Daewon ollieing over Little Daniel

Here is a photo of Daewon Song ollieing over a recreation of his longtime friend Daniel Castillo, dubbed "Little Daniel". According to Daniel, Reda created the Little Daniel doll over three days in his New York apartment and spent over $100 on the materials. Daewon's ollie appeared in the Extra section of the June 2007 issue of Skateboarder. In the next issue, there was even a Face Off feature with the two Daniels. 

Eduardo Craig's NBDs on Hubba Hideout

Photos of two of the tricks Eduardo Craig did down Hubba Hideout. The switch front blunt appeared in an April 2007 City Skateboards ad, and the switch front tail 270 out appeared on his Who's Hot page from the July 2007 issue of Skateboarder (photo by Dan Z). Not sure who shot the switch front blunt, maybe Dan Z as well. According to @overthinkingskatevideos, the clips were filmed after the Crime In The City video was finished, and only exist as low-quality web clips floating around the internet.

From a comment Jeremy Reeves left when I posted these on Instagram:

[T]his was definitely after crime in the city. Possibly even weeks after. Jimmy Cao and Eddie both came to SF on the same trip as flow guys and stayed for a week or 2. Eddie killed it at hubba that day obviously. Did kf 5050 kf 50 switch tail 270 and sw front blunt. Legendary. Clips were used on thecitystreets website I’m pretty sure and like a lot of other early web stuff is lost or terrible quality. @mikesvenson likely filmed the clips.

How It Went Down: San Diego Sports Arena

The How It Went Down article from the July 2007 issue of Skateboarder, written by Adam Sullivan. No photo credit given for the photo of Jeremy Wray's triple set ollie, except that it was provided courtesy of Element Skateboards. This was published 17 years ago, so a bit more has gone down at this spot since it was written.

Kidnapping, Debauchery and Brebic: Habitat in Mexico City

This article features coverage of Fred Gall, Tim O'Connor, Stefan Janoski, Danny Garcia, Kerry Getz and Guru Khalsa during a Habitat filming trip to Mexico City with Jonathan Mehring and Brennen Conroy. Mehring wrote the article, basing it around the unpredictable antics of Fred Gall's friend "Brebic", who I can only assume is Fred's alter ego when he's in party mode. I swear I had heard about him bring this up in another interview, but I couldn't find it. 

The article overall is pretty wild. There's a Quiksilver ad in this same issue with a photo of Stefan getting a trick at a Mexico spot, which I am assuming was taken during the same trip.

Cooper Wilt - July 2007 interview

This is Cooper's first full interview as a professional skateboarder, published in the July 2007 issue of Skateboarder. Words by Adam Salo and photos by John Bradford.

Jack Curtin's Clipper NBDs

For me, Jack Curtin is the type of skater who wasn't one of my absolute favorites when I first saw him skate. My introduction into skateboarding was through videos like Round Three, Opinion, Dying To Live & New Blood; so I was watching either ultra-tech skating or whole videos of guys skating big gaps and 20-stair rails. Once I got past that first phase of obsessing over how many times a board flipped in a line or how many stairs someone just frontside flipped (both styles of skating which are still cool in their own ways), I started appreciating people with more nuance to their skating; skaters like Jack. He has great style, his parts have always featured tasteful spot & trick selection, and he can seemingly do any trick switch. He's been consistently ripping for over a decade now and is still going strong.

I think that one benchmark of Jack Curtin's skating is to look at the NBDs he has gotten on the Clipper hubba, similar to how you can measure Andrew Reynolds's skating through a timeline of tricks he's gotten at Hollywood High & Wilshire. Between September 2003 and January 2013 (magazine publication dates - I realize that it can take a while for a photo to appear in print), Jack put down five NBD tricks at Clipper. Four of them were switch. Over the past couple of weeks, I was able to track down four of the five photos of these tricks in magazines in my personal collection. And, thanks to the Look Back Library at Familia HQ, I finally have the fifth and final scan I needed to make this post.

If you read through those two paragraphs above, thank you. And if you didn't, thank you anyways for checking out this blog. Jack's five NBDs as they appear in magazines:

Nollie nosebluntslide
September 2003 Transworld
photo by Gabe Morford

Switch crooks
July 2004 The Skateboard Mag
photo by Jeff Landi

Switch 5-0
July 2007 The Skateboard Mag
photo by Landi

Switch flip switch 50-50
April 2012 Transworld
photo by Dave Chami

Switch back lip
January 2013 LRG Clothing ad in Transworld
Photo by Kyle Camarillo

Sequence of the switch back lip
January 2013 Transworld
photos by Chami

Santee, CA Rail to drop photos

As far as I know, there have been six tricks done at this spot:

• Jamie Thomas, fs 50-50 (Misled Youth) and fs Smith (Dying To Live)
• Jim Greco, fs boardslide (no footage) and fs lipslide (Baker 3)
• Jordan Hoffart, bs feeble & bs crooks (Fun)

I can only assume that Jamie's tricks appeared in magazines, but if they did they're either in magazines I don't own (most likely TWS, SLAP or Thrasher) or I haven't found them yet in my 2001~2003 Skateboarders. If anyone knows where they are, please let me know!

I don't know if Greco's front boardslide was a land, as there is no footage of it published anywhere. My guess is that he didn't roll away or didn't like how he rolled away, but the cover was published anyways as Greco may have intended to go back and get the boardslide for the clip. The photo is really sick, and maybe someday we will see the clip(s). Or, maybe Greco landed it, but the footage got fucked up somehow and he figured that if he was going to go back, he might as well try the lipslide instead.

I feel like because I said something about Jamie and Greco, I have to say something about Jordan. His Fun part is still so crazy for today's standards. Go watch it if you haven't see in. First trick is a front tail down Staples Center...!

July 2005 The Skateboard Mag
photo: Atiba

November 2005 The Skateboard Mag
photo: Bill Alleger

I don't own this Transworld issue; this scan actually comes from Look Back Library/Kevin Marks, who in turn got the scan from a friend of his.

June 2007 Transworld
photo: Deville

March 2008 The Skateboard Mag
Photo: Dave Swift

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