Ocean Howell #2.

"Ocean Howell typifies the new age beach hobo: scruffy, stylish and sweet."

Awesome.

More shoe companies need to keep the light gray colorway in the line up. Enough with the drips, splatters and rainbow color schemes. Just because you can screen a graphic on something, doesn't necessarily mean that you should.

Scott Starr did the camera work.

Thrasher - January 1993 Volume 13 Number 1

Steve Berra.

Backside kickflip to tail

Where to begin with Steve Berra? He started off as a vert am for Blockhead in Splendid Eye Torture and then switched over to the streets for 101, Alien Workshop, Birdhouse, Foundation and Television. He was one of my favorite pros during the 1990s, but not so much these days. I'm still looking forward to watching his part in Mind Field.

This is probably one of the last photos of him skating transition. I wish he stuck with being an all around skater instead of being strictly a street guy. If I could do backside indy 360s to fakie on vert, I'd want to make sure I kept that trick as long as possible.

The photo is by Dave Swift.

Transworld - October 1995 Volume 13 Number 10

Jordan Richter #2.

Jordan does a backside 180 kickflip at the Tracker (Climax Distribution) skatepark while wearing a Girl shirt.

Grant Brittain took the picture.

Transworld - August 1994 Volume 12 Number 8

Jordan Richter #1.

Jordan was the hot am for Santa Cruz and then cemented his place in skateboarding history with the least watched part in the Blind video. He joined up with the New Deal after Mark Gonzales and Jason Lee made their exits from Blind. He had a few tricks in the Children Of The Sun video and soon faded away from the public spotlight. You would always read rumors about him still skating in the late 1990s, but there wasn't ever much evidence to prove it.

Thrasher - May 1993 Volume 13 Number 5

Danny Sargent #2.

All my favorite pros from growing up are turning 40 this year. Danny was just in Thrasher talking about his cover from 1989 where he was doing a nosepick on a ledge.

Thrasher - May 1993 Volume 13 Number 5

Tom Groholski.

"Indy aerial at home in New Jersey."

There was a story in the Transworld gossip column about how Tom drove to a contest, wasn't feeling the scene, got back in his car and drove home. I like that.

It's another O photo.

Transworld - November 1989 Volume 7 Number 7

Kevin Staab.

The one thing that would always trip me out was how Staab would bend a rail to fit the nose of his board.

O photo.

Transworld - April 1989 Volume 7 Number 2