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While waiting for an oil change today, I read the cover story “10 Skaters Who Changed The Decade” in the new Transworld Skateboarding today (which is pretty great, by the way. Though what the hell do they print it on? After looking at The Skateboard Mag and then Color, TWS feels like its printed on toilet paper.) at Barnes & Noble. It features interviews with pretty much exactly who you expect based on the title—Marc Johnson, Koston, Danny Way, Appleyard, P-Rod, Andrew Reynolds, etc. TWS seems really into these features on influential skaters, a move I’m all for.
The real highlight for me was the MJ interview where he talks about the development of the Fully Flared combo-ledge trick aesthetic. He mentions Mike Mo telling him that he had an “MJ” trick—the FS tailslide to FS bluntslide that became his Fully Flared ender (that is his ender, right?) and that him, Guy and Lucas Puig would throw tricks out at each other.* But the thing that caught my attention was MJ talking about tricks from early 90’s videos that never really caught on and mentions one of my personal favorite clips ever—Danny Way’s FS boardslide to FS noseblunt slide in Questionable (plus he gives Henry Sanchez props for the switch boardslide to FS boardslide). Its one of those things that makes you appreciate his skating that much more, that its aware of its own history and re-looking at stuff that was so ahead of its time that it disappeared. I’m reminded of Danny Way’s FS noseblunt slide to 360 shuv-it out (also from his Questionable part); who knew tricks done once on curbs in 1992 would come back so hard?
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Interesting blog. Keep up the good work