Jason Adams #9.

Slappy Hour.

Jason has had a lot of noseslide on handrail photos over the years.

Revolution was a wheel company done by the Black Label. A lot of the guys on the Label also rode for them, along with Alan Petersen and Chris Senn.

Slap - July 2001 Volume 10 Number 7

Nate Jones #2.

Roots. Rock. Radical.

Slap - March 2001 Volume 10 Number 3

Tony Trujillo #3.

The money will roll right in.

Slap - February 2001 Volume 10 Number 2

Wade Speyer #10.

"He always wants you to do your dishes. He always says, "Do your dish." That's Wade's famous quote in the kitchen. Wade hates dirty dishes." - Karma Tsocheff

Karma dishes the dirt on Wade. The two were roommates back in the early 1990s. They also both rode for Dogtown.

For the quote: Thrasher - November 1993 Volume 13 Number 11

Thrasher - February 1999 Volume 19 Number 2

Salman Agah #4.

Powell Peralta to Real to The Firm to Real to Black Label to running a pizza shop.

I watched Salman's part in Black Label's Black Out video from 2003 the other night. For being a big guy, he is nimble enough on his feet to spin backside 180 nosegrinds to 180 out. That's a beautiful looking trick when it is done right. Thrasher's 1993 SOTY still has a board out on Black Label's Legend Division.

I like the music in the new part from Alien Workshop featuring Frankie Spears. The kid rips.

Thrasher - January 1999 Volume 19 Number 1

Pontus Alv #2.

"Yeah. Oh, they have no idea what Mad Circle is or was. It’s funny; I was talking to my artist Jacob Ovgren today about this. Another friend of ours was just in LA skating around and they were all super hyped on Polar in LA then he asked them like, “Have you seen his films? The stuff he did before?” and they were just like, “No, we never heard of them.” I think that’s funny though. Sometimes I think we take for granted that people know everything about everything. If you didn’t skate five years ago, why should you know what happened ten years ago?"

Pontus is from Malmö, Sweden. He rode for Mad Circle, Arcade, and Cliché. There were a few years without a board sponsor before starting Polar. He also made a couple of films, Strongest Of The Strange and In Search Of The Miraculous, that showcased skateboarding in Sweden and all over the globe. I'm a huge fan of Polar and it's probably my favorite thing in skateboarding right now. I think the boards are great, the graphics are well done, and the team is ripping, even if I don't fully know who they are. But it's all cool.

For the quote: Transworld - February 2015 Volume 33 Number 2

Slap - April 1998 Volume 7 Number 4

Louie Barletta #2.

"I love it! I only did what I saw guys like Neil Blender, Lance Mountain, and Jeff Grosso doing. Blame them! No, seriously, having fun comes in all forms from all different angles. To some, fun is big handrails. To others, it's a tall can and a red curb. The fun and satisfying thing about it is self-expression. The only thing that would bum me out is to see people doing it 'cause someone deemed it a hot new trend."

Rocking the Sketchers. Sorry, Lou.

An interesting note about this ad is that Sonic ran an ad five months later introducing Louie as a new team rider. He was doing a hurricane at Hubba Hideout.

For the quote: Thrasher - December 2014 Volume 34 Number 12

Thrasher - April 1997 Volume 17 Number 4