Tim Brauch #20.

Never Forget.

Tim was pro for Santa Cruz. He initially rode for the New Deal before switching to SMA and then doing the in-house shuffle over to Santa Cruz. Working with Salman Agah, he ran Este Clothing through Sessions for the better part of the 1990s. Tim was sponsored by Etnies and Independent, too. Sadly, he passed away from a congenital heart problem twenty five years ago today. Tim also organized the Beautiful Mens Club with Jason Adams, Salman, and a few other San Jose locals.

RIP Steve Albini.
The photograph is by Jai Tanju.

Transworld - September 2000 Volume 18 Number 9

Dakota Servold #6.

The Road Worrier.

Dakota is a long time F-Trooper who is all about being on the road in the van and looking for spots. The hard work is worth it because his video parts don't look boring and generic. He recently earned a pro model shoe on Emerica.

I set up a new board over the weekend and I put some new wheels on it yesterday. I'm giving 56s a try again after the last few years of 55s and 54s.

Thrasher - October 2012 Volume 32 Number 10

Tony Hawk #15.

Janky Contest Handrails.

The Birdman does a railslide at the Münster Monster Mastership #8. The contest took place from August 3-6, 1989 in Germany. Tony won the vert and finished 2nd in street. Lance Mountain won the street event. Rounding out the top five were Ray Barbee, Lester Kasai, and Pat Ngoho.

Of note is that the Münster contest marked the debut of high flying Brazilian Lincoln Ueda, who placed 4th in vert. His son now rides for Toy Machine. The other top finishers on the big ramp were Tony Magnusson in 2nd, Jeff Kendall in 3rd, and Buck Smith in 5th.

My mom is doing well with recovery from her operation and things are slowly getting back to some version of normal.

The photograph is by Kevin Thatcher.

This ran in the 1991 Thrasher calendar.

Mike Prosenko #2.

Ozean.

Mike played guitar and did graphic design for a short lived shoegaze band from San Jose called Ozean. Numero Group reisued their lone demo tape on vinyl earlier this year. The band played all of one or two shows and recorded three songs in their brief existence.

The photo is by Mark Waters.

Transworld - October 1990 Volume 8 Number 10

Dan Drehobl #32.

Red, I'm seeing red.

Spiderman Dan sticks to the wall for a backside tail stall at one of the many skateparks that were starting to pop up at the end of the 1990s.

Vert Is Dead will be back on Monday, May 6th.

There are over 3,800 posts on this thing so browse the archives if you need a content fix. Also feel free to leave some suggestions for easy posts. I've been stuck in a late 1990s zone for way too long. Thanks for the support.

Thrasher - May 1999 Volume 19 Number 5

Diego Bucchieri #7.

Chopping block.

Jake Phelps gave Diego the nickname of The Butcher because his last name is difficult to pronounce. I dig how straight forward Think was a lot of times with their graphic design. No frills, just make the best of whatever photos they had and put the logo in there somewhere.

Thrasher - June 1999 Volume 19 Number 6

Pat Duffy #5.

Sailing the seas of cheese.

The Duffman recently turned 50. It's been 31 years since Plan B's Questionable was released. It somehow doesn't seem that long. Duffy had probably the most iconic of all debut parts since nobody had really heard of him and his skateboarding was miles above what most folks were doing. The only other skater I can think of who had such a similair mindblowing debut is PJ Ladd. Also it seems like everybody is turning 50, with Peter Hewitt also clocking in at the half century mark.

Did anybody ever try the nine ply boards? Does it even work? I maybe had a Real with nine plies around this time, but I think something was wrong with it so I didn't ride it for long. The deck simply might have been too small. I don't remember.

My mom is doing well. She had to have a fairly serious operation to fix some standing health issues.

In regards to this site, I'm not sure what the schedule will be going forward. The plan is to finish out the Think scans for the week and see how everything is going. There very well could be a week or three off before I get back to regular posts.

Thrasher - September 1999 Volume 19 Number 9