ON BOARD
Best Tricks
FIVE..
1. Jamie Thomas: benihana 6-flat-
8 set everyone else only ollies.
2. Andrew Reynolds: frontside flip
over 14-stair handrail.
3. Tom Penny: switch frontside flip
the Carlsbad gap.
4. Danny Wainwright: 44.5-inch
high ollie.
5. Josh Kasper: 360 flip 14 stairs.
-Kevin Simonson
via e-mail
Top Drunks
1. Jim Greco
2. Ernest Hemingway
3. Geoff Rowley
4. Your mom
5. My dad
-Steve Koetzner
Never Forget?
Spit forth that which you know to www.thrashermagazine.com.
via e-mail
1. Eddie Gomez for Epic Skates
2. Don Lincoln for JFA
3. Graham McEarchran
for Deathbox
4. Christian Seewaldt for Titus
5. Bernie O'Dowd for Toxic
-Jeff Lunz
Waukesha, WI
POET'S CORNER
I get on my board as I cruise down a hill,
Fucked up on many a Ritalin pill.
Crashed and fell and busted my shit,
Got back up and skated the bitch.
Trespassing, rippin' up parking lots,
Pissin' off stupid muthafuckin' dogs.
Old gigolos callin' the cops,
With latex gloves and 69 rubber cocks.
I left the premises, I didn't want to see no more,
I just ended up runnin' into another male whore.
OH SHIT! I just now realized,
I'm on Broadway with no place to hide.
I feel like I'm about to die,
So I continue to skate to get the shit off my mind.
I escape out of Fagland to go back home,
Now I'm all alone with a telephone.
A telephone with a disconnected cord,
So I get back up and on my skateboard.
-David Ogden
Centralia, WA
FIRING LINE
Bill Danforth
What was it like being the only member of
the Alva team without dreads?
Saved a hell of a lotta money on shampoo.
Are you still a member of the Bad Boy Club?
I'm wearing the shorts right now! Hell yeah I am!
Can you name some other great mongo pushers?
I don't know any mongo pushers. I only know people who
push the right way.
Do you personally know any gay skaters from
the '80s?
No! Why would I? I know some questionables.
Can you describe step by step how to do a
crooked grind?
No.
Do you still ride Trackers?
Hell yeah! Damn u-hole pattern.
So, what keeps The Nomad going after all
these years?
The fucking brotherhood of it. The Nomad still keeps going,
keeps skating. They get older and grayer. They keep riding
because it's fun. It's their life and it's my life.
-Andrew Hutchison
Emerica. STOP SKATE STOPPING