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"All Toronto rippers piss skateboarding,
eat skateboarding, and shit skateboarding"
outside, and it really sucks. Thus the skating habits of the inhabitants are akin to "gear down Mark Appleyard, Dan Bochart, Ariel Stagni, Alex Rothbauer, Corey Sheppard,
get fat" for the winter months and "gear up, get busy, and get skinny" in the summer month Dave Lapchuck, Neil Pollack, Rob Poyner, Chris McCallum, Nathan Olokun, or
though in recent years I think global warming has reared its head, as the last few winters Mike McMuck in some magazine or another. If you haven't you must have manure
been quite mild. Even so, it's for brains. Either that or you don't know good skateboarding when you see it.
fairly unbearable, and a visit All Toronto rippers piss skateboarding, eat skateboarding, and shit skateboard-
the city at this time of year coing. They are disgusting creatures. They really stink badly, and if one wants to
be a bad idea. Luckily, howe crash at your house they will no doubt stink up the place. They are desperate in
Toronto does have indoor pa the winter months and will leave the country for warmer climates with nothing
to skate during the win but a couple of Twinkies and some pocket change. But please, bear with them.
and surprisingly, suicide due They are dedicated and they need somewhere to rest their aching bones. And if
winter depression is quite lo they don't stink up your house, they'll skate in the cold and keep the fat off by
Clockwise from top: The taller the rail, the farther you have
to ollie out. Jesse Paez demonstrates. Toronto is short on bust-
free spots, but the Skydome banks are a haven away from the
security guards. Nathan Olokun, long crooks to fakie. Weiss
has a posse. Purty colors. What are you looking at?
hate winter.
Toronto has made its mar
the history of skateboard rid
as it has cultivated many a pro
sional. Names such as Tho
Morgan, Jason Corbett, Ju
Bokma, Tom Boyle, and
Weiss among others are fam
to you all I'm sure. Toronto
harbored many an amateur
You may recall seeing du
such as Andrew Gord
HONK If you know
minn KOTA
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