Don’t bother counting all those stairs, it’s a shitload. Andrew Gallagher. Front Board.
Photo: Saeed Rahbaran.
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Mike Franklin/the interview
There are two main schools in skateboarding: the tech and the gnar. Most try to achieve a balanced game by learning both sides, but only a select few excel in both. Mike “Owen” Franklin has developed an amazing flick and catch. His tech side is completely overshadowed by his ton of skate confidence and a very high tolerance for fear. With the added skill of being the life (or death) of a party, he’s simply a good guy to have in your corner. I rounded up a bunch of his friends to help with this interview. Please jump right in, this is Franklin’s interview.
Memoirs Of A Team Manager With Jason Rogers of (the late) Arcade Skateboards
As a team manager I’ve gone through my share of horror stories. Especially being the team manager of the late, great arcade skateboards. You may or may not have heard of it, I don’t know how long you’ve been skating. But chances are you know some of the guys that got their start on arcade. This horror story was from a trip to Vancouver for a Slam City Jam gone bad.
New York. It’s a wonderful place full of pretty ladies, flavorful foods, people who call themselves artists, commerce, clutter, pizza, bagels and more culture than a baby satchel overflowing with philosophy students. It’s this city that holds endless handfuls of promise in practically every direction one chooses to take. Over the more recent years, this place known as the Big Apple has changed drastically.
Chocolate City USA, the dirty district, the Nations Capitals, all AKA’s by which the District of Columbia is known. For all purposes D.C. was designed primarily with the Federal Government in mind, but don’t let the political side fool you with the buildings, monuments, protests and scandals. As the mid space in between an abstract Venn Diagram of Maryland and Virginia, D.C. has always maintained a strong and unique culture as part of the infamous “big east” cities, and it is with good reason.
Budget Bus Travel
Recently, I had the poor fortune of traveling across this great country via the most economical option: Greyhound Bus. I know that your rich Mommy and Daddy prefer to fly your unappreciative, spoiled, worthless ass to wherever it is you might want to go. Not this guy. If I have to choose between $50 each way, or $300 each way, the Ulysses Grant note wins (That’s the fifty dollar bill, for the historically retarded). Here’s a short list of tips if you ever need to travel with the salt of the Earth.
321 SHRED
Hello shred boys and shred girls, Jeff King is lucky enough to host the raddest skateboarding show on television, Built To Shred, but it’s not as easy as it looks. By the time you see King’s beard in your living room the show is edited all pretty and he’s having a gay old time building and skating fun stuff.
[Mr. Klopfenstein was too eager to write the “Mistaken Identity” interview to remember that most of us here don’t know anything about snowboarding, including who Kevin Jones is. Therefore, like Chucky, I didn’t get the joke either. Before you write in to this skateboarding magazine, remember that Mr. Klopfenstein’s pro-snowboarding bias doesn’t reflect that of the publisher, editors, or other contributing talents.]
