Cover: Tommy Guerrero – Lien Air
Photo: Kevin Thatcher

Inside This Mag: Skating in Hawaii and girl skaters

Also In This Issue: The Fresno Ark, Arizona street style and the Palmdale ramp battle

Music Articles: 7 Seconds, the Weirdos, Samhain and the Pandoras

Cover: Natas Kaupas – Bert
Photo: Baboot

Inside This Mag: Freestyle fanatics featuring Rodney Mullen, Per Welinder and more and new blood

Also In This Issue: Skate poetry and longboarding

Music Articles: Gang Green and Red Kross

Cover: Allen Losi – Portrait, Invert
Photo: Mofo

Inside This Mag: An interview with Allen Losi, a five year Thrasher timeline and so-cal contests

Also In This Issue: Zines, downhill skating and problems during a skate contest as told by Boboba Banzai Brannon and the Scottsdale Community College Security Force

Music Articles: Minutemen

Cover: Claus Grabke – Invert
Photo: Rouse

Inside This Mag: Skating in Czechoslovakia and Houston

Also In This Issue: Skater organized skate contests from the west coast of California to Japan, massive terrain and step by step skate tricks

Music Articles: Misfits, Subhumans, Possessed, Final Conflict, Iron Angel and Powerage

Cover: Dave Hackett – Walkover
Photo: Valeska

Inside This Mag: The Skateboard Plus Pro Am event in Little Rock, AK and skating in New York City

Also In This Issue: The best and the worst of photograffiti and step by step skate tricks

Music Articles: The Cure

Cover: Christian Hosoi – Head-High Fly Over
Photo: Tkacheff

Inside This Mag: The NSA wrap up at the Skate Ranch in Del Mar, the Capitola Street Style Classic and a trip to Europe

Also In This Issue: Skating in Boston and step by step skating

Music Articles: Bad Brains and D.O.A.

Cover: Bruno Peeters – Fakie Ollie
Photo: Mofo

Inside This Mag: Skating in London, Germany and Sweden

Also In This Issue: Oceanside Beachstyle NSA event, the Skandanavian Open '85, the Midwest Am Ramp Series, butt shots and step by step tricks

Music Articles: The Lords of the New Church

Cover: Lance Mountain – Portrait
Photo: Mofo

Inside This Mag: NSA events in Tahoe and Vancouver and Lance Mountain

Also In This Issue: Zines, air terms, ramp theory and step by step tricks

Music Articles: Christ on Parade

Cover: Lester Kasai – Backside Air
Photo: Mofo

Inside This Mag: Traveling to Virginia Beach and the NSA No. 3 Pro contest, Tony Hawk and Stacy Peralta tells it like it is

Also In This Issue: M.A.R.S., Ocean Bowl Am Contest, step by step tricks and the skate saga of a Navy skater

Music Articles: G.B.H.

Cover: Chris Miller – Frontside Air
Photo: Mofo

Inside This Mag: Sacramento streetstyle, NSA/Variflex Rage at Badlands and skating through LA

Also In This Issue: Toke Ramp Jam, New England International Contest League of Skateboaders series, the International Showdown at the Tropica, Wake Up and Smell The Pavement" in the Northwest and step by step skate tricks

Music Articles: Motorhead, JFA and Danzig

Cover: Steve Caballero – Frontside Invert
Photo: Mofo

Inside This Mag: Inverts, NSA Pro/Am season opener at Del Mar Skateranch and interviews with Mark Gonzalez and Natas Kaupas

Also In This Issue: Spot check and step by step skate tricks

Music Articles: Chris Isaak

Cover: John Gibson – Frontside Thrust
Photo: Kevin Thatcher

Inside This Mag: Pipe adventures, an interview with Tony Hawk and the C.A.S.L. kickoff at Upland

Also In This Issue: Pool skating

Music Articles: Metallica

Cover: Christian Hosoi – Andrecht
Photo: Mofo

Inside This Mag: The 48-hour Thrashathon in San Luis Obispo and an interview with Christian Hosoi

Also In This Issue: Snowboarding action and some modern skate comics

Music Articles: The Afflicted

Cover: Billy Ruff and Neil Blender – No-Comply, Roll By
Photo: Mofo

Inside This Mag: Sequences and skating in LA's "Badlands"

Also In This Issue: Boys' Club Ramp Contest

Music Articles: Henry Rollins

Cover: Neil Blender and a Friend
Photo: Mofo

Inside This Mag: Letters from Virginia Beach and an interview with Neil Blender

Also In This Issue: Street ramps and street skaters' survival guide

Music Articles: Agression

Cover: Jeff Philips – Frontside Boneless
Photo: Mofo

Inside This Mag: Reports from foreign lands from skaters like Steve Caballero about Japan, France, England, Amsterdam and Germany, pro skating in Dallas and the NSA Huntington Beach Pro/Am World Open

Also In This Issue: The making of a skate video

Music Articles: Motorhead

Cover: San Jose Navaho
Artwork By: Chris Buchinsky

Inside This Mag: Killer ramps

Also In This Issue: Photograffiti featuring reader submissions

Music Articles: The final chapters of the JFA tour saga, DOA and PIL

Cover: Mark Gonzales – Beanplant
Photo: Mofo

Inside This Mag: NSA Finals at the Del Mar Skateranch, Midwest melee two and the Capitola Classic Streetstyle event

Also In This Issue: Ramp skating

Music Articles: JFA tour saga

Cover: Bob Denike – Push
Photo: Fluitt
Cover Insert: Neil Blender – Eggplant
Photo: Mofo

Inside This Mag: Bails, flails and other off-board trails, Embarcadero streetstyle and Gary Fluitt, Paul Dunn, Jack Smith and Bob Denike trek across the country to benefit the Multiple Sclerosis Society and skate

Also In This Issue: Eagle Rock skate event, Booney Ramp contest, the 540 McTwist, Crystal Palace "Fun Day" in England and the Interstate Tour Nite Jam at Cecil's Ant Ramp

Music Articles: The Mentors