Max Schaaf #16.

Max literally lurking in a bowl. The board he is riding is based on the James Kelch flower graphic from 1992, which was borrowed from an album cover for the band James. I'm not sure if it is a reissue or if they redid the art for Max. It could also be a redone graphic for Nate Jones. I've got catalogs from this time frame and intended to look it up last night, but forgot.

I'd hazard a guess the photo is by Gabe Morford.

Transworld - Winter 2002 Volume 20 Number 13

Brian Anderson #15.

BA is chilling in France on Girl's Harsh Euro Barge tour from 2002. I like the nautical theme Fourstar was running with in the early 2000s.

The photo is probably by Gabe Morford.

Transworld - December 2002 Volume 20 Number 12

Mark Gonzales #29.

Inspiration meets innovation.

When everybody else was doing nollie to boardslides on handrails in the early 2000s, Gonz started jumping onto rails using a boneless. Brian Anderson was also doing the same thing.

There's been a rumor that Mark was a potential rider for Girl, but somebody on the team didn't want him so he wound up on Fourstar as a compromise of sorts. I assume this would have been around the time in the mid 1990s when 60/40 had ended. If you look at from a what they skate perspective, it makes sense for him to not be on Girl. He's more of an all terrain type who fit in better at Real.

Transworld - October 2002 Volume 20 Number 10

Eric Koston #16.

Playoff basketball.

Eric watches the Lakers during their 2002 playoff run. If my hazy memory serves me correctly, I think this Shaq moment happened during the Western Conference Finals when LA beat the Sacramento Kings in a hotly contested and controversial series. The Lakers swept the then New Jersey Nets to win yet another championship in the Finals.

I imagine the photo is by Atiba Jefferson. (Unless of course he was at the game.)

Transworld - September 2002 Volume 20 Number 9

Paul Rodriguez #5.

Video Days.

A young P. Rod does a kickflip backside 50-50 on one of those popular California handrails. The trick wasn't in his part in Girl's Yeah, Right, which surprised me a little. I imagine it wound up in one of the video magazines that were around at the time.

Who is the filmer in the picture?

Transworld - August 2002 Volume 20 Number 8

Jerome Campbell.

Eiffel Tower High.

Jerome is from Sheffield, England. He rode for Blueprint and was pro for Polar. Converse sponsored his feet. He's into photography and possibly works in advertising. This is a melon grab done in Paris from 2013. I like the photo and I'm a little nostalgic for this era of Polar.

The photo is by Nils Svensson.

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Skip Pronier #10.

A young Skip flies up and over yet another hip. This picture would have been taken in the period when John Lucero had moved Lucero's distribution from NHS to Vision. The switch happened in the fall of 1989. That's probably why Skip is wearing Vision shoes. I thought he might be riding some early Spitfires, but I don't think that's the case. I was stoked to find another photo of one of my favorites in the old Poweredges I borrowed from the Look Back Library.

The photo is by Rick Kosick.

Poweredge - March 1990 Volume 3 Number 3