NO GUESTS
The NSA winds down a frustrating
season at the Skatepark of Houston
with fiery street & vert performances
by the best in the business.
HISTORY OF STREETSTYLE
Modern skating is a flatland bombard-
ment of high-tech footwork. Here's a
compendium of the names and events
that created a monster.
UP FRONT
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From nollie impossibles to blunt slides,
nose tricks are taking skating head-on
into the next millennium.
JUNKYARD RUMBLE
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Ruffians and radicals meet in the
street in Long Beach, California, for a
rumble at the scrapyard with a whole
new set of rules.
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COLD WAR
The 1992 snow season promises to be
a showdown between back-country
bumpers, halfpipe humpers and Euro-
pean swivelnecks.
TALKING ED New Wby
MAIL DROP Whining & Crying a
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SKARFING MATERIAL Centing Gas
RAMP WORLD Who Needs Wood.
STEP BY STEP Tail Slap
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PRODUCT PATROL Wheel Go Round
NOTES Singles Bors
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MODERN SKATE COMIX Big Mama.
TRASH Warped World.
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ON BOARD Gawdatious Glossary
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SOMETHIN' ELSE Pleasant Dreams
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ZOUNDS
Impressions of Nitzer Ebb by Tony
Hawk, inner space travel with the
Meat Puppets, a rowdy Didjits joy ride
and Helmet's theater of pain.
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FEBRUARY
1992
CONTENTS: Randy Calvin clears
two suburban sanitation receptacles
in Newport Beach, California.
Photo: Bryce Kanights.
COVER: Venice local Eric Britton
takes the sensible way down a
flight of stairs. Photo: Block,