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SUALLY LOOKED UPON AS INSECT-LIKE PESTS BY THE
general populace, skaters are the roaches of civilization:
infesting urban streets and suburban backyards. Like ter-
mites: undermining and eating away at the city's wood and
cement structures. Insects rule the Earth; they were here long
before the dinosaurs and they'll be here way after our breed
destroys ourselves. So we should have no problem being
viewed as bugs, especially if we flutter a 360° flip with the
grace of a butterfly or leap huge gaps with the strength of
a cricket's legs. They can keep trying to exterminate us,
but every time one skater gets stamped out there are more
eggs lying in wait to continue our pestilence.
Left to right: Spinning like a waterbug caught in the pull of
a bathtub drain, Diego Bucchieri frontside 360°s a street
cut. Chop chop. Marko Jazbinsek grasshoppered up to this
flatbar 50-50. Frank Gerwer pops out of a frontside noseg-
rind from the thorax of this ledge. A nose for a nose.
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