Skate Mag Scans by Skate Media Nerd: 2007 August

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What's Beef?: Listen trip to Brazil

An August 2007 trip article to Brazil featuring Rob G, Rodrigo Petersen, Danny Montoya and Brian Brown. Words and photos by Ben Colen.

100 Texas Titles

What started as a trip to Houston, Texas to shoot photos of Guru Khalsa turned into a full-blown trip around the state for Giovanni Reda. He ended up being joined by Todd Jordan, Mikey Taylor, Jeremy Holmes and an up-and-comer named Alvin "Trace" Saylor (never heard of him before or since). Jake Nunn also joined the crew for a day and got a photo in the article.

All words and photos by Reda. Article appears in the August 2007 issue of Skateboarder.

On The Waterfront: Jonathan Mehring Photo Feature

This photo feature from the August 2007 issue of Skateboarder was inspired by Mehring wanting to intentionally stay home in New York and shoot photos there, taking a break from always being on a trip and shooting photos somewhere else. There's some excellent shots in this with iconic landmarks in the background, Puleo's back tail photo being my favorite.

Dan Murphy - August 2007 interview

Dan Murphy's interview from the August 2007 issue of Skateboarder. Words by Mike Sinclair and photos by Jaime Owens, Mike Blabac, Ryan Lusteg, Shigeo and Brian Uyeda. The text didn't scan well here, so apologies if it is difficult to read. I was a fan of Dan Murphy's skating. He was able to make skating big gaps and rails look pretty casual.

Darrell Stanton interview - August 2007

This interview appeared in the August 2007 issue of The Skateboard Mag. I scanned this in May of 2022, before I'd figured out a way to consistently get good, even scans, so it's a little wonky. Words by Alex Klein and photo credit is within the pictures.

Week Days Are Weak Days: Vans trip to Arizona

Words and photos documenting a Vans trip to Arizona, which was published in the August 2007 issue of The Skateboard Mag. Photos by Matt Price.

New Jack: Andrew Allen

The Skateboard Mag's August 2007 New Jack was 21-year-old Andrew Allen, then just getting on Anti Hero Skateboards. He's one of those skaters whose switch skating looks very distinctive from their non-switch stuff, but in a really great way (similar to Jerry Hsu, Davis Torgerson and Dennis Busenitz, amongst others). I really like the gap to switch front board sequence.

Words by Dave Carnie. Photographer credit in the captions.

portrait: Anthony Acosta
switch nosebluntslide: Matt Price

photos by Acosta

varial heel sequence: Price
switch flip: Acosta

frontside rock: Price
kickflip: Acosta

Killer Kids: Ben Raybourn

The August 2007 issue of The Skateboard Mag has a two-page article in the back highlighting up-and-coming child ripper Ben Raybourn, who was skating for Kristian Svitak's 1031 board company at the time. As we all know, Ben quickly went on to become a great skater. His Thrasher cover doing a backside air into the wall at Burnside is still one of the gnarliest tricks ever done, in my opinion. Great to see that he's still ripping to this day.

Words by Paul Zitzer and photos by Dave Swift.

Question Mark: Nick Merlino

The Question Mark article of the August 2007 issue of The Skateboard Mag features Nick Merlino. This was back when he was on Baker flow. Interestingly, three of the four photos in this are at Wilshire, and it looks like the kickflip front nose and the nollie flip crooks were done on the same night.

Words by Paul Zitzer and photos by Atiba Jefferson.

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.