Bigspin Issue 4 by Bigspin Magazine

Issue Four Autumn 2013

CONTENTS

Here: Atha Tolios in the deep south on a solo rail mission with fellow rail destroyer Michael Scott on the other end of the lens this time.

INTERVIEWS Clint Keneally Andy Lovatt

FEATURES

Fresh Meat A Butchers at Adelaide Stackinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Clips with Evans

ROAD TRIPPIN

Knife Fork Bottle and a Cork elan Returns To China Adidas in Adelaide

SCREEN

Tropic Corridor

MUSIC

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EDITOR: Mark Alcorn admin@bigspinmagazine.com

CONTRIBUTORS:

Michael Scott, Caleb Sweeting, Ben Gore, Andre Castellucci, Michael Pearse, Jake Barker, Jared Nicholson, Jarrod Knoblauch, Jacob Hendryx, Dan Ivett, Lachy Pfitzner, Lachlain Craig, Beau Williams, Eddy Hamra, Mike Andrews, Luke Hunter, Jasper Leijs, Cameron Markin, Mellissa Donato

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Cover: Jake Tomlinson and his dad Tommo doubles on West Beach vert ramp. Lofty backside air over a layback frontside grind. Photo: Mark Alcorn

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By Caleb Sweeting

I ride my skateboard to school every day. Since year 9 I’ve hauled my ass from Osborne to Taperoo every morning and afternoon rain hail or shine. As soon as my eyes are open I crave the sound of those 4 wheels hitting the ground. On the way I face cracks in the concrete, curbs, dogs chasing after me and even swooping magpies. When you think about it, all these obstacles I face on my daily commute to school are in essence, the foundations of skateboarding. Way back to the 70’s when the z-boys were sliding, grabbing, kicking curbs and knocking over bins- just hopping on this wooden work of art and not giving a fuck. The way I do every

morning when I screech through the grounds of my school racing my mate Jake, while angry teachers step out of their classrooms threatening to take our skateboards (if they could only catch us). The feeling of skating where you know you’re not allowed just gives you a rush and thrill that thrashing skateboards is all about. Where am I going with this rant? Well, what I’m trying to say is you don’t need permission to ride a skateboard wherever the hell you want. Get away from those crowded parks and hit the streets; get back to the roots of skateboarding and heck ride a skateboard where there’s a sign that says, “no skateboarding allowed.”

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TROPIC

VIDEO

CORRIDOR

Tropic Corridor is a new independent Australian skateboarding video by Michael Pearse, available Soon on DVD in selected skate shops. This full length film will feature parts from Andy Nicholls, Chris Craig, Cailean Holland, Louis Riley and Marcus Warren plus friends such as Chris Fletcher, Andrew Lovatt, Curt Morthorpe, Pat Gemzik, Tommy Fynn, Mike Andrew and many more. In the works of deep street skateboarding day to night with VX filming for about 6 months now. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My main ideas for the video is to shine some much needed light on the skateboarding and skateboarders of Adelaide and Brisbane, filmed on the VX1000 with an interesting and unique editing

Cailean Holland, gap to BS boardslide. Photo: Jake Barker approach.â&#x20AC;&#x153; The Tropic Corridor video will be available on DVD September 2013. Premiere times and locations will be released soon. Stay tuned. Check the trailer at : http://youtu.be/AbT9LstOD4k

Andy Nicholls, Backside nosegrind nollie heel out. Photo: Andre Castellucci

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SHUV HEEL

JACKPHOTO:BRIDGES JARROD KNOBLAUCH

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STACKIN’ WCLIPS I T H E VA N S WITH EVANS

We all know skating is just about the skating right? Just you and you mates gettin’ dirty in some back street somewhere without a care in the world. But what if it gets so good you wanna share it with the world? What if you want to show your mates who weren’t there? What if you want to make a sponsor me tape? Well, there’s footage and then there’s footage. Maybe you’ve picked up a VX second hand or you’ve splashed out and bought a DSLR with video. Maybe you’re still rockin a Super-8. In this, the first installment of Stackin’ Clips, Streets Made Us lensman Jared “Evans” Nicholson lays down some tips and tricks on how to get the most of what you’ve got. First up: Equipment Basics. Common and entrylevel video cameras.

GETTING STARTED By Jared Nicholson vimeo.com/jarednicholson I’ve been behind the lens for around 12 years now. I received my first video camera shortly after stepping onto a skateboard. My Grandad who was an avid family filmer, passed down his old chunky VHS-C camera, this was all I needed to begin capturing the growing skills of my homies. From making my first skatepark mix-tape between a couple VHS decks, to now editing on a computer with a tapeless workflow. Along with the progression of skateboarding, how it’s being documented has also greatly improved. Over the years I’ve upgraded through cameras as I’ve caught up with technology, making the switch to HD 5 years ago when I bought the Panasonic HVX200 I still use today. Up until switching to HD I had only ever

contributed footage to local Adelaide videos. The past few years I’ve spent focusing solely on making Streets Made Us which we hope to release at the end of the year. Whether you’re just wanting to show off the homies online or you’re building an interest in film making there are plenty of options to capture video with. Jump online and spend a bit of time researching and familiarising yourself with what functions and specs best suit what you’re wanting to achieve. In this first article on filming I’ve suggested a few common camera setups to get you started with. If you haven’t already sided in the debate, or don’t know the difference between SD (standard def.) and HD (high def.) I’d suggest a HD setup as they’re more relevant and readily available.

GoPro Hero3 - Black Edition ($488) These little cameras are rad and so easy to use. I carry one in my bag using it often for double angles and time lapses. It’s controllable using an app on my phone, which helps when I’m setting the composition of a shot. It has a lot of different modes and capable of filming a wide fish-eye image as well as zoom shot. With an endless list of accessories, you’ll always have fun down the park with this one.

Sony VX100 / Century Mk.1 Fish-eye (Camera $500+ Lens $850) For all the SD heads the standout workhorse is the Sony VX1000 / Century MK1 Fisheye combo. Released in 1995 it’s been probably the most preferred video camera in skate history. Producing great audio and the unmatchable image of the MK1 fish-eye no wonder people still use them religiously today.

Canon EOS 600D ($620 with kit lens)

The 600D is a popular choice amongst entry level DSLR filmers. An affordable option when wanting to shoot HD video with quality depth of field. Build to your kit with an external microphone for enhanced audio, a handle and fish-eye for wide-angle filming. A good selection when wanting to dabble in film making.

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KNIFE FORK BOTTLE AND A CORK

STORY: JACOB HENDRYX

My favorite aspect about skateboarding has always been skating something new for the first time. Growing up in a small South Australian country town it didn’t take long to lose that feeling. Making the move to Adelaide bought a new wealth of parks and spots, and the opportunities to skate cities all over Australia fed my addiction for a few years but eventually it was time for something more. I’d been planning to make the trip over to the states for a while and considered the standard LA/SF California skate trip, but eventually decided I wanted to do something different. It wasn’t long before some homies in New York City, as well as local videos convinced me to brave the cold east coast winter, pack up my

board and head over there for a couple months of skateboarding, adventuring and great times. There’s no way I could share every great story from the trip in anything short of a novel, but one of the things that stood out to me was how the skateboarding culture, even in one of the biggest cities in the world, brought people together in such a tight knit group just like it does in little Adelaide. I was lucky enough to meet plenty of people for the first time who were always stoked to tell me about their city and show me around. The weather definitely took some getting used to. During one week the temperature never rose above freezing! While the locals appear not to feel it at all, skating in four layers of jackets, gloves and scarves brings

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a whole new dimension, as well as spending half an hour challenging groms to games of skate in an effort to get the blood pumping in your legs. I can’t rag on the weather for everything though; it probably resulted in one of the best sessions I’ve ever been apart of. We had been skating most of the afternoon in the Lower East Side when a sudden unexpected downpour forced us to take cover. Ironically, NYC has no indoor parks which are open to the public, they are all located in Cali where the weather is perfect anyway. Fortunately, some of the guys had contacts in high places and next minute, about a 15 deep crew of us, including shredders like Donny Barley and Dan Pensyl were on a subway out to the Vans team’s training facility in East Brooklyn. There were a fair few people already ripping the pristine park by the time we got there and the mountains of complimentary cold beer slowly turned the skate session into a party as local DJ’s and rappers began laying down, even Keelan Dadd dropped some freestyle. This was repeated

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more over the duration of the trip. Another unreal part of the journey was definitely worth the 2-hour pilgrimage to visit the Mecca of skateboarding, Love Park, Philadelphia. I only managed to roll from one end to the other, popping a quick kickflip along the way before we were booted with the threat of board confiscation. Sadly the famous spot is probably one of the biggest busts around these days. Simply sitting in the middle of the park was a surreal enough feeling, replaying in my head the classic lines of Kalis, Williams and Getz, and I’m glad I got the chance to see it. The Philly locals are still pushing to have skateboarding legalised in the park and if they’re successful in the future, I’ll certainly be making a trip back. All good things must come to an end though, and as much as I’d love to live off pizza and hot dogs and skate perfect spots every day, eventually I had to return home. I’ll always owe so much to all the great crews at Homage Skateshop, Shut Skates, 5 Boro and the House of Vans, for all their hospitality, great times and memories, see you again soon!

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Yeah, you’ve seen ‘em. Out in the streets. Right up the front in the product toss. Filming lines in the car park on an old beat up 3rd hand VX. Well, it’s time to shine a little light on some of the groms that are coming up around Adelaide. We sent Lachy Pfitzner out with his camera and microphone around the streets to whats happening out there and to dig up some fresh meat. Here’s what he dug up. Story and photos by Lachy Pfitzner

Callum Murray, frontside smith.

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Fresh Meat

CALLUM MURRAY 15 Years Old Burnside Sponsors: N/A What/Who Inspires you to skate? Seeing all of my mates get new tricks and hyping them up to learn new shit.

Callum Murray, Front 5-0

ZACK LYCOS 14 Years Old Klemzig Sponsors: N/A What/Who Inspires you to skate? To have fun and improve my skating ability. The skaters that inspire me the most are: Andrew Reynolds, P-Rod & Aaron Homoki. They inspire me because I want to be at the level that they are at.

Zack Lycos, Back Boardslide

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BLAKE HENDERSON 18 Years Old Redwood Park Sponsors: N/A What/Who Inspires you to skate? Having loads of fun, improving my tricks & watching others around me skate and trying to get my tricks on lock. As well as trying new tricks.

Blake Henderson, 360 shuv

ZACH GEORGIOU 13 Years Old Dulwich Sponsors: Creative Skateboards What/Who Inspires you to skate? Watching my friends skate and seeing them improve makes me want to skate harder to get to the level that they are at. Skaters who inspire me are: Sean Malto, Guy Mariano & Zack Lycos.

Zach Georgiou, Ollie 20

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COLIN WRIGHT 16 Years Old Devon Park Sponsors: N/A What/Who Inspires you to skate? It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter how old you are and who you are if you have a board you all get along and help each other out. Because at the end of the day you all share the same passion and that is to skate! I look up to Sam Goodalls and Leo Allen-Schuler to name a few. Shout out to the Churchies crew, Represent!!

Colin Wright, Benihana Photo: Lachlan Craig

WILLY WOLDT 16 Years Old Port Lincoln Sponsors: Free Style Skate Shop What/Who Inspires you to skate? When my mates keep landing better tricks than me that pushes me to skate harder and skate to my best potential. Shane Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill inspires me to skate harder because of his style and dedication to skateboarding. Willy Woldt, Frontside Air 21

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JACOB CHERINI 16 Years Old Port Lincoln Sponsors: Lincoln Surf What/Who Inspires you to skate? When all my friends can come together in one place and just everyone is trying their own trick it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter how good they are. What drives me to push further is when Kane or Levi land a better trick then me. Shout out to the Lincoln Crew.

Jacob Cherini, Ollie

JAMIE ANDREW 14 Years Old Kensington Park Sponsors: Recently sponsored by Mum What/Who Inspires you to skate? Lords of Dog Town was the biggest influence on my skating it was so rad. Soon after I got my first board and just fell in love, all I could think about was skating. Jay Adams is a skater that I have always looked up to. Jamie Andrew, Ollie 22

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MITCH HORN 15 Years Old Devon Park Sponsors: Clown Industries What/Who Inspires you to skate? I am inspired to skate everyday by watching skate videos and my friends skate. Individual pros such as Lewis Marnell also hype me up for a good skate!

Mitch Horn, BS Feeble

SIN STEWART 17 Years Old Woodville Sponsors: N/A What/Who Inspires you to skate? The wicked feeling of learning a new trick or getting something good on film is what motivates me to skate harder. Even just skating around the city with my friends is the best feeling and what keeps me skating.

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CLINT

KENNEALLY

BY BEAU WILLIAMS Hailing from the sleepy seaside town of Victor Harbor Clint is one of Adelaide’s heaviest hitters right now. Chatting with Beau, we get the dirt on why he’s not a surfer like Dad, what’s down with the plumbing, what’s in the water down there that produces such good skaters (Beau Hinge, Jake Tomlinson and himself to name a few) and his take on attempting to be a pro in an amateur state.

Righto mate, when, where and why? Well I know that I got my first board for my ninth birthday. It was a choice between a Nike earing and a board. My friend was rocking the Nike earing and I was hyped on it but my mum said that it had to be a choice between the two. The board won. And I have to say that was because of my sisters boyfriends I think. I mean I grew up with older sisters and they’re boyfriends skated so I was naturally influenced to get on board. Rad, I grew up with two older sisters as well. They taught me heaps mate. Partying mainly was they’re guiding light in which I’ve continued to burn brightly in their honour. I heard you and Beau Hinge grew up around the same hood? Well I first met Beau at Victor Harbour High in about year 8. I was already skating and I think Beau got on board around year 9 or 10. We would just see each other at Victor Park. The thing with Beau was his flat ground. There wasn’t much for us to skate out there but he dialed so many tricks in like 6 months just from skating flat ground. He improved super quick. Yeah, he’s a freak! And how old were you when you came to Radtown? I was 17 just turning 18 and I moved in with

Portrait: Andre Castellucci

my Aunty Annie down at Glenelg. I lived there for 3 years while I was doing my plumbing apprenticeship. Did you surf back in Victor? I would go out with my dad because he was always surfing. But honestly bro, I’m shit scared of sharks so you wouldn’t catch me out there on my own. It just felt safer with my dad there and he’d let me cruise around on his board. Is your family still out there? Yeah, my mum and step-dad are out Cape Jervis way. They got a fishing charter boat out there. And my dad lives in Glenelg. He’s retired now and keeps busy being an artist and surfing. Both my parents have always been super supportive of my skating and they were always down to drive me to 26

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Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the deal Clint? Afraid to go surfing on your own but you have no problem backside lipsliding this great white ten stair in Adelaide? Crazy. Photo and portrait: Andre Castellucci 27

places just so I could skate. They’re great parents and I’m so grateful for all they’ve done for me. Plumbing, do tell? It was a bit hectic really. I had to go back and forth a bit with work down south and it wasn’t working out with all the travel and such. Then Simo gave me a job at his company GetGas which was rad but I just wasn’t in the right head-space to give it an honest crack. Plus I lost my Licence from piddly fines that just raped demerit points off me. 59km in a 50km zone, shit like that. Just stupid stuff that accumulated. You got picked up by VANS. How’d that come about? It started with Marion Daily’s. Pat gave me a call and said that they were keen to hook me up. Cale and Lisa had said good things about me and it came about through word of mouth. Just good people

saying good things. And I think VANS hit Daily’s up and said they wanted to sponsor someone in Adelaide and who they might recommend. I think Brad and Cale spoke up for me and I owe them a thousand thanks for that. So they hit me up and I sent them some footage that I got with Evans and it just all came together. What do they give you and what do they expect from these gifts mate? I went to Melbourne and met Andy Mapstone for the first time and he hooked me up with a backpack, some tee’s and a couple of pairs of shoes. And he continues to help me out. It’s not a set thing but it’s there when I need it. And I don’t want to push it and make them think I’m taking advantage of their generosity so I‘ll wear my stuff until it’s properly thrashed. Well you did offer me a pair of size 10’s the other day brother. That’s two sizes to

small holmes.. (Laughs)Yeah I did. But that was for helping me out. I figure if I’m getting free stuff I should offer something as well. Just good manners bro. But to answer your question about what’s asked of me with this flow is just to give props to VANS and Daily’s and keep getting footage. Easy enough and a pleasure. Mappy is keen to see my part in “Streets Made Us” so I’m working hard on that. Fuck dude! I can’t wait to see that joint. I know, and “SAF2” is gonna be sick as well! It’s gonna be so good for Adelaide skating because everyone is so in the zone at the moment. Shits just gonna build. Who mainly shoots you when you when skate? If It’s for “SMU” then Evans or Marcos is shooting. And Jarrod K is always out as well taking snaps. I’m lucky because

these guys have been owning their craft for years and all rip on the board as well. They know what looks good and how to shoot it. Evans would be the main dude behind the lens on most days though, to answer your question. He’s a bad muthafucka! Always smiling as well... Yep, very easy going and always down to make shit happen. He’s put a lot of money and a lot of fucking time into this film so we all want to

make it the best it can be. Word up to all the legends in the editing suite. Alas, I have a sweet spot for Evans because I’ve seen him do his thing for so long now and

The latest and possibly most gnarly thing to go down on this iconic City gap. Clint with a trademark backside flip into the street Photo: 29 Jarrod Knoblauch

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that smile is always there. His work and others like him make talented bastards like yourself accessible to all those grommets (and the aged) frothing for some pre-skate stoke.

I’m to broken to jump down stuff. That’s why I’m keen to roll tranny with Angus and all you guys. I keep telling Gus that I’m gonna pad up and hit up westies with him. Fuck if I could just axle stall that beast I would be cheering.

Are you just having fun or do you want to make a living out of skateboarding? It’s a bit unrealistic for me to think that I can get paid full time to skate. I see all the talent that I’m surrounded by. Young lads like Jay and Cailean are taking it to new levels and that shit is hard to keep with. But in saying that, I just want to keep skating, progressing and having fun. That’s how it all started for me and its gotten me this far. I’ll just stay the course I reckon and try not to take it all to seriously. It probably won’t matter in 10 years time when

Well Friday nights mate, come out. The lads will push you. Yeah, no doubt metal blasting in the background. Wicked!

Above: High speed kickflip to cheese grater landing in the ‘burbs. Photo: Andre Castellucci

Who do you love to skate with and where? Sunday at Osbourne is the spot. Too many names to mention, I mean you’ve seen how many rippers are there. So a big shout out to all those guys. Have a barby down there and some beers and the session is well hyped! So much fun. What’s in the pipe besides

living amigo? Travel man, my girlfriend Emily and I want to hit up Vancouver soon. All I here about that place is just how rad it is to skate and live there. New York is a must. We want to go there as well. I’d also like to go to ghetto India and China and see how hard they’re living over there. I’ve lived in Adelaide forever man and I’m keen to get some perspective outside of this town. Nice one, anything else you want the folks to know about you? Na mate, I wouldn’t have a clue about what people want to know, best they just ask me themselves. I will say who I’m hyped on though and that’s little Cailean. He’s like 5 years younger than all of us and has been with us since “Nothing Is Safe” skate

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Pop and suck. Clearing the wall before waiting for the drop. Switch Ollie Photo: Alcorn 31

Above: Fakie Manny Fakie Tre out. Photos: Eddy Hamra

crew began. He is amazing on a skateboard. Other dudes, Gussy gets me hyped, Beau Hinge. Dude, so many rippers in Adelaide and it all adds to a fun scene. Any new devastating face melting tricks in the works? Whatever’s on the day mate. Too many to choose from. I wouldn’t

mind giving Festies rail a crack one day. Aside from Tyson I don’t think anyone else has stepped up to it. Not even visiting pro’s. It’s massive, I don’t know what it is, something like a 14 flat 12 or some shit. I feel sick in me gutty works just thinking about that shit man. Thanks heaps for the time

amigo. Back at ya, and a big thanks to my parents and girlfriend, all the Daily’s crew, Andy Mapstone and VANS, Lisa, Pat, Cale, Brad. All the homies, they know who they are. And to yourself, Mark, Ivett and Simmo at Bigspin. Cheers for the opportunity and the pizza...

Right: The Redwood Primary School rail has been copping a beating lately from locals and visitors alike. Clint get his piece of the pie with a poked out front feeble. Photo: Jarrod Knoblauch

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A Butchers at Adelaide Words and photos by Ben Gore. The city sleeps as I arrive. I walk over to the taxi rank in a battered pair of Vans. The air is dense but cool. The taxi drives through the darkness and I enter the unknown. The taxi stops. I pay the driver, walk to the door and knock. No-one answers but I can hear the TV on inside. I nervously step inside, ‘Beau?’. Two dogs bound down the hall to meet me. Mewing and barking as they scamper up. I walk down the hall with the dogs in tow. Beau and Char greet me as I enter the lounge room. We talk and laugh and smoke and drink. I know I’m in the right place. Skateboarding has always been a community but the welcome I received in Adelaide was better than I would’ve ever thought. One of the magical things about travelling as a skateboarder is being able to interact with the places you visit. Most people would go to a new place, visit the landmarks and take photos of themselves in front of a famous monument posing like a tourist. As a skateboarder you’ll still visit the icons of a city but might be more inclined to spend your time skating the ledge or stair spot round the corner. Skateboarding will lead you to meet the locals and take you into the underbelly of a city where the real character of a place is found. You get the opportunity to meet people from all walks of life united by a common love of shredding. Everyone I met was lovely. Mark’s a great dude and an excellent photographer who balances work, the magazine, spending time with his kids and still has time to throw down some killer heelflips. Jack is a ripper with a silky smooth style. Him and Jarrod are always down for a skate and bump some dirty rap music on the way. Beau’s a passionate dude with a heart of gold and love for Liverpudlian football. Every city has its own character. A character influenced by it’s people and the environment they’re placed in. Adelaide is a small city with a big community. Life ticks by at a comfortable pace. 34

The best example of the scene in Adelaide was the SBA competition. Everyone was just stoked to be skating together. High fives all round before runs and clapping each other throughout. It felt like a massive session. Adelaide skate videos show this vibe too. I had the pleasure of watching around a decades worth of footage from Adelaide from Telescape to the Daily Grind video. Great skate

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videos serve as a time capsule of a place and its skaters and you can see how the people and the place have evolved over time. The spots long lost and older skaters in their heyday. It was awesome to see these pieces of the local history and getting a glimpse of what the younger local skaters grew up watching. With SAF2 and Streets Made Us on the way it’ll be rad to see that legacy continued. Skating can put you in some bizarre situations. The day I shot the front noseslide photo I went out with Cale, Jarrod and Evans. Cale wanted to get a couple of tricks filmed for the Cliché video. We hit up a couple of spots, but the first had an awkward run

up and we were kicked out of the second after only a few tries. I got the below shot of Cale’s frontside noseslide just before we got the boot. We drive around for a while afterwards and Cale spots a little gap by the highway. A curb cut with a gap over a rock into a little car park. We park in the car park and get all the gear out the car. The run up is across a road. Jarrod and I were taking photos while Evans filmed. Jarrod is shooting photos sitting on a divider in the middle of the road, and I perch up in a tree trying to get a good angle. Cale has a couple of tries backside flipping it and starts to get the feel of the spot. A car speeds up to the intersection driven by a stocky shirtless dude with his grizzly looking

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girlfriend in the passenger seat. ‘Get the fuck out of the road! I’ll run you over next time!’, He shouts at Jarrod as he stops. Jarrod is a good 4 foot from his car. He just shrugs it off. The dude looks amped up and goes to get out of the car. Cale sees what’s happening and runs over. ‘What the fuck are you doing? We’re just trying to have a skate, get the fuck out of here!’. Cale is right by the driver’s door and the meathead jumps when he sees him. The dude shouts something at him and drives off. A yellow car drives into the carpark and parks up next to Evan’s car. Jarrod, Evans and Cale start walking back to the car. I figure they’re just going to get another lens or something so I sit in the tree and wait for them to get back. I look over the road and see the shirtless guy running full belt across the highway with his girlfriend in tow. I clamber out the tree and run over to the car. Everyone’s already in. The driver of yellow car parked alongside us is a skater from back in the day. Cale greets him briefly but we see the shirtless dude is getting closer. As he gets to the edge of the car park Evans slams his foot on the accelerator. The car

speeds out the car-park and we peel up the road. The dude chases after and looks as though he’s about to kick in the door. He loses interest fast though and turns back to the yellow car that was parked alongside us. He runs over, reaches in the window and tries to pull the keys out of the ignition. He’s clearly not in his right mind and just looking for trouble. The yellow car reverses back fast and knocks the monster off balance. It speeds off in another direction and the monster and his ghoulfriend are left angry in our dust. I had another strange experience when I went to visit Dan Ivett. I spoke to him in the evening and it was already getting late and I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to get there in time. I was ready to leave it and head back to chill but with every push I realised how much I wanted to skate so I texted him, said I’d be there soon and waited for the bus. Dan met me at the station when I arrived. We grabbed some McDonalds then headed to the park. It was just us and two bmxers. By now it was dark and the lights were on. We skated the mini for hours. Dan said he hadn’t skated much

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recently and started off the session taking it easy but in no time he was throwing heelflips out of switch blunts. It was rad to see. About 20 minutes into the session a car full of girls pulled up by the skatepark. They were singing along to 90’s pop blaring out the car speakers. We kept skating and for the next half an hour they serenaded us with various Spice Girls classics as the bmxers shouted at them to get their tits out. Sometimes it’s important to remember why we skateboard. Fuck footage and photos when all you want to do is ride your plank of wood forget about the rest of the world. When I was staying with Mark, we went out for a family skate session at the Blackwood park. Mark’s wife Tess, and his youngest Elsie walked the dog while Lily, Mark and I goofed around at the skate park. Lily starts off the session on a scooter. Mark and I skate the bowl section while she scoots across the park. She slams pretty hard trying to go down one of the quarters there. Mark goes over to console her. She’s upset. She sits down for a bit, stops crying then perks back up. Mark and I joke about how dangerous scootering is and how skateboarding is much safer. She grabs a spare board at the park and starts riding down the little banks with a big grin on her face. She looks at the quarters and considers dropping in but Mark tells her not to just yet. She scampers back to the banks and keeps rolling down with a grin plastered across her face. We start to lose the light, grab our stuff and head back to the car. Lily is still skating around and doesn’t want to leave. It’s only when Mark teases her about leaving her there that she comes back to the car. Even as we’re packing away the stuff she’s still pushing around the car park, and on the drive home she kept asking when was the next time she could go to Flaggies. Thank you to Mark, Tess, Beau, Char, Jack, Jarrod, Marcos, Dan, Andy, Michael and all the rest of the lovely rippers of Adelaide.

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AN UNCONVENTIONAL WISDOM Interview: Mike Andrews By all accounts a wild man by night, polite and charming at the skatepark, a gentleman and a dandy. Andrew Lovatt remains something of an enigma, possessing the rare gift of raw street and tranny skills yet eschewing the norms with regard to trick selection. His two recently released web clips left many of us shaking our heads, wondering - could we skate like that too? It takes an unconventional wisdom to see the world in a grain of sand, or in this case, a slappy or a wallride. Where does it come from? How do you get so deep Lovatt? Read on as Mike 38 Andrews attempts to shed some light on this dilemma.

Slappy Front Tail on a spot most people would shrug their shoulders at and walk by. All photos: Andre Castellucci

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What’s your most fun feelin’ trick possible like gives you a half stiffy? A wall ride for sure or back 3 Remember that time you tried to wall ride down the bowl at city? What was running through your mind when you did that shit man? Big red bull sponsors? I don’t know, I just thought I could land it aye. I did it for all the ladies out there You wanted to see some titties huh? Yep down for a dank pair Damn right,what’s your favourite spot man? Easy Adelaide city north tce is amazing. What’s there? Ah, there’s heaps of banks and wall rides & some many ledges, pads stairs light water taps everything True that. So if you could skate anywhere and with anyone, homies etc, what would you choose? Travel to Sf with all my homies skate everyday, film a rad video and enjoy life Alright dream session,homies, fuckin snacks, you wanted and with anyone, It would have to be like just a normal sesh at Osborne on a Sunday with all the homies What happens there? Usually we’ll have a rad BBQ with like about 20 or 30 of us just skating around, and if it was up to me, I’d have to have Lenny on the decks, also he’d be filming as well ,Lenny holds it down. How come you don’t get down with kickies and shit? Don’t know, my parents used to take me to sk8 parks and shit but I never learned to do them proper anyway, rather do a slappy. How’s those sick rails you boardslid back at sk8fx, do you remember that shit? Ha ,yeah I remember that for sure Tell everyone man, what did you do? Well me and Steven hicks were skating just the rail, and then we start adding on rails and it just ended up being like 8 rails and it was real fun. So how many do you reckon you slid, and how many meters? (Laughs) I think It was a down rail & maybe 5 metres So what do you think now that sk8fx is gone?

Bums you out a bit being so close to home? It sucks man. sk8fx was the best thing, that’s where I grew up skatin’. One of the last indoor park... give me some of that blunt Yeah, we’re smokin a fat blunt right now Bigspinin’. So like what separates you from being that boring ass guy that has a mortgage and shit, has a kid, a commodore, foxtel iq an shit, what makes you not wanna be like that, be the way you are now I dunno man, just wanna live life to the fullest and travel everywhere and get productive footage, meet people and just being able to skate. Yep, so being all productive with shit, run me through your dopest day Wake up, have a fat sesh, get my dick sucked for sure (laughs) go to the city, north tce, for a lark then ditch spots, rad jib spots, get clips get hazed then have a boogie with all the homies and get cooked You just turned 21, how was your fuckin party? What the fuck does 3 buttons deep mean? How do I get there? 3 buttons deep was a party that Jake & I had for our 21st. It was pretty much like a large rave, with lots of beers, blunts, lotta homies cooking the wig and a lot a deep mutha fuckers I remember you sayin to me that when you’re like 70 you just want to eat a bunch of acid and stay high, do you still feel this way? Yeah man, if I’m unable to move and am just bedridden, I want heaps of cunts to give me acid so I can just trip out. Because if I’m unable to function then I just wanna trip balls and also weed ha. This is a cliche question for an interview but who has been your favourite part? Just bang off a couple that you’ve seen on poo tube ...ahhhh How bout that jaws muthafucka or maybe Austin Gillette? How bout p-rod?( laughs) Recent parts I’ve been watching are Bert Wootton part in Cosmic Vomit 2,and pretty much any part of Rowan Zilla out of the shepdawg video’s, and magenta crew, Alright fast 5 right here, which is actually fast 3 cause I can’t count cause I’m so high, 40

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Pole jam no-comply

Favourite meal? Quick I’m always down for a burrito Favourite movie? Dime Turd. Season That video is fucked... Hey brother can you pass that blunt Favourite quote? I don’t really quote anything Could be anything, what’s some funny shit that you’ve heard in the last 2 weeks? C’mon man? Fuck I don’t even know man, any thing out of Herny Harding’s mouth ha Street or tranny?

I like street, tranny, down with both I love ditches tho and big cities, would be keen to go to NYC Bongs or blunts? That’s a tough one, I definitely love a good blunt Alright man, shout outs Shout outs to the Ferrari boys, to all the deep house muthafuckers, to mum & dad, 2052 for all their help local living, the homies from four skateboard company and just all the homies that I skate with day in day out and all the lovely hoes out there. All the filmers Lenny, Eddy, Jed and Micky P that have put up with my shit and Andre thanks a bunch homies.

Over-extended boardslide 42

Probably driven past this a thousand times and never once seen the potential that Lovatt sees in things. Ollie over to fifty-fifty

ADIDAS ADELAIDE TOUR STORY AND PHOTOS: JARROD KNOBLAUCH

The week of the Easter long weekend saw Adelaide play host to the Australian Adidas Skateboard team for a demo and a week of skating the best street spots we had to offer. The crew consisted of Pedro Day, Tom Snape, James Wright, Phil Marshall, Jack Crook, Gus Faithful, Dennis Durrant, Slam Photographer Jake Darwin, notorious lensman James Magnus James, Adidas Team Manager Chris and representing Adelaide, professional skateboarder George Newsholme. The week began with a twilight demo/skate with the crew at the city park which was followed by pizza and a massive product toss, I think half the people at the park left with a new pair of kicks. After the product toss the skating continued and the boys shared some beers around with the locals, then out of nowhere photographer Jake decided to try BS 180 fakie nose manual the manual pad into the big bank, which is quite the dangerous trick choice, especially for someone there to document the hammers not actually do them. After

a few squeamish bails, Jake put it down and rolled away to the cheers of the entire park, topping off a great session. With what remained of the week the crew skated all the street spots Jack Bridges and myself could come up with. As tour guides we showed the crew a bunch of the spots around the city and managed to check out a few schools too. The van was kept packed full of laughs by Pedro, who was constantly telling jokes and showing youtube videos on his phone as well as ripping the spots with the rest of the team. Watching Dennis skate street spots was definitely a highlight as his combination of speed, strength and style on a skateboard is completely unreasonable. Not to take away from any of the other guys who all killed it the whole week despite a few wet days at the end. At the end of the week the crew all said goodbye and flew back to their respective homes with a bunch of footage and a greater knowledge of the spots Adelaide has to offer.

Photos: Top Left Dennis Durrant Feeble an A-Frame and above Switch backside fifty. Below: Phillip Marshall warm up ollie at Fairview.

Return to the Land of the Dragon Interview: Beau Williams All photos: Andre Castellucci

Ă&#x2030;lan chief Andy Walker and his team of; Katherine Williams, Mike Milner and Jake Smyth returned to China this year in search of sweet, sweet marble. Along with special guests Marcos, Ross Forknell and Andre Castellucci this rounded out the team to 7 - a lucky number in Chinese culture. Upon their return, Andy Kat, Mike, Ross and Andre came to our house for pizza and beers to reminisce about their trip to China. This is what transpired...

Kat Williams rocking out the megalopolis and skidding a tailslide across the top.

AW (Andy Walker): What are some of the highlights for you? M (Marcos): Shenzen, the euro spot. I reckon that was the funnest places I skated. Just the first Ollie into that made me so happy. KW (Kat Williams): I liked the down manny pad. AW: What did you think of the capsule at SMP park? General eruption hits the room! M: Ahh the magic place? AW: It was definitely one of those life experience things. M: That spot changed everyone of us. You would roll into it and then come flying out of it a different person. MM (Mike Milner): I definitely came out of it with half a stiffy.

KW: I didn’t even want to hit that thing and then I finally just said fuck it and did it. I went into another world. It was the best thing I’ve ever skated. RF (Ross Forknall): It was really overwhelming actually. I was in awe of just how concrete can be spread, and it was more for me to just see it and pump around and not try to rip it apart. It made an impression on me. MM: I would have liked to have seen it another 4ft taller though. (Laughs) AC: You needed 60mm wheels because you could easily get stuck inside there. It’s so big. MM: I really like the curved spot at LP. M: That place was so buttery it was like having no resistance on the grind. I thought I was on my wheels and not locked in but I was grinding it. So smooth.

Mike Milner, Backside over-crooks for the night dwellers

There were far too many stories, some not fit to publish here, but I will tell you that the troupe talked about a variety of experiences which left me frothing and wanting to book a ticket for the next trip to China. This is what was brought up.... Foot massages Puking Cab bartering system Dodgy Tea Joints Turtle jizz Passing out in nightclub toilets Skating through Tienanmen Square

Jake’s frontside flip. “Oh great Scotty!” Hubba world Amazing Locals And the heartache of leaving your camera, laptop and the whole trips footage in the back seat of a taxi. This was a big loss to Andy and he got extremely drunk on the flight back in order to cope with the loss. The other passengers on the flight got to get a rare glimpse of Andy Walker drunken hilarity. Lucky bastards or traumatised onlookers? Who can tell...

Above: Jake Smyth with a banger of a switch heel into a marble bank. Below Left: Kat gets her triple kink on. Fifties for days... Below Right: Jake Smyth takes precautions on a steep and possibly infectious bank. Safety First Back Tail

Above Left: Milner clears this rail with ease in a ghetto spot Above Right: Ross Forknall logs some footy for Streets Made Us on this classic spot in Guangzhou Below: Chief trip architect and elan founder, Andy Walker backside nollie heel on yet more sweet marble.

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Mike Milner. Kickflip Photo: Jarrod Knoblauch

Mark Robinson, Frontside Crooked Grind Photo: Alcorn

Tom Reilly, Heelflip Photo: Andre Castellucci

Cailean Holland, Gap Ollie Photo: Andre Castellucci

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Ben Zubkevych Frontside Air, McLaren Vale Photo: Luke Hunter

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Scott Graham. Tailslide 540 Shove

Scott Graham, Tailslide 540 Shove-it out Photos: Alcorn

Ash Harrsion, footplant, Port Augusta Photo: Jasper Leijs 60

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Louie Pitman, Ollie over to Five-0 at Five Dock. Photo: Cameron Markin

Louie Pitman, ollie over to five-0 at Five Dock Photo: Cameron Markin Matthew Kirby, Nollie backside lipslide at Redwood . Photo: Jarrod Knoblauch

Kieren Schroeter 360 flip at Redwood. Photo: Jarrod Knoblauch

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Always wanted to see someone skate this. Harrison Mol blunts to fakie at Ayers House. Photo: Andre Castellucci

Michael Casey, decapped backside smith Photo: Andre Castellucci

Review: Beau Williams Photos: Mel Donato

Just get off work, showered and then raced to The Governor Hindmarsh. Managed to get through the door and get a pint before the lads saunter out on stage. The place is a sauna, and its 9:15pm. I love you South Australia, you sadistic bitch... J, Lou and Murph start fiddling around with their respective weapons without so much as a glance toward us. I figured this was gonna be a proper jam. Beginning with thumb. Right off the bat they were ripping. Man alive, J can play the guitar. Murph beats the skins like they owe him money and Lou did some of the prettiest base slappingtickling-just all round owning his craft radness. The lyrics were unintelligible. Which I remember was the case 20 years ago when I saw them last. It’s the music, the sheer wall of noise that these men put out that is the gift. This bearded old gent in front of me wearing a bowler hat stage left was completely losing his shit, and I agreed with him whole heartedly. We were getting treated to some real gnar! Fuck, we all experience things differently. For me though, if someone’s ripping I always end up

crying and dancing at the same time. It’s one of the greatest feelings going. I frothed over feel the pain, start choppin and freak scene because they were the anthems of my youth but what really fucked me up was the post encore rendition of The Cures “Just Like Heaven” which rolled right into “Sludgefeast”. Seriously, I’m still semi-retarded from the experience, with a smidgen of tinnitus to boot. The long-time fans of the group left the gov well stoked while the new comers had a look that can only be described as confused. So all in all, it was pretty much the sickest thing that I’ve heard since last night. You see friends, I’ve spent the last three weeks at Bonython Park setting up Soundwave and Future Music festivals and while I was treated to some amazing music there by a shitload of legends, I still feel the pub down the road offered me more. Jaded, nah, just stoked mate. Thank you J, thank you Murph, fuck yeah Lou! You’ve given my daydreaming a kick in the nuts. Bugger this, I’m going for a skate...

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BEHIND THE FRONT When I rocked up to West Beach, father and son were already at it. Ripping up the ramp. No-one else skating. As soon as I got set up, these two went at the task like a couple of pros. One or two sighters and then it was on. It was hard to get the timing right - two skaters, two tricks and a shutter. Both of them dropping in off the extension on the other side. Jake just flying these massive floating backside airs straight up and down while Tommo fangs in from the side. In not long, we had a couple of shots to choose from, so they decided to try double airs - Jake backside and Tommo frontside. This, they managed first shot.

I was gob-smacked and didn’t quite get the shot, so they did it again. Seriously one of the raddest things I’ve seen. The picture below shows how freaky the situation can get when you mistime the launch. Jake coming right down on top of dad, the both of them pitched flying to the flat bottom. Later this session, Jake broke his arm trying 540’s (which were about 4 feet high by the way). Trooper that he is, Jake didn’t complain once except that his hopes of skating the new Geelong super park were dashed for at least six weeks. It won’t be long and he’ll be back at it though. See you out there soon Jake.