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Readers' And Riders' Poll: Best Video Part: Jamie Thomas, Misled Youth
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Readers' And Riders' PollBest Video Part: Jamie Thomas, Misled Youthby Joel PattersonAny pro skater worth his weight in salt knows that filming a good video part is infinitely more important to their career than winning a contest. It's not that contests aren't important¿the simple truth of the matter is (whether anyone loves it or not) great video parts make skateboarders into legends. Jamie Thomas has proven his understanding of this concept time and time again. His winning both this year's Readers' and Riders' poll (the only person to win a... Read more...
Best Overall: Heath Kirchart
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Best OverallHeath Kirchartby Dave SwiftThe ability to skate several terrains isn't totally unheard of. In truth, most professional skateboarders are proficient in more than one area of street, vert, mini, pool, or ditch skating. But it's rare to find someone who excels in all aspects of skateboarding. Names that come to mind are Bob Burnquist, Danny Way, and Colin McKay. They've spent the majority of the 90s making things like sixteen-foot-tall vert ramps, rails with dirt landings, and seawall drop-ins look fun. And in the process they've managed to avoid... Read more...
Gasbag
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On This Month's Cover: Nauseating Pressure"This situation is making me nauseous."That's what Jamie Thomas said as he rolled past Tania and me in the tight, concrete courtyard behind the tennis courts of a San Diego high school. He was referring to a situation he'd organized, and it was impossible to ignore the atmosphere's potential to nauseate even someone as experienced with nauseating circumstances as Jamie. He was about to grind the steepest thirteen-stair rail I'd ever seen for the cover of TransWorld, and if that wasn't pressure enough, nearly the... Read more...
Check Out: Dustin Charlton
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Check OutDustin CharltonAge: 23Home: Hampton, VirginiaSponsors: Status, F.K.D., Reaction Griptape, True Mathmatics, Axion (flow), Solid State Skate Shop, WRVDustin Charlton pisses me off! He doesn't take skateboarding seriously at all. Doesn't he realize that smiling all of the time and being nice to every skater he meets isn't cool? I mean, come on. I saw him bounce down seventeen stairs on his head the other day, and he actually got up with a bump on his head and a smile on his face. What's that all about? I tell you,... Read more...
Check Out: Louie Barletta
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Check OutLouie BarlettaAge: 17Home: Tantau Empire, San JoseSponsors: Maple Skateboards, Krux Trucks, Halos Bearings, NC Board Shop, The BMCThe recent demise of the San Fernando Camp Headquarters, not limited to but including Doug's Shack, had for a short time left San Jose and its loyal neighboring cities without a collective power to hold the reigns and lead the city further into greatness through chaos. From the scattered remains, a new power has finally stepped up to take hold of S.J. and is now mercilessly setting the whole damn city on... Read more...
Check Out: Luis Cruz
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Luis CruzHome: Huntington Beach, CaliforniaSponsors: Deca, Matix, Liberty Board Shop, Monkey GripI've known Luis Cruz for about two and a half years. Every day we go skate, he amazes me. I chose to put him on Deca because of his ability to skate anything and his amazing pop and innovation, as well as being my good friend and one of the greatest people you could ever meet. He's definitely going to be one to watch out for in years to follow!¿Daewon Song Read more...
Check Out: Jeremy Owens
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Jeremy OwensAge: 20Home: Anapolis, MassachusettsSponsors: Trust Skateboards, Solid State Skate Shop"I'm glad Jeremy's a talented skater, because he's been skating too long to suck."¿Paul McElroy"The friend of a fool is a fool."¿Andre Stringer"I'm pretty sure Jeremy is one of the funniest people I've ever met, but I'm not sure if I'm laughing with him or at him."¿Josh Stewart Read more...
Bob Burnquist
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Readers' Poll: Best All-Around SkaterRiders' Poll: Best Vert Skaterby Joel PattersonIn May of 1995, a young, almost completely unknown Brazilian vert skater wearing tube socks pulled to his knees showed up at the Slam City Jam contest in Vancouver, Canada and spent the weekend changing the course of vert skating forever. Seventeen-year-old Bob Burnquist and his switch frontside airs, disasters, and 50-50s left those in attendance as confused about what had transpired as they were excited about the future. He had personally nudged vert skating a step closer to the... Read more...
Donny Barley Interview
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"I like his style because it's aggressive, but it's not like rabid-dog aggressive. He's not really like a slash-dog, either. It's hard to explain. I just really like the tricks he chooses to do and the way he does them."¿Geoff RowelyHave you ever tried to look up "good style" in the skateboarding rulebook? Is it a mix of tricks, board control, haircuts, boomboxes, and punk-rock belts? Or is it a constant expression of one's spiritual journey on a rolling wood plank? Who cares! Donny Barley won, he's dope, and we... Read more...
Axion Brigade
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by Pete ThompsonKerry Getz won the Tampa Street Contest. I saw him right after the contest at the hotel just before we packed up the van to go to Ft. Myers, Florida. It was almost 11:00 p.m. It always seems like there's plenty of space in the van when it's empty, but if you've ever been on a road trip, you know that halfway through the packing process, all that extra space disappears pretty quickly and "cramped" is the word. Kareem Campbell, Neal Mims, Matt Milligan, Mike Maldonado, Kevin Taylor,... Read more...
Brian Anderson Interview
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by Dave SwiftBlessed. This year's Street Riders' Poll Winner Brian Anderson could care less about the accolades and praise he has received in the last couple of years. It seems that without much effort, he accomplishes so much. Brian is truly a gifted skateboarder.The baby. The youngest of fourteen. Free to experience. Knowledge of several generations. History.Big guy. When he stands straight up, Brian's well over the six-foot mark. Clap your hands if you like the tall guy.Style and power. Gooder than good. Sweeter than sugar.East or West, it doesn't... Read more...
Where are they now?
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Where Are They Now?Arto SaariBy the time last year's Am Issue hit the stands, Arto was hitting the streets on his new pro model from Flip. The skateboarding world seemed to agree that this extremely talented Finnish kid was a rising force. So once armed with his pro status, Arto invaded the European contest circuit, proving he was legit by capturing first place for best trick at Radlands with a kickflip backside lipslide across and down the flatbar (which was butta smooth, by the way.) Since then he's picked up... Read more...
Volume
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Dilated PeoplesPlatformCapitolI just want you to know I had the most exquisite bowl of Coco Rice Krispies and my homies Dap, Snaggle, and Big Pops (Snap, Crackle, and Pops' half-brothers) urged me to tell you about the new Dilated Peoples album. I do whatever the f¿k my Rice Krispies tell me, so I have to proclaim this album is the most refreshing dose of hip-hop to smack my eardrums in a while. Platform is reminiscent of the once-great Native Tongue family¿creative and witty, not like the wack MCs of today... Read more...
Trick Tips: Hardflips with Rodney Jones
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*A hardflip is when your board turns 180 like frontside pop shove-it, but flips like a kickflip. It might help to think of it as a frontside kickflip shove-it. 1. Compress for some pop and set up your feet like Rodney's.2. It seems like it helps to keep your shoulders square with the board and ollie higher for this trick.3. You pop the board a bit like a frontside pop shove-it, but flip it like a frontside kickflip. This is tricky, but keep trying.4. Now you have to get your... Read more...
Trick Tips: Nollie 180 Heelflips On Banks
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Nollie 180 Heelflips On BanksWith Daniel Castillo*Can you do nollie 180 flips on flat? Okay, proceed to number one.1. Riding up the bank in nollie position can be tricky. Your foot should be on the nose, but your weight should be back just a bit to succesfully roll onto the bank.2. Alright, you made it. Now you're going to get your crouch position going.3. Timing on banks is important¿you want to start popping right before you stop rolling up the transition.4. Start turning your body and pop that nollie heelflip.5.... Read more...
Alex "Train Wreck" Gall
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Tell me about the nickname¿did you really get hit by a train?Yeah, when I was a kid.How did that happen?Playing around on the tracks, jumping off the trestles of this bridge in Carlsbad. We used to just jump off it when we were kids and shit. I was jumping off of it one day, and I waited too long¿we used to wait for the train to go by and jump. The train sucked me back when I jumped. I pretty much just jumped arm-first into the train, it hit my... Read more...
Tangent
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Am SetupWith am fingerboarder Ronnie Creager.I usally ride all the Blind fingerboards because they are the easiest to get. I like the S7 mold the best for the dimensions. It's three and 10/16 inches long, the width is one inch, the nose is 12/16 of an inch long, the tail is 11/16 of an inch long, and the wheelbase is one and 5/8 inches wide. Right now I'm riding Corey Sheppard's prototype fingerboard. It's blank, but I put on a Tensor and Blind sticker along with part of an éS... Read more...
Tampa Am 2000
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by Pete Thompson My flight comes in at 5:42. Okay, how do you get to the park? Is there gonna be time to practice when there's not 200 people on the course? Why don't the people around here have teeth? How do you get to that harbor place? What's sink or swim? I'm too hung over to skate. Who's gonna win? I fell on the easiest trick. Am I gonna be in the article? Where's that brick double-set at? Has anyone switch 360 varial triple-flipped it? My run was way... Read more...
Stephan Janoski
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Tell me who your sponsors are.Venture trucks, and I'm getting boards from Expedition.What happened to Think?It just didn't ... I'd just rather be on Expedition.Are you gonna move down here San Diego or something?No, we just got approved for this house up in Sacramento, so I'm just gonna stay up here, but I want to go down there and skate a lot.How long have you been sponsored?Not even a year¿maybe eight or nine months.Who was your first sponsor?Think.How did that get hooked up?I was at this demo, and my friends... Read more...
Sammy Baptista
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Interview By Slacker ShadHey, remember that interview I did with you?Yeah.The cassette recorder didn't record right, so we've gotta do it again. Are you bummed?Nah. That's cool.A'ight. Ummmm, who do you skate with?Jesse Silvey, Pablo Favella, and Jason Phillips.How did you hook up with your sponsors?I just lived in SB Santa Barbara, so I just knew all the peeps who ran Shorty's and shit.They just saw you skating or something?Yeah, like before it was like even a company we were already on.Do you feel more pressure to skate because you're... Read more...
Robbie McKinley
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Robbie McKinleyHow long have you ridden for Girl?Like a year and a half.How did you hook that up?Rick called me pretty much out of the blue one day and asked me to ride for it Girl. I thought about it for a while. Actually, I was going on tour a couple days later, so I told him I'd let him know when I got back. Finally I got around to talking to him, and I got a couple boards and rode 'em, and we pretty much just worked it like... Read more...
Paul Machnau
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Paul MachnauHow's your leg?My leg is doing good. I hurt it a little when I went down to Long Beach for the trade show February 2000, but I came back up and went through physio physical therapy again, and it's just as strong as it was before. So, I'm back.When you originally got hurt last year on tour in San Jose, what was the damage?A fractured fibula and separated ankle bones. The bones in my ankle separated five millimeters apart, so they had to squish them back together and put... Read more...
Mark Appleyard
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Interview by ShadHey, is Mark over there right now?George Nagai (Shorty's team manager): He's on the turntables right now. He's just learning about it right now. So you can ask him all sorts of DJ questions, and he won't know anything.He wants to be a DJ, though?George Nagai: Nah. He told me this last night, if it doesn't have to with skateboarding he doesn't know much about it. Okay, let me introduce you to this kid ...Mark steps to the mic: Hello?Hey, Is this DJ Appleyard?Laughs What's up?Not much, we... Read more...
Litterbox
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Okay, grab an envelope and send stacks of jacked wisecracks to: 353 Airport Road, Oceanside, California 92054. Oh, you have e-mail? Skatemag@twsnet.com. This month's secret word is "skrilla." You can't win anything for guessing the secret word, nor is it secret.¿Shad HAVE YOU SEEN HIM? What happened to Aaron Snyder? Did he quit Shorty's? Did he change board sponsors? Or does he still remain board-sponserless? I know he's on Billabong, éS, and Streetmachine, but I didn't know if he had a board sponsor.¿Nathaniel Greeson Fayetteville, ArkansasNot wanting to make any... Read more...