Bob Burnquist #10.

Light Tower.

After splitting from Anti-Hero, Bob lined up a new set of sponsors, which included The Firm, Ricta, and Fury. He stuck with éS for footwear. His vert skating was bordering on absurdity with the level of switch tricks he was doing on the big ramps. Bob wasn't only performing the tricks for video, he was stringing them together in lines during contests. Contests maybe aren't always everything in skateboarding, but he was in such an innovative and consistent zone that it was amazing to watch.

Transworld - December 2000 Volume 18 Number 12

Fury.

Bring the Fury.

Fury was a truck brand started in 1999 out of Blitz Distribution, the home of Birdhouse, Flip, The Firm, and Hook-Ups. The team had the heavy hitters of the era with Tony Hawk, Chad Muska, Geoff Rowley, and Rune Glifberg. Tony was on Tracker nearly the entirety of his pro career so this was a big change. It made sense with the growth of skateboarding at the end of the 1990s for Blitz to expand to include a truck line.

The ad with Geoff holding the truck is from 2001. It was about the best I could find to show what a Fury looked like.

I believe the trucks were designed more for ramps and I want to say they were on the heavy side. I have no idea if the street skaters actually rode them. My guess is probably not since there was a Shorty's ad with Muska's setup in the same April 1999 issue of Transworld. He had Indys on the board in the ad.

Team: Transworld - April 1999 Volume 17 Number 4

Geoff: Transworld - December 2001 Volume 19 Number 12

Sean Mullendore #7.

The DC guy with the massive pop takes a tailslide to the hood of a car. Sean wouldn't have gotten any photo incentives from those Stereo stickers on the car because the Stereo was shut off by the late fall of 2000. He had the last Stereo ad that ran in January 2001.

Transworld - July 2001 Volume 19 Number 7

Kris Markovich #25.

"I'd basically got to the point where I'd put the bolt on one thread and then super-glue it on so it wouldn't fall off. You'd pick up my board and the trucks would just flop back and forth. So for like a year and a half I'd have my trucks this loose and try and do my tricks as fast as I could go."

Kris speaks about how he was influenced by Julien Stranger's loose trucks and the lengths he went to get his trucks as loose as possible. I get the overall appeal of loose trucks, but I often see many beginners riding utterly wobbly setups that make it more difficult to learn how to skateboard. By definition my trucks are loose since the nut is basically flush with the end of the bolt, yet they never feel overly loose. I can turn and carve smoothly while the trucks remain stable for ollies. I say I ride medium trucks for the sake of being different because everybody is either loose or tight.

I dug up a vintage Chomp On This sticker for my current board. How do you even explain that video to anybody that wasn't around when it happened?

For the quote: Thrasher - September 2002 Volume 22 Number 9

Transworld - April 2001 Volume 19 Number 4

Chad Knight #5.

Ghostly.

Chad skips a gnarly stair ollie to jump down the gnarlier gap next to the stairs instead. Those Osiris should offer plenty of protection for his feet upon impact.

Transworld - February 2001 Volume 19 Number 2

Mike Rusczyk #9.

Mail air.

It was cool to see a vintage photo of Mike doing a 43 in the recent Thrasher article on the history of the no-comply.

Transworld - November 2000 Volume 18 Number 11

Chris Pastras & Richie Belton.

Wheel beef. You love to see it.

The punch in the nose refers to the physical retaliation Deluxe inflicted on Tum Yeto after Ethan Fowler split from Stereo for Foundation. Stereo was on its last legs by 2000, but it is still kind of mildly surprising to to see a long time DLX employee riding wheels other than Spitfires or Metropolitans.

Richie was an up-and-coming amateur who previously was on Ricta. I doubt there was much push back from them about him leaving via ad.

Of note is that Chris is wearing Vitas.

Dune: Transworld - August 2000 Volume 18 Number 8

Richie: Transworld - December 2001 Volume 19 Number 12