Vert Is Dead

Loading dock. Tony spins a backside 360 ollie in Philadelphia while wearing some Lakais. The trick was in the Girl montage of Yeah Righ...

Freedumb flight. Dan does a frontside air at Kempsey in New South Wales, Australia. This was from a trip down under with Brian Anderson...

Guy in the sky. I'm a fan of Darren and knew I wanted to include him in the cover feature. He graced the front of Thrasher with thi...

Caution tape. I had to pick a couple of Slap covers from my senior year of college. Slap was a welcome third voice in addition to what ...

Ode to Kalis. Dave Chami took this photo of Ben Gore at Fort Miley as a homage to the November 1995 issue of Transworld with Josh Kalis...

Green backside ollie. I believe the story was that Rick wanted to skate vert so he built a ramp at the Girl headquarters. I know this w...

Freedom summer. If memory serves me correctly, the story behind this is the Big Brother crew took a trip to Philadelphia around about I...