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Check Out: Rodney Jones
|TransWorld Skateboarding
Age: 21Home: Baltimore, MarylandSponsors: Powell, Venture, Etnies, Billabong, Eastern Boarder, Dragon, Bones wheels and bearingsInterview by Preston MaigetterWhat's up with B-more?It's great. I can't wait to go back, there're spots hidden all over the city.I heard someone called you Teen Wolf the other day. Why is that?Some say my neck is a little hairy. I catch people staring at my neck.I know you've skated Landsdowne a lot. Don't you have a lady in that neighborhood?No way, but I heard you jumped on a whole pack of grenades there once.What kind... Read more...
Check Out: Geoff Martin
|TransWorld Skateboarding
Age: 14Home: Las Vegas, NevadaSponsors: B.C. Wake-n-Skate, Osiris rep flow, ArcadeGeoff is one of the most persistent, dedicated kids I know. His talent and love for skateboarding are definitely what make him stand out. At just fourteen years old, he's already developed a style and flow that compare to skaters years older than him.¿Justin Stephens Read more...
Check Out: Adam Louder
|TransWorld Skateboarding
Age: 20Home: Clairmont, CaliforniaSponsors: Maple skateboards, Osiris shoes"How did that damn am do that?" is what usually goes through my mind when I watch Adam skate. He's tall, lanky, and completely goofy, yet when he commits to something on a skateboard, you can bet it's going to be sick.The bottom line is simple: Adam's a cool guy with nothing to fear, unless, of course, his girlfriend comes home drunk.¿Dave Coyne Read more...
Check Out: Scotty Camron
|TransWorld Skateboarding
Age: 19ishHome: Brisbane, AustraliaSponsors: Volcom, EmericaHe comes from the land down under, he's a gladiator with the biggest balls of all, and while our beds are burning and men are working, he wishes he had Jesse's girlfriend. He needs you tonight, his deeds will be done dirt cheap.¿Mel Gibson Read more...
Ruff Ryders¿Ride Or Die
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Atiba Jefferson pontificates on the rigors of rolling up on some footy.by AtibaIt's funny when you think about what it takes to come up on one trick. It might take begging a security guard, or paying one off, or getting a generator and lights so you can skate at night. On the following pages you'll read the tales of Rick McCrank, Ty Evans, Mike York, Robbie McKinley, Tony Fergusson, and me, and what we went through just to come up on a little footage in Vancouver.On our first day it... Read more...
0:38:03
|TransWorld Skateboarding
Three stills and five sequences in under 40 minutes¿it's a new world record!by Ryan GeeEvery time I look through a skate magazine, I wonder how long it took someone to land a trick. I know it doesn't really matter, though, because these days it takes a lot of skill and determination to dish out tricks. Sometimes it can take up to two or three days to roll away from something, but I got the idea to do this little article after seeing Tosh Townend crooked grind a twelve-stair rail, first... Read more...
Volume
|TransWorld Skateboarding
MadonnaMusicWarner Bros.We were listening to the first song when Heath head-butted some guy in retaliation for calling him "Ethan." Heath got blood all over his white shirt, which the chicks really liked, and the head-butt victim apologized. The Notorious B.O.B. then took over the dance floor and had all the girls hanging from his Bobsack. After lighting off a smoke bomb, we all followed some dumb drunk girl to another dumb drunk girl's house. If that girl is reading this right now, I'm the guy who ripped the license plate... Read more...
Up In Steer, Part II: Tum Yeto criddlers sprack and lurm their way across Japan.
|TransWorld Skateboarding
Photography by Jon HumphriesThe following is comprised of excepts from an interview with photographer Jon Humphries after he returned for a ten-day demo tour of Japan with Jamie Thomas, Ethan Fowler, Brad Staba, Adrian Lopez, Elissa Steamer, Sen Ozawa and Taro Hirano from Wheel magazine, and miscellaneous others required to get five pro skaters from one island to another.¿J.P.I got on this Japan tour because I went on a three-and-a-half-week Tum Yeto tour across Canada, and I guess those guys weren't sick of me yet, so they invited me to... Read more...
Trick Tips: Backside 180 kickflips with Jake Stewart
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1. Take your shirt off.2. The key to doing this trick is squaring up your shoulders and turning backside when you start your ollie.3. You want your kickflip to start turning backside a little bit¿if you already started turning your shoulders this should be easy.4. Suck up your feet for the catch.5. To roll away from backside 180 flips, you really have to catch them and turn them the rest of the way.6. Since you can't really see where you're going, it helps to look down at the ground and... Read more...
Lights, Camera ... Skateboarding: Notes from the Tony Hawk tour.
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Lights, Camera ... SkateboardingNotes from the Tony Hawk tour.Being the nice corporate robots they are, ESPN procured a super-plush bus, a camera crew, and an expense account in order to take Tony Hawk and a revolving cast around the country to skate demos, play video games, jump out of sixth-floor hotel windows, and eat thousand-dollar dinners. The following are excerpts from Tony's travel journal on clubtonyhawk.com.¿J.P.June 18, 2000Mission ValleyWe boarded the bus for our five-minute drive to the park. As we approached, the crowd looked pretty thin. We had to... Read more...
Tangent
|TransWorld Skateboarding
East Coast Car UpdateBamBam's Audi A4 is dropped an inch, has two twelve-inch JL sub woofers, an Xtant amp, and is equipped with the rims that used to be on his S4. Bam's Audi S4 is rollin' eighteen-inch Ottenger rims, H&R springs, Bose speakers, and a 700-dollar computer chip to give it that much needed 70-horsepower boost. Ryan GeeRyan's livin' large in a 2001 millennium-silver Limited Edition Four Runner with a Kenwood pop-out touch-screen TV and DVD player. The PlayStation is scheduled to be installed next week, so get ready... Read more...
Summer Tour: The Status team spends two months on the road in America.
|TransWorld Skateboarding
Photography and text by Matt MecaroDemos, long drives, team vans, laundromats, dirty hotel rooms. Smells like summer tour. I just spent the months of June and July driving more than 15,000 miles across the United States on the Status Skateboards Summer Tour. Along for the ride were Jim Bates, Dustin Charlton, Nick Gies, Rod James, Ross Norman, Mike Rosa, and a few friends we met along the way. We saw plenty of amazing landscapes, met some interesting people, and just barely managed to stay out of jail.Jim BatesDuring a shop... Read more...
Starting Point: Smith Grinds With Justin Strubing
|TransWorld Skateboarding
1. If you learn frontside five-0 grinds first, this trick will be way easier.2. Start your ollie.3. Concentrate on getting your back truck on the object and flattening out your board.4. Now you're going to put your weight back a little bit and point your nose down.5. Keep pressure on your back truck to keep the board locked in.6. Now you're going to start a little ollie to pop out.7. If you want bonus style points, you can pop a big ollie out like Justin here.8. Spot the landing.9. Roll... Read more...
Seven Honkies And A Random Black Man
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by Brian Wenning and script-doctor Super Tim O'ConnorWe all met up in Philly to go on this tour thing, except for Larry Kubiyak and Richard Pryor. Anyway, on our way out, I looked out the window only to see a big-ass session going on at Love Park. I felt as if I was missing something and that maybe I should have stayed and skated Love. On tour, people usually get sick of each other's existence, so in an attempt to stop this feeling (or at least slow it down), I... Read more...
Seattle Sausages
|TransWorld Skateboarding
Let me first start off by saying that road trips don't always go the way you plan them. You, the kids at home, might think you just get pro skaters in a van, hit city to city, spot to spot, and all the skaters will rip like a pair of old crusty underwear. You always think they'll land their cutting-edge tricks first try and get wet over every single spot they go to. You must be really gullible if you think that. I could probably sell you a solar-powered flashlight... Read more...
Good Stuff: Rob Pluhowski
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Mr. Robert Pluhowski is not an avid drinker, but when he does decide to tip back the devil's juice, I fear for his life. He always winds up outrageously bent, and when it comes time for him to settle down for the night, he sets up camp in the shower. He is instantly comatose with the water running full-blast into his breathing apparatuses. More than once I've had to break down the bathroom door only to find him sleeping in a full tub, using a bar of soap as a... Read more...
Olsen Brainfloss
|TransWorld Skateboarding
Ever since I was a little kid, I've been into making stuff. Whether it was drawings, forts, or little jump ramps, I've always loved it. The two things that have consumed my constructive drive in the past 23 years have been art and skateboarding. Without skateboarding, I wouldn't have the motivation to make stuff. Many people I have met in skateboarding have inspired me with their creativity. If I didn't have friends like John Old, Marc Johnson, Joe Brook, Lance Mountain, Jerry Hsu, Dave Metty, and Ray Barbee, I wouldn't... Read more...
Northern Exposure: Canadians tour Canada ... cheaply.
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by Scott PommierAs a by-product of the free-market economy that holds our planet in its firm grip, media, information, and products are distributed, sold, and consumed at an unprecedented rate. Skateboard products, along with the associated videos and magazines, hit the shelves at roughly the same time in the rest of the world as they do in sunny California, so it shouldn't come as any great surprise that there are great skateboarders all over the globe.The following article chronicles a week in the lives of some of the new faces... Read more...
Litterbox
|TransWorld Skateboarding
Lately we've been getting a lot of letters from pissed-off soccer moms threatening to run us over with their SUVs. Something about unsportsman-like letter conduct blah blah blah ... blah. So this month we decided to let the readers of TransWorld SKATEboarding pick and answer the letters. A big thanks goes out to Jared, Alex, Iain, and Chris for helping us out (just be sure to look out for those SUVs, fellas). Send stuff to TransWorld SKATEboarding, 353 Airport Road, Oceanside, California 92054. Or just e-mail us at skatemag@twsnet.com.¿Shad DEAR... Read more...
Last Words: Lance Mountain
|TransWorld Skateboarding
Last time you envied someone:I think I envy Cab.Last movie you saw:Jason Lee's movie.Last CD you bought:I bought this CD by a band I collect. It was about eight dollars. I was happy. I put it in my CD player and the songs sounded weird. I looked at the cover closely and found it to be a tribute to the band. I'm the worst music buyer.Last time you skated with your son:The other day.Last song you listened to:Jimmy Pursey "Lucky Man."Last time you woke up not knowing where you were:Where... Read more...
The Death Of The Pro Spotlight?
|TransWorld Skateboarding
Pro Spotlights are the product of lengthy, hard-fought battles against the weather, the police, the ridiculously jam-packed schedule of skate-contest organizers, and, of course, gravity. Because they require thought, patience, consistency, and personality, they aren't meant for every pro with his or her name on a board. But when a Spotlight's done correctly and the skater has bled and sacrificed for enough months, the product is often personal and permanent.To put it in the words of TransWorld photographer Skin Phillips, "Your Pro Spotlight can pretty much make or break you."... Read more...
Da Aftermath
|TransWorld Skateboarding
Question: What do you get when you put twenty skaters, three DJs, three hip-hop groups, five filmers, and a crew of ramp techs from hell on a 47-passenger bus? A. Total chaos.B. A bus driver in the mental ward.C. The Aftermath Tour.That's right, this summer the Osiris team dealt with the aftermath of the Storm's success and decided to bring "the direct influence" to the masses. The cities that were covered with nuclear Storm fallout were New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Kansas City, Denver, Salt Lake City, Seattle, San Francisco, and... Read more...
Check Out: Justin Roy
|TransWorld Skateboarding
Age: 19Home: Lafayette, Louisiana (now San Diego)Sponsors: Foundation, Pig Wheels, Emerica, Hanger 18 Skate ShopSpeak softly and carry a big stick is a phrase that comes to mind when I here the name Justin Roy. At first sight he's your typical dirty hessian¿long hair, ripped jeans, cut-up T-shirts, Camel Lights ... the whole nine. Then you see him on his skateboard, and a few other words come about¿determination, dedication, and fun. With that combination and only four years under his belt, San Diego's newest addition has a future paved in... Read more...
Check Out: Josh Falk
|TransWorld Skateboarding
Age: 23Home: Portland, OregonSponsors: One Fifty One, Independent, Vans, Cal's PharmacyI've witnessed some amazing skateboarding over the last several years, and this guy Josh Falk definitely sticks in my memory banks. From my standpoint as a photographer, all I have to say is "four photos in two hours!" That doesn't happen in Portland, Oregon. The last photo was a kinked double-set rail he had never seen before the day we shot it.¿Jon Humphries Read more...