Thrasher Magazine

The Vans Pro Tour mashes into Chi-Town with Chima, Dan Lu, K Walks, Dill and the boys thrilling the crowds at Grant Park.

Chima warms it up, pre-demo style. Foreshadowing dude.

Across from the shop.


Meet n Greet at Uprise with flow-sensations Glick and Justin Henry fleshing out the crew

Got that famous Alva posse photo in there. Real nice.


When men were men … and Neuhaus


Legend party #1 - Stevie Dread, Ray Barbee and Jesse Neuhaus. Wow!

Lovell gets in the mix, bevs deep


Stoop life


DL and our other new flow-loc Tyson Peterson


Barbee's melodic noodlings


Wall of Fame game: strong


Beer me


Rare thing these days, a solid neighborhood shop


Legends party #2 - Dill with the Nate Lyonses. Nice!


Next morning. Gear up in the valet line


Uh oh …


Guess that's official then. Congrats Kyle!


Tyson – not homesick


Justin, possible Pokeyman grab


In the van since '87


Perfect precursor: monster blocks.


OJ with a half cab board to boomerang. His friends know what I'm talking about


Part time shipper, full time ripper. Hart leads by example


Chima with some heavy kangaroo switch pop. You can imagine where it went from here …


Strug


But in the end, major victory, as is typically the case


$100 on offer for tail drop. Cody gives it a polite nah nah



Tyson, icin'


This thing …


Lots of maybes


We're gonna need a tool


Can't keep Lovell from some fake flip art tho


Tallest in the Midwest maybe? Still?


Finally, demo time


Sparking up for getting down


Yep, it's time


Heavy shralpage on the impact section. K Walks puts those new kicks in motion


Justin is from Colombus and is totally comfortable with the whole nosegrind family of tricks


Dill gets some of that #freeair


Oh yeah, the locals got some too


Team Manager in training, Matt B – still hungry for carnage


First try!


Glick!


'Wait … YOU rode for G&S trucks?'


Equipment failure


Someone got a spanner?


The ol' 180 nosegrind and around


B!


J Lay rolls with the road crew but can still bust the ol' switch Tré Lay at the drop of a hat


Switch 5-0. Playin with fire


Fakie 5-0!


Ray, easing into it. Catch him on the banks


The horizontal!


Dazzling!


Glick's back!


Dill works it out on some wonky tranny. Nice to see him in the mix



Classic form nollie flip


Quite a show


Let's see who made it out. These guys!


High Classers


Casual Males


The BMXed


Friendly birdsmen


Metalheads


New dads. Beautiful!


These kids were rad


Posse up!


Hell yeah it's time to celebrate


How to get girls


Whattup


Old friends from last time!


A person, just like you

Hockey and FA fans, everywhere


Action turned towards the down bar


Feeble casualness


Glick with hella pinch


Dan Lu fields KOTR questions all day


Gathering 'round for the best trick


Video projects at every step



Nice crowd


Lil' face time, no big deal


Look at the size of that sticker!


Locals only on the pyramid rail


They were making a rap video


Gotta Google it I guess


One more look at this progressive outfit


KWalks on long!


Tyson had it too


Cody Green, feeble aggression!


'Yeah, Eric Sanderson … he was cool too'


Groundbreaking Christy 50! KOTR 2016???


Off the hip style!


5-0 180



A legends' gaze


My dream as a teenager


Yep


And then the closer … heck of a show. You shoulda seen how hard the locals ripped too!


Can you believe how far we've come?


Not even!