Ed Selego #4.

Hitting the bricks.

Ed's doing a wallie to backside lipslide on a steep brick planter. I picked this one out because I thought it was a different view for an uncommon trick.

Are Habitat and Alien Workshop now under distribution by Quasi?

The photograph is by Ian O'Connor.

Transworld - June 2004 Volume 22 Number 6

Ryan Gallant #3.

The new Orion.

Silver was a truck brand started in 2003 by Rob Dyrdek. Syndrome Distribution handled the production logistics. I figure that Orion Trucks ended in 2002 and Rob wanted to establish a new sponsor. The team had some heavy hitters of the day, including Josh Kalis, Paul Rodriguez, and Stevie Williams. Silver was around for a while and lasted until the early 2020s with the expected roster changes along the way. I never had a pair so I don't know what they were like, but I believe Silvers didn't get the best reviews ever. I do think the kids rode them at the skatepark with their plastic cored wheels.

Transworld - May 2004 Volume 22 Number 5

Anex Trucks.

Built to hardflip.

Rodney Mullen wasn't the only guy from the A-Team who was into truck design. Chet Thomas launched Anex in the spring of 2004. I'm making an educated guess that Chet started or worked with a separate distributor outside of Dwindle since the trucks are listed as available through Aparatus Inc. The team included Canadian rippers Gailea Momolu and Pierre-Luc Gagnon.

I found this in the thrift store on Saturday:

Transworld - June 2004 Volume 22 Number 6

Dan Drehobl #33.

Smoking tailslide.

I've been giving Dan's old video parts a fresh viewing recently. It's weird how you used to watch a bunch of the same videos repeatedly to pick up on every detail and nuance until you had them memorized. I imagine that still happens, but I can't picture doing that in the current information overload world. Dan had quite the run in the 1990s and 2000s. It makes me wonder why "I'd rather watch Drehobl pivot to fakie" never became a thing. Perhaps it is for the best it didn't.

The wheel gimmicks were wild twenty years ago.

Thrasher - June 2004 Volume 24 Number 6

Zered Bassett #6.

ZnZ throwing down in the Zoo York days. He had been riding for Alltimers until the company recently called it a day. Supposedly he had an offer to ride for Girl if anything went south at Zoo in the 00s, but he never took them up on it. Zered should look into whether the opportunity is still there to join the Crailtap camp.

Giovanni Reda elevated Zered's skateboard stunts to fine art status.

Transworld - October 2002 Volume 20 Number 10

Chris Lambert #3.

Inerlock.

Expedition One crafted decks with built in mounting hardware. You would need an Allen wrench or a screwdriver to set up a board, but you wouldn't need a wrench. I guess that saves some time or labor. It looks like riser pads are maybe out of the question. I'd venture a guess they sawed an Orion truck off for the product display photo. I perhaps saw one or two of these boards in real life. It was long enough ago that I honestly don't recall. I can't tell if Inerlock would be a good idea or not. It's probably better than hardware you hammer into the deck, although it might not be much of an improvement.

Note: I posted each page individually. The ad ran with Chris holding the board as page one and then the others as a two page spread, if that makes sense. I thought it worked better for the net as three single pages.

Jody Morris snapped the skateboarding photo sequence.

Transworld - November 2002 Volume 20 Number 11

Brian Anderson & Rune Glifberg.

Real Action Heroes.

Axion beefed up their squad with a pair of heavy hitters in BA and Rune at the end of the 1990s.

These shoes look like they are from the future. So why aren't we wearing kicks like this 25 years later? Is the best we can come up with a collaboration by two different brands that are owned by the same corporate entity?

Brian's photo is by Atiba Jefferson. Rune's photo is by Proodian. I am not sure on a first name for him.

Transworld - December 1999 Volume 17 Number 12