In issue # 49 we did a feature called, “So You Want To Be A Team Manager?” it was about the horror stories associated with the difficult job of managing skateboarders. (You can read the original here). Since it has been out we’ve been inundated with outrageous stories from team managers. Shortly after the issue hit the streets I was chatting with artist and idea man Russ Pope and he said, “you ought to turn this into a regular department and call it "Memoirs of a Team Manager”.
ISSUE 63
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CHARLIE THOMAS
You think your job is difficult? Imagine managing a team of skateboarders during a time of a worldwide pandemic. Longtime team manager charlie thomas faces one such horror story below and lives to tell us about it.
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ISSUE 62
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JASON ROGERS
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.
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ISSUE 61
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MIKENDO
Of all the sketchy scenarios a tm is likely to face while managing a team of unruly ams few truly have the potential for disaster as the story Mikendo tells below. It is a good thing his ams are upstanding citizens or the unthinkable could have occurred.
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ISSUE 60
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RYAN DEWITT
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.
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ISSUE 59
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EWAN BOWMAN
The Flip team manager, Ewan Bowman chose to forgo the typical team manager horror story and pay homage to the late great Shane Cross with a story about the good times.
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ISSUE 58
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STEVE HARING
Fresh off a video tour, birdhouse tm steve haring shares with us a typical day in the life of a team manager, which once again shows us that the job of managing skateboarders is a lot like herding cats for a living.
photos: by lance dalgart
words: by steve haring
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ISSUE 57
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DEVILLE NUNES
The team manager is responsible for the actions of his team. If a member of the team causes millions of dollars of damage to a hotel room, ultimately, it’s the team manager’s job to deal with it. Deville nunes tm for powell skateboards once again shows that a drunken am on the loose is a very dangerous thing.
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ISSUE 56
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CHRIS BODIFORD
The tm horror story below, by chris “bama” bodiford, former zero and mystery tm, illustrates once again that young ams and beer don’t mix well.
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ISSUE 55
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MIKE SINCLAIR
Mike Sinclair, fallen footwear team manager, steps up and delivers a great tail of incarceration. This time though, it wasn’t one of his team he was bailing out of jail, it was himself.
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ISSUE 54
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BILL WEISS
Bill Weiss has been a tm for many years so it natural he would have a good team manager horror story for us. The incident below occurred during a filming trip to Australia. It goes to show you that there are sketchy people in even the most civilized parts of the world willing to cause your team harm.
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ISSUE 53
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LANCE CONKLIN
It is quite possible that there will be a moment in your life where you will be forced to rise to the occasion and become a hero. If you find yourself in the position of team manager in charge of a couple of vans full of skateboarders, that moment might come sooner than you think. This issue lance conklin tells a harrowing tale of being in such a situation. Lance was team manager of 88 footwear at the time of the incident.
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ISSUE 52
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DAVE HOANG
Dealing with several hotel rooms full of over zealous young ams is perhaps one of the hardest assignments a team manager will face during their career. Young ams on their first tour will likely have little in the way of self-restraint. It’s just a matter of time before the inevitable mayhem results in a magnificent disaster that the team manager must deal with. In the case below, dave hoang (presently tm at duffs shoes) tells a scary tale of assault and false imprisonment. On one fateful day in tampa, dave almost lost.
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ISSUE 51
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ED DOMINICK
The Job of Team Manager is not a glamorous one as many might believe. Ed Dominick held the post of TM over at Maple during its heyday in the mid nineties. This issue Ed shares a story about managing Marc Johnson and proves once again if you want to be a TM you’ve got to have a lot of patience to wear the TM hat.Read More
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ISSUE 50
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Bob Denike
Last issue we did a feature called, “so you want to be a team manager?” it was about the horror stories associated with the difficult job of managing skateboarders. Since it has been out we’ve been inundated with outrageous stories from team managers. Shortly after the issue hit the streets i was chatting with artist and idea man russ pope and he said, “you ought to turn this into a regular department and call it memoirs of a team manager”. Thanks Russ! Every issue we’ll be giving this page to a tm who wants to share a story. This issue we’ve got a classic jason jesse story as told by bob denike. Bob was tm over at santa cruz during the wild days of 1988-1989.
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