Trash
SPRING FEVER
On May Day 1993, some of skating's finest
showed up at Fort Miley in San Francisco for a
little barbecue. It wasn't a contest or a jam, it was
just skaters; pro, sponsored and nobodies,
skating for the fun of it. Seen at the old gun-
nery range on this particular sunny Saturday
were, in no particular order: Santiago, Ferdi-
nand, Price, Thiebaud, Guerrero, Barker,
Schaaf, Mandoli, Devera, Phedias, Jamarillo,
Cooksie, Agah, Stranger, Karma, Valdez,
Speyer, Arc, Kelch, Pierre, Vogel, Doyle and
Gibo. The day was capped off by Salman ask-
ing Julien to ride for Real. He accepted.
Jody Morris and Sluggo
were seen on a West Coast
swing that featured stops in
Santa Barbara, Squaw Valley
and San Francisco.
ANSWER SERVICE
Is Larry Balma the owner
of a new Airstream trailer,
while he complains of no
money for the "publication"
industry that he claims to be
a part of? Is he
perhaps will.
ing to pay
the price
for Mark
Gonz
ales
legal fees in a crude attempt
to take control of Blind?
Did not a renegade ATM
cliquester threaten torch-
ing the SD enclave?
Can it be true that Dan
Field messed his spleen up
so bad as a result of a snow-
board impact that he now
favors Seven-Up on the all-
night club circuit?
Is Pat Woodstock's son
Simon's literary agent?
Were Noah Peacock and
Joey Tershay involved in a
collision at 40+ on the steep
slopes of backside Ninth?
Was the Tershman then seen.
sidewalk seizing? Did Noah
crush a car door with the
brunt of his brute force?
Is Mark Gonzales finally
starting the ATM video?
Insiders say the Gonz has
some tricks that can only be
captured on video due to his
masterful technique and
unabashed trickery.
HIGH ROLLER
Is Rocco undermining a
certain bearing manu in
hopes of rolling over all
competition? Did Steve
actually purchase an
automobile for a stray
BLACKHEAD bearing employee?
Longtime City boy Pat Block wore
the shoe, so to speak, at Tony
Guerrero's birthday party at the
San Francisco Rock & Bowl,
82 TA
Have long rumored
animosities between an
ultra-prominent dis
tributor and a pointed
ly impolite manu gotten
so bad that strong arm tac-1
tics are now in-effect? The
gossip flies after physically
capable arbitrators were
seen cruising the distribu-
tors' lair to purportedly offer
damage control in exchange
for services rendered.
BOTTOMS UP
Steve Douglas joins the
ranks of video producers
with his new video mag.
Rick Duccommun, who
left the ranks of skate man-
ufacturers (Skull), to join
the annals of situation com-
edy, is now rumored to be
involved with a new media
skate epic. For those who
know, Duccommun was re-
cently considered for the
David Letterman Show slot,
but was reportedly "too
edgy" for network brass.
The esoterically connect
ed hook-up master, Glen E
Friedman, showed up at the
Brooklyn Bridge
contest where he
rapidly switched
Hot Air
World-renowned
bicycle psycho
Mott Hoffman
launches one into
the stratosphere
after being towed
behind a motorcy
cle at fifty miles
per hour. The ramp
is twenty feet tall,
the stick is thirteen
feet high, and Matt
is about seven feet
higher than all
that, so an even
forty feet from
ground to spokes
is the Trashman's
expert coll
the Ladies Love
entourages from
Cool James mode
to discuss suitable
organic cuisine with
Coco Santiago.
DOUBLE HEADER
First, there was
the mysterious out-
break of surf/skate
style enviro-graffiti
in Ventura, CA, and
then David Hackett
holds a one-man art
show at the Janice
Beggs Art Gallery
in Aspen, goes to Tavarva
Island in Fiji to regroup, and
shows up with Zender and
Jennifer Nicholson, osten-
sively to shop for multi-mil-
lion dollar Rincon Del Mar
oceanfront homes. Now
DH, arguably the father of
politically correct tagging,
has turned to overt envi-
ronmental activism with the
Malibu boardriders. In a pre-
sumably coincidental occur
rence, is not Hackett under
consideration by CBS for an
eco disaster TV tour with the
show 48 Hours?
the rumored plan by one-
time Surfrider Foundation
head David Saltman (also
on the 48 Hours list) to
recycle over 348 million
pounds of movie industry
generated wood trash annu-
Even more interesting is
ally. One of the "Trees For
Life" plans reportedly
involves large inner-city
skateparks constructed of
old movie wood, with oper-
ational costs offset by the
sale and manufacture of
recycled wood products.
Saltman, who frequents the
Topanga Bowl, is said to be
deep in a business plan and
very close to pulling this
off. Meanwhile, Hackett is
organizing a surf meet invi-
tational for charity. Naturally
DH denied all of the above
when he surfaced at Odies'
for a pool session with Eric
Dressen, Tony Alva, Scott
Oster and Christian Hosoi.
Oster, by the way, is now
renowned in Los for his
exploits as a DJ at Club
Saturday Nite Fever. For
the record, Hackett did say
something about giving.
Christian a '58 Chevy for
Christmas, "if he was good
boy." Christ responded by
SIRES
disappearing for a couple of
days on a Focus road tour
with Georgie Morales.
While on a trip across coun-
try to find some summer
work, Brian Ferdinand and
Mark Hendry ran into a
deer, totalled their wheels
and had to take the bus.
GO FIGURE
Tony Hawk: 360 Kickflip
mute.
Frank Hirata rides for
Foundation. Frankie Hill
rides for Consolidated. Sal
Barbier is said to be head-
ing to Plan B clothing.
Mike Ternasky and Dan-
ny Way are forming a snow-
board enterprise tentatively
title Type A.
Steve Alba, who now
claims to be a "theatrical
lighting coordinator," and
Jay Smith, who now claims
to be a "wall covering spe-
Jonez to host a party with
him. Spike soon split town
and was last viewed head-
cialist, were seen session
ing at Hollywood's notoried to San Pedro.
ous Cat and Fiddle. Word is
that they've also been seen
frequenting some large
desert pipes together.
Willy Santos has switched
to Venture.
When last heard from,
documentarian Spike Jonez
was hard at work on The
Breeders' new video with
Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon
and Pixie Kim Deel. Then,
rumor had it, that Italian
fashion magnate Giorgio
Armani had tagged Spike
as one of the "10 hippest
people in LA. The last call
was that Armani wanted
Both Ed Templeton and
Mike Vallely are rumored to
be hooking up with World.
Jeremy Klein is said to be
starting his own clothing line
with Birdhouse. Rob Dyrdek
is moving to Carlsbad to
dwell with Kris Markovich.
Team manager Moblow was
accosted by youths while
filming and had his video
equipment absconded.
John Pryor of San Jose is
hooked up at Blockhead.
Poser
of the month
DEFENDANT ACCUSATION
Chris Hale
SENTENCE
Stand-up 50/50 Dual shinners
Natas Kaupas is now riding
a three-fin designed and
shaped by Scott Anderson
and Skip Engblom. Other
crossover specialists include
Rickey Massey, Joel Tudor
and Mitch Abashire. The
surf/skate synthesis deal is
now so pervasive that Volvo
was said to be hiring the
Fletcher clan in order to
endorse their cars. Imagine
Christian, Nathan, Herbie
and Dibbie as Amerika's
new nuclear family.
DIRTY DEALS
In the hydraulic sphere,
the standing tubular wave
designed by Tom Loch-
tefeld and Carl Ekstrom in
New Braunfels, Texas, has
been hailed as the standard
of the year. Now, the call
amongst designers like
Caton, Engblom, Ander-
son, Tom Morey (originator
of the Boogie), Mickey
Munoz and Ekstrom is
to create high-tech
material, finless stand-
up devices to ride the
endless curl. But while
Skipperboy and Ander-
son's boards look a lot
like sk8s, the other guys
are into replicating short
1947-era hot cure boards.
The point to all of this is
that a fifteen-foot wave is
being constructed in
Norway, so on this con-
stantly moving surface, the
Candace Benting, on
eleven-year-old from
Reading, CA, is the
Trashmen's pick to be
Miss America by 2002.
Dec-lighted
Lady Miss Kier and DJ Dimitri, of
the pop group Dee-Lite, were at
the Brooklyn Bridge to judge the
contest. After filming faces in the
crowd, they posed diligently with
Wade Speyer, Lance Conklin, Mike
Santarossa and Uncle Burly.
guy with the correct cue
can do slides, aerials, loops,
curves and dips in addition
to street board tricks.
ROAD HAZARD
passengers were covered
with toxic mist. Within
days, everyone on the Plan
B trip was stricken with the
flu. It got so bad that they
ended up in Washington DC
just in time for the National
Gay Pride march. Naturally,
skate harassment was at an
all-time high. Rick Howard
set new standards in homo-
phobic avoidance. The mere
sight of so many men kissing
reportedly made him sicker
than the stench of the
bile-encrusted van.
Wing Ko and Erik Mat-
thies have now officially
teamed up together to
form Supertoughshitfit,
a film company of sorts. A
current project is the
much fabled World
Industries vid. Elsewhere,
everyone with a video.
camera labors on their
latest. Mr. T's concept of
a back-to-back wedding/
video premiere elicits a
few amazed comments
from the cognoscenti.
Following a spate of
skate art shows at the
New Museum and Al-
leged Gallery, who could
be surprised when KT
started curating full-time?
His current effort is viewable
at a fashionable Potrero Hill
coffee emporium.
QUOTES OF NOTE
"It's all about respect now."
-Mike Ternasky
And for the tour of the
month story, rolling down
the Garden State Parkway at "Earl Parker, you are a dead
100 miles per hour, Danny
Way leans out the window
and pukes. Unfortunately
for the rest of the crew, the
rear windows of the van-
were open, and all
man."
-Chris Senn
"If you've got the batteries,
I've got the time."
-Isaac Walter