Peter Hewitt #18.

Pete drifts one to fakie at Washington Street in San Diego.

Yeah, I don't get the caption on this one. I also cling to the idea that it should only be grinds in truck ads.

I like how Peter is riding the Spitfire Classic 56 mm wheels. I rode a bunch of those for the longest time until I dropped down to 55s. I've been using the 54s since they stopped making 55s in the regular Spitfire urethane, but I'm going to give the 56s another go. 54s feel a tad slow, especially for ramp stuff.

Thrasher - November 2011 Volume 31 Number 11

Jim Greco #4.

Jim sticks to his Zero roots and jumps off a building.

I like how they matched the cross to the orange of the Deathwish logo. Speaking of the cross logo, Indy somewhat recently retired it. A few hardcore loyalists had their feelings hurt over this, but it was probably a change that was way past due. Indy has always had subtly underrated graphic design with numerous quality logo variations over the years so it is not a big deal. The only reasons you should be riding Indys is for their turn and smooth grind anyways.

Thrasher - October 2011 Volume 31 Number 10

Al Partanen #10.

It's Parts floating around a pool and over the diving board.

Thrasher - May 2011 Volume 31 Number 5

Steve Nesser #7.

Steve probably did that really big handrail or ollie before anybody else did. From listening to the Mostly Skateboarding podcast, I've grown to be an even bigger fan of Minnesota skateboarding.

Thrasher - March 2010 Volume 30 Number 3

Leo Romero #13.

Leo's new Skater part for Emerica is great. It's almost the opposite of the majority of the current crop of skate vids, even though there are plenty of fine ones being made right now. The music fits Leo's style and it is perfectly filmed. It's absurd to think about how long Leo had been in the spotlight. He's still crushing handrails tastefully and his flip trick game is ridiculously on point. Most of the spots are out of the way and look great on camera, especially with the bright sun and blue skies. Skater has the proper balance of being mostly contemporary with the correct small amount of nostalgia to give it the right mood and character.

Notes: I like it when Leo nollies out of frontside 50-50s down handrails. My buddy Coburn filmed some of the clips in Skater. Emerica really should press up some DVDs collecting a bunch of their recent web only videos.

Thrasher - May 2014 Volume 35 Number 5

Caswell Berry #10.

Everybody has probably read the Jenkem interview with Louie Barletta by now which explains everything that has happened with the venture capitalist clearcutting at Dwindle. One cool tidbit I took away from the interview was about how Globe kept enjoi going even though it was losing money simply because the owners dug the company.

Thrasher - July 2009 Volume 29 Number 7

Corey Duffel #5.

The Duffman pilots a heavy duty backside lipslide down a Brutalist banister.

The calendar flipped over to March. This was the mildest February I can recall in ages, if not ever. I doubt there was more than 3" of snow total for the month, if even that. I managed to skateboard on 24 of the 28 days, with only one cheap day where it started to rain after I was warmed up. These are some bizarre times. I really need to set up a new board.

Second verse, same as the first.

The picture is by Eric "Rodent" Cheslak.

Thrasher - November 2008 Volume 28 Number 11