do
Besides the natural high, my board also gives
me a reason to get off my ass and explore the
world in search of new terrain and foreign pain.
I find the pain more often than not. I've also
run across (and run over!) thousands of kooks
in every color, country, shape, and size imagin-
able. I tell them all the same thing. "All of you
Gazelle-wearin', switch flip bailin', fake ass.
wannabe fresh guy, head up your ass, trailer
park rejects can just fade on back to Jerkwater.
Wyoming, with all of your broken dreams and
be thankful that you're not crawling back with
a broken face. You make me sick. -Jesse Driggs
Trogs and dreads (top left) go hand
in hand. At White Rock in Canada,
Mike Bales (above) charges down
the snake run and launches six feet
high and twenty feet long on an
old ironing board. Who is the man
(top right) with the Indy to fake
plan? Backside 180° out of one of
the bowls at Dodge Skatepark in
Ohio (for right) by the Country
Hessian. Driggs (right) tells you to
get out of the way or get the
horns. Beardfungus Billy (left) slops
the cinderblock wall at Bumside.