The Trisect Tour - November 2002

This short article in the November 2002 issue of Skateboarder documents a trip that the Alien Workshop, Habitat & Seek Skateboards teams (get it, "Tri"-[Sovereign] Sect" took from California to the home base of Dayton, Ohio. Two photos that stand out to me in this are Alex Carolino's backside nosegrind revert on the famous Fort Street rail in Detroit that Justin Bohl recently saved, and Stefan Janoski's backside tailslide on a rail a couple of miles away from the house I grew up in. Words and photos by Mike O'Meally.

Divulge: Mark Appleyard

Words by Geoff Rowley and Paul Otvos, and photos by Shigeo.

The Emerica Mansion

Written by Aaron Meza, this November 2002 Skateboarder feature gives a brief glimpse into the Emerica Mansion and the skaters who lived in it. This article is a great companion piece to the ON Video segment about it, which came out around the same time as this magazine, as well as the 2018 Jenkem interview with Justin Regan. Portraits were taken by Bethany Black. Skate photo credit is with each photo. There's also a photo sequence in the Contents of Jim Greco getting a trick in the backyard, which I included in here as well.

Emerica team photo ads, from 2002 to 2009

It's really interesting to see these pictures as the years go by: who stays and who leaves, seeing the young guys grow up, etc. All of these were taken from the back covers of Skateboarder issues, which means that there may be more Emerica team photos out there that I don't have or didn't find yet. Send them my way if you find some.

March 2002
left to right: Ed Templeton, Erik Ellington, Heath Kirchart,
Tosh Townend, Andrew Reynolds, Donny Barley
not pictured: Chris Senn, Justin Strubing, Aaron Suski,
Chad Bartie

November 2002
left to right: Braydon Szafranski, Bryan Herman,
Kevin Spanky Long

January 2006
left to right: Herman, Spanky, Ed, Leo Romero,
Heath, Reynolds

July 2007
left to right: Leo, Spanky, Heath, Reynolds, Ed,
Herman, Jerry Hsu

April 2008
left to right: Marquis Preston, Jamie Tancowny,
Justin Figueroa, Brandon Westgate

January 2009
left to right: Ed, Braydon, Leo, Reynolds, Spanky,
Herman, Heath, Jerry

Nike's "First Sponsor" ad series

This was a pretty interesting ad series that Nike ran for 5 continuous months, from September 2002 to January 2003. These ads I scanned were in Skateboarder; I am assuming that they appeared in other magazines as well, though. I only have Skateboarder issues from this time period.

Also, I can't say with 100% certainty that these were the only ones that they did. I checked in the issues immediately before and after these five months and didn't see any, but that doesn't mean that they didn't extend the ad campaign for a different magazine. 

It looks like Todd Jordan got photo credit for all of these ads. I wonder if it was his idea to do this series?

Richard Mulder and his father
September 2002

Danny Supa & his friend Vinny Ponte
October 2002

Gino Iannucci and his mother
November 2002

Reese Forbes and his friend Chris Hall
December 2002

Todd Jordan and his brother Jeremy Jordan
January 2003