Rob Pluhowski #5.

Favorites Tricks:
360 flip
Nollie flip
Backside tailslide
Nollie heelflip
Kickflip

Favorites Spots:
Love Park
Brooklyn Banks
Midtown Manhattan

Favorite Skaters of All Time:
Mike Carroll
Fred Gall
Anthony Van Engelen
Anthony Pappalardo
Gino Iannucci

Smoothest Style:
Gino Iannucci
Stevie Williams
Keith Hufnagel
Scott Johnston

Best Video Part:
Mike Carroll - Plan B Questionable
Fred Gall - Subzero
Gino Ianucci - Trilogy

Favorite Music:
Rolling Stones
Bob Marley
Gang Starr

Favorite Movies:
Trainspotting
Casino
Gladiator
Road Trip

Favorite Videos:
Plan B - Questionable
Alien Workshop - Photosynthesis
Blind - Video Days
Any Eastern Exposure video

Another occupation you'd pursue if you weren't skating:
A scuba diver - whatever the hell they do - or a marine biologist.

Influential People:
Jason Dill
Joe Castrucci

It's a quick list of Rob's favorites from 2001.

For the list: Transworld - July 2001 Volume 19 Number 7

Thrasher - February 2001 Volume 21 Number 2

Anthony Pappalardo #8.

Slice of pizza.

Anthony takes a backside lipslide down that famous gold handrail in Australia. He's wearing a pair of the first Mike Carroll pro model shoes from Lakai.

The photo is by Mike O'Meally.

Thrasher - July 2001 Volume 21 Number 7

Ben Krahn #3.

"For skateboarding, I think that people should practice and respect all forms of skating. Because you know how there's little trends of skateboarding. Like for the past couple years, it's been handrails and crazy street stuff. And now all of a sudden it's cool to skate pools and everything. It's all cool, you know? There's never any one kind of skating that's cooler than the other."

Ben is an all around ripper who has been shredding transitions, parks, and streets for a long time now. He's one of those underground favorites who you are stoked to see a new part from whenever it pops up. Blood Wizard has been making boards with his name on them for the last few years. He had a Big Brother cover at this same secret Phillie ramp.

The photos are by Rob Erickson. The trick is a pole jam to backside nollie out.

For the quote: Big Brother - January 2003 Issue 92

Thrasher - December 2001 Volume 21 Number 12

Chris Roberts.

The Nine Club.

Chris is from Malibu, California. He got on Chocolate by virtue of skateboarding with the guys on the team and them liking his style. Chris turned pro in 2007 and is still on Chocolate. He started the Nine Club with Roger Bagley in 2016. Kelly Hart is also a cohost. The show features very nicely filmed long form interviews with pro skateboarders. I've seen a few episodes of it and enjoy the Nine Club, but I decided a few months ago that I'm not watching or listening to any podcasts. There's simply too much media that is available instantly that it is impossible to keep track of everything. Rather than try, I opted for the easy solution of partaking in none of it.

Thrasher - September 2001 Volume 21 Number 9

Stacy Lowery #5.

The Program.

The former Santa Cruz pro with the massive pop has partnered with Michael Sieben on a few companies over the years. This includes Bueno, Roger, The Program, and supposedly a second round of Roger. I wish I had grabbed at least a t-shirt from Roger at some point. I do have a Program shirt, which still gets worn somewhat often. It looks more like a church project than a skateboard company.

Thrasher - March 2001 Volume 21 Number 3

Chris Senn #8.

Already been done.

I had posted the Toy Machine ad back in November and recently found the Revolution Wheels ad while thumbing through the back pages of the magazines. I thought it made for an interesting coincidence. Same guy, same spot, same trick, three years difference. I suppose it makes sense because I imagine the 50-50 feels pretty good to do, so why not do it again when you are back in town? It's not like a death defying triple kinked rail that you would only end up doing once.

Revolution Wheels: Thrasher - August 2001 Volume 21 Number 8

Toy Machine: Transworld - September 1998 Volume 17 Number 9

Ben Gilley #3.

Everybody's favorite Alabama Barbarian crushes that poor handrail at the synagogue in Florida with a hurricane.

I picked out a bunch of random stuff from 2001 for this batch of scans.

I've been kind of chilling a bit on skateboarding the last two weeks. I felt I needed a break. I got slightly bored with the local park, too. I'm planning to get to back rolling tonight. It feels weird not skating as much, especially since it is warm out now.

Thrasher - October 2001 Volume 21 Number 10