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Cover Photo: Austin Padilla is a monster - standing at 6 foot 5 inches, so when he looks small skating a spot you know its a big one. Front 180 Photo: Mark Steinlein
Mascot: Skidds Editor in Chief: Mike Oliphant Sales/Advertising: Jeff Porter Mitchell Mendez Graphics/Layout: Ryan Carpenter Head Editor/dude who’s in college: Daniel Muchnick Staff Photographers: Mark Steinlein Daniel Muchnick Contributing Photographers Kyle Volland Andrew Quiroz Dave Duesterberg Chris Henderson Josh Becker Contributing Writers: Daniel Muchnick Mark Steinlein Dave Duesterberg
table of contents Simon Woodstock................... 5 Zarosh.................................... 10 Don’t Do It............................. 12 Barge The Lake..................... 18
Filmer/itunes: Chris Taylor
Trevor Conley........................20
Artist/cartoonist Bobby Brown
Bath Salts..............................38
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Oregon................................... 42
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Andrew Dellas doesn’t mind seating in the car for two hours then back bluntsliding a 12 stair huba at all. Pic: Mark Steinlein
Simon Woodstock
The Journey Away From And Back To Skateboarding So, yeah. I’m back skating again and having a blast! Here’s the short version of how I got out of it in the first place. Basically, life in the fast lane caught up to me in 1999 and after squandering everything away on wine, women, and song I had to bail the scene to go and get my head straight. I think most people know that I am a Christian so I won’t get up in everyone grill about that but it was through faith and working a good recovery program that I was able to get my head back (for the most part) a couple of years ago. Once I could think clearly I immediately entertained the idea of skating again. My friend Tosh actually hooked me up with an NHS Fun Factory longboard and I started to cruise again in the Spring of 2011. It immediately felt amazing -- wheels on the ground, turning, carving, breeze in the hair and the whole nine yards. I had gotten really out of
shape but I wanted to try some tricks so I dropped about 35 Lbs. earlier this year and started skating Roosevelt and Red Park. Falling is no bueno but being able to stick a few tricks again has been really fun. I have an old timer pro model on Reliance but I’m not trying to get back too far into the promotional side of things. At age 42 I don’t think a whole lot is expected of me in those regards, anyways. When I have energy and the urge I just grab my board, call up a friend or two, and hit some curbs, banks, or the local parks. Getting stoked every time and feeling like a kid all over again. Oh, and having lunch at Denny’s in 2011 with the crazy editor of some weird local skate mag helped get me back in the game, too. Thanks, Mike! If anyone in the South Bay wants to hook up and go skate you can contact me at simonwoodstock.com
Moses Salazar with a buttery ass kickflip. Photo: Daniel Muchnick
“Yeah we fucked up.”
We forgot the photo credit for the cover of Skidmark Issue # 3.25 of Moses Salazar. The photo was taken by Daniel Muchnick.
Jake Tomlinson doing work on this barrier. Photo: Josh Becker
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Bobby Brown shares a photo of his best friend DIO.
1. Hey Zarosh. Give us a little background on Platipuss Skateboards and why you first started it. Well, I started printing skateboards when I was 18 and working at Arcade Skateboards/ Generator Imaging. My boss was super rad and would give us boards with every paycheck. I started Platipus as a way to learn screen printing without messing up any real orders. Generator eventually switched to heat transfer and moved into Bareback Manufacturing in San Marcos, and I purchased a lot of their board printing equipment. I’ve finally got it all set up in a real shop again at the great 131 warehouse in Santa Cruz. 2. What don’t people know about your process of printing decks? There is a lot that goes into direct printing boards that the normal, say, t-shirt printer will never deal with. Your ink is a fairly volatile substance, its much thinner and almost quadruple the price of plastisol. I would compare it more to hand screened poster printing, except that you are dealing with complex curves. 3. Do the boards skate better when you print them yourself? I mean, yeah, I look at it like this; you have to be stoked on what you’re riding. I want it to be like when you see a good shape with a good graphic you just want to set it up right then, even if it’s a vintage Matt Hensley or Jason Lee board and supposed to be worth a thousand dollars. I think graphics mean more to us than we realize as skateboarders. 4. Tell me about Cachagua Land. Apparently there are these fenced off place’s called ‘skate-parks’ nowadays. Not only do the cops watch you and give you tickets there, but now there are skate-jocks; they snake you then do tricks in your face. So I figure, if we could just build a spot way the fuck out the valley, it could be the best thing ever. It’s kind of a fall-out shelter for skateboarding to me, it will always be there and politics can never touch it. 5. What’s your favorite graphic you’ve ever printed? Personally, I’m a big fan of the power plant tits. Thank you, the nuclear boobs have inspired me for years, but the Tim Brauch Eagle print we did for Super Charged was by far my favorite, because so many artists worked on it. The idea for the graphic came from Tim’s dad, Jonny Mojo illustrated it beautifully for the old rip saw shape, which were each hand cut by Shakey, Aaron Clark turned it into a screen print, and I eventually got to pull the squeegee’s. 6. How can somebody interested in one of these boards get his or her stinking, grubby hands on one? Dlxsf, Mission Skateboards, Sonoma Coast Surf shop, and Bills Wheels in Santa Cruz are the skate-shops that carry Platipus. Orders for custom boards can be placed by writing in to Platipus at 131 Center St. #3 in Santa Cruz, California (95060)
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What follows is an interview with Steve “Birdo” Guisinger and Leticia Ruano of Consolidated Skateboards about their initiative, the Don’t Do It foundation. The foundation centers around educating the newest generation of skateboarders as to the importance of supporting local shops, and with fighting the good fight against Nike and other sporting goods companies that are trying to steal away the skate, surf and snowboard industries from those of us who worked to build them up out of nothing. Every dollar is a vote, and every vote counts. Don’t Do It and don’t give up.
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Dan: When you first saw the “Major Threat” poster from Nike, can you take me through your train of thought, what you were thinking there? Birdo: Well, when I first saw it I was angry, because I grew up listening to punk rock, and I thought, how could Minor Threat do this? I was actually angry at Minor Threat. And then, when I found out that Minor Threat didn’t approve of it, I was sad and disgusted because I started to learn- that was their [Nike’s] mode: “just take it... and then they’ll sue us or whatever, and we’ll just pay them off; because if you ask, they might say no, so you want to just take it.” Dan: Do you think that’s them trying to play into nostalgia for marketing? Birdo: Oh for sure. They’re just this massive company that has no knowledge of our roots in skateboarding, surfing or snowboarding, so they hire companies and people to tell them what’s cool. So they say, well, you know skateboarders, they used to listen to punk rock. “Oh, what’s punk rock? And how can we associate ourselves with that?” It’s pretty basic. It’s just sad, you know. Dan: You just take an iconic image and re-appropriate it... change it by ten percent... Birdo: Exactly. Tie themselves into it and then it starts giving their company that image. Dan: I’m sure you’re familiar with Fugazi’s mode of operation of never charging more than five bucks [for a live show]. I was doing a bit of research into how you give your boards at cost, at your cost, to the shops in this area, and that drew a parallel for me. Can you tell me why you do that, and what you hope to gain out of it? Birdo: Well, it’s not that we necessarily hope to gain anything out of it. For us, it’s our way of giving back. It came across to me just thinking like, “Oh man, I bet if you live in Vermont where Ben and Jerry’s is at, you can get Ben and Jerry’s pints for like a dollar, or whatever.” We’ve had people in Santa Cruz support us for so many years it’s like, our way to give back. Dan: So it’s not really even a matter of moral per-say. It just makes sense. Birdo: Yeah, so we just felt it was our way of giving back to Santa Cruz. We had to ask the shops that carry our stuff, “please don’t mail-order this deal. Don’t exploit this fact.” A perfect example: Skate Works in town gets them for cost, but their store in Los Altos doesn’t. We want to keep it just in town. That’s kind of what it’s all about. Dan: With the Don’t Do it Foundation, would you rather see your message spread to more people, or would you rather see some of the bigger companies tumble and leave the skate industry, or both. Are you hoping for a revolution?
Birdo: Well, it’s kind of two-fold. I think the surf, skate, and snowboard industry is one of the last refuges of independently owned, passionately run businesses. [In] so many other sectors of business like electronics or hardware stores, or whatever... lots of mom and pop stores got gobbled up. The surf, skate, and snowboard industry has been being encroached on for the last, whatever, maybe ten years, and is slowly being eroded to where it’s almost like they’ve been clear-cutting trees, clear cutting trees, and here these outsiders find this beautiful forest which is surf, skate, and snow. And they want to come clear cut it, and we’re saying “no”, and trying to educate people. Their argument is that we have to build houses, and we’re saying, “no you don’t have to cut down every tree.” Just because it’s happening everywhere else, we feel like it doesn’t have to happen here. Our industry was so healthy ten, fifteen years ago when ASR was just thriving with so many diverse companies and shops. It’s almost unbelievable that ASR went out of business. Now we have Agenda which is a much smaller show, and there’s so many less core shops and there’s so many more mall chains and sporting goods stores. It’s slowly eroding. Dan: So, would you say that skateboarding is an island in that sense? In the way that that it exists within the system of capitalism, but it still has... Birdo: I think that it does, but we have to be careful because companies like Nike, or any of the large sporting goods outsiders have a different idea. They don’t look at it as, “hey, I make a living doing something that I love”. They just see it as market share, so I think it does exist, that we are an island, but we’re vulnerable. Dan: That’s why you gotta keep fighting. Birdo: For us, The Don’t Do It Army…that’s our army around the world that helps us to bring awareness to people. I understand [when people say] “it’s just shoes” or “who cares”, but it does matter, because these large sporting goods companies have such vast distribution that doesn’t include the core skate shops. Even though they sell to them, it’s solely for marketing purposes, or so that they can get their foot in the door, but ultimately, they want to control the whole thing. Leticia: Well, these large sporting goods companies are kind of like the ones who instilled the argument [that] it’s just capitalism. Before them, that word just didn’t even come into play in our industry, so for them, that’s their one justification, and they’re hoping that people keep buying into it. We’re arguing that no, it’s not just capitalism-it’s more like democracy. Dan: And obviously, you do start a business to make money, and to survive. Leticia: Completely. Completely. But a lot of times, when skateboarding was hitting it’s down-peaks, people would go out and get other jobs to sustain skateboarding. So, for us it wasn’t about making money. It was about the passion, so we kind of felt
like we were our own little niche. It’s great that people can now make a living off of it, but now we have these companies that are taking that away from us. Dan: And it’s ridiculous because it’s such a small market share compared to the rest of what they do. Leticia: But at the same time, it’s the fastest growing sector in their company. So, they realize that they gotta stay in it, you know. They’ve come in to skateboarding a few times and failed at it, and they realized what they had to do, which was basically buy everybody off. They realized that [their traditional industries] were taking a downturn, and our sector was growing. They went and found the next hot thing. It’s a perfect example of how they do things... they don’t care about skateboarding. They just see it as a money making thing. Why don’t they dump money into, you know, baseball, basketball, tennis; all those sports that got them to where they are now? You know, give back to those communities which gave them so much. Birdo: And another perfect example is Converse. I was talking to somebody that told me, and I looked it up, that Converse announced that they were going to cut their whole basketball program, and put the money into skateboarding. I mean, if that doesn’t tell you right there... Leticia: ...what their motives are. Birdo: That their roots! I mean that’s where they came from. Leticia: They have no loyalty to their own roots, you think they’re going to have loyalty to us? Dan: So if money is an end goal for all of these other companies, and growth is an end goal, what’s an end goal for skateboarding? Or is there one? Leticia: One misconception, which is a great misconception people have about our campaign, is that we think that big is bad, or that making money is bad. It’s completely the opposite. We think big is great. Growing is great, but keep it within your own hands. You look at Sole Tech before eS went down. You see them growing and it came from skateboarders. They’re able to make this great living, but they’re loving to go to work everyday. That’s what we’re fighting for, is for our industry to grow, and for the participants who created and nurtured this industry to benefit from it, and to allow the next generation of skateboarders, of surfers, of snowboarders, to have the same dream we did, and live the same dream we did, because we know how awesome it is. Birdo: Also, Nike has a passionate story on the track, about Bill Bowerman. He was Phil Knight’s track coach, and he used to disassemble their shoes and take them home, and try to make
them better so these guys could run faster. It’s like, stay there, on the track. What’s wrong with being the number one guy on the track, and then you loving what you do. That’s kind of the downfall of the corporate structure. It’s that they are now held hostage to their stockholders. Stockholders want to see growth. So how are you going to grow? Stock needs to become more valuable. You need to continue to take over more, make more money, take over more, make more, where does that end? Until there’s just three megacorps in the world battling each other? I understand it. It’s the game of monopoly, but I don’t think the American Dream’s that. It’s that you make a living doing something you love. If you have a skate shop, and you can open up a second, and you can support your family off of a skate shop, it’s like, what could be radder than that? Dan: So, hypothetically, next week you guys hear that Nike’s pulling out of the skate market. Several other companies are too. What’s step two? What do you do about educating the younger crowd in skateboarding? Birdo: I think we would want to keep the foundation around so that we could continually educate. I think the biggest mistake that I made was that this third time that they came in, I basically was just laughing. It was like, c’mon, you guys tried twice before. You hucked a whole bunch of money around, you sponsored all these people and nobody bought your stuff because you’re a sporting goods company, and they know you didn’t come from skateboarding, and then you bail. So, I didn’t care. I was like, go ahead, huck a bunch of money around. But I didn’t know that they were going to the lengths that they were to control the magazines, to control the core shops with the sneaker-head shoes. I also didn’t take into consideration that growing up in the skateboarding industry, with the knowledge that I had of them coming in twice and bailing, and all this stuff... every day, some new kid opens a skate mag, and that’s his first day of skating. If there’s a Nike ad in there, he doesn’t know that the back issues didn’t have that before. He has no idea. So how’s he going to know? As time passes, the new kids that don’t know think it’s normal. Dan: It’s probably hard for a lot of the older guys that just don’t give a fuck about the commercial aspect of things, and just want to go out and skate. Birdo: I understand that, and a lot of people say, “who cares, let just go out and skate.” It’s like, yeah, I understand that, but it’s more than that when you want your life to be involved in it. I would understand if I had some shitty job I didn’t like. I would look forward to skating after work. It would be my escape or whatever, but it’s so much more for so many other people. Another thing that
I would want to add... I think there’s a paradigm that if you buy in bulk, you get a discount, and everybody knows that. Well, I think one of the problems is that’s become so exploited. These big shop chains get a discount, and they leverage that discount against the core shops who can’t buy in bulk, eventually putting the core shops out of business. What companies that give these discounts will hopefully come to understand is that our distribution channel is an integral part of our business. We’re all pieces of the same pie. So, to sustain a healthy and diverse distribution, my thought is to flip that model, and say, if you have more than 5 stores or something, you lose your discount, and if you’re small, you get a discount. So it’s not, if you’re huge we’re going to give you breaks. It’s more... Leticia: Just help the little guy. It’s constantly helping the little guy to get his feet off the ground. Birdo: We’re going to help to cultivate your business, get it good and healthy, and then if you get big and all of a sudden you’re thriving, Ok, well now you lose your discount. You don’t need it anymore. We’re going to give it to this other smaller shop that wants to get it’s roots in the ground and thriving. And flip that paradigm of “if I buy in bulk, I get a discount”. No, it’s lets give the discount to the smaller guy. Let’s help them, and all of a sudden you have this thriving, healthy [distribution] Dan: Well, what you just laid out is just the most incentive to open up a skate shop. Imagine that every company is offering that... like “oh, you’re starting out? Yeah, awesome, we want to see you succeed so you can continue to carry our product. Leticia: It just turned into this crazy competition and struggle, survival of the fittest or something. As for Consolidated, we know we’re far from perfect. We used to sell to Zumiez, but then we realized that it was hurting the core shops, so we stopped selling to them. So we try to fix whatever mistakes we see we make…and there’s a lot of em! Haha. We know we’re fighting an uphill battle, because we’re sticking by the core shops. And unfortunately, core shops are becoming a dying breed, at least domestically. So, our sales have definitely been affected, and we’ve had to cut back on things we didn’t want to. But we’re OK with that, because when we started this campaign up again, we knew there was a chance that we would go out of business, because the sporting goods companies had pretty much bought everybody off by then. We just know that we don’t want to be part of this industry if people choose the other side. So, we’ll see where it ends. Birdo: We still think there’s hope. I think we have blinders on a little bit though... You live in this town, and you start to think that everybody thinks like this. You’re surrounded by it. I remember when Borders books came to town, people were splashing acid on the windows. They just wanted the small mom and pop bookshops.
They didn’t want these outsiders. “Think Local” is so big here, and the farmers’ markets thrive more and more every week, and people are starting to realize that you need to support the local shops, and you need to support the people in your community, and not these outsiders like Target and Wal Mart. Leticia: I really want to give a huge shout out and a lot of credit to our supporters too, because if we were just hitting a wall and no one was responding positively to it, it would just be a bummer. But because people are ready to support us, and we have “Don’t Do It Armies” being created all around the world... that motivates us. They’re doing what they can to help to spread the word...we even have DDI Armies that translate all of our ads, content, etc., in their respective languages! It’s like, OK we’re not speaking to a wall. There are people out there who still care, and so that keeps us going. It really energizes us, so thank you guys so much for that! Birdo: I always felt that skateboarders were individual thinkers, and that’s why they weren’t into the whole team sports thing. They didn’t want a coach. They wanted to do it themselves, and they listened to punk rock, and they didn’t care what other people thought, and it was really rad. And this: the Don’t Do It campaign, and supporting local, and supporting core shops, it could be plugged into almost any industry, and it’s good for that industry. I’ve always thought that skaters, surfers, snowboarders: people who do these individual activities, can set an example for the rest of the world to see. I feel like they’re more oriented as people who are willing to lead others by example: say, “No, we’re not going to do this, or we’re going to do it our way,” and make these other industries look at the skateboard industry, and say “wow, these guys kicked the outsiders out, and they kept their industry within passion, and we can do that too.” Dan: That’s the best of all possible worlds, and with modern technology, with the reach that you have on the internet, that’s more possible than ever. Birdo: I think so too, and I think the surf skate and snowboard industries are large enough that they reach enough people to set some sort of an example. That to me, is the ultimate, beyond the Don’t Do It. We have to just do one thing at a time. You can’t get all over the place and brush yourself thin. The Don’t Do It campaign, in principle, has much further reaching [principles], outside of skateboarding. Leticia: But we can only focus on skateboarding. We can’t change the world. We just want to keep our world the way it’s been. It’s too rad of a thing to just give away. Birdo: And if, by example, it shows other people that, hey, you can do this too, that’s great.
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Barge the Lake? More like, Barge the Heat. I don’t know if you know this, but Lake Cunningham is a giant skillet. Skating all that concrete makes you feel like a egg. I felt so bad for everyone who came to skate for free that day. It’s as if God were an angry mongoloid from San Francisco that day, all abrasive and in-your-face about bumming a cigarette or selling you product. Well, even with the heat, the turnout was awesome. People came from all over to skate the lake for free. The city even relaxed the maxi pad rule. That place is so goddamn big. Have you been there at night? It looks like the Death Star. When I lived in San Jose, I used to skate the Death Star a couple nights a week; not because I enjoyed the park. Wearing that many pads makes me skate like a robot, and I need all the style I can get. Instead, I was watching and learning from someone who has deep San Jose roots: The Doctor, Rick Blackhart. I was hearing stories about Rick heckling a full grown man crying in the bottom of the full pipe, and I wanted in. I would skate those hot nights at the Lake watching and learning from the Doctor how to properly heckle. I didn’t befriend Blackhart by skating in front of him and trying to impress; like this one old dude who was skating the bowl and pushing mongo on the deck. That shit is grounds for a lashing. That night, I watched the same man yell across the bowl, “Hey Blackhart, I may push mongo, but I can drop in switch.” I started to chuckle because I knew what was coming next. “You’re worse than a five your old kid. Watch me, watch me.” “You’re a kook!”, Blackhart said with such precision. When Skidmark throws any large contest, I always ask Blackhart to judge. He is the best. He don’t give a fuck if he knows you or not. He is the most honest judge. He will tell you to your face that you should have practice during the middle of your run. He feeds me great lines to say on the microphone, too. He knows when your truly trying to win or just there to fuck around. When I’m working with him, I feel like Anakin Skywalker, and that he is the Emperor, except that in this prequel the darkside wins. I also like to use Noggin. He is a key character. Noggin loves skateboarding more than life itself. He is always in a good mood, having fun and drinking your beer. Another great thing about Noggin is that at any given moment he can fall asleep. The best is when he passes out at 3pm in the middle of a event. People always think he’s dead. I like to pretend that I don’t know him, and see how many people I can get around him I can get to try to wake him up. I almost got someone to call an ambulance, but Noggin got up, high fived, and moved on. He has the best tats too... fucking Slayer on his fingers. Josh Balogh was also a judge. Josh is a good judge considering the fact that he teaches kids how to skate instead of sucking like some other teachers. Plus, he works at the Death Star and gets paid to skate. If you’re one of his students, he will probably give you an extra point. That, and he has the prettiest hair. Next time you see him, touch it. I’m not joking around.
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We started off with the womens event. No age groups. Everything goes. Katherine Folsom took the first place slot with some new maneuvers which I haven’t seen her do before. Roger Folsom looked pleased. That vert ramp that you two built seems to be more of a training facility than for leisure. Mitchell Mendez showed up before we got there, and was blasting airs ten feet at ten am. It was nuts! Mitchell got first and still made it to work on time. He showed up, won, then went and worked all night. Jojo Heffington was on his heels, along with the Ffej. Those guys destroyed. To end the contest, we moved over to the Travel Lodge pool. I saw something that day that I have never seen before. Lance Ebert rolled in on his stomach into the deep end. After, he won second. Keegan got first. I’m gonna have to say that it was the best skating I have ever seen from Keegan. That kid blew everyone away: airs and grinds on every run. Rowan Thunder gave both of them a run for their money with a five-o fakie over the stairs. If you skated this thing, then you know how gnarly that is. All in all, that was the best event we have done at the Death Star. Thanks to Lake Cunningham for letting us take over the park for the day. Also, the skaters, bands, sponsors, and the Skidmark Skate fans who came out to shred a few years off of their lives in the hot sun. If your on your way to skate Cunningham, don’t forget to buy some Miller Highlifes just incase you run into Blackhart. If you bring him something else, your asking for it.
Opposite page: Kevin Reynolds is color blind, his socks match and this judo is racist. From top left to right: Keegan Root with a big Fuck you for his 1st place finish in the Travel Lodge Bowl. JoJo Heffington front rock slides into second place in the Skull Bowl. Ffej throwing a sweet backside air. Devin Scott Lip slide in the deep. Mitchell Mendez gets Andrecht before he heads off to work. Rowan Thunder 5-0’s to fakie over the stairs. Eric Bibelheimer with a silent tail slide.
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RING.......RING.........RING. Trevor: Yo, what’s up Mike. Mike O: Just getting an interview from one Mr Conley. Trevor: Mr. Conley was my Father. Call me Trevor. Mike O: Are you still dying Trevor? Trevor: Yeah Mike O: Are you gonna die? Live? What’s the deal? What was it? Trevor: It was a sinus infection that hit me like a ton of bricks. I had nasty fluid draining from my nose, and it was defiantly not snot. It smelled like burnt rubber and shit.
was drinking and tilted my head back. It dripped down my throat, and that triggered violent puking. It started making me really weak. I couldn’t do anything. I finally went to the doctor and he found a clot with a bunch of shit built up around it. They gave me this nasal spray and a huge bloody clot came out of my nose. Mike O: I bet that felt so good when it came out. Did you keep the clot? Did you name it? Trevor: No, the doctor tossed it in a Hazmat container. The thing was massive. I’ve named him BooGAR. Mike O: You should keep smoking Trevor: I will. I tried to quite one time and almost killed someone at work. I was contemplating stabbing a customer in the face, so I went and had a cigarette Mike O: You should keep smoking instead of being arrested. Are you even old enough to buy a pack? Trevor: Yep, 19 Mike O: What’s your poison? Trevor: Coca-Cola, couldn’t you tell by my yellow decaying teeth? Mike O: I’m gonna ask the question every girl wants to know. How many people have you slept with? Trevor: If Craigslist hookers count, then I’m in the triple digits. Mike O: I guess that’s just the way you were raised. Have you ever been in love? Trevor: A couple times, but then my boners convinced me otherwise. Mike O: Where are you living nowadays, Casanova? Trevor: Byron, California: home of the Byron Chili Cook-off. Mike O: I know that place, and that sums up Byron. Trevor: It’s a sick setup if you hate neighbors. My house is between an alfalfa field and a corn field. Mike O: Damn, that’s hickish. Wait a second, them rancher folks don’t take kindly to you punk rockers. Trevor: I’m pretty sure that my neighbors hate me driving down the street blasting. Mike O: How cool are the wakeboard bros out in the Dirty Delta? Trevor: Arousing. I believe 73% of them are roid monkeys.
Is it a Kickflip? Is it an ollie north? Does it really matter? I say Nope, what really matters is that Trevor is having fun at the new and improved Derby park in Santa Cruz Photo: Jose Cervantes
Mike O: Did any of them roid monkeys pick on you in high school? Trevor: Nope. School kicked me out too fast, I kicked it with ghetto boys. Mike O: Are you concerned about the impact on wildlife habitats of the new proposed water line? Trevor: Ain’t no water harder than Byron water. Does that answer your question?
Mike O: Oh, yuck! Trevor: Yeah, most of it drained out... could have caused pneumonia if I had let it go on anymore. My nose pretty much had gonorrhea. The taste was terrible.
Mike O: Yes, tell me about the quarterpipe you built out in dem dere hills. Trevor: I made a quarter pipe with 3 feet of vert. The runway was solid doors on cinderblocks.
Mike O: How do you know what gonorrhea tastes like? Trevor: I’ve consumed my own penis’ infection. The other night I
Mike O: Tell me who this handsome gentleman is in the photo with you?
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Some people like to play the air guitar, Trevor likes
Trevor: Thats Brandon. Homie since 05’ Mike O: Did this photo happen at a high school dance? Trevor: No. Those photos were taken in a studio by my friend Ricky. Mike O: Is Ricky a Austrian gay guy? Trevor: No, but he has strong hands. Mike O: Share, if you would, a brief summery of your history with this publication. How did you get to this point right here in Skidmark Magazine? Trevor: Well the beginning was 621, the old skate shop in Livermore. I grew up skating with Matt Mauro; who is cousins with Tahoe Vinnie, who used to work at 621. I also knew Creep, aka Jake Crawley, who also worked at 621. I would go to all the events you guys put on. Then, the poker runs started happening and Skidmark started blowing up. We started going to all the Skidmark events because they are the best. Mike O: Well, thanks, but this interview is about you. Frank’s Mustache Ride #1: that was the point at which you truly made a name for yourself. Tell us about that. Trevor: Its actually funny how we got there. Chris Hogg and myself didn’t have any money of course; but we wanted to go on Frank’s ride. So, a couple days before the trip, we raided peoples’ garbage cans for recycling. We recycled the stolen goods and got about $50 each. The night before the trip, we snuck onto a construction site and siphoned the diesel out of a work truck. We used the stolen diesel for Chris’s truck.
Gap to back tail on anything is pretty much punk as fuck. Oh hey whats up T-Con. Punk Photo: Mark Steinlein
Mike O: I can pinpoint the moment when I made the call to Fayuca. Fairfield Park: 2nd stop of Frank’s Mustache Ride #1. You hucked the famous Trevor gap right after lunch. Please elaborate. Trevor: I spotted it as soon as we got to Fairfield. I skated around, but kept looking at it. After lunch, everyone was packing up to head to the next park. I was just staring at the thing, and decided to give it a go. I just went for a try to see if I could make it. Mike O: You cleared the first one no problem. Trevor: Yep, I just needed to commit. I was heading back up, and I heard Feldman yelling at me, “Don’t be a pussy!” Frank Faria was waving money at me. Everyone was cheering me on, so I knew I had to do it. That was about it for that day, besides getting hammered and puking on my friend’s tailgate. I was so drunk when we got to Ione. I thought it was midnight, but someone said I passed out at 9:30. Mike O: Well, how is it riding for Fayuca? Trevor: Jose is the coolest guy. He gets me whatever I need. He’s a cool guy to kick it with and hang out. Mike O: So you don’t have an Instagram, but you have your own hashtag: #facesoftrevor. How does that work? Trevor: Yeah, I don’t really know what that’s about. I get texts and photos from random people saying “I seen your pictures on #facesoftrevor”. They are usually just photos of me making weird faces. Mike O: When you’re not dying of nasal complications, who do you skate with?
Trevor: I’ve been skating with K-Rey, aka Kevin Reynolds, at Benicia park. I also skate with Brandon Hanson and Bob Pantsoff. Mike O: Marry, Fuck, Kill. You have to choose one fate for each friend: Brandon, K-Ray and Bob. You have to marry one, kill one and fuck one. Trevor: Thats fucked up. I will play. I’m sure Kevin would be ok with me murdering him; as long as it’s not with any of his own weapons, so I would kill K-Ray. I would marry Brandon. He has stuck by me throughout the years, plus we already have photos. Bob, I think he would be a good fuck. He has all that camera equipment, so we could probably make an awesome porno. Mike O: Favorite places to skate with the trio? Trevor: Benicia. That place is always empty. Sacramento is always fun. Pacifica is fun, but its always foggy and the coping is just fucked. Every time I grind the pool coping, I just stick and smack my face on it. Walnut Creek park for the mongoloids. Mike O: Do you bring an extra pack of cheap cigs for the mongloids? Trevor: Thats a pretty good idea, never thought of that. Mike O: What is the worst decision you’ve made in your life? Trevor: Getting a tattoo across my toes. Mike O: I would say that was your best decision. What is the best decision? Trevor: Picking up a shred sled when I was 8 years young. Mike O: Sounding a little phlegmy. Trevor: Ya hold on, I need to blow my nose. PhhhhhhhhshHHHHShhSHHShhSH! Mike O: Yuck, nose discharge. Last words, Trevor. Choose them
Skidds: What was your inspiration for taking on a life of infection? BooGAR: Infection is not simply a way of life, it is what is right. Skidds: Why did you choose Trevor’s nose as your habitat out of all the other noses in the world? BooGAR: Spacious. Plenty of contact with other nasal cavities. Utilities included. Skidds: I heard you two had a long, healthy relationship to the end. BooGAR: We were together a few days or so. I’ll do better next time. Skidds: I would always see you two show up at parties. I think it’s good of you to control Trevor’s partying by putting a governor on; such as making him puke when you think he’s had too much. Did you ever have disagreements with him about staying out late? BooGAR: Not as long as he blew his
I’ve seen some ugly smith grinds in my day. This one is Purdy! Photo: Mark Steinlein
wisely. Trevor: (lights a cigarette) Shoutout to K-ray, Brandon Hanson, My Mom, My Stepdad, and My Mexican Father, Jose Cervantes. Listen to Deicide.
famous snot rockets in highly populated areas. Skidds: Are you sad that the bond was broken between you two due to some so-called expert doctor? BooGAR: No. I have other opportunities lined up. Skidds: What will happen when you bump into him when he is with another sinus infection? BooGAR: I brought him to his knees, and I know that no other sinus infection will pick him up. Skidds: What was going through your mind when the first nasal blast hit you? BooGAR: Sound the alarms! We’re going to war! Skidds: Since you guys were torn apart so quickly and unexpectedly, is there anything you would like to say to him just in case he reads this? BooGAR: There will be bloodshed.
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Kyle Braswell machs through a back smith at Granite park in Sacto Photo: Matt Moose
Skate Pic Skate Pic Dean Christopher - Mute Wallride Photo: Kyle Volland
Jason Ross Slab City Manual Photo: Daniel Muchnick
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Mickenzie Keller-frontlip Canada homie Photo: MarkSteinlein
Wub Wheels: Menthol 100A The kids over at the Wub Wheel factory sent me some wheels to test out. I was optimistic at first, but I am old and fat! I can’t ride anything under 56mm. Still, I figured I would have my ham hocks give them a try. I rolled around the old skate track and they are pretty solid. Nice and fast. The Newport graphic caused a problem. Some old black dude was trying to bum one off me. All in all, if you’re a street skater or a homeless gentleman with ghetto fabulous taste you’re gonna dig these. Get them at wubwheels.com Skidmark Skatmag: Skidmark Skatewax Everyone does a wax gimmick and every park hates the result. Nothing is better than skating your own park when you hit some coping and zing out onto your ass making you crap your pants. Skidmark is aware of this problem thats why they added this warning label. So, go faster pussies! Fruit boots and raze scoots should head straight to the nearest hospital for removal. Skidmarkskatemag.com
Better Wheels: BDK’s Product Reviews (My Wheel Bitches!) You can customize your own wheel here. Check out mine... unicorns and rainbows! That is hesher than hesh. You can send in your own unicorn rainbow graphics to Better or build them right on their site. With your own wheel you will be able to tell chicks that you are pro. Damn baby, check out my wheel! And then have them buy you dinner. That’s what happened to me, and now I’m married with a kid. Thank you Better wheel company. Again, I love my wheel graphic but I’m old and fat and need a bigger wheel. Please help. Not on the weight... just a bigger wheel. Design your wheel today betterskateboarding.com
Solitaire Skateboards: The Girl Board.
Assault Skateboards: Chris Livingston
Any time you put a chick on the bottom of a board, it’s great idea; unless you cover up here nudity with your logo. How could you do this to me? Well, anyways, this is my masturbation problem not yours. This is a new company using Paul Schmitt wood, so you know these things are legit. Black and Orange are always good colors, just ask Skidmark. Check out their facebook to see where to pick one up facebook/ Solitaireskateboards.
All black: just the way I like my men. This board is made here in the good ol’ USA. It is screen-printed, not rolled through a heat transfer machine, which brings down the longevity of the wood. Speaking of wood, I’m chubbing up on this dark beauty. Support destroyers like Chris and Assault by picking one up at assaultskates.com
Weirdo Skateboards: I’m trying to figure out a way to write this without it seeming like a total blowfest. The board has great shape, but I’m supposed to be some sort of asshole who talks a ton of shit. I can’t talk shit on the wood. Its Paul Schmitt, the best in the business. I also can’t talk shit on the graphic. Its a monkey, and it’s hard to make fun of one of those. I can’t talk shit on the shape. I don’t mean to sound redundant, but the shape of this board is for an old fat guy. I’m pretty sure this shape at Schmitts factory is called “The Old Fat Guy” Get this board or others from Weirdo at weirdoskateboards.com
Fayuca Skateboards: Perro Beanie You always need a beanie for the summer. Especially when you live near SF on the coast. I get so fucking cold here, it’s ridiculous. My wiener turns inside-out making for a nice man-gina. If you drive 30 minutes east, it will be over a hundred degrees. Shit is nuts. My favorite thing is when kids come from the east to skate the city for a day. They usually don’t last long in their cut-off jean shorts and v-neck tankies. Thanks Jose for keeping my noggin warm through the freezing summers. East bay kids, pick one up for the summer fayucaskateboards.com
Frank the Tank slips one in her drink and calls a cab. Photo: Daniel Muchnick
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Jojo Invert Photo: Mark Steinlein
skidmark & Weirdo head to Willits
Spud - Front Tailblock Photo: Mark Steinlein
This crazy and salty two day trip to Willits and back was nothing short of gnarly for the Weirdos and their encounters. Booze’m Buddies
Lance Ebert, JoJo Heffington, and Thomas Beeson knew what had to be done, which consisted of destroying the Ukiah and Willits skate park, rage at Adam’s annual bowl shredding party, smoke, drink, and eat whatever came their way. The Weirdos had Danny Caldeira and Gage Rossiter tag along to be a part of the first day of carnage at Ukiah skate park. Within the first 5 minutes at the Ukiah park JoJo was pulling monster airs, Lance was doing all sorts of sweeper variations, and Thomas began laying eggs in every transition he could hit. After the destruction at Ukiah the Weirdos made their way to Adam’s bowl hidden deep in the trees of Willits. After getting lost and pulling onto the wrong property, they arrived at Adam’s with two things on their mind- destroy the bowl and party as hard as they could. Adam and his wife had everything needed to have these shredders occupied all night. There was enough food, beer, and weed to keep these guys going for a few days. The following morning, the Weirdos woke up sleeping in or around the bowl. JoJo was being attacked by giant hairy spiders in the bowl, while Lance and Thomas slept on the deck and watched these massive monsters climb in and out
Danny Frontside Ollie Photo: Mark Steinlein
Danny Frontside Ollie Photo: Mark Steinlein Lance Foot plant impossible Photo: Mark Steinlein
Josh Stalefish Photo: Mark Steinlein
of JoJo’s sleeping bag. It didn’t take long for the Weirdo crew to figure out what they wanted to do, and that was eat at Lumber Jacks dinner and make their way to Willits skate park. The Willits park, being in an open field, felt like it was in the Devil’s backyard because it was hot as shit. The Weirdos’ beverage of choice to cool them off was Budweiser, which gave them the liquid courage they needed to destroy the Ukiah park for a second day in a row. The locals being huge Weirdo fans were out in full force going ham in the park. Little Caeser made his way to the park to refuel everyone with some $5 pizzas followed by the Weirdos saying goodbye to the locals and shotgunning some beers before the drive home. All in all the Weirdos did what had to be done by not only killing every spot they hit, but partying with everyone as well. Tune in next year to see more carnage take place in Willits and Ukiah, when Adam has another annual bowl shredding party.
Jojo Back Tail Photo: Mark Steinlein
Gage Rossiter Texas Plant Photo: Mark Steinlein
I met Lincoln Nass and started skating this tight concrete bowl he built with pool trannies and an over-vert. deep end. It was a great experience... nothing else like it, I was so stoked we built another one in my yard (short story). What we ended up with was a motel sized amoeba pool bowl with death box, deep end stairs (Thanks Bart!) and shallow end stairs with bottom step trannie. Their is harvested pool coping (another epic story) all around except for over the shallow stairs, that coping is made of river rock. The bowl was done in a single pour on a morning that had temperatures exceeding 100 degrees by noon. In the four years it’s been around we have added a deck with obstacles, a kinda’ wedge corner thing and the perfect 6’ quarter pipe, all have pool coping. This bowl was built to challenge and it does. The coping will never be sauced and fools will always get broke off. These folks helped make this happen: Lincoln Nass, Scooter Fisher, Brian Sizer, Bart Steed, Orr Menard, Rye-san, Bubba, Kyle, Flea, Josh Kocher, Rollo, Me and many more thank-you all. Donations for continuing expansion are always being accepted (I’m serious!). Or just build your own dude, call me I’ll skate it. Adam Glotnis
Most people tend to have some inherent anxiety about traveling, due to monetary issues, fear of the outside world, or otherwise. This particular trip was supposed to take place several months prior, but was postponed due to the aforementioned reasons. With the closure of Fishbanks Skateshop, it suddenly became apparent that a getaway was necessary before anything new could begin.
Our crew consisted of Balogh, Hendo, Stempson, Andrew Q, Zac Barclay, Nora, Keegan and TBone, Stefan, Arno, and myself. We took several cars and everyone met up at Lincoln city on the third day. Arno and Dan made the trip up to Lincoln in a 13 hour straight marathon drive. Needless to say, lots of skateboarding happened. So much so that almost every night, by the time we found camping, food, and set up our tents, it was past midnight. As we made our way up Josh Balogh - Backside 360 Photo: Chris Henderson
Dan Stempson - Bertelman Aumsville Photo: Andrew Quiroz
Arno - BS Air Aumsville Photo: Andrew Quiroz
towards Portland, it was raining on and off, but somehow whenever we would stop to skate, the clouds would part. We had heard rumors of people in Oregon being thrown in prison for possessing miniscule amounts of concentrated THC, to which no one paid any regard. Clouds of smoke were billowing out of everyone's car the entire way up, until somewhere around McMinnville. In a generous effort to keep the convoy together, one of our convoy pulled over to the side of the Dave Duesterberg - Front Feeble Photo: Chris Henderson
road without signaling.
An undercover officer saw this happen and immediately put on his lights and escorted our friend into a nearby Pak n' Save lot. Somehow the officer steered the conversation to possession of marijuana, and we watched in horror as our companions car was emptied of boxes, jars, glassware, and other receptacles filled with an exuberant supply of every type of cannabis related good. Everyone had the proper paperwork to account for the copious amounts of weed, which was immediately confiscated for police
Josh Balogh - Upside down Photo: Andrew Quiroz
Hendo Switch Texas plant Photo: Andrew Quiroz
Aaron Switch Pivot to forward Photo: Andrew Quiroz
testing. Fortunately though no prison time was issued and we continued northward. We met up with Mason at Burnside just as it started to rain. He hooked us up with a killer late night mini ramp session at the unheard warehouse and even let all 11 of us crash on his floor since it was raining. On our evening, we happened to wander into silver falls state park which is near Aumsville. It turned out to be the statewide free camping night of the year and we happened to get the last available spot in the campground. In the morning we hiked for about 10 minutes to “silver falls� which turned out to be a massive waterfall, which you can hike all the way around through a cave on the backside of the falls. I don't think anyone could have asked for a better trip. Huge thanks to Mason and Joey at lifeblood, as well as everyone who came and skated. Lets do this again next summer.
Fayuca Skateboard’s Jose Cervantes next to America’s Got Talent Judge Howard Stern
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