PAULO
STEREO
YOUNG KNIGHT OF THE SQUARE TABLE, SIR PAULO DIAZ BOUNDING IN THE STANCE OF SWITCH.
GOOD REAL SHIT
It is known that soon-to-be
Black Label pro Jonas Wray has
landed a spot in a Mountain Dew
commercial? His only two require-
ments besides skating were to be
suave with the ladies and sport a
funny hairdo. Did this leave co-
auditioner and non-job getter
Jason Dill singing the blues?
976-GONZ
Mark Gonzales and his girlfriend
Lauren recently visited Thrasher.
After a tour of the offices, the great
Gonz went off on a ramp of undis-
closed nature. On a borrowed cue,
he did 270° frontside ollie to switch
stance 50/50s and five-foot
frontside boneless ones.
Joey Suriel, Billy Valdez, Steve
Cales, Fabian Alomar and Paulo
Diaz are all the word in the greater
LA Basin. In between stops at
X-Large and assorted schoolyards,
the crew gets the miles done. Paulo
was seen switchstance ollieing
whole picnic tables. Meanwhile
transplanted
English skates-
man Jagger
has now hit the
states and has
found it different
than most think.
Between hang-
ing up on Wade
Speyer's mini
and getting
dumped on city
streets, he gave
the trashmen a basic,
"Up yours, mate!"
Not
Cindy
Hawk.
New Years
went off with a
bang. At Andy.
Strachan's ramp, all
the locals were on fire.
Coco Santiago, Danny
Sargent, Noah Peacock,
Max Schaaf, Droid and
Gluehead all rode into the new
year with a bang.
DIVORCE COURT
After months of waiting, Jordan
Richter reneged his Family deal
with Real and has reportedly
hooked up his new deal with New
Deal via Justin Girard. No word if
Erik Pupecki and Greg Hunt are
in on it as well. Jordan reportedly
The hardest rappers in the bis
(left to right), Francisco,
Ana and Mario.
Julien, Rick I and
assorted EMB locals had a little
trouble at a hip-hop party a while
back. After the Stranger threw the
record collection out the window, a
big melee ansued. Quote Stranger,
"I saw Rick in the air in a full Bruce
Lee kick. After the party, one of the
disgruntled and beat-down victims
reportedly went out, killed two
vagrants and got caught.
was seen at
local spots as-
similating quite
well with little
round eyeglass-
es and head-
phones to boot.
Andy Howell
gave all of the
Underworld
Element riders
Christmas to keep tabs
Sky Pagers for
on his fleet of mean-
dering minstrels.
QUEST SHUNS
Is it true that Peter Hewitt is the
fastest skater alive? Do Reese,
Moffett, Wheze, Wampler and
the rest of the Happyland crew eat
40mm wheels for breakfast?
Has notorious radio/TV king of
schlock media Howard Stern
thrown in with Rocco? First there
was the incident in Hollywood
Ron Bertino says, "Hands off," to girl stealing pals Kris Markovich and Josh Swindell.
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