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Issue Five Spring 2013

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CONTENTS INTERVIEWS Beau Hinge Angus Thomas Michael Casey Kat Williams

FEATURES

Stackin Clips with Evans DIY Dimjala Photobombs

ROAD TRIPPIN

Brett and Andyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s European Vacation

SCREEN 234

MUSIC Beaver

Cover shot: Angus Thomas frontside grinds from the shallow to the deep drop at Flagstaff. Photo: Alcorn

Here: Eddy Hamra shoots as Aaron Sellars smashes out a hardflip.

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Beau Williams

The city park is on the chopping block to make way for the new Royal Adelaide Hospital. This is one of those rare occasions with encroachment that I can actually say “fair trade”. A city needs a good hospital, it’s just bad luck that our play ground is in its way. Now we can bitch and moan about this (and we will) but I’m on the side of being proactive instead of reactive. We can have our say and there’s pollies and council members

keen to hear our opinions. There’s rumours of the new park being put on the old RAH grounds. After that joints been demolished of course. Another proposal for the park is the Torrens riverbank west of Morphett Street bridge. Now this spot would be dope as it will be right on the river Torrens and at a cost of $3 million the council wants the state government to pay for it. Dope, big money and we’ll have pro’s build this one and not the council. There

are already a few forums regarding the new park to get everyone’s opinions on facebook. In the meantime you can contact Tim Williams at the City Messenger on tim.williams@news.com.au. Andy Walker over at Elan is having a say as well as Allan at 2052. info@2052.com. au. Also kindly harass the city council regarding updates on the park. Get your google on and have your say. This rant won’t end until we’re rollin in our new hood.

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Having been on the scene for a while now, Mike Andrew, AKA: English Mike AKA @trash_humper is developing a burgeoning interest in making films that show the underbelly of Adelaide skateboarding. That’s not to suggest that what he’s putting out is in any way a subversion of good old fashioned roller-boarding, merely a statement on how these guys are living the life of plywood. Thanks to home grown support from Allan and Shaun at 2052, no expense was spared and Mike was furnished with a 1 chip dadcam. Far from being disappointed at this somewhat archaic piece of electronic nostalgia, Mike has grabbed the ‘ghetto cam’ with both hands and gaffer taped a crude fish-eye to front and set out guns blazing. No LED light panel? No problem: just a bit more gaffer tape and a stolen flash-light and you’re ready for anything. Documenting a scene is difficult if you don’t live it, so Mike has no trouble whatsoever in getting the footage. In fact, the footage appears to be an afterthought to the actual fact of living the scene he is documenting. When there’s enough footage, it’s time for another episode. Episode One was a revelation, reminiscent for me of a Bronze 56K video, but somehow less contrived if that’s even possible. Raw skating cut through with images of the household at the centre of the mess – 234, alongside streets scenes of raucous

nights on Hindley and other regular haunts. The bulk of the skating in this episode is dedicated to Gus Thomasnot a member of the 234 household – just further confusing the viewer about the agenda of the filmmaker. Agendas it seems are far from front of mind. Mike says about the lack of a discernible direction in the skating front says, “I grew in the age of VHS”. He remembers his first camera, given to him by his father, and reusing the tape over and over again. “There was something interesting about certain images or scenes bubbling up to the surface.” “There’s this obsession nowadays with technology and the fact that everything looks so clear. Everything needs to be so high definition. There was a strange beauty in the analogue. You almost have to squint to see things through the grain and the mist. There’s something sinister about it.” Considering the absurdity and uniqueness of the video, I asked Mike about his influences for the style of video he was making. He listed off a plethora of fucked up and random, but inspiring artists and projects that give some glue to the content he’s producing. GG Allin, for his outright in your face, this is what you could do shit – but not his politics Mike assures me. The Russian who “can only fuck dead people”, and various pieces of performance art that make 7 statements about the inherently evil

nature of humans all strike an accord. Harmony Korin, creator of cult movie Kids and Spring Break more recently is also an influence Mike has no formal training in the multimedia visual arts, thus proving the exception to the rule, and also that there’s no accounting for taste: a saying associated with the wealthy, that despite being able to buy expensive works of art, not having the sense to understand them. 234 is what it is. So, a somewhat haphazard entrance with an episode one and the followup not long after seem to point to a larger plan. Yes, things are in the works according to Mike. There will be several more webisodes followed up by a more traditional “full length” film, that may test the boundaries of our viewing patience (I say this because, although beautiful and engaging as they are, the shorter films are already confusing enough). But that’s not all. Expect a follow up one-off ‘zine, or coffee table book (or in the case of these lads, a bong table) with illustrations and images to back up the movie. Perhaps, as this author suggested a foray into an actual brand. But let’s enjoy for what it is now and not get ahead of ourselves. So, keep up people. The gems come from the most unexpected of places. These are indeed gems but whatever you do, don’t try and bite this shit because there is no way in hell you could hope to reproduce it.

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Spitfire Formula four wheels

Back in June I was sent a sample of the new formula four wheels to try out before they hit the skate shops. They came in a little black bag with wheels & a greeting card. The card had all sorts of facts & what not, but at the top it pretty much just said thrash the crap out of them please. Spitfire have been a major player in skateboarding for as long as I can remember; Founded in 1987 they quickly became a staple & sought after product to most skaters thanks to their heavy hitting team line up & possibly one of the most kick-ass logos in the biz. As with any company / product there are always the fans & the haters. If you ask the fans, they are down for life & if you ask the haters will only hate on the actual wheel product – citing that they flatspot too easily. But you can still catch the haters rocking a logoed Spitfire product from any number of the infinite apparel or accessory lines they produce alongside their wheels. That’s the power of marketing for you. It’s hard to reinvent the skate wheel; especially when, as skaters, we do two primary things to our wheels – roll forward & slide sideways. A skate wheel needs to be soft enough to have some traction so that it still goes forward when its meant to, but hard enough to break traction when we tell it to slide. The delicate balance of grip & slide needs to be just right. I have to say that Spitfire nailed it with this balance. They aren’t the first to bring out a no flatspot formula, but I’ll go as far as saying they’re the best all round wheels I’ve ridden – no pun intended. One of the major tests was at the notoriously slippery Osborne skatepark. The wheels are grippy enough to hold a line without slipping but hard enough to slide for days. 5 months later & I’ve still got the wheels on my setup & they are still amazingly smooth. I’ve have had countless skates at countless spots – rough, smooth & in between. These things are lasting for ages. Dan Ivett.

Scott Graham. Fakie heel Photo: Don Purdie

Bigspin magazine Issue five spring 2013 EDITOR Mark Alcorn admin@bigspinmagazine.com SALES AND MARKETING Dan Ivett sales@bigspinmagazine.com INTERVIEWS Beau Williams beau@bigspinmagazine.com PHOTO CONTRIBUTORS Andre Castellucci, Jarrod Knoblauch, Ben Heide, Jack Brookes, Eddy Hamra, David Bienke, Mark Alcorn, Andrew Lovatt, Brett Young, Don Purdie, Lachy Pfitzner STORY CONTRIBUTORS Jack Brookes, Jarrod Knoblauch, Beau Williams, Jen Oakes, Brandon Trudinger, Brett Young Printed by Bowden Press.

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STACKIN’ WCLIPS I T H E VA N S

By Jared Nicholson vimeo.com/jarednicholson

WITH EVANS

This issue I thought I’d run over my bag and the kit I carry with me on a daily basis. Every kit starts with just a camera, build it up over time to carry everything you might ever need in a situation while out filming. Panasonic HVX-200 One of the most popular HD pro-sumer cameras used to document skateboarding. Film at 1080 and 720p. In 720p mode you have the capability of shooting multiple frame rates which is great for quality in-camera slo-mo. I’ve had this camera since early 2008 I find it to be a solid workhorse, it’s seen its fair share of board collisions without a single camera issue to date.

Century Xtreme Fisheye Century’s top of the line fisheye that is available across multiple models and brands of cameras. This lens produces such a sharp image and to my knowledge is the widest fisheye lens available for any HD camera or DSLR that you’d shoot extreme sports with.

LED camera lights If you find yourself out filming low light conditions an oncamera light is essential. If you’re filming SD you can get away with just one, if you shoot HD I find that using 2 LEDS together works a lot better to spread the light source across a wider area. Also helps to direct 1 at the ground and 1 on the skater. These are available reasonably cheap from Chinese camera stores found on ebay.

GoPro Hero 3 Black Great addition to any film kit. I use mine frequently for double angles and time lapses. With a million different accessories you can’t not have fun with one.

Cleaning Cloth You should always carry a cloth or lens brush to get rid of those harder-to-budge lens smudges. Skate tool and wax Carry backup wax and a tool, so you got the skaters back if a problem arises 10

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Brett Young and Andy Lovatt set out on their very own European vacation this winter. Here’s Brett’s account of the highlights of their trip. We’d both been working full time jobs with no real holidays for a couple of years so we were overdue to get the hell out of here. We chose to go to Europe because of the amount of close countries we could smash out which would have what we

needed…. techno and good spots. We only booked a return ticket in an out of Paris with a two month gap to travel freely and move whenever we got over it. There was a general vibe we’d thought of which was 2 weeks per country

Andy finds an empty ditch and cracks a mean boner - I mean boneless. Photo: Alex Hart 12

and if we were over it we’d pack up and boogie elsewhere. We ended up hitting Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Barcelona, the UK and Paris a second time round. There was no way we were jumping on some wack tour what would’ve probably been full of

dumb Aussies anyway. Traveling like this made life cruisey and generally carefree because being a skateboarder you have the easiest hook-ups which we took advantage of everywhere we went especially Amsterdam. That city has some amazing skate spots which we didn’t really touch on because we only went for few days but we didn’t want to let our skateboarding get in the way of our partying. They have some ridiculous psychedelic truffles over there which you can buy out of corner store. Its nuts! Day 1 there we downed a tin each, cooked a mean wig and tried to skate a mini ramp until the coping started

warping into the ramp. Our trip took us to Berlin where all we really had in mind was to hear some serious techno. We rocked up on Go Skate Day and conveniently the event was on the door step of our hostel at Wutastrabe (famous bench spot). On the to-do list was try get into Bargain; which is a club opened from Thursday - Monday where pretty much anything goes. Lovatt had some serious bathroom encounters with 6 gay dudes…. ask him about it, it’s worth it. We got word that HMC - an Adelaide DJ - was playing which is a dude you make effort back home to see. The dude played a day set and

smashed it but it was pretty weird cooking it all day in a dark club; made you lose your mind a bit but a gnarly experience nonetheless. Spain and the UK was where we had most of our skating planned for. Barcelona is seriously on another level. There are spots for days and without planning it we stumbled on so many famous ones. MACBA was a rad afternoon spot where everyone would be ripping the heinously old ledges or pretty much everyone else would be rollin spliffs. We made the little trek to forum a few times; it’s the spot with the giant concrete wave and a million other famous spots that

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Above: Lovatt, larking as usual. No-comply. Photo: Alex Hart Below: Brett sampling a classic spot. Back tail at South Bank Photo by Lovatt.

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weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d grown up watching in vids. England was rad; we got to London and straight away saw smack heads everywhere. The vibe there was real grimy but it was good to get over to a country that spoke English. The two of us practically lived at South Bank for the 3 weeks we were in the UK. Those guys are doing some good things and putting in serious hours and work to keep that spot alive. They had a reunion there what brought out

some really old dudes, like some of you guys would have Grandpas older than them and there wearing sk8 hats and drinking a bottle of vodka straight. Shit was hesh! London was full of the music we are into so every weekend was a cook off. One day we linked with our homie Ed and the dude knew what was up he took us to see floating points and by the time the sun came up we were that rinsed words were too hard to even speak.

Traveling is something we think everyone needs to save to experience, it was dope to get away for the two months to travel because once you travel somewhere new the vibe changes, the culture is completely different and along the way we met some really rad people.

BROTHERS IN ARMS Cameron Markin sent in these couple of gems of the McDermott brothers skating together in Sydney’s northern beaches. While Dale has graced the pages of this mag a few times, even scoring the inaugural cover shot in Issue One, many of you may not remember his older bro Brad. If you’ve been skating a while though you would remember the ridiculous rail destroying antics of Brad. Brad left Adelaide in about 2005 to bask in the glorious

sunshine of our largest capital city. Feeble grinds down the Elizabeth 12 stair amongst other feats already having cemented his status in Adelaide’s ranks. Fast forward a few years and Dale starts popping up shredding with that smooth McDermott style. Well, two thousand kilometres and a 5 year age gap melt away and when these two get together something special happens. I wonder what it’s like having a brother to skate with? I always imagined it would be this rad.

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There’s this punk band right. Going around calling themselves Beaver and stuff. Which is a pretty rad name for a band because, well, Beaver. You get it. They’ve been around for about a year and half and have put out a few records. They had me at Beaver so, to be honest I haven’t totally been through their back catalogue, but, you know it wouldn’t take that long because it appears the songs are all less than a minute long. Which, I’m led to believe is pretty punk. The band is made up of some dudes that shred musical instruments and wood (just like beavers coincidentally) namely; Dan Jones on drums and vox, Ryan ‘Fry-z’ Crowe on guitar and a certain bald headed mustachioed shredder name Louis Pitman on bass. I seen Louis around a bit so I asked him what’s the deal with all the short songs. He says: “Well, when Avril Lavigne invented punk rock in 2003 she said songs can’t go for longer than a minute, and if you don’t break up after two years you’re a sell out”. Interesting. Well, considering that they’ve been together for a year and half I reckon there’s not too long left in the limelight for these comely lasses. Louis reckons that the last show will be on May the first 2014 - thats May Day for you socialist types, which I imagine accounts for at least

40% of all punk fans. May Day is like groundhog day, except its for Beavers, and the proletariat, where they get to complain about being downtrodden and all that. After that Louis says he’s “gonna quit skating and start a solo acoustic project. And Dan and Fry-z will start their 9th band together”. Prophetic words. But who will be there to hold him to account? Oh that’s right, according to Avril after that time they’ll be sell-outs. Which either means that no-one will come to their shows, or they’ll be a massive success and take out first place on Australia’s Got X-Idol. Wow, this is gonna be a tense six month wait to see what happens. Tune in folks, or not. You could just go for a skate. Which reminds me, instead of bagging these guys - which I’m not really, I think they’re pretty grouse - I should mention that they do actually shred both skating and music. Which is a great thing. There’s plenty of time in-between skate times to do rad stuff like play music. More people should do this. And not just in your bedroom either, but actually putting on gigs and forcing all your close friends and relatives to come and see you. Making stuff happen. It’s a good endeavour. These guys regularly put on shows in skate bowls. Fulham for example. As

you can see opposite, bass man Louis can deal a nice backhand to the old lady, so I think he’s earned his stripes to play a punk show in the belly of the capsule. In fact, Fulham was also the location filmed at for Beavers film clip “I think I might be dieing!”. A classic little homage to the eighties and skateboarders who have taken a class in film studies everywhere. Personally I think that their last act of penance to the skate-punk gods should be to dig out the old Parafield Gardens Bowls and play a show there. Oh, can see it now Beaver with; the Slimeballs, New Age Burnouts, Whoregasm and Pigsteerer. But enough about the music. I’ll leave you with a touching little story that Louis told me around the camp fire the other night; “I was playing outside when I really had to go to the bathroom. I ran in and grandma was about to take a shower. I looked at her crotch and said, “Whats that?” She says, “Well, it’s a beaver, Louis” The next day the same thing happened, only my mom was taking a shower. So I said, “Mum I know what that is. It’s a beaver, but I think grandma’s is dead because it’s tongue is hanging out.” Ed.

Opposite: Bass player and chief loud mouth Louis Pitman smashes out a lipslide from the nether regions of the channel that left Gussy bleeding and bruised. Gus is an honorary member of the band on account of he likes Beavers and was also in the film clip. Royalties for life! Photos: Ed.

I was first introduced to Kat Williams in 2008 at a skate comp in Melbs. I heard of this shredder from Mt Barker and she heard of me from the puddle of blood I left there in the days of the Daily Grind skate camps. Since then she’s spent a couple of years killin’ it in the U.S. of A. skating in world renowned comps such as Maloof. And now she’s come back to Australia to join the circus. I caught up with her in a break from her busy yoga regimen to ask a few questions.... Jennifer Oakes

FS Nosegrind in China

Jen Oakes: Since you’ve been back from America you’ve run off and joined the circus. Do you wanna elaborate? Kat Williams: Yeah, I’m in a troupe. We are skaters, bmxers, b-boys and dancers and it’s basically the craziest shit you’ve ever seen. My job literally is to skate as fast as I possibly can around a skatepark while the others are flipping, whipping and doing all kinds of crazy stuff around me. It’s not just skating now, it’s training. And all the people I’m working with are unbelievable. We’ve had a few shows in the Sydney Festival so we worked hard to make sure they were rad... JO: How was your Red Bull flight you won in a comp? KW: Ah man, I’ll be honest. I was so hungover, but then the adrenalin kicked in and I started laughing and didn’t stop for twelve minutes. I was freaking out and it was so much fun. The g-forces damn near made me pass out. JO: I know you got to skate the X Games set up while you were in the states. What other stuff did you get up to? You get run over by another boat? KW: (laughs) Na, no boat this time. Hmmm,

Front fifty with a busted knee. What a trooper. West Beach plenty of nutso shit went down, so many different things y’know. Seeing a person dying from a car wreck was pretty gnarly and sad. Lucy and I drove around the states. We went from North Carolina down through Texas and then on up through the west coast. It was pretty rad and the Grand Canyon doesn’t even make sense in your head, it’s that big... X Games was sick. Just walking around and being next to all these pros was dope. There were legends everywhere. JO: How did you get involved with the video comp? KW: That was through Alliance. It’s a female skateboarding website networking thing that’s all about promoting girl skaters. Lisa told me to enter a clip and I won. So I got invited to the X Games but was too broke to afford the flights. That’s when Walker stepped in. He fronted me the money and got me there. He just kept saying it was an experience not to be missed. And he was right. I’m so grateful to him for doing that.

JO: Who do you normally skate with over there? KW: Well I stayed in North Carolina for a while and pretty much skated by myself. There’s a crew called Honourable who I rolled with a few times and the Post 22 Boys. They were these bunch of skaters that build skate parks. Total professionals. Those were the skaters around the island. When I was in LA I would roll with Lacey. Christian, Jessy and Kristina when I was up in the Pacific Northwest being Portland and Seattle. And I’d try to hook up with Venessa whenever I saw her which was hardly ever. It so sick that a lot of the girl skaters were on the west coast so it made finding a session pretty easy. JO: How’s the yoga going? KW: Oh Man, I love it! It makes skating and life so much easier. I’m skating 8 hours a day at the moment and without it I think I would be destroyed. I left Adelaide in pretty poor shape. Ask Walker about filming me the day before I caught

the flight up here. I was just unfit, hung-over and exhausted. My fitness level now compared to then is so much better. .................................................................. That Skype chat took place months ago at Jen’s house. Gotta give a big shout out to Nicky and the girls for feeding us all and having a back yard mini. The Oakes familia rule! We could leave it there but a lot has happened with Kat since then so I’ll bring you all up to speed... Beau Williams: You have another gig with this troupe in January in Chile? KW: I do, it will be a few weeks of training before we preform. It’s the same show but for the Chili Festival and it’ll be sick just to go there. BW: And your off with Walker again to China in November? KW: Yep, that’s gonna be so good and I’m heaps excited. It’s myself, Walker and Jake Smythe and I’m meeting my friend Xiang. She randomly rocked up on the last trip

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..I met Kat 3 years back and from the moment I met her she has changed my life for the better... She has a heart of gold, she is humble, and she is determined. Everyone who has spend a minute with her knows she is laid back and very positive about everything she has. Makes you appreciate the simple things. A true amigo. Eva Prater

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..Kat is definitely one of my most favourite humans on this planet, she rips at life on and off the board! Bunk bud yeww! Izy Mutu

there and traveled with us which was awesome. She’s a powerhouse. I’ve never seen anyone eat so much shit and still be walking. So going back to do the same thing basically. I think we’re gonna start in the south, and just skate wherever as everywhere is good. So many spots. BW: What do you do for work when your not traveling? KW: I’m a window washer and do abseiling for SA Window Cleaning. Tall buildings, wash windows, get money and pay bills. Best boss ever!

I can travel when I need to and Trev is happy to give me work when I get back. We have early days, go skating, it’s perfect. BW: How do you address the obvious fear that goes with that line of work? KW: Abseiling, I guess I have no fear of heights when it comes to looking over the edge of a building. There is always a fear of falling though. The height is not the issue because I can look down and feel nothing except the thought of how awesome

the world looks from up there. I used to climb heaps of trees with my mate Greg growing up. We’d climb so high and to me it was always a safe place and it would make me feel calm. I’ve had some scary moments on the ropes though. One job I got my hair caught in my descender while coming down and I almost ripped my scalp off. That was super scary but something that is common in abseiling. You’ll only do it once though. So I guess the way I deal with fear on the ropes is

Frontside smith. Photo: Alcorn

by double checking my set up and safety line. If that’s all good then I’m comfortable. Music also helps, if my rope slips or I’m feeling awkward in my seat I’ll adjust to that and listen to what ever song is playing and realise that every things all good. BW: Same question but for skating. KW: I used to be scared of everything with skateboarding. But I’ve gotten to the point where I’ve realized that I get hurt way more when I’m not skating. I mean I’ve been hit by a boat and my leg got sliced

up pretty good by the propeller, jumping off a cliff and landing in knee deep mud and being told at the hospital that I’ll never walk again. Once I hit my head so hard that I couldn’t remember my name and I was thinking I was 4 years in the past. Heaps of shit and all of it not from skating. The worst thing for me when I skate is the first attempt. Just commit and it makes everything so much easier and the feeling you get when you land something for the first time that you were scared of

feels so damn good. And I’ll always be wanting that feeling and trying shit. BW: What other girls are killing it in your eyes. KW: Izy and Shanae for sure. April’s injured right now and still killing it. Ellie has tricks that you don’t see many girls doing. She does varials and tre’s down shit. There’s a girl in the states named Samara and she got invited to the X Games and she shreds so hard. She skates rails that nobody else is stepping up to and

its so rad to see. Lacey’s always killing it because she’s just amazing. Who else? There’s a few girl skaters in Adelaide that have popped up since I’ve been traveling. The two Emily’s, they’re always at the city park ripping and its sick to watch because they’re always so stoked. Super fun to skate with and it reminds me of when I was 14 and so amped to skate from 9 in the morning til the sun goes down, just spending every second to skate. BW: How was your trip to the X Games and Maloof Money Cup? KW: X Games was the weirdest experience. Walking past Tony Hawk and didn’t even realize. Standing next to Sheckler and all these pros you don’t want to fan out and be a creep. There’s camera’s everywhere and helicopters above you when you’re trying to skate. It took me so long to skate properly because I was shitting myself. There was heaps of people there watching and little kids screaming “do a tre flip down the stairs!’. And I told them that I can’t do tre flips and they yelled back “then what the fuck are you doing at the X Games?”. But then I’d do something else that wasn’t a tre and they would scream out “that was pretty good!’. It was so intimidating but a fun experience just being apart of the insaneness. And everything is so much bigger and faster than what it looks like on TV. There’s so much pressure on those girls compared to the dudes. Because all those guys are already getting a paycheck regardless even if they don’t place. The girls for the most part are either studying or working jobs and the only capital they’ll see is if they place and then go onto the next comp. For us winning or consistently placing in the top three is the only way to make a living at skateboarding. If you’re not winning or placing high your gonna have to get a job. BW: Why do you think it’s still like

that? It’s been like that forever. KW: Simple economics. Before a company invests in a female skater they ask themselves what they’re gonna get out of it money wise. And it’s probably not gonna be much. There is just not as many of us skating compared to the guys. You’ll have 15 year olds saying Ellissa Steamer and Vanessa Torres are dope but when it comes to buying their pro board or shoes it’s just not gonna happen because the majority of those 15 year olds are boys. With such a small percentage of girls they’re just not gonna make enough money for them to seem profitable. They are companies, and at the end the day its just business. BW: Speaking of Steamer you almost pipped her at Maloof? KW: Na, she beat me on close points. But I got 9th and won $750. It was pretty sick. I saw her at the X Games last year and she came up and said Hi and I was just trying not to be a little skate nerd because this girl is skateboarding to me. It was so good to meet my idle and to find out that she’s also a really nice person who took the time out to say g’day. She’s just a super friendly lady. BW: You get flow off Andy Walker. Who else? KW: Andy is fucking amazing, he looks after me so well. Thieve have been amazing as well with trucks. Daily Grind at Marion for whenever I need shoes or hardware they always hook it up pretty sweet. BW: You come from a big and interesting family. How many of there are you? KW: I’m the youngest of six. Yeah, the little baby. I was the one that always got to do what I wanted. (laughs) My oldest brother Dillon is an engineer. Dominic is the second oldest and she’s a psychiatrist. Matt’s an electrician and he just started his own company. James is a fireman. And Rachael is an actor.

And I just work to keep skating. We’re spread out all over. We all seem to see each other separately when we can because we all live so far apart. It’s been a while since we’ve all been together. BW: Jan and Mal have been getting about the globe lately. KW: Yeah Mum and Mal are world travelers. They’ve been enjoying the heat and getting away from the freezing winter. Good on them. BW: I caught your gig at the Exeter the other night. Pretty brave fronting a room solo with a guitar kiddo. You gonna make more music. KW: I’d like to do more solo shows but it’s fucking intimidating. Me, Ben, Steve and Bri wanna start a band with anybody else that wants to join in. Just a bunch of people each playing different instruments. It’ll be called The Fun Band. Play, hangout and just have fun with everyone. I just started playing mandolin and Steve’s writing heaps of songs. Ben pumps out songs like it’s nothing. That guy can write 20 songs a day if he wanted to. So all that will be happening soon which will be cool. BW: You’ve also started a label? KW: It’s called KUU(k double u). I’ve got sunny’s going and I want to do socks and underwear as well. I wanna do t-shirts as well. It’s exciting but I don’t want to rush it. It might take a year to get it going properly and I want it to be a good product that people will like. My sock samples are getting made at the moment and it’s fucking exciting. I can’t wait to test them because they’ve got this crazy cool-max lining that’s meant to push the sweat and heat around your shoe and away from your foot leaving it dry. It’s meant to stop soggy foot, and nobody likes soggy foot. So yeah, socks, underwear, that’s where I’m going at the minute. It’ll take some time but I’ll get there. And it won’t be solely marketed towards girl

Fakie nose blunt in China. Photo: Castellucci skaters. I want it to be for any girl or woman that’s out there doing physical things and that are in need of comfortable shit. You can get the sunny’s now but I’d like to hold onto them until I can get the site up and running which will enable you to order on-line and then I can take it to the shops. I also want to do an underwear party, pants down party (laughs). People will hopefully take their pants off and dance. I mean it’s fun, and whats funner than having your pants off! For me I don’t know if it’ll be a profitable brand but I know a lot of girls that are hyped about it and if there is some success then it could put me in a position to help them as well as myself. At the moment I’m just having fun with it so time will tell. I understand the hole in the market that I’m trying to fill and at the end of the day if I get stuck with a thousand pairs of comfy

underwear and socks then I’ll never have to fucking shop again. And everyone will know exactly what they’ll be getting for Christmas and birthdays. That’s my back up plan and I am set! BW: I’m gonna end the interview with that because that’s fucking awesome. If you wanna keep up with Kat

without having to resort to stalking then suss out her blog on girlsskateaustralia.com. It’s entitled Kat’s Corner and has video’s, interviews, trick tips and what ever else the busy lass can throw at us. Your one in a trillion Katherine, thanks heaps...

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BW: What do you do for a crust? AT: I’m an architect. BW: Holy shit! Righto, do me a favour. On your next building you create please make all the windows accessible by man. AT: I kinda specialise in smaller stuff but one day I might work on something massive though. BW: Well the city park is going under the ax so get on board with some designs amigo. AT: I know, my boss skates as well and we’ve got a few ideas. BW: You got to suss out the new indoor park in Geelong? AT: Myself, Andy Westergaard and Nick Kris slept there a few nights. Just swagged it on the vert ramp. That place is amazing! BW: Did you hit the mega mini? AT: Na, the vert ramp and mini ramp kept us pretty busy as well as the rest of the park so we didn’t get a chance to skate it. Next time. VB Man made the entire park. He slept and worked there the entire time and did such an amazing job. All these pros came down after the Bondi comp and skated the vert. The told Flahery that it was one of the best ramps they’ve ever skated. BW: Who got you into skating? AT: I guess I gotta thank my dad for this one. He’s been surfing for like 50 years now. He tried to get me into it when I was younger but I would shit myself in deep water so he got me to skateboard instead and I just loved it. BW: Man this is reminiscent of

Clint K’s interview. AT: Yeah, well his old man and my old man use to surf together. Old surf buds from back in the day. BW: You love a good road trip. Give us some essentials needed. AT: Good vibes! Crack pipe up front and nickleback on repeat for those long drives. Just get a good crew, pack a broom, save up and go! BW: Who’s the usual suspects? AT: Andy W and Nick Kris are always down for a trip. BW: Awesome lads, and out of all the lads you roll with who do you think should be getting noticed? AT: Nick Kris without a doubt. He’s doing a part for Thieve on their website. And I’ve seen some of the shit he pulling and it’s fucking ridicules. His bro Matt has a mean fs grind when hes not chasing tommy ruffs to. Westy and Badger are always charging, Louie pitman has more flyout tricks then anyone i know and is always inventing new ones. Dale McDermott doesn’t get enough props in my book. You guys should interview him. BW: On it mate. Miasma, who approached you for that? AT: Basically I got a call from Ben Heide out of the blue and he told me I was gay enough to be on the team. BW: Ha!! It’s a pretty fucking rad team! Do you remember Stolen skateboards? AT: I was pretty young but I’ve seen the videos. BW: Lest we forget. I’m glad 28

those dudes are doing it again with Miasma. Some funny motherfuckers there. You traveling? AT: Always in the mix. I guess Oregon be the next big trip. Just waiting on Nick to turn 21. Next year. BW: End or begin at Burnside? AT: Dunno, just keen to get there and make it up then. BW: Your boss(Jason)is a ripper as well. Your a lucky employee. I saw him do some pressure flip thing to five-o on the churchies fun box ledge and that shit blew me away. AT: He’s got Tranny and street down. An O.G. from Fulham. We hit up flaggies on our lunch break the other day. Always keep your board in the car. BW: Was it a coincidence he being a skater? AT: Yeah, he lectured at my Uni and then started his own company. I ended up doing work experience and now I work for him. Pretty sweet. BW: Fuck yeah! Shout outs? AT: Ben and Dan at Miasma for the boards and dicks and stuff. Eric Vargas deserves a massive shout out. He hooked me up with boards and has done great things for the Adelaide skate scene. English Ross, that dude rips and is an awesome human. Jarrod Knoblauch, because he goes hard and I get stoked watching him skate. And i promised Louie i would say it for him but he

During a mini road trip to the rarely skated Sellicks paint tray and thanks to Westyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hungover directional abilities we nearly ended up at McLaren Vale. Luckily we found the spot and Gus nailed this lien air quick time. Total travel time: hour and half. Total skate time 15 minutes. Worth it.

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just wanted everyone to know that his first coverage in the last issue was only third shot and the fish-eye makes the bowl look smaller than it actually is, still gnarly as fuck I think! -Would you like to design a park? Yea man, some kind of Oregon style concrete monster is definitely the dream.

BW: Earliest influences in skating? Alex Chalmers blew my mind in flip sorry and made me want to try 540 flyouts. And always looked up to local park destroyers like Dorfus, willow and the Westergaards. Bam was always a favourite, kind of regretting the tattoo though.

BW: Skate vid that you’ve caned? First video I saw was flip sorry which is hands down the best video ever made. But even local Australian stuff like the nis video is definitely up there with international classics.

BW: I know you never seem to lose your shit when your trying new stuff. How do you stay so relaxed? You don’t seem pressured which is rad and a rare trait. Well carving bowls and flowing

lines is more relaxing then technical street stuff. And it always helps to skate with good company; Andy Westergaard is great at calming me down when it all becomes a bit overwhelming. Three days after our chat Gus flew to New Zealand to try his hand at snowboarding for the first time. It sickens me to think what he would do to a snowboard. Keep an eye out and say g’day to the man when your out rolling. He’s got an amazing style and is truly a lovely gent.

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Backside tail skidder at West Beach by night

50-50 the backside revert from one extension to the other at Flaggies where Angus rules the roost on any given weeknight. Photos: Ben Heide

Frontside nosegrind up the extension at the Regency skatepark new bit. 32

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Interviewed

Jarrod Knoblauch

Back smithers in Golden Grove Photo: Andre Castellucci

In an interview that sees him come full circle as the sometimes protege of one Evil Dan, Michael Casey fills in the gaps on Stolen, Miasma SAF 1 and 2 and every injury he’s sustained in-between.

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Okay, so we just got back from the Osborne Park and you had your first skate in 5 weeks after getting hurt, what happened? Ahhh, I did my shoulder, I did the ac joint in my shoulder. How did you do that? Ha, well I was filming you, as you’d know already, then Braydon tried to snake your line and I tried to film him and I hit a rock and fell over and did my AC joint, protecting your camera ha-ha. So you’ve had a few injuries over the years, give us a quick run down… Ahhh both my ankles, both my wrists, 2 fingers, my collarbone, my humorous, my nose, I think that’s it, oh

yeah and I put my teeth through my bottom lip and chipped my teeth and shit. That’s a lot of time of the board, what do you do to keep sane? Ha, just smoke weed and sit at home pretty much, that’s what I end up doing. Drink a lot I suppose. So tell me how you ended up on a milo box? How’d that come about? I was in a magazine in a milo box. What like the cereal? Yeah, I went and bought some cereal and it had a little skate mag in it and I’m like ‘oh what poof is in this?’ And I, ah, had a trick tip in it. And you knew nothing about it? Yeah knew nothing at all. What was the trick? A backside nosegrind revert on a bench. Yeah that’s pretty jacked. So you skate for Miasma, how did it come about that you’d skate for them? Ah, well I used to skate for stolen, which was Dan McGuiness’ company, and he owns Miasma with those guys and he just sorted called me and said we’ll give you boards and stuff. I’ve known him for a long time. So you skated for stolen first, how old were you when you got on? I don’t know, like 15 or something. And you filmed video part with them for what, Stolen Generation? Ha, nah it was The Schooner The Better. So did you get to go out street skating with Dorfus then? Yeah a couple of times but I didn’t really skate what he skated. All I remember was that he just went out a couple of times and would hit like six rails in a day and pretty much film his whole street part in a couple of missions. That’s all I can really remember. Got any good Evil Dan stories? Yeah but I don’t wanna incriminate him. I don’t wanna say anything fucked about him. Haha gold, So you’ve had the stolen part, then your first SAF part, then Get Real Soon, the Daily’s 1 & 2 parts and now you’ve just filmed an SAF2 part. That’s six parts, which one has been your favourite to work on? Probably SAF2 now, because it’s like, what’s happening now. I like skating at the moment so it’s fun. I’m enjoying it. So the Waterhouse Rd house is where the idea for SAF2 started, what was the deal? Well we had all recently become single, Me, Henning and Liam that is, and you guys lived across the road from the house we ended up renting. We ended up all just skating together everyday, well not everyday, maybe like once a month and more just drinking together every day

haha. What’s your favourite memory from the house? Favourite memory, probably coming home drunk at like 8 in the morning and waking Henning up and him being all pissed off but then instead of him getting angry he just came out and started drinking with us and we just got pissed all day haha, that was probably one of my best memories. And you had a bit of a break between the last Daily’s part and SAF2? Yeah like 5 years or something like that. Actually I don’t know, maybe not that long. So how was it different filming for the first SAF video versus the new one? I was an adult filming for SAF2, that’s about the only difference, I was over 18 and for SAF I was underage and now I live out of home and stuff but that’s about it. There’s no difference, everything else is the same. Same shit, few different people but still just the same sort of thing. And your parts finished, are you happy with it? Yeah I’m stoked, yeah not too bad, better than what I thought it would end up like when we started filming, so that’s good. And who has your favourite part in the video? Braydon Knoblauch for sure, just because he’s never had any sort

of video part. Do you think SAF2 has the same feel as the first SAF video? Yeah, definitely. Of course, yeah. It’s got a few different people but the same vibe, no one really cares, just fun. The skating takes a back seat to just hanging out. George (Newsholme) has got a part and you guys used to live together, what was it like living with George? Haha. How old were you when you were living together? Maybe, I would have been probably 18, he would have been 19. He came and lived at my parents’ house for a year haha. What was that like? It’s probably why you’re both so good at skating. Yeah it was pretty fun, he was

getting paid to skate at the time, I was just living off like 50 bucks a week and whatever sort of shit I could sell and yeah we just used to skate everyday and drink on the weekends, I guess that’s about it. Good fun. Oh yeah and we took up smoking for

some reason haha, don’t know why. Clever. So what’s your favourite Adelaide street spot then? I don’t know, what spot do we skate? Ice Arena pad? Nah that’s fucked, North Terrace, the little pad, that’s better.

Yeah everyone likes North Terrace. Got any shout outs? Thank you’s? Yeah everyone we skate with. Miasma and MV2 of course. Yeah, I don’t know, my girlfriend, Rachael. That’s about it. Oh yeah and Port, haha, can’t forget the Power.

Opposite: Backside flip over the Fairview wooden rail and Here: Just to prove he can swing both ways, Frontside flip of a that one loading dock gap that everyones so fond of these days. Photos: Knoblauch

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Words and photos by Jack Brookes DO-IT-YOURSELF projects have long existed, whether it be a backyard blitz, a 40-year-old man attempting something his wife saw on Better Homes and Gardens and even skateboarding. With skateboarders continuously hitting the streets longing for something new to skate, DIY in skateboarding has long-existed, from backyard mini ramps, portable ledges, making a street spot skate-able or even a ghetto spot with all sorts of DIY obstacles. 500 kilometers east of Adelaide, Mount Gambier skateboarders have kept the

skate scene strong by adding to their local park, Dimjalla. The council built park was originally a concrete bowl and snake run until it was later extended and saw the addition of a mini ramp, banks, small set of stairs, hip, box, hubbas and rails. With not a single flat ledge at the park the locals decided to take it on themselves to improve the park with cinder blocks, angle iron, parking curbs and more adding what was hoped to be permanent structures to the park. As the park is large and spread out, a cinder block ledge and parking curb jib

were of the first DIY projects to be constructed allowing lines to flow around the park. More DIY has since followed and recent projects have seen a small vert wall created as an extension from the mini U-bowl and a gutter height ledge for slappys and learning new tricks. Not all DIY additions have stood the test of time but the combination of homies getting together to build obstacles and the good times that are had in skating something new re-sparks the fun in skating the local park whilst giving it a lot more variety for street skating.

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Beau Hinge

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Beau Hinge Interview

Interview and photos by Ben Heide

I’ve only been fortunate enough to know Beau Hinge for a little over a year but in that short time he’s got him self firmly placed on my list of best cunts of all time. In many ways he embodies what’s rad about skateboarding: he skates for fun, in his own way, and he just he loves it. Beau displays some qualities that are pretty rare in this day and age. He genuinely gives a shit about other people and wants them to be happy and do well, and somehow he also manages to ride a skateboard in both a super technical and super consistent style at the same time. Most people are kind of shit, Beau is not. You’re from Victor Harbour and now you’re living now back in there, what’s going on? When a male butterfly and a female butterfly meet, sometimes there is a connection and a purple wizard has to die. Na. We were buying a house and the lease ran out on the house we were living in and then the bank fell through, so now I’m living back in Victor. Do you like being back there? It’s OK. I get to skate Goolwa park, see some old friends and get to catch up with Emily’s Mum Cherie a bunch more, us three have dinner most nights together! But I can’t wait to get back toward Moana or Seaford, not only for the skating but for work, I’ve spent over $500 in petrol in three weeks. Just a financial strain. Just enjoying the hometown while I’m here though. Tell us something good about the place. Every schoolies, people would push the bowling club wall down. Next day it would be like yes! It happened again. Kind of like that wall they knocked down in Germany. Is it true what they say about the toilets down at Victor? Well there actually is a story there. There’s a guys who’s always writing down his number with a sign that says, “make money wanking”, and it’s a dirty old bastard guy and he’ll actually pay you to sit there and wank. I don’t know anyone that’s done it, its disgusting he’s writing

it on the skate park toilets, and other toilets in the area, we saw it everywhere, “make money wanking”. I used to have the number saved in my phone, we used to prank it continuously. First thing he’d ask is if you were over 18, I think his name is Ken. Alright OK, so what’s the going rate for a wank, do you know what he’s paying? No we never got that far he caught onto us pranking him. I guess he just got his jolly off. Mel (Ben’s Wife): Aren’t you looking for another Job? Yeah your having trouble getting finance from the bank, do you think they would consider that a legit career, do you think he could sign up on a contract for a certain number of wanks per week? Do you think you’d be good at that? Na I guess I’m just not a real big wanker. Oh OK but really now you’re working 3 Jobs? Yeah Gyp-rocking for Saul Matthews, I work for Eric at MV2 and skate coaching for SBA. What’s it like working with Saul, he’s been Adelaide skate royalty forever? Its rad, he’s easy going. It’s not hard to convince him to bail work to go skating, sometimes he convinces me. What sort of work do you want to do, in the long term? The only thing I can properly see myself doing long term is youth work, like working with kids. I’m 46

gonna do my Cert. 4 in youth work, not exactly sure yet what that entails. (Why that work) Its just what I’ve always kind of naturally done, just looking out for the kids at the skate park or whatever or at primary school when I got older just giving the younger kids my old toys and stuff, I don’t know why. I’ve just always done that, just got along well with kids. Tell us about your wedding, you’re going to New York to get married? Yep were running away, bailing on everyone (haha). We kind of just wanted to go away we didn’t want to have the big whole wedding. Well Emily did at first then kind of freaked out and changed her mind, at it being all like that. We were just like, well how about why don’t we get married in New York and so she’s just had a ball organising all of that obviously. So were landing in LA December 9th gonna head to Disneyland and everything and I get to skate as well which is an added bonus, you know, I’ll probably run away to Mexico before the wedding but, nah, you get the point, it will be rad. So back to skating you went to Melbourne for the SBA Am series final, and came away with the 3rd, what was the whole thing like was it sick, was it scary, what? It was sick, it wasn’t scary at all everyone was cool. Did you think you could get a third going in? Nah I was stoked I made the finals. I

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Opening Spread: Trick Count: 3 Pop shove-it, Nose Manny and Nollie frontside flip out.

Here: Trick Count: 2 Heelflip and Indy to Fakie 47

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had already done better than I did the year before, that’s all I wanted to do. Everyone there was so good, so many hammer-lords I guess you’d say, to pull a third was just ridiculous. So from that now there’s the Belcopalooza thing, what’s it like going into that? (Beaus nervous laughing) I’m kind of pooping a little bit, haha I don’t

know those guys haha. It’s got to be sick just to skate in that field. Its like Tommy Fynn and Jake Duncome and shit….Jesus haha. I’m trying not to think about it coz I’ll start crying haha. Just focusing on being a good person, or playing pokemon, or playing with my new puppy Eevee. 48

Hows Malto your other dog coping with Eevee. He’s loving it Is he still skating? He is actually; he’s been skating all day today. He’s better than me. He kills it, he’s better than me, when am I gonna get replaced (miasma team).

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Beau probably won’t sleep tonight knowing that the trick count is so low on this gapped out ollie here. Still it’s fairly large so maybe he’ll be OK.

Yeah I don’t know yet but we should start shooting for his interview. So you’re a fairly technical skater and coz of that you do stuff, why do you reckon you skate more in that tech style. It’s just what comes to me naturally. That stuff I generally land faster than just doing a single thing. I just

got super into it, just loved it. I just love stringing shit together, you can put 3 or 4 simple tricks together and then it’s a good trick. Its fun. So in the last year or so you’ve picked up some rad sponsors on top of your shop sponsor. Yeah I’ve been shop sponsored by MV2 for roughly 5 years now. And recently got Miasma and 49

Dickies? Yeah and just heaps recently got flow from Lakai So how did that all happen? With MV2 I was still living in Victor and I was skating Flaggies and Eric just showed up one day to watch Jordon Midson skate and he just kind of put us both on the shop team that day. Then, not heaps long after

that I was getting shoes through e’S for a while but that didn’t last that long because they went kaput. Then there was nothing for ages and then everything happened at once. I got a call from Eric saying Dickies wanted to give me stuff. That was just like a day or two after I dislocated my elbow and I was in a cast and I was pretty much useless. Then Dan McGuiness sent me a message the day after that, saying they were starting this board company; “do you want to skate for us?” Is that that gay brand? Yeah Miarsegay And now flow from Lakai, how? Yeah that was just another chance meeting. I was skateboarding at Seaford and Changa from hardcore was there with Dan Young just skating. Got any tips for crew that are looking to get sponsored? Just skating, keep skating, meet heaps of people, be nice to people, be who you are and enjoy skateboarding! The way I think about skateboarding is that you never know which trick could be your last one! I’ve seen 50-50 on transition claim Matthew Ames ankle so badly about 5 years ago and it took him years to skate again, he was amazing though! He used to roll down the big bank at Victor Harbor and backside lipslide the whole quarter all the way to the corner pocket! But back to the tip, skateboarding works in funny ways; it’s the best! I’ve just been fortunate enough to meet great people that have looked after me! Has anyone ever got your name tattooed on them? YES! One of my best friends Andy, Andrew Inglis has it Why? I have no idea, it was a complete random thing. It was one schoolies. I didn’t know it was happening, he just sent me a message saying I’ve got a surprise for you. I went and saw him and he had Beau tattooed on his forearm, in bold letters.

Describe yourself in one sentence Super Mega flamboyantly obscure Syd (Ben’s 2 year old): I’m gonna do a wee in the toilet Beau! OK. What are you scared of? Centipedes Did you go to the Katy Perry concert? Yes, it was amazing. At anytime during that concert did your penis exceed its basic flaccid length? Yes it didn’t stop, it was just there

hanging out, had a hole in my pants it was cool. Brandon was there. Cousinly love. Mel: If you had to choose between boning little Wayne or Flo Rider who would you choose? I don’t know, little Wayne, at least he skates haha. He Rips. He’s the best isn’t he, good question. So Beau would you normally rock up at someone’s house for an interview and forget to wear your trousers?

Ah not normally, just special for you. I actually have nipple tassels on as well. What’s your favourite game show? Burgo’s catch phrase What’s your favourite catch phrase? I’ll be back Have you ever eaten a fish eye? I have eaten a fish eye and it tasted like a bad gum-ball Mel: Do you have a hairy back

No Arse Crack? Yes and I have dingle berries. Get much butt clag? No Ever suffered much from the balls chafe? Not really. I guess I’ve been lucky Favourite food I like lasagna Any thanks? My gorgeous lady Emily Jennings, Malto and Eevee! Yourself, Mel

your wife, Syd for being rad! Evil Dan, Dan Ivett, Eric Varga is the man! The whole MV2 crew, Dickies, Changa for the Lakai love! My Mum and Dad, Nathan (brother), Brandon (cousin) just to clarify it haha! Jimmy Barry, Andrew Inglis, Harley Newton, CHRISCO!! All the legends! Cheers for the memories and good times hoping for more fun trips and activities thanks!

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Tom53Lupton, backside smith up down at Seaford. Photo: Heide

Dale McDermott, frontside 180 over a double set rail in Blackwood Photo: Eddy Hamra

Mike Milner, up-crooks pop-over. North Terrace Photo: Andre Castellucci

Zac Lycos, frontside nosgrind on Greenhill Road. Photo: Lachy Pfitzner

Tom Reilly, Hefty lipslide Photo: Don Purdie

Jack Bridges, Backside tailslide out of the fountain. North Terrace, Adelaide Photo: Andre Castellucci

Callum Quinn. Long (and high) Ollie Photo: Eddy Hamra

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Atha Tolios. Frontside nosegrind into a steep bank. Mt Barker. Photo: Jarrod Knoblauch

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Clint Keneally bending a front feeble in the Wyatt Street car park. Photo: Jarrod Knoblauch

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Tristan â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Dirtyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Puksand, one-footed blunt to fakie. Photo: David Bienke