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Editor/Publisher: Jerry Burke Associate Editor: Dave Adair Mac Monkey: Zac Lovett Photography: Jerry Burke (unless otherwise stated) Eternally greatful to all the contributers: Wade Maclaughlin, Robert Brasher, Andrew Mapstone, Isaac Roxburgh, Marcus Curran, Adrian Errol Jones, Toby Mellonie, Yoshi and his family, Drew Rogers, Ben Attuel. Thankyou to all the skaters! Thankyou Skateboarding. Enquiries: jeriburke73@gmail,com Instagram: @laybackmagazine
PASSION AND PLACE
by Dave Adair
There must be something in the water, least some cosmic vibe radiating from the crystals trapped deep within the tubular bowels of Wollumbin. Or simply a secret stash? Jez and Chavez look to be into whatever it is Ganimal and Brasher have been fuelling their furnace with – folk in their mid-forties skating like folk in their mid-fifties who all have the skill and stamina of folk half their age! Then there’s the hordes of young rippers who carry the air of schooled veterans or the battalions of ladies with their determined enthusiasm permeating the parks. You folk of the Northern Rivers don’t need me reminding you how good you got it... but I shall. A good portion of the Earth’s most bewitching coast and country aside, you bask in a thriving, unique and supremely positive skate scene.
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From afar the Northern Rivers appear a lazy tropic paradise – delve deeper into the hazy hills, through the lush rainforests and peppered amid the coastal dunes you’ll find plenty wild and frenzied skateboard action. Small towns offering killer street hits, concrete-lipped kidney bowl, vert-proper, DIY projects, backyard dreamscapes. Pools, pipes, a decent scattering of parks, and then there’s Nimbin! Enough with my preaching to the choir. After a couple years laying low and a little cracking of the whip from myself, Jerry Burke has his magazine coming in hot with another issue. A labour of love fed by a devout duty to passion and place. Welcome family, welcome to the second issue of Bundjalung nation’s all-mighty Layback Magazine. The best time in skateboarding is now. Let’s shred!
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"He was known as ‘The Animal’ and took us by complete surprise. He blew us all away! This was at Peppermint Park around 1984. Fast, strong lines, smooth airs, stretched out inverts and killer combos of flawless hand-on-coping Miller flips into Elguarials. Our jaws hit the deck man! We’d never heard of this guy before. His skating had developed in relative isolation out in Lismore. So to roll with someone who’s existence I was unaware of and who just so happened to be one of the raddest skaters I had ever seen in Australia, was a true and total stoke! Later on when we got to know him. we learnt of the beautiful contrast between ‘the Animal’ and Gary Nowlan the person. He was one of the most humble, friendly, gentle, down to earth guys you could ever meet. Garry Nowlan: Most loveable human if there ever was one!"
intro by Adrian ‘Airial’ Errol Jones
Thirty year (plus) gap between smiths and still looking hot! bottom right: timeless channel plant circa '86 (bnw photos: Toby Mellonie)
THE GANIMAL by Robert Brasher Garry was the best skater in Australia in the 80’s (arguably). He was a little older than a lot of us but incredible core strength made inverts and Miller Flips and all those strength moves seem to come easy to him... He had the most challenging backyard ramp built out of suspended concrete he had made himself so he could do a lot of home work. ‘the Ganimal’ was his nickname because he used to swing off coping like some sort of urban Tarzan ... Not that more subtle moves escaped his hunt; Along with the power moves he would also drag the tech stuff of the time back to his den to be dissected... On his substantial slab of vert he’d master ollies and smiths etc, and then come and present them to us in perfect form up on the Gold Coast. I think people that didn’t see him in that era and watch him skate now go “Wow, he’s really good for someone so old!“, but you can never believe how good he actually was...
Maybe we’d do an invert into a grind and then an air and fiddle a few other lesser moves of difficulty... but Garry would go from invert to Miller flip to gaytwist to ollie to Andrect... all straight arm tweaked inverts. Stuff people of great technical talent these days will never touch! Just so much grunt and power... like watching a slot car locked in on a track. Like the sporty Toyota Celica he’d drive up to skate at Darren Burfords’ ramps. He’d always look so incongruous jumping out of that car but so cool! It wasn’t a skateboardy car or anything. He just skated ! He wasn’t into the punk look that was prominent amongst skaters back then... He didn’t look like a skater. He just was a skater ... and looked like a skater better than any other when doing it. He’d just monster places ... he made them look like mini ramps ... I remember going to Peppermint Park at Port Macquarie with him with the Gold Coast/Brisbane crew... we would meet up with the Sydney guys there too. Adrian Jones and Biff Murdoch and other vert pioneers would just be so amazed by Gary. Dave Mock and John Mills and other photographers would run around the halfpipe trying to get angles on all the shapes and lines Gary would cut... He was simply the best in those days. Words don’t do him justice!... When he was skating there may have been pride, but when he was on the platform, he’d just like to have a humble chin wag and a giggle with anybody (and a ciggy or two). He was pure visual art. Gary ‘The Ganimal’ more than anyone then should have made a dollar for his incredible skateboarding back then... But he just worked on a macdamia farm. Unlike a lot of us, Garry always had a job to go to after those brutal weekends of skate rage intoxicant... A working class hero that could move like a principal dancer. Those leaps and shapes he threw would make you gasp! Somebody slap me and snap me out of this retrospective. Somethin' else, he was. And he can still Smith better than most at age 57 or whatever he is now! So let these photos speak a thousand words. Go get inverted you young punks and watch an old master in a snapshot... Timeless as far as I am concerned.
JOEY CORMACK When I first came to Byron in 2006 there was this little kid skating around Suffolk skatepark in bare feet and kind of just styling around the place ruling it. Seemingly in his own little world. I have watched him grow up over the last decade and he still just styles around in his own little world ruling it. Only now he wears shoes and you just can’t afford to take your eye off of him because his skating is just that buttery. It seems there’s no limit to what this kid can do on a board. Even as this goes to print he’s out there starting to travel the world, winning competions everywhere he goes and working with the best photogs and filmers in the land. I’ve got a feeling this once bare footed boy wonder is about to fully blow up! It's nice that we get to see a skateboard ninja first hand just doing his thing down at the local park now and then. I sat down with Joey at the Suffolk Park pub the other night and shot him some questions. Read on to find out his secret recipe on how to do the perfect hardflip... Hey Joey what's up? So how old are you and where do you reside? I'm 19 years old and I live in the Suffo Swamp! I stay at my Mum and Dads house. It’s about two pushes away from the skate park. (Suffolk Park, Byron Bay) Is that where you learnt to skate? Yeah pretty much. I would say that about half of my entire skateboarding would have been done down there. It’s your little training facility huh? Tell me about the comp that got you an entry into the Tampa Am this year? When I saw you that week your back was really sore. How’d you pull it all together for the contest? Yeah that was the Sydney Damn Am contest. I fucked my back earlier that week skating this kinked rail. I was trying to fifty it. I don’t think anyone's skated it before. On about my third try it slipped to feeble and I did a back flip and landed right on my tail bone on the edge of the bottom step. You couldn’t hardly even skate your heat properly right? Yeah I wasn’t even going to go down but the dude from Tampa was like:
"I would say about half of my entire skateboarding would have been done there"
Kickflip, Suffolk Park "all these people just wanna see you there and shit" haha. It was weird. So I went down not knowing if I could even skate at all. I was just like, fuckin praying for my back to heal. I somehow qualified 8th on the first day. Then the next day I took 2 extra strength panadol and could actually skate. And ended up with second place.. And that got me into the Tampa Am in Florida which is in November (2017). Speaking of injuries, I noticed you’re limping around right now? I just rolled my ankle real bad about 3 weeks ago. Sucks because I’m about to go to New Zealand and I don’t think I’m gonna be able to skate. For a while there it seemed like you didn’t even fall off your board at all. Like, ever ! And now you’re actually injuring your self . Is this because you’ve stepped up the level of tricks in the last while or so? Oh, Na. With my ankle its because Gemzik and Wade jinxed me. They were just talking to me about never hurting myself and that same day I fucked my ankle! It wasn’t even too hard or gnarly a trick! haha. I’m just gonna keep rubbing coconut oil into my foot and hopefully it comes right by Tampa.
What's your secret to performing so well in comps? Do you have a battle plan? or just skate? Na not really I don’t think so. I just skate. I literally don’t even plan a run... or I slightly do maybe. Like I’m gonna do a front feeble on ‘that’ and then something else on ‘this’ and then just I just try and let everything else flow from there. Do you save your bangers for the final run? Usually you just know if you’ve skated in the heats well enough when you’re gonna make the finals or not so I usually have an idea of how hard I gotta go depending on what's going down that day. Usually you just know how hard you gotta go. So yeah sometimes in the finals you gotta step out of your comfort zone. How do you go with the pressure? I guess I’m used to comp pressure because I’ve just been in like, so many comps by now. List some of the comps you’ve won recently? Ah, I don’t think I’ve actually won a comp recently. Oh wait yeah the last one would probably be that one in Melbourne. Australian National something, I can’t remember what it was called. So, Tampa! congratulations man. You got any other plans when you’re over there the U.S.? anything you’d love to check out? Umm.. I’d like to go to check out Hollywood High. I wanna plan some things and work out exactly what I’m gonna do but yeah not sure yet. The comp is just one part of the trip. How far did you get through school? Where did you go? I went to Byron High and yeah, I only made it to year nine. I just knew school wasn’t for me.
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I think I was like a troubled teen or whatever. I just wouldn’t go to school and I just wanted to skate. Were you like a stoner kid or something? Haha na, not even. I just didn’t want to be there and would rather be skating. My daughter will probably end up at Byron High some day. Is it true everyone’s on drugs there? I don’t know. I don’t think so. I think kids are getting more chilled these days. Have you ever had a job? or do the contest winnings keep you rolling? I’ve had like, one job in my life. I worked at Dominoes Pizza for about
" You just pretend your board's doing a backflip"
three months with my friend Ricky. He doesn’t skate much any more though. He surfs. Isn't your Dad a legend surfboard shaper in the Bay? Have you ever surfed? I started out surfing yeah. I got a few barrels and stuff (laughs) I haven’t actually paddled out in over three years now though. But I go to the beach every day with my dog and stuff. I swim. My Mum used to be real good at surfing. She’s got trophies and shit and Dad was on Rip Curl when he was my age. Hasn’t your Mum filmed some of your video parts before? Oh! Haha. Na, she’s filmed a few tricks for me when I was younger yeah. When you actually realise what skating is, you’ve got to film your
tricks. I worked that out when I was pretty young. My parents have always been really supportive of my skateboarding. Who did you used to look up to from around here? Kent Wright. He used to take me out street skating and stuff. And Jarrad and Bibi (Bradbury). Is skating on your mind 100% of the time or what? Yeah I guess it is. I play that video game SKATE and sometimes I’m like... oh shit! I’m gonna just like try and fully work a trick out in my mind and be like yep. I can do that! So you guys are always blasting that new school rap shit down at the park. Whats up with that? (laughs) Yeah we vibe out to that Trap shit haha but I listen to a bit of everything really. I still love listening to my Dads shit like Led Zeppelin and wait... what's that other band? Oh yeah Pink Floyd. Guns and Roses and shit. (my friend) Keymeoh keeps me hyped on all the old school hip hop. Ever played in a skate punk band? Haha. No. What about a rap crew? Oh shit. Yeah my friend Janarly is killing it. He performs at Splendor (in the Grass) every year and shit. I used to freestyle a bit haha. So, What goes through your mind before jumping on a rail?
backside smith grind (W.Mclaughlin photo) Backside smith while filming a line (here) and a signature hard flip down six blocks and a death trap (there). Wade McLaughlin photos.
I’ve seen you say go and I’ve seen you say no. Is it risk assessment or do you just pussy out some times? I straight up just pussy out. It depends on the rail. I wanna do more kinkers and big rails. Sometimes I go home and think damn why did I not jump on that? But then I usually go back another day and try again. OK. Tell the kids out there how to hard flip. You just pretend that your boards doing a backflip. Just kick your board into a backflip and try to catch it. What about down twelve stairs? I don’t know, I Just pretend its not twelve stairs.
"I just wanna skate! I just want to make it my life somehow..." So it sounds like it’s all about pretending. There you have it kids. Got any plans to move away from Byron in the future? I don’t know. For now I’m just loving it and loving going up to Briz on the weekends. Maybe I’ll move to Melbourne some time but I don’t even know. Brisbane is pretty sick! Then eventually I want to go out to America. What do you want to get from this skateboarding thing? Whats your dream for the future? I dunno. I just want to skate! I just want to make it my life somehow. Skateboarding IS my life! I’d love to start my own company one day or something like that. Rad Joey. All the best with everything mate! Anyone you want to thank? Thanks to my parents for creating me. Thanks to you (Jerry) and Zak Pitter and Zac Lovvet for driving me around and shit. Thanks to Wade (Maclaughlin) for helping me to progress and Patty G (Gezmik) for letting me stay at his house. Shouts to the Swamp Crew! Schwaamp 4 Life !- Keemz and Dylan and everyone. YGG, Parliament, DVS and Free Man and just everyone who’s helped me along the way.
G/// NASTY Enter the Wok By Marcus Curran
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The Lismore region has produced some extraordinary people over the years alongside the usual eshay; commonwealth conspiracist; general eclectic and hypebeast from Jiggi. The skate scene though small, is alive and kicking with new faces popping up everyday, trying to master 2018 skateboarding. There is a lot of rough and wild terrain ready to be tamed. It is hidden in the schoolyards, carparks, back paths and so on. Right in the thick of it, the G///Nasty gang (gang) has been in these streets for a good minute.
The G///Nasty crew is loosely made up of whoever is down amd whoever shows up. If you can slappy that’s even better. We spend most afternoons at the training facility in Goonellabah and expand from there into the street. There are a fair few clips floating around covering the scene over the last few years. These Include a 30min short film called RAGE, some amazing wannabe Strobeck films from Doogie and bangin’ southern rap VX1000 clips from Braden. Also we got endless nonsense on the gram.
Although the term “g///nasty" may have all but left everyone’s vocabularies, I’m still referencing it as it encapsulates a time growing up and the some of the funnest memories for me! Athough people move around, we all still connect through skating and always keep the good times rolling whenever we catch up. If you’re in the area and wanna see some spots or just kick it and skate then hit us up! Are you rollin’ wit tha squa’ or nah?
Isaac Roxburgh, slappy lipslide
Dane Haywood, wallride nollie
Penny. Kickyflip at the Lismore OG Park Jorden Penfold, kicky at the OG Lismore park
Bastien Grey, pole jam
Donnie, kickflip Marcus Curran, noseslide Nathan Frier, hippy jump
50-50 grind to wallie out
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I’ve known Marc through skateboarding in Lismore since I was eleven years old, so that must have made him about nine or something. While we all loved our skating, Marcus was the first to pick up a video camera and dedicatedly use it. He definitely spent more than a few years behind the lens. I don’t know if it was all that extra time observing and appreciating skating through filming and editing, but there seemed to be a point where almost overnight he just became a full creative powerhouse of a skateboarder himself. When it comes to wallrides, polejams, hippy jumps, body varials, ledge dancing, switch prowess and fancy-lad maneuvers; Marcus is the undisputed best! He was recently critiqued on Ted Barrow’s infamous instagram (@feedback_ts) where some commentators insisted that one who resorts to bashing up walls to get into tricks never learnt to ollie. But Marcus has done some of the biggest ollies I’ve ever seen! He even won a high ollie contest a few years back. Marcus is one of my all-time favourite skaters but it’s more than his skateboarding that makes the character we love. He is a true renaissance man; a skateboarder, filmmaker, fashionista, tailor, entrepreneur, businessman, hustler and one hell of a dancer!
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Fave three videos? Palace x Adidas - Chewy & Benny Thrive The Animal Communicator - Anna Breytenbac
Instagram or dvds?
Fave 3 albums? Shakira - Hips don’t lie (Single) Shaggy - Hot Shot Kill Bill soundtrack
go try something else?
Fave three Lismore skaters? Barney Rae (Triple OG who ventured into the Darwin wilderness) Christopher (Sonny / Sonboy ) Norman Walker Brad Williams Loose trucks or tight? Back truck tight, front truck loose.
Bit of both. Do or die? or come back another day or Go home to my suga baby because skating hurts. What would you do if you didn’t discover skateboarding? Take acid every weekend at the doof! Palace or Adidas? Sergio Tacchini.
Street or park?
Weed or booze?
Park for training, street for world
Weed to recluse, booze to party.
championships. Lismore for life? Penny or MJ?
Fucking hope not but at this rate,
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SCOTT STANDLEY So you’re at some demo or skate comp and there’s some young ripper taking on the handrail or maybe bonelessing around the bowl to a cheering crowd. But the true connoiseur of skateboarding can’t take thier eye off that one guy just to the left of the lime light. Although he mightn't seem to be doing all that much, maybe just mucking around on the flat bar or something, he just looks too damned good on his skateboard. No matter how evil keneival the stunt kid might be, the true skater can't resist watching that one guy cruise around because if you don't watch close you'll probably miss the trick of the day. It might go down unnoticed to most. The efforless style, the non-chalente approach, the wry smile, the laid back hair-do and no-frills clothing. It all just screams at the true skaters' sensibilities. Sure this guy could own a demo or collect the trophy if he wanted to but that is all just a bit too show-pony for him. But if you're ever in the right place at the right time and he gets in the mood to throw down you're in for a treat! His style doesn’t change one bit from pissing about on the flat-ground through to skating some serious piece of street meat. You wouldn’t even know he’s trying all that hard neccesarily until he slams. Then you realise how gnarly he is. Don't be fooled by his mild mannered looks. This guy is tough. This guy can take a hit! And then get back up for another try... The amount of tricks and stunts he has accumulated and recorded over the years in various videos, magazines and tours is mind boggling. But to be honest the true connosoire of skateboarding could get just as much satisfaction from watching him muck around in the parking lot. I'm not saying that now he just spends his time doing slappies, far from it! Our guy doesn't seem to be slowing down one bit. He just keeps on skating. Always learning. Always having fun. Always smiling. For his enjoyment and ours!
Let me introduce to you a true skateboarder. We all know and love this guy. Your friend and mine. His name is Scott Standley.
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If you want to get over vert in this pipe you better damn well wear your thrasher slippers (previous page) Tail grab at the old metal monster in Lismore while Red Kaggs gets caught unawares on camera Scott Standley, Bangalow Pipes.
Who were the guys in Ballifornia you looked up to back in the day? Dylan McNamara was the number one dude. There was a whole crew back then, it was sick. We used to just go around the streets everywhere. We used to skate the Civic Video store and take a box down there. Once we were skitching behind a car, just holding onto it with these two chicks driving. I think they had stolen it from their parents or something. While we were holding onto the back of the car, it was going quite fast and they didn't know how to drive I guess coz they were like 14 or 15. They drove straight into the shop front and crashed! Like they literally just lost control of the car and crashed right into the front window! The lady at the counter was like, "What the fuck!" We managed to make the corner on our boards and then skated off into the night and hid. We got away with it haha. Not sure what happened to the girls. They must have been in big trouble though. Tell us about the early days in. Do you remember your first sponsor? Beachlife shop in Ballina. I got a set of wheels and a visor. It was pretty dope. It was bright yellow. Bram (McKirdy) got sponsored at the same time and he got one too. He got his one signed by Rick McCrank at a demo here! Who are your current sponsors? And do you get paid to skate? Nup. Don't get paid to skate. Vans, Volcom, Zero and Truck Stop are my sponsors. What is the first trick you do when you get down the park or skate out your door? I kinda just like to do a shifty ollie. But sometimes I get stuck on it because they're so much fun. Red: Who were your main influences that helped shape your style? I don't know, I just used to watch all the videos and stuff. Reynolds was my favourite skater and he still is. Just that whole era. Like watching all that shit. Appleyard as well. The first Flip video was insane. Red: Does it affect you in any way that Reynolds is still going so strong? Umm, nah, it doesn't really affect me but its sick to see.
Red: Does it make you want to get off the piss and go on the straight and narrow? That doesn't. Acting like a clown does though haha! You did take a month off drinking recently, how'd that go? Yeah good. I guess it just proves you're not an alcoholic I suppose. But then I proved I was an alcoholic straight afterwards! I felt like I needed another month off after my first night back on it again! Tell us about Melbourne? Well I was there for 5 years. I skated a bunch. So many spots and so many people that are keen. You've always got someone to skate with. I dunno, there are filmers and photographers who are always keen. I was working at the Globe warehouse. Just skating heaps. Because no one thinks you work ever, do they? No one does! Not even the people I work with think I work! But nah, that was sick working at the warehouse. Half the people ripped and skated and shit, the other half were just random Kiwis and shit. Everyone was cool as fuck and there was a mini ramp there too. Is it true that Melbs is over-run with Kiwis? Fuck yeah. It's worse than the Goldy! I think it was Wade McLaughlin who was quoted recently when talking about skaters in the Northern Rivers when he said something to the effect of: "Skaters just seem to get lost up there." Does he have a point? Are you lost? Were you ever found? Yeah it's funny like when I was in Melbourne people would be like, "Doesn't he just smoke heaps of bongs and shit?", about skaters from up here. Like who? Just anyone. Anyone who's not there in the lime light all the time, people just assume the worst. Even I'm like that. Sometimes someone will come to mind and I'll be like, "Faarrk... haven't seen much of that guy in ages. I bet he's doing fuck all!" (laughs)
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So you're back here in Ballina. Would you say you're in a transitional phase? Are you trying to grow up?
Noseblunt slide (photo: Andrew Mapstone) I am. I need to make some decisions, that's all it comes down to. If I don't, I'll just keep doing the same shit and I don't wanna end up 40-years-old working in a warehouse. When you skate, even if its gnarly terrain, it looks like you're just cruising because of your relaxed style. But when you do go down, you go down hard and it's actually disgusting to watch. How do you get up the nerve to get up again and land your trick after a slam? When you fall down and you hurt yourself, but you can actually get back up, why would you stay down? You know what I mean? Like when you slammed in that pipe the other day and your elbow swelled up to the size of a rock melon and you kept skating. I was a bit shocked actually. Well if I can still skate I just keep going. It'll heal itself eventally. It's a never ending story of me fucking myself up though! Do you reckon you'll just skate tranny when you're older? Probably, I don't want to though. I still want to be able to pop and get up on ledges and stuff like that. It's street still. It's just what I grew up doing. We used to build boxes and skate ledges and that's still my favourite thing. It's just easier to skate tranny because you can just cruise around and you can just do grinds and you don't have to ollie.
Is there some trick that sticks out in your mind as the one that got away from you? I've been trying to switch nose blunt a rail for ages though I can't seem to find the right rail. I've tried a few but never rolled away from one. I found the perfect rail for it in Malaysia but I had a rolled ankle and yeah, couldn't do it. I gotta go back to Malaysia! There's tons of tricks that I haven't landed though. Numerous! You've done them on park rails though? Oh yeah. Dp you want to tell us about that security guard shove with that killer ollie in the 'Bread and Butter' video? Yeah that was at Parliament House in Melbourne. There's always at least eight security guards cruising around and I had been there like three times before and you only get two attempts each time you go there. I fucked my foot up so bad on one of the times. The last time I went I stomped it first try but slipped out, then I walked back up there and the security guard was standing there so I pretended I was just walking away and then I just turned around and jumped on my board. He tried to grab me and I just swerved around him. As I was on my run up I just thought, "Fuck, I gotta get this." The filmer happened to be at the top of the stairs, which wasn't the plan, but he captured the whole thing real good. The little carve between the bollards was icing on the cake mate. Must have felt good! Bread and Butter was so sick. Any other stories from the filming for that? James Hall dropped my brand new motorbike! It waa Yamaha. A 'Yama-Harley' they call it! (laughs) Red: You had your long rock'nroll hair and a YamaHarley! Do you think that was you at your peak? Yeah, definitely! We were supposed to be towing each other taking turns to get speed to skate this bank. Anyway, on his first go he came in so hot. We were flying! I was scared to even ollie up the little gutter at the start. The next thing I see is him locking up both brakes and going into a slide along the ground. I was like, "What the fuck?" He totally just crashed my brand new bike! He felt bad and he's the sweetest little man so he came around the next day with a box of beers and also polished up my bike and stuff. It was all good. That's one of the things I miss about Melbourne actually, my motorbike. I sold it before moving back up here.
"Just be really kind. To everybody!"
Hoofing an ollie from the third block deep in G Nasty terratory. Are those over-alls James wears legal in skateboarding you reckon? Is that allowed? I reckon he can do what he wants. I reckon it's sick. He wears heaps of crazy shit. He looks like a little fairy half the time! You shouldn't worry about James though; you need to be worried about fuckin' Jesse Noonan. Shit is so hectic. You guys have got no idea. He wears like a man-kini while chasing down sheep in New Zealand and shit like that. So you've been skate coaching for a bit. What's up with that? Is it just yelling at kids to not push mongo or is there more to it? That's pretty well it haha! But seriously, everyone skates differently so if they're doing something wrong you can give them pointers but I pretty much just let 'em go. I was thinking that if that (coaching) was around when I was young I probably wouldn't have even done it. For starters we had no money so my parents wouldn't have even put me in there. But I've kind of stopped that now anyway. I need to get into something serious pretty soon.
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Shifty with a twist Do you wanna tell us what you do for work right now? Haha, yeah! Well... today I was out on the highway holding the stop-and-go sign. I'm the lollipop man! (much laughter) What annoys you currently within the world of skateboarding? Heaps of shit. Fuck I just hate the argument but skateparks is the number one thing. I hate how no one's on the same page and there are just that many fucked parks. It could be way better. It's got the potential to be the best thing ever for Australia but we just can't get it together. Even with all the talk of the Byron Bay park. I hope they don't just make another bowl. Even Coffs Harbour is kinda shit. Maybe that's 'cause I've only ever got to skate it with a thousand other people! It's just not all linked together like it could have been. What makes a good park in your opinion? I In Sweden there's some really good ones. Lots of speed humps and different stuff for everyone to skate. My favourite in Australia is probably Rose Hill. It's pretty small but it's so cool. Except for the tiny quarter pipe at the bottom of the hill, it needed to be bigger. The dude who designed it actually tried to get the skaters to keep an eye on it during construction. I think that's a good thing to do. Bangalow skate park is pretty rad. But to be honest you can have fun anywhere when you think about it. I don't think we even know what we want half the time! Nerang is cool, but it's so rough already. Round coping on skatepark hubbas. That annoys me! Anything else? What annoys me is people who are really good but are not getting what they deserve.
Frontside boardslide, Lismore
"If you can get up, why would you stay down?"
You talking about yourself? Haha, nah. It's been that way forever, but it still annoys me. Example? Drop some names. Who's not getting their props? Maybe it's more people who are getting props but don't deserve it. OK I'm not going to ask for those names haha. On that note though, who are your favourite Aussie skaters? Dustin in his prime... definitely! Cuzza, Alex Lawton, Chima. Dudes like that. So many, it's hard when I'm put on the spot. Red: Do you see yourself skating 'til the end? I can't imagine ever stopping. I feel like I've just invested so much time into it. It's what I do. What would you say to some kid who might be good who's reading this and wants to make something out of skateboarding. I'd just say to be really kind to everybody! And just be yourself and not to burn any bridges. Skate hard. Skate as hard as you possibly can! Anyone you'd like to thank out there? Definitely all my sponsors. Andrew Mapstone for everything. I've been riding for Volcom since forever, they've always been hooking me up. Vans. Globe for when I worked there. I definitely appreciate all that. Filmers and photographers who waste their time. It's so gnarly to think how little money they get for what they put in. It's not easy. So everything good that comes their way, they absolutely deserve it.
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Bangalow skate park is about five years old now and has become the jewel in the tarnished crown and a hub for the wider Byron scene. A bit limited in budget perhaps but Concrete Skate Parks really did build this one pretty darn good! Ok, so the street section has been left a bit wanting but there are enough things to keep the tech dogs happy: stairs, banks, hubbas and ledges plus there is a rad little down hill slappy curb. But the real cause of celebration and where the main action gets poppin is a near perfect peanut shaped bowl which has stairs, hips, deep (8 foot) and shallow (4 foot) ends with smooth trannies adorned with chunky pool coping. The scene is mellow and you can pump music, drink a beer and there’s not too much of a scooter problem. There are a crew of hard core regulars mixed with plenty of marauding pirates who stop in off the nearby highway. The Bowling Club is 50 yards across the cricket pitch where you can get a beverage and a burger at the end of the sesh. Its one of those parks where you can have a fun skate no matter your mood. Well done to whoever got this thing happening. ‘Bangaz’ has saved many a skateboarders soul around here and we’re all looking forward to a full Summer of barking grinds and poolside chillin. Viva El Bangalow! Special note: ask the locals where the super fun yet super sketchy full pipes are. They’re a walkable distance from the park. If you feel like getting served another burger that is...
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(opening collage)Nick Southerdon, smith grind; Jakob Robinson, backside tweaker; Brodie Jarrat, leap of faith; Isaac Roxburgh, fakie inwardo heel; Shem Bragg, invert and grind to fakie over the stairs; Scott Standley, stalefish (main spread) Dan Haumu lays one back for the mag (here) Tony Chavez hucks an air over Shem Bragg
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I had come to shoot the moof man.
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Whispers of a mythical beast that lurked on the outskirts. Half man with cloven hoof and blackened heart, A town curse... Devil horned shadows spread eerie shapes across brick walls in the darkened streets. Strange noises could be heard, rumours of dastardly deeds. mothers lowered their eyes and Children peeked from behind curtains . They were afraid of him. The moof man cometh! Gruff men Glared at me and doors were slammed shut in my face. I was not welcome here. But I would not leave Here 'till i had got what I came for. I had come to capture the beast and collect my due. I had come to shoot this thing, this... Moof Man. I sharpened my steal and polished my sights. I wasn’t afraid of the stories. Well... maybe just a little.
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Jack Malouf, scaring children with one hell of a bridge bomb
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Brook Thompson Rock'n'roll
Bibi Bradbury Smith grind
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Zakery Pitter Noseblunt slide
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Bailey Ryan. Five-O
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Jakob Robinson Crail
SKATE FAST BE FREE Gabriel Zenz-McCarthy 11.07.1990 - 02.06.2017
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