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Place your bets on all midgets with
Tourette's, correctional facility debts,
and graven image statuettes to:
Mail Drop c/o Thrasher
PO Box 884570
San Francisco, CA 94188-4570
I have a few questions about the
life of a professional skateboarder.
For instance, how is it that you
receive your merchandise from
sponsors? I remember reading an
article on an amateur and he said
that a board company was sending
him one or two boards a month. Do
the pros get boards sent to them? I
assume a big guy like Matt
Mumford breaks a lot of boards and
if he were to run out, he could call
his sponsors. Or like Matt Beach,
who lives in Oregon. Can get
hooked up through shops.
that carry his sponsor? Do
clothing sponsors, wheels,
trucks, bearings, and boards
all run under a similar pro-
gram? Also, about what is
the range of a professional
skateboarder's salary, if
they even get salaries? Is
this the same as cinematog-
raphers? Do the skaters get
bonuses for winning competitions?
I saw in The Chocolate Tour that they
put themselves on covers and get
money. Does this really happen?
I'm not trying to go pro or anything;
these were just questions of curios-
ity. I just don't recall ever hearing
answers to them.
Robb Stock
Sweet Home, OR
Most pros make their own equipment
from scratch. T-ed
HOT SEAT
My name is Stephanie and I was
recently at Slam City Jam in
Joe Powers
61% wath
Hutch WSON, KS 67502
Vancouver, Canada. My boyfriend
is obsessed with the flame
Thrasher logo, and when he saw
your banners up, he nearly shit his
pants. He made me sit behind one
of them for three hours while he
tugged at it with his hands
jammed through the little holes in
the restraining gates. He even
tried to make me flash one of the
photographers so they would rip it
off for him (I didn't). Since he
couldn't get the banner off the
gate, it's been on his mind ever
since. For my sanity, is there
any way I can buy one?
Please? I hear about it
every day. Help me!
FOOL TOOL
Steph
via e-mail
Why did you guys put
in a little article of some
dude named Mitch
Frydrich in the SOTY issue
when he isn't even real? I mean,
come on, we all know it was Bob
Burnquist with glasses and a golf
hat on, and all those tricks were set
up. What the hell was that all
about? You guys should've done
what you have done before: give
the runners-up and a sweet picture
of them skating and maybe a little
article to go with it with a nice pull-
out poster in the middle so it could
be hangin' on my wall like 1998
SOTY, the best who ever skated:
Andrew Reynolds. But do what
you wanna do; it doesn't matter
to me. I'm just sayin' that was
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