James Craig #4.

The Dark Knights.

This ad has the full team list for Darkstar in 1999. It's mostly A-Team and World Industries guys plus a few wildcards like Mako Urabe, Frank Hirata, Chad Tim Tim, Ronnie Bertino, and Adam McNatt. I like how they kept an ongoing series of team portraits across all the ads. Darkstar also used the same wheel art for each month.

The skateboarding photo is by Seu Trinh. The portraits are by Dave Malenfant.

Transworld - August 1999 Volume 17 Number 8

Chad Fernandez #2.

Extinction Level Event.

Darkstar was initially a wheel company launched by Chet Thomas when he was riding for the A-Team. The rollers were distributed by World Industries. Once the A-Team called it a day, Chet turned Darkstar into a board line. They went with a vaguely sinister and serious medieval theme of knights and castles. There's a quasi Powell Peralta influence on the graphics. I think if Darkstar had existed back when I was a freshman in high school, I probably would've been into what they were doing. Visuals aside, the team was stacked with a lot of heavy hitters of the era.

During the late 1990s and early 2000s, Chad was winning all the jousts with handrails. He had ridden for Creature, switched to Planet Earth, and then found a spot on World. Osiris was crafting the armor for his feet. Dude was putting a hurting on all the popular big rails and gaps of the day. Check out his part from The Storm for confirmation. It basically holds up for today with a solid mix of handrails and ledge tech.

Did anybody guess that it would be Darkstar for Halloween week? I put two tiny clues in previous posts as a hint. I was trying to think of something I hadn't used already when the idea of using the shadowy knights occurred to me.

Chris Ortiz took the action photo. The portraits are by Dave Malenfant.

Transworld - June 1999 Volume 17 Number 6

Jeremy Wray #14.

Splendid Eye Torture 50-50s.

Jeremy displays some serious handrail virtuosity in 1996. I tried to scan as much of the Dukes stuff as I could so it is all in one place. The company wasn't around for very long and it made sense to group everything together instead of saving something for later. I wanted to include the shoes for the sake of archiving the past.

Jeremy got his sponsorship start on Blockhead, Thunder, and Spitfire. Even being a big Blockhead fan, I tend to forget that he rode for Dave Bergthold's skateplank company because you primarily associate him with Color, Plan B, and Element. His late brother Jonas was also sponsored and rode for Black Label, Clean, Platinum, and Media over the years. Jeremy is still out there skateboarding and making art.

Vert Is Dead will be back for a dark Halloween week starting on Monday, October 26th.

I set up a new board. I'm giving an 8.25" a try. It feels about the same as the odd 8.125" shape that I've been riding for years. The slightly wider board seems more stable. I wanted to try it out when the weather was decent enough to figure whether it will work or not. I've been skating like crap for the last couple months so it hasn't been a lot of fun. I think I need to take a break to give my knees and ankles some time off. I'm also trying to take advantage of the nice fall we've been having so I still want to get outside as much as I can. Have a good weekend!

The skateboarding photos are by Daniel H. Sturt.

Up: Transworld - June 1996 Volume 14 Number 6

Down: Transworld - July 1996 Volume 14 Number 7

Shoes: Transworld - October 1995 Volume 13 Number 10

Jerry Fowler & Rick Jaramillo.

Demolishing & Destroying.

Dukes expanded the team to include Jerry and Rick in 1997. Jerry was on Rhythm and Rick was riding for Planet Earth at the time. I think these were the only ads each guy had for Dukes. The company wasn't around much longer due to some business shuffling by Steve Rocco. Jerry would go on to ride for Converse while Rick was winding down the pro skateboarding side of his life. These shoes are somewhat bulky and odd looking. They venture out into strange Airwalk territory. In reviewing the models Dukes made, I like the first Jeremy Wray shoe the best.

Chris Ortiz got to go take pictures of skateboarding while Atiba Jefferson was stuck in the office getting photos of the shoes.

Jerry: Transworld - July 1997 Volume 15 Number 7

Rick: Transworld - September 1997 Volume 15 Number 9

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

Jeremy Wray #13.

Raising the bar.

Jeremy's great-uncle was the cartoonist Mort Walker, the creator of Beetle Bailey and Hi & Lois.

The photos are by Daniel H. Strut.

Noseslide: Transworld - October 1995 Volume 13 Number 10

Backside lip: Transwold - February 1996 Volume 14 Number 2

Jeremy Wray #12.

Dukes was Jeremy Wray's shoe company. These are the first two ads from 1995. He had previously ridden for Airwalk and would move on to Adio when Dukes ended. The shoe line was distributed by Plan B/World Industries so I'm making the educated guess that Duffs handled the manufacturing of the kicks. Daniel H. Strut was the photographer and brought his distinctive images to the project. Jeremy was in nearly all the ads. At the same time, he was productive enough and pushing skateboarding forward so there was no shortage of amazing photos. I didn't pay too much attention to Dukes since I wasn't really into Plan B and the assorted affiliated World stuff, but as enough years have passed, the ads have held up great. It's strange to think skateboarding supported its own shoe brands enough that a pro could reasonably do his own thing thirty years ago.

Lipslide: Transworld - July 1995 Volume 13 Number 7

Ollie: Transworld - August 1995 Volume 13 Number 8

Gershon Mosley #9.

Overlap.

Gershon does a switch Smith grind on a handrail. Based on his Transworld interview from December 1995, he was into hip hop and The Sundays for music. Some of his favorite skaters were Marc Johnson, Jamie Thomas, and Mike Vallely. He was stoked on skating vert and felt it was a natural progression from mini ramps. GMOS rode for Simple before Etnies/Emerica.

This is the ender on the look back at the transition from Etnies to Emerica. It was interesting to see how the changes happened. There was some team shuffling and riders departed for other sponsors as skateboarding grew in popularity in the later half of the 1990s. For instance, Gershon moved on to Osiris by November of 1997 and then switched to Globe by the end of 1998. Another fun one is Rune Glifberg. He was on Airwalk after Emerica and possibly departed Airwalk after his October 1998 Slap cover where he was wearing Vans. He belonged on Axion anyway. It's cool that Emerica is still going today, even with all the up and downs that go with skateboarding.

Vert Is Dead is taking a fall break.

I'll fire this thing up again on Monday, October 12th.

I might end up only doing two weeks of stuff this month. I've got something dark planned for Halloween and could opt to take it easy. I'll see how it goes. I've been skateboarding a little after work since the weather has been still been warm. Have a good one!

Thrasher - January 1997 Volume 17 Number 1

Chris Senn #16.

Overground.

It somehow made sense that Chris won Thrasher's SOTY for 1995. I can't really explain it, but it seemed like the correct choice at the time. This is perhaps because SOTY was a tad more low key back then and not the all out marketing campaign it has become in the last 15 years. The March 1996 issue that announced Chris had won featured Ron Whaley on the cover with only a blurb proclaiming the Senn Dog as the top skater of 1995. He did have a full interview. The award was an important thing, yet it was also treated with less reverence. When Eric Koston won for 1996, he cool guy'd an interview and the mag ran two pages of photos, which included a sequence from the X-Games. It's interesting how things change over time and to note the differences between different eras.

Thrasher - November 1996 Volume 16 Number 11

Darren Navarrette #19.

Dig for fire.

Thrasher - October 1996 Volume 16 Number 10

Phil Shao #16.

Dump Truck.

Phil takes flight at Fort Miley. The photo was probably taken around the same time as his Thrasher cover where he grinded the top bar. It's not the same session because he's wearing a white shirt and riding a board with black wheels on the cover. This Emerica ad could almost double as a Sheep ad. It's wild to think Sole Tech had enough gas in the tank to briefly field four different shoes lines in skateboarding in the late 1990s.

Thrasher - September 1996 Volume 16 Number 9

Tim Brauch #21.

Hiding in the shadows.

Tim's ad would be the first Emerica ad that looked like an Emerica ad with the new company name. I think he's doing a mute air of some sort over a hip in the photo. Tim was moved back to the Etnies roster by December of 1997. I went with another week of Emerica because it completes the story of the changeover and established what the company would be going forward. Plus there are some cool skaters in the ads.

Thrasher - August 1996 Volume 16 Number 8

Rune Glifberg #9.

The dawn of Emerica.

This is the first formal Emerica ad from 30 years ago. It looks like they moved the whole Etnies squad over to the new brand. Etnies was then put on the back burner until the later 1990s since they were also focusing on the all-star team at éS. There are a few long forgotten names on the list. The team didn't stay this big for long as many of the riders left for other shoe companies like Axion, DC, Globe, Osiris, and Vans.

I didn't really have much going on this week. I skateboarded some, but I think I'm worn out and need a bit of a break. Hope everybody has a good weekend.

Thrasher - July 1996 Volume 16 Number 7

Gershon Mosley #8.

Automation avoidance.

GMOS was wrecking spots for a good chunk of the 1990s. He was pushing what you could do with switch stance skateboarding as well as skating mini ramps. He had previously ridden for Powell and Human before joining the A-Team in the fall of 1997. This is essentially an Emerica ad masquerading as an Etnies ad.

Thrasher - June 1996 Volume 16 Number 6

Jamie Thomas #19.

Nice receptionist.

This ad is an outlier in the changeover from Etnies to Emerica. Jamie's trick and headband basically dictated a vintage 1970s look. The 50-50 was in Welcome To Hell, which premiered right about the same time as the mag hit the newsstands. I imagine they wanted a last call for their old style of design before starting the new project. Or maybe not, as they did use something somewhat similar for the debut of Emerica. I like everything about this one.

Thrasher - May 1996 Volume 16 Number 5

Dan Drehobl #37.

Decay of modern society.

It's neat to see how Etnies developed the aesthetic for Emerica in their last couple ads under the old name. Yogi Proctor was the graphic designer and he had a vision for what the artwork should be. Emerica has more or less stayed consistent with this look over the decades. Obviously there will be changes as time passes, but they haven't strayed too far from the original concepts.

I don't associate Dan with Etnies as much as I do with Emerica. This must've been his first ad for Etnies since I don't recall any others. He had his fair share of ads for Emerica in the later 1990s and early 2000s before he switched to Vans. It's also a little odd to see him wearing the Etnies shirt since he usually wears thrift store tees, plain shirts or button downs.

Thrasher - April 1996 Volume 16 Number 4

Chris Senn #15.

Etnies America.

I decided to take a look at the transformation of Etnies to Emerica for the next two weeks. The publicly visible part of the change happened in 1996 and moved along from month to month in the ads that ran in Thrasher. I'm sure there was more behind the scenes stuff that took longer, but the advertisements create an easy to follow chronological breakdown of what happened. I'm going by memory so things might end up a tad hazy. Anyway, this Etnies ad has the company listed as Etnies America. I'm considering it the starting point of the changeover.

Chris Senn is in peak SOTY form in this ad. His son Anakin makes a guest appearance. It's wild to think the kid would grow up to be a pro skateboarder like his dad.

Thrasher - March 1996 Volume 16 Number 3

Sean Mullendore #12.

Tones of magenta.

Sean squeezes a switch 50/50 against a wall in an alley. I didn't remember this Capital ad and thought I'd covered most of their stuff. It's always nice to unearth something you had missed or forgotten about. Sean ripped around DC and was sponsored by Capital, Stereo, Circuit Wheels, and a few other companies.

The season is slowly changing from summer to fall, although our weather tends to stay mild for the weeks ahead. I've been trying to fit in skateboarding whenever possible, but the lack of daylight and occasional rain is throwing me off. The next feature will be a look at how Etnies switched over to being Emerica. I've got some Dukes Shoes and possibly éS planned for the future. Have a good weekend out there.

The photos are by Ben Wagner.

Big Brother - Spring 1997 Issue 25

Wade Speyer #15.

Evil Eye.

Wade trucks a frontside pivot up to the top of a tall vert wall. I like this photo and had been looking for the ad for a while, but couldn't find until recently. The trick was in his part in Dedication, the Think video from 1998. That's the part where Wade destroys the spine ramp at the indoor park in Antioch.

RIP MIC-E.

"This year Mic-E Reyes is at the helm and he never sleeps."

For the Real ad: Slap - September 1995 Volume 4 Number 9

Thrasher - April 1997 Volume 17 Number 4

Scott Bourne #12.

Bourne winner.

I watched the Mongolia trip section from Strongest of the Strange a couple of times recently. Scott traveled to Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia, with Pontus Alv, Muki Rüstig, Vincent Gootzen, and a young Chris Pfanner. If I recall correctly, he had a rough journey because a vegan diet isn't an easy option out there. I think the part is really cool because of the atmosphere the less traveled location creates for skateboarding. The crew still manages to find some ramps and hit a few street spots. The plaintive Neil Young song sets the proper tone for the place and the distance they travelled. It's neat to see Pfanner blast a couple of big gaps and stairs before he became a household name.

The photo is by Bryce Kanights.

Slap - March 2001 Volume 10 Number 3

Louie Lopez #2.

Consolidated was right.

The general talk in skateboarding lately has been of the team cuts at Converse. I guess the brand isn't selling as many shoes as they used to in the heyday of the Cherry era and parent company Nike is looking to make some adjustments to help the bottom line. It sucks for some of the riders who aren't the bigger names because they probably won't be able to land another shoe sponsor simply because the money isn't out there.

It's strange that this spot hasn't changed much since Steve Nesser ollied it back in 2006. I wonder what the place is?

Thrasher - July 2021 Volume 42 Number 7

Adidas.

It's no wonder the big time shoe companies found it hard to gain traction in skateboarding in the 1990s. They were simply trying too hard to be hip and followed many of the awkward alternative advertising trends of the era. It's also worth noting that DC and éS were inspired by the aesthetics of the bigger shoe brands and pulled it off much better than who they were inspired by.

It's one more week of random stuff and then I've got a couple features ready to go. I wanted to get the early days of Adidas out of the way since it was on my mind.

Tongue: Thrasher - March 1997 Volume 17 Number 3

Positrak: Thrasher - October 1996 Volume 16 Number 10

Fire: Thrasher - September 1996 Volume 16 Number 9

Rob Welsh #11.

Neon Optical Art.

Rob preserves his graphics with a frontside bluntslide. He's riding an Aesthetics board and would turn pro for them later on in 1999. This has to be one of the more disorienting and vibrant Venture ads ever.

Vert Is Dead is on a late summer break.

I'm taking next week off from this thing. There's a chance I might take two weeks off. I'll see how it goes. I've found a few interesting items that I have to put together. It feels like I never have time for stuff any more.

I'm still looking for the Adidas Norton ad with Paulo Diaz. It was a sequence of him doing a manual trick in a garage or warehouse setting. The shoes were available from Sartorius in 1995, which corresponds to the release date I found. I've checked most of the Transworlds and Thrashers from 1994 to 1997 and haven't found anything. I'm wondering if it ran in a different mag or even a non-skating mag? I'm going to put this one on the back burner because it is driving me crazy. I don't really like Adidas so I'm not sure what my motivation is to find it beyond proving that it exists. I did find a couple of other Adidas ads. If you think Nike had an awkward initial foray into skateboarding, Adidas struck out swinging on three straight pitches.

There's been rain and early sunsets so skateboarding has been lackluster lately. I did check out the new park on the Seneca Nation's Reservation. It's a little Grindline creation with some ledges, a tiny hip, quarter pipes, and a bowled wall type of obstacle. The place is really fun and has me stoked on skateboarding again. Have a good weekend!

Slap - April 1999 Volume 8 Number 4

Skip Pronier #11.

Brickyard.

I've always been a fan of Skip after reading a couple of interviews with him in Thrasher and Transworld a very long time ago. He rode for the Black Label, Vans, Indy, and TSA Clothing.

The photo is by Dean Yoshihara.

Thrasher - June 1997 Volume 17 Number 6

Javier Mendizabal #8.

Barbed wire skies.

I gave Strongest of the Strange a rewatch a couple weeks ago. It's such a great video and hard to believe 21 years have passed since it was released. Javier has one of my favorite parts ever. He's living in France, painting, and surfing these days after being pro for Cliché. I never knew that Javier was getting some boards from Stereo.

The photo is credited to Palo. I'm not sure on a full name.

Slap - November 1999 Volume 8 Number 7

Brad Hayes #2.

Here for a good time, not a long time.

Good Times Operation (GTO) was a clothing company from San Diego that was around in 1995. The team was Marc Johnson, Brad Hayes, and Tony Tieu. Marc was often wearing their shirts at the time and that's what made me think of them. GTO also had a women's line called Ethyl. Brad rode for Acme, Origin, Volcom, and a couple other companies. According to the quote section in Big Brother once, his sponsor me tape was heavy.

Transworld - November 1995 Volume 13 Number 11

Josh Kalis #16.

Three Stripes.

The early days of Adidas sponsoring skaters recently came up on the Mostly Skateboarding podcast. I'm inclined to believe Josh was on Adidas for a hot minute by virtue of being in an ad for them. He was wearing shell toes on the cover of the November 1995 issue of Transworld, too. Julien Stranger is also wearing these shoes in an Anti-Hero ad from February of 1996 so Adidas must've been making some effort to get into skateboarding. Did Josh ever discuss the sponsorship? I don't recall him doing so, but he does give a lot of interviews so I could've easily missed it. I wonder if this was maybe a one-off advertising project? It's an interesting little detour before Josh would find his home at DC Shoes. It would take more than a few years before Adidas finally staked out their space in the skateboard footwear marketplace.

Transworld - June 1996 Volume 14 Number 6

Roman Gonzalez.

Classical architecture.

Roman is from Paris and lives in Marsille. He's been on Polar a long time and turned pro in 2021. I don't know too much about him. I keep buying his boards because they are always in the size I like. This is a good use of the two shot sequence, which can sometimes look very awkward.

I set up a new board last night. You can probably figure out from the post what it is. I've been trying to skate the park a little more since the lights are on and the sun sets earlier. I want to get to some of the other local parks, but never have the time or the weather ends up being weird. Skateboarding hasn't really been a lot of fun lately. I keep trying, but nothing ever clicks. It's getting frustrating. Have a good weekend.

Thrasher - March 2021 Volume 42 Number 3

Daniel Bergström.

Computer Age.

Daniel Bergström, formerly Håkansson, had the last part in Strongest of the Strange. This was Pontus Alv's first video from 2005 that laid the framework for what Polar would be. Daniel is from Malmö, Sweden and likes to skate odd, crusty spots. I only know a minimal amount of information about him. I feel content with one video part from twenty years ago where he absolutely crushed every spot to the sounds of Sonic Youth covering Neil Young.

The photo is by Nils Svensson. I had to crop it a little since it awkwardly ran across two pages.

Free - March/April 2022 Issue 41

Dave Mayhew #4.

Enjoy hats.

It's a bit of that classic Marc Johnson humor. In an era when everything was either hesh and serious or fresh and serious, a little silliness went a long way to stand out from what everybody else was doing. That's the spirit Marc brought to skateboarding and part of why he was so important.

Transworld - May 2001 Volume 19 Number 5

Spitfire Fun Facts.

Nitpicking.

The flame head logo actually first appeared in the May 1992 issue of Thrasher. It was in most of the ads after that. I'm not sure how they got December 1993 beyond somebody not doing enough research. I'm more than a little surprised Billy Pepper was mentioned in the Mag.

The bit about Frank Gerwer sending riders he wasn't stoked on the wrong size wheels is pure comedy gold.

Thrasher - December 2025 Volume 46 Number 12

Bam Margera & Matt Hensley.

The lonesome crowded west.

I was wondering why Bam's new Zero ad was lacking the impact of Daniel Sturt's iconic picture of Matt Hensley. I didn't recall the big trees being there. It turns out the world's largest cowboy hat and boots were moved to a new location in 2003 so it is impossible to take the same photograph again. In all honesty, Bam's photo is very good, especially when you see it in print, but it doesn't have the sense of space that elevates the picture of Matt to a classic image of the American open road.

The photos are by Green Gage and Daniel H. Sturt.

Bam: Thrasher - September 2026 Volume 47 Number 9

Matt: Transworld - February 1992 Volume 10 Number 2

Jake Johnson #9.

Keep on complying.

Jake steps to a no-comply over a famous Barcelona barrier. I thought this was a sick photo when it came out over a decade ago and it has held up enough in the information overload age to stay in my memory. I unintentionally wound up with back to back no-comply covers.

Has anybody ever hit for the cycle on covers by being on all the mags? That would be Thrasher, Transworld, Slap, Big Brother, Skateboarder, and The Skateboard Mag. You'd get some bonus points if you made it on the front of Poweredge, Warp, Heckler, or Stance, too. I think maybe one to three pros have done the Big Six plus Poweredge.

I completely forgot to include Transworld in the week. Oops.

Have a good weekend!

The photo is by Dan Zaslavsky.

Thrasher - October 2015 Volume 36 Number 10

Rune Glifberg #8.

Incineration.

Rune does a no-comply on the mini ramp at Empire of One Skate Shop in Flint, Michigan. This is good use of a bold black and white photo with only a smidge of red added to create emphasis. On a newsstand of color covers, the issue would jump out by being distinct in its own way. It's a little odd seeing Rune wearing those Vans with the double wide stripe. Maybe he didn't have a shoe sponsor in 1998? He started riding for Axion in 1999. I picked this cover because it was a skater doing an unexpected trick on different terrain than we are used to seeing them on.

Lance Dawes was the photographer.

Slap - October 1998 Volume 7 Number 10

Steve & Alex Olson.

The Freight Train & The Greyhound.

Steve teams up with his son Alex to do some doubles at the Supreme bowl in Los Angeles. You don't see doubles covers very often, which is probably a good thing and maybe the only time skateboarding actually does something in moderation. That's why this image occurred to me when I was picking out mags to scan. This is also unique in that Steve was on the cover of Skateboarder back in 1979 and Alex made the front in 2005. I'm not really sure what they were going for with those nicknames. Their interview was a whole bunch of hilarious bickering back and forth about stuff.

Note: I filled in the white box for the address label since it was an easy fix.

The photograph is by Giovanni Reda.

Skateboarder - November 2007 Volume 17 Number 3

Daewon Song #10.

Epic Pole Jam.

This was one of the final tricks in Daewon's part from Skate More, the DVS video from 2005. I remember being amazed by the skinny rock to fakie when the magazine came out. It's a relatively basic move done on a completely unstable obstacle, which makes it relatable yet seem utterly impossible. I imagine I saw the video after the mag came out due to the turnaround time on ordering Skate More. I don't think it lessened the impact of the trick, unlike when a shoe company drops the footage for a cover in a 14 second standalone commercial for an issue that technically shouldn't be out for another two months. There's no sense of wonder any more. Enough grousing about how everything is awful these days, let's get back to Daewon. He refined his schoolyard techniques and took his talents to assorted ditches, banks, loading docks, flatbed trailers, and whatever other out of the way spots he could find. To be exact, he hit up the well known spots of the day, too. In the end, the result was some very creative skateboarding and one of the most important video parts of the last 25 years.

Anthony Acosta took the photo.

The Skateboard Mag - August 2005 Issue 17

Bam Margera #8.

The OG Man Ramp.

It feels like Bam has come full circle back to what allowed him to do the movies and television shows in the first place: the skateboarding. I don't mind it. He seems to be having fun and is in a good place.

In looking at old issues of Big Brother, they sure put a lot of poop jokes on the cover. It actually made me pass on a couple of issues when I was figuring out what to scan.

I decided enough time has elapsed since I picked out some favorite covers that I could revisit the topic. I'm not sure if I necessarily picked out any favorites and went with random ones that were compelling for whatever reason. I tried to get a sampling of all the mags, too.

The photo is by Rick Kosick.

Big Brother - July 2001 Number 74

John Cardiel #22.

Where eagles dare.

Cards gets a 50-50 on a ledge with the help of his friends. I figured I had to wrap up a week of Anti-Hero with a classic.

I don't have much going on lately. I took the week off from skateboarding to hang out with some friends who were in town for the summer. I've been trying to be outside more, but it sort of doesn't feel like summer. I can't believe how fast the time goes now. Have a good weekend.

Slap - May 1999 Volume 8 Number 5

Tony Trujillo #8.

Police files.

Tony's interview in the March 2026 issue of Thrasher is a good read. He talks about some health problems he has had, getting sober for the benefit of his kids, the pluses and minuses of being around Jake Phelps, working as a stage hand, and playing in a band. It's cool to take in some of his stories about touring for skateboarding and music. It's also cool to see how he's grown as a person after nearly 30 years in the spotlight.

Slap - October 1998 Volume 7 Number 10

Bob Burnquist #12.

Maximum weirdness.

Bob glides through a unique one footed noseslide at Hubba Hideout. He was kicking his foot off for backside Smith grinds on vert so this was probably somewhere in his zone of odd things he felt comfortable doing on a skateboard. While researching this week, I discovered that Bob has never been featured on the Chrome Ball Incident.

Slap - February 1999 Volume 8 Number 2

Bob Burnquist & Tony Trujillo.

Circa 1999.

Bob flexes his street skills and Tony kickflips at the old days of a Vans park. That black & white photo always sketched me out. It looks scary.

Slap - July 1999 Volume 8 Number 7