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CW#5
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On 5/6/2003
M.G.
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Hey Michael,
Have not yet received my subscription copy of CW#5...should I give it a couple of more days? I'm jonesing over here!
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suggestions
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On 5/6/2003
michael brooke
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thanks for the comments...
we keep tweaking it....
next issue I promise we won't drop down to 6 point!
the Deathbox guys had a lot to say!
the mags were mailed April 25 - they take anywhere from 6 to 10 working days to arrive...
thanks
Michael
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CW #5
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On 5/6/2003
Nick
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Michael, just looked through a copy of CW #5 last night (my subscription copy has not yet arrived). Looks good. Much better than any of the previous issues.
Bio: Great paper quality. The coated paper looks great. Much better photos than before. Full bleeds work well. Colors are great. More variety. Less typos.
Wilson: Still a hint of profanity, which is not necessary, IMHO. The serif font you're using is too small and too thin to read easily. Too much leading between the lines makes it look like a double-spaced term paper at times. 2-page photo spreads with a perfect binding make the center of the picture disappear. Still some typos.
What would I do? Lose the cuss words. One ends up focusing on the word and not the idea. Switch your usual text font to the sans-serif font you're using for photo captions. They're easier to read because there's more weight to the letters, the size is a couple of points larger, and they look more modern, to boot. Tighten up the leading in the text blocks, and add more negative space in the mag to reduce clutter. Single-page photos, with a fold-out centerspread. Eliminate typos.
Keep putting out a great mag.
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Many Happy Pumps
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On 5/6/2003
CKnuck
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Right on G. Mark. You might want to try some Advil it helps me the the Arthritis in my left knee. I usually take a couple before and during my Slalom sessions. Come to think of it pretty much before Freestlye or coaching sessions as well,LOL.
The looks on peoples faces when they find out I'm racing again (especially since the hearts surgeries in '99) are priceless, as they say.
Skating is great no matter what part of it you enjoy. So, Enjoy.
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Winds of Change
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On 5/6/2003
Brian "TheBrain" Morris
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I always pass around my copy of Concrete Wave to some skaters I go to school with, hell I even bring it to the skatepark so when I have to rest my knees I have something to read. All the kids are amazed, especially when they see fullpipe skating. The look on this one kids face when he saw the picture of the Clear Rad Ramp. He couldn't understand how people can skate on a plastic ramp with no flat bottom, "what kinda half-pipe is that?" I said its exactly that, half of a pipe. I was skating the mini ramp the other day, and this one kid started pulling out mid plants and layback reverts. It was awesome, he was yelling to all his friends "Yo look I can do oldschool." I can't wait to buy another pig, I just can't work a ramp on those little boards.
Brian
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what's in the skate media
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On 5/6/2003
michael brooke
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In about a week or so, a number of copies of Concrete Wave magazine will be on the newstand at Barnes and Noble. It will be sitting right next to Thrasher, Transworld, Big Brother, Slap, Skateboarder and any final copies of Stance (RIP, June 2003!)
Add in the odd UK magazine (Document, Kingpin) and you are looking at a pretty competitive marketplace...
except there's just one thing....
Concrete Wave will be sticking out like a sore thumb.
Even if people don't buy the mag on the newsstand (sob..sob) I think MANY folks will leaf through it and absorb its content.
Winds of change are brewing...
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old school vs new school
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On 5/6/2003
mike
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Brian-
i think the the old school style is resurfacing and is present behind all the new school skating you see. the pros know it and have skated it and it has influinced them. i think that the media has some very important role in how the majority of young skaters skate. they try to reiterate what they think is cool from what they see in magazines/ videos/ tv. all they see is the flippy popsicle stick moves and don't get to experience or see where these tricks originated from. with the resurgance of old school being popular, i think that style will very much play a role in pop skate culture and you will see a lot more people doing more style influiced tricks. more and more skateparks are being built, and old school/ longboard companies like deathbox, sector 9, gravity have all proved to the market that they have a legit place in the skate economy. as more and more of these companies get big, you will see their influice on skate media, and joe blow suburbia skater will be influinced by this. it's coming back baby and in a big way!
just my 2 cents.
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10K
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On 5/6/2003 john gilmour
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10 Grand.
Take a ROE bottle Rocket to the ABC wide world of sports race. I'll take those leather pants too. $500
Get a killer Presidential suite Hotel room- stock it with stuff for a massive party. $2000
I'd buy a 3 1934 Type 59 Bugatti cars (last supercharged production car made- hits over 160mph) at $2500 each keep one for myself and donate the other 2 (now worth millions to getting a killer slalom race circuit started). $7500
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Having Fun
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On 5/5/2003 Larry
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--->Having fun is the best preventative to aging.
Right on. No matter what the grey suits and bureaucrats say.
I finally got a chance to show the Rolls Rolls board to Ray Flores. Not his kind of thing, but we talked for a time and I wound up buying boards for a friend's children. They have these old, beat-up cheap skateboards. Landon was trying to push one one day and the thing just wouldn't roll. He has the right idea, but the wrong equipment. Next time I go up there he'll be able to push easily.
You're never too young to start that anti-aging process. And this way I'll be able to use my own boards when I'm up there!
--Larry
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reading my mind...
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On 5/5/2003
michael brooke
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talk about collective consciousness...
Mark's comments are bang on.
I'd like to hear from more of you!
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Not giving up the ghost
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On 5/5/2003 G. Mark
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I'm fully there. Started skating on clay wheels, have had a board or two (now 10) to ride from late 1960's to present. I have other interests (music, mountain bikes, females, etc.) so skating has been put on the back burner a few times, some of them lengthy periods.
Then I discovered longboarding in 1997. My reason for skateboarding has always been my love of surfing, and longboard skating was the soul and style I always wanted.
After getting deep into longboards, now I find myself on a 32" Deathbox, back in the ditches I rode in the late-80's / early 90's, and getting those moves back in shape.
I'm 41 years old, currently using the first set of pads and helmet I've ever owned, and skating at least once a week. The right knee is going bad on me, and it takes anywhere from a day to a week to recover from skate sessions, but I don't even think about not doing it. I find myself daydreaming of road tripping to Kona Skatepark, or Burnside in Portland.
The truest irony is this: At my age, my family, some friends and co-workers, all see me as "the big kid who refuses to grow up". When I'm out skating, the other skaters who see me think of me as "the old geezer on the old-school boards". While doing one thing, I represent youth to one set of people and old age to another. It's a trip, but one I've enjoyed being on.
Having fun is the best preventative to aging.
-Mark Colden
Dallas, TX
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3rd Gathering
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On 5/4/2003 66
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Chris Chaput
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On 5/4/2003
Tom M.
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On choice of three (can only comment on ones I have):
Bozi Mad Bomber II w/R2-180s & ABEC-11 Flywheels (88mm75a)
Afro Numbchuck w/Indy 160s & Gravity Street Gs (66mm97a)
Turner GS/Hybrid XL w/Tracker RTX/S & ABEC-11 Stingers (64mm77a)
On summer's almost here -- time to skate-a-bunch:
Longboarding: Even though the weather broke over a month ago, with the BAD winter this year, the sand is still everywhere (I feel your pain).
Skateparks: I'd better take some time off & skate them -- otherwise, they'll be FULL of kiddies by the end of May!
On is the hype is dying:
I don't pay much attention to the hype, so I'm not sure. I do pay attention to what people say on NCDSA (is that hype?). <g>
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Oldschool at the Newschool
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On 5/4/2003
Brian "TheBrain" Morris
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When I started skating when i was 6 in 88 or 89, I got a Powell Peralta setup, I thought I was the only skater on the block. I used to live off of SK8 TV on Nick, and watch Hosoi, Hackett, Olson, Peters, Salba, Cab, Hawk, some of the best. When I got a little older and moved to a new town, there were a few kids riding around popsicle stick boards, but I never rode with them and In the back of my mind I wondered why somebody would want to ride around town on a freestyle board? So, I used to cruise around on my big ole Powell and the kids were amazed that somebody actually skated oldschool. I used to get crap about it, but it was all good. Then, I never really followed skateboarding like I do now. Some of the kids I talked to used to tell me about all the cool street tricks Rodney Mullen was doing in the new Plan B video, and I still didn't get it. I finally caught up with the times and got a flipper board, but just couldn't get into it. I found longboarding almost 7 years ago, and from there came slalom, and now my new interest in pipes and pools. Which brings me to yesterday at the skatepark. I was trying to re-learn how to pump transition. So I'm working the Mini-ramp on a freestyle board, then I found a Santa Cruz pig to roll around on. It was so funny to watch these little kids amazed that a board could be that big. Than one kid said to me: "Oldschool is awesome, I wanna learn to skate oldschool" and my reply to him was You don't learn to skate oldschool you just are that way. I suppose you can watch all the powell and vision videos and learn a bunch of old tricks on a pig and call yourself oldschool, but I think its so much more than that. I consider myself "oldschool" for being only 21, but its not about what year you started skating, or who your favorite pro is, its about your style. Skateboarding today lacks the soul and style that it did in the 70's and 80's. I watch videos from the 80's or even new videos of 70's and 80's skaters and you can almost groove to them and get into them. Today seems to be just like the 60's stuff the Z-Boys were trying to get away from.
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richard's post
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On 5/4/2003
michael brooke
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Brilliant piece there Richard....
I think you've summed it up pretty neatly for everyone who skated in the 60's, 70's or 80's.
I think what you wrote is the essence of what skateboarding is for us folks....
"but something deep in me says that time is moving, bust a move NOW or live in regret"
Glad you posted...anyone else have any more comments on what it's like to not give up the ghost?
7:54 am toronto time...in 3 1/2 hours I'll be at the park...
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Quiver
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On 5/3/2003
Miko
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Short to long...
ICK Mini-Carerra, RTX/RTS, Avalons
ICK Carerra, RTX/RTS Offset, Avalons, Avilas, Flashbacks
ICK Retro-Flattie, RTX/RTS Offset, Avalons, Avilas, Flashbacks
Deathbox Tom Inouye, Indys, 60mm 94a Noskoolz
Comet Eli/Cavey Speedboard, Randall DH, Flashies and Flys
Kebbek Smoothcut Long, Randall DH, 92mm 72a Flywheels
Gravity Hyper-Carve, Randall R2 180mm, 82mm Flywheels
Jeeze... now that I write it down it seems like a lot!
Slalom... I LOVE my Carerra... covers everything from fairly tight to super fast. I use the others for certain courses, but the Carerra is IT for me. I'm getting another one.
I spend 99% of the rest of my time fast carving on the Comet Speedboard... super versatile, and fun.
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going home
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On 5/3/2003
richard marnhout
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it is not easy at first. muscles long disused are asked to do things that are only remembered. the brain is asked to do the same. no, it is not easy to go back to riding walls after a 20 year layoff.
i drive to the different parks and scope out the possible lines,( drive,HAH!, i have a CAR. no more busses or skating to a spot)and for a while, fear is my master. i mean god damn man, i have 3 kids and a stay at home wife, but something deep in me says that time is moving, bust a move NOW or live in regret.
so out comes the pig, and onto the walls i go.
and it is not easy. not anymore. but i persevere and eventually, i get higher and higher until one day, i get cope again. and dear god in heaven, it is both the scariest and most exciting feeling in the world. you know what i mean, that clackity feeling as the 3'rd wheel clears and the bump as it comes back over on my way down. i fight off the urge to bail and ride it out, warbling around the bowl back to the take off spot, taking my place in the line once again. and while nobody is looking i turn my board over find the grind mark on my truck and smile.
i'm home again.
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hair gel....
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On 5/3/2003
michael brooke
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was at the local park today...there was supposed to be an event...
well, x box showed up...so did the guys from juicy fruit gum and the DEP hair gel guys were there... but it was a piss poor turnout.
there was no contest...it was just one big promo crapfest...
I think kids can see through this...even the poster said
"CALLING ALL THRASHERS"
so my question is this...
Is the hyping of skateboarding dying? Does the hair gel marketing director stand a chance? In short....are we on the cusp of a true return to the spirit of skateboarding or are the deodorant companies still lurking?
My competition is June 21st at the Cummer skateboard park...
no hair gel displays...
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Summer time means...
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On 5/3/2003
Stubbs
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...lots of pools are going to be drained!!!! Maybe your's if I find it. ahhhhhhhh,ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,ha, ha, ha, ha, cough, cough, cough... ahem......GLOBAL CONCRETE DOMINATION is what I'm trying to say!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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skate summer
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On 5/3/2003 snoball
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"summer is just about here and it's time to skate heavily"
when all the hot ( pardon the pun ) skater guys
start skating shirtless!! awwwwww yehhhhhh....
and the skies are blue and it's road trip time with
your whole quiver...
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Mogs Quiver
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On 5/3/2003 Michael (Octane)
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As your 'pusher' of Skaterbuilt decks Mog, I hate to tell you that your addiction can never be cured. Wait till you see mine with Bahne Redlines or Jon at Conspircy's one with Red Avalons. Skaterbuilts are rapidly becoming the 'Store Managers' choice de jour. Quiverlicious!
Jon has taken the 'liqour store runner' tag literally and uses his for getting Jack Daniels of an evening.
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quiver
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On 5/3/2003 mog
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Just built up a 10" Skaterbuilt with Sixtracks and 65 No Skools.
Now find I have no need for any other board! All the rest are sitting in the corner sulking.
Thank you Mr. Hegstrom for curing my skateboard buying addiction.
Mog
(..until I can get hold of a Pocket Pistol TS at least)
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thanks to you all
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On 5/3/2003
michael brooke
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Just a quick note to say "thanks"
In one week we've had over 2500 visitors to this forum.
Also, I have been receiving some nice comments on the mag. There are MANY people who are responsible for Concrete Wave... Mike Moore in particular. Make sure you support as many advertisers as you can...call or email them and tell them you saw it CW.
Folks, I should tell you that I am really only HALF way there with the mag. My vision is a 150 page wide format magaine meaty enough to beat a rabid dog with!
So, as summer approaches (or at least tries to) here in the Northeast!) I'd like to ask the following question.
What is the one thing for you that means "summer is just about here and it's time to skate heavily?"
For me, when the streets get swept and the tiny pebbles and rocks are finally removed!(note to those living in snow free climates - lots o' crap is dumped on the road to avoid skidding!)
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Rad Hackett !
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On 5/3/2003
Rene' Carrasco THE SEQUEL
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This post is a sequel to my post below....
I have to ALSO mention the Dave Hackett interview was
DA KINE BRAH !.....in the NEW Concrete Wave issue. There.
.................-Rene' TEAM CARRASCO.
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New MAG - Wow!
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On 5/3/2003
Rene' Carrasco
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***Miguel-
...picked up Dave "Skaterbuilt" Hegstrom, and I drove us to Tracker Trucks today....by the way, Dave's a comedian!
...saw the NEW Concrete Wave Magazine...{I picked up some boxes for Richy and Maria to hand out @ The Gravity Fest Slalom Skateboard Championship for Sun. in San Francisco.}
Wow ! Great issue ! The Chicken & Arab interview was
way cool. Very deserving guys to interview.
I can't believe you got that Ty Page interview!
My brother Dave , and I entered the 1975 "Steve's South Bay
Skateboard Contest", and we met Ty Page AND Chris Yandall at that contest. We were practicing nose-wheelies together.
Come to think of it -
I think Ty was wearing a Unity t-shirt. Dave and I were riding for X-Caliber Skateboards, remember that brand? Seems like a hundred years ago. Good memories!
Anyway, the new flat-back binding is superb on the mag ! Great new look! - Great job, bro. !
...Probably will see ya @ ASR in San Diego this year huh?
...God bless, bro. - -Rene' "Cannonball" Carrasco.
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