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SKATE-ABORT-UNIFY
This letter isn't about the halfpipe
and how big it is...etc. It's about
skate-unity. (Wow, what a concept).
Here is the skate part: For a
month now I had been thinking
about organizing some sort of a
mass-thrash here at Champaign-Ur-
bana IL. I made up some signs and
put them up two weeks before the
event. I also started stopping skat-
ers in the street to tell them about it.
Here's the abortion part: Some-
body was out to rape the skate
scene cause' they kept ripping down
the signs even though they were all
more or less posted in approved lo-
cations. I kept putting them up
again
Here's the unity part: Other
people began to make their own
signs to replace mine that disap-
peared. The word was out on the
street and soon I couldn't stop
people that didn't already hear about
it from someone else. On D-Day
someone had even put a notice in
the paper (Thanks Mike).
Unfortunately, the weather pro-
vided a skate-labotomy in the form
of rain. Only 7 guys showed, 4 of
them all the way from Springfield! It
was hard to show Doug, Bruce,
Brian and Bill a cool time in the rain,
but, here is the message part: Don't
give up! Even in the rain we still had
a few places to go, including the
parking garages and a small ramp,
set up in the armory. If anyone
cares, you've not seen the last of the
wolfpack, we'll be out to melt con-
crete shortly! See ya there!
Randy Gawik
"Racer-X"
Champaign, IL
BIG BEAR'S THERE
I'm writing about the skate related
happenings of Big Bear, California
There are two half pipes. At the pre-
sent date we have about 20 locals.
Anyone out there that's hearing
It's snowing here is lame. If there are
any skater types in San Bernadino
who take a trip up the mountain one
weekend, ask around for the ramps.
It's a very small town, everyone
knows of the ramps.
Tony of T.R.R.
P.S. If you're bummed about the
scene in your town start with basic
street ramp and work up to a large
WALKING THROUGH LIFE
This has gone on too long. I can't
take this kind of pain, my mind is
crushed. My new shoes are still
new, my jeans have no grip tape
scrapes on the side, my feet are blis-
tored from walking. You know what
that does to me, walking my skate
torrain? Three months of this kind of
pain is killing me, with more months
of pain to come. I mean, my brain is
tweaked; I wake up in a cold sweat
from skatemares at night.
This all started on a rad Saturday
night a week and a half after Christ-
mas when I got this rad black McGill
with a red ribbon tied around it. We
wuz all having fun, me and my friend
Justin with his new Alva Fishstick,
and his girlfriend, were all standing
on a street corner. Well, to make a
long story short, this huge redneck
jumps out of his truck, bops Justin in
the tace, comes over and asks to
see my skate. Surely I wasn't going
to let him see my pride & joy, so
said "no." Then we had sort of a tug
o-war with it until he got pissed and
hit me and knocked me over. There
went my new black McGil in the
hands of a redneck and I haven't
seen it since even though the infam-
ous Arcata Keystone' cops say they
recovered it the day after this hap-
pened. They claim they need it for
evidence. Bullshit, take a picture of
Well, I'll conclude this by asking
"What's a skater to do?" Help!! Do-
nations accepted.
"Skateless' Scott
Arcata, CA
P.S. Thanx Thrasher for being a
shoulder to cry on
YOUNG PUNKS
Me and my friends skate because
we love to go fast. My friends in-
clude, Alien Chen, Alan Horsager
and Randy Shirkize. We're all twelve
and ride ramps together. But the
only ramp is Nate Mendel's ramp
And they're all sixteen or older and
are pretty radical. But when we go
over there to skate we feel too em-
barrassed to skate because we
suck. So we're thinking about build-
ing a ramp for us young punks until
we get better enough to ride with
them. Please send ramp plans.
Jason Brickey and the Young punks
Richland, WA
Our most popular item on the prod
uct menu. New and Improved ramp
plans are now available (T-ed)
SNOBOARD PAGEANT
I am one of about three girl
skateboarders in my hometown of
Forsyth, I think you should print
more pictures of women skaters.
They can be just as rad as the boys.
I recently went to a anoboard
pageant in Calgary. The boys were
hunks but the sport was gay. They
just wiggled their tails around slalom
poles. If someone were bright they
would build bigger fins
Love,
Gretchen Peabody
Forsyth, Montana
POLICE STORY
I am addressing everyone who
has been pushed around by the
skate police. Don't they have any-
thing better to do than fuck with us
skaters? Here in Sarasota, Fla the
skate scene is growing. There are
skate rats trying! In downtown
Sarasota a nice big 8 story parking
garage was built. Sean D. and I were
about the first to skate it. When it
was done we were skating a rad
game of chase with some other
dudes. I was skating down a ramp
when I noticed the pig. I knew
every exit out! We ran out a back.
exit, and the cop ran up 8 stories. We
were on the street laughing when
some "wally ran out, "Here they are,
those guys were skateboarding."
His third grade mentality. The pig
was sweaty and out of breath from
running up 8 stories. We were sitting
on a bench playing dumb, and he
was yelling so loud nearby windows
were shaking. "You're going to jail,
l call you parents, you are trespas-
sing, this is the taxpayers property.
We said nothing, and laughed under
our breath, and went on skating.
CHICKEN RAMP
Skate Rad
Jeff Zipperer
Sarasota, FL
I live in Livermore and things are
pretty cool here. There are alot of
skaters here but mostly trendy's.
There's a radical ramp horo,, it's a
tall 24 wide and 16' of flat. There's a
couple of empty pools, one at our
school but it's covered but we go in
there anyway and turn the pool
lights on. One night we got arrested
for being in there. The ramp I was
talking about is totally rad it's called
the chicken ramp. My friend Wayne
owns it. He live on a farm and chick-
ens always walk all over the flat bot-
tom. That's why it's called the chick-
en ramp.
Bill McGuiness
Livermore, CA
SERIOUS SKATE SECTOR
Just had to write to let you know.
The scene here in Elyria, Ohio is
way hot and getting wilder every
day. They buried our skate park so,
shine! Our ramp is suffering awe-
some sessions and surrounding
adult types are cool to the happen-
ings. No complaints from this sector.
Hey anybody who is in need of some
cool bros and some hot skating.
contact me soon. We can and will
deliver!
Todd Eding
Elyria, Ohio
RAMPLESS RADNESS
I have a few words for all you skat-
ers that think you're JACK SHIT be-
cause you got these ramps. Well we
don't got any ramps out here but we
can do grinds, railslides, hand-
plants, and foot plants. We don't do
them off ramps we do em on curbs,
off walls, on mini ramps, and stairs.
We might not do them just as rad as
you guys but we sure as hell can do
pretty rad for our terrain
"Rad" Chad Bettor
Simsbury, CT
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