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SKATE JAWN
Issue 7 June 2011
Content Photogs Sloan Palder InterviewAndrew Wilson InterviewJay Brown InterviewArt by Massimo MongiardiEast Coast Love Ramps out backSweden SkateparksPool Party
# 7 June 2011
Cover: Dave Bachinsky p: Xeno TsarnasAbove: Mitchell Wilson, wallie p: HullContact: [email protected] rights reserved
Andy EnosBilly Cox Colin SussinghamCJ HarkerDarnell ScottDevilleJoe ScordoJohnny WilsonMax HullRob CollinsSam McKennaXeno TsarnasZander Taketomo
SWEDENSKATEPARKS
By: Matt Marekp: David Östlund
I studied a semester in Stockholm, Sweden in 2009 because I wanted to travel and heard the skate scene in Sweden was good and sure enough, I stumbled into the Oregon of Europe. Concrete parks all over the country with more and more being built every year. Stockholm has about 7 parks now. Grindline, from Oregon just built a huge park across the bridge in Copenha-gen. The amount of parks being built is crazy! After the semester ended I moved back to Mas-sachusetts, but a year or so later I was offered a job in Stockholm building concrete parks with my friends at Nord (Nordskateparks.com). Now I live this fairy tale type of life in Stockholm, Sweden building skateparks for a living with rad dudes. The job is a dream come true. The work is pretty tough, but the skate and beer breaks certainly help. We’re building 4 or 5 new parks this year, and other companies are building more parks too. The scene here is thriving to say the least so make the trek out here and get some!
Leo Ström, tuck knee air
Henrik Ribbing, bs crailslide
Matt Marek, pivot fakie
Art by:
Massimo MongiardiHere’s a line drawing Massimo made for a Black Artists Union show awhile back at Mass Art. Recently Massimo has been holding it down in NYC helping create some ill graphics for Hopps skateboards. Big ups.
Document yr best, lowest, deepest, most dipped, bs smith grind, and you can win a NJ skateshop x Mark Gonzales collab deck. Contest runs now till August 1st. Landing the smith is a must. Send photos/clips to [email protected] THANKS.
WIN!
Ramps out back www.therampsoutback.blogspot.com
“You ever build something with a group of homies? Shit is fun as hell! We built this ramp last summer. One day my friend Chris mentioned he was redoing his old ramp. I really didn’t think much of it. Sure enough, I roll to his house a day or two later and Chris and my friend Scott have this masterpiece of a ramp framed out. Within the next couple days a flatbed truck from Montana dropped off a shit load of skatelite. It was on! The ramp took us a couple more days to “finish”.
Anybody who skateboards knows that time... well time really isn’t of the essence. So even though the ramp may not be 100% done, it’s done enough haha. We’ll finish it up one day... maybe. At the end of the day I got to give the credit where the credit is due. This is Chris and Scott’s creation. I just swung a hammer here and hauled some scraps there. But looking back on things, I’m just siked to have been a part of it.” - Sloan
Dan Murphy, fs board p: Xeno
People say a lot of shit about NYC. But, it’s the best place ever. Fuck the subway, tow in on a taxi and slappy from boro to boro.
NYC METAL CURBS
Dylan slappie 5-0 p: Sussingham
Pat Galloway wallride p: Sussingham
Dwayne Alamonte hardflip bs ts
Chris Gedny wallie blunt p: Feoli
Dan
Pen
syl p
: Zah
radn
ik
Dwaynne Almonte kickflip p:Darnell
CJ Jenner, K bonk p: Billy Cox
go to www.skatejawn.com& watch the SKATE JAWN COMMERCIAL
Ben
Hac
hell,
Sta
lefis
h p:
Dev
ille
Tucci, wallie p: Joe Scordo
Chad Bartie, blunt fakie p:Deville
Fritz Mead p: XenoInk Stain
Kyle Dalrymple p: Mike Emery
New Email address
Eric Dermond Blunt 180 p: Joe Scordo
Conor McCue fs board p: Billy Cox
Kyle O’niel 5050 up p: Mike Wojcik
Greysen Gagne smith p: Mckenna
Dylan James bs nose bluntp: Sussingham
Dave Labbe p: McKenna
Shawn Powers p: Darnell
Burton Smith p: Dylan James
1 year anniversary party
Sloan PalderInterview byJordan GeskoPhotos: CJ Harker
Has Wu-Tang changed your life?I wouldn’t say Wu-Tang has necessarily changed my life, but it is nice knowing that no matter what new bullshit may come out on the radio, I can always throw on Enter The 36 Chambers and be siked.
How did you start skating?My little brother asked my cousin to borrow his board for a while. One day a bunch of my friends went down to the school to skate. I took that board and ever since then I’ve been skating.
Wha
t you
kno
w a
bout
hem
p?I d
on’t
know
muc
h ab
out h
emp
but f
rom
wha
t yo
u te
ll m
e it’
s rea
lly u
sefu
l for
a lo
t of d
iffer
ent
thin
gs. I
’m d
own
for t
he c
ause
.
Who
is h
omie
Kev
in W
inte
rs?
He’s
the
firm
er h
omie
. He’s
the
sicke
st. I’
ve y
et
to m
eet s
omeo
ne a
s com
mitt
ed to
skat
eboa
rd-
ing
as h
im.
Whe
n di
d yo
u ge
t on
NJ?
Prob
ably
like
2 y
ears
ago
. It f
eels
awes
ome
to
be p
art o
f suc
h a
sick
shop
. Ste
ve a
nd C
hris
are
trul
y do
wn
for s
kate
boar
ding
, it’s
sick
.
Don
’t yo
u ha
ve a
spot
fixi
ng k
it w
ith
sign
s an
d bo
ndo
in y
our
trun
k?Yo
u ne
ver k
now
whe
n yo
ur g
oing
to c
ome
up
on a
spot
that
may
onl
y be
skat
eabl
e w
ith a
sig
n, o
r a c
rack
that
nee
ds to
be
bond
oed.
I’m
ju
st al
way
s try
ing
to sk
ate
new
spot
s, so
stuff
lik
e th
is m
akes
it e
asie
r.
Favo
rite
tric
k in
a p
ool?
I see
n Jo
hn d
o th
ese
layb
ack
5-0’
s. Th
at sh
it lo
oks s
o cr
azy.
Mos
t fav
orit
e sk
ate
spot
?Th
e Tre
nton
Ban
ks in
dow
ntow
n is
my
favo
rite
spot
for s
ure.
Eve
ryth
ing
abou
t tha
t spo
t is s
ick.
Th
ere’s
mad
opp
ortu
nity
to g
et c
reat
ive.
Why
won
’t K
ev m
ake
a vi
deo?
I was
hop
ing
som
ebod
y co
uld
tell
me.
K
ev re
ally
thou
gh, y
ou sh
ould
mak
e a
vide
o.
Whe
re a
re y
ou fr
om?
I was
bor
n in
Tor
onto
, Can
ada
but m
oved
w
hen
I was
one
. Afte
r a c
oupl
e of
yea
rs o
f m
ovin
g ar
ound
, my
pare
nts s
ettle
d do
wn
in
Hop
ewel
l, N
ew Je
rsey
. That
’s w
here
I m
ainl
y gr
ew u
p.
Last
wor
ds?
A w
ise m
an w
ho’s
nam
e I f
orge
t onc
e to
ld m
e,
“It’s
not
wha
t you
do,
it’s
how
you
do
it.”
Andrew WilsonInterview byZach Gesko
Andrew WilsonInterview byZach Gesko
Do you have a rat tail?Bruns
Are you going to miss the Jefferson house?Yeah so many good times, NJ homies comin through, stonin, souling, SKATE JAWN,
What is jers to you?New Jersey or die
Dose Kevin Winters influence little Johnny?Hahah for sure Johnny is Kev and Kev is Johnny
Favorite music?Hightower, bad brains, wu tang, big L, black flag, electric wizard I don’t know that question is hard
Longest skate trip you’ve been on?Freshman year at the Jefferson house
Most fun trick?Front side air
bs smith p: Zander
fs smith p: Marcus
What first influence you to skate tran skating or street?I grew up skating this skatepark in Florida called Ramp 48. I’ve always liked skating parks more, so I guess being a little park rat made me like tran and that kinda shit more.
How many years have you been skating?10
Do you love the couch?Who doesn’t?
Spliff or headys J.?Spliff til tha casket dips
How sick is it to grow up with two brothers that skate?It’s the best, always someone to skate with. And seeing one of my brothers get some, gets me fuckin stoked
Who do you see slam hardest on the regs?Haha Mitchell for sure
Favorite park you ever skatedFDR
What do you think of pool skating?Pools are the best, funnest thing to skate.
p: Harker
p: Harker
p: Andy Enos
Piss and Vinegar magazine is based out of New Jersey and Massachusetts. Our goal is to rep, unify and support the upper East Coast skate scene. The magazine is free for all the homies. Piles will be left at as many skate shops as possible, and at skateparks and skate spots all over. We want to hype all the sick stuff going on here in the streets and get all the skaters shredding together, and vibing off what everyone’s doing. In the magazine and online we will promote all the sick skate events happen-ing that people might otherwise miss out on. There won’t be a “trick tip” section, but there will be a “how to” section with guides to patching holes in you kicks, and fixing cracks in the pave-ment, etc. Piss and Vinegar magazine will not expose skaters to advertisements for deodorant, gum, commercial motion pictures, or THE ARMY. If you haven’t noticed all of these have been done recently in skate mags . At least companies like Boost Mobile pay skat-ers and throw expensive cash contests. But really, what has the Wrigley’s gum company done for you or for skateboarding lately? And the army? How much did the govern-ment have to pay theses magazine to make their editors agree to run ads, trying to con-vince skaters to join the army? What the fuck. There’s already so many who do so much to try to help skating or put their own piece of work/creativity into it. We want these people to prosper. There’s a million little companies and shops that make things bet-ter for their local skaters and they should be recognized. Help those who help you or more importantly the whole of skating.
Skateboarding is bigger than all of us and it will be here after we’re crazy old men with bad knees and too many scars. As a community we need to take care of what’s so important to us. To be successful this magazine needs the help, support, and in-volvement of the skaters it represents. We’re
asking you to get involved. This magazine should be something fun for us to be proud of, like doing a kickflip or bombing a killer hill. We’re all doing this to-gether trying to have some fun and make the
most out what we have. We are skat-ers and we make skateboarding. Skat-ers need to watch out for each other and protect each other from the whack corporate money making shit going on. Skateboarding is always changing and we want to inform everyone what’s hap-pening so together all us out there in the streets can try to help steer things in best direction. People need to keep skating for the right reasons. A survey conducted in 2002 by American Sports Data found that there were 18.5 million skateboarders in the world, of these skaters 85 percent were un-der the age of 18. As the older cats doing this we need to take responsibility. I pray that the next generation of skater doesn’t learn about skating from commercials on TV then try to go pro and become rich and famous with their own MTV show and fan base of screaming girls. Hopefully no one will skateboard with the goal of winning an Olympic medal. Let’s do this, Skate and create. Skate to live. Skate or die.
Mission statementBefore skatejawn we were gonna name the magazine “Piss & Vinegar” This was our mission statement from 2007.
By: Travis Storerp: Sam McKenna
Jay Brown Interview
Congrats on the Sea Level part it came out real good. Tell us about the video and so forth.
I’m grateful for having the opportunity to be a part of Sea Level. Every-one that was involved came from all over the place, and we all skate so differently from each other. It made for a real diverse video and was a fun experience overall!
This time around it must have been nice not having to worry about making the video as well as having a part. What was it like filming for Sea Level rather than Mixed Effect or Whatever Feels Right?
It was a lot different. I could really focus on actually skating and not stress or deal with any of the other obstacles that making a video en-tails. Chris and Elliott did a great job.
By: Travis Storerp: Sam McKenna
Jay Brown Interview
Recently you’ve made a few shorts for ESNC clothing, what was the concept behind that and what inspired it?
My goal was to show what it is really like to go out skating on a February night in Portland Maine. The idea for the shorts came from listening to Threepeeoh’s beats. I’m always on the hunt for new and inspiring music.
What do you got going on now? Are you filming for any upcoming projects or anything in the works?
Right now I’m just trying to stack as much footage as I can. There may be a short ESNC promo happening…
Anyone you would like to thank that’s helped you out along the way?
I want to thank Skate Jawn, Travis Storer, Sam Mckenna, Mike G, and all of the homies I skate with!
Pool side words by John GardnerI never went to the house before they bought it so I had no clue bout the pool in back. I checked the pool before I checked the house. After we drained it, It was better than we thought. Perfect tran. I guess they hit granite when they built it awhile back and had to make the deep end only 6ft. All I been doing lately is skating it with the homies and enjoying it while it lasts. I keep hearing 2 weeks till it’s buried but could be less. Skate Jawn keeps it real. Come shred while you can.
Sloan crail pivot p: Harker John Gardner hang 10
Tucci
The house was built like 95 years ago, and the pool was built about 25 years ago. My parents told me that dude Arnold Palmer stayed there once. Mad people have come to skate so far. Fred Gall usually comes to skate with Quim Cardona which is sick cause I always watched those dudes skate when I was lit-tle. Fred hooked it up and brought the Ipath and OJ team there. They’re all mad cool and ripped it up. It’s pretty funny cause every time my mom hears people are coming to skate, she’ll go out and buy a shitload of food and drinks for everyone. She’s rad. I spent weeks trying to convince them to keep it but the plans were already set in stone. Mad props to Sloan, the Geskos and the other homies for coming out to drain it. And cheeba Kev for letting us use his Genny.
Fred Gall, gall in p: Harker
Dillon nosegrind p:Sussingham JT fs feeble p:Sussingham
Fritz Mead p: Harker
Josh Spooner
Dylan James Hurricane p: Sussingham
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