Sommaire pour Oct-Nov-11 de Skateboarder

Whatever you’re into, if you immerse yourself in it too deeply or for too long, you run the risk of becoming worn out by it. Jaded by it. Just unimpressed or uninspired by the same old same old. Whether it’s skateboarding or stamp collecting if you love it and love doing it, you can hit a point where it’s just too much. It’s something I considered long before I ever attempted to get a job within “The Industry.” Did I really want to put myself in a position to fall out of love with something that’s provided so many good times? Did I want to risk losing that when there aren’t that many things that make me as happy as skateboarding did? I suppose I did, because here I am…

Brian Delatorre IN POOL I grew up with a pool table in my house. There’s a bar on every corner in NY with a pool table, so it’s kind of hard not to go to a bar here. CRAZY PEOPLE/BEAUTIFUL WOMEN Every 20 feet here there’s some random person in the street completely off their head. At the same time that’s going on there’s an amazingly beautiful woman walking by. Entertainment and eye candy. What more can I ask for? HILL BOMBS I’ve been missing SF out here. ROOFTOP BBQ Summers in NY are the best. COFFEE Essential. STREET MEAT Halal meat truck on 11th St. between Ave. A and 1st. I swear they put something in that lamb. OUT CONCERNED CITIZENS People that feel the need to make our…

Chris Branagh If you skated during the heyday of Steve Rocco’s domination of the skate world, then you remember the World Industries pint-sized ripper Chris Branagh. He was younger than you and probably better. Chris was featured in some classic and infamous World Industries ads (pictured to the right) and had parts in Rubbish Heap and Love Child. Chris turned pro before most people even start to skate. Then he disappeared from the skate scene in the mid ’90s and hadn’t been heard from since then. Until now that is. How did you get hooked up with World Industries and how old were you? I was probably about six years old when I started riding for a small shop out of Modesto, California. Then from there I started entering contests.…

VANS EAST COAST TOUR Skateboarders are nothing if not eccentric. And as a result, the people we meet and the situations we get into tend to be a little more…interesting, to say the least. On the other hand, most normies (as we call them) have a buttoned-down life and aren’t exposed to half of what skaters are on a daily basis. While the average Joe is at home on his couch watching “American Idol,” we’re out there behind some building in some downtown district of some major city with some crazy homeless person screaming at us while we’re trying to concentrate on whatever trick is going down. In this way, skateboarding itself is on the fringe of society, taking place out in this seldom-seen and often-ignored environment. Is it even…

The Dirt The workwear brand that skateboarders have been rocking for years, Dickies, finally started up a skate team. Master lensman and all around nice guy, Atiba Jefferson, is handpicking the team. So far it’s just Tom Remillard and Kevin Terpining on the squad, but other heavy hitters are rumored to be in the mix…Levi’s, Ben Davis, and Carhartt, I am available if you need help assembling a team in the US. Check me in the masthead under Associate Editor...One of the original Lakai riders, Cairo Foster, parted ways with the Flare. He ended up at Etnies where he joins DVS transplants Nick Garcia and Andrew Brophy. Kerry Getz and Zered Bassett severed ties with DVS recently as well.. In further shoe news, Dan Plunkett and Clint Peterson are on…

LEFT SIDE PUTTING IT OFF Luckily, I haven’t broken any bones yet, just a fracture. I fractured my scaphoid on my left hand back in November 2010. I was skating this rail, missed the catch and almost sacked it, so I fell back and put my left hand down first. That’s how it broke. I just thought it was a sprain, but after a few months I knew something was wrong. I went to Dr. Dave at South Coast Spine Center recently and had an X-ray. Sure enough, it’s been broke. It still hurts to this day. I haven’t gone for surgery yet; I need a pin or a screw and a cast. I’ll get it fixed some day. CENTER SUCKER PUNCH From what I was told, I got knocked…

We didn’t go there for your standard beach and clubbing reasons. No all-night parties on Scott Storch’s yacht. No dinners at Donatellas. No sunbathing by the pool. No all-night beach parties. The new video is heading into the final lap and it was time to get some work done. Last January, the Girl-Chocolate fam went to Florida to film for the new video that’s in the works. Ty FedExed his generators out from LA, so you knew it wasn’t going to be a party trip. All-day sessions and late-night missions kept us on a hectic schedule, but despite the crazy hours we had a lot of laughs and even found some time to get a little R&R in Gainesville. At the end of the trip, we had just what we…

Forrest Edwards Age: 21 Home: Hunt Park Sponsors: Supra (flow), KR3W (flow), Venture (flow) and Crooks Skateshop Years skating: 10 First setup: cousin’s old setup Board you have hanging on your wall: Andrew Reynolds Cheetah Baker First favorite pro: Paul Rodriguez Current favorite pro: Andrew Reynolds Place you never want to go back to: Battle Bowl Favorite film: Brainwash A favorite song: Lil’ Wayne’s “Knuck If You Buck” Road-trip essentials: a bunch of Toy Machine boards, Pig wheels and lots of money Favorite slang term: What’s gwa? A pet peeve: when people flake out Who’s hot: Nicki Minaj Who’s not: Lindsay Lohan Marek Zaprazny Age: 22 Home: Malacky, Slovakia Sponsors: Nike SB (Europe), Orion trucks, Streetmarket.cz, LRG Years skating: 9 First setup: shitty one from a sports store Board you have hanging…

Kenny Anderson ELWOOD DAYS NO LONGER A while back, when Elwood revamped, I was working on my own little thing but decided to stay with Elwood. Part of it was to rebuild the team and to be part of the creative direction with Jon Coulthard and Palmer. I called up everyone personally, pretty much my favorite skaters: Drehobl, Silas, Rattray, everyone from Plunkett on, you know? Pappalardo was always on, so he and I stuck with it and tried to redo it. It was a little more personal for me, for sure. At the same time, having my favorite skaters on there and going on amazing trips with them was the best. We all had a mutual respect for each other and it made the trips even better. But the…

As told to & Photos: Seb Carayol What has Jason Jessee been up to, you may ask. “I don’t know, climbing trees, using chainsaws and stuff, having fun,” was his first reply when asked that very question a few months ago at his Santa Cruz compound while members of the punk rock band Jason manages (The Highway Murderers) were busy figuring out the perfect ax to throw into a wood log and not onto my rental car, which was good news. Climbing trees, throwing axes, firing guns, fixing up random shit, building even more random shit…nothing unusual. Such is daily life at Jessee’s headquarters, a heavenly place somewhere between a super-fun Jihad training summer camp and an all-skateboard memorabilia episode of “American Pickers.” On a shelf inside his warehouse, it…

Photos: Brian Gaberman ANYTIME I HEAR WE ARE TRAVELING SOMEWHERE, I ASK AROUND TO SEE WHO’S BEEN AND WHAT THEY SKATED THERE. YOU USUALLY GET A PRETTY GOOD PICTURE OF WHAT THE PLACE IS GOING TO BE LIKE BECAUSE MOST SKATE TRIPS ARE SIMILAR. THERE’S A DEMO, THEN SIGNING, THEN SKATE, SKATE, SKATE, AND, IF YOU’RE LUCKY, YOU CAN GO SOMEWHERE THAT REPRESENTS THE COUNTRY YOU’RE IN WITH A GROUP PHOTO. About Costa Rica: Nick Trapasso told me, “They got monkeys and toucans, bro; shit’s insane.” Appleyard said, “There’s no spots and the whole situation is pretty Third World.” I knew nothing of Costa Rica (or even Central America, for that matter), just that it was next to the equator so the concrete would be rough from the rain. I…

Photo Ben Colen 1. Rick did acid once. On accident. Someone gave him some on an ID card and Rick thought they were full of it and forgot. Later, he was picking his teeth with the ID and things started to go awry mentally. Since then, Rick has never done acid recreationally. 2. Rick was born in Toronto with the family name of Kovar. His family immigrated to Canada from Slovakia. He has no middle name, which isn’t unusual for Slovaks. However, his lack of a middle name did almost get Rick arrested when a police officer thought Rick was being a smart ass when he said he didn’t have a middle name. 3. Fireworks are one thing that Rick truly loves. He’s been known to walk into the Girl…