Cover: Rick Ibaseta – 50-50
Photo: Kanights

Inside This Mag: Interviews with Wade Speyer and Mike Vallely and 25 skaters who are killing it

Also In This Issue: Skating in Vancouver

Music Articles: Tool, Da Lench Mob, Green Magnet School, Mule and RKL

Cover: Chet Thomas – Shifty Ollie
Photo: Xeno

Inside This Mag: A wild weekend at Thrasher's Christmas party/Skater of the Year bash and more

Also In This Issue: Step by step tricks, skate fashion

Music Articles: Nirvana, the Damned, the Cramps and Slayer

Cover: “The Face That Moves Fire Hydrants”
Artwork By: Robert Williams

Inside This Mag: Pool skating, East Coast ramps and a skate trip to Tokyo for the Open Summer Skate Championships

Also In This Issue: Step by step tricks

Music Articles: Nirvana, Jesus Jones, Skankin' Pickle and Iggy Pop

Cover: Marc Hollander – Carve
Photo: Starr

Inside This Mag: Interviews with Texas skaters John Gibson, Craig Johnson and Jeff Phillips, new blood Danny Way and Tom Knox and a trip to Japan for the Far East contest

Also In This Issue: First White Wave Winter Whomp Out in the Northern Sierras, Shut Up and Skate Competition in Dallas and Houston, the Czechoslovakia Euro Cup and skating in Boston

Music Articles: Ice-T, Pushead's 100 favorite records of the 80s

Cover: Scott Oster – G-Turn
Photo: Katz

Inside This Mag: An interview with Tommy Guerrero and the NSA exposed at the Duel in the Desert in Tempe, AZ

Also In This Issue: Twilight skating

Music Articles: Chord grinds featuring Ghoul Squad, Fratricide, S.O.B., Undeadog, Hell's Kitchen, Token Entry, McRad, Ungh, Odd Man Out and Touch Me Hooker

Cover: Jeff Phillips – Frontside Ollie
Photo: Mofo

Inside This Mag: The skate scene in Knoxville, TN, S.U.A.S. Houston and the tale of two cities featuring Wallos, HI and San Diego, CA

Also In This Issue: Step by step skate tricks, San Francisco 49ers halftime skate sesh, 1986 NSA Pro/Am Finals and behind the scenes of Atari's new skate video game

Music Articles: Butthole Surfers and the Adolescents

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: 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: Mondo - Frontside Grind
Photo: Etheridge

Inside This Mag: Grinding style and an interview with Rodney Mullen

Also In This Issue: Scene reports from around the globe

Music Articles: Toxic Reasons and Anvil Chorus

Cover: Billy Ruff – Backside Air
Photo: Kevin Thatcher

Inside This Mag: Skate City/Whittier Christmas Classic and an interview with Billy Ruff

Also In This Issue: Rad skate photos from over the years,

Music Articles: TSOL, JFA, Los Olvidados, Big Boys, Sin 34, Die Kreuzenv and Mecht Mensch

Cover: Duane Peters – Slide Drop-in
Photo: Kevin Thatcher

Inside This Mag: Desert skating and an interview with Duane Peters

Also In This Issue: Photograffiti, the closing of Mogul Bowl in Fresno, CA and a ramp contest in the Santa Cruz Mountains

Music Articles: The Damned

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