Ethan Fowler #17.

Ethan crosses the street.

I've written it before, but it is interesting to watch the transformation of Ethan in Live, the first Toy Machine video from 1994. He goes from a skate rat who does all the tricks to refining his moves down to the tricks he can do with style and pop.

Outdoor skateboarding has been happening at the park the last couple days, but the wind has been nasty. It hasn't been too cold, it's been tough pushing against the breeze.

Thrasher - September 1994 Volume 14 Number 9

Mike Carroll #20.

Mike tweaks an air on a mini ramp. I always liked this photo.

The new issue of Thrasher is looking pretty good. Jamie Foy's backside smith grind for the cover is sick. It appears Venture is again making trucks that don't have any graphics printed on them. This would be great if that is the case. There's a tour article by Nora Vasconcellos about a road trip to Arizona. There's also another tour article about how Jake Phelps and company revisit Ecuador after twenty years. They didn't bring Mike Carroll this time around, but they did have Peter Hewitt recreate his cover photo from 1998.

Thrasher - December 1994 Volume 14 Number 12

Mike Crum #3.

Vert Texas Style.

I never had a pair of Simples. I don't know if I ever liked their designs and I'm not sure how I feel about them today. I'm not into toecaps in general because I think they look a bit odd. The shoes did look neat on the feet of Mark Gonzales and Julien Stranger so they had that going for them. They also made some cool looking ads.

The photo is by Chris Ortiz.

Thrasher - September 1994 Volume 14 Number 9

Justin Regan #2.

Huntington Beach Locals.

Before he became the director of global brand and product marketing for Vans, Justin was riding for Jinx's company and doing nollies over walls. Deanna Templeton is in the background with a video camera.

The photo is by Rick Kosick.

Transworld - June 1994 Volume 12 Number 6

Jamie Thomas #9.

Technical Invisibility.

This is something you don't see very often. Jamie getting tech with a pop shove-it to nose manual to nollie heelflip out. He was pro for Invisible, the updated for the 90s form of Blockhead, at the time.

Transworld - February 1994 Volume 12 Number 2

Ricky Oyola #9.

The early days of Zoo York.

Ricky does a nosegrind on a ledge at Love Park in Philadelphia.

The photo is by Jeremy Traub. The design is by Eli Morgan Gesner.

Thrasher - September 1994 Volume 14 Number 9

Omar Hassan #5.

Magic Carpet Ride.

Street Omar gaps out to something, probably a lipslide, on the same leftover piece of metal that Bo Ikeda was skating in a post from earlier this month. Omar would have been riding for Acme. Formula One was shifted over to include boards later on in the 1990s and only made round plastic things at this time. I was going to say this is the last Acme ad for a while, but I've got two Channel One ads lined up in the weeks ahead. Things are starting to get a little lean for content.

It's like summer outside today. There was rain to start the day and then it dried up so I got in some lunch break skateboarding at the park. It was mostly dry. I'm glad I went because the rain started up again for the afternoon. I went back to Jamestown to skate on Saturday and I cruised the park here on Sunday, too. It feels good to get a few days in a row of skateboarding in again.

The photo is by Chris Ortiz.

Transworld - May 1993 Volume 11 Number 5