Tony Hawk #6.

The Birdman flips his board.

With the recent release of the film All This Mayhem, my Ben and Tas Pappas post has been getting a lot of traffic. I have not seen the video, but I've been reading about the aftermath from the 900. Tas has made the claim that Tony pulled some strings to keep him out of the best trick contest on ESPN in 1999. Skateboarding journalism stepped up and interviewed many of the people involved in the event to get all the facts straight about this particular contest. It does not appear that there was any sort of conspiracy by Tony to keep Tas off ESPN. But then again, the conspiracy theorists would like you to believe that.

Given my track record of not watching movies, I doubt I will ever watch All This Mayhem. Plus it's made by Vice and after the shenanigans they pulled to kick Death By Audio out so they could have a fancy new office, I'm over all things Vice.

Sorry, Australia. Don't hate me.

Steve Sherman snapped the photo sequence.

Thrasher - October 1993 Volume 13 Number 10

Chris Miller #10.

Mr. Miller skids a bluntslide on a slick with rails.

Transworld - February 1992 Volume 10 Number 2

Jason Carney #2.

June Cate's friend takes a backside tailslide down a handrail.

I sort of feel Jason was under appreciated for what he was doing back in the day. He was one of the first to take tricks like backside lipslides to handrails. I watched a couple of June's video parts last week and Jason had a few tricks. Everything he did was so solid and done with more pop than most. His approach to skateboarding foreshadowed what is going on today with guys like Brandon Westgate.

Transworld - November 1992 Volume 10 Number 11

Jahmal Williams #3.

Static.

Jahmal had the last part in Josh Stewart's recent Static V video. He is running Hopps Skateboards currently after riding for several different companies over the years.

Skateboarding's fascination with running photos small perplexes me at times. There's a few ads I won't scan in because the pictures are just so tiny. I understand that sometimes there isn't room to run a photo larger or if a picture has a few flaws then a smaller size makes sense. This ad is dynamic, but it's hard to tell what's going on.

Transworld - December 1992 Volume 10 Number 12

Vert Is Dead Interview At Skately.

Kevin at Skately asked me a few questions about the website and I typed out some rambling answers. Enjoy.

The Interview

Kelly Bird #2.

Pressure flipping.

The current day brand manager at Lakai takes a pressure flip down some stairs. Kelly turned pro for New School and then switched to Real. He moved behind the scenes to team manage at DC Shoes before joining up with Rick Howard and Mike Carroll.

I swear he's got a cigarette in his mouth for the trick, but it is hard to tell from the photos.

The sequence is by Joe "Xeno" Lloyd.

Thrasher - March 1992 Volume 12 Number 3

Skaterman.

The top ten reasons to skateboard from the home office in Santa Barbara, California.

Powell tries the comic thing again. It's funny, but not as good as Sean Cliver's Everything Sucks. I'm not even positive who the artist was on this one. It was possibly John Keester.

Enjoy your retirement, Dave. I'm a month late on that.

Transworld - September 1992 Volume 10 Number 9