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10 THRASHER
NEEDLE ME
I would like to give a giant "FUCK
YOU" to Sharon Needles and her piece
of shit Wichita Falls Gazette. To every-
body who's not educated enough to
know why skateboarders are the way
we are, and what skateboarding really
is, back the fuck off and shut the hell
up!! What's up with printing that shitty
article in your kick-ass mag. Thrasher?
Thrasher doesn't deserve to be tainted
by such bullshit. And we are our own
role models, we shun the traditional
sports because they suck, and they are
corrupted with assholes-so fuck off.
And in my opinion, skateboarding isn't
a sport. It's an artform. Thrasher, why
did you print such wack shit? Props
worldwide to every man, woman and
child who skateboards!
Gabe "Gwabe" Ortega
Organ, NM
stupid she is. And one more thing.
Rollerbladers suck!!!
Kyle Steed and Kyle Whalum
Nashville, TN
Living in buttfuck nowhere must really
suck. T-ed
SEATTLE SONICS
The following is a public service
announcement from me, my friends.
and the skaters of the Seattle area.
DANNY MINNICK IS A DISGRACE!
When my friends and I were still little
grommets, we came into visual contact
with Element's Fine Artists. It was a
good video. We enjoyed it. We really
enjoyed that one of the better parts in
the video belonged to a young man
from our area. As wheels began to dou-
ible in size and varial kickflips seemed
to go the way of the dinosaur, we saw
less and less of our fellow
Washingtonian. But alas, he would
PS Fuck the X-Games, cops, and Share resurface, this time as the doer of good
en Needles!
NEEDLE YOU
This is in response to "Sidewalk
Surfing Hits The Big Time" in your
October 1998 issue. I loved this issue,
and the interview on Daewon Song
was awesome, but this one article
was a disgrace to your magazine. I
don't know if "Sharon Needles," the
writer of this story, was kidding, but
it's definitely not funny. It is seriously
an offense to TRUE skaters every-
where. For example, when she
described the "ollie": well, first, it
wasn't invented by rollerbladers, and
second of all, you don't kick the
board when you ollie. And wax-
WHAT THE FUCK??? Come on, we
don't use it to stick to our board to
ollie better. It doesn't even make
sense. And another thing, what the
hell is "copey"? I think she is refer-
ring to coping, but that's beside the
point. She said we are mimicking
rollerbladers by grinding the coping.
What a dumb BITCH! I am not even
going to touch on the subject of
"action grind" and "tail grind." I
swear, she must be the dumbest
fuckin' ho in the world when it comes
to skateboarding. When my friend
Kyle Whalum read this article he
almost shit his pants over how fuckin'
deeds. An independent skate video
would bring Danny back into the lime-
light; well, at least for us here in the
Northwest. After a while another video
would appear, but this time it seemed
there was a larger, corporate force
behind Danny's project. This, along
with a photo of Dan in a certain sun-
glasses ad (armed with phat jersey and
dope boombox) prompted us to believe
that maybe our boy had indeed sold
out. Whether Danny's a sellout y not
has to be determined. What has
been determined is Danny's God-like
complex. At the recent "Sound and the
Fury" contest I witnessed spectacle
which I hadn't seen here, so close to my
home, before. The practice runs were
swamped with probably 100 kids all
skating about a dozen or so obstacles.
No joke! It was utter chaos. During
these moments a skater would fall, lose
his board or maybe bump another.
Then, the two would give a pat on the
back or maybe shake hands to signify
their remorse. But not Danny. At one
point we witnessed Danny throw this
kid's board, spit in his face and then
raise his hands in the air for a nearby
filmer friend. All because the young
one had lost control of his board. Later,
when security guard tried to keep
Danny from skating during another per-
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