ON BOARD
10 RAD REASONS WHY SKATEBOARDS
ARE BETTER THAN GIRLS
1. Your skate will never leave you.
2. Your skate never says no.
3. Your skate will never complain.
4. Your skate will never change its mind.
5. Your skate doesn't try to change who you are
6. Your skate won't waste your time telling you things
you won't remember,
7. Your skate won't lie to you.
8. Your skate doesn't care what you look like.
9. You can abuse your board and not be arrested,
10. Boards are cheap and fun.
Sam and Dan, Pocatello, ID
CONTEST RESULTS
SUNY Mini Ramp
Skateboard Contest,
July 11, 1998:
Elsenberg's Skatepark,
Kennedale, TX:
Beginner
1. Jimmy Eloshway
2. Paul Pugh
3. Ryan Sculla
4. Matin Tamizifar
5. Chris Johnson
Best Trick
Chilli Upathambhakul
Intermediate-
1. Nathan Legère-
2. Scott Archer
3. Jesse Trotter
4. Thomas Barr
Jeff Stockbridge
Advanced
1. Keir Johnson
2. Brendan Ash
FUN BOX
MOST INNOVATIVE
SKATERS EUER (UERT)
1. Tony Hawk
2. Mike McGill
3. Steve Alba
4. Danny Way
5. Bob Burnquist
Luke Pett
Bass River, N
A farmer and his wife were sitting
on their porch, and the farmer put
his hand on his wife's tit and said,
"Honey, if we can get milk out of
this, I'll get
et rid of the cows." And
then he put his hand on his wife's
pussy and said, "Honey, if we can
get eggs out of here, I'll get rid of
the chickens." And then the
farmer's wife put her hand on her
husband's dick and said, "Honey,
if you can get a hard-on, I'll get
of your brother!"
Wade, Minneapolis, MN
Asbury Park Triple Crown Finals
August 4, 1998
Asbury Park, NJ
Street
1. Willy Santos
22 Donny Barley
3. Alan Petersen
4 Jaya Bonderov
5. Omar
Hassan
6. Tim Brauch
7. Tim O'Connor
3. Chilli Upathambhakul
8. Mark Gonzales
9. Kris Markovich
10: Billy Rohan
4. Jason Kelly
HINK
5. Adam Graham
Vert
1.Tony Hawk
2. Bocky Lasek
3. Darren Menditto.
4. Bob Burnquist
5. Max Schaaf
6. Andy Macdonald
7. Pierre-Luc Gagnon
8. Mike Crum
9: Buster Halterman
10. Tom Boyle
FIRING LINE: PANCHO MOLER
Age: 22
Height: 4'8"
Weight: 120 lbs.
Wheel Size: 53
Turned Pro Date:
7/16/98
Shoe Size: 6
Who's rad? Me
Who's sad? SAD
AWFUL TRUTH
1st board: Nash
Executioner
Fave Pro: Jesse Paez
Biggest gap:
Your mama's teeth.
Highest ollie:
Who's the Champion of
the Night?
Who do you think?
Skateboarders assist in arrest
Police officers praise the youths' efforts
as 'the epitome of community policing'
By John Newland
The Daily elector
A group of downtown skate
boarders chased down an armed
man Friday after he hit one of them
with a pistol and threatened to shoot
him, police said
Matthew William Rockwood, 21.
was arrested on weapon and drug
charges moments after the skate
boarders cornered him at Boli's
Pizzeria on Fifth Street, police Sgt.
Earl Phipps said.
Officers Gary Pastor and Chuck
Savage, members of the downtown
Target II Squad, saw the chase and
had Rockwood in custody before the
call came over the scanner, Phipps
"We stick together and look out
for each other, one of the skate
boarders said when police asked
Rockwood a
y chased Ro
when
why they co
they knew he had a gun.
"It was not a smart thing to do, but
when you're 16 or so, you don't think
you could get shot," Phipps sald.
The altercation started about 6
p.m. when the group was at its usual
hangout, near the Intersection of
Reade and Fifth streets. Rockwood
See CHARGES, A7
LOCAL SKATE-
BOARDERS who
chased down a
gunman Friday
watch as police
question the sus
pect, Matthew W.
ww.
Rockwood. The sus
pect faces weapon
and drug-related
charges.
GREATS
1. Chris Farley
2. Phil Hartman
3, Monty Python
4. Dana Carvey
5. Thrasher
Anonymous
GREATS
1. Gonz
2. Natas
3, Tommy G
4. Gator
5. Jeff Phillips
HC, Hartford, CT
POET'S CORNER
Religion
Skateboarding is my religion,
Thrasher my bible.
T-ed, a smartass disciple,
In my book of revelations.
The posers get no pity.
And skaters hit photograffiti:
From your stories of cartilage toro:
A new and better religion is born.
Mike Guthrie, Hewitt, TX
The Confession of a Blader
I'm a rollerblader,
a real aggressive one.
But I don't blade 'cause it feels good,
or 'cause I think it's fun.
No, all I do is follow trends,
I think that's pretty rad.
But don't like trends like smoking,
cause they upset my dad.
My coordination's not too good,
well, actually, it's bad.
Could barely pop an ollie,
and never do a sad,
See, I used to have a skateboard; but
swapped it for some blades,
Thinking I'd get respect,
and maybe even babes:
But now see that I was wrong..
cause all get is shit.
My friends won't even talk to me,
surprising, isn't it?
I was thinking I'd be cool again;
if
I got another skate;
But I see now that it's useless,
I'm running from my fate.
All the skaters think I've sold out,
and call me "fucking poser."
I'm contemplating suicide,
the end is coming closer.
But I don't have the guts to pull
the trigger of a guo
So I'm asking for a favor,
of you, of everyone.
It
f you see me downtown blading,
with some other
guys,
If you'd take the time to kill us all
it would be really nice.
fohn Hichens, Stockholm, Sweden
CHARGES
Skateboarders
assist in arrest
Continued from A1
walked by and was bumped by
someone riding by on his board,
then words were exchanged, Phipps
"(Rockwood) hit
kids chase him inside and start
pushing him around and yelling
He's got a gun!"
Phipps praised Helmick for sepa
rating the group.
"If (Rockwood) had been in the
right state of mind, he could have
pulled that gun back out and shot
somebody. This
This is the epitome of
community policing" Phipps said.
Rockwood, of 1809 8. Fifth, was
charged with assault with a deadly
weapon, assault by pointing a gun,
hit the guy on the carrying a concealed weapon, pos
head, then put the gun up to the side session with intent to sell and
of his head. Then they started chas deliver marijuana and possession
Ing him down the street," the ser with intent to sell and deliver
geant said. "He ran in here (to Vallum.
Boti's) where a friend of his was At the scene, police seized a green
sitting, and a couple of the skate jacket Rockwood took off after he
boarders chased him in there and ran into Boli's. It contained a large
started pushing him around."
bag of marijuana, several Vallum
tablets and a 38-caliber pistol
Rockwood told police the Jacket
Boli's manager Derek Helmick
then took over, telling the skate
boarders to go outside and telling
Rockwood and his friend to stay
inside.
"I didn't know what was going on
at first," Helmick said. "This guy
comes running inside and these
wasn't his.
"When he first ran in there, he
took of the jacket and told his buddy
to hang onto it," Phipps said. "How's
that for friendship
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