Thrasher twenty five years.This photo feature is a 25-year encapsulation (1) In object technology, the creation of self-contained modules that contain both the data and the processing. See object-oriented programming. (2) The transmission of one network protocol within another. of raw, rip dog thrashing. The spots, the people, the tricks all come and go. Here's a quick blast of gnar. Get ready for the Skate and Destroy book, it's going to be a real barn burner "Barn Burner" is an episode of the American sitcom My Name Is Earl. Synopsis When Joy’s kids are denied enrollment into the camp for troubled youth at the Right Choice Ranch, Earl realizes his reputation for burning down the Ranch’s barn when he was a . --Jake Phelps 2005 1981 The get-rich Fat Cats built 'em by the truckload ... skateparks, that is. Mike McGill Mike McGill is an American skateboarder. He is best known for inventing of the McTwist, an inverted 540 degree mute grabbed aerial which he first performed on a wooden half-pipe in Sweden in 1984 and then at the Del Mar Skate Ranch in a concrete bowl when he returned to the US. fakie Fakie is, in skateboarding, a synonym for riding backwards on a skateboard. When used in conjunction with a trick name, like "fakie ollie", it means that the trick was performed while with your normal back foot as the front foot on the nose of the board, rather than the back of the ollies while the bulldozer looms, just before the darkness [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Steve Rocco Steve Rocco is an American politician, elected board member of the Orange Unified School District in Orange, California, a perennial candidate for public offices and a former public access television personality. really wanted to be a vert skater. Underground freestyle, hidden shame [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Brad Bowman was stylish and good. Backside ollie somewhere in time [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Boards were tanks, and the gear it took to ride them stunk stunk v. A past tense and the past participle of stink. stunk Verb a past of stink stunk stink to High Heaven. Bob Serafin nosegrabs a classic Salba bevel bevel, n the inclination that one surface makes with another when not at right angles; in cavity preparation, a cut that produces an angle of more than 90° with a cavity wall. at Marina [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1982 The end of Lakewood meant contest. Classically trained park wizard Lance Mountain Robert Lance Mountain (born June 13, 1964) was one of the more popular skateboarders throughout much of the 1980s, and one of the five most legendary members of the Bones Brigade, as featured in the 1987 classic The Search For Animal Chin (Bones Brigade Video Three). grabs a frontal in the clam [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A Beautiful frontside air performed by Neil Blender at Pomona pipe and pool [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Micro-midge Chris Miller grinds the fullpipe on his home turf--Upland [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Broken bones, broken windows, broken hearts. This one's black [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Skate gangs rule the wasteland. No helmets, no rules, no worries [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1983 Simulated vert: Cab goes off on rise Thrasher thrasher: see mimic thrush. thrasher Any of 17 species (family Mimidae) of New World songbirds that have a downcurved bill and are noted for noisily foraging on the ground in dense thickets and for loud, varied songs. Summer Tour 1983 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Monty Nolder gay twists the channel on a cold day in St Pete, Florida [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Don Vitello, Promotions lead to profits [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1984 Jeff Phillips, Clown ramp in Dallas--check the alley-oop lien on his way to first place and 300 bucks [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Christian Hosoi gets Elvis while cruising through a whopper Whopper - WarGames of an Indy at the 'Mar [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Mister Mark Gonzales mocks vert in the 619, San Diego [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The urban wasteland--where else is it fun to get dirty and break shit? Natas, car Bertleman [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1985 Mark Rogowski was the definition of the word ripper Software that extracts raw audio data from a music CD. See ripping and MP3. . This slob fastplant at Del Mar came on the 26th wall of his line. Prison must suck [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Humid and sticky, Holmes lays back in the islands [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Tommy Guerrero fence-plant Andrechts at a schoolyard in the middle of the Pacific [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This air should've been aborted, but Orb and Oakland Tech hook up and have the baby [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Forget tranny. Natas runs and jumps up on them walls [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] John Grigley follows the Gonz in Sacto; 110-degrees in the shade [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Down for Steadham [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "I'm so confused;" McCauley Hawklin [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dogtown attitude still alive, 10-years down the line. Scott Oster slays a curb and lets you know [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1986 Edgers mean the difference between light and darkness, Dave Hackett, running towards the end of the tunnel [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Hey, move that jump ramp over there ... No there ... wait, I got it over there ..." Gonz, either a wash or history; you choose [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Rodney Mullen always knew where the juice was [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Lester is a descendent of the House of Kasai, which basically means "In the code of the Samurai, there is only dishonor To refuse to accept or pay a draft or to pay a promissory note when duly presented. An instrument is dishonored when a necessary or optional presentment is made and due acceptance or payment is refused, or cannot be obtained within the prescribed time, or in case of bank collections, at the flatbottom flat·bot·tom or flat·bot·tomed adj. Having a flat bottom: a flatbottom boat; a flatbottomed skillet. Adj. 1. ." Launched or what? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1987 Straight up and down, Mike Vallely gets busy before you little queers started waxing this shit [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1988 Frozen in time, for all eternity, Hosoi totally mastered the stuntwood, Lien Judo in OZ [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Things get Cramped and spooky while Rodney flosses the prody [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Told he was disposable, Jason Jessee learned to play the violin. What a sad song it is [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Check the date: 1988. Everything has been done before. Mark G [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1989 Taking a page from the Book of Hosoi, Natas wallies out with some sort of Spandex regalia underneath [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Wave pool in Arizona hosted a street and vert event [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Vert was dying, street was coming. Danny Way changed 'em both. Ollie fakie, pro debut [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] No band inspired more carnage than Suicidal [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Early Portland/SF migrant Danny Sargent relearns the hills of his roots by snapping over a hydrant [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Part of the SF Bay Bridge collapsed during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake The Loma Prieta earthquake was a major earthquake that struck the San Francisco Bay Area of California on October 17, 1989 at 5:04 p.m. The earthquake lasted approximately 15 seconds and measured 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale (surface-wave magnitude 7.1). . It took six months to rebuild. Jim Thiebaud lipslides a once-in-a-lifetime ledge on opening day [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Early hustle master Jovontae Turner rode for three different companies at the same time, got paid, and split. Smooth and silky Wallenberg nose-dinger [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1990 In the blink of an eye, skating went Rambo, Frankie Hill was leading the charge--he's one of the reasons you're doing big shit today [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Wounded gull John Cardiel was everyone's fave fave Informal n. One that is preferred above others or likely to win; a favorite. adj. Favorite. [Short for favorite.] . Check the hands: one up, one down. Skating gets shocked by the kid from Lake of the Pines. Shifty shift·y adj. shift·i·er, shift·i·est 1. Having, displaying, or suggestive of deceitful character; evasive or untrustworthy. 2. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The hair, the style; Kris Markovich was easy on the eyes and went full-speed ballistic--K-grind with wheels that look like rubberbands [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The first to carve to the big bench, Julien Stanger quick-ups to 180 the bank over the gap. Never heard of it. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1991 Ground-zero for street skating in the '90s, Huntington High turned out and turned on hitters. Ed Templeton one-foots a Speed Wheels bench: world champ soon afterwards [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The hills are alive with the sound of skating: Curtis Hsiang (dead), Ruben Orkin (dead), and Blake Von Knopka (living) commence to ripping in the Berkeley Hills [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sean Sheffey has his own way of burning down Christmas trees [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Same costume, different dudes: Sheff and Tae-Tae. "Who wants drama?" [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "If it's free, I'll take it." Willy Santos re-defines the word thrifty [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1992 Classic dude, epic trick. Salman Agah tailgrab one-foots to fakie at Studio 43. Horns abound [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Thrasher gear has infiltrated the globe. OG EMB EMB eosin-methylene blue. were down for free gear [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1993 After Gonz did the Four at Wallenberg, everybody tried to get some. Cards wanted it bad and it hurt like hell--against the wind on sub-45mm's [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The crowd's gone and it's just you and Chris Miller alone on the vert; he's gonna win. 540, picture-perfect. Sacto, fool [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Al Petersen can chuck a backside ollie anywhere, ant time. Berkeley, courts, high like a jet [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] JR master Mike Carroll levitates in front of the Venice locals. Japan over California [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Chad Muska frontside flip gross-beefs at a new-era concrete park, Santa Rosa [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1994 Daewon already Rick-flipped it, so Howard had to frontside half-Cab flip it. Beryl, blood [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dan Drehobl is always down to try and hurt himself [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] While Corpsy eggs him on, Andy Roy commits at some demo, some day, nowhere [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1995 At 19 years-old, Bob Burnquist came to America to wreck shop. Switch 5-0 at Max's right before he won vert in Vancouver. Bob-gnar don't play [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] New-wave pool shark Kale kale, borecole (bôr`kōl), and collards, common names for nonheading, hardy types of cabbage (var. Sandridge could give a shit what you think is cool, Slob over ladder at Colossus Colossus - (A huge and ancient statue on the Greek island of Rhodes). 1. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Satva creeps on a Muska multi-kink. We used it in the mag on a blow-in card ... It's a make [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Thrasher contest on the wharf? Ethan Fowler snaps over the Ferris wheel. On 10-days notice, there were 175 entrants. I'd say the mag has juice [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1996 A true master of all disciplines, the late, great Phil Shao grinds the top bar at Miley. A rare outtake out·take n. 1. a. A section or scene, as of a movie, that is filmed but not used in the final version. b. A complete version, as of a recording, that is dropped in favor of another version. 2. of an incredible trick [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Schoolyard hips need benches and picnic tables. Jason Dill, nosegrind [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Skate machine Wade Speyer will kill any mini-ramp in sight. Lien in yer face [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Frontal invert in·vert v. 1. To turn inside out or upside down. 2. To reverse the position, order, or condition of. 3. To subject to inversion. n. Something inverted. through corner" should be on everyone's before-I-die checklist. Eddie Alioto wrote the book and cashed the check [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1997 Before Baker, Andrew Reynolds kept Birdhouse legit le·git adj. Slang Legitimate. . Nollie krooks before the Drunx hit Rolling Stone [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1998 One of the early money back lips, Greco burns one in the Long Beach furnace [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Rowley and Sturt: Two certified mental cases [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Al Petersen slappies up some Fresno metal and goes waist-high [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Steve McQueen pool, SF, Thrasher had its own key and Gonzales had a magic carpet [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Can't break more ground than Rowley's three-flip lip [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On his way to SOTY SOTY Story of the Year (band) SOTY Skater of the Year SOTY Song of the Year SOTY Student of the Year SOTY Sportsman of the Year , Tony has it dialed. Dog pisser at that one bunk Alameda park [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Anything goes when filming a Zero vid. Jimmy ponders while the Eagle counts down [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1999 Koston, nollie heel nose. Things started gettin' spooky [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 2000 On a broken board, John Cardiel lit up Marseille like a Christmas tree. 360 backside off the hip into a lien air on the seven-foot bowl. Absolutely out of this world [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 2001 Before the Twin Towers imploded im·plode v. im·plod·ed, im·plod·ing, im·plodes v.intr. To collapse inward violently. v.tr. 1. To cause to collapse inward violently. 2. , Muska was dropping bombs all over LA. Last shot says it all ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Drehobl knows he sucks. Pivot fakie in SF [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Westside Smolik [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Rob Welsh kickflips a ball at the new EMB [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Skating and partying will always be a part of Pat Duffy [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ryan Johnson and Vagabond VAGABOND. One who wanders about idly, who has no certain dwelling. The ordinances of the French define a vagabond almost in the same terms. Dalloz, Dict. Vagabondage. See Vattel, liv. 1, Sec. 219, n. , bonded by blood [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Finnish and the French [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 2002 Edward Scissorhands? No--Corel Duffelburger. Tall 50-50 in nowhere-land [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Nothing says it better than danger. Peter Hewitt at the "new" Upland [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] KOTR KOTR King of the Road (skateboarding) KOTR King of the Ring (pro wrestling) KOTR Knights of the Round KOTR Korea on the rocks (website) is King of the Roadtrips [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 2003 Burning Man? No, burn it to make it rideable. Washington Street is hot stuff [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 2004 Big tall ledge, Johnny Layton nosegrinds to flat [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Best weekend of all time; Carbondale [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Born in the finals, Ryan Sheckler backside flips in the real OC [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 2005 Sensitive? Curious? Peter Ramondetta, straight fuck you. Thread the needle See Thread needle kickflip [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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