BETTER TO DIE ON YOUR FEET
THAN LIVE ON YOUR KNEES
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because a cat lands on its feet
doesn't mean it doesn't hurt the
cat. I see why this jerk is in the
Trash department, because that's
what he is.
Joe LeBlanc
Pine Island, FL
Don't worry, the kitty landed in a
swimming pool. T-ed
BEGINNER'S LUCK
I am writing to tell you that I just
pulled my first 360 kickflip tail
grab-to-front-truck-grind-to-lip
slide-to-feeble on
a sixteen-stair
handrail. I'm one
happy skater.
Fahrfegnügen
Charlotte, NC
And when you
woke up the
sheets were
wet. T-ed
ZEN PAL
Lately my ollie
has gotten quite
a bit higher be-
cause I shaved
my head and
converted to
Buddhism. If you
want to fly like me, I suggest you
do the same thing. Zen rules!
skaters. These people are hurting
the next generation of pros who
are pushing skating and deserve
models. It is the companies' re-
sponsibility to weed out the unde-
served pro models. Just because
a person's graphics still sell years
after retirement is no reason to
keep the board on the market.
This is hurting the new pros who
are unable to receive a model be-
cause of too much competition in
the board market. For you out
Tom Toye, the "Durometer Boy," can
actually gauge the hardness of a
wheel by biting on it. His accuracy
rating is close to ninety percent.
The Dollar Man
Glide, OR
And if you cut off your arms you'll
weigh less and will fly even
higher. T-ed
DREAM WEAVER
I am a student at Fairview High
School in Colorado. We are sup
posed to ask a famous person a
universal question for English
class. I think
the world has
been wonder-
ing for a long
time, what are
dreams? Do
they have a
deeper meaning or are they just
pictures in our minds that enter-
tain us while we sleep?
Brett Hunter
Colorado
Dreams are coded messages
from our robot masters on the
planet Mwgrwme. T-ed
MODEL OF WHINE
As a concerned skater I feel that
there are too many retired or not
up-to-par pro skaters with models
flooding the market. These
skaters are no longer competing
or getting coverage and stopped
progressing with today's pro
there who read
this letter and
know I'm talk-
ing about you,
hopefully you'll
do the noble
thing and leave
the industry
with some pride
and not milk it
for every ducat
you can. It's
time to get a
job in the real
world. I think of
all the hot de-
serving pro
skaters are
being hurt by these pros and their
companies. Keep skating fresh
and exciting.
C.P.R.
California, U.S.A.
If you're that worried about it,
you obviously aren't skating
enough. T-ed
FOOT FAULT
If right foot forward is goofy.
then what is right foot back while
pushing off left-footed?
Matt "Grim"
Arrambide
El Paso, TX
The correct
term is
"mongo
footed," a
form of skate kookness. Learn to
push both ways. T-ed
LEGAL ADVICE
Skateboarding defies the Law of
Diminishing Marginal Utility.
WAL
Boones Mill, VA
Think it don't? T-ed
CREDITABILITY
Photo credit corrections for the
January 1992 issue: The photo of
George Guzman on page 42 was
taken by Chris Ortiz. Our hard
working music photographer Ken
Salerno took the shot of Chris
Michaloski on page 38.
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