Josh Beagle.

It's going to be Josh Beagle all week. Josh was pro for Foundation for most of the 90s and maybe even a little of the 2000s before retiring the board with his name on it. He did a lot of work behind the scenes for Foundation in terms of video editing and production, even when he was skating for them.

Note: The filmer for Baker was given the nickname Beagle for a slight resemblance to this former F-Trooper.

Slap - July 1992 Volume 1 Number 4

Josh Beagle #6.

I always like when classic rock radio stations do a two for Tuesday deal where they play two songs by the same band in a row. In keeping with that spirit, here is the first of a double shot of Josh Beagle.

Is he doing a varial heel out of the manual?

This is his Foundation board with graphics inspired by Big Black's Songs About Fucking album cover. Feel free to substitute rip off for inspired if the mood suits you. Given the bands that Josh has said he likes in interviews, I'm calling this a tribute model to Steve Albini.

Transworld - January 1993 Volume 11 Number 1

Josh Beagle #7.

This ad came up as a request during Josh Beagle week back in February.

A general note about this site: If you want to track down a particular older scan that might be on here, use the search feature at the top of the page. Just type in the name of the skater and it should work. This same search feature also works on the Chrome Ball Incident. I use it all the time to make sure I number things right and avoid repeats.

Is Grumpy Jerk an alias for Tod Swank?

Transworld - January 1993 Volume 11 Number 1

Josh Beagle #2.

This is Josh's Firing Line from Thrasher:

What's your middle name, Joshua?

Zeus.

And when were you born?

7/27/74.

Where do you live?

Laguna Niguel.

Josh, what would you do if I throw that soda at you?

I'd let PD come and lick it off.

Do you watch Melrose Place?

Depends on my mood - if I'm gushy-gushy. But if I drank a couple of coffees, I have to watch MacGuyver or Cops. I go through these phases where I watch a lot of TV, and then I don't watch TV and I just sit there and stare at myself and try to read my own mind. That's pretty deep.

If you were a rock and roller, what kind of band would you be in?

It would be a cross between fIREHOSE and The Melvins. It'd be all bodoneno, bodoneno, grrrgrrrgrrr.

Have you been skating vert lately?

Yeah, there is this bank to wall by my house. Seriously man, it rocks.

What is your favorite thing to skate right now?

Me and Heath Kirchart have been skating in the rain a lot lately. Going through puddles and stuff, qushshsh.

What's a big word that means something to you?

Flatulate, you know what that means.

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Steve Sherman took the photo.

Note: I usually never do this, but this photo was used to promote what was going to be in the next issue of Transworld and had some text in the top left corner that I took out with Photoshop.

For the interview: Thrasher - April 1994 Volume 14 Number 4

Transworld - April 1992 Volume 10 Number 4

Josh Beagle #3.

Josh did a lot of big gaps and rails in the 1990s. I know that there were other guys doing some of the same stuff, but in looking at the pictures now, it seems like Josh was pushing the limits. He has that balls to the wall John Cardiel attack to the obstacles he was skating. I don't now if he gets enough recognition these days for what he was doing back then.

Transworld - January 1992 Volume 10 Number 1

Josh Beagle & Ray Barbee.

The OG Beagle and Ray do some tail skidders. Ray's goofy footed so that really is a switch back tail.

I turned 36 earlier this month. I'm all too aware of the fact that I have a finite number of years left to skateboard where I can ollie up on the big ledges for 50-50s and do nollie flips on flat. Therefore I try to skate as much as I can. Whenever I call my friend Paul in Rochester he always says that he hasn't been skating in forever because he has been running a lot. I bug him that he should be skateboarding since he's only a couple months younger than me. Anyway, all this running is being put to a good use. He's going to run in the Buffalo Marathon on Sunday. Good luck, buddy. I still say you should have been skateboarding instead.

The photos are by Chris Ortiz.

Transworld - September 1993 Volume 11 Number 9

Josh Beagle #15.

Vroom Vroom.

The OG Beagle was a handrail titan back in the 1990s and was a pioneer of doing more technical tricks on banisters. He stepped away from the pro ranks to work behind the scenes at Foundation before disappearing from the scene. His middle name is Zeus.

I rummaged around some Transworlds from 1995 and managed to find enough stuff I hadn't posted for the 17th anniversary week. I've been really into the middle to late 2010s, but wanted to switch it up for a little bit.

Transworld - May 1995 Volume 13 Number 5

Josh Beagle #14.

Josh doesn't get enough credit for his top notch music selection in assorted Foundation and Pig Wheels videos. He picked heavier noise rock bands that aren't common in such endeavors. It's a little more interesting than sticking to the usual options, although admittedly it doesn't work for everything.

Who's the Gardner fellow on Foundation? I don't remember anybody with that name on the team and browsing the net wasn't much help.

Thrasher - August 1998 Volume 18 Number 8

Josh Beagle #4.

Adventure today.

The photo is by Scott Needham.

Thrasher - October 1992 Volume 12 Number 10

Don "The Nuge" Nguyen #6.

"Gets cold in Oklahoma."

The Nuge goes over a rail and into a bank for Duffs. He would have been in an odd board sponsorship limbo in 2006. Don had ridden for Hollywood and Hellrose, but those both had come to an end. Josh Beagle was giving him Pig Wood boards and that turned into riding for Foundation.

It's a week of Duffs. Duffs started out as Steve Rocco's shoe company in the middle 1990s with some decent shoes and funny ads. At some time at the end of the decade, they became their own entity. I'm not really sure on all the details, who worked there, and how the company was structured. They kept it rolling up until about 2016. I think they had a BMX team in addition to skateboarders.

I guess I should have gone to the grand opening for the Jamestown skatepark. Creature's John Gardner was there to rip the place up.

For the quote: Thrasher - March 2006 Volume 26 Number 3

Thrasher - October 2005 Volume 25 Number 10

Ryan Bartsma.

The Explanation of Rhythm.

Ryan put down some switch street skateboarding in Rhythm's Genesis video from 1997 while the techno beats pulsed. He also did more of the same in All Systems Go from Pig Wheels, except Josh Beagle picked a Man… Or Astroman tune for the part.

Yesterday started off rainy, but transformed into a mild and sunny day by the end. I got in a good half hour of skateboarding at the park after work. I'm foreseeing snow shoveling in the immediate future.

Those fakie pop shove-it tail grabs that Daniel Vargas does on ramps are sick.

The photo is by Chris Ortiz photo and Jose Gomez was designer.

Transworld - September 1996 Volume 14 Number 9

Josh Beagle #5.

If skateboarding does make it to the Olympics, somebody had better use one of their runs in the medal round to pull off a homage to Neil Blender where they do a few tricks and then stop skating to draw on the ramps.

Transworld - July 1992 Volume 10 Number 7

Josh Beagle #13.

Today, tomorrow, forever.

The latest Foundation video is a good watch. It features new riders Julian Lewis and Dylan Witkin along with the always amazing Corey Glick. Star & Moon carries on in the tradition of previous F-Troop efforts with the right mix of art, skateboarding, and appropriately fitting music.

Transworld - January 1997 Volume 15 Number 1

Ethan Fowler #7.

I never made a list of my favorite video parts from 2011 because I only bought the Real video and I wasn't going to count online things because I'm so spotty at watching them. I recently ordered some new shoes from SPoT and grabbed a couple of videos, too. I got Shake Junt's Chicken Bone Nowison and Foundation's WTF. WTF is a nice little flick. It's not the days of Fowler, Kris Markovich, Justin Strubing, Jon West and company, but it is fun to watch. There's no fancy cinematography, just street skating and punk rock. Dan Murphy kills it. I might miss Josh Beagle, but the Circle F is in good hands still.

Transworld - August 2001 Volume 19 Number 8

King Of The Road 2003: Tum Yeto.

Adrian Mallory and Ethan Fowler.

Second Place.

Tum Yeto went with a mixed team that picked riders from their different board companies. Foundation pros Ethan Fowler and Gareth Stehr were on board, as was Toy Machine's Diego Bucchieri. Adrian Mallory was an am on Pig Wood at the time and Johnny Layton was a 17 year old getting flowed boards from Toy Machine. He was officially added to Ed's Monster Squad after the trip. Josh Beagle was the team manager, KOTR creator Michael Burnett put himself in the van as the photographer, and Jeff Morris ran the video camera. Scott Bourne was their mystery guest. He was the overall KOTR guest MVP with eight tricks plus the Daewon Song Award for most rigged up set-up for rolling off some plywood on sawhorses into the deep end of a pool. The Tum Yeto van started in Miami and cruised westward through Jacksonville, Atlanta, Louisville, St. Louis, Kansas City, Lawrence, Denver, Reno, Tahoe, and Walnut Creek before dropping the video tape off in San Francisco.

Since this whole trip was Mike's idea, his story of their journey across the country is a joyful tale chock full of highs and lows, skateboard trivia, concern over whether some of the challenges were in bad taste (focus a stranger's board for example), and a smidge of drunken antics.

"This is an appropriate time to insert an Animal Chin message where we learn that the fun we had is our true reward. That's true and all. We did have fun. But on that last night, exhausted from two weeks of skate action, what we really wanted was to win."

The photos are by Michael Burnett.

Thrasher - January 2004 Volume 24 Number 1

Daniel Shimizu #5.

"The guy in high school PE class who, no matter what sport he was playing, got hit in the head because he wasn't paying attention. I guess that's why I skate."

Daniel describes himself in a Thrasher interview back in the year 2000. At the time, he was riding for Foundation, Pig Wheels, Innes, Emerica, Venture, and Furnace Skate Shop. His car was an early 1990s piece of crap Honda Civic. He liked Mallrats and Modest Mouse. Daniel's favorite skaters of the day were Josh Beagle, Jamie Thomas, Heath Kirchart, Brian Anderson, Cairo Foster, and Kenny Reed. He also was into playing guitar.

For the quote and info: Thrasher - June 2000 Volume 20 Number 6

Transworld - May 2000 Volume 18 Number 5

Josh Beagle #9.

Houdini.

Slap - July 1996 Volume 5 Number 7

Pat Channita #2.

High Ya!

Pat was the second rider for Dukes. Since he is friends with Jeremy Wray and they both rode for Plan B, it was easy to see why he was added to the team. It's got to be a little awkward being a pro for a company and being in all the ads so I bet Jeremy was good with having a month off. I forgot Pat had a part in All Systems Go!, the classic video from 1998 by Pig Wheels. I gave the video a fresh viewing today and it made me nostalgic for Josh Beagle's music selections.

Daniel H. Sturt took the photo.

Transworld - September 1996 Volume 14 Number 9

Josh Beagle #10.

"I wake up at ten or eleven, get breakfast at McDonald's, eat half of it. Go skating for about two hours then eat the other half. Go home, eat more. Go back outside, skate for another two hours or so. Go home, eat a little more. Then I go to stores and buy stuff."

The life of a professional athlete in the mid 1990s.

John Fitzgerald can do some big ollies over stuff. His part in the new Hockey video is burly.

Heath Kirchart photos?

For the quote: Transworld - June 1994 Volume 12 Number 6

Slap - June 1997 Volume 6 Number 6

Daniel Shimizu #4.

Happy 30th birthday to the Foundation.

Tod Swank's little company keeps on chugging along after 30 years. I always like what they are doing and try to buy their videos or t-shirts whenever I can. It was cool to see Josh Beagle pop up in the anniversary party photos at Thrasher.

I picked out a bunch of random stuff from 2004 for the month. I'm going to try to come up with a spot story or two. I'll see how it goes. There might even be a couple days off because I'm going to squeeze in some vacation time from work.

Transworld - November 2004 Volume 22 Number 11