Thrasher Magazine

It’s been a year but the love keeps flowing. We’ve added new testimonials to this retrospective page. Take a few moments and soak up more stories from the life and times of Jake Phelps. 

No city is safe from the the Wrecking Crew—Delfino, Michel, Glick, Pabich, Kanfoush and a packed lineup of ATVs go on a mayhem-filled crust crusade from Toronto to Philly. Even Gonz and Ishod link with the crew at FDR. This is MUST-SEE TV. 

Smoookes new video part premiered last night at Volcom’s HQ. Beer, tunes and weed—all free?! What a time to be alive!

There’s a million things to do in NYC at any given moment, but there’s only one Death Match. While bands like Obituary and Agnostic Front lit up the stage and riled up the pits, ramp sessions were fueled to the next level. The energy was explosive. See you next year...

Once again the world’s greatest skate and music fest roared to life in the Big Apple with a diabolical new ramp, epic bands and Yuto, Greyson and the Vans Wrecking Crew throwing down all weekend long. Missed it? Sucks to be you.

With Tokyo 2020 looming, it’s easy to feel like skateboarding is getting too serious. Need some relief? Spend the next nine minutes watching the Dime Street Challenge in Montreal. Ahhh… that’s more like it.

Keys to a drained water park and free rein to skate everything in sight?! Yes please! There are a lot of Epic Spots out there but this is truly Insane Terrain. And apparently upside-down ollies are a thing now...

Jump the Wet ’n' Wild fence, get busted by the owner, get invited back with your whole damn crew to wreck the park—sometimes dreams really do come true. Check the article from the August issue of the mag. That Hawk slam is brutal.

The Vans road show rumbled into Montreal leaving stoke, laughs and most importantly a spankin’ new skatepark in it’s wake. The Brazilians dominated, but everyone got a piece. O’ Canada!