I got my mitts on a copy of Thrasher Magazine‘s 30 year anniversary issue. I remember the first ones on newsprint and how great it was to have information about what was going on in skateboarding after Skateboarder Magazine had gone away. I would have so many old ones if I hadn’t cut out the pages with the best photographs and stuck them on my bedroom wall. I essentially had Thrasher wall paper that grew with every issue.
Subscriptions were fine but I always enjoyed the excuse (any excuse) to go down to Gravity (my local skate shop), get my copy, discuss what was in it and see what new stuff the shop had in. Sometimes it’s hard to believe that 1981 was that long ago and who would have thought that Thrasher and Gravity would be around after all this time.
First post and it appears I’m doing some advertising for a skate company. Not really, I’m just overly stoked that a long time friend and highly underrated shredder has finally got the recognition he deserves and has hooked himself up properly.
Maybe this will help him get to even more events and around the UK than he already does. Kids if you are reading this and are that desperate to get sponsored then you’ll do no better than follow the path Joxa has taken, namely getting out there and just going skateboarding with a smile on your face.
Proud to have known this goon since he was scratching 50-50’s in the Stockport bowl with pink hair – ALL HAIL JOXA!
Also if you are interested then Witchcraft, who have sorted Young Steven out, are a new UK company from the brain of top “arteeest” French who has done stuff for a host of other people. I dig it.
