Eugene, OR).
Keep up the Skate-Rock cover-
age. It's well deserving of a page or
two each issue. Stay high and shine
on you crazy diamonds.
SURF SKATERS
Drew Bates
Portland, OR
My name is Mark 'Skate' Mona-
han and I think your magazine is
pretty hot.' My friends and I are the
surf-skate types. We thrash the sub-
urban streets all the time and have
some local J, and halfpipe ramps
that we shred to the max. Freestyle
we do pretty good on but not great.
For example I can do an Ollie-air
curb hop and rail curb slide.
Well, I'll see ya!!
Mark Skate Monahan
Del Ray Beach, FL
NOTHING ELSE
I'm sitting in my stark, white walled
bedroom and quietly listening to
'Decades by Joy Division. The
sheer sadness and desperation of
the song forces extreme existential
thoughts to run rampant through my
mind. What the hell are we here for?
Are we all just waiting to die? What
is there that humans are designed to
do? What are we supposed to do?
I slapped my forehead, grabbed
my Flipside and bolted out the door.
Felipe Echevarria
*****
Fort Collins, CO
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