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PUBLICITY PETITION
My name is Rick Perroset and I'm
mad as hell! I have been skating for
about 9 years and not once have I
seen skateboarding contest on an
ABC, CBS, NBS, ESPN, etc. sports
program...I personally think that the
people in charge of these sports
channels aren't aware of the viewing
audience they would draw if they ran
a skate contest. Try and tell me of
another sport that doesn't require
you to be in great physical shape or
stand a certain height. Let's face it.
skating is for everyone no matter
what kind of condition you're in. What
I'm leading up to is I would like every
skater who reads this mag or hears
about this letter to send me a post
card. Then once I get enough of
them I am going to use them as a
petition to try and get skating on Net-
work sport channels.
Yours mad,
Rick
10520 Ridegview Ct.
Cupertino, CA 95014
ANIMATING SKATING
I would like to thank Powell
Peralta for the Bones Brigade video
show. After a couple of friends and
I saw it we went out with so much
energy and excitement we were pull-
ing off things like never before, in-
cluding my first really good invert. It
gave us some of the best skate ses-
sions in our lives. Thanx a lot.
Jim, Billy, Jeremy
Portland, OR
DON'T FORGET
Fellow skaters, just the other day
I was shreddin on a friend's half
pipe. It is a rough, rickety ramp but
it satisfies my skate crew. We all
wanted to try acid drops off the side
and I went first. Well that acid drop
turned out to kinda knock me out! I
somehow went end over end and
screwed up. I am not an extremely
good acid dropper, but I've done
them many times before. What I'm
trying to say is ALWAYS wear a hel-
met. I ended up in a local hospital
with a slight case of amnesia. Fortu-
nately it was only temporary. So all
you bad-ass skaters who think hel-
mets are for sissies, why don't you
think again. Some locals were like
that and have learned their lesson.
I sure hope you all (you know who
you are) can learn from other
people's mistakes. My crew did.
Lots O' Rester
Mt. Airy, MD
BACKYARD BOMBER
Do you enjoy hassle-free skating?
Do you detest assholes who continu-
ally try to make it hard on you? I
know that most of you skaters live
for the fact that people make it hard
on you through harassment. My
friends and I also like the fact that
there are people that don't like us.
That is what thrashing is all about.
That's beside the point, what I'm writ-
ing about is pure frustration. About
a year ago my friends and I had a
quarter pipe. One day a few of us
were standing on the platform when
all of a sudden someone yelled, "Oh,
shit, the bomber!" I looked up to see
a white station wagon with no roof
approaching at a very rapid pace. I
didn't bother waiting around to see
what was going to happen. Watching
my friends bail off the platform was
enough for me. We watched as this
white piece of shit demolished our
pride and joy. We can, as thrashers,
deal with police and mothers who
don't like us corrupting their chil-
dren's minds, but it's assholes like
this that we should rise up against.
We never saw the bomber again. Re-
venge never came for us. That, my
friends, is total frustration.
"Buzzer Hamilton
Sacramento, CA
WADING THROUGH
THE TRASH
In my book, cool people have
open minds and accept constructive
criticism where applicable. Today,
my daily ritual of criticizing people I
like falls on you. THRASHER is con-
tributing to the ever-nauseating
bacterial growth of kookship that in-
fects everything worthwhile in life,
especially skating. Every skater
knows, or has at least seen, dozens
of these prokaryotic creatures com-
monly called kooks. They're every-
where and easily recognizable. I feel
THRASHER mildly supports this
type of activity by allowing lame ad-
vertisement to fill some of its pages.
One that really pisses me off is a
blatant plagiarism of my hero Tony
Hawk. THRASHER is supposed to
be a hardcore rag. What is this
bullshit doing in it anyway? Strictly
for the damn birds. Keep America
beautiful; these guys confined to K-
Mart where they belong. Is it illegal
to censor your sponsors or some-
thing? Do you (God forbid) do it for
the money you make off a full color
page ad? THRASHER is an inap-
propriate place for putrid advertise-
ment that breeds kookship and
exploits the real skate scene. I know,
it's the rider not the board, but it
seems that any real skater with more
1.Q. points than toes would forcibly
avoid contributing, in any way, to the
success of manufacturers who don't
give a dead shit about skating. Their
primary concern is to line their poc-
kets with parental X-Mas funds at
the expense of real skating. Skating
doesn't need this but it happens.
THRASHER, especially, should forc
ibly, violently and thrashably avoid
contributing to this. Would you
please keep this shit out of
THRASHER?
G.V.M.
California Whatever
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