Issue numero unoJune 2010

Skate

JawnMagJawn

Kabob skewers a hardflip at a NJ nugphoto: Warias

Kabob skewers a hardflip at a NJ nugphoto: Warias

Skaterock at HomebaseEast coast loveArts by Ramiro DavaroCampus Orientation: Umass

This is a jawn about skateboardsmade by some dudes.

Cover: Dylan James does a Gall drop off my fridge, while Jonny films, and Paul goes for some ice cream. Photo by Colin Sussingham

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Photos: Max Zahradnik

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Campus Orientation

The photos you’re looking at right now are skateboarding at Umass, but they’re not really skateboarding at Umass. Maybe this confuses you. Let me explain . The photos you see here were most certainly taken at Umass. And no, we didn’t bring in any outside talent for the article, all these cats are either homegrown Amherst loc’s or just homies who man-age to step on the board in between classes and lay down a trick or two. This might lead you to ask, “If the photos were taken at Umass and all the dudes skating in the photos are from Umass, how the fuck am I not looking at skating from Umass?” Well I guess the answer is: Shit like this just doesn’t generally happen at Umass. What you’re looking at right here is what happens when people get off their asses and try. If I wanted to show you actual skating at Umass what you would see is this: 10 to 15 dudes on a good day and something like 3 to 5 on your average day pushing around at the UMass Fine Arts Center also know as F’arts. And you’re not gonna see any photos of the F’arts in this article because its essentially just a huge expanse of flat we skate, none too photogenic.

Sure there’s a few stair sets at the F’arts, 6’s, 7’s, and a 10 frequented by a lot of pros, but we don’t skate em. Too lazy, (in our defense they are kinda long). Why skate stairs when you can skate flat. The F’arts also has this wacky ass red sculpture, which somehow is supposed to repre-sent the nearby Connecticut River, but is known as the pants. The pants are good for wallrides and wallies. Try it.

Noah Smokes a switchollie over the bike rack.

P: Dave Nelson

We got some decent terrain here: buncha stairs, this cool bank that was quick-creted by local rippers Dave and Rus-sian, some low ass ledges at the science building for learn-ing stuff, a few manny pads, a library with about 20 benches, and a really choppy hubba that Jim Gagney pioneered, to name a few. Other then these and a few others though there’s a surprising lack of spots for a university with 20,000-someodd students. Besides the stair sets at the F’arts there’s a near zero bust factor on campus. You can session essentially any of the spots here for hours and no one will say shit to you.

Photo: Dave Nelson

Garret turns a flatbar into a pole jamP: Dave Nelson

Another thing you’re sure to notice is the vast number of long-boards. Longboards for miles, as far as the eye can see. And gen-erally 95 percent of these people don’t know how to ride these long boards. I’ve actually watched a particularly awkward kid try to ride down the sidewalk, pushing about 2 times before hitting his foot on the large protruding wheel and then eatingshit. I watched this kid do this about 3 or 4 times, each time with more painful/spectacularre-sults before he threw in the towel and walkedthe rest of the way. Oh and most of these kids push mongo.

I might have made Umass seem somewhat unappealing here, but really this is one of my favorite places to skate. Maybe we’re not on a filming mission every day, but I can pretty much guarantee if you show up to the F’arts on any given day you’re gonna meet a bunch of homies. A solid crew with no bad vibes. And if you really push hard enough you might even skate something that isn’t flat.

Photo: Dave Nelson

dipped bs smitth in the ATL photo: Mikey Ralph

Art by:Ramiro Davaro

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StyleStyle is the answer to everything.A fresh way to approach a dull

or dangerous day.To do a dull thing with style

is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without style.

To do A dAngerouS Thing wiTh STyle,

iS whAT i cAll ArT.Bullfighting can be an art.

Boxing can be an art.loving can be an art.

opening a can of sardines can be an art.not many have style.

not many can keep style.i have seen dogs with more style than

men.Although not many dogs have style.

cats have it with abundance.

when hemingway put his brains to the wall with a shotgun,

that was style.For sometimes people give you style.

Joan of Arc had style.John the Baptist.

Jesus.Socrates.

caesar.garcía lorca.

i have met men in jail with style.i have met more men in jail with style

than men out of jail.Style is a difference, a way of doing,

a way of being done.Six herons standing quietly

in a pool of water, or you,

walking out of the bathroom without seeing me.

-charles Bukowski

Nik hops over some stairs and lip slides some bricks, while Cecil watches

Photo: Andy Enos

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street sign wallie on zip-zinger, photo: Mikey Ralph

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