"Only the mediocre are always at their best,
Two dicks
and a
chick
(right)
Remy
Stratton,
Jesika and
Moblow.
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chi
While America is in the depths of the
recession, some of skating's finest have
opted for the imported car fever. Honda
Civics are the models of choice and some
consumer names to add to the list are
Thiebaud, Barrett, Mullen, Dyrdek and
Kaupas. In these penny-pinching times,
the value of the buck will always be
stretched to the limit.
SUMMER DAZE
Visalia Summer Skate Camp, which has
been around the longest and strongest, this
year was blitzed by frothing campers and
money-hungry company men. The kids save
money all year to blow it on purloined, under-
the-table merchandise. Reportedly
Blockhead Dave took home the highest
gross for a company while team Real raked
the most for a team. The prices: $25 for
wood, $30 for slick and 10 bucks for a set of
wheels Stickers are out.
Think is the company to watch. Phil Shao
and Bobby Kuhns are taking care of the
skating while Fish and Greg Carroll take
care of everything
else. Report-
edly, CEO
Keith
READER'S
Cochrane is so into raving that he is thinking
of opening a smart drink bar
Wade Speyer and the Pleasant Hill locals
have taken up skating in the wee hours of
the morning. Sleeping all day and riding all
night keeps the boys at play and the cops at
bay. With skating legal in the town, it saves
the hot-waxed benches for the nine-to-five
the forest with no one around.
does it make any sound?
TRAVELLING WILBURYS
lunchtime crowd. If a tree falls in
Barker Barrett and Brian
Howard of Planet Earth fame did
a stint at the Swedish Skate
led the motley crew of Karma,
Camp. Road vet Salman Agah
Chatman, Petersen and Kelch
on a tour of spots on the Contin-
ent further south.
Meanwhile, Team TV was on
tour of America. Templeton,
Vallely, the Fowler Brothers,
Jahmal Williams and Mike
Caracas all toughed it out for the
long haul and lived to tell. Ed
came home with a hipper "bigger
than Al Losi's."
-Jean Giraudoux
and no bust. Also up that way, Noah Rector
is almost finished with his backyard mini-
spine complex near the center of town.
HAMMERTIME
Mike McGill is hitting hard with an attack
from the back of the pack. Tough guys
Toland, Oscar and Matt Rodriguez are on
the prowl for any and all. Some say that
Brian Ferdinand could be the next to join
this "Brat Pack,"
Black Label is betting the farm on its
newest and greatest. Jason Dill and Jonas
Wray are cutting deep on the am circuit. The
younger Wray reportedly met up with a nine-
teen-year-old girl "fan" who drives him every-
where. Meanwhile his older brother Jeremy
is the Trashmen's pick to click this month, if
he doesn't kill himself skating first. In the past
he has kickflipped both the Gonz and the
double set at the SD Convention Center.
Basic Skateboards of Costa Mesa is
reportedly run out of a garage. Somehow,
Buddy Carr is involved, but how? And is it a
restructuring of the old Tracker team? And
where did Fatty come from?
Lance Mountain's Firm is at the forefront
of advertising by running a five-page ad in
another soy bean-soaked rag.
With the advent of floating pros and hot rid-
ers. Real may indeed pick up the slack and
FISHIN'
FOR
DOGS
Sacramento is a
strange place and it is
no secret they take
their sporting very
seriously. When the
dogs are biting, a
spare board makes
damn good bait.
Corey O'Brien, sometime
skater and full-time Koklieb com-
pany guy, is the touring "projectionist and
audio visualist for Ministry. Somehow CO
got the job through some pals at Sessions in
Chicago. His homeboys at SJSP miss him,
but while the boss is away, the kids will stray.
Seattle has been raging as of late. With the
finding of a weird kidney pool at an aban-
doned campsite, locals Wez. Tom Peha.
Smiley, Ranquet and Mank have all had
their way with her. The thirty-minute ride is
well worth the trek for clean air, rushing river
start an even newer company. Names to add
to this equation may or may not be ex-Blind.
Jordan Richter and oh-so-cool Coco
Santiago.
Jesse Roach is a man. After taking a bell
ringer as big as Texas on a 540 at the
Western Regionals, the young Roach got up,
dropped in and pulled it. His mother gasped
in horror as Jesse regained consciousness,
trudged to the top of the ramp, and pulled
one clean.
SKATER OF THE YEAR
After Henry Sanchez and Mike Ternasky quit fighting over the Skater of the Year trophy, we've got to
give it to someone. You tell us who, and we'll do the rest. Write to: 1992 Skater of the Year, c/o
Thrasher, 1303 Underwood Ave., San Francisco, CA 94124.
Threadmaker to the stars, Slap-E is report-
edly in hiding after boosting the Thrasher
logo. Slasher shirts are rampant in the San
Jose area, but when asked about it he
replied, "I didn't make any money on it." No
word whether or not V has the mafia out to
avenge this travesty..
Thomas Morgan is in love with big old
American cars after his four-week stay at
Woodward Skate Camp. Christian Hosol is
reportedly the "King Of Woodward," so look
for the Big C to burn all surfaces, big time.
Matt Beach, who at last call was still riding
for &, is the hottest commodity in the skate
community. Team Todd has reportedly
cracked the shell and Moblow was seen
making his bid to get the yoke. Says Moblow.
"We make our shorts and boards as strong
as hell. Call me if you need anything."
HOT SHOES
Be on the look out Keith
Hufnagel, Chad Fernan-1
dez, Matt Contreras, and John
Roach. No place is safe from this
righteous crew.
John Cardiel seems to have a cer-
tain SF pro's death-rock roommate
swooning at his every photo-maybe it was
the "God Save Us ad? Or maybe those
masochistic slam sequences. He spent an
end of summer radical sabbatical with the
Gonz in Europe.
BOARD BREAKING NEWS
The four steps at Wahlenberg school in SF
have been made by one person, Mark
Gonzales. The quest for who will be next has
a long list. Nill for Jason Dill, broken ankle
for UK/UE Curtis McCann. Dan Rogers,
Laban and powerhouse Jeremy Wray
reportedly have all gone over the falls.
ALIEN ENCOUNTERS
Does the "E' in EMB have a new meaning?
For the little ravers' favorite snack just ask
Jake Vogel.
Blake Hannan seems to be a beacon by
which Barker Barrett and many other East
Coasters make pilgrimages to seek skate nir-
vana. Not to be mistaken for Kurt Cobain of
Nirvana, Mr. Hannan keeps a low profile,
adding to his mystic presence.
An Alternative Laboratory back east seems
to be a mobile unit with Blaize Blouin, ripper
Rob Craig and dread/chauffeur Dave Tuck.
Jeff Pang and Rick Ibaseta have reached
new heights at Woodward by scaling the infa-
RAW
MEAT
Surfers are pussies,
but every once in a
while they go for
broke. Sharkbait on
the reef in Uluwatu.
mous 300-foot tower.
And what tales they
brought back with
them down to earth.
WORLD NEWS
"Uncle" Steve
Rocco and "Manager
Mike Ternasky
recently held court in
Ohio at a demo by
offering $100 to any
female wishing to go
topless. The 150-plus
demo crowd was then
treated to a pizza ban-
quet. On hand, in no
particular order, were
Chico, Shilo, Sal,
Sheff, Duffy, Colln
and Dae-won. After
the show, Plan B am
Ryan Fabre was driven back to the hotel by
a local lass whom Rocco became so smitten
with that an extra room was purchased..
While in Connecticut. Jim Greco throws the
100-sided dice regularly with Black Label am
hell-child Tim Upson and Tony DaSilva.
who took second in street and ninth in miniat
the NSA Eastern Districts, only to be neglect-
ed by Planet Earth's financial aid program.
PUNCH DRUNK
Bill Danforth has taken to hanging out
with skinheads and threatening young skate
stars à la Duane Peters. Thomas Morgan
and Rob Dyrdek saw him in Florida during
an "encounter."
Scott "Conklin and Bo Turner, the
dynamic duo, had a recent in-store alterca-1
tion about the size of their pants (larger than
the heckler's IQ), which landed Scott in the
clink while Turner exited silently stage left..
EYE SAY
Steve Salz is said to be very close to lock-
ing-up a high-paid position with the notorious
Action Sports Retailer magazine. Apparently.
Saiz would function as a skate interpreter.
In the hard world of art, what could compli-
cate your life more than a 2:00 am call, (your
time), from hysterical parents who have just
noticed that Mr. Kaupas' first name spelled
backwards is Satan?
Is it possible the hottest new spot of the
summer is over fifteen hundred years old?
Guys like Piero Matacena, Nicolo Dinapoli.
Paulo Rosati, Alessandro Trota and Matt
Masini are fabled to be sessioning a perfect
stone/granite bowl located an hour from
Rome. This Italian masterpiece is actually a
remnant of an ancient aqueduct project. They
say the stone is so evenly hewn that grinders
actually produce a resonant ringing
BLOW JOBS
Following the barrage of mainstream media
skate abuse from such extremely pedestrian
biased journals and films as Vogue. The
Village Voice, Esquire, Wayne's World.
Encino Man and the Los Angeles Times, who
could claim surprise when anonymous aspir
ing media types began calling up skate
industrialists and conducting interviews?
Interestingly enough, these clever journos
are reportedly getting intensely detailed,
insights into the lives, times and businessl
tactics of a few of the art's most notorious.
Presumably some of those participating are
being completely duped by the bogus con.
Amidst rumors of a Hackett-designed
clothing line and widespread group abuse of
Ganzer's soon-to-be-sold mountain top pool,
Malibu mavens wonder about Pahl Dixon's
latest creation. This spherical form is air-lubri-
cated and allows for almost friction-free-
carves, rolls and way past vertical drops. For
good measure, Dixon is now building an end-
less wave machine in the desert.
In a perhaps unrelated event former
Sims/Alva type Kirk Putnam was observed
hanging with Boogie inventor Tom Morey.
who was sporting some extremely light, high-
tech body boards. The call for a stand-up,
hard-edged, soft-cored, suave riding vehicle
seems to be a reality, but are they really rid-
ing on Dixon's full-sized air lubricated spher-
ical raceway as well?
In a presumably Unrelated incident,
Frankie Hill, Team Todd, John Dettman
and Jim Knight are said to be frequenting
a naturally-formed granite vertical con-
course in the High Sierras. This majestic
wonder even sports spontaneously occur-
ring tabletop obstacles. The roll-out penal-
ty is a little drastic though, on one side it
drops off about 1200 feet.
Brando was observed backstage with
Ice-T following a recent Body Count gig
amidst rumors that T is looking
for a new singer for the band.
ANTIQUOTES
"You pathetic male groupie.
you don't impress me
SF hill
ace Joey
Metal Mike
Tershay
(left) checks
out his
"He should have armed
himself."
Clint Eastwood
"If vert is out. I'm out with it."
Mike Pendleton
new down-
hill out.
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