Focus: July/August 2000

Photos from this issue's Focus feature.

Divulge: Daniel Haney

Handrail pioneer Daniel Haney's Divulge interview, printed in the July/August 2000 issue of Skateboarder. The 50-50 was shot by Seu Trinh, and Mike Ballard shot the other two tricks.

3 Roads 2 Tampa

This article appears in the July/August 2000 issue of Skateboarder, and includes photos from three separate skate trips to Tampa that happened simultaneously earlier in the year. Photos taken by Gabe Morford, Jai Tanju, and Mike Ballard.

Alex "Trainwreck" Gall's Dying To Live ads

Before skating for Bootleg, Alex "Trainwreck" Gall had a brief stint on Zero and appeared in three ads in a row in Skateboarder, advertising for the upcoming Dying To Live video. Below are the ads, as well as an earlier one for Zero Wheels. If he was more than the ones below, I haven't found them yet and will post if I do. Photo credits in the captions.

July/August 2000
Photo by Atiba

November/December 2000

January/February 2001
Photo by Atiba

March 2001
Photo by Jon Humphries

The Photography of Spike Jonze

This portfolio article of Spike's photography appears in the July/August 2000 issue of Skateboarder, which is also the only issue of the magazine that he got a photo on the cover of. The article includes early photos of Gonz, Natas, Hosoi, Guy, Jason Lee, and more. The intro to it was written by Kevin Wilkins.

Scott Johnston - fs 180 switch crook at JKwon

Arguably the most memorable trick to be done at the JKwon gap-to-ledge spot is Scott's 180 to switch crook, which was a guest trick in Mike Carroll's Modus Operandi part. The sequence (shot by Mike Ballard, who can be seen in the clip sitting on the ground) appeared in a Lakai ad in the July/August 2000 issue of Skateboarder (probably in other mags as well, but my scan below is from Skateboarder). Scott had such great style and it's no coincidence that this is the second standalone post on my blog of one of his tricks (see the first post here).