Thrasher back issues from December 2004:
Mountain high.(Mail Drop)(Letter to the Editor)
Dec 01, 2004; Kovacic, Petar ... Half way between the glamorous Aspen, Colorado and hobo Glenwood Springs, Colorado, sits the center of the universe. It is there that an old school West blends with a young, progressive community to create Carbondale. See, our littlet skatepark story begins the same as so many others: ...
Road dogs.(Mail Drop)(Letter to the Editor)
Dec 01, 2004; Fenton, Mary ... Every summer for the past couple years I've teamed up with some old friends and seasoned drinking buddies for a big annual skate trip around my home state. The vehicles change and the brand of poison fluctuates, but the good company has remained the same. Each year I find more concrete has ...
Eagle soars.(Mail Drop)(Letter to the Editor)
Dec 01, 2004; Platis, Nina ... I am writing to commend you on your job well done concerning the August 2004 issue's "Ten Years of Thomas." I am a Jamie Thomas fan and your tribute was awesome; it was thorough and informative. I am a 20-year-old female skater from Baltimore, Maryland, and I just recently tore my ACL ...
Hubba bubba.(Mail Drop)(Letter to the Editor)
Dec 01, 2004; Bolton-Holifield, Ruthie ... Do you need sex to sell skate-boarding? Right now ask yourself that question. I know sex sells, but does a skate company need to use sex to sell skate products? If the answer is yes, then they have one hell of a fucking problem. You have to ask yourself, what exactly has advertisement in ...
Forrest Kirby.(Mail Drop)(Letter to the Editor)
Dec 01, 2004; Silvera, Norman Jr. ... I am a local skater here in Miami, Florida. I could sit here and whine on and on about how cops and others treat us skaters (like common criminals). But instead, I am writing to you guys because I want all the companies that make up the skateboarding industry to take a stand all over the ...
Anatomy of 10 points: the girl squad knows a few points could be the difference betweeen hero or zero ...
Dec 01, 2004 ... It takes to be a Girl King of the Parking Lot Cold Vanilla Skate Coach Pimp my Road Trip: Prada Luggage ...
My own King of the Road.
Dec 01, 2004; Sieben, Michael ... I DIDN'T GO on the real King of the Road for a number of reasons. Full-time job. Mediocre skateboarding abilities. Not being invited. That kind of shit. So I decided that I was going to have my own King of the Road. Oh man, I had big plans for it. I was going to invite a bunch of local ...
How it all works ...
Dec 01, 2004 ... 4 TEAMS, EACH WITH 5 HAND-PICKED SKATERS, 1 PHOTOGRAPHER, 1 FILMER, AND 1 TEAM MANAGER. ALL HAVE 2 WEEKS TO CROSS THE COUNTRY AND MAKE IT TO SAN FRANCISCO (AND HIT CARBONDALE RUN ALONG THE WAY) EARNING POINTS BY: 1) DOING TRICKS IN "THE BOOK" ...
The teams.(Teams & Routes)
Dec 01, 2004 ... TEAM ZERO Jamie Thomas Chris Cole Jon Allie James Brockman Tommy Sandoval Chris Bodiford (Team Manager) Joey Shigeo (Photog) Matt Winterberg (Filmer) Jeff Grosso (Mystery Guest) ...
Terrain challenges.
Dec 01, 2004 ... <Pre> TERRAIN CHALLENGES MANUALS HARD 10 POINTS HARDER 20 POINTS HARDEST 50 POINTS Half-cab b/s kickflip F/s varial heel Fakie flip fakie manual to f/s to nose wheelie manual fakie flip shove-it out F/s nollie half-cab B/s shove-it to ...
Other challenges & rules.
Dec 01, 2004 ... THE BASIC RULES. You must go to all of the cities on your route. Anywhere else is up to you * All City Challenges should be opened only after entering the city limits of said city * Only a member of the team, the immediate media (the photographer and ...
The mystery guests.
Dec 01, 2004 ... [?] VERTICAL HEROES OF THE 1980s was this year's KOTR mystery guest theme, giving the competitors in their late 20's and early 30's a chance to fan out on their childhood idols and the youngsters a window into just how tore back they'll be if they keep skating for 20 more years. The fact ...
Dead last.
Dec 01, 2004; Phares, Jasin ... LOOKING OUT THE WINDOW of my hotel room in Miami, Florida, our starting point for this year's King of the Road, watching the palm trees nearly fall over from 90 mile-per-hour winds, I realized this was the first time I've been in a hurricane. Finally. I mean, I've seen plenty of natural ...
Almost? (Not quite).
Dec 01, 2004; Wilt, Cooper ... WITH ALMOST BEING A NEW BOARD COMPANY, we were all pretty excited when Mike Burnett called Tom up and asked if the team would like to be on this year's King of the Road. Of course we said yes, and immediately got down to planning the trip. We secured Jaya Bonderov and Anthony "Lil' Thirst" ...
Run to the hills: three days in Carbondale.
Dec 01, 2004 ... Thrasher and HRC Productions put together the first ever Bummerpalooza. Five-thousand skaters invaded a town of 1,100 people and went berserk. It rained. We promoted it as the best week in your life, and it was. The cops loved us, everyone in town sported the pentagram, and, well, let's ...
It's not desperation. It's dedication.
Dec 01, 2004; Burnett, Michael ... CLOSE READERS OF THE MAG (and you 11 nerds, I salute you!) may have noticed that my stories have gotten more and more far-fetched over the last few years. You may wonder, did the Zero team really go to Spring Break in Lake Havasu? Did Spanky really get in a knife fight with Mexican cops? ...
Eye of the storm.
Dec 01, 2004; Shigeo, Joey ... ZERO'S ENTRY into King of the Road all started about one year ago during the Zero summer tour. As the Thrasher King of the Road issue got passed around the van, it was clear that everyone wanted to be a part of the next one. One call to Burnett and it was a done deal. For the next two ...
Team zero.(By the numbers)
Dec 01, 2004 ... FINAL POINTS STANDINGS 1st : Zero--4,160 2nd: Girl--3,750 3rd : Almost--3,080 4th: Real--3,000 TOTAL POSSIBLE POINTS: 4,300 MVP: MOST TRICKS Zero: Chris Cole (30) Girl: Eric Koston (38) Almost: Chris Haslam (22) Real: Tony Trujillo (20) Mystery ...
Protograffiti.
Dec 01, 2004 ... Along the highway of stoke you'll find lots of road rash, gash, and thrash. Here's some snapshots of KOTR nothingness Downtime in Zero van. Photo: Allie [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Garrett Hill, rock the nation. Photo: Brockman [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
Morning after.(Trash)
Dec 01, 2004 ... MORNING AFTER THE MIDNIGHT HAND-OFF of footy greeted by a post-dawn meeting of the minds in a clandestine bunker by a classic car storage facility for the purpose of determining which van would drive away with the coveted statue of a van? Was Ogden returning from the green room? Was Phelps ...
Hall of meat.(Trash)
Dec 01, 2004 ... Cheek of the week: the Zero film dude Matt Winterberg skated his ass off [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
Poser of the month.(Trash)
Dec 01, 2004 ... Poser: Sam Smyth Crime: Trophy tail ...
Where is me.(Trash)
Dec 01, 2004 ... Gonz has abandoned the City by the Bay in favor of New York, which he abandoned in favor of South Gate Los, which he abandoned in favor of Italy. PJ Ladd is putting out a new vid under the title of PJ Ladd's Chainsaw Massacre. Expect more wonderful ...
Old tyme.(Trash)
Dec 01, 2004 ... Steve Olson appears to be taking his more gothic elements into a high tech direction. His latest whip is said to be a composite graphite loaded downhiller that is laced with the ashes of Bobby Turner. The Summer Ski maestro's remains are suspended in the board's thermo epoxy matrix ....
Quantum leap.(Trash)
Dec 01, 2004 ... The Action Sports Retailer scum vend fest was marked by the decidedly strange emergence of skating's most in-denial board-building artisan. SMA Skipperboy Engblom premiered a stack of museum cased one-off decks, which were nestled in form fitting velvet-lined enclosures. Engblom spent the ...
Deere Jon letter.(Trash)
Dec 01, 2004 ... A heaping helping of coverage has led Jon Allie to take a handrail hiatus ...
Under pressure.(Trash)
Dec 01, 2004 ... We'd put Nate on King of the Road but the dude may ...
Fight 'til death.(Trash)
Dec 01, 2004 ... Carbondale mud wrath was the call when it started ...
Grave time.(Trash)
Dec 01, 2004 ... And from beyond the pale of irrelevance, Fran Richard, the much-lamented ex-Time/Warner (Turner) media tycoon who is being ressurected by English-OZ combine, is back and he's bringing the old news. Could it be that the septuagenarian publisher Ted Turner simply cannot find a more uncanny ...
Poems and shells.(Trash)
Dec 01, 2004 ... Artistic flourish? Ain't that Toy Machine? Daewon getting ...
My trick.(Trash)
Dec 01, 2004 ... "It's dying time. Take out my brain and boil it down into skull soup. I'm going to have a baby to flick up the world. That's going to be my legacy."--Jake Phelps "I am not an artist, and I just sold ...
Sam Smyth's potent quotes.(Trash)
Dec 01, 2004 ... "Alyssa Milano, I was tripping! I didn't know what the fuck was going on with my body."--Sam Smyth "Hey, what the fuck is an ...
Dead serious.(Somethin' Else)
Dec 01, 2004 ... Zero filmer Matt Winterberg gets mondo beyondo with a "flinger" flip caveman at night. Add even more points ...
