Thrasher Magazine

The original and greatest raw street contest roared back to life at an undisclosed California kinker last weekend. From Mark Suciu to Jamie Foy and every rail ripper in between, this was one for the history books. And Alex Midler… you’re nuts!

Photos by: Michael Burnett, Joe Hammeke, Ritt Pong, Arto Saari and Justin Crawford

Thar she blows

Bublitz and Gaskill on bagel

Jason popped those knobs easy as pie. He’s, how you say? The best!

Plenty of clearance on this thing

This was going to come in very handy later

Whoo boy! Dakota made it

Just a couple of legends – Arto, fresh from da North Shore and Axel of Crushing fame

HSP team meeting. None better

Media crew, best in the biz

And then, the artwork

There we go!

Cole on wristbands. Explain it to little Nicky

Vans crew made it. You know Frank likes a bank

Thrasher Dan and Carlos R

Opposites attract! Mark Suciu and Gabbers

Masterlensmen overload – Allan and Saari

TV and GR, ready AF

Five point six? It’s five point six, right?

Victor Aceves, damn glad to meet you!

The early-bird line up. Willms, Ducky, Townley …

Gartland, Boyle, Olson, Dern…

And don’t forget Arunski!

Midler, Blake and the good fools …

Giovanni Vianna, homie …

Alex, CJ, Kodi and Alex

You get the idea

Heavy …

Morf and Ty. Wow!

We almost ready?

Crowd, ready?

Masterlensmen?

Got your flash on?

Fig’s ready? Ok then …

Time to pull the ladder

‘Oh say can you see ….’

Neck called for 18 seconds of silence for Jake, P-Stone, Monk and the boys and then it was go time. Fig fires it up!

Franky and Suciu, full GTWYC mode

Axel strikes early with the crooks pop

Duck with the grind to firecracker

Note: actual roll away

Big Blake, frontside flip all the way from Venice

And Giovanni with the first sack!

Wouldn’t be a B or B without one

Lil’ Nicky scurries beneath Fig’s 50

It was THAT intense

Mark braves the boardy

Then Midler dives onto what would be the first of literally hundreds of sacks

Barley!!!

Oh hey, Drew

Zion rides it off the kink

He’s not riding those plastics for nothing

Boardslide to hurricane by Townley. Wow!

More of this

Totally unfazed

Suciu, lippy

Full tilt

His intensity was palpable

Palped AF, actually

Hella palp

There it is!

Alex starts riding the back lip through the flat

Meanwhile, Dakota unlocks the killer combo

Yeah, Kodi Boi!

Heyyyy!

Got BB Foy sparked

Axel, half-Cabbin’

He seemed not to mind at all




Nope, just fine

Not a fan of the square bar, Foy went for it anyway

Spit out!

Ha.

Whooo

Gartland has such amazing kink control

Too easy

Smooth as

Oh shit, Milton’s here ….

Alex Willms, switch

Everyone cheering for everyone

Gary running amok with those bills

Must’ve clocked 30 miles in that tiny chunk of concrete

Oh shit, switch!

Second try for Alexis

The pay out

Gabbers was on a nosegrind bender

Full commit

Head off the pavement!

You ok?

Willms, nollie attack

Arms forward like Duane

2019 Scrambler Giovanni Vianna, Cab front crooks fakie

I know, right?!

Then Midler started in on it

Look at the tweak on that thing

Looking good …

Our guy Adam Arunski, so close to the flash n roll

When disaster struck!

Brutal brain-stem bounce

Then he flipped over and dragged his face across the ground

Medics on site, thank gosh

Fakie 50?!

Oh, Foy

He’s too good

The kink claims another victim

Henry, classic crack

Ugh

How’s it feel?

Haha

Like goddamn Barishnykov on that thing

Never frustrated

All eyes

‘If I don’t sack it, I think I got it …’

Oh dear

Yes?

No

Clive got the 5-0

And this dude slayed a wicked tré

Mark battled for the switch flip. So sick

Then Zion powered through the whole thing, straight as an arrow

Total balancing act

‘He’s very good …’

The Townley boardslide to finger flip very well could’ve been a closer on a normal day

Skate scientists will be studying it for years to come

Incredible

Oh shit, late arrival Alec Majerus

Carlos, SSFSBS

And Majerus with a major nosegrind

Pandemonium part 1

Cash in hand

Everyone’s a winner

Easy money

Clive in the crush

Up close with Franky V

Willms snapped it!

Duck starts in on the circus tricks – ollie up stall to 50-50

Then it was really down to one man

Yüng Alex

Sack after sack, we couldn’t believe what we were seeing

An example …









It got kind of concerning after awhile

I mean, how much sacking can the human groin take?

The crowd had his back though. Big time

Everyone praying for the make

He’d get in so perfect

Then end up in this position

You wanna keep going?

Oh yeah

It was insane

Dumbfounded that a man could try so hard and take that many slams and get that close without a make

One. More. Try …

I mean, what’s the worst that could happen?



Like a bomb went off

Un-fucking-believable

Consumed by the crowd






Boneless Zine approved!

It meant a lot to have back lip pioneer Arto Saari on hand

A real passing-the-torch moment

Wait? There’s money?

Oh yeah!

Couldn’t stop smiling

Zion’s dad Mustafa brought the positive vibes all day

So it that it? What? There’s more?

‘Hey, what are my parents doing here?’

Little pro surprise for the Delfinos

Fabi didn’t think it was for her too at first

You better believe it!

The best

Like having your birthday on Christmas

What an amazing day. Huge thanks to all our friends. Thanks Volcom and Jerome and Jason and everyone who made it happen. And thanks to everyone who ripped. And big love to the Delfinos

What a time to be alive!