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COMING EVENTS
April 29
Suburban Youth Ramp Contest
Suburban Youth Ramp
Allentown, PA
Contact: Rick Charnowski
215-395-6262
Geoff Graham
215-433-4581
CASL 1984 CONTEST SCHEDULE
.......... Covina City Park
April 28
Freestyle
June 2
July 14
August 4....
Skate Ranch, Del Mar
Halfpipe
Banked Slalom
Venice Beach
Freestyle
Embarcadero, San Diego
Freestyle
September 15. Paramount, Paramount
Halfpipe Bowl
Tight Slalom
Skate Ranch, Del Mar
Key Hole
Cross Country
Pipeline, Upland
October 13
October 27
May 4-6
SUNDECK PRO/AM
Combi Pool
Banked Slalom
SKATEBOARD CHALLENGE
Kona Skateboard Park
Jacksonville, Florida
Pro halfpipe & freestyle.
Am pool, banked slalom, halfpipe,
freestyle.
FIRST SCANDINAVIAN OPEN
When?....April 19-20-21 and 22,
1984,
Where?....At Herley Skateboard
Copenhagen, Denmark.
What?....Ramp, Freestyle and tight
Slalom.
For further information contact:
Danish Skateboard Association.
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Frank Messmann
Vejlesoparken 1-502
2840 Holte
Denmark
TRAS
Trash/trash/n: Something that is no
good-trashy adj. rubbish, garbage, offal,
litter, debris, junk, scrap, WASTE, VIS-
CERA, FECES, AND THIS COLUMN.
COLLARED
Outlaws having fun must remember, "If
you play, you pay!" So, in Danville, Cal-
ifornia, we have been tending to legal
matters. It appears that Sol and John, went
to go hunt down some plywood to relayer
their halfpipe. They found the site, took
seven sheets, someone squealed, cops
showed, don't collect $200 for passing Go!
Hardcore skaters shred hard, and that's
the fact, Jack!
RISING SONS
On a mission from Big Brother, Peralta,
it looks like Rodney Mullen, Steve
Caballero, and maybe even Mike McGill
will be making a tour of Japan. They will rip,
shred and kamakazee (ha, what a stupid
pun, but we said it anyway) their way into
the hearts of the Japanese skate core.
Speaking of "Big Brother" Peralta,
bonafide rumor says he's currently working
on another video. Look out, man.
SWOOSH-PUMP, PUMP-PUMP
We bet you all thought that slalom racing
was dead. Well it is. Actually, it is just
because most people think it is. But, it is
alive and extremely underground. Beau
Brown has been (sort of) organizing some
slalom get togethers for whoever wants to.
He says sometimes there are from 20 to 30
riders out to swoosh and pump, and other
times just a small circle of friends. If
anybody in the Southern California area is
interested in getting involved with any of
this slaloming around, feel free to contact
Beau Brown at (714) 531-7075, and be
ready to swoosh-swoosh, pump, pump (no
grinds, sorry.)
MOFO
The Psychic Gorilla
Here's something that tumbled into the
editorial offices in an anonymous looking
envelope. It seems staffer MO-RI-ZEN
FO-CHE has been doing a little moon-
lighting aside from his regular pen pushing
duties these days. When asked, he
scratched his armpit and shrugged his
shoulders. A new approach to his
Presidential campaign?Word is, it's working
in the low to lowest rent districts.
MORE
LOORS
1984 YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS
(BONAFIDE BETTY)
Houston, home of the Texas Pipeline
skatepark (which we hear is 50% shredda-
ble) is where you cowboys can find the
finest lookin' shreddingest girl named
Wendi. Her blonde hair and green eyes go
with her red Powell/Peralta stick and pink
high top tennies. Rumor has it that this
fifteen year old beauty can wail on lead
guitar in a R'n R band and shreds the surf
at Surfside Beach. And she only has been
skating for three months. How's that for a
Lone Star State update?
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BETTY BOWSER?
O.K. guys, this ain't funny. You can't
expect us to believe that this is someone's
girlfriend. No prize, no credit, no bone.
UPROOTED AND RELOCATED
Having been fed up with the "non-
happening" scene in Nebraska, Cornhead
has relocated himself to the San Francisco
Bay Area. It seems the VEG has landed
himself a job selling vitamins somewhere
in Palo Alto, near Stanford.
PUSSY SKATER?
Winters in N.Y.C. must be full of excite-
ment to many cat lovers. Like Claire. You
know Claire, the one with the Huge Killer
Ship? Yeah, him. She's got a rad cat
named, Inky-Mouse, who is just under a
few months old and call pull off 360's. Get
that rad kitty a subscription for its first
birthday. S.M.-Dogtown, S.F.-Fogtown,
N.Y.C. Cattown?
HE WENT 129.302 M.P.H.
His name? Franz Weber. He's the World
Record holder for professional downhill
speed skiing and also holds the record for
the fastest/biggest beef-bail, clocked at
125 mph and covering a distance of over
300 meters. Why do we care? He also was
a European skateboard champion in 1977.
Also, he's been researching and develop-
ing a new type of snow-riding vehicle.
which is at such an infant stage that it is yet
to be named. Word is, that it is directly
based on the function of skateboards.
Look for further word on this development
in future issues. Also, Franz will be
defending his record at the Camel North
American Championships April 24th and
29th held at Arapahoe Basin, Colorado.
CA
NEW TEAM DEPT.
Rad-master Mash, of Three Tater
Three, is putting together a skate team in
the Bay Area, or so he sez. The reason for
all the miles logged on his P.S.A. Gold card
this past month to S.F.O. The names
secret, but the equipment isn't. A yard stick
from Spain 10" wide and indyized on the
truck situate, and rolling with any wheel
that works. Members in good standing
include, "Babylon" Bob Rivera, Patrick
O'Neil, Tracy Namdam, Chris Grayson,
and of course P.H. himself...What? You
say to yourself, t#58$e why Potato and
what can he do? Well, what he does best,
of course. Having fun to the fullest extent.
They work out at a secret spot. So secret
that all of the members are sworn not to
expose the location, at any cost what-
soever. Even so much as to refuse free
gear in return for the location of said secret
spot. Now, that's what you call, "EXCLU-
SIVE MEMBERSHIP.
TALKING COAST TO COAST
Let's stop all this whining about, "Oh, it's
too far to walk" and "the bus doesn't come
for another twelve minutes," "plus my mom
can't drive because she has to dump off
my sister at cosmetology college." Re-
member that $160.00 rolling tray that
covers millions of miles in the same
backyard on the same ramp? Well,
Boston, Mass. skater Rob Russell has
chosen to re-define the words distance
and endurance. He'll be SKATEBOARD-
ING across the United States for charity
and donate the money from his faithful
sponsors. Rob told us that he's been
practicing and training daily for the last
year getting ready for his skate trek. When
we talked to Rob he had just returned from.
a casual power skate to Providence,
Rhode Island, just your average 50 mile
ON BOARD
uphill death run.
His girlfriend and back up support
Jessica Marsh will be accompanying Rob
on his trip, riding a 10-speed touring bike
with a lightweight trailer to carry extra
clothes and Gatorade for the 6 to 8 week
journey. He hopes to get off to a good start
by March 15th, if the weather holds,
progressing his way westward. If you
happen to be driving down the freeway and
see Rob, slow down and offer him some-
thing to drink but don't ask him to do a
360. The man's busy.
LET'S GO SURFIN'....NOW?
Apparently undaunted by the tragic
alcoholic/swimming death of the old-man
rocker(?)/drummer Dennis Wilson, the
Beach Boys are scheduled to play to at
the Laguna Seca racetrack in California on
May 12th. Now, why would we care a pig's
ass for such cherished info, you ask? Well,
normally, we wouldn't except for maybe a
few laughs. But our good buddy, Bob
Schmeltzer apparently promoed and
scrammed his way into doing an opening
freestyle demo before the show. Should be
cool, because in the old days, the girls at
those Beach Boys shows were really crazy
and often got on guys shoulders and
showed their bare breasts. Yeah, Bob,
scam of the month! Dennis must've been
replaced by one of those hundred dollar,
cheap-ass drum machines.
WE WERE WONDERING
WHERE YOU WERE
There were the rumors that they were
aboard the ill-fated flight 007 that got shot
down by our Soviet buddies, but in actuality
Wally Inouye and Chris Stople just
relocated their scene from the San Diego
county coastal regions to a preferred spot
in Upland. They were recently seen
skating the 6th St. wave which has been
resurrected (it was once an original skate
proving ground in the early days) along
with the locals. Salba is the self-proclaimed
god of the wave, and insists everybody
skate the place by Salba's rules. Although
nobody heeds the demands, sessions are
reputably radical.
QUOTES FROM THE GUT
All police cars have no hub caps"-a
notable skater.
"Richmond, Va. is devoid of THRASHER
stickers"-notable scholar.
"The gas prices are going up again
because of the war between Iran and Iraq.
Now why can't these people act like adults
and settle their differences in a less
halocausting manner instead of chemical
warfaring each other"-Chef Boy-Am-I-
Hungry.
THRASHER
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