ON BOARD
Try This At Home
We're not saying these tricks haven't been done,
we're just giving you something to think about
next time you skate. Maybe one of these will
make your day
Switchstance ollie nose slide regular blunt revert
Nollie 540"
Nollie tail grab varial crail to tail
Nose grind slider switchstance Smith revert
Straight-up ollie to tail revert the hard way
360 rock and roll reverti
Lipslide tails de
No comply fakie
Nose blunt shove switchstance tail blunt fakie
Alley-oop olie nose grind revert
Kickflip blunt heelflip nose slap takle
One-footed ollie nose grind tail slap
FIRING
LINE
Mike Frazier
Birthdate: 6/12/72
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 148 pounds
Shoe size: nine and a half
First good axe!
A Billy Rull Skeleton Glass,
Trackers and two-tone B-52s
Music to skate to?
Metallica
Dream session before you croak?
Tom Boyle and Je Kendall.
What sucks about skating
A lot of things suck right now.
The industry is arguing too much
and they are trying to outlaw it
where I live
What is great about skating?
How fast it is progressing
Who is on the tip?
Two Years Ago In Thrasher
April 1990
Visalian Karma Tsecheff is multiply exposed on the news.
stand in a salute to unknown curb critters everywhere The
ads read like milk boxes; we are seeing the beginning of the
weeding-out process. Lost Johnnies include: Conroy,
Hedges, Sanderson, Nielson, Nuyen, Monahan, Oster, Hart-
sel, Groholski and Pennington. All are featured in full-page
ads. Decks have pointy noses and Santa Cruz wheels are
still mandatory. Four-and-a-half inches is a big nose and
wheels are hovering in the mid-sixties... The 1989 NSA -
nals goes down in St. Pete. Hawk wins street and vert, while
Gonz/Hosoi and Gator/Bod round out the top three respec
tively. Tony's victory in the street was something he wanted for a long time. This is the
pinnacle of Hawk's career. The amateurs do battle in Phoenix Speyer, Carroll and
Rogers are storming up from the rear. Musically speaking, the Buzzcocks are back
together and touring the states. Faith No More spews... Psycho machine maker Mark
Pauline is gearing up to take a flaming bowing ball cannon and thirty tons of mecha-
nized madness on a European demolition tour... Zine Thing makes its way all the way
from the "South Seas Voodoo Ramp," and "Get Rad Dad is an inspiration to all future
dads Hot decks in stores: Vision Gonz; Allen H-Street and the lovable lush himself,
Grosso by SCS. Companies that tried and failed: Cutter Trucks, Iron
Cross, BBC, Maximum Impact, Clawz, and G&S trucks. The sun
was setting but nobody read the writing on the wall. The world had
never heard of Saddam Hussein and the U.S.A. was about to dive
headlong into a nightmare called recession.
Shelley and Tom Boyk
Latest trick:
360 indy
How would you describe
yourself?
I am a pretty quiet person.
What do you see yourself doing
five years from now?
Probably being a fireman.
Favorite spots:
The Hangar and the warehouse
in lampa
Best slam:
I broke my ribs when I first start
ed. I hung on a Mackunna like
Bod did in St. Pete in 89, and
flipped on my head.
Movies:
Rain Man and Cape Fear were
both cool
Early childhood heroes:
The Lone Ranger and Aquaman
Current set up:
Gullwing Pro 3 Mags Pucks
and my new prototype which is
nine inches wide with a seven-
inch nose
Injuries:
Last week I split my chin ice the
fifth time, I have broken my ribs
three times pulled assorted
ligaments and I broke a bone
in my hack,
Advice:
I am not a mentor, but don't
worry about getting sponsored,
just skate.
Future Tricks:
360 melons and mer backside
revers
Car:
Acura Integra
Food:
Pizza and my mom's spaghetti,
Take another look-'s not a fastplant fakie. Mike is regular footed
and this is a one-footed frontside allie tail grab.
76 Тиленик Мисле
LOGIC STICKLER
Chokey and Cutty are two fun lovin'
skate types. They don't work much, so
generally all they do is eat, drink and
skate On Friday night they had a little
too much fun. Now its Saturday, about
two p.m., and they're trying to remem
ber where they ate and what spot they
skated on each weekday. Yes, it's po
thetic, but these guys raged hard and
now they need your help. Listen in on
their conversation...
Cutty: "Wel, I know one thing for sure.
we always skate the Mission the same
day we get burritos."
Chokey: "And we skated the Methuse-
lah curbs two days before we skated
Archie's mini
Cutty: "Yeah, and your girlfriend fed us
two days before we are at Winchells"
Chokey: "You know we can never
skate Mr. Wigan's pool on Friday."
Cutly: "Yeah, but I remember skating it
the day after we ate that moldy pizza."
Chokey: "But, Homeo, we ate at Burg-
er King the day before we skand
Death Ditch
Cutty: "That's right, and we grubbed
your girlfriend's muck the day after the
Burger King skarf session."
Chokey: "Right so that means on
Monday we...
What does it all mean? What exactly
did these two rambling wrecks de
during the week?
First correct answer wins a Thrasher
Hooded Sweatshirt Send solution by
May 1, 1992 to: Thrasher On Board,
PO Box 884570. S.F., CA 94188
ANSWERS TO PREVIOUS PUZZLES
Got It Covered (December 1991 issu
Stacy Peralta May June 02, Tony How
October November 1986.
2) Jet Phips Jan 1085 and March 1987
3) Stove Cable, wight times
4) Volume 1, Number 1. Kevin J. Thatcher.
5) Gen Danzig Sam
6) Trick question the first mag was printed
in 1980 as to be ready for January 1981.
7) February 1990. Bi October 1901
9) Chris Mob
10) Nel Blender, February and March 1985
Winner: Conry Sales of Woodland, CA
Word Shifty (March 1991 issue).
GRAVEYARD, WORKED, HOSPITAL.
BROKEN, MIGRAINE
"MY WORLD IS PAIN
COMING EVENTS
NSA 1992 AM SERIES
June 19-21 Southeast Orlando, FL Southcentral: Dallas, TX
June 27-29 Southwest: Moreno Valley, CA Northcentral: Milwaukee, WI
July 3-5 Northeast Brick, NJ Northwest: Sacramento, CA
July 17-19 Central Springfield, MO
July 24-26 Eastern Winston-Salem, NC
July 31-August 2 Westem: San Jose, CA
August 20-31 Finals: Houston, TX
NSA 1992 PRO SERIES
March 28-29 Jacksonville, FL (Kona Skatepark) Vert and Mini
April 17-18 Honolulu, HI (Blaisdell Arena) Street
May 23 Sacramento, CA (Waterworld USA) Vert
September 4-6 San Francisco, CA (Back to the City IV, SF Fair) Street
September 26-27 Virginia Beach, VA (Neptune Festival) Vert
November 7-8 Magic Mountain, CA Finals
For more information: National Skateboard Association, 7555 Red Bud
Road, Granite Bay, CA 95661 Ph: 916 791-3720 Fax: 916 791-3722
MEPHISTO
PREDICTS
Danny Way
gives skating
and enters med-
ical school
Recce shaves
head, moves to
Frank Hawk
becomes the
grandfather of
twins
The NSA's 'open
wheel policy
allows bicycles
unicycles and
rollerblades into
all future com
petitions
Sid is disco-
ered alive and
working at al
Burger King in
Elkhorn, MI
CDs found to
self-destruct
alter les years
Містоизо
avers found to
kill brain cells
Membership tal-
toos become
mandatory at all
skateparks
A gunman 30
ing as Mickey
Mouse opens
tire on crowd at
Disneyland
Street is out,
fullpipes are
in-flatland at
11 o'clock
Acid rain de-
strays Canadian
lumber crop.
boards cost
MTV is cutlawed
in Indiana and
thousands die in
a bloody civil
war between
teenagers and
their parents
Gabriel Rodriguez
THUNDER
very light, storm series 155s & 160s