The Skateboard Mag - July 2005

Hey, guess what I got today, the July 2005 issue of The Skateboard Mag. I gotta say these guys print the best skateboard mag around, even if you’re a blind person. What I mean is that it’s put together well. The paper is thick and feels good, the cover doesn’t fall off, etc. The thing is made to last longer than a month.

Speaking of Mike Appleyard (Globe ad, front inside cover) is anyone else surprised he went to Globe? I don’t have much of anything against Globe, and I’ll probably sell their stuff in my shop, but if I were Appleyard I probably would have stayed on Circa, or gone to DC, DVS, Lakai, Fallen, Emerica, eS, or Etnies before Globe. I don’t know, maybe they offered him a lot of money.

You know what I like to see? Skaters who make tricks look so easy I start believing I could pull the trick off too. p. 006, Mike Taylor, kickflip crooks. Too easy.

p. 012 - Who’s the best vert skater of all time? It could be any one of those guys Swifty mentions, but I can’t believe he left Danny Way out of his list. And what about Eric Nash or Ben Schroeder? He got Grosso but what about the other Arcadia guys?

p. 024 - Brad Stabber is funny.

p. 030 - I’m stoked on blunts. I used to have a 4-foot mini ramp in my backyard. I should have been the mini-ramp champ but I could never do blunts. That isn’t exactly true, I could do all sorts of blunt tricks, but only if they involved a rock in them. That is, I could do the meanest blunt-rock-fakie ever. I could pop that blunt out about three feet such that I could have landed in the flat-bottom with no chances of hanging my front trucks on the coping, and then I’d bring it back in to quickly crack it to rock and then fakie in quick as lightning. I don’t mind saying that I had the best blunt-rock-fakie in the business, but who cares, because I could never do a real blunt straight in without the rock-fakie.

Finally when I was about 18 I got on a 4-foot quarter pipe at some skatepark and tried a blunt all the way in and it was a piece of cake. No problem. I could do them all day on quarter-pipes, but not on mini-ramps. Go figure. Then I went on a mission for my church, and kind of gave up skateboarding. A few years later I was back on the wagon and learned blunts on a 3-foot mini at Lex’s house in Lewisville, Idaho. I got them down pretty good, and I could do noseblunts and everything too. But that was about 6-7 years ago, and I haven’t done them since. That is, I hadn’t done one until a week and a half ago. I went down to the park in Springville, Utah, and after hurting myself by jumping out of a blunt, I finally got the courage up to stick on the board and I landed one on the 4-foot mini there.

I’ve only skated a mini once since then and I didn’t even try a blunt that time, but I can’t wait for another chance. I’m going to master this trick. Blunts are super!

p. 138 - Hey, the cross and font for jani’s name looks suspiciously like the sublimited logo. Who’s biting who?