TRASH
TAMPA MUD SLIDE
The flatlands of Florida were the scene of the Brian Schaefer's bitterman contest. While the
majority of the East Coast rasta army were puffin' weed in their vans, some gnar skating went
down inside the park. Worthy of mention was Kenny Hughes, who tried to ollie to 5-0 to fakie
up to the kink of doom and got served up pretty hard. After the blood was cleaned up, he was
cheered by the crowd. Ryan Wilburn showed his metal and tore hard all weekend. Lance
Mountain made every 540' he tried. The kid that stole Bob Burnquist's deck somehow ended up
in the trunk of a car for over three hours, crying the whole time and swearing he would never do
it again. The highlight of the weekend was the moat race in which little kids tromp through the
swamp for free products. The melee included eating pickled pigs feet and chugging chocolate Yahoo to be crowned the victor-all for five free decks.
It ain't easy being a kid. Later that night in Ybor City there was a face-off between ex-Real teammates Kelly Bird and Keith Hufnagel. Something
to do with shoes or girls. As usual, cooler heads prevailed.
JESUS SAVES
New skateparks in Yuba City and
Ventura are on the minds of skaters all
over California. Yuba is concrete, while
Ventura is all wood. The Ventura opening
day was a mad house as skaters from all
over tried to nail down their lines in
heavy traffic. Seen amongst the trogs,
wogs, and slash dogs were: Danny Way.
Charlie Wilkins, Ed Templeton, Eric
Koston, Rick Howard, Mike Carroll,
Lee Ralph, Karma Tsocheff. Mike
Vallely, Mike Kresky, Ricky Stiles.
Colin McKay (switch nosegrind revert).
Tommy Guerrero, Richard Paez, and
Alan Petersen. The sessions were full
and the staff was more than accommo-
dating. Elsewhere in the Golden State,
other communities in search of skatepark
heaven are Oakland and Berkeley.
OAK LAND
Jim Thiebaud is again moving his
ramp. This time to a spacious indoor
live/work deal with none other than ex-
wrestling partner Kurt Zapata. The rea-
son for leaving had nothing to do with
the fact that Greg Hunt got his bike
ripped off out front (no lock). Elsewhere
in the West Oakland area, Max Schaaf
was seen driving a vintage '50s Chevy
truck courtesy of San Jose fix-it man
Rick (Reeps) Moody.
DREAM TEAM
Remy Stratton is said to be at the
helm of the Nike skate team. Notable
mentions to the said team could include:
Bam Margera, Karma Tsocheff, Mike
Chin, and the unfadable Mark
Gonzales. Will the Gonz and Michael
Jordan really be on the same team?
Puma is making a shoe for Alan
Petersen, while Mike Carroll freed him-
self from the Vans empire and ended up
with teammates Rudy Johnson and
Rick Howard on DC.
TOUR DUTY
On the European continent. Tom
Penny was seen in Lyon, France, spin-
ning big nollie 360°s. While in Spain.
Lance Mountain, Jr was observed
pulling his first frontside invert as a trib-
ute to his father.
SOUL STEALERS
Taking photos is another way to cash
checks, and who better to get paid than
someone that knows what the fuck the
subject is doing? Joining Jaya
Bonderov, Remy
Stratton, and Lance
Mountain are Guy
Mariano and Kareem
ENOUGH SAID
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Pierre shows his wounds
after getting a little too close to
Joe Lopes' pit bull.
Put
Campbell. Here's to real people who
skate, washing out the old photo credit
ego crust that has dominated nothing for
so long.
JUST SUPPOZE
The peripatetic Douglas Nason and
Gregorio Escalante are obsessed with
merging the realms of sidewalk culture
and high culture. Recently, the dyad com-
missioned a group of artists including Ed
"Big Daddy" Roth, Jimmy "C"
Cleveland, and Kevin Ancell to hand
adorn a limited edition run of Joel
Tudor longskates. These unique paint-
ings are fully grindable and decidedly not
aimed at the wall hanger collectible
market. Arbiter of style Doug Nason is
said to be so exacting in his appraisal of
prospective clients' skate knowledge that
he subjects them to a downhill test on
Palms Hill, which is located down the
block from the art emporium. Also
reportedly in the Copro Nason Gallery
game plan is a reissue of the legendary
Vandals model. Punk aficionados may
recall the moral outrage and indignation
caused by the original back in the days
before world-beat-sludge-techno-house-
acid-mixed-corporate-clown anthems.
The twentieth anniversary of the
founding of the Independent truck com-
pany is rapidly approaching. Joey
Tershay claims that a massive Indy
reunion party is in the works.
Blackhart says it should be the party of
the decade.
NO WAVE
The happy ship of Team O'Neill was
reportedly
ordered off the
island of Molokai
by disgruntled
JOEY
BEATDOWN
After years of loafing in team van after team van,
Indy guy Joey Tershay finally got the road tax he
deserved from the DLX crew.
indigenous peoples. Apparently, the perceived
corporate surf exploitation of Captain Jack's
2.5 million dollar luxury cruise catamaran
upset the delicate sensibilities of the native
born. Island localism is on the rise and who is
better suited to lead that revolution than Steve
Rocco, who was last publicly sighted huddling
with Dougo and blala legends David
Nuuhiwa and Kealoaha Lai in Long Beach
building his devil worship trade show booth.
Rumor has it that the fundamentalist Rocco is
employing a number of Hawaiians in a series
of projects designed to promote economic self-
sufficiency as well as to preserve ethnic
integrity and activities. Skaters from the old
Portlock and Comsat Hill eras relate that Steve
has spent more money on his Lanai compound
than old man Dole spent in purchasing the isle
in the first place. With former skate rider and
world surfing champ Freddy Hemmings said
to be running again for the office of Governor.
can a political future for Rocco be far away?
Retrostalgia is easy to spot in the activities
common to the end of the millennium. Valid
historical entities such as Jay Adams and
Greg Weaver are hand crafting odd
POSERS
OF THE
MONTH
Top to Bottom:
Criminal: Devin Gallagher
Crime: Massive Backside Tailslide
Sentence: Eternity
Dude: Stuart Rosh
Call: Atomic Bail Gun
Judgement: Splinters
old/neostyle longer skates for
serious skating. Jimmy
Plummer is a skating deep sea fishing boat
captain in Florida. Aaron Rose is writing a
200-plus page book devoted to the skate arti
and graphics movement. Sandow Birk sur-
vived his skate-themed Battle of San Francisco
show and took his governmental arts grant and
went to South America. Even a perennial sales
contender like Dave "Santa Fibre SMA
Fats" MacIntyre says he's "shipping a cou-
ple of containers of longboard completes to
Europe. With post modern conceptual dictates
being so popular, it is hard to isolate many of
the strange irregularities which abound. But the
occurrence around the Boston area of Animal
Chin worship manages to stand out even in
an era when yuppie lawyers eagerly castrate
themselves in anticipation of hooking up a
ride on the mothership. Axiomatic certainty
demands that the gods regenerate themselves.
periodically. However, the outbreak of portable
BUNK MAIL
And more evil
product design is
in the offing. Well-
founded reports
hint at the purport-
ed new product
coming out of the
vicinity of the
rollerblade
braindraintrust.
Chris Morris is
rumored to be testing shoes
with built-in railslide plates.
Supposedly, these genius
boots "will allow you to slide railings without
bothering to have a skateboard. Just walk
down the street and jump and slide. Please
don't tell anyone, because this is a well-protect-
ed industrial secret. The ugly part of this deal is
that it's true and that certain people actually
think the bypassing of a skate vehicle is a
good progressive thing
ROCKET MAN
Check out Billy Copeland's rocket powered street luge. Capable of 100
mph speeds, it produces 220 pounds of thrust for over 400 feet and the
smoke show will close down the whole road.
And high altitude sources claim that Claus
"Yellow Snowdrift" Novak, the last surviv-
ing initial in the NHS partnership, will soon
announce the release of the
Santa Cruz ski line.
Further signs of the emer-
gence of the rolling socialization
of the globe abound. With the
youth market to total
approximately $75 billion this
year, it is interesting to see
some semblance of reality-ori-
ented design entering the mix.
Ed Templeton. Thomas
Campbell, Mark Gonzales,
and Mic-E Reyes are names
being flung around Europa as
being possible future design-
ers of urban infiltration
watches to be manufactured
by Casio in Japan. Haze and
Stussy also seem to be on
the G Shock tip
LOG CABIN
The Adrenalin franchise
appears exiled from the
house of Think. According to rumor. Greg
Carroll, the Fish, and Keith Dog couldn't
concern themselves about blackmail. "We're all
still friends, we're just not business friends..." as
the old proverb goes.
Paul Schmitt is once again inventing verti-
cal lam boards. Isn't this the fourth time? He's
either way ahead of every-
one else or...?
Steve Keenan is fabled
to have deeded his stake in
Consolidated to Birdo.
Wade Speyer has start-
ed a scientific method,
experimental technique
research farm. The enter-
prising Wade plans to con-
quer world hunger and
build a ramp to benefit the
launch ramp sessions in homage to the mighty youth of the farming com-
Chin are alarming Charlie Wilkins and crew
have ventured well outside the norm by insti-
gating this odd behavioral trend.
munity, "because they have
no access to concrete."
Chris Cook's making
movie miniatures.
Tumbleweed's hanging out in Vallejo making
underwater epics with Sharon Stone, Bev
Morgan and David Ellis. The Hollywood
surf skate connection seems to be all pervasive.
For example, some of the preceding individuals
are talking about making a film about the life of
Greg Noll. Bob Purvey, another clay wheel
veteran, is working on the Dewey Weber
story. And if you think it hasn't hit skating yet,
consider this: Heidi Bivens is said to be close
to inking a production agreement that deals
with the tale of Mark "Gator" Rogowski. He
may be down for life, but he is not forgotten.
Tony Hawk completed the loop for a bat-
tery of cameras, but the egress didn't quite
match up to the access, or something like that.
What can be said about someone who
deposited some of his father Frank's cremat-
ed ashes around a Home Depot building supply
store? Any ramp builder such as the departed
Mr Hawk would surely appreciate such a
Homeric tribute.
IN LINE
"An Indy anniversary reunion would be the
biggest assemblage of losers in the history of
the world. And Novak would have to foot the
bill for the entire affair. It's the perfect deal."
MUNK
-Fausto Vitello
"When I was a kid, my mom had to attach a fire
alarm bell to my alarm clock to wake me up."
-Paul Zuanich
"Simon Woodstock is the second biggest
name is skateboarding. He's right up there
behind Fats MacIntyre."
Seattle earth mover
Mark Hubbard finally
got a 10,000 dollar loan
and is now going to own
the West Seattle bowl
Hubs and girlfriend/
partner Jenny are
expecting a kid in July
who will reportedly be
born in the deep end.
Good luck to all
-Rich Metiver