Cover: Moses Itkonen – Switch tailslide
Photo: Serfas

Inside This Mag: An interview with John Cardiel and skating in Santa Fe

Also In This Issue: Rad ams Mark Roth, Tony Cox and Chris Yourgalite and how to get away with being dum

Music Articles: Supersuckers, Good Riddance and Masta Ace

Cover: Phil Shao – Smith
Photo: Kanights

Inside This Mag: Skating Burnside with Mark Gonzales, John Cardiel, Coco Santiago, Diggity Dawes, Skip Towne and more and interviews with Max Schaaf and Scott Johnson

Also In This Issue: Rad ams Doug Shoemaker, Nikhil Thayer and James Qua and skating in Santa Rosa and Boston

Music Articles: Santana, No Use For A Name and Gaunt

Some guys approach skating differently when they're filming, on tour, or cruising their local park. This clip here shows how Kyle skates daily.

"I wrote a song for Richard Paez"

Cover: Danny Gonzales – Blaster
Photo: Morf

Inside This Mag: Interviews with Gino Perez, James Qua, and Nanda Zipp, the Texas Death Match and skating in Oakland

Also In This Issue: Pier 7 locals

Music Articles: Unwritten Law, Ignite, Neurosis and Five Year Plan

Cover: Karma Tsocheff – Backside Shifty
Photo: Kanights

Inside This Mag: A road trip with Scott Amore, Lou Cox, Nos, Todd Luciere, Oz, Jim Greco, Mother and Sean Cronan, an interview with Matt Pailes and a contest at the Skatepark of Tampa

Also In This Issue: Damsels of skating Jamie Reyes, Alison Lee and Cindy Gorset, 15 pool punishers and West Coast shredding

Music Articles: White Zombie, a concert for the people of Tibet and Slagheap

Cover: Coco Santiago – Frontside Thruster
Photo: Kanights

Inside This Mag: Skatepark of Tampa Contest, an interview with Israel Forbes and skating in Minnesota

Also In This Issue: Sick ams Eddie Nemeth and Huy Lee

Music Articles: Fun Lovin' Criminals, Motorhead and Snuff

Cover: Quim Cardona – Frontside Air
Photo: Morf

Inside This Mag: Skating in New York, Virginia Beach and Europe

Also In This Issue: Neil Blender

Music Articles: Guttermouth, Hole, The Queers, Vision and JT the Bigga Figga

Cover: Ethan Fowler – Switch Wallride
Photo: Morf

Inside This Mag: Tony Hawk recollections, skating in Ireland and Vermont and interviews with Steve Keenan, Tina Paez, Oscar Reyes, Karina Morishige, Rick Winsor and Bob Just

Also In This Issue: Awesome ams Chris Strausbaugh, Mat O'Brien and Eric Peoro

Music Articles: 1995 Readers' Music Poll results, best band winner the Beastie Boys, Fear and Brothas Unda Madness

Cover: Mike Carroll – Gap To Frontside Tailslide
Photo: Kanights

Inside This Mag: Thrasher's 1994 Skater of the Year Mike Carroll, an interview with Kien Lieu and a contest at Newburgh Skatepark in NY

Also In This Issue: Awesome ams Jimmy Chung, Jason Strubing and Pig Pen, people Jason Jessee has known and girls who skate

Music Articles: China White, Pegboy, Jack Killed Jill... and Pete Rock and CL Smooth

Cover: Wade Speyer – Method
Photo: Kanights

Inside This Mag: A trip to Europe with Wade and crew and the Venice Street Contest

Also In This Issue: Rad ams Richard Paez, Drake Jones, AJ Massu and Hideo Sakuragi

Music Articles: Bootsy Collins, Gas Huffer, The Roots, Suicidal Tendencies, Tad, Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Guided By Voices

Cover: Mike Frazier – Kickflip Mute
Photo: Kanights

Inside This Mag: Interviews with Matt Hoffman and Ron Chatman and skating in Indianapolis

Also In This Issue: Rad ams Justin Strubing, Noah Rector, Stevie Williams and Craig De Nolf

Music Articles: The Fugees, Super Natural, an ode to John Coltrane by Page Hamilton of Helmet and Casual

Cover: Rick Howard – Switch 360 Flip
Photo: Kanights

Inside This Mag: Interviews with Karma Tsocheff and Rick Howard

Also In This Issue: Sick ams Peter Bici and Mike Schwartz, NSA Am Slam Finals and the abridged Thrasher dictionary

Music Articles: The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, the Muffs, Cosmic Psychos and the Freestyle Fellowship 

Cover: Tombstone
Logo By: Jimbo

Inside This Mag: Interviews with Chris Pastras, written wit and wisdom from worldwide witnesses and a road trip with John Cardiel, Christian Hosoi, Noah Peacock, Julien Stranger and Joey Tershay

Also In This Issue: Hot ams Shelby Woods, Sam Devlin, Joel Price and Shawn Mandoli and the little big men of skateboarding, Caswell Berry, Stevie Williams, Scott Crawford and JR Neves

Music Articles: Cypress Hill, Bad Brains,GG Allin, the Damned, Cop Shoot Cop and Monster Magnet

Cover: Karma Tsocheff – 180 Nosegrind To Forward
Photo: Sean Dolinsky

Inside This Mag: An interview with Jason Adams and Tim Brauch and a pop quiz by Mike Gonzales

Also In This Issue: Rad ams Shelter Serra, Fabian Alomar and Ivory Serra and NSA Pro Streetstyle and Snowboard Slopestyle Contest

Music Articles: Bad Religion, GG Allin, Mad Flava, Guru's Jazzmatazz and Bottom 12

Cover: Mark Gonzales – Frontside Ollie
Photo: Kanights

Inside This Mag: Interviews with Henry Sanchez and Mark Gonzales

Also In This Issue: How to get sponsored and skate art

Music Articles: Ice-T, Primus, Brand Nubian, the Cramps and Quicksand

Cover: Tom Knox – Ollie
Photo: Sleeper
Sequence: John Montessi – Bluntside
Photo: Kevin Thatcher

Inside This Mag: Skating in Philadelphia and interviews with Skip Pronier, Brian Lotti, Karma Tsocheff, Tom Knox and Max Evans

Also In This Issue: Switchstance

Music Articles: Metallica, Cypress Hill, Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, Fastbacks vs. Gas Huffer and Tar

Cover: Karma Tsocheff – Multi Strobe
Photo: Van Dusen

Inside This Mag: Thrasher's Book of World Records and raw meat Brody Davison, Blake Convey, Dave Warne, John Nakama and Rob Washburn

Also In This Issue: 1989 competition wrap-up,  a desert speed rally with Mark Partain, Paul De Jesus and more and Survival Research Labs

Music Articles: Faith No More and the Buzzcocks

In 1990 Stacey Gibo, Noah Peacock, Jim “Red Dog” Muir and I went to Visalia to audition this kid named Karma Tsocheff. Needless to say, he made the team; but he also took us to The Flumes—an old logging run that went from a metal halfpipe to a mega-ditch. The natural halfpipe between the two was...