Skate Mag Scans by Skate Media Nerd: 2005 December

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Bob Burquist Profile - December 2005

A December 2005 Skateboarder profile article on Bob Burnquist, featuring a sequence of his corkscrew cover from the same issue.

Antwuan Dixon - Welcome to Baker ad

The December 2005 Baker ad (scanned from The Skateboard Mag) welcoming Antwuan Dixon to the team. The nollie heelflip clip closed out his Baker 3 part.

15 Things You Didn't Know: Skate Shoes

Written by Adam Salo for the December 2005 issue of Skateboarder.

North By Northwest: Habitation of the Northern Coast

This December 2005 Skateboarder article covers a Habitat Skateboards trip through northern California and Oregon, when they were starting to film for Inhabitants. Words and photos by John Bradford. I really like the photo of SBN's front blunt gap out on the last pages.

Tony Cox interview - December 2005

An interview with unconventional skater Tony Cox, published in the December 2005 issue of Skateboarder. Words by Adam Salo and photos by Brian Gaberman, Antton Miettinen, Gabe Morford, Frankie and Dennis McGrath.

Daily Ops: Steve Nesser

Steve lists five ways to cope with Minnesota winters in this December 2005 Daily Ops article. Photo most likely taken by Jonathan Mehring.

Johnny Layton: Year's Best Am interview

Below is Johnny Layton's 12-page interview after winning The Skateboard Mag's YBAm award for 2005. He also got the cover for this issue (December 2005) with a switch 360 flip down the MACBA big 4, which is also posted below. Street grabs get a bad wrap, but I like his tuck knee down Carlsbad for this article.

Words by Paul Zitzer. Photographer credits appear with each scan.

portrait: Jon Humphries
right photo: Jeff Landi

photo: Dave Swift

Carlsbad tuck knee: Humphries
nollie 5-0: Landi

sequence: Landi

photo: Humphries

photo: Landi

Glazing Arizona - Hsu vs. Evs: The Final Showdown

An article comprised entirely of an email exchange between Jerry Hsu and Matt Eversole, two people who automatically make anything they're involved with interesting. Appears in the December 2005 issue of The Skateboard Mag.

Photo: Jai Tanju

left photo: Jon Humphries
right photo: Tanju

Louie Barletta took this sequence!

left photo: Humphries
right photo: Mark Shiraldi

all photos: Humphries

both photos: Humphries

Mike Rusczyk ("Rus-Sick") Appreciation

Let me start by saying that for years, I did not like Mike Rusczyk's skating. I remember watching Cataclysmic Abyss for the first time and being psyched to watch guys like Don Nguyen and Corey Duffel skate huge gaps and rails, but then wondering why they included a guy in the same video who was doing no-comply tail stalls on brick banks and varial kickflips down 4-blocks.

*pause for dramatic effect* 10 years later, it's my favorite part in the video.

Don and Duffel's skating is still awesome to watch, but Mike's part is so much more interesting to me now, and pretty mind-blowing. Every no-comply is flawless. And no-comply wallride??? He pops out of nosebluntslides so effortlessly. He skates a lot of spots no one else is skating and doing tricks on them that few others or no one else was doing at the time, and doing them quite well.

I won't go on and on, but if you've never seen his skating or haven't watched his parts for years because you didn't find them appealing, I recommend you watch his Cataclysmic Abyss and Art Bars parts now. And by no means am I an expert of his skate career, so if you are reading this and know of some other skating of his that I didn't mention, let me/us know!

TL; DR, I used the Skatepark of Tampa website to look up every piece of magazine coverage that I owned that had Mike Rusczyk in it because he fucking rips and is one of the most underrated skateboarders ever and I wanted to feature him on this page.

April 10th, 2022 update: Since putting up this post, I have found more Mike Rusczyk photos. I decided that instead of making new posts whenever I find another photo of him in a magazine, that I will just update this post. For the purists, everything up to the June 2010 The Skateboard Mag post was what was I originally published on March 20th.