Broken
Issue 4 Free
Magazine
Holiday FUN
Pala rip
Burger Bowl Chris Bourke
Killing California
Chris Gobber
Make your own Road Sodas Spring Bling
Broken Mag Table of Con tents
Road Sodas
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r Chris Gobbe
8
e Chris Bourk
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Burger Bowl
16
Holiday Fun
18
Spring Bling
20
KILLINGCA
24
Park Patrol
26
iews 32 Product Rev Music Pool Tramaville
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Josh gets a face full of dirt pala style clipped by Paco
Cover - Tyler Mumma at the Cockpit - Photo NG
Rant
Who would have thought Issue 4 would peek it’s eyes out within months of the last issue. With all the crap floating on the web about skateboards and their origin (China vs. The world) one might ask the question, Where does all my gear come from? Your shoes, clothes, hardware, etc, are they American Made? If you have a myspace, check us out at myspace. com/brokenmagazine. The majority of pools have been sucking ass recently which has been a disappointment within the staff. The sick slanted jersey barrier at poches got the wrath of the skate stoppers yesterday, good for a few months at least. Well here is the new issue, good stuff, an interview with Chris from Arizona, listen to Killing California, and some sick art from Chris Bourke. All for Free just like it should be. If your actually reading this far into this intro, you should have a cracked, icy refreshment within reach. - enjoy - NG
Photo - George Medina
Editor/Layout - Nick Gates Writers/ Contributors - Corey Minderhout, Mark Phillips,Chris G. Chris Bourke Photographers - NG, Mark Phillips, Amish Ed, CK, Robb Gardener, George Medina, The Hammer Graphics - MP, CK, NG Advertising - Info@brokenmagazine.com Ad space for issue 5 is cheap and gets about 9000 downloads for your money. Help us grow into color print and buy an ad - interesting offers may be entertained. Submissions - 109 Dije Ct Unit #3, San Clemente Ca 92672
Pala - R.I.P. 4-19-07
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S.T.S. ( scam the system)........... Need a free pair of shoes. Here’s a quick way to a new pair. You will need a receipt for the shoes so find your last one or you may need to buy another pair. Skate them for 2-3 weeks and look for any imperfections, especially along the sole to see if any of the glue has let go. The side walls and heels seem to be easiest. Try to make the spot as big as you can, peel the side wall as much as you can with out forcing it. Take it back to a shop (best is the mall shops cause complete retards will be working) and demand a new pair of shoes. If you have your receipt and the shoes are less than a month old, you can usually scam a new pair. You can even try I have found certain brands dont even ask for a receipt and the process can be done for a substantial amount of time. My best is 4 in a row before I ran into a big shut down on the 5th try by the “New Manager”. Oh well give it a whirl, the worst they say is no way dude.
Brad Edwards - Photo Amish Ed
Road sodas-Make your own
In the Trenches
Some of the equipment and supplies include: brewpot: A large pot that can hold about eight quarts of liquid. blow-off tube/siphon hose: A plastic tube about five feet long that fits snugly in the top of the fermenter. You’ll be using this hose to transfer the beer from one container to another. fermenter: A big container that lets your beer ferment. Aim for a minimum of seven gallons. airlock and stopper: A little gadget that releases carbon dioxide from the fermenter without letting air in. bottles: What, you want to drink your beer out of bowls? bottle caps and capper: A quality capper can save time and beer. bottle filler: This way, you can fill bottles with ease. racking cane: A cane-shaped length of plastic tubing used to siphon your beer from one container to another. And of course the ingredients. If you’re a beginner, it’s easiest to buy a beer kit. A beer kit provides you with all the necessary ingredients and easy-to-follow instructions. If you prefer to work with your own recipe, you’ll need: a packet of yeast powder corn sugar
Paco riding dirty Andrew Miller gets the door at San Pedro - Photo Evan Hortter
Chase Eldridge front board - photo CK
hops a big can of malt extract water. Once you have your equipment, sanitize everything. Bacteria and fungi are everywhere. If enough of them get into your beer, you won’t have good beer. Then follow these steps to making your own beer. Bring about 2 gallons of water to a boil. Add malt and four pounds of sugar. Allow the wort to boil for at least an hour, stirring regularly. Add your hops some time during the hour, depending on how you want your beer to taste. While boiling the wort, stir the yeast powder into a cup of warm water and then cover it. Also fill your fermenter until it’s about half full of water. Once you’re through boiling the wort, pour it into the fermenter. Cap the fermenter and wait until it’s cooled to about room temperature. Then add the yeast solution. If you add it when the wort is too hot, the yeast will die. The initial fermentation will be rapid, resulting in “blow-off” foaming out of the fermenter. To prevent it from getting all over the floor, affix your plastic hose to the top of the fermenter. The free end of the tube should be placed in a bowl of water. The foam will be emptying into the bowl. Once the fermentation slows, remove the tube and attach the airlock and stopper. Place the fermenter in a dark place and leave it alone for six to fourteen days until the mixture stops bubbling. This is the primary fermentation. Once the mixture stops bubbling, the day of bottling has arrived. Boil three cups of water and add one cup of sugar. This will be your priming solution. After about twenty minutes, allow the solution to cool. Remove the airlock, open up the stopper, and pour the solution into the mixture. Mix it with a racking cane. Then remove the cane and wash it. Close the stopper. Attach the racking cane to one end of the plastic hose (now called the siphoning hose). Place the bottle filler on the other end. Open up the stopper. Place the racking cane through the hole until it’s about two inches from the bottom of the fermenter. The lid of the fermenter should have a stem into which you can blow to increase the air pressure. Now, get a clean bottle. Fill it to within an inch of the top. Cap the bottle. Five gallons of wort should fill about 50 bottles. Keep filling until the wort is about three to four inches from the bottom of the fermenter. Avoid drinking that (the dregs) as it may give you digestive problems. Let the bottles of beer sit in a dark place for about a week so that it can age and carbonate. This is the secondary fermentation. After that, you’re ready to sample your own beer.
Nolan Johson gets up over Lester Kasai in the Skull Bowl - Photo NG
Johnny Manuk blasts one out Nor Cal Style - Photo Courtesy Rene Morales
Chris Gobber - Arizona So whats up dude? Skate anything sick today? I’m just staying busy working with California Skate Parks, we have alot going on this year. Skated a new ditch today, it was pretty sick You build stuff to skate, how sick of a job is that? What’s the best thing you helped build so far? I have a kick ass job but it is a hella lot of work. It’s a process from start to end with alot of set backs in between. It is cool to travel and build which I’ve done here and there but for now we are mostly building in Arizona. During the summer the weather gets so intense we usually start work at 2am and go until 11am. Unfortunately summer is right around the corner! The best thing so far I’ve helped with would have to be Goodyear. I was there the first day when it was just a big dirt field ready for grading and I worked on every phase from start to finish. It was nice to take my mom and wife there after it was finished and show them the end results.
Do you miss San Clemente at all, I mean the gopher head, come on yea I miss the weather miss, the friends and I miss the good times at the compound and at gopher head for sure!
Where you living right now? I am living right outside Phoenix in Peoria AZ with my wife. We bought a house a few years back and I got control of the back yard so of course while most people choose a swimming pool, I went with wood. What up with your ramp? My ramp was the first project I started when we moved to Peoria. I didn’t know to many people yet so I went with the old saying “if you build it they will come.” I take pride in the structure of my ramp. I built the majority of it by myself and it is solid as can be. It is 5 1/2 ft tall with a 7 ft tranny and 24 ft wide with pool coping extension, skatelite and many movable props. I am in the process of expanding the ramp to a hip and spine combo. I also have a backyard mini bowl known as the iron yoke. It’s a fun little addition. It’s a piece of Thrasherland so I’m glad to have some heritage set up in my yard. How’s the AZ skate scene? The AZ skate scene is great. Good people, good times and lots of pools and parks. I’m totally stoked on the Arizona skate scene
Who do you ride for right now? AZPX Skateboards is my main sponsor. Rob Locker is the owner and he is probably the most kick ass guy I met out here, some of the other riders are Wrex Cook, Troy Eckles, Ben Dixon, Chris Kelly, Brian Pino, Jay McLane and some street skaters. I have a few of my own decks that are my shape and he sells them online and thru different skate shops, I’m really happy to be apart of his crew. I ride for Kronik Energy, which is an energy drink that is working it’s way to the main stream. Other riders include Benji Galloway, Jimmy the Greek, Heidi and Cressy Rice. Kronik just held the Desert Dog Bowl Bash which went down pretty good. It brought out alot of old school pros and gave Kronik some coverage. I ride for Randoms hardware, I’d ride their shit even if I had to pay! I ride for Drop in Skate Shop which is a local shop owned by my friend Ed. And I still get flow from Emerica.
Hells Heros skate crew from Sacramentophoto by THE HAMMER
Steve Bailey Deep In Mississippi
Hells Heros skate crew from Sacramentophoto by THE HAMMER
Chris Bourke Chris Bourke is an artist and skate-shop owner based in Worcester, UK. Chris started skating in 1986 whilst living in Droitwich and opened his own skate shop, Spine, in Worcester in 1999. He has previously worked as a tattoo artist, and the influence of tattoos is present in his personal and commercial work which includes producing board graphics for Birmingham-based Skateboard company A Third Foot. The tattoo-inspired board series “Falling, Breaking, Crying and Dying,” is the darker side to his previous “Feeding, Growing, Shining and Flying” series for the company. Chris has also produced T-shirt designs and graphics for Document Skateboard Magazine and a t-shirt and board graphic for Death Skateboards. In the past Chris has used spray paints and acrylics to create his work, but in the last few years has been developing large scale ink and watercolour paintings, producing distinctive work infused with some of his interests and influences, such as tattoo art, religious symbolism and his travels to India and Nepal. In 2005 he rediscovered the joys of lino printing, and has been transferring his recognizable style to the medium of black and white prints. One of his recent lino prints was chosen for the cover of Issue 8 of the European art magazine Modart, which also included a feature on his work. Chris is a member of the Outcrowd collective and has been involved in several of their group exhibitions in and around Birmingham, UK. Last year he was invited to be part of a show at The Hub Centre, Lincolnshire for the ‘More Than a Progression’ exhibition, where his work rubbed shoulders with pieces by Jake and Dinos Chapman, Wes Humpston and Jim Phillips. He had his first solo show in London at the 88B Gallery in November 2005, and his first solo European show in Amsterdam in 2006. Chris’s work can also be seen in the book ‘Concrete to Canvas: Skateboarder’s Art’.
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As well as running his shop full time, he is still skating several times a week despite snapping his ACL a few years ago, and he’s also finding the time to set up a creative clothing company and gallery space called ‘Ours’, as another outlet for his artwork and ideas.
www.spineskateboarding.co.uk www.myspace.com/chris_bourke www.thisisours.co.uk www.theoutcrowdcollective.com www.concretetocanvas.co.uk Chris Bourke
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Early Morning Bliss - Coastal Beatification Project underway Fun facts surrounding Jim Beam bourbon: In 1964 Congress declared bourbon a “distinctive product of the United States” and it was recognized as “America’s native spirit.” For a spirit to be called “bourbon,” it must be made from a mash mixture of at least 51 percent corn and must be aged in new, charred oak barrels. Bourbon has been the preferred drink of presidents (Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson), famous writers (Mark Twain) and countless other politicians, performers and notable citizens. Jim Beam Bourbon was around when George Washington — a distiller himself — was alive. At the time, the Constitution was only 19 years old. Since then, the Constitution has been amended 27 times, but the formula for making Jim Beam bourbon remains the same. After prohibition, at the age of 70, Jim Beam rebuilt the family distillery by hand in 120 days. Jim Beam has produced over ten million barrels of bourbon since Prohibition. Jim Beam is the only American whiskey that has been distilled and sold by the same family for 7 generations (since 1795). As whiskey ages, a portion evaporates over time. It is this portion that the late Master Distiller, Booker Noe, sixth-generation Beam family distiller, referred to as the “Angels’ Share”— the portion the angels’ would enjoy for themselves. Each barrel of Jim Beam Bourbon is aged a minimum of four years and rolled out by hand. Fred Noe, Jim Beam’s great grandson, oversees every barrel of bourbon, continuing a family tradition that has survived generations.
Burger Bowl
Photos By Amish Ed
Dave Ruel front 50-50 king
Over the love seat
Sergie Ventura bombs away
Chris Hamrock styles a smith look back
Dave Ruel front 50
Ben Butler Hip air
n u F y a d Holi Zack Dowdy BS Disatser Photo George Medina Zack Dowdy 5-0 Photo George Medina
Brandon Perelson - Photo George Medina
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Cant film all the time - NG
Photo George Medina
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Zack Dowdy TailBlock - Photo George Medina
Brandon Perelson - Photo George Medina
Spring Bling 2007 Photos by Shawn Rossmilller
Tyler Hendly won it all including the xbox360. I wonder why.
Vert Wall Acid Drop - Danny Greene gets it done. Paco slams an IPOD driven disaster on the vert wall.
Andrew Wiskus drops in on the vert wall, the gets in a coffin and clears the table top coffin style. He’s always good for a few moments of sickness. Check the top right with the back tail crail on the vert wall. He pulled it. Shane Porter kickflip fakie Billy Thompson skates better than most with a tail block judo.
Kingdom of Heaven
Interview with KILLINGCALIFORNIA by NG Whats up with you guys? We are ; dc-lead vocals & guitar, jerome-leadguitar, richie-bass, the kid-drums Where ya from? San Clemente,ca. Bands you were all in? The kid and I were in Skumfux back in the 90’s, after that ended I was in FKR a band out of Phoenix around 02,03. Richie most recently was in Blood Soaked Hands How Did KillingCalifornia come to be? Years ago the kid kept cornering me at the bar telling me someday we were gonna be in a band again, I would just laugh. So after enough of this badgering we hooked up with my friend Crano and we started to jam. Crano brought Jerome around and the band started up. Crano has since left the band as did another guitarist DonE. We needed a lead guitar after these dudes left so Jerome moved over to guitar which opended up a spot for Richie to come in on bass. He talked his way in at the bar like the kid...it’s cool, hopefully the band stays this way from here on. Whats up with the south county music scene? We have a few good bands and tons of crap? I don’t think the bands are crap I think the scene is crap. There’s really no venues down here to build a scene around. It’s usually just bar owners who want some buisness on the weekends after the construction dudes go home. So they’’ll let us drag our own PA down, do all the work, and than give us a small cut of the bar. They don’t care about anyone’s music so it sucks, it’s not conductive to building any kind of scene. Usually it last for a few shows and they get over it. It’s always been that way down here and all ages gigs, forget about it. If there was a decent venue, I think the bands and the scene would get better.
Where do you guys skate? Hate to say it but the last few years I’ve been a park nerd and usually due to laziness and not wanting to drive I end up at the San Clemente park. As a band we skate when were on the road, hit some curb cuts outside a club...we just skated Scotts Valley near Santa Cruz and Derby, which is a great place to get over a hangover. Summer plans? Hopefully we’ll get our new record out and do some more tours up north. Where do we find KillingCalifornia on the web? www.killingcalifornia.com www.myspace.com/killingcalifornia Influences? For me, Lemmy Kilmeister and the Dalai Lama
Kids go nuts when KillingCa is on stage.
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l o r t a P Park Granite Skatepark, Sacramento, CA This park is definitely worth a look if your in Sacramento. Plenty of pool coping, over vert pockets, and a plethora of odd street stuff make it a park that is not to boring. The BMX contingent has already managed to damage just about every ledge that did not have metal coping on it so that sucked, especially the marble hubba ledges, but for the most park everything was good to go. There is this weird capsule pool that is probably 12 feet deep and remained unridden for the most part. The cop factor was void so anarchy was on within the confines of the iron fence. The mosquito factor at sunset was a buzz kill, but worth it. Check out Madera if your on the way up towards Sacramento. Photos and review - NG
Cohorts in Granite - Photo CK
Chaz crail at the basic
Chris Mumma with the 5-0 to pivot on a nice piece of slab. - Photos - NG
Nolan Johnson makes Encinitas look like a mini ramp - Photo George Medina
Andrew Wiskus Indy Nosepick on a quality built extension 3:30am - Photo Evan Horrter
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ACME skateboards anwsers to the debate about where your board was made. Support companies that are not only American, but support skating like abcboards does. Jim Grey skates better than most and has some of the best boards in the world made in their warehouses in Costa Mesa. ABCBOARDS.com
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Saikou DVD by Conspiracy Skateboards. Available on their website for $15. Featuring footage from the infamous Fallen Warehouse DEATHBOWL, Oregon Trifecta, Utah, Texas, Idaho, North Carolina, New Mexico, Colorado, and more! It has a sick soundtrack of drivey punk and metal with footage from tons of sick parks you probably haven’t seen or been to. The Fallen where house section was rad and made me want to go buy a barn and start building. Definitely worth a check out at ConspiracySkateboards.com
Boardpusher.com - Good idea and easy to use. Do you want a special design for your company, gifts, whatever, you can easily login in and do just that. For $50 same as decks in the shop except shop decks or blanks. Anyway you can get a good product with exactly what you want on it. At the time of this review, our board has been ordered, next issue we will do a ride test and check out the final product. If its good or sucks, where does the deck come from, etc. They have different shapes and sizes to choose from. They did not have an 8 1/4 though which is my ride of choice so the 8 will have to do.
The good ol TnT II’s have to be the best skate shoes ever. I can’t seem to fins anything as good, some shoes are close but these have the best comb of the vans sole with a bit of cushion versus the old schools. They come in some good colors and there is a vegan version if that interests you. - RMG
Young Guns Brothers Miller
Basic Bowl Tucknee - Photo Evan Hoerrter Andrew just appeared ne day at the park and never has seemed to leave since. That was 3 years ago and Andrew has become quite the destroyer of all terrain. I think the first day I saw him he had a board that was close to breaking so I told him if he dropped the vert wall, Id give him a board, he went and straight dropped in on the vert wall, probably before he even learned to drop in on the small stuff.
Ryan seems to be in trouble more than he skates, but when he does he throws down some fat ollies. These brothers are not going away anytime soon. - NG
BS ollie - Photo NG
Music review
Stickers for frizzle Tennisclub - To witness Tennisclub in person is something most find hard to forget. They all for the most part skate and throw down some crazy doom metal kinda stuff when they are on stage. Brent puts every ounce of scream into the vocals with drums and keyboard charging along full speed. Check out their myspace at least and take a listen. Here is the bio stolen from myspace. THE SUMMER OF 2004...TENNIS CLUB was formed as a result of the most fabulous new idea since fabricating the discovery of the Americas by Christo-supremist booty lusting Pirates. In the city of make-believe, where the surfers tounge-kiss each other violently as they power walk skippingly down the main drag and tweekers melt their minds with “Hair Metal,” Three brave mortal souls mounted the same horse and decided that the Punk rock records they listened to were right....These world government war pigs are fuckin up our lives really bad. We know our lives are about as worthless as a dead rat in a tampon factory and stuff.....AND THEN IT WAS SO!!!! We then decided that we would take back our dignities (individually....well as a band...you get it.) and use our new egos to erect the spirit of evacuating our domestic/consumer mind atop a cathedral like Pirate ship that supports nothing but a tennis court to the likes of an arena. Make no mistake, unwilling participants in a tennis match for their lives can be pretty competitive. It might take the power of serious business to serve during a doubles match. Our lives our so full of shit that these themes are more common than ever, “THIS WAR MEANS TENNIS” Umm did you say Coto de Cost of living?
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Lester Kasai rise of THE HOUSE Photo Shawn Rossmiller
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