Thrasher Magazine

The Globe Snake Session II shop-versus-shop event series slithers on. The US Snake Session II was a level up on last year’s and Australia’s second event was a shutdown. Ten skateshop teams from all states flew, drove, hitched, couch surfed, slept in cars and five-star hotels to throw down for cash and 365 days of bragging rights. Shout out to Truckstop Sk8, Soggybones, Geelong Skateshop, Hemley Skateboarding, Fast Times, OCD, Lodown, Boarders, Boardstore and Trilogy. Forty of Australia’s best skaters shredded, including 2019 Australian SOTY Jack O’Grady, heavyweights Jackson Pilz and Jesse Noonan and new gens Zepp Heyes, Jett De Haan and little big man Ethan Copeland. Everyone destroyed, but in the end Jakob Robinson led the charge for the NSW North Coast and eventual victors Truckstop Sk8. —Steve Douglas

Winners are grinners—team Truckstop snaked their way to victory in Melbourne

The boys from Ballina celebrate

The boy with the endless trick list—Jakob Robinson made the decision easy for the judges

Skate Fast or Go Home! Jack O’Grady should have that written across his chest—lip to lip

The Fast Times boys were quick to get the votes from the judges. Check out Jesse Noonan’s grip job

Noonan nosegrind tailgrabs Anthony Mapstone’s face right off in the best-trick-for-cash contest

Fakie flip by James Hall. Yes, he landed this

Shaun Boucher was unstoppable, Miller flipping all over the place

This vert wall is so big no one can skate it, so—fuck it—Jon Cahill airs over the damn thing

Jesse, overheard wall bash

Ethan Copeland floating around in the shallow end with this stinky stalefish revert

Jackson Pilz with some serious glue-foot action—frontside nollie-oop

The best seat in the house

Free food, free beer and free fun—Wade, Sam, Ben and Tony enjoying the good times

Geelong skateshop supporters—Sam, Maxwell, Mitch and Harry

MC Anthony Mapstone, quiet for the first time of the evening

Free beer, enough said

Tough guy, Brunsy—don’t flex on him

Just in case there wasn’t enough snaking going down

Kiwi Bowman Hansen still ripping despite dislocating his shoulder the day before—nosegrind into the step down

Jett De Haan, the youngest skater in the contest, doing it for the Lodown boys from Sydney

Bowman Hansen nollie bigspin melons the tall wall

Long gone are the comp days of Reece Warren where he would rock up and win them all. Now he just cruises and hopes he doesn’t make the finals—lip slide up the E

Not quite the Pambula vert wall for Reece—low-to-high nosegrind

Everything about Shem Bragg is laid back, even his Smiths

Street dog Ryder Lawson, grabbing this melon like he was flying down a 15 stair

Perth breeds ‘em tough, Brendon Cross heelblocks

Jesse Noonan, not to be mistaken for Jason Jessee

Nothing fishy about Jackson Pilz’ stalefish

Although this air was angry, Jesse Noonan looks quite pleasant

Jon Cahill, Mad Donna aka Madonna

Jakob Robinson was all over the ramp and hard to capture, but he did put his foot down here and there… backside boneless off the wall

The hardest part about this Smith for Shaun Boucher was making sure people didn’t sit on the handrail!

Jaxon Pollock is not from the ’80s but his Texas plant is

The smallest guy always goes the biggest—Ethan Copeland, lien

Zepp Heyes = Style

Jack O’Grady skated the ramp like he was street skating—and that’s a good thing. Pylon bash

Jon Cahill probably wished he was boneless when he ended the night with a hellacious slam. This one was a make, though

Jack O’Grady’s noseblunt slide was so fast I thought someone might pull out a radar gun

No comply tailslide by Jett De Haan. Thanks, Globe, for continuing to put on such an badass event. Snake Session III, where you at?!