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Cain Lambert - Airwalk - Neufeld Photo
Fakie 270 Feeble to Fakie - Photo - Seburn
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Cain is my brother. He’s been my best friend since day one and here are 10 fun facts about Cain that you may or may not know. Enjoy! 1: He used to ride goofy and push mongo, when he realized mongo was lame instead of switching the leg he pushed with he switched stances. 2: Cain wasn’t born in a hospital. He was born in the house he still lives in today. I saw it go down, it was fucked. 3: Cain loved tuna sandwiches for years, until he realized that tuna was fish. 4: Cain can play 3 different instruments, very well. 5: He can switch ollie as high as he can ollie. 6: Cain has been skating for 15 years. 7. He is double jointed in his shoulders. If you tie his hands behind his back, he can pull his hands right over his head, in front of him. 8. Cain can’t ride off of curbs if he is riding parallel with them. He broke his wrist doing it once. 9. When our mom went to baptize Cain, the priest asked her to change his name or else he wouldn’t baptize him. My Mom got in a fight with the priest, so cain was never baptized. I don’t think it bothers him. 10. At a Maestro concert Jessica Simpson kissed Cain on the cheek and gave him a hug. This was before she was famous, but who cares, Cain’s stoked! -Colin Lambert
Winnipeg Skateboarding Magazine So, we are four months down the road from the release of the first issue. No one knew we were going to continue with this thing. We didn’t know we were going to continue this thing, but here it is, issue 2. we would like to think that we are more organized and more experienced from the release of the first issue, but that would be a lie. In truth, a lot of people have helped us out over the last few months to make this happen and we are not about to call it quits anytime soon. As long as Winnipeg has a skateboarding scene, this will be its voice. One of our main goals for this issue was to sit down with John Erhart, and we did just that. For those of you that are unfamiliar with John, he has been and will continue to be an iconic figure within the skateboarding scene. For me, I started skating at the age of 10, and rumours of “Johnny Skater” had reached me all the way in St. James. Some of the stories of what he had done on a board were straight up ridiculous. He became to my friends and I, an urban legend. It was only when I had seen footage from the early green apple videos that I realized, holy shit, this guy is real. With that said we approached Johnny with the idea of doing an interview. We asked him if had any old photos and he responded “No, but if you want some pics, lets do something fresh.” Keep in mind, John hasn’t had a session in years. - Dave.
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CONTENTS
DC NATIONALS / whos going to van? page 5-6 LORD OF THE LINES / bragging rights. page 7 TONY TAVE SHOE RELEASE / the Fellers show. page 8 JOHNNY ERHART INTERVIEW / fucking epic. page 9-12 PHOTO FEATURE / and sequential evidence to boot. page 13 JAMES VANDAL INTERVIEW / art and _ _ _zig. page 15-17
DC Nationals
The sun was blazing hot and my pasting white skin was baked, but only on my right side, my other side still looks like powder, not cool. I don’t know how these guys skated all day in the heat. A lot of spectators showed up and braved the heat as well, one guy barged the course and started charging towards the 10 stair, we didn’t really know what was going on but everyone cleared out of his way and he hucked a front flip down the stairs landing on his feet and running away with out missing a beat. There was some good skating in the single runs and the jam sessions. The jam sessions were 4 minutes per heat and everyone fed off each other and really got the crowd behind them. After we wrapped up the runs the finals were set to start. The top five in the finals were: Josh Thorvaldson, Eric Milinkovic, Adam Lecker, Kyle Nickoshie and Jamie Mospanchuck. After two runs, it was real close between Jamie and Adam who both had difficult and consistent runs, but in the end, it was Jamie who put down a flawless final run and took the first place spot and won a trip to Vancouver for the finals in August. His last Nollie flip down the big three had everyone on there feet in anticipation of a make, his board flipped so slow that we were all sure he couldn’t catch it, but he did and stomped it super clean, the crowd went nuts! Jamie stayed calm and rolled away with ease. 1st. 2nd. 3rd. 4th. 5th. - Trevn
Kyle Nichoshie - Bs Tailslide - Seburn Photo
Jamie Mospanchuck Adam Lecker Kyle nichoshie Eric Milinkovic Josh Throvaldson
* from DCnationals.com/blog
Adam Lecker - Noille Front Board - Seburn Photo
“Jamie... put down a flawless final run” -Trevn Sharp
Alex Doyle films Jamie Mospanchuk - Sw Bs Tailside - Seburn Photo
Lord Lines of the
This past July, Matix Clothing brought a nation wide skate contest to Canada. The challenge was to nail the best three trick line on a manual pad, a grind box and a flat bar. The Winnipeg edition was hosted by Green Apple with a free BBQ supplied by Fazzo Bistro, for all those in attendance. With dozens of contestants in two age categories , it was the judges tough call to narrow it down to a top three in each group. - Tony. Winners: Â 16 & Under #1 Austin Thomas #2 Myles Keleher #3 Mish Baerg
16+ #1 Jason Crolly #2 Adam Lecker #3 Jeremy Gelfant
Adam Lecker - Nollie Nosegrind - Seburn Photo
Jeremy Gelfant - Crook - Seburn Photo
Tony Tave Shoe Release
This past July, Circa sent four of their boys to the peg to promote the release of Tony Tave’s new shoe at Michael Komenda skatepark. As much as it was a demo, it was more of a session between pros and local skaters. It seemed that the presence of out of town names pushed some familiar faces to up their game. After a cavalcade of attempts that weren’t even close, one little ripper nailed a kickflip on the double-set. It earned him the loudest applause of the day. Make no mistake, Sean Lowe, Magnus Hanson, Sierra Fellers and Tony Tave layed it down and wowed those on hand to witness the visit. Unfortunately, we did not get a shot of Tony Tave. Prior to him snapping the tail off his board, he spent most of his time cheering on the kids as they pushed the limits of their own skateboarding.
-Tony
Sierra Fellers - Switch Flip - Seburn photo
Crolly Fs Blunt - Seburn Photo
Johnny Erhart Scott Baker vs. Johnny Skater John-o, seriously, you know what I mean? Dude was almost an hour late for this interview. Not like I was on time. I was being lazy, Johnny was sleeping, something about his roommate having loud relations with his girl until seven am. That’s cool I guess. Anyways. Most people know John Erhart as Johnny Skater. I don’t know how he got that name, never asked, stupid move. Check it. S: When did you first start skateboarding? J: ‘87 or so, because my bike got stolen. That was my first bike that was stolen. S: How many bikes have you had stolen since then? J: Enough. More than I’ve stolen.
S: All right then. Who did you first start skating with? J: Kenny, Rich Menard, Jake Kosciuk, and Darryl DaLagua. S: What was the Winnipeg scene like back then? J: Very small. We had a park called Rampage. It was an arena that had a vert ramp, that we could skate, in St.Vital. There were jump ramps and shit but they had a vert ramp and a seven-foot. It was true punk rock back then. S: What do you mean by true punk rock? J: Where it was scary to go in the pit. Where there were fucking gnarly dudes and not guys who just dress up. Not many people knew about the music back then.,
“One Time I racked a Texas Mickey at the liquour store, on new years. I think I was 16.” S: Sick. So what area did you grow up in? J: St.Vital is where I first started skating. I started living on my own so bloody young that I moved around tons.
Photo: Seburn
S: When did you start living on your own? J: At 15. Back then my job was racking shit to live. When I was 15 I sent $1000 to Vancouver to get acid and sold it for three grand in one day. Then I moved to Van for two months. S: So you were also shoving shit on the side? J: Yeah. The first person I lived with was Colin Patterson. We’d wake up in the morning rack shit by the afternoon, and then party at night. Fifty bucks would turn into a twelve pack, two grams of weed, McDonalds and a pack of smokes. One time I racked a Texas Mickey at the liquor store on new years. I think I was 16. S: How the hell did you pull that off? J: Magic (laughs).
S: What was your first legit set-up? J: Vision Psycho Stick, Ripsaw wheels and Indys. S: Where did get that thing from? J: From Caldaze, a hookup from Kelly. Fucking, sketchy Curtis and Kelly; bros. Kelly got me drunk when I was 12. S: They were running bootleg Hosois out of there weren’t they? J: Yeah Hosois and Jason Cantalannos, and Kasais. The only somewhat legit one was the Hosoi. Ivan Hosoi gave permission, not Christian. He had an ad that said the Hammerheads with the Skull Skates logo were legit. S: What was the deal with Caldaze? J: They were a good shop. They were pretty OG. They sold surf shit but they had been around longer than Sk8. They did skate parks too: Off The Wall and Boarderline. Kelly was a pretty rad guy. I broke my tailbone at Boarderline, doing a manual 270 in.
Hit it on the coping. Those guys brought Danny way and Tony Mag there, some other guys too. They set up the demo at the convention centre in 1990. I skated in it with Steggles.
S: I’ve seen you do better shit at Vimy then in your parts. J: Totally. That fucking dump of cement at the back. Fell out of a dump truck…skate park!
S: Caldaze sponsored you? J: Oh yeah. 2 years? They had a team. I was skating for 6 months when they sponsored me, but there were only a handful of skaters back then.
S: Onto the injury, when did you first get hurt? J: At the Clubhouse in 94 originally and I pushed it for 10 years.
S: So when did Caldaze close? J: Around 92’.
“The first time I did the Leg was in 90’ .”
S: Is that when Sk8 started to hook you up? J: Yeah I won the 14 and under category at the first contest on Corydon. They started hooking me up then. S: Who else was on Sk8 at the time? J: The original picture: Harry Chan, Derek and Jason Kun, Steggles. Ian Beer. S: Were there demo tours then? J: Little ones, to Kenora once a year. Some other little ones. S: How were the spots back then? J: Hard. We had to break everything in. The first time I did the Leg (Manitoba Legislature building) was in 90’, had rails on my board, the next time was on a slick. I’m still surprised that no one has done it since then. S: How was the big pants small wheels phase? J: Slow fuck. Slow moving and getting tangled, tripping over your own pants. I had size 60 shorts. S: I only stepped to size 40. J: Size 45 were tight ass. 50mm wheels were huge. I had 52’s but I skated ramp. You can’t reach the coping in 38’s. I can’t believe that Colin (McKay) and Danny (Way) did all that shit at the Ranch back in the day on those small wheels. S: What was up with filming? J: I filmed spontaneous; anything good I did was spontaneous. My video parts never did me justice I don’t think.
S: What trick were you doing? J: Warming up on a fakie ollie on vert. I bailed the trick and put all my weight on my foot. They couldn’t x-ray it in the hospital it was so fucked up. S: So you just skated on it for 10 years? J: Pretty much. The pain came and went. 2000 was when I did the best shit. It felt like it had almost healed. Skating with Jason (Crolly) made me skate more confident. S: And that progressed into arthritis? J: Yeah, its tech name is Ankolosingsponsilytes. It’s a type of Rheumatoid arthritis. I was first diagnosed at 22 but I didn’t believe that I could have it so young. There are two kinds of arthritis: Rheumatoid and Osteo. Rheumatoid is joint deterioration and fusing, it never really heals. It can flare up to the point that I can’t move, but it can also be at the point where you couldn’t tell I have it. S: When did you get to the point where you couldn’t skate anymore? J: I was 27 or 28 when I had to slow down on skating. I regret not knowing about the young offenders act, I should have taken full advantage of that (laughs). S: Will this progress to the point where you can’t walk? J: I’m maintaining right now. Rhemicated. My meds cost 60 000 a year. I get a shot every 5 weeks and that helps me maintain, keeps me alive. S: Shit. Lets wrap this thing up, anything else? J: Nah I can’t think of any thing. If you get hurt deal with it, in a good way.
Feeble toto Fakie - photo - Seaburn Feeble Fakie - Photo: Seburn
Photo feature
Bill Acheson - Kickflip - Photo: Dan Neufeld
David Seburn - Wall ride - Photo: Sarah Murray
James Vandal
Skating, Blogging, and Glen Danzig By Tony Beaudoin
Bs Lien to Tail - Neufeld Photo
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ot unlike most skateboarders, James Vandal is much more than just a skateboarder. James is a multi-talented artist and blogger, as well as a ten year member of Team Sk8. Whether it’s painting, photography or shredding the streets of Winnipeg, he is leaving his mark on his hometown. As I crossed the street from my apartment to his, I tried to decide how to go about this interview, as it was the first one I’ve ever done. The problem with interviewing your friends is that it can quickly deteriorate into a conversation, and it did. So, I guess we’ll start with what got you into skating? I do remember it. We were at a restaurant, on the beach in White Rock BC. I was looking out the window. Some dude was just cooking it down the street, with the biggest pants, and the littlest wheels on his board. He just ollied over this parking curb and I was like “Fuck, cool”. How about your art work? When did you start? What got you going on that? Well I guess I’ve been doing art my whole life but I never took it too seriously. Never realized it was art until a little after high school. I just kinda thought what I was gonna do with university and I just got pushed in the right direction by a friend and that was it. What are you taking in university? I’m doing a fine art degree. I have a major in print making and I do photographs. I just kinda combined them. Paint and silk screen. Kinda typical. What inspires your art work? Girls. Girls and skulls and skateboarding. And Glenn Danzig? And Glenn Danzig. Just lots of Danzig? Yeah. The more Danzig the better. So, do you sell your art? I try. You know. I’ve been pretty fortunate to get the opportunity to do a lot of shows. Everything I do, I do offer for sale. I don’t necessarily do it to make money off of it but I mean what artist doesn’t try to sell their work?
We’ll discuss that after. Ha ha. Ok, so you started Coffee Ana Grit blog with who? With this dude named Brent Pielech. He’s like an old high school friend that I met though skating. I guess our idea behind that was just parties and bullshit, really. Well it worked out pretty good, cause a lot of people were taking a look at the site, right?
Yeah. We got a fair amount of hits on it daily, which was cool. It was funny. I found it a whole weird kinda thing, cause it was just us, getting drunk, taking shit and getting rowdy. People seemed to like it, so that was Well that’s the idea half the time, right? cool. Like after a big post or a weekend; over the next couple of days it was just people’s facebook or myspace Half the time, that’s the idea but for me I show it in my updating to that shit. Then we started thinking, “Man apartment or I hide it in my closet. we should start charging people for this stuff.” It was pretty crazy how often you’d see somebody pop up. Where can someone get ahold of you if they like what A lot of the time, we’d wonder how they got it, cause they see? it wasn’t someone that we’d necessarily know. It just went to show how many people were looking at it, Umm, I guess I could put my e-mail address on this. which was cool. Ha ha ha.
So, you’re not involved with it anymore? Well, it just got to be more of a chore for that site. Like I said, it just started off as partying and bullshit. Brent wanted it to be more of a business. He wanted to start doing hired shoots and stuff, which was too hard to set up and not really that practical for what it was. Then it just kinda fell through and we stopped posting on it for a while. Brent still does it on his own but I just kinda lost interest in that kinda concept. Do you have a new blog? Yeah. It’s not necessarily the same idea though. It’s just meant to be my opinion and just whatever I can figure out. Whatever I feel like I wanna post on it, like photographs. I try to use it to promote a little of my art work but again it’s just a lot of bullshit. What’s it called? It’s called momentsliketheseneverlast@blogspot.com. I guess we should talk some more about skating. Do you have any other sponsors besides Sk8? At the current time I’m just riding for the shop. I kinda stepped down from all the things I was doing because I wasn’t as competitive or as serious about the whole sponsorship thing. I guess part of it was getting a bit older, more responsibilities, not having as much time to focus on it. Its not like I’m taking skating any less seriously but I thought it was appropriate to let those positions that I had be open up to other people. People who had more time and the drive. What do you charge for your art? Well that depends on the piece and the person. If you’re a friend, you’re probably gonna get a good deal. If not, I’m probably gonna try and milk it out of you. Ha ha. It really just depends on the size of the work, the time and the concept. You’re cat is trying to eat the mic cable. What’s his name?
Fs Ollie - Neufeld Photo
Glenn. After Danzig? Yes. I should have expected that. Is there anywhere in town people can view your work? I have had some stuff at Graffiti Gallery. I’ve done a few shows there. Pat Lazo has been super rad with helping me out. Outside of your inspirations, where does your art come from? For me art is an expression. Skating and art are. Like when I skate I skate fast and when I make art I’m usually pissed off. So, it’s just a way of getting something out, right? It’s however you want to express yourself and that is what’s great about the two things. That’s why you find so many good skateboarders that are good artist or good writers and musicians. I think that kind of culture and lifestyle brings it out in people. It’s something I can do just for me. Like how skateboarding is something you do all on your own? Yeah. There’s no one to tell you what to do or what’s right or wrong. That is the best part about it. You can do fucking anything and somebody is gonna be stoked on it.*
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