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GREAT ISSUE, BUTT...
Since 1976, when I first peered
through the pages of Skateboarder
Magazine, my interest in skateboard
ing has never ceased. Skateboarding
is unique, no other sport offers
greater levels of skill, creativity, ver-
sability and fun. Skateboarders
worldwide have made skateboard-
ing change from riding a modified
rollerskate to the art that exists
today. The current moves were not
imagined two years ago. Ole to
fingertip on flatland, 720 airs in
pools and bonedrechts on barks are
just a sample of the intensity of the
sport. These moves are not tricks
but maneuvers, maneuvers that rep-
resent over a thousand hours of
practice and incredible imagination.
The skateboard itself is truly versitile
In its year round run, transportation
and aggressive capabilities.
We all know, skateboarding is
RAD. For some reason it is barely
publicized and often overlooked as
the sport it actually is. In the little
media coverage it receives skate
boarding is often misrepresented as
a simple mindless circus act, instead
of a product of practice and training
that it actually le. THRASHER is one
of the few publications that repre-
sents this truly incredible sport
|to destroy any further copies of your
magazine coming through the mail
to children. In addition, I will Inquire
as to the legality of this type of mag-
azine coming through the mail to
children. I will not sign my name or
include my address as I wish no com-
munication with your organization
A Mother
Long Beach, CA
I would just like to tell you how
much my son enjoys your THRASHER
Magazine and some months I have
to go to several stores to find it. But
some of the issues you print are real
SICK! Was it necessary to print some
guy NAKED on a skateboard??? 1
mean everything was showing. Come
on, men, let's keep the magazine
clean for everyone, don't you know
how many parents and very young
people read your book? It is getting
so parents have to proof read it before
the kids can have it.
A concerned Mom
Virginia Beach, VA
Reading your mag is a trip. I almost
killed my brother because he grabbed
it out of the mail, read it and then
ruined the suprise by telling me
about it...gm. I look forward every
month to reading it. I like how you
showed Pat Borst- Shannon (the
anti Santa Cruz ad people) off by
printing "Butt Shots". What a weird
article.
Jesse
Santa Barbara, CA
STICK IT TO 'EM
My brother reads your magazine
and I think he's OK, but past experi-
ences seem to lean toward most
skateboarders as being sorta fags.
I was at a party and asked one of
them about his board. He started
talking about it and then commented
that he had the best stick around. I
asked how big it was and he calmly
said. "30" by 10.5"." Imagine my sur-
prize!! "I'm usually on it about four
hours a day," he said. "Don't your
hands get sore?" I asked. "No, I use
my feet. I almost died. "Could you
show me your stick?" I said, "Or are
you too tired?" "No." "How come you
don't get tired?" I asked. "Well, I've
been thrashing on it since I was
seven," he said. I was stunned.
He was all set to show me when he
grabbed his skateboard and headed
out to the driveway. You skateboard-
ers are faggot teases.
Shocked/Bored
In the October issue of THRASHER
the article on Butt Shots was the
worst representation of skateboard-
Ing that I have seen to date. The
article does not portray skateboard-
Ing as the sport it actually is. This is
surprising and disappointing to me,
thet even our own top publication is
misrepresenting our sport. Please
take care in editing THRASHER and
let your pride in skateboarding be
seen in every page of every issue.
Doug Zyskowski
Team Rider, Powel, Tracker A SKATER'S DILEMMA
Seattle, WA
I'm writing this letter to express
my disgust and consternation with
the October issue of your maga-
zine for young boys, THRASHER.
Wrongly, I had always assumed that
of course a magazine for 8-15 year
old boys would be appropriate for
them. Your pictures of "butt shots",
clothed and unclothed, is nothing
less than pornographic, considering
the market. This, in addition to the
lack of any complimentary pictures
of girls, sexual terminology referring
to homosexual acts and other sug-
gestive and explicit ploys compel me
St. Paul, MN
One of the telltale signs of a par-
ent's unacceptance of boarding is
their attitude when their son gets
hurt. My dad got very sicked when I
recently sprained my ankle on a ki-
er ramp in Southeast Michigan, but
had been playing football he
would have said, "It's okay son,
you'll be back out there in no time"
What we, as skaters, need to do is
enlighten the ones closest to us
about skating. Let them know how
much an important part of our lives
skating is. It really isn't any different
than any other sporting activity. You
just have to do it safely. You know
you could be doing something a lot
more hazardous, say, bull riding, for
example. Try to get them to accept
skating as a beneficial activity. After
all, it does require a lot of balance,
skill, and energy like many other
sports do. Tell them that you know
what else you could be doing and
that they should be supportive in all
aspects of your life...its just that
you'd rather skate.
Craig Condon
GIRLS JUST WANNA SKATE
We are two 17 yr. old girl skaters
and we have a big problem. We both
have skates and all the skate t-shirts
we could buy with our 50 cent a
week allowance and have 5 pairs of
vans. It's just we have nowhere to
skate. Everytime we go to other
guy's ramps they always try to make
us come in the house and we don't
understand why. We just want to
skate. We are still trying to fakie, but
how are we supposed to loam if we
have all these guys making weird
gestures that we don't understand?
Help us, we will do anything for a
place to skate
We are really not all that bad look
ing, either. We just want to skate.
Thanks,
Mitsy and Tiffy
Temperance, MI
FOUND A FOUNDATION
Hey, I've just found a great new
thing. While over at a construction
site searching for plywood, I noticed
the foundations that had boon layed
for the soon to be houses. With
many curbs, drop-offs and stairs,
along with a very smooth surface,
realized that this was a streetstyling
paradise! So go out and find those
foundations, and remember that al-
most anyplace...is a place to skate!
Worm
Tuscon, AZ
COPS OR CAPES?
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Me and the other skaters from the
neighborhood built a 12' high, 32
long half pipe. While we were having
a session, a bunch of Klanners
pulled up in a pickup and threw a
Molotov cocktail on the ramp. No
one was hurt but the ramp bumt to
the ground. The cops won't do any
thing because half of them are in the
Klan.
Seth "Spudboy" Reynolds
Jupiter, FL
REJECTED
REPRESENTATIVES
On September 17th the CBS news
did a heart-warming spot on skate-
boarding. I don't know if it made the
national media, but if it did, I'm sure
many punks and skatehoads finished
the evening as I did, running for the
bathroom to see dinner again. Im-
agine! Hordes of young All-American
tykes (most of whom still have to look
up puberty in their science text-
books) safely clad in their Instincts
and Vuarnets, riding their $150.00
mint condition boards...on their
stomachal The dickhead reporter
showed how cool he was by using
controversial words like rad and
demonstrating how he too can phys
ically make an ass out of himself
(funny, just like the dickface skate-
boarders present). Some guy's mom
showed up talking about how whole-
some skateboarding is for her kid. All
that's missing is an apple pie.
Save me, save me from dumb
twerps that think a punk is anyone
who spray paints their hair green,
think 'thrash' is what daddy will do to
you when you bring the Gold-carded
board home with a scratch and say
things like, "Oh, man, what a radder
than rad California Strut You ain't
hardcore cuz you spike your hair and
you ain't a skater ouz mommy gots
you a board; either way, you're just a
poseur.
Mike Newirth
festering in Port Washington, NY
CONSUMER REPORTS
There isnt a single place to buy
skate stuff in my town, consequently
I'm forced to mallorder 100% of all
the parts I nood. More often than not,
we get ripped off, or otherwise
screwed up by skate vendors who
keep our money and send us nothing
(or the wrong stuff). Couldn
THRASHER conduct some kind of
secret survey (like Consumer's Guide
or something) and expose the ques-
tionable dealers? We could all stand
to have our hard-earned cash ex-
changed for useful skate bits instead
of being the victims of some shady
skate-capitalists
CHUNK WORK
Robert E. Hall, Jr.
Nederland, CO
I've got a helpful technique for all,
skaters with serious chunk prob-
lems. First you mix up some cheap-
body filler and slop it in your chunks
before it dries. Wait for it to harden a
bit (about 5 minutes) and file it down
pretty even with the deck. Then after
about 20 minutes sand it smooth.
Mike "Reefer Bannister
Santa Rosa, CA
FOX ON BOX IN STOCKS
I was watching the September 16th
airing of ABC's "America" and was
amused to see McLain Stevenson of
M.A.S.H. fame come rolling in on a
moto-board and crash head-on into
the studio audience. Luckily he was
in full Rector gear. It's too bad that
he didn't render himself unconscious
because he got up and declared that
skating was at an all-time high in
popularity and that board manufactur
ers owed their 300% increase in
sales to the movie Back to the
Future". Isn't it nice to know that all
of the equipment companies and all
of us who have been skating for all
these years don't owe anything to our
dodication? Instead we owe EVERY
THING to Michael J. Fox, whose main
obsession in the movie was a truck
instead of putting a ramp in his yard.
I s'pose it doesn't really matter much
anyway what the public thinks, but I
figurod that I would write and say,
GEE, THANX MR. FOX for every-
thing you've done. Why don't you go
back in time and invent urethane 100
years earlier for us?
Chris Melby
Duluth, MN
LE CHOIX MULTIPLE
Darrin of Paris Jocket-
Art Deco Bracelet
Paloma Picasso Ring-O
Rothchild '64 (Chagall).
Sergio Leone
Attaché Case
De Soto Beret
Captain Blood Shades
Lalique Earring
Georgio Armani Jeans-
Sock
-Havona Royale
Le Curvex Watch
French Underground Shirt
Read each question carefully. From the
multiple answers, choose one
Is this captain of skate industry,
A) another failed used car salesman
B) back to rape, pillage and plunder
C) really in the toy business
D) greedy by definition
Why did he return?
A) Failure of real estate market
B) Avarice
C) Guilt
D) Never left
What is his next business venture?
A) Post BMX Fashion
B) Cosmetic Surgery
C) Out-Call Massage
D) Skateboarding
Tomas McCann
Shoes
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