Thrasher Magazine

Vans launches their most technical shoe ever with one of skateboarding’s gnarliest and most respected ––Anthony Van Engelen. Burnout investigates the LA bash.

Just a casual little sesh ––oh shit … is that AVE??

Just some good ol’ fashion skatin’

Picnic in the park with some old pals

Martino from the Scramble gets his lid peeled on a 360 bs ollie, wow!

You want egg? You got it … from Psycho ‘Dro

Jordan Thackery made into town to blast big and that

Rio from Tightbooth, backside Smith

Willow is on Vans! Can you see why?

Breez-possible? Yes

Diego puts those AVE 2.0s in motion

ET goes for longest slide––for the make

Posse up!

And part 2

Summer is almost here, y’all

My friends Zion and Ish!

Dick Rizzo West Coast sighting! Switch nosegrind, Grant’s Tomb style!

Thought Z didn’t hit the rail?

It’s casual

I gotta get to Korea! Nice to meet y’all!

Urban street art, on every corner

The whole downtown LA store was turned into some sort of AVE wonderland

A complete installation chronicling all things Van Engelen

Videos and shit, it was sick

Plus the priceless artifacts!

A peek behind the curtain, shoe-wise

Sacred relics

Like a GD AVE museum!

Them new jawns

He even got his own barrier!

Hell yeah it works!

Diego poses beside his own contribution to the collection

Archivist Catherine Acosta walks ‘em through

AVE and Neal Shoemaker were blown away

Media tour. Thought AVE didn’t go live?

Our guys Sherbert and Big John by the photo wall

Legends of the outdoors ––Omar, Tony and AVE

Eunice and an adorable hamburger. I know, right?!

John Warren takes Jamie and AVE on a journey

‘You got any Bad Brains on there?’

Consider it nailed

Ron made it!

Always ready to put his back into it

Eben and George, fashionable males

Neal Shoemaker and Rian Pozzebon, wizards behind the waffles

And the talent! Chima and ET make a quick Sherbwich

Rising stars Daiki, Willow and Rio ––good to see you!

New grandad Rick McCrank with Canada’s Una Farrar

Rizzo and Bob LaSalle, doin’ it

Now … the only thing more terrifying than ollieing over a handrail to grind backwards …. Public speaking! JK, he’s a pro.

Informative AF for all you shoe heads

Neal starts it off, shoe-panel wise

Thankfully, someone in the audience had a question

Chip and the ol’ Block, innit?

Ahhhh

Not even Heath could avoid a smile on that one. Or could he?

Signing his shoe for the archive

Congrats, buddy

Over to the skate jam ––that’s right, there’s more!

Packed parking lot filled with AVE-themed obstacles

And a rainbow rail!

Pabiches with the one-two punch!

This was the second punch

Rome Collyer from Australia took a Smith through the USC tribute ledges

Santana Saldana ––say it back! Fool was SHREDDING!

Willow off the wall

Hosoi knows something about a wallride

Canadian humourist Conor Neeson kept us chuckling all night

Glick with the lip!

While Jordan went unorthodox with the blindside to fakie

Front nose? Glick’s on one

Back crail, f’sho

Wallride through the curl??

Next it was time for the locals to rip

Heavy lineup

Check your F-stops, if you got ‘em

Ballard and a pal were ready

Breezy, Justin Villano and a smily Elise Hedge

Flick it up, dog!

Yessir!

DJ Kadow defers to Benny and Heath

So here’s where all the good-looking kids were hiding

Lizzie, in living color

Ruby and Ballard. Mighta triggered his flash on this one

The Glicks on the way out. Hit it and quit it!

Bob and Shari

Townley and a friend savor the night

Wall assault! Almost had it too!

The wallride shove was another elusive beast

From flat!

Get vulgar if you have to!

Good ol’ 360 flip hippie jump. This one was the make!

Blown the F away

Are you guys a band?? Oh, wait, definitely

Check ‘em

He won anyway

Fat fist of cash. Congrats!

No hard feelings tho

Sack of bacon: check

Next time y’all

And I will say goodnight, sir! Good. Night!