Cover: Steve Rocco - Nose Wheelie
Photo: Stecyk

Inside This Mag: San Diego skating and indoor boarding

Also In This Issue: Thrasher's 1982 calendar, Texas Fall Series and the North Alabama Ditch Contest

Music Articles: The Big Boys, Iggy Pop, Bow Wow Wow and the Chromatics

Inside This Mag: Pool skating, freestyle skating with the League of Wimpy Skaters and boarding in Alabama

Also In This Issue: Skate fiction and the Bellevue open

Music Articles: The Big Boys

Cover: Top: Tony Hawk – Lien to Tail Re-Entry at Del Mar Bottom: John Hutson and Paco Prieto- Downhill Finish
Photos: Top: Marechal Bottom: Mofo

Inside This Mag: Del Mar Pool and Freestyle Contest, the Capitola Classic and skaters get lost in Los Angeles

Also In This Issue: The Ramp Ranch,

Music Articles: The Big Boys and rockabilly

Cover: Steve Caballero – Lien Air
Photo: Kevin Thatcher

Inside This Mag: Variflex/Kona Summer Nationals and the Great Canadian Open

Also In This Issue: Texas Underground Competition and the Rat Hole Contest

Music Articles: The Big Boys

Cover: Roger Hickey and John Hutson - Downhill
Photo: Caselli

Inside This Mag: Laguna Seca maximum downhill skating and controlled insanity with Tony Hawk, Steve Olson and more

Also In This Issue: The Baldy Pipeline, ramp building and the League of Wimpy Skaters

Cover: Mike Pust – Handplant
Photo: Mofo

Inside This Mag: Ramp raging, Ray Rodriguez discusses ditch skating with Stacy Peralta and the Second Annual Morro Bay Slalom Contest

Also In This Issue: Modern moves with Rodney Mullen and Per Welinder and the GLSA Contest at Apple Skatepark in Columbus, OH

Music Articles: The Big Boys and the Dregs

Cover: Mike Smith - Frontside Smith
Photo: Kevin Thatcher

Inside This Mag: The Ranch Spring Nationals with competitors Mike Smith, Duane Peters, Mike Alba, Neil Blender and more and Steve Caballero, Roger Hickey and Steve Rocco talk about their favorite skates

Also In This Issue: Top secret spots revealed and Texas spring competitions

Music Articles: The Big Boys and U2

Cover: Duane Peters and Steve Caballero – Aggro Sweeper Re-entry, Lien Air
Photos: Kevin Thatcher

Inside This Mag: Skate City Whittier Pro/Am Contest with competitors Duane Peters, Lance Mountain, Steve Caballero, Neil Blender and more and a Swedish skate competition

Also In This Issue: A day in the street, a night on the town, Sensation Basin's Third Anniversary Contest and the Galveston, TX contest

Music Articles: Adam and the Ants and the Big Boys

Cover: Allen Losi – Fakie Footplant Ollie
Photo: Rose

Inside This Mag: LA skatepark paradise and the mission to find the best pipes in Florida

Also In This Issue: The ollie air and other unassisted, no handed aerial acrobatics and skating in Dallas

Music Articles: The Big Boys and the Jam

Cover: Chris Miller - Bio Frontside Air
Photo: Goodrich

Inside This Mag: LA skatepark paradise and the Kona Pro/Am competition

Also In This Issue: The art of dropping in and ASPO

Music Articles: 415 Compilation tunes and the Big Boys

Cover: Chris Strople - Frontside Slash
Photo: Kevin Thatcher

Inside This Mag: Lakewood Half-Pipe Pro/Am Contest, an interview with Shawn Peddle and rad public skateparks

Also In This Issue: Skate sessions in Berkeley, the Third Annual Pepsi Pro/Am Sensation Basin Skatepark Contest

Cover: artwork by Kevin Thatcher

Inside This Mag: Upland Gold Cup Finale, downhill racing at in Capitola and at the Laguna Seca Raceway and semi-secret spots revealed

Also In This Issue: Street shredding and modern skate comics