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 Ishod Wair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ishod Wair. Show all posts
Ishod Wair - February 2013 interview
Ishod's February 2013 feature interview from The Skateboard Mag. Words by Chris Nieratko and photos by Atiba. This came out around the time of his Chronicles, Vol. 2 part, which led to him winning the 2013 Thrasher SOTY award.
Arto & Ishod on Clipper
I recently received the February 2001 issue of SLAP as a Christmas gift, and saw that there was a photo of Arto's frontside bluntslide on Clipper in the back. So, I dug up the photo of Ishod Wair's switch frontside bluntslide from the front of the September 2013 issue of Transworld, and they look very similar when seen side-by-side. They also both got these Clipper NBDs in the same year they won SOTY.
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| photo: Gabe Morford |
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| photo: Dave Chami |
Ishod Wair - switch flip Love Gap
Zander Taketomo's photo of Ishod's switch flip appeared in the October 2009 issue of Skateboarder, with a little backstory provided. To my knowledge, this is also the first time Ishod appeared in a magazine. Four years later, he was SOTY.
Gonz ollies over Schaaf and Jake kickflips over Ishod
At the beginning of his part in the 2001 video Real To Reel, The Gonz gets towed by Max Schaaf on a motorcycle towards a street bump, where he proceeds to ollie off of it and over Schaaf as he rides by. This trick was also used as an ad that appeared in the July 2001 issue of Thrasher (and maybe in other magazines, but my scan is from Thrasher). I didn't know until a few days ago when I first read the text that Max and Gonz had already done this before for an earlier Real ad, but hadn't thought to film it. I've never seen that one, but would love to try and dig it up someday in the future.
Twelve years later, when Ishod Wair and Jake Donnelly were both in town (San Francisco), someone at Real got the idea to recreate the ad with the two of them. It sounds like it was a little nerve-wracking to do, as Ishod had never ridden a motorcycle before, but they pulled it off and the photo appeared as a January 2014 ad (my scan is specifically from that month's issue of Thrasher). The footage of this appears on Real's YouTube page. Same bump, same motorcycle, same filmer (Dan Wolfe) and photographer (Gabe Morford). Such a cool ad idea. I wonder if they'll do it a third time in 2025?
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