ON BOARD
TRASH
KICK-TURN
Severe
Head
Injury
ON ARD
COMING EVENTS
CASL 1984 CONTEST SCHEDULE
June 2......... Skate Ranch, Del Mar
July 14
August 4
Halfpipe
Banked Slalom
Venice Beach
Freestyle
Embarcadero, San Diego
Freestyle
September 15. Paramount, Paramount
October 13...
October 27
Halfpipe Bowl
Tight Slalom
Skate Ranch, Del Mar
Key Hole
Cross Country
1984 NEW YORK
SKATEBOARD SERIES
Pipeline, Upland
Combi Pool
Banked Slalom
For amateur skateboarders in the Long
Island-New York area. The first event was
held April 29, 1984, at 66 Newton Lane,
East Hampton, NY. Additional contest to
be announced will be sponsored by
Bunger's Surf Shop in Central Long Island
and Rockaway Beach Surf Shop in NYC.
Contact these shops for more details.
SKATEBOARD OLYMPIC SERIES '84
May 13 San Francisco Freestyle
June 16,17 Upland
July 15
Aug. 5
Combi-Pool
Jam;
Freestyle
Freestyle
Freestyle;
Halfpipe;
Los Angeles
San Diego
Pool
Aug. 24,25,26 Del Mar
Bryce
Ray Flores
For a long time no one said anything,
then one day someone said it, but there
wasn't anyone there to hear it. So a
considerable amount of time went by until
SOME SAY, SOME DON'T
they said it again. Well, one guy heard it
and he mentioned it to his mom, but what
does she do? She goes and tells this kid on
a plastic skateboard, but he's too young to
realize the importance of the whole thing.
Well he forgot all about it until one day he
just happened to mention it in front of some
older-skate-types and they freaked in
disbelief. Well they tried to find someone
who could write and spell at the same time,
but they couldn't, so they called, and you
know what they said? They said that they
heard that the infamous Ray Flores was
back on the stick and was spotted
clip-clapping a pool late at night. Then the
pictures came in the mail. Ha, what do you
know, anyhow?
SKATE RANGER
We received a newspaper clipping from
Brain Tree Mass daily, The Patriot Ledger.
It described the wild time Ranger Dennis
McLean had parachuting into Grenada
during that invasion last October 25th.
Some of the quotes from the article
detailed about bullets flying through his
parachute strings as he descended,
jumping behind enemy lines and fighting
(because that's a Rangers job), kicking the
commies back where they belong, him and
5 other Rangers taking 25 Cuban prisoners
and of joining the Rangers, "because
they're the best in the Army." The key
quote of the article was, "McLean, who is
an avid skateboarder said: This is my
motto, "Live fast, die young, skate fast,
have fun."
HARSH WORDS
John Gibson casually described a mild
incident over on Lone Star dirt which
involved misplaced words to a cowgirl, by
Craig Johnson, that were overheard by
her cowboy. Well, the vague details were
something about fists, cheeks, lips, blood,
and beer. Good thing his name wasn't
Sue.
WE'VE BEEN HAD
Oh my, we're so embarrassed. We were
informed by Peter Talbot, that in last
February Trash column, the sticker on
Marilyn Monroe's grave is incorrect.
Peter says Marilyn was laid to rest in a
crypt. Shucks, we hope she wasn't
bummed.
PHILLY FLASH
That irrepressible Philadelphia flailer,
Chuck Treece is at it again. In addition to
his usual flurry of skating activities up and
down the East Coast, Chuck is also
teaching a "How to Skateboard" class at
the Philadelphia School to some of the
shredding 5th through 7th graders there.
Glossary of
Skate Slang
Axle Stall-A slight lip pause on the space
between your wheels known as the axle.
Awesome-One of the 10 most abused
words in most vals.
Big Air-Not to be confused with 'little air'
like, "I'd like a little air please." Big Air, bio,
out there, gone, insane! giant air.
Cash-What it takes to get places, and
one of the seven most important things in
life (skating, girls, food, etc...).
Coping-1) Dealing with a situation, 2).
Top lip of pool, ramp or any other skating
terrain. The safety rail.
Duckets-See cash, frogskins, bread,
dough, dinares.
Dag-To slow down pace, deceleration,
dagging or, blowing it. The art of choking
under pressure.
Edger-Riding on the outer wheels edge,
either both when carving or one when kick
turning. Microedger being the maxi-
minimum.
Gutter-"Where hence we came from."
Dirk Dirksen quote.
Keeper-Not a throw back
Lofty-To retain some hang time while
performing an aerial maneuver.
Overamp-To max out, too many rpms,
amping out. To exceed, surpass, go off.
Wannabee-To crave a certain lifestyle or
social status. One who wants to be."
Swivel-neck-A giddy, spring headed,
nervous type of character. Wired up.
Unruly-Almost disgusting or semi-
obscene. Shouldn't even have happened
or been pulled off. Example: "That front-
side hang-up grind was unruly, he shouldn't
even have made that."
Drafting-In downhill racing, when one
racer uses another's wind resistance to pull
him along.
Hairial-An aerial maneuver that is pulled
off with a degree of sketchiness such as
wheels hitting coping on re-entry or foot
displacement. Early release aerial.
SKA CENE
ZINE EXPOSÉ
SPEEED
A TASTE OF
SQUID
MEAT
Some of the boys in the editorial offices
are buzzing around, gathering up all of the
little skatezines and fanzines, with a taste
of skating in them, for a concise article/
exposé of the same. We know we're
making a big mistake by asking this,
because our P.O. Box will probably get jam
packed, but we'll ask anyway. For
consideration of inclusion in this article,
just forward your "zine c/o "Zine Thing,
Thrasher Mag, P.O. Box 24592, San
Francisco, CA 94124.
DESTROYING TAHOE
The Thrasher Staff car thrusted up to
Lake Tahoe loaded with K.T. behind the
wheel, Blackhart riding shotgun, Mofo
backseat driving and B.K. holding the kick
start, and proceeded to learn the finer
points of snowboarding as well as attend
the contest at Soda Springs. Well, the
mountain drinks were flowing at the
Mountain Ranch of Mike Chantry, and the
Thrasher crew proceeded to disrupt and
digust more than a few of the weekend
skiers by just simply being ignorant of the
local customs. How were we to know that it
wasn't cool to cut across all the runs, and
back, or do layback rooster tailers onto the
line of skiers waiting for the lift? We just
thought of it as a giant skatepark in the
shape of a mountain. Was it Frackside or
Bontside Tom?
FURTHER ADVENTURES
Non-stop hip-hopping found Mr. Mo the
next weekend in Phoenix, Az. doing the
"Photo-thing" to Roskop, Kasal, J.F.A.,
T.A., Mondo, the Stuntman, and the Alba
Bros. at some mean banks, full head, a
rear-ended car, a board into the face and
camera at point blank, five hard-core knee
slams w/o pads, a pelvical groinal slam on
the flatbottom, a bird, 3 hippers and some
sunburn. And that was the first day. Article
next month. And that's not all, Mr. Mo was
also spotted at the Scott's Valley ramp at
a big party which was also attended by
B.K. the Schau Brothers, the Doctor,
K.T., Tony and Tommy Guerrero, Surfer
Butch, Steve Olson, Danny Casares,
Keith Meek, half a million young surfer-
girls and lots of beers. There was one
girl-fight, B.K. got a sliver the size of a
popsicle stick in his butt and Olson got one
through his finger. The party jumped into
cars at dusk and down into Santa Cruz
which led to kegs, even more young surfer
girls, the destruction of the salad bar at a
Burger King, where the bathroom was
rendered unbreathablke. But that's not all.
Camden got lucky, Butch and Tony G.
were smart. At a surf expo the next day at
the Santa Cruz Civic, the boys managed to
acquire V.I.P. passes and infiltrate the
V.I.P. lounge where there was a keg with a
model sporting a string bikini, maintaining
the tap amid more luscious bikini broads
dishing out health food in plastic cups.
There was a skate demo on a quarter pipe
that was shredded heavily by the locals,
including Roskopp. But that's not all, all of
the wrecking crew jetted over to 37th ave.
where a guy sleeps in a shack, and had a
big bash on his patio and his living room.
Well, there was dog-piling for two hours
and Mr. Mo managed to break everything
he touched. But it's O.K., someone hit him
over the head and chipped some of his
teeth.
Olson at the Scotts Valley Ramp.
BOGUS BETTY OF THE MONTH
believe that Morgan Fairchild shreds the
Uh-huh, right. We're supposed to
streets on her skate. You guys already got
us with the Marilyn Monroe deal, and now
this shows up. C'mon boys.
NOW GO TOW
In San Luis Obispo, according to Vehicle
codes No. 21712 and 21203, it's illegal to
tow a skateboarder from the back of your
motorcycle as well being towed by a
motorcycle on your skateboard. Or so says
Jon and Michael of S.L.O.
RAMPED OUT
Our first printing of "Ramps: A General
Guide to Building a Radical Wooden
Skateboard Ramp" is practically sold out
already. We knew we were on to something
with that puppy. Heck at this rate there
would be at least a thousand new
structures up by mid Summer. For those
who are lame and don't have a ramp yet or
haven't sent in yer $3 ducats yet, don't fret,
by the time you can read this, lick a stamp
and send the dough, we'll have another
print load of this priceless "How to" "zines
in stock.
BUSTIN' THE BLUES
In downtown L.A., our Dec. '83 cover
dude Steve Shelton was grinding away at
some pool as some good ole boys were
playin' the blues on the coping. Well, the
cops didn't dig it so they came and told
them to keep the music down.
JAM ON
This little tidbit of info is typical of many
other such announcements that have been
filtreing through our mail bag lately:
"Attention skaters: There will be a ramp
jam in Hanover, Maine in June. Please
send for details to: David R. Richardson,
P.O. Box 106, Hanover, ME 04237."
The indication is that it's going to be a
long hot Summer of burning skate
sessions all over the States. If you can't
make it to any of the jams of contests that
you're reading about in the mag just gete
locals together and throw your own.
THRASHER
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