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Send all Macs, tacks and pus-filled
sacs to Thrasher, c/o Mail Drop,
PO Box 884570, SF, CA 94188-4570.
RIPPED RIPPER
One of the skaters in my town
keeps stealing my issues of Thrasher
out of my locker. Should I shoot
him or stab him?
Pissed-Off
Ontonagon, MI
Never kill another skater, we are all
brothers and sisters. T-ed
JERSEY DEVIL
In October of 1992, my friend
and I were skating in front of my
house and a brown Jaguar drove up.
The guy gets out of the car and
calls my friend over. He opens his
trunk and there are about fifteen
boards. Then a lady gets out of the
car and asks if we've heard of the
skater named Ron Knigge. She says
that he is her son and a skater from
New Deal who just got sponsored.
My friend and I were freaking out
and I felt like I must be dreaming.
but I wasn't. Before they left,
they gave us two decks Ron
rode. We were very excited.
Aly Vega
Paterson, NJ
Next time, ask for ID. T-ed
LIVE LONG
Skateboarding is dead.
It has progres-
sed so much
that it is no
longer any fun.
About three or
so years ago,
tricks were done
by how good you
were, not by get-
ting lucky and land-
ing a 360° pressure-
flip or finally catching
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CUTANCISCO
44183-4570
should be contests with "new" and
"old" classes, companies who spon-
sor old school skaters and maga-
zines putting a few old tricks in.
Please, anyone, make skate-
boarding fun again. Skate the way
you want, not how your friends
want. No matter what you do, if
you are good enough at it, you'll get
noticed. And if some call you an old
schooler or a poser, fuck 'em!
BLOW HARD
Mikey Phipps
King, NC
Me and my friends would like to
know if you've ever lit your shoes
on fire and jumped off a roof. Did
you float up like a hot air balloon?
Nope. T-ed
IN DEED
JP Leach
Napa, CA
What do skater guys like in their
girls, butts or brains?
ALIEN NATION
Aaron Bell, Luber, ME
a nollie late 180° flip
because you tried it 125 times and
landed it once.
I have been skating for about
eight years now, and in 1989, 1
would have been considered pro.
Yes, I skate street and all ramps. Yes,
I do "old" tricks. No, I don't have
tight trucks and a sawed-off nose. In
today's wasted skate world, there
Seven
Galaxy Fri, AZ
Their tools. T-ed
SONIC BOOM
People al-
ways seem
to be watch-
ing me when I
skate. When I
try to do a diffi-
cult trick, they
make a loud noise
and mess me up.
Then they start to
laugh at me because
I don't pull it off. I tell
them to shut the hell
up or leave. They are
usually quiet for a little
while and then they
start all over again.
It's really starting to
annoy me. What should I do?
Annoyed
Ironwood, MI
Get headphones. T-ed
VIBE TRIBE
Check this out: It's a regular Sun-
day afternoon at you local curb,
and you're hanging with all your
homies, checking people out, vibing
and putting others down. Then this
Amidst the well-meaning press-agentry of overstated
virtues there occasionally emerges a man worthy of
the words whose ability clearly demonstrates an
immediately recognizable natural talent endowed
with great warmth together with a highly developed
sensitivity and skill/it is our judgement that this
young man is so endowed/Paulo Diaz/Stereo
STEREO