LONDON CALLING
WORDS BY TRUE 54 PHOTOS BY LUKE OGDEN
92 THRASHER
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HE QUEEN, TEA AND
crumpets, double-decker
buses, red phone booths,
Monty Python, people
talking with funny
Australian accents, and cars on the
wrong side of the road-that's
pretty much all there is to London.
It's just like on TV-jolly old
England. That's exactly what the
skaters of London didn't want us to
say about their fair city; they would
rather we told you about their hospi-
tality and willingness to go out and
get wrecked, or the unseasonably
nice weather we had for 95% of the
time, or their sick parks and street
spots, or maybe even the fact that
there are so many cobblestone
streets and screwed-up surfaces that
we spent more time walking than
skating. Anything but the damn
Queen. Sorry, guys.
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Left to right: This bloke stoked us at
Stockwell skatepark; his name is
Chesson, Dave Chesson, and he has a
license to go big. The Thames, Big Ben,
and the houses of Parliament. Braving
the teeming tourists and pounds of
pigeon shit that crowd Trafalgar
Square, Gustav Edén nollie backside
tailslides this ledge at the base of Lord
Nelson's column.