"When I was younger I found a banana board and pushed around it for awhile, but I didn't really get into skating until I was in high school. The skaters used to pick on me and my friends until one of my friends said, "Jessie has a skateboard," to them. Then the skaters only picked on me. They used to hassle me, like, "Where's your board?" I had some money saved up, so I bought a complete through mail order. It seemed like it took forever to arrive, but I was so stoked when I finally got it. It was a Kris Markovich Everslick with Evel Knievel jumping over some cars on a motorbike. I took the board to school and started skating with the other skaters at lunch hour and just got really into skating. It was all I wanted to do. So thanks for being a bully, Doss."
I always liked the Rookie ads.
The photo by Richard Hart
For the quote: Slap - February 2001 Volume 10 Number 2
4 comments:
this is the first ad in a very long time that I've not known either the rider or the company but in 2001 I was a mess and way out of the loop. I had the markovich deck he references, classic artwork.
she references...
The flash-based Rookie website is still around, 14 years later. http://rookieskateboards.com
Rookie was around from maybe 1998 to the early 2000s. They had a good blend of arty and skateboarding. The boards had some cool graphics. Also Tino Razzo rode for them.
I stumbled upon the Rookie website a while ago. They must have invested in the long term web hosting plan.
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