PS118
Arizona Skateboarding Documented by Tommy Kowalski tjk.photoshelter.com/page2
To all the people that were so stoked on my first ‘zine,thanks for all the great hype and i hope you enjoy my sophomore release of PS118. Skating for the fun of it each and everyday is what got this finished, weather its driving an hour to el mirage, cruising the tranny at the wedge with the wedgerats or eating shit and burning on the ground at tempe 3, we skate because we love it, even if its in 118 degree heat, we pull out 2 water jugs and sweat it out. Thanks,
Tommy Kowalski facebook.com/ps118mag @TOMMYKOWALSKI Tommykowalski6@gmail.com
PHOTO: NOAH ANDERSEN
Whenever you skate Tempe skatepark you are sure to run into Greg. Besides the fact that he put out a full video part of bangers for CHAMPS in about 2 months, he just recently won the Transworld come up tour in Peoria and had his second baby boy.
BLunt to fakie
Greg Dunagan
front tailslide
Corey Cavenaugh
I met Miles only about a few hours before we shot these photos of him. He met up with us at a spot and was set on going to this silver rail downtown. Sure enough we headed over there and he went to work. The photo doesnt really do justice to how crazy this rail really is with a large curve at the end Miles is definitely a great dude, amazing skater. Hope to skate with him again soon it was good times.
Frontside 50=50
Miles Cavenello
FRONTSIDE FLIP
Dakoda Osusky
HIPPY JUMP
Xavier Ortega
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big rule number 1 in Arizona, never fuck with the
indian reservations. Rule number 2 in Arizona, NEVER fuck with the indian reservations. Xavier and I thought it would be a bright idea to test our luck, and sure enough the opportunity arose. A buddy of mine had just told me of this abandoned airport near the gila river- broken down B52 bombers and commercial jets from the 50s- it was a photo opp for the year. We all hopped in the truck headed down to Queen Creek and did some trespassing. The walk there quickly turned into a completely different world. If we weren’t already living in a desert, we certainly knew now. I found a dead animal skull and threw it in my jacket as souvenir. Finally we got to the planes, and Xavier set out to climb up onto what was left of an old commercial jet. The inside was sucked dry, almost nothing in it, so we shot a few photos of a flat ground trick or two, some portraits. The sun started to set so we decided to climb out, but were welcomed by 2 rez officers surrounding the barbed wire fence. We ended up with a civil citation, a visit to the courts and an empty camera of photos that day, but its one hell of a story.
Sure enough were fucked. pussies and p does a few fl whenever he for Zack to p
Frontside 180
Zack Downing Zack was one of the first skaters I’ve had the pleasure of shooting a few years back. Driving through the smelling farms of Chandler, we came across what we thought was an abandoned Waste factory. It was like the scene out of a movie, portions of the entire factory in pitch black, wires hanging from the ceiling with the electric still on, Graffitied walls and torn apart signs.
h a security guard came along and we immediately thought we . As if it wasn’t already a day of firsts, he told us to quit being pointed down at his ripped up Osris D3’s. He grabs my board and flat ground 180s. The dude was nice enough to let us come back e was working to skate the factory, and showed us this pole gap pop a 180 over.
Frontside crook
Dashawn Jordan
With the other
magazine I work for part time, I cover everything from events to large scale concerts, and when PHXAM came around I was sure to not miss it. I had ran into Dashawn only a few times before the contest so I was hyped to watch some good skating go down. He definitely has a great passion to skate, and With all the photos I took from the contest and the opp to throw any into a publication I capitalized with a great shot of Dashawn, a local, inverting over the keyhole at D-west. Since then i ran into him at tempe and tagged along to shoot this photo of a crook at Getz school
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Roof Drop
Chase Herman Chase probably has one of the craziest mindsets I’ve ever seen when it comes to skating. Not only is this drop he’s doing a crazy thing, he also just put out a part in “Champs” a video by Connor Howitt and just started skating for utility board shop.
ASES “CHAMPS” PART:
ww.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi9Znz9kBOU
Lucky enough to catch a good photo of Caleb back smithing this outledge. I’ve only gotten the chance to skate with Caleb a few times, but if you havent checked out his skating your a mad man. He recently just put out a part in Diego Meeks “ I CAN SEE YOUR SOCKS” . Besides the video being very well filmed, you should definitely take a look see.
CHECK OUT CALEBS PART in I CAN SEE YOUR SOCKS: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlgVtofk8Sk
BAckside Smith
Caleb Schrank
FRONT BLUNT
John O’neal
Watching Chris skate is like listening to Volume 4, or some t punk rock. He’s definitely a rad dude, from what I remember live in Illinois always killin it. I was lucky enough to get a quic him lipsliding this whole ledge after a night of partying.
CHRIS D’augostino NADA JUST CHILLIN: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZF4zhbZ7fE
type of r he used to ck photo of
“The best cure for a hang over is to drink more beer.” Frontside lipslide
Chris D’agostino
KICKFLIP FOOTPLANT
Riley Johnson
Ahwatukee
Where the Pools are as dry as the martinis the 50+ year old
surrounds the stuck up kids with plenty of mountain mansio with Matt through the majority of high school, and those poo always jumping a fence to skate a pool, or this full pipe in a c
Fakie Tailgrab
Matt Geiger
d cougars are sipping down at Va Bene. The valley ons for their parties and overly priced drugs. I grew up here ols never went unnoticed. I can honestly say the kid rips, construction yard.
FRONT 180
Andrew Crawford
Andrews “CHAMPS” PART: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZDU__Ya2fY
Thank you Created by
Tommy Kowalski
tjk.photoshelter.com/page2
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