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DEATH MATCH 2023 PHOTOS

10/10/2023
Thrasher and Converse threw the party of the year at the small desert oasis Pappy and Harriet’s. Sick skating, brainmelting bands and the best crowd, hellbent for fun. Check the flicks here!

Photos by Burnett, Atiba, Coulthard and Lee

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 001Sunrise over the ol’ Pioneertown Motel

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 002Beautiful out here

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 003Makes you wanna get all spiritual and shit

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 004Ran into a couple spirit questers straight away

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 005Pappy and Harriet’s gets blessed Mariachi style in front of the Ben Raemers wall. Nice

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 006Final touches on the ramp

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 007Rob Mathieson pulled an all-nighter to finish up the snake

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 008Inspired by the Phelper’s tattoo, of course

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 009Nile gets the detail work handled

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 010Maddie on decor

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 011‘Think the carve of death is gonna work, Tommy?’

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 012Minutes later, a little grooving in the shade

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 013Matt Rodriguez on skins. Legendary!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 014Paint’s dry? Time to break this thing in!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 015Big Lou, over the onion

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 016Gray gets down on the finger-flip-and-hope

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 017Metroskate Kasci, straight to biz

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 018Gavin Bottger, to fakie

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 019Smookes!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 020Can’t have a Texas Death Match without a real Texan

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 021Diggs from the UK with an American footplant

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 022Roman made it!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 023Foreboding skies

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 024So the most experimental thing about this ramp was the snake of death. Wasn’t sure if it would be possible, but Elijah Akerley carved it no problem

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 025Not that you wouldn’t want to get the lay of the land first

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 026Ceddy got the first grind. Proof of concept!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 027Old heads: Bo Def and Burndog

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 028The other Beres kid

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 029Diggs turned 14

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 030The thrill of a Death Match birthday

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 031Better let someone handy with a knife cut that shit

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 032Slappy talk, presumably

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 033Meanwhile, back at the Airbnb

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 034Skies got even weirder

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 035Let’s check the line

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 036Thank God y’all brought jackets. Forecast said high of 50!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 037Babes, everywhere

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 038Stickers always beat the back-of-the-line blues

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 039See ya’ll on the ramp

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 040Amelia Earhart vibes, innit?

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 041Wait. Did we meet at the FA jam?

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 042Punks not dead? Not even close!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 043You’ll be inside in no time

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 044Returned to hear BOD already knocked himself out! What? You can’t hurt fun!!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 045Vegas fools: Fookes and Baca

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 046New gen: Lee and Elliott

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 047Little pre-show ritual?

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 048Mariachi on merch

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 049Larry made it!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 050Rumors of Pedro’s death have been greatly exaggerated

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 051Put together a nice little exhibit about the Great Desert Ramp Battle, an early pro backyard ramp contest, which happened 40 years ago in Palmdale

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 052More on this in the next mag. Thanks, Billy Runaway

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 053Witches and warlocks

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 054Hey! Whattya know? Hell of a crew we got!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 055Music’s on! Homefront starts if off proper, high kicks and everything

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 056Blackwater Holylight up next

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 057Heavy!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 058Andersons: Jake and Mike

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 059Now the OFFICIAL session begins

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 060Ready? Fuck yeah!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 061Who says you can’t shoot skate photos without a fisheye and flashes? Kovackses: covered

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 06250 mm, au natural … vs

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 06316 mm with on camera flash?? Shit, I like ‘em both

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 064This guy reminded my of Joey Marrone

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 065Similar energy too

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 066Hard to fuck up big air, am I right??

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 067Back on deck, Raney rolling over on a Miller flip. Or is that a Jolly Mamba? Discuss among yourselves …

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 068Nick Day came all the way from Florida to get funky!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 069Shit … Muscle’s here

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 070Slob fasty, so sick

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 071Duck takes it into the channel to fakie

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 072#decked

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 073SS 5-0 FAKIE

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 074Some may frown on Rube’s approach but I know him to be a man of utmost integrity

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 075Hell yeah, there were ladies ripping!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 076Before Grant Taylor

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CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 078And AFTER!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 079Oh yeah

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 080Cavemandrew ––he makes ‘em AND skates ‘em

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 081Frontal bluntal

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 082Gettin’ chilly

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 083Up to D

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 084Cold Dawg made it!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 085Brendan gonna get them HIGH angles

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 086Amazing

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 087Gary’s here!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 088And Zach!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 089Boom!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 090Already on the Gram, but fuck it! Smithvert into the channel. My dream trick, pretty much

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 091Surprisingly few takers on the snake carve

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 092Several looky-loos tho

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 093Yanko got it!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 094You’ll see GT’s board fly over my head and outta the park in the video

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 095More women of radical ––Miller flip!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 096As the space filled up, more spectators braved the snake pit

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 097Tight quarters to say the least

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 098See!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 099‘Damn, Gray … should we move?’

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 100Others wisely sought shelter in the cage

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 101Tight angles in there, too!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 102Not Joey took a heavy one into the side of the ramp

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 103Looked harsh

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 104And then maybe he was okay?

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 105Ultimately carried to safety by the homies

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 106Excellent attempt, soldier!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 107I brave the clubhouse angle

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 108 And this dude almost landed on top of me!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 109If you can’t trust Roman tho ….

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 110A little too much hesitation on this first-time dropper. Give it time, kid

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 111Eli Williams, ripping all night

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 112Big ass Judo, Yanko style

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 113Booster channel

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 114Nora says ‘Nobody look at me!!!’

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 115Eric Hutchinson, bean disaster

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 116Oh shit! Worthington made it! BS boneless fakie

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 117Fingerflip lein to tail

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 118Floatation!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 119‘How am I bleeding?’

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 120And then Jake shut down the first sesh with a carve through the snake followed by a MASSIVE oop fronside air over the shit. Very powerful

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 121‘Yearghhh!!!!’

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 122Showtime

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 123End It takes the stage

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 124FIRED UP

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 125Push to the front!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 126Electric Chair brought the acrobatics

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 127Nothing wrong with showmanship

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 128Only gun I wanna see

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 129The human Flying V!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 130Oh shit, Trash Talk ….

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 131Group participation time

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 132Duck catches the evil eye!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 133Intense!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 134Proper Meleé

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 135When the waves are down, Buffy surfs the crowd!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 136No star or audience, just US!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 137Here we go …

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 138I mean HERE we go!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 139Tye Trujillo on bass, sick AF

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 140Oh shit … Mike Muir’s on Monster??

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 141As if he needed any more energy!

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CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 145

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 146Didn’t even lose the Davy Crockett

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 147Look how happy Baca is. Makes it all worth it, right?

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CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 151Crowd stage RIGHT

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 152And LEFT .. looking good

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 153Real skaters bring their boards everywhere they go

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 154Amazing

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 155And then everyone got on stage

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 156

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CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 158At that point you just kinda give up. Great show!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 159Nah, he wasn’t getting hauled off. These dudes were fans

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 160The kickflip tho … maybe not

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 161FINALE TIME!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 162Audience: ready

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 163Raybourn made it!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 164So the Texas Death Match is the time where everyone drops in at once. Last skater on four wheels wins. This year we had an extra challenge because the weird weather made the entire ramp slick with dew. Shit was slippery as ice!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 165Half the people slammed on the drop

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 166Vargas made it out alive

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 167‘There’s the winner!’

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 168‘Who me?’

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 169Now on to the cactus! Solid start!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 170This dude was shredding all day and night. Nose press on the arm

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 171How sweet it is!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 172Roman perches a pivot

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 173Muscle backs him up with the decker

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 174Ceddy on the foolhardy front rock attempt. Can you imagine?!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 175Kowalski kicking a big boneless

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 176And the nose pick

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 177Sick crowd angle

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 178Crail assault

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 179And then Muscle closes it out with the ungodly egg!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 180Thought we were done

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 181But Muscle decided to try to grind around the snake pit on the wet ramp

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 182The hype was definitely there

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 183Watch your everything!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 184Closer look

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 185Ooof!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 186AND the make!!!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 187Wet ramp, one eyeball … nothing can stop the ultimate demo machine!!!!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 188And that’s a wrap

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 189Wait, there’s more bands inside

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 190The OTHER Trujillos with Franz from Turnstile

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 191Jando on wig

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 192Tower of power!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 193Guard the fuckin kegs, you guys!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 194BabyxSosa had a shy-but-fly performance

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 195Look at Gabbers beaming in the front row

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 196Franz, Nak and Cameron

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 197Argee Pride: Martinez and Vitello

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 198Thank you Converse skaters!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 199Black Noise

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 200Paris Texas filled the small space with big energy

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CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 202Watch the fuckin’ beam!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 203Thank you, sir!

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 204Neck, Buffy and Burndog

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 205Is it Jager time already?

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 206Or is that a silly question?

CONS DEATH MATCH 2023 207Big love. See you next year, everyone!
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