Issue 23August 2014

Cover: Nik Stain, nollie half cab p- SussinghamAbove: Paul London, Nollie bs tail p- TaubeContact: Homies@skatejawn.comAll rights reserved Skate Jawn 2014www.skatejawn.com

Photographers:CJ Harker

Colin Sussingham Max Hull

Contributing Photogs:Billy Cox Deville

Xeno Tsarnas Phil Jackson

Max ZahradnikKarim Ghonem

Rob Collins Luke Mckaye

Zander TaketomoTravis knapp-prasek

Dan ZaslavskyChris Atwood

Alex PapkeTomasz Low

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Paul Overstrom

Diplomat:Noah McManus

Miner:John Hall

STREET WARRIOR: Sloan Palder

Illustration: Will Laren

Conor Prunty

EDITOR/ DESIGNER:MARCUS WALDRON

DOG:AVEY

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CONTENTs

Kevin leidtkeXeno photog interview Neil HerrickWarehouse improvementNik Stain Ramps out backSF high ollie

Sergio Rodas olliep- Overstrom

Kevin Leidtke

Interview by Brian Panebiancophotos by Ben Hull

What’s goin on?Nothing much man just living the life of a normal person for the last half a year ha. But I think I can start skating again. My physical therapist told me I can.

Damn what’s it like being a normal person?It’s terrible. I don’t do anything besides work all the time.

Are you working now?Yup, I’m a waiter at this restaurant like five minutes away from my house.

Well we gotta do a Skate Jawn interview so go take a dump or something. Haha alright cool.

So what happened to you? How did you get hurt?Just got hurt a couple times and didn’t take care of the injuries so they all got worse.

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I have tendonitis in my right knee, I have this soft tissue problem in my left ankle where the tissue restricts me from pointing my foot all the way down. Got that from landing primo really hard on the euro gap at x-park. Plus I sacked the fuck outta this rail in N.C. a good bit ago and my tail bone is still pretty messed up, but not too bad.

So you are doing physical therapy for your knee? How long have you been doing that?Yeah I’m doing physical therapy for everything. I’ve been doing it for like two months probably. My physical therapist said I only have a couple more appointments left till I’m all done. Hopefully I’m all healed up by then.

Yes hopefully. So what’s goin on with your video part buddy?I don’t know when Steindl plans on putting the video out. Haha I’m not in the loop of things anymore.

How much footage do you have saved up for his video?I think a couple minutes. I have some stuff I’m hyped on but the rest is doo doo by now.

Are you still riding for anyone or did they bail on you? Or do they not need to know you haven’t been skating?I told them what was going on and that I couldn’t skate for awhile. I’ve talked to Jerome at Birdhouse somewhat recently but that’s about it. I hope no one bailed on me but if they did, I completely understand.

What are the chances we could squeeze a last minute mini part for Sabotage 4?I hope we can. That would be awesome, even if I had a couple clips I’d be hyped. All depends on how long it takes me to get back in the groove of things.

You got time. Who are you hyped on right now? Skater or non skater.Joey O’Brien, Tore Bevivino, Julian Heller, Matt Militano, Clint Walker, Riley Hawk.

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MAURIO MCCOY - KICKFLIP | PHOTO - RYAN KOCHEL

Obama?What is Obama?

It’s a president type thing. We gotta wrap this up. Any last words?Yeah I would like to thank my parents, friends, family, everyone at Ambler skateshop, Jerome at Birdhouse, Vern at Bones, Brad at DLX. Thanks Marcus and Skate Jawn for making this interview happen. Thank you Penny for always dealing with my shit when we skate!!

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MAURIO MCCOY - KICKFLIP | PHOTO - RYAN KOCHEL

RAmps out backphotos by Paco. text by John Gardner

This is the soul bowl. Many thanks to all of the dudes that helped make this thing possible… First and foremost thanks to the 5.9 crew for donating their time, knowledge, and skill. Iggy and Will are the dudes who kept the fire burning. If you ever see them, buy them some beer please. Major thanks to the dudes and dudettes who hold down the house… Max, Pat, Nat, Joe, Meredith, Levy, J-hon, Duncan, and the one and only bowl troll, Fritz Mead. I no longer live there, but I still

consider this place to be my home. Much love to everyone who has come through to skate, chill, and grill. Thanks to the grill-master P-stone for building us a kick-ass grill piece. Come and skate while this thing lasts, our landlord hasn’t found out about it yet, so who knows what the future holds. To all of those I forgot to mention, thank you! Skate Jawn for life.

Where you from? The mutha fucking East Coast.

Favorite thing to skate? Pools.

Best pool you’ve skated? The yuppie (RIP). Those in the know got to shred, those who weren’t missed out.

Electric or gas pump?Electric is way less hassles. I’m working on a battery powered pump that will change everything!

Got a good Freddy story?All the good ones are a little too incriminating for print but I will say this, only Freddy could get pulled over three times in one night, by the same cop, with no good excuse except that we were trying to pump out a pool at 1 a.m. And somehow we got out of it every time. Only Fred!

Xeno Tsarnas Photographer Interview

Fritz Mead 50-50 pop out

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Do you have a roof over your head yet?Yup, bought a house in Pittsburgh... No more sleeping in the car.

Ever been too high?Not possible.

Longest time you’ve spent on the road?Four years without a home was like an endless road trip.

How long have you known Fritz?Too long.

Is it ever ok to steal?Only from corporate chains. Leave the mom and pop shops alone.

Should pools be shared or kept secret? Spots? Always secret, real gangsters don’t need to talk.

Camera set up? Nikon with some flashes.

Skate set up? Oj’s, Indy’s, Antihero.

Morning or night? Depends... Mornings for a mission, night time for cruising.

First time you got drunk? 1992... Ouzo from my parents liquor cabinet.

Shoot film much? Load, shoot, develop, and scan? No thanks.

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John Gardner eggplant

How’d you get into photography? Dumb luck.

Most stairs you’ve ever hucked? Big 11 in downtown Detroit 2001. I keep it low to the ground these days.

Craziest thing you’ve seen John Gardner do? Everything he does is crazy, risking it all, just for the stoke. I truly believe he just likes to scare himself.

Best substitute for a pillow? A skateboard works well for a street nap but a shoe wrapped in a jacket is my choice for an over-nighter.

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Clark Hassler

Andy Roy

Where’d you skate today? Checked out West Philly. Tried to find that spot, couldn’t find it. Tried to skate Muni for a bit but got kicked out in like 10 minutes, then scoped out some spots in the gayborhood and near Jefferson Hospital. Then that shitty chain into the bank spot where Geiger did the back 50 back tail. We were kinda all over today. It was a good day though, everyone got some shit.

How long have you been skating? I wanna say 2001, since I was like six or seven. A while.

How many complete skateboards do you think you’ve lost? Definitely a couple. I think I left one at a spot around my neighborhood one time when I was really young. I went back for it and it was gone. So that’s one. I definitely lost one in the water too. There was some spot, it was like a fountain, it just went in and was gone.

(Landlord John) Yo Noah wants to use the goat horns for a headdress. Ha word ask Mitchell.

What’s the sickest road trip you’ve ever been on? That’s a good one. These guys would know

too, pretty much every sick trip I’ve been on has been either with Giorgio, or Jake, or both. We’re always trying to go to spots and things. Pittsburgh is definitely always rad, North Carolina was cool as fuck the first time.

Neil Herrickphotos by Papke Interview by Jawn Deere

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So where are you from? Originally from New Hampshire, but I moved to outside of Philly when I was five or so, before I started skating.

You see Static 4? Yea, went to the premiere in Philly, and it was really good. I knew it was gonna be good, but it really was like everything I expected and more. First of all, his style of editing is always really awesome and then just the little things they did in the video, like the clock noise and shit, was a cool way to open it. And all the parts were so sick.

Filming any shit right now? Yea, well we’ve been working on this video called Standard Definition for a while. Matt Steindl is filming it, and Jake and I have been working on that for probably like two years. And then Jake’s working on the Kinetic video, might have a section in there.

What trick are you worst at? Nollie flip, and switch flip for sure, but definitely nollie flip over switch flip.

Why?I don’t know man, switch frontside… OK well first of all, I don’t have like an amazing bag of flip tricks. Like I can do flip tricks for

sure, but I don’t know... My flat ground game is like, it’s good enough, I guess. I just never really learned to nollie flip cause it was really hard for me to figure out how to do it when I was younger, so I was like fuck it, I’m just not gonna do it. I’ve tried to do it over the years, people have tried to fuckin teach me how to nollie flip, but…

Does weed help you skate? Sometimes, circumstances depending.

What’s the biggest contest you’ve ever skated? Probably that Arizona trip we went on for that contest. We went to the Sayreville Volcom wild in the parks, remember that? Most of us qualified to go to the finals, so we were like, fuck it let’s go to Arizona and skate this contest. We went for a couple days, but I ate it so bad. You remember that Jake? It

was retarded, I wasn’t as warmed up as I normally would be to try something like this, it’s like a 10 stair rail, not really proportional at all. It sucks, and I was like fuck it, I’m gonna try to fs bigspin boardslide down it. I got into it and slid it couple times, so I was like, alright I’m

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gonna do it. And I just fuckin died on the rail. Pretty sure I sacked like the inside of my thigh, something was really swollen I remember. I just like laid down outside the park, and then just went to the hotel room, and was icing my shit.

Ever make a ramp or a spot or anything? Definitely when I was younger, me and my dad used to build all types of ramps in my backyard.

Miniramp? Not even, just like crazy shit we thought of. The one that was there longest was a 6 foot drop-in, then barely any flat, then it went right to a ramp, then a flat, and then a landing

ramp, and then like another quarter pipe to go up. You’d basically hit it kinda like a ski jump, and I was just like doing that shit, jumping off the side of it. It was made out of particle board and it was like two feet wide, the whole thing.

You ever try filming, or taking photos or anything? Yea I used to film a lot. I still have my VX. I sold my fisheye to Jake. I still film long lens sometimes. I filmed a clip of a kid the other

day. I can show it to you. We screen capt’d it on my phone. The homie who I had just met, Johnathan Fletchas, he did it, he’s a filmer from Florida, we skated with in N.Y. a couple days ago. But yea he no comply’d this bump to bar and it’s fuckin sick. I miss filming, I wish I filmed more. I was working on a video

with a few people, and then Jake was working on something too, a couple years ago, eventually we realized like we’re just filming the same people why don’t we just combine the footage into one video and that was Fully Flaccid.

Is it ever ok to steal? Generally no. I don’t steal. I’ve never been about like shoplifting, or really stealing anything. I don’t know, if you had to steal for like the wellbeing of yourself or the people you

care about, then yea, depending on what it is, it’d be cool. But I’ve never got down with it.

What if it was like the government, or like a township sign, or like a barrier to skate a spot, or like a cone or some shit?Well normally I wouldn’t do that. I don’t really like to bring extra stuff to the spot to skate it. I like to skate it for what it is, for the most part.

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Warehouse

Почему ты бросить свою работу?должны кататься жить.

Как холодно было это этой зимой?tempature не имеет значения.

Вы бы ездить на мотоцикле?скорость жизни, жить, чтобы ехать быстро.

Следите ли вы за любые суеверия?Американцы должны знать, что они реальны.

Откуда вы?Я родился в матери русской и переехал в подмышку Америке.

Раздутый на лошадях для hardtimes?бесплатные доски все, что я забочусь о.

Что было самым трудным часть теста гражданин?дело с

американскими идиотов.

Последний раз, когда вы вспыхнули?марихуана слабость.

Любимое скейтпарк в Филадельфии области?широкая улица.

Опишите ваш режим для душа?вода очищает все.

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fs 180 p- Xeno

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Любимое блюдо?пища не должна иметь приятный вкус.

Как долго Вы работаете в Woodward?жизнь это боль.

Самый Хороший автомобиль вы припарковались?самый хороший автомобиль я почесал был Bentley.

Опишите девушку своей мечты?влагалище, грудь, ягодицы, 110фунта.

Наибольшее время вы провели в тюрьме?достаточно времени, чтобы получить полный рукав.

Почему Филли?все заканчивается где-то.

Вы раздутыми ты сделал колледж? я скучаю систему питания.

Как давно вы Плаза фигурист? с кем.

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Jake Johnsontailslide

Chris TetaI know from personal experience that valet can be the best and worst job, which happens to be your current occupation. What’s the deal with your favorite customer, the White Whale?

I valet at a nice steak house and this guy comes in guns blazing like Rodney Dangerfield from Caddyshack but even more raunchy. He’s wild, but also a serious baller so he’s allowed to pretty much do whatever he wants, because everyone knows he’s gonna treat them well. He gives each valet $100 every time he comes in, so whenever I see

that guy pull up it makes my day. Your dog, Marlo, eats everything. Some would say he’s a genius. What’s up with his teeth, and how does he eat?

Haha, he’s a Bull Terrier that my girlfriend and I rescued. All his teeth were grinded down and rotting when we first got him. So he had to get like 18 of his front teeth removed. We think he was a bait dog, hence the grinded down teeth. Pretty fucked up, but he has his back teeth so that’s how he eats.

What’s with the crop duster Pulaski switch flips?

Haha, all flip tricks come and go. Sometimes they work perfectly but most of the time they look like shit for me.

Photos by James Munk Text by Smalls

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Any good Baltimore stories come to mind?

Man this is a hard one. As most people know, Baltimore is hood as shit, and unfortunately some of the best spots are in the hood. So we’re at this spot and dudes start coming up to me and

talking about skating. I expect them to know Tony Hawk or maybe Bucky Lasek because he’s from the area. This hood ass dude throws out Dennis Busenitz’s name. I just started laughing in my head wondering how in the hell does this guy know about him. Same spot same day, this guy comes

up talking about how we’re makin the block hot and we need to get the fuck outta there. We’re all like, okay understandable, this is your neighborhood, we’ll leave. For some reason, the other people in the neighborhood start standing up for us heavily, to the point where I thought they were gonna fight their boy over it. We ended up skating for a little longer and leaving on our own will. So there is one good thing about skateboarding’s popularity. Give me three of the biggest differences between the greatest city in America (Baltimore) and Hollywood for ugly people (D.C.).

Baltimore is blue collar and D.C. is white collar. People in D.C. are far more attractive than the people in Baltimore. Getting kicked out of spots in Baltimore is very rare. It is expected to be kicked out of every spot in D.C. Oh and D.C. has a thousand more ledges than Baltimore. They’re pretty much polar opposite cities.

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Arizona: Cowtown Glendale/Phoenix/Tempe/Litchfield,

California: FTC, DLX, Circle A, Mission, 510, Church of Skatan, Atlas, Banned, Skateworks, Pacific Drive, Bills Wheels,

Colorado: The Denver shop, Blacklist,

Connecticut: Day One,

Delaware: Kinetic, Switch,

Florida: S.P.o.T., MIA, Phaze One,

Georgia: Stratosphere, Ruin, Get Rad, Ambush,

Illinois: Uprise, FA Skates,

Indiana: Blacklist, Rhett

Kentucky: Home,

Louisiana: Humidity,

Massachusetts: Eastern Boarder Worcester/Natick/Leominster/Danvers, Orchard, Theory, BLVD, Solstice, RAW, Maximum Hesh

Maryland: Pitcrew, Vu, Skateology, Agro Joe’s,

Maine: Backwoods, R E Session,

Michigan: Premier, Plus

North Carolina: Endless grind, Black sheep, Exodus,

North Dakota: This skate and snow,

New Hampshire: Eastern Boarder Nashua, Pioneers, Red Alert,

New Jersey: NJ skateshop Hoboken/New Brunswick, Underground, Square peg, Pro, Prime, Black Flag shop, Shack board shop, Standard, o1ne,

New York: KCDC, 2nd Nature, Seasons, Supreme, Shut, Drop In, Labor, Homage, Belief, Common Ground, Max Fish, Krudco, Tre Truck, Underground 2, Infamous,

Nevada: Pharmacy,

Ohio: Embassy, Old Skool, Tristar

Oregon: Cal Skateboards, Shrunken Head, Flywheel, Tactics, Exit Real World

Pennsylvania: Armory East, Exit, Homebase, Reign, Pretas, Holistic, Exist, One up, Revival, Fairmans, Ambler, Funbox, Funtastik

Rhode Island: Civil,

South Carolina: Bluetile

Texas: Apparition, No Comply,

Vermont: Maven, Talent, Plaza skate park,

Virginia: Venue, Cardinal, Kiko’s, Buhi World, Palace 5,

Washington: 35th North, North End,

Wisconsin: Sky High,

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