Trash
SHORT CIRCUIT
FTER A QUICK TOUR OF DUTY ON HABITAT, MARK APPLEYARD
on a steady schedule of painful video production.
In other video news, French Fred can finally stop
calling Ronnie cuz the éS video is wrapped and due to
premiere at press time. Menikmati promises a full-
length Koston part, Arto's first-ever part, and plenty
more from the original creators of sophist-
icated footwear.
Meanwhile, video juggernaut Lee Dupont is hot
the heels of the Zero team who, with restored rider
Erik "Mule" Ellington, are swinging sledges towards
their next flick.
Other videos in progress include Foundation (filmed
in part by Mission Hill's own Wee D), Real (in the able
mitts of Dan Wolfe), and Shorty's (being feverishly
collected by Danny "Minnick to Society" Minnick
and Toan Nguyen).
Channita has kicked off his Reefs and
Always hot with the
ladies, Mike Maldonado
needs dual help cooling
down at the Philly
Baker premiere
MY
stepped into a new pair of Genetic
shoes. In other Reef news, Diego
"The Butcher" Bucchieri and
Aaron Astorga are hard at work
designing Butch's new signature
kicks, due sometime next year.
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Livin' it Large
Li'l Stevie ain't so little any more as he flosses around in
his 14 karat world. And remember, it goes D-G-K.
Encinitas legend Chris Lambert
will be jumping the San Dieguito
double set on Accel wheels from
now on, and Sacto hotshoe Stefan
Janowski will be slashing on
boards from Planet Earth.
Camarillo's Mike Taylor is skating for Santa Cruz, and
Television title-holder Andy Macdonald will be slash-
ing the lip on Grind Kings. Something is wrong here;
Andy knows Bill Clinton.
Deca has ejected both the McBrides, and
Neal Mims is rumored to have jumped ship as
well. Aaron "Hairball" Harrison quit 151,
and Clyde Singleton quit I-Path.
FIGER
Westside fans of his precise switch varial
flips are in mourning, as Gino Iannucci is
rumored to have returned to the East Coast
for an indefinite period.
BOOT HILL
Boulder, Colorado, skaters
are tied up in knots, wait-
ing for the landscaping
to be done at their new
SDG-designed con-
crete park. While
some lament the pass-
ing of the old park,
with its beloved kinked
metal vert ramp, the
new triple and the
absence of a fee and
pad guard have most all
others optimistic that a
new era of fun is unfolding
in the foothills. Thankfully,
the park features neither
SDG's patented six-foot-
volcanos nor the Taco
Bell quarterpipe.
Paul Zuanich, Tony Vitello,
and Fausto were very evident
on national television as they
sat next to the owners of the
New York Mets. The place was
Pac Bell baseball stadium.
The seats were behind the
dugout. And the occasion.
was the National, League
Championship playoffs.
DUH ME
Unfit for print: From Visa's "It's everywhere you want
to be" campaign. Visuals: a satin jacketed skater holds
a disco ball atop a skateboard. Tag line: "It's your life;
how do you want to spend it?" And some people
thought that they would never use skateboarding to
sell credit cards.
Was it Vans' 106 million dollar quarter or was it
something else that inspired Jay Wilson to buy a 30'
sailboat? Jay claims it was "the high cost of dating."
Is this another demonstration of his self-
liquidating marketing?
VERT SUX
Andy Macdonald, Neal Hendrix, and Danny
Gonzalez have started doing teaching demos for all
female audiences. Amazingly enough this experiment
with the sexes was underwritten by Split's Girl
Poser of
the Month
Rob Dyrdek's 81-year-old grandmother
sent him this photo saying, "We always
wondered where you got your skate-
board talents. Now you know."
Skateboarding Learn to Ride program, the first
episode of which occurred at the Mission Valley
YMCA Skate Park in San Diego. You know it must be
socially proper and spiritually safe because J. Grant
Brittain even trusted the boys enough to enroll
his daughter.
Amidst the pigs, goats, rabbits, cows, horses, and
farmers of the LA County Fair, Etnies built the 100,000
square foot gravity zone. The zone featured a street
course, a 48-foot-wide vert ramp, and a BMX course.
The Los Angeles fair drew 1.2 million people last year,
so the Etnies folks got massive bang for their promo-
tional buck. They also held the World Cup
Down for Life
These colors won't run. Rich Jolly of Portland,
OR, celebrates our 20th with permanent ink.
Skateboarding Team Challenge there. Many veteran
observers liked the team approach, finding it a bit less
structured and more relaxed than the standard solo
contest gig. For the record, team one was Matt
Moffett, Billy Manks, Austin Seaholm, and
Christiano Mateus, and they earned $7000. Second
place went to Patrick Carney, Chad Kirkwood, and
Jurgen Horrwath, and they got $4000. Third went to
Jaime Reyes, Rodney Jones, Cnaan Omer, and Jesse
Fritsch, who won $2000. Fourth place was captured by
the team of Mike Santarossa, Fabrizio Santos,
Sasha Steinhorst, and Lincoln Ueda, and they
copped $1000.
Danny Way has been going fishing off his
boat three or four times a
week. His physical rehab is
going well. Occasionally
Danny even takes sports
medicine expert Barry
Zaritsky with him.
What, do
you think
you're
tough?
BLUE IT
The city of Chicago opened its eternally-in-develop-
ment public skatepark right down on 31st Street near
the lake. Opening day of the 20,000 square foot facility
drew an assortment of Windy City riders including vet-
erans like Stevie Dred, Jesse Neuhaus, Nate Lyons, Ted
Barber, Wing Ko, the Push Crew, King James, Daniel
Hernandez, Erik Matthies, Reggae, and Bat Boy. The
debut featured seams in the trannies, rough surfaces,
six armed guards, and city-funded first-aiders on
rollerblades. The kidney, fun box, banks, hips, corners
walls, and ledges will prove to be excessively popular.
All of the Chicago news media showed up as well.
Is Mike Vallely serious about entering all of
the X Games qualifiers and then making a big
protest at the events championship finals?
Steve Olson has been running slalom cones
with Ritchie Carrasco at West LA College.
Maybe he's serious about doing a comeback as
a bank slalom specialist, or perhaps he's just
killing time during the Screen Actor's
Guild strike.
Did Jim Knight and Brando pay Dale Smith
$8000 for a magazine collection that among
other periodicals included every issue
of Thrasher?
SAD DIEGO
The Triple Crown finals came to Oceanside
and they were noteworthy for several reasons.
The best entertainment values were:
The newly skate-friendly PD as they were supportive
and polite. The street course at the Oceanside.
amphitheater sported the everyday anti-skate slider
metal plates that this city has deployed. As in real life
they posed little deterrent to Kerry Getz, Rick
McCrank, Geoff Rowley, Caine Gayle, Tony Trujillo,
Pat Channita, Chris Senn, Carlos De Andrade; and
Chad Fernandez who placed 1-10 respectively.
The Top Gun house still looked movie fresh and was
a natural tourist magnet. Lance Mountain handed out
stop signs and Tum Yeto gave away decks at the other
end of the block.
Genuine drama was injected to the proceedings when
the speculation arose that Triple Crown sponsor Ford
Motor Company had allegedly been blocked from
displaying their vehicles at Huntington Beach,
the finals' previous site. (Apparently Surf City
is an official Chevrolet beach.) Ford was very
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Rip in Peace
Robo, a great skater and friend, passed away
on Thursday, October 26, of a heart attack.
Robo rode for Powerflex in the late '70s, and
skated with the likes of Christian Hosoi, Neil
Blender, John Lucero, Marty Jiminez, and
Omar Hassan; he also built countless ramps in
the US and internationally in the last 20 years,
contributing to the Vans parks in Orange and
Ontario with his company, Robo Ramps. Robo
will definitely be missed, and we wish his fam-
ily and friends the deepest sympathy.
much in evidence at the new venue. They even gave one
to Bob Burnquist for being the overall series winner
for 2000. Bob also scored $25,000 for his series win and
took best vert trick. As for Ford, watch out for a custom
Triple Crown truck model for 2001.
BOWL DUST
On the contest midway, Right Guard was next to
TWS who were next to Rolling Stone. The hubris here
was that Transworld was rumored to have been sold to
Time Warner Inc., the conglomerate publishers of
Time, People, and Sports Illustrated. The United Skate
Front rumbles into the heart of the mainstream.
Speculation had it that Time Warner would raise the ad
rates to squeeze out the smaller advertisers in order that
to make room for more big-paying customers. Ozzie
rented, drained and repainted the legendary Gonzales
pool on the occasion of his birthday. Only a select few
were invited to keep it on the down low, so it's hush-
hush on the guest list. First paint privileges were
awarded to Tony Alva and Ozzie. Was Pete the Ox
somehow involved?
BLAST ME
"The original idea was to show the skateboarder
empowered by his board; when he gets off his
beer board at the end, that's when he's vulnerable."
-Scott Reames, Nike Senior PR Manager
"I thought it over and decided that
,boats were a better deal than
girls. For one thing, boats
eat less."-Jay Wilson