Slowly archiving photos and articles from Skateboarder Magazine and The Skateboard Mag, while also including stuff from Transworld, SLAP, Thrasher. I am not, nor have I ever been, formally affiliated with any of these magazines.
Showing posts with label Birdhouse Skateboards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Birdhouse Skateboards. Show all posts
Heath Kirchart - April 2001 Birdhouse ad
Heath Kirchart's frontside bluntslide on the Oceanside High School 13-stair rail, shot by Dave Swift and appearing in a two-page Birdhouse ad scanned from the back of the April 2001 issue of Skateboarder. You can see the clip in Heath's Sight Unseen part.
Steve Nesser's Vegas kickflip melon
Steve Nesser's Rock Adio part is introduced by him doing a kickflip melon over a huge bump-to-bar in Las Vegas, which blew my mind the first time I saw it because before then, I'd always thought of Nesser as more of a low-impact skater. Part of what makes him such a legend is that he could skate practically any obstacle quite well. Huge rails, big gaps, ledge lines, crusty street QPs, bump-to-bars, the list goes on and on.
The kickflip melon appeared in a two-page Birdhouse ad in the July 2004 issue of The Skateboard Mag, and was shot by Jeff Taylor. When I posted this scan on my Instagram page last April, he commented that this was "one of the raddest things I ever witnessed. He did it in just a couple of tries as well."
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