Trash

Thrasher Magazine, May, 2003

Down for Life

No mag logo but it is our shirt. We'll take it. Ryan church, needle and the damage done

STRAIGHT SHOT

IN THE TIGHTEN-YOUR-BELT DEPARTMENT, ARCADE CUT Arkansas assassin Daniel Haney and Inglewood's Malcolm Watson from the team. It'll be hard to think of Arcade without Haney, but we'll try. Chet Childress decided to Just Do It and will be reverting backside and bucketing muck in some sweet new Nikes. Other Nike recruits include Daniel Shimizu and Pat "Street Rake" Rakestraw, formerly of Reef.

Underground upstart Justin Eldridge has joined the Chocolate camp after chomping up everything in LA. Photos next month.

Upon premier of the big Emerica vid, This is Skateboarding, many were shocked to realize that long-time rider Danny Barley was not featured. It seems Don has left the team, and, in another surprising turn, has ended his board sponsor dry spell by signing on with Bucky and the boys over at Birdhouse. No word on new kicks for the king of the 180 to switch Smith.

FULL PIPE

In other shoe news, Peter Hewitt left long-time sponsor Vans to ride for Markovich's 88. Hollywood star Don "The Nuge" Nguyen has also signed on the dotted line, ending his relationship with 4ce. At Hollywood, Don gained a teammate when 'Vich added former DNA hot shoe James Atkin to the roster. James will be squeaking on Pig wheels.

Atkin's close bro, Anthony "Ragdoll" Scalamari, has forsaken his beloved slip-ons and will be going buck in Duffs.

Not that anyone would notice, but Aaron Vandenbulke is off Supernaut.

Demon child Knox Godoy is off Baker, for undisclosed reasons, but has joined up with the Bird to represent Hawk Clothing. In an unrelated Hawk development, Tony appeared on a recent episode of the Simpsons where he befriended Bart, then battled Homer high above an especially suspect-looking halfpipe. If you missed that one, catch the Bird in current Doritos ads which includes, among other feats, Hawk performing a one-wheeled 360 while taking a shower.

Meanwhile, another bizarre teaming on the tube finds Hawk co-creating a Monster Garage project with Jesse James on the Discovery channel. The team's accompllshment is a mobile skate ramp/motor home/boom box/billboard. Tony's achievement in riding this magnificently dangerous monstrosity while it was moving deserves props. Jesse James' insistence that it needed to be skated while it was rolling down the 405 freeway proves that the erstwhile mechanic has been Surfside neighbors with Little Joey Dugan, Fat Mark, Sarge Dellis, Steve Saiz and Nervesco for too long.

Meanwhile, in the dreams really-do-come-true department, DC snatched up heelflippin' hellion Lindsey Robertson and the Bean Town blaster Ryan Gallant, who went bananas for the Wonderful, Horrible...DVD Seen that? Nice call there, Dyrdek!

Terror skateboards is picking up steam, with henchmen Glen and Pino dividing time between building the washington Street Park and creating a line of shred-ready planks for the true gnarler. They've got an office and Pino has even been seen toting a laptop, so you know it's serious.

Former number one ranked National Scholastic Surfing Association rider Greg Escalante was surrounded by angry locals and chased from the water north of the Huntington Beach Pier. The reason for this expulsion is shrouded in mystery Was it the curator's bared teeth and mad dog antics? Was it his wearing of an offensive long board leash? Or was it Gregorio's domination and over-consumption of all the available fine art the night before at a Long Beach auction of surfing artifacts? Can the ex-professional surfer turned arts empressario ever find happiness again in the HB Pier matrix?

POLE POSITION

Up the coast a few hundred miles in Santa Cruz, some local surfers and sea kayakers are hoping to raise five-large to print up a brochure entitled "The Surfing way," more or less an etiquette guide on dropping-in and wave-side manners for kooks, trannies, blatant locals and the like.

CONTAX CIRCLE JERK

Don Brown Snidely Whiplash Patrick O'Dell and Ed Templeton share the magic of the new Contax T3. Oh joy!

With an influx of white collars crowding the sets that aren't getting any more frequent, along with the kayakers and others, the unity squad is making a last effort to give peace a chance on the water before the "surf violence of the '70s returns."

Back-from-the-crypt Jim Greco might have his hammer-tat-sights set on the legendary Sunset Car Wash, home to Cardiel's frontside bomb followed by The Gonz's uncomfortable-to-watch eyebrow removal via faceplant. Grecs apparently has a backside ollie on his mind, and a bevy of photographers and skate journalists foaming at the mouth to document the feat.

Associates from Laray Mayfield casting, in charge of filling roles for the upcoming Lords of Dogtown flick, showed up at the Tampa Am sans permission to scout the wares of tomorrow's starts. Unpleased, SPOT head Ryan Clements quickly and sternly informed said casters of their persona-non-grata status and escorted them off the property, suggesting they go to the nearest X-Treme park or, better yet, hire a consultant.