Backyard vert ramps are an endangered species, but they're too rad to ever really die. David Gonzalez is a fan of skate history and introduces a part from the 1984 Powell-Peralta vid, "Bones Brigade Video Show."

12-year-old Alana Smith becomes the second girl to make a McTwist. Check it out here, along with some commentary from Mike McGill and Darren Navarrette.

Vans threw a contest at the Chelsea Piers Bowl and a heavy crew from around the world showed up to rip.  The rain held off, Van Doren manned the grill with free hot dogs all day and when the dust settled Lance Mountain took top honors in the masters division and Pedro Barros won the Pro.

A full on Bones Brigade reunion set off the Masters division and Steve Caballero didn't care whether it was the Birdman's birthday or not as he ripped his way to another first place finish.

The stars came out for the Bones Brigade Documentary, live from Santa Barbara.

Check out the footage from Quiksilver's contest that took place last weekend.

Tony Hawk, Mike McGill, Kevin Staab, and Christian Hosoi got together to make this promo for Quiksilver's All '80s All Day event.

Cover: Eric Koston – Frontside Noseblunt Slide
Photo: Ogden

Inside This Mag: Thrasher's 1996 Skater of the Year Eric Koston and a twenty year retrospective of Thrasher's SOTYs

Also In This Issue: Crazy Chicago skating and a trip to Ecuador

Music Articles: Sick of it All, Reel Big Fish, Brutal and Blue Tip

Cover: Mark Hubbard – Backside Ollie
Photo: Ogden

Inside This Mag: Cross country trippin' with Sean Cronan, Jim Gagne, Jesse "Dirty" Daner, Jim Greco and more, skating in Scotland and New Orleans and the Santa Cruz/Creature Summer Tour

Also In This Issue: Best trick names, rad ams Chip Van Hamm and Dave Probus and a drunken desert skate sesh at the Nude Bowl

Music Articles: De La Soul, Dog Eat Dog and Automatic Head Detonator

Cover: Brandon Chapman – Backside Disaster
Photo: Starr

Inside This Mag: Capitol Burnout #2 in Sacramento and tricks that have changed the course of history

Also In This Issue: Step by step tricks, a course in the manufacturing and fabrication of skateboard decks, trucks and wheels and some skate fiction

Music Articles: Sonic Youth, the Sisters of Mercy, Buglamp, the Hellbillys and Bad Brains

Cover: Tony Hawk – Melon Fakie
Photo: Starr

Inside This Mag: Thrasher's 10th Anniversary Issue featuring a look back on the past decade of skating in photos and a sample of skateboarding's modern heroes including Tony Hawk, Eric Dressen, Danny Way, Tommy Guerrero, Noah Salasnek, Andy Howell, Steve Caballero, Mark Gonzales, Chris Miller, Jason Rogers, Tom Knox, Frankie Hill, Wade Speyer, Natas Kaupas, Mike McGill, Al Losi, Jeff Phillips, Bucky Lasek, Reese Simpson, Alan Peterson, Jason Lee, Bob Boyle, Omar Hassan, Jeff Kendall, Mike Vallely, Lance Mountain, Ed Templeton and Justin Girard 

Cover: Rob Roskopp – Sweeper
Photo: Schneider

Inside This Mag: An interview with Mike McGill and Midwest Melee in Nebraska

Also In This Issue: Big city skating, the Capitola Classic, Dateline Morro Bay and the S.U.A.S. Series of Texas

Cover: Top Left: Mike McGill – Backside Air
Photo: Schmitt
Top Right: Craig Johnson – Frontside Air
Photo: Newton
Bottom Left: John Gibson – Frontside Air
Photo: Newton
Center: Jay Cabler – Loose Frontside Edge Out Photo: Newton Bottom
Right: Anonymous – Street Push
Photo: Newton

Inside This Mag: Thirteen skaters like Tony Hawk, Neil Blender, Christian Hosoi and more answer six important questions and the Thrasher Summer Tour '83 gets wild

Also In This Issue: NSA Paramount in LA, the Devil's Pit 3rd Annual Fogtown Contest and tons of other contest results

Music Articles: Code of Honor

Burnout takes it back to the first time he ever saw pros in person: 1987.

 

More moldy oldie radness from the Mofo binders.