Statica
feel the motion
The sonic debut album:
Wisconsin Death Trip
Featuring "Push It," "Bled For Days"
and "I'm With Stupid"
Find out more @www.static-x.com
1999 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
himself that he'll never quit skating as
long as it's a "profitable sport." That
bastard will be skating in his 60s. To all
the little posers: Stop skating and do us
all a favor. I'm sick and tired of little
kids asking if I can do 1080's and 540°
benihanas. I won't quit because this is
a huge portion of my life and will con-
tinue to be until the day I die.
Skateboarding will die again (history
has taught us this). I'm not in this for
who can ollie the highest or who can
do a switch 360° flip. I'm in this for my-
self and the wonderful feeling I get
from grinding a flat bar or a bench, all
the while pissing people off and mak-
ing memories with my close friends.
Fuck ESPN, fuck Gap, fuck all of you
who think I'm an idiot, and fuck you
Thrasher for making a video game. It
just goes to show how easily influ-
enced the "punkest, crustiest, bloodi-
est" magazine is by the power
of money.
Travis Stanley
Roy, WA
Money ruins everything. T-ed
HATE ME
CACO
This is in response to the letter from
one Chris Ellison of Akron, Ohio.
Chris, you pathetic schmuck, who do
you think you're
you're crapping? You quit
skating because you're a pussy, not
because you're "old." That's a weak
excuse. You're twenty-five years old,
you moron! Tell that shit to guys like
Tell that
Salba and Lucero, who passed thirty a
while back and still skate. Take that
crap to Skatopia, where at 28 I was on
the younger end of the spectrum.
Chris, this isn't meant to personally
rip into you; it's meant as, we'll
well say,
constructive criticism. To you and
you and
Salba
every other dork feeling sorry for
themselves because they've cracked
the quarter-century mark: GET BACK
OUT THERE! It's not too late. Why
can't you skate till you're forty?
Why
can't you skate till you're fifty? Sure,
Can't
you'll have to modify how you skate,
but you'll always be able to roll if you
want to. Let this be a lesson: Don't let
something as silly as age stop you from
doing what you really want (and need)
to do. Keep on truckin'.
Old is for volcanoes. T-ed
Meadowlark
Palatine, IL
MAIL DROP
PO Box a
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ME&CO
This magazine is having a bigger in-
fluence on the youth than most people
think. Here's how it all started... I'm
outside looking at the Photograffiti
section, and one of my little ten-year-
old homies walks up. He stops dead in
his tracks and just stares in amaze-
ment at the pictures-his jaw was
open and everything. I must have
looked over the
magazine a hun-
dred times al-
ready, so I let
him borrow it.
Not a big deal,
right? A couple days later he's rolling
down the street with his n new 20-dollar
cheap skateboard. I didn't pay much
attention to it, but one week passed
assed
and now there are three pre-schoolin'
skaters all riding around this once
quiet neighborhood. The only prob-
lem next to the scrapes and cuts they
got was
I was that they sucked, so I at-
tempted to teach them the basics. Now
I'm their favorite teacher. It's cool now
that I'm getting phat babysitting
checks, the kids are getting better, and
instead of playing basketball they're
using the pole as a grind rail. Thanks,
Thrasher, from the ghetto riding kids of
Calumet City.
GJ Schleitwiler
Calumet City, IL
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