Showing posts with label Kristian Svitak. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kristian Svitak. Show all posts

Kristian Svitak - December 2010 interview

Cleveland native Kristian Svitak's December 2010 Skateboarder interview. Words by Chris Nieratko and photos by Matt Mecaro.


Roll-Up Rituals: Skaters and their superstitions

The Quirk section in Skateboarder during the early aughts often featured interesting topics and lists of things about skateboarders that you wouldn't usually think about; one of the many treasures within these early issues (usually written/put together by Mackenzie Eisenhour). I'd never seen this about about skater superstitions until earlier this evening when I scanned it in, and it's one of my favorites.

Down To The Future: 88 Footwear tour aticle

This article, written by Lance Conklin and photographed by Andrew Mapstone, documents an 88 Footwear trip through Australia. A still from Peter Hewitt's fullpipe carve sequence at the end also appears on the cover of this issue.







Truth Be Told: Kristian Svitak

Brief interview with 1031 Skateboards founder Kristian Svitak, from the May 2007 The Skateboard Mag issue, which was published a little after a year after he was kicked off of Black Label and started the Halloween-inspired brand. Words by Rob Brink and photos by Matt Mecaro. The ollie on the 4th page is crazy!