Jon West #5.

"I like all types of movies, but I love horror movies. I have a huge collection of hard-to-find horror movies, and my girlfriend got me a huge talking Freddy Kruger doll. And I have a Freddie Kruger head; you put your hand in his neck and squeeze this ball, and water shoots out of his mouth."

Jon was a staple of the Foundation team in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He was really into horror movies and often had fake blood spattered ads that earned ire of the overly sensitive folks at Transworld. Of course this ad is rendered in the classic F-Troop fun style with a silly Tod Swank drawing.

For the quote: Thrasher - March 1999 Volume 19 Number 3

Transworld - June 1999 Volume 17 Number 6

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

Gary Robinson.

Gary is from Vancouver, British Columbia. He had a part in Nervous Breakdown, the Foundation video from 1999. His section is full of high speed handrail and gap tricks. It's not a F-Troop week without an unknown am.

Transworld - January 2000 Volume 18 Number 1

Justin Strubing #8.

Buckets.

Capt. Strubing skids a frontside bluntslide on one of those plastic jersey barriers. I think he's wearing a pair of the second Marc Johnson model for Emerica. This was probably Justin's second ad on Foundation, after joining the team in May of 2000.

It's yet another week of Foundation just for the adventure of it all. I've got some other stuff scanned and ready, but it would have required more research than I felt like doing this week.

The weather was mostly decent over the holiday weekend. We've been generally mild for November, except for the most ridiculous winds the last week or two. It's rather annoying. The snow appears to have started today.

I decided to put new wheels on my board. I went with some 54s I've been sitting on for too long since I didn't feel like stepping up the set of 56s I have. The 54s felt good the first day, but then were kind of off the second day. My ollies were weird. My board is also creeping up to the end and my shoes might be wearing out, too. Depending on how the snow sticks around, these might be moot points. I think I want to end up using 55s once I clear out my stockpile of wheels.

Transworld - October 2000 Volume 18 Number 10

P.J. Ladd #4.

Pulp Reality.

This was probably P.J.'s first bit of major coverage. Notice that he's riding Tensors in the top ad. I wonder if he sent in any videos for the A-Team's trick contest?

I was a tad surprised not much of P.J.'s Element days were online. It's interesting to note that Element teased the Coliseum video in the third ad, which was also his last ad for them. It makes me think the video was intended to be released using the 411 media empire before he split for Flip. It's also worth noting he had the first two ads of 2002 for Element, which makes me think they had bigger plans for him. I guess we'll never know how that alternate timeline would have turned out.

I think it's probably better P.J. Ladd's Wonderful, Horrible, Life was released as more or less an independent shop video than for his part to be added to a Flip video. The success of the Coliseum video also helped launch the careers of Alexis Sablone, Jereme Rogers, and Ryan Gallant so that's another bonus of it being an indie flick.

With my production minutia musings out of the way, P.J. delivered an amazing debut part. I gave it a fresh viewing the other day. I didn't remember that he jumped down some bigger gaps and handrails. I think of him as more of a technical line skater. I really like his assorted shifty flip tricks.

As an added bonus, here is Pat Canale's review of the video:

Have a good holiday weekend!

Learn: Transworld - November 2000 Volume 18 Number 11

Ollie: Thrasher - January 2002 Volume 22 Number 1

Tailslider: Thrasher - February 2002 Volume 22 Number 2

Review: Big Brother - September 2002 Issue 68

East Coast Car Update.

The stars & their cars.

When you've got 300 pages to fill, you can do fun stuff like this. Transworld gives us the lowdown on what Bam, Kerry, Ryan, and Josh were driving in the year 2000.

The words are by Shad Lambert and the photos are by Ryan Gee.

Transworld - February 2001 Volume 19 Number 2

Jerry Hsu #12.

With Thrasher's recent contest at San Francisco's famed Clipper ledge, I coincidentally stumbled upon this sequence of Mr. Sci-Fi Fantasy stepping to a Louie Barletta style trick. I did not remember the maneuver at all so I did some internet research. It was in Jerry's part in Subject To Change, the Osiris video from 2003.

The photo sequence is by Pete Thompson.

Transworld - June 2002 Volume 20 Number 6