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Tre bomb!

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Skateboarding has and always

will take its fill from the decay

of modern society. Ever the

watchful eye scouring the earth

for a business vacated, a pool

emptied, a building demolished.

An obstacle is re-born into a

new purpose through the

creativity of a unique

individuals expression.

Blah blah blah whatever.

Skate to create,

skate and destroy.

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...spreading the disease since ‘74

Insanity is a full-time job!

the Scooter SLAYER!

Dan & Jade came from afar and developed a taste for Coopers. You may have noticed them if you live on the east coast. If you saw the chariot they rode in

on, you’d definately understand. It was literally held together with

bottle caps and wire, small children wielding scooters parted in its wake of fire as it rattled down the highway belching smoke and mortar. Sampling the goodness of what Ozzie had to offer, it was refreshing to see a good beer choice at last from the Seppos. Bris Vegas, Sydney, Cbr and Melbs all got a look in, the Milthorpe new addition was a fav. Concrete was dealt a licking. Scooter slayer will live on in our hearts and minds. F*#k on! eFiz

Dan - FS Ollie - Kambah

Cooking with gas a chat over dinner with Jev Hollis

photos: Vagabond

JH: F*%k man it’s smokey in here.DP: “Huh, its not my fault”So what’s pumpin through that ipod?“Um just heaps of random stuff”Like?“Neil Young, Hendrix, Lennon, all the winners”Supras down low, what’s your fav to roll in?“Definitely Dixons at the mo, and the Ellington slip-ons are good man”Yeah and that Krew trip lad, good times?“Yeah it was so sick, meeting all the homies from the states, skating and whatnot. It was chilled, Melbourne was rad.”2010, States or Europe?“If all goes to plan probably the States, I’m super keen to shred over there, plus I got family over there to visit.”Shit, alright now for the real questions. Ali or Tyson, both in their prime, bare knuckle street fight? “Cassius, that guy was a machine. Watched a doco on him recently, that’s so trippy you asked that”Alright, who would you take home to mum, Jess Alba or Paris Hilton? “Ha ha Jessica for sure dude, Paris is a rat.” Ok, a four metre saltwater croc versus three angry bull sharks, in shallow water?“Yeah that’s a tough one. But bull sharks are gnarly, I’d back them”So what do you get up to on that laptop over there?“Heaps lately, droppin my LP early next year some time ha ha, been doing a bit of editing making a little homie video.”What’s it called?“Haven’t got that far, but the production is called The Swarm.Sounds rad, can I check it out?“Spose man, but keep the bangers on the DL ay”Hey what do you think of the new tranny plaza in Woden?“Ha ha tranny plaza! I don’t reckon there’s enough street ha ha, but it’s pretty sweet ay, something new to skate”F*%k lad that’s solid herb ay?Ha ha yeah broI’m gonna pez ay - cheers for that“Peace.”

“Toss the Salad grind”

Nollie bigspin “with a side of” bs 180

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Charlie’s pool is hidden away amongst houses, a whippy from a bygone era. You have to wander through people’s yards to reach it. Go through Charlie’s house. It’s kind of a permission pool in a way. Up on a hill fenced off from the rental property it’s connected to. We bucketed for an hour or so to get it ready and then walked on towels for ages to get rid of the death slime.Slippery as all f*%k. A brief sample of it’s tasty goodness before the sun set.

Isaac Brown ...............slime enhanced crailslide somehwere in QLD - Vagabond pic

Ask nicely! Charlie might share a dart and a session...

Just on dark, Scotty Kelly of the Kelly Gang stalls on the love seat before pulling it back to ride through the water to safety. The photo doesn’t do it justice. The short lived kettle pool lasted only a week before being demolished. There ain’t many pools that pop up in Canberra, take it while it’s there. Those who promise they’ll bring beers to make up for not emptying the pool - and then don’t - will burn a firey death in scooter hell Jack Dowden.. Vagabond pic

Mat Rat pivots tofakie in the shallow of the kettle pool. Pic: Vagabond

Mat Rat told me when he was a kid he’d heard about this story. Apparently Blake was walking with his girlfriend and some buiness man hassled her, I dunno, whistled or grabbed her butt or something. So Blake grabbed the briefcase out of his hands and belted him with it and sent him on his way. I laughed. Good story.

Blake Convey front rocks the seat outside of Melbs somewhere. Pic: Adair

RIGHT: Adam Gibson backtailslide. BOTTOM: Todd Baker Flyout wallride door roll in. pics: Vagabond BELOW: Red Dawg grinds a speedy backsmith through beastman’s yawning background. Pic: Eastman

Rhys Grogan wags school to do backlips. Pic: Wolfgang

Nothing beats an undercover spot when the rains pissing down or it’s howling a gale. The crash and burn of bankrupscy or government change created a favourable playground here. An auditorium come shred sesh. There’s a mini ramp made of old blackboards and walls for you to scrawl your pretty pictures on. Nothing like a one up on having to put up with the bullshit of stupid teachers and even more out of touch principals. School sux!

Shitionary is a battle of the hands and wits pitted against each other under time pressure than runs out before you know it!

1. You need at least three people to play. More is even better.

2. The pub should have some scrap paper if you ask nicely. Keno pencils do the job. Coasters also work to draw on, but you need more than a few to have a reasonable game.

3. Each person has a turn to call any “subject /topic” that everyone must draw.

4. The advantage the caller has of knowing the topic before their opponents is evened out by them having to count to 10 out loud while they and everyone else draws.

5. Time is up and the participants vote on the best drawing. The winner has a point tallied to them on the scoreboard.

Play until you laugh your arse off! The 10 seconds hampers even the most skilled of artists. Make everyone around you wonder what the hell is so funny.

Shitionary. A game of wits. F**kwits.

© Mat Rat 2010

“Works of Art” generously donated by Shags, Dave, Kearny,

Mat Rat & Lauren

Cons!

Shut up for a second

I can’t concentrate!

Cons’ memory of his

summer may be slightly

hazy, so Pangy has

genourously shared his

documentation of some

of these events, oh

and the Grant pic is

O’Meally’s. Cheerz!

Grant Taylor - ollie at Woden

Daniel Cardone

and Cons - Belco

The summer

of

I’ve heard about him, They say he’s crazy!

Jeff Grosso and Cons - Bondi

Lance Mountain draws Cons latest tattoo

Cricket is not skateboarding right? Yeah I thought so too, but the second annual clash of the Belco XI vs Melbourne XI had some aspects of skateboarding to it. Well maybe a little bit, kinda.

Days before the scheduled match day the Melbourne team was relatively unannounced apart from the fact that

Flazza Hadley was captaining taking over from Slick Nick the year prior. This was due to the Natural’s taking out the Shitfield Shield qualifying round match in Victoria some weeks before ove the Goofy team. Who would have thought your dominant stance on a board would predetermine your allocation to a team? The Belco side’s selection wasn’t so complicated. They had managed to win the inaugural game on neutral ground in Albury last year.

Therefore they had the privilege of the home ground advantage to be played in the heart of Belcompton. It could be said that maybe the team was a little more seasoned than the Melbs XI given the history of playing the Lighthouse bar on a yearly basis for more than a few years. There certainly was a hankering for a fun match given the

game a few weeks before. Disappointment had been added to further by a previous Belco team mate playing for the Shitehouse combined with them being too scared to use real cricket balls.

But this would be different. Captain Fathead Fowlie had picked a team of ‘skateboarders’, some perhaps more recently predispositioned to cricket than skateboarding. Monkz was bringing up the rear.

Melbs had commandeered a 12 seater van of scumbags that arrived in the wee hours of Saturday morning to pitch swag or tent in the backyard of recently migrated Mexican come Canberran – Cons. They had their team apart from one last minute straggler. Although into footy season it was school holidays, so the Kaleen oval with synthetic cricket pitch was free for the bout. The scene was set. The sun was shining. White vs Black. Even the zinc was busted out. We eyed each other off as mandatory beers were cracked and good natured heckling started straight from the get go. The midday warm up net session commenced. Holy shit, Flazza actually has a legitimate bowling action!

The toss was made and from a distance we couldn’t tell who won it, but Melbs were batting first. They huddled and then all did push ups. Fags. Like Salba before a skate? Openers Connor Mallett and Hamish strode onto the pitch. It was a slow start, and a few early wickets dropped until newly recruited Smelly Kelly came on. He’d played for Belco last year which was a debate anyway given he’s from Weston Creek. Smelly Kelly managed to stay in a little longer and get some runs on the board. It could maybe have been said that the Melbs team had a decent head start in the drinking stats given their trip up only hours before. A couple more wick-ets fell including Junior again out for golden duck classically caught by Monkz – one handed! Rums were being run out to the batsmen. >

It was funny seeing the likes of Ronnie Roberts and Tom Rees in whites. Cons could hide behind his beard and heckle given he knew everybody’s techniques having practised with us all. Straggler Andy Murphy finally rocked up toward the end of the batting order on his tiny moto straight from Melbourne. He dusted the bugs off his goggles and walked straight into bat to back Smelly Kelly for the second highest score out of his team. Smelly then finally came a cropper - caught out. The youngest of the Reesy’s brought up the end of the order batting in his undies and blocking his way to hold on to the end of the overs. Well, the third stint actually after the pre-game drinks and the ‘tea’ break at the end of the 11th. The Melbs team did push ups again after a short motivational speech from Captain Flazza. The first Belco opener went down quickly, but after that Joel Wyatt and the giant girthed head of Fowlie built a solid partner-ship to tonk a bunch of sixes and fours.

Unorthodox bowling styles were done with having given the Melbs team 34 runs of extras made up predominantly of wides. It just so happened to tie with their top batsman’s score. The Belco team padded up for a bat - after a stint of drinks!

Flazza’s pace bowls with huge run ups had the batters shitting in their daks! The flip side was that if you managed to come in contact – wham!Pretty much guaranteed good hit. Fowlie cracked half a tonne and Belco were well on the way to victory. Stoyles took out two wickets in his over while under the influence of something heavier than drink. How that worked I don’t know. There seemed to be a distinct lack of something at that point. A streaker maybe? Fowlie was caught by last year’s team mate and was the last Belco batter to make double figures. But it was enough. Although some solid fielding and bowling was dealt by the Melbs contingent, Belco came in sight of their score of 116 and surpassed it in the 12th. Shortly after drinks again at the end of the 11th. Are we seeing a pattern here? Don’t be stupid. Onward to the Bistro for presentations and roast hosted by champion bar keep Vicky. Cheers again. Bring on next year! Oh and a skate sesh kinda happened too...

Conna Mallett, boneless.

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Will Stoyles, BS footplantage to tailslap pic: Vagabond

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WHERE DID LIFE BEGIN FOR ADRIAN LOPEZ? I was born and raised in San Diego, California, on May 18, 1980. CAN YOU DESCRIBE WHAT IT WAS LIKE FOR YOU GROWING UP? Growing up was a blast for me! I lived in government funded apartments where there were always a lot of kids out. We never had money so we just got into trouble or whatever free activities to keep us entertained. You can’t beat the So Cal weather, so I was lucky. WHAT WOULD YOU SAY WAS YOUR MOST SIGNIFICANT CHILDHOOD MEMORY? When my father passed away.

WHAT DOES FAMILY MEAN TO YOU? Family is everything to me. Friends have your back, but when it comes to family, you can just trust them with everything you got.

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interview by Phill Dews

Photos: Paul Nichols

WHEN WAS THE FIRST TIME YOU PICKED UP A SKATEBOARD? I would say about 12 or 13 was when I first stepped on a skateboard, and I haven’t put it down since.

WHO ARE YOUR SPONSORS? Loser machine Skateboards & Apparel, C1rca footwear, and Active mail order.

WHAT SKATE PERSONALITIES DO YOU RESPECT THE MOST? Antwuan Dixon, hands down!

WHY? He reminds me of Sean Sheffey from back in the day, when Sean would huck skate obstacles during contest runs. I like seeing people do some sketchy shit.

WHEN DID YOU BECOME INTERESTED IN MOTORCYCLES? It’s been almost ten years now since finding my love for motorcy-cles. I was into old cars before. I used to have a ‘65 Cutlass, and I still have my ‘66 Impala Super Sport.

WHAT WAS THAT FIRST BIKE? It was a 1981 FXWG Shovelhead, and I still have it. I’m glad I bought it instead of a new bike ‘cause it forced me to learn how to work on it in order to keep it on the road.

CAN YOU TELL US WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO START LOSER MACHINE? Our love for skateboarding, old motorcycles, and cars is what inspired us to create L.M.C. Originally, Loser Machine was meant to be just a club for all of us that were riding and wrenching together, but it quickly evolved into a unique concept for an apparel and accessory brand.

interview by Phill Dews

IN 3 YEARS WHERE WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE LOSER MACHINE? I’d like to see Loser Machine grow, but it’s more important for me that we stay true to what we are. We’re really just going to keep having fun doing what we want to do, and make things that we’re into, without following any rules or trends. CAN YOU GIVE US SOME WORDS TO LIVE BY? Don’t drink and drive.

“Geez these guys are going slow” “It’s roadworks during the day but nothing now, the speed limit’s gotta be wrong” “They’re still going ten under in any case” “I dunno if you should, it’s a commodore” “Nah it’s just two old dudes” “F**k it I’m doing it” Sirens... Lights... “Sh*t!” “Do you have any idea how fast you were going when you overtook us?” “I thought it was only a relevant speed limit during the day in the roadworks.” “No it’s all times mate. And did you happen to notice the lines as you overtook us?” “Ah, they’d be double lines” “You could lose your license right now, you know that don’t you?” Canberra to Melbs is doable easily in one hit, but there and back for a weekend can be a little hectic. Then I spoke to Peewee who told me they’d just driven Goldy to Sydney, then Sydney to Melbs in two days and I didn’t feel so bad.

I saw one of Rome’s pics of Max Schuberts boneless and thought there’s no way that’s a make. But when you see them you realise. Body contortion to tail slapper.

The Hoon contingenet, now a board company, are fast proving themselves a force to be reckoned with. Young Bugs showed us why he’s turned Am, and his older bro Jack skated with casual

determination, dominating the sessions even though heaps of sh*t was going down. The skating was rad. Skunkos has been around as long as he has for good reason, his recent knee reco not bothering him at all. If anything he’s skating better. Pat Dandy had fluid drained off his knee earlier, but was still skating up a storm. It’s hard to wonder what it would take to hold him down. Tom Rees, Steve Kelly and Anton Jeandet showed solid local lines. I never saw Reesy pull back for anyone. Somewhere along the lines - no offense to Barns - Scotty G grabbed the mike and made it a lot funnier attempting to spell out the names of finalists.. starts with “J,” ends with “ack,” starts with “F” ends with “ardell.” The final was awesome to watch. Each rider link-ing lines together in sick runs to escalate to a great finale`. Lakyn didn’t care about runs, upping the ante with a bean plant off the wall instead, which he eventually landed, maybe at the cost of a better result. Alls fun in love and war. The best trick categories off the pool coping wall, and then the vert ex-tension were epic to finish on. >

Barns had invited some of Aussies best to destroy the Blackbox ramp for the last time. The warehouse was moving and there wasn’t room for the ramp to come along. With the beers sorted by Barns, and BBQ covered by Shauny it was good to go. Jousting sticks were out and it was time to see how many you could fit on one ramp. 4 or 5 dropping in at a time was what.

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1st Jack Fardell2nd Jeff “Skunk” Williams3rd Max Schubert4th Andrew Currie5th Pat Dandy6th Lakyn Heperi Best Trick: Reece Warren, Gap up to Sugarcane on the big wall

I think someone forgot to tell Fardell this wall has like three foot of vert. Front blunt in a few shots.

Some Element kid, Casey I think his name was, drifted a rather large ally oop off the pool coping to land pretty much across the whole ramp. Reece Warren’s gap up to Sugar Cane won it on the verty, Bugs gapped to Front Crail, Jack Fardell front blunted it earlier... and so on. I can’t name it all, watch the vid. Barns presented the goods and crew hustled around. The bloody roller door somehow got caught, but after an hour or so the many hands managed to get it closed. The night was a rager with crew sharing the winnings out on thetown. I heard Nannup shouted every-one and he didn’t even get a place in the finals!

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The next day, having not had enough of the double booking on the drive down, Johnny Law at-tempted to ruin our fun again at the “notorious” spot of Prahran skate-park, apparently. An expensive beer to celebrate Luke Foster’s birthday. VB man told me he’d never been hassled here before, our lucky day. Good work booking the crew that actually look after the park and keep it free from the riff raff. Nannup’s sweet groucho marx made us crack a smile tho. Fines came to a sweet total of $700. I agree with NWA.

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The bowl jam may have been on temporary hiatus for a few years but if you were there or knew anyone that was, you would know that that it came back bigger and better than ever. What a day! F*ckin’ hot weather, f*ckin’ hot skating, lucky I had some f*ckin’ cold beer! I haven’t seen Belco shredded that hard in the all the twenty years the old hole in the ground has been there. 2010 really did have it all, pity I was too drunk to remember most of it... as was a ma-jority of the crowd I think, not to mention a good majority of the skate maniacs that schralped the bowl. 2011 will see the Belco skatepark getting a much needed face lift, but you can be sure as shit there won’t be a chance in hell the local caretakers will allow anything to happen to the bowl.

It will mean that once again, the Belco Bowl Jam will be put into hibernation, only to awake a hungry, angry c**t of a beast next time she raises her head.

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Ben Raybourn is 17 years tall or maybe 18 now. Kid shreds anyway. BS Boneless over the feature. Pic:Vagabond

Monkz interviewing Otavio Neto... Otavio told me it’s the best time he’s had at an event. Enough said. Pic: Stella-Rae Zelnik

O’Meally’s cape was awesome. His shot of Lance Mountain was even better. Pic:Stella-Rae Zelnik

Jackson Pilz gnar dog, blunt. Pic: Stella-Rae Zelnik

AN EXHIBITION OF ART FROM

THE MINDS OF SKATEBOARDERS

FEATURING:Luke Brown, Andy Murphy,

Nate Gamble, Rome Torti,

Jack Tarlinton, Beastman,

Marcello Guardigli,

E.L.K, Steve Gourlay

and the Verb Display.

SHOWING IN:

Canberra, 24 - 27 September 2010

Sydney, 3-5 December 2010

Melbourne - yet to be confirmed

www.halfarsed.com.au - www.weareverb.com.au