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TOSS STICKER TOSSES
I have just returned from what I
perceive to be the greatest farce in
skate history, the Mid-West Street-
style contest held in Dayton, Ohio.
This contest was graced with the
presence of such pros as Danforth,
Gonzales, Grosso, Lucero, Kendall,
G.S.D., and the legendary Steve
Olson.
I purposely left out Steve Rocco's
name for one reason: his behavior.
This contest was very difficult to or-
ganize due to the area of the center.
Skate groupies chasing after every
pro for God-knows-what-reason (au-
tographs, etc.) made the floor area a
chaotic mess. And Rocco, with the
pop-star image of himself, con-
ducted sticker tosses every fifteen
minutes throughout the entire after-
noon.
You may say: "So what, sticker
tosses are fun!" Perhaps, but when
you have contestants performing
during these acts of extreme
anarchism, the scenario gets very
hazardous and distracting. Need-
less to say, I didn't see much skating
and that's pretty sad. In the future,
couldn't these tosses be held at the
end of contests? Then, maybe we'll
collect an eyeful of good skating for
the day.
I would like to personally give a
standing ovation to Mr. Steve Olson
for his perseverance throughout the
event. And as for those skate group-
ies: if you have been skating long
enough, Steve Olson is the only ska-
ter you should be honoring. As for
Rocco, being a pop-star to a bunch
of kids puts you in the same league
as Simon LeBon and Madonna.
Truthfully,
Glen Sutcliffe
Columbus, OH
WHATEVER YOU SAY
Yesterday me and some friends
were skating to destroy and this total
granny runs me and my totally kul
board over, and I'm like...sitting
there thinking...this ol' granny is
some old fuzz, but...then I see her
license plate and I'm for once totally
wrong, 'cause her plate says: "U
KUL 2?...and I'm like...this is fer
sure...the most definite unreal thing
that has ever happened to
me... Well, me and the old lady
skate together...and she has a kil-
ler handplant!!!
OH, SORRY
The Ultimate
Greensboro, NC
I am writing about a blatant flaw
in the method which THRASHER re-
fers to us "vertical BMX'ers." BMX
is the symbolic abbreviation for bi-
cycle motocross racing, which has
nothing to do with bikers who shred
terrain common to skaters like
ramps, streets, pools, banks and
pipes. The proper term for our breed
of thrashers is "freestylers," so how
about a little respect, huh guys? By
the way, the name of our freestyle
team is the Plywood Hoods, and we
rather rip ramps. On bikes.
Mark J. Eaton
York, PA
SPORTING CONCERN
I'm writing about the Publicity Pet-
ition letter that Rick Perroset wrote
in the February '86 issue. I'd just like
to say to you Rick that I totally dis-
agree. I don't even like to think of
skating as a sport. It's a way to re-
lease energy, be free with your
friends or by yourself & to just have
FUN! Screw ABC, CBS, NBC,
ESPN, etc. Who gives a shit what
the public thinks, before you know it
Howard Koesel will be covering it
just like football, basketball or any
other sport.
THRASHER, a mag that under-
stands skating, cover the world of
skateboarding. Skaters will be skat-
ers not jocks. Skate for fun or not at
all.
SPORT?...ABORT!
Scott Smiley
Seattle, WA
AAAHHH! Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!
What are these people talking
about?! Who wants skating on Wild
World of Sports? Never! Doesn't any-
one learn from mistakes?
Jesse "No Nickname" Davis
C.H., Virginia
A DIFFICULT SITUATION
Me and some dudes aren't stoked
by the fact that stars like Lester,
Hawk, Ruff, etc. do not come to
either Chapel Hill or Durham. We
got halfpipes here, just no entertain-
ment.
ROUGHING IT
J.T. Lucchesi
Chapel, NC
Last Winter when I found out that
my parents wouldn't spring for a
snowboard I had a vision. I took the
trucks and wheels off my deck and
flew down the slopes with it. All you
have to do is turn the tail around so
it's facing forward and it rips. Don't
worry, it won't even mess up your
deck.
Leo Guerirulan
Rockville, MD
DOUBLE TAKE
Hey, I like the way you put the 2
photos together to look like one on
the Nov. 85 contents page. It took
my friend and I awhile to figure it out,
but we did. What got us wondering
was how the guy got the front end
of one skate attached to the back
end of another and could still ride it.
Then when we decided it was spe-
cial effects we looked for flaws.
There was a difference in the shade
of the street/parking lot/whatever,
and a space difference between the
guy's foot and the skate compared
to how close all the other guys' feet
were to their skates. Also, where the
front of one skate attaches to the
rear of the other there is a guy stand-
ing there with only one leg, or at least
that's all we found. That's how we
figured it out, and if we're wrong then
we'd like to know how he put the two
skates together.
You're right. T-ed.
Jeff Broglin
Mike Earley
Mark Gonzalez
VENTURE
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