Alex Gavin is an alright guy in my book, or on these pages. He’s been skating for twenty-one years. That’s longer than you’ve probably been alive. He’s well traveled, well-respected, and well, Canadian. He’s well known throughout both the Montreal and Vancouver scenes, and isn’t scared to defend the use of gloves in winter street skating. I didn’t really think he particularly deserved the religion interview, but he got it anyway. I could tell we would get along. Read More
Memoirs Of A Team Manager To sell skateboards companies need to pepper their teams with eccentric characters who’s off board antics create the kind of hype that is easily marketed. The dilemma for the team manager is that the same eccentricity that fuels board sales makes the TM’s job all that much more difficult. Below Element’s Ryan Dewitt tells a few stories about the great Terry Kennedy that illustrate once again the job of team manager is not as appealing as it appears. Read More
San Jose's favorite Asian kid Bill Tran, gives us his breakdown of the differences between Asian people. Photos by Dunkle.
Undoubtedly you have seen this long-haired kid on Flip named David Gonzalez. Over the course of 2007 David killed it in coverage. He appeared in every major magazine in the States, and even landed a cover of Thrasher. David seems to be a brightly lit rising star in the world of skateboarding. I could care less about all that shit though, its David’s life in Colombia that interests me. For all you geographically and historically challenged retards, Colombia is a country in South America that has been plagued by the effects of the drug trade, guerrilla insurgencies and paramilitary groups that are locked into a bloody internal armed conflict. How does a young am get so good at skateboarding when you are worried that you will be kidnapped and held for ransom? Read More
Against our own best interests we are publishing this brief synopsis of organizations that rule the world. If you never hear from us again it is because they have tracked us down and killed us. Knowledge is power. Read More
LANCE, THE FIRST TIME YOU WENT TO A STRIP CLUB YOU CAUSED A HUGE SCENE. TELL US WHAT HAPPENED. IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY YOU WERE SCREAMING, “WHAT THE FUCK, IS THIS A CUP NIGHT?” YOU WERE STEALING MONEY FROM THE STRIPPERS, THEN YOU TOPPED IT ALL OFF BY TRYING TO GET ONE OF THE STRIPPERS TO GIVE YOU A HAND JOB? Read more
Pete Gunn and I had been around the central coast in the summer, and built a few quarter pipes around town. The concrete was pretty basic, we just built against some walls in some abandoned lots, but you always had to be looking over your shoulder for cops, trying to squish our fun. Animal Chin cruised by one day to check our progress, and mentioned Cachagua, a place where we could build the most fun trannies we could dream of. Read More
